¹So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

¹In Abija je legel k očetom svojim, in pokopali so ga v mestu Davidovem; in Asa, sin njegov, je zakraljeval na mestu njegovem. V dnevih njegovih je imela dežela mir deset let.

²Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God:

²In Asa je delal, kar je bilo dobro in pravično v očeh GOSPODA, njegovega Boga;

³for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

³kajti odpravil je tuje oltarje in višave in je strl stebre in posekal Ašere.

⁴and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

⁴In ukazal je Judi, naj išče GOSPODA, Boga očetov svojih, in izpolnjuje postavo in zapoved.

⁵Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

⁵Odpravil je tudi iz vseh mest Judovih višave in solnčne podobe. In kraljevina je imela mir pod njim.

⁶He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.

⁶In sezidal je utrjena mesta na Judovem, kajti dežela je imela mir in ni bilo vojne zoper njega v tistih letih, ker mu je GOSPOD dal pokoj.

⁷For he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

⁷Velel je namreč Judi: Zgradimo ta mesta in napravimo zidove okoli njih in stolpe, vrata in zapahe! Dežela je še pred nami, kajti iskali smo GOSPODA, svojega Boga, iskali smo ga, in dal nam je pokoj naokoli. Nato so zidali, in šlo jim je po sreči.

⁸Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.

⁸In Asa je imel vojake, ki so nosili ščite in sulice, iz Jude tristo tisoč, iz Benjamina pa, ki so nosili ščite in z loka streljali, dvesto in osemdeset tisoč; ti so vsi bili vrli junaki.

⁹There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah.

⁹Prišel je pa nadnje Zerah, Etiopec, z vojsko tisočkrat tisoč mož in tristo voz; in prišel je do Marese.

¹⁰Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

¹⁰Tedaj mu pride Asa nasproti, in pripravijo se na boj v dolini Zefati pri Maresi.

¹¹Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

¹¹In Asa vpije h GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu, in reče: GOSPOD, pri tebi ni razločka pomagati, kjer je veliko ali kjer nobene ni moči. Pomagaj nam, o GOSPOD, Bog naš! zakaj na tebe se opiramo in v tvojem imenu smo prišli zoper to množico. Ti, GOSPOD, si naš Bog; zoper tebe noben smrtnik ne premore ničesar!

¹²So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

¹²In GOSPOD je udaril Etiopce pred Asom in pred Judo; in Etiopci so zbežali.

¹³Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.

¹³Asa pa in ljudstvo, ki je bilo pri njem, jih je zasledovalo do Gerarja, in padlo jih je iz Etiopcev toliko, da se niso mogli okrepiti, kajti strti so bili pred GOSPODOM in pred njegovo vojsko. In Judovi so odnesli silno veliko plena.

¹⁴They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.

¹⁴In udarili so vsa mesta okoli Gerarja, kajti strah Božji jih je obšel; in oplenili so vsa mesta, ker je bilo veliko plena v njih.Vdrli so tudi v ovčje staje in odvedli veliko ovac in velblodov ter so se vrnili v Jeruzalem.

¹⁵They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁵Vdrli so tudi v ovčje staje in odvedli veliko ovac in velblodov ter so se vrnili v Jeruzalem.