¹Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

¹V tretjem letu Hosea pa, sinu Elovega, kralja Izraelovega, je zakraljeval Ezekija, sin Ahaza, kralja Judovega.

²He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

²Petindvajset let mu je bilo, ko je zavladal, in kraljeval je devetindvajset let v Jeruzalemu. Matere njegove ime pa je bilo Abi, hči Zaharijeva.

³He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.

³On je delal, kar je bilo prav v očeh GOSPODOVIH, po vsem, kakor je delal David, oče njegov.

⁴He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

⁴On je odpravil višave in strl stebre in posekal Ašere in razdrobil bronasto kačo, ki jo je bil Mojzes naredil; zakaj do tega časa so ji žgali kadilo sinovi Izraelovi; in imenoval jo je Nehuštan [T. j. troha brona.].

⁵He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

⁵On je upal v GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega, da ni bilo za njim njemu podobnega med vsemi kralji Judovimi, tudi ne med tistimi, ki so bili pred njim.

⁶For he joined with Yahweh; he didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁶Kajti oklepal se je GOSPODA, ni se umaknil, hodeč za njim, temuč izpolnjeval je zapovedi njegove, ki jih je bil GOSPOD zapovedal Mojzesu.

⁷Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

⁷In GOSPOD je bil ž njim: kamor koli se je obrnil, je uspešno ravnal. Uprl se je tudi kralju asirskemu in mu ni služil.

⁸He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

⁸On je udaril Filistejce tja do Gaze in njeno pokrajino od čuvajevega stolpa do utrjenega mesta.

⁹It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

⁹Zgodi se pa v četrtem letu kralja Ezekija, ki je bilo sedmo leto Hosea, sinu Ela, kralja Izraelovega, da pride Salmaneser, kralj asirski, gori zoper Samarijo in jo oblega.

¹⁰At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

¹⁰In dobili so jo ob koncu tretjega leta; v šestem letu Ezekija, ki je bilo deveto leto Hosea, kralja Izraelovega, je bila dobljena Samarija.

¹¹The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

¹¹In kralj asirski je odpeljal Izraelce v Asirijo in jih naselil v Halahu in Haborju, ob reki Gozanu, in v mestih Medov,

¹²because they didn’t obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

¹²zato ker niso poslušali glasu GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in so prelomili njegovo zavezo, vse, kar je zapovedal Mojzes, služabnik GOSPODOV, ne hoteč tega ne slišati, ne delati.

¹³Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

¹³A v štirinajstem letu kralja Ezekija pride Senaherib, kralj asirski, gori zoper vsa utrjena mesta na Judovem ter jih pridobi.

¹⁴Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

¹⁴In Ezekija, kralj Judov, pošlje h kralju asirskemu v Lahis in sporoči: Pregrešil sem se! Kreni od mene; kar mi naložiš, hočem nositi. In kralj asirski določi Ezekiju, kralju Judovemu, tristo talentov srebra in trideset talentov zlata.

¹⁵Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

¹⁵In Ezekija mu je dal vse srebro, ki se je našlo v hiši GOSPODOVI in v zakladih kraljeve hiše.

¹⁶At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

¹⁶V tem času je Ezekija odrezal zlato od durnic hiše GOSPODOVE in od podbojev, ki jih je bil sam dal prevleči, in ga je dal kralju asirskemu.

¹⁷The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

¹⁷In kralj asirski je poslal iz Lahisa Tartana in Rabsarisa in Rabsaka h kralju Ezekiju proti Jeruzalemu z mnogoštevilno vojsko. In šli so gori in dospeli pred Jeruzalem. In ko so prišli gori, se ustavijo pri vodovodu zgornjega ribnika, ki je ob poti valjalčeve njive,

¹⁸When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

¹⁸in kličejo kralja. Tedaj pridejo ven k njim Eljakim, sin Hilkijev, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in Sebna pisar in Joah, sin Asafov, letopisec.

¹⁹Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

¹⁹In Rabsak jim reče: Povejte vendar Ezekiju: Tako pravi kralj veliki, kralj asirski: Kakšno upanje je to, na katero se zanašaš?

²⁰You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

²⁰Praviš: Dosti je sveta in moči za vojskovanje – a prazna beseda je to. V koga torej upaš, da si se mi uprl?

²¹Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

²¹Glej, se li mar zanašaš na palico iz nalomljenega trsta, na Egipt? katera se mu, kadar se kdo nasloni nanjo, zadere v roko in jo prebode. Tako je Faraon, egiptovski kralj, vsem, ki stavijo upanje vanj.

²²But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’

²²Ako mi pa porečete: V GOSPODA, Boga svojega, upamo – ni li on tisti, čigar višave in oltarje je Ezekija odpravil in je velel Judi in Jeruzalemu: Molite pred tem oltarjem v Jeruzalemu!

²³Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

²³Sedaj torej, pravim, stavi z gospodom mojim, s kraljem asirskim: dam ti dvakrat tisoč konj, ako boš imel jezdecev, da jih posadiš nanje!

²⁴How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

²⁴Kako bi mogel zavrniti le enega voditelja izmed najmanjših služabnikov gospoda mojega? A ti se zanašaš na Egipt zaradi voz in konjikov!

²⁵Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”

²⁵Sem li mar sedaj brez GOSPODA prišel gori zoper ta kraj, da ga pogubim? GOSPOD mi je velel: Idi gori zoper to deželo in pogubi jo!

²⁶Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

²⁶Tedaj reče Eljakim, sin Hilkijev, in Sebna in Joah Rabsaku: Govóri, prosim, hlapcem svojim po sirsko, saj razumemo; in ne govori nam po judovsko, ker sliši ljudstvo, ki je na zidovju.

²⁷But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?”

²⁷Ali Rabsak jim reče: Me je li h gospodu tvojemu in k tebi poslal gospod moj, da naj govorim besede te? Ali ne k onim možem, ki sede po zidovju, da jedo blato svoje in pijo vodo svojo z vami vred?

²⁸Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

²⁸Rabsak torej se ustopi in zavpije z glasom velikim po judovsko in govori takole: Čujte besede velikega kralja, kralja asirskega!

²⁹Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

²⁹Tako pravi kralj: Naj vas ne prekani Ezekija, kajti ne bo vas mogel oteti iz roke njegove!

³⁰Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

³⁰In ne pregovóri vas Ezekija, da bi upali v GOSPODA, govoreč: Gotovo nas otme GOSPOD, in to mesto ne bo dano kralju asirskemu v roko!

³¹Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

³¹Ne poslušajte Ezekija; kajti tako pravi kralj asirski: Pogodite se z menoj za mir in pridite k meni; tako jejte vsak svoje trte sad in svoje smokve sad in pijte vsak svojega vodnjaka vodo,

³²until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”

³²dokler ne pridem in vas vzamem v deželo, podobno vaši deželi, v deželo, kjer je obilo žita in vina, kruha in vinogradov, oljk in medú, da boste živeli in ne umrli. Ne poslušajte Ezekija, ko vas zapeljuje, govoreč: GOSPOD nas otme.

³³Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

³³Ali je rešil kateri bogov drugih narodov deželo svojo iz roke kralja asirskega?

³⁴Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

³⁴Kje so bogovi Hamata in Arpada? kje so bogovi Sefarvaima, Hene in Ive? so li mar rešili Samarijo iz moje roke?

³⁵Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

³⁵Kateri so med vsemi bogovi teh dežel, ki so deželo svojo oteli iz roke moje? da bi GOSPOD otel Jeruzalem iz roke moje!

³⁶But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

³⁶Ljudstvo je pa molčalo, in niso mu odgovorili ničesar, zakaj kraljev ukaz je velel: Ne odgovarjajte mu!Pride torej Eljakim, Hilkijev sin, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in Sebna, pisar, in Joah, Asafov sin, letopisec, k Ezekiju z raztrgano obleko, in naznanijo mu besede Rabsakove.

³⁷Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

³⁷Pride torej Eljakim, Hilkijev sin, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in Sebna, pisar, in Joah, Asafov sin, letopisec, k Ezekiju z raztrgano obleko, in naznanijo mu besede Rabsakove.