2. Tarihler 11

¹Rehavam Yeruşalim'e geldiğinde, krallığı kendi egemenliği altına geri döndürmek amacıyla İsrail'e karşı savaşmak üzere Yahuda ve Benyamin bölgelerinden savaşçı yüz seksen bin genç adamı seferber edip bir araya topladı.

²Ancak Tanrı adamı Şemaya'ya Rab'bin şu sözü geldi:

³"Süleyman oğlu Rehavam'a, bütün Yahuda ve Benyamin halkına şöyle de:

⁴'Rab şöyle diyor: Yukarı çıkmayın ve kardeşlerinize karşı savaşmayın. Her biriniz kendi evine dönsün, çünkü bu söz benden sadır oldu.'" Onlar da Rab'bin sözüne itaat ettiler ve Yerovam'ın üzerine yürümekten vazgeçip geri döndüler.

⁵Rehavam Yeruşalim'de ikamet etti ve Yahuda bölgesinde surlu kentler inşa etti.

⁶Beytlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

⁷Beytsur, Soko, Adullam,

⁸Gat, Mareşa, Zif,

⁹Adorayim, Lakiş, Azeka,

¹⁰Sora, Ayalon ve Hevron'u inşa etti; bunlar Yahuda ve Benyamin'de bulunan surlu kentlerdi.

¹¹Bu kentleri surlarla tahkim etti, içlerine komutanlar yerleştirdi; yiyecek, zeytinyağı ve şarap stokları kurdu.

¹²Her bir kent için kalkanlar ve mızraklar sağladı ve onları son derece güçlü kıldı. Böylece Yahuda ve Benyamin onun egemenliği altında kaldı.

¹³Bütün İsrail'deki kâhinler ve Levililer, kendi sınır boylarındaki yerlerini bırakıp her taraftan onun yanına toplandılar.

¹⁴Çünkü Yerovam ve oğulları, Rab'be kâhinlik etmelerini engellemek için onları görevlerinden kovduğundan, Levililer kendi mülklerinin meskenlerini bırakıp Yahuda'ya ve Yeruşalim'e geldiler.

¹⁵Yerovam yüksek yerler, putlar, boş şeyler ve kendi yaptırdığı buzağılar için kendine kâhinler atamıştı.

¹⁶Yerovam onları İsrail oymaklarından kovduktan sonra, yüreklerini İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab'bi aramaya adayanlar, atalarının Tanrısı Rab'be kurban sunmak üzere Levililerin ardından Yeruşalim'e geldiler.

¹⁷Böylece Yahuda Krallığı'nı güçlendirdiler ve Süleyman oğlu Rehavam'ı üç yıl boyunca güçlü kıldılar; çünkü üç yıl boyunca Davut'un ve Süleyman'ın yollarında yürüdüler.

¹⁸Rehavam, Davut oğlu Yerimot'un kızı Molat'ı ve Yesse oğlu Eliab'ın kızı Avihayil'i kendine eş olarak aldı.

¹⁹Bu kadın ona şu oğulları doğurdu: Yeuş, Şemarya ve Zaham.

²⁰Ondan sonra Avşalom'un kızı Maaka'yı aldı; Maaka ona Aviya, Yettay, Ziza ve Şelomit'i doğurdu.

²¹Rehavam, Avşalom'un kızı Maaka'yı bütün diğer karılarından ve cariyelerinden daha çok sevdi; çünkü onun on sekiz karısı ve otuz cariyesi vardı; bunlardan yirmi sekiz oğlu ve altmış kızı oldu.

²²Rehavam, Maaka'nın oğlu Aviya'yı kral yapmayı tasarladığı için, onu kardeşlerinin önünde önder ve veliaht tayin etti.

²³Böylece bütün oğullarından daha çok nüfuz kazanarak onları Yahuda ve Benyamin bölgelerine, surlu kentlerin hepsine dağıttı; onlara bol yiyecek sağladı ve kendilerine çok sayıda eş talep etti.

¹ΚΑΙ ἦλθε Ῥοβοὰμ εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐξεκκλησίασε τὸν ᾿Ιούδαν καὶ Βενιαμὶν ἑκατὸν ὀγδοήκοντα χιλιάδας νεανίσκων ποιούντων πόλεμον, καὶ ἐπολέμει πρὸς ᾿Ισραὴλ τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι τὴν βασιλείαν τῷ Ῥοβοάμ.

²καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς Σαμαίαν ἄνθρωπον τοῦ Θεοῦ λέγων·

³εἰπὸν πρὸς Ῥοβοὰμ τὸν τοῦ Σαλωμὼν καὶ πάντα ᾿Ιούδαν καὶ Βενιαμὶν λέγων·

⁴τάδε λέγει Κύριος· οὐκ ἀναβήσεσθε καὶ οὐ πολεμήσεσθε πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ὑμῶν· ἀποστρέφετε ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι παρ’ ἐμοῦ ἐγένετο τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο. καὶ ἐπήκουσαν τοῦ λόγου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπεστράφησαν τοῦ μὴ πορευθῆναι ἐπὶ ῾Ιεροβοάμ.

⁵καὶ κατῴκησε Ῥοβοὰμ εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε πόλεις τειχήρεις ἐν τῇ ᾿Ιουδαίᾳ.

⁶καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὴν Βηθλεὲμ καὶ Αἰτὰν καὶ Θεκωὲ

⁷καὶ Βαιθσουρὰ καὶ τὴν Σοχὼθ καὶ τὴν ᾿Οδολλὰμ

⁸καὶ τὴν Γὲθ καὶ τὴν Μαρισὰν καὶ τὴν Ζὶφ

⁹καὶ τὴν ᾿Αδωραὶμ καὶ Λαχίς, καὶ τὴν ᾿Αζηκὰ

¹⁰καὶ τὴν Σαραὰ καὶ τὴν Αἰλὼμ καὶ τὴν Χεβρών, ἥ ἐστι τοῦ ᾿Ιούδα καὶ Βενιαμίν, πόλεις τειχήρεις.

¹¹καὶ ὠχύρωσεν αὐτὰς τείχεσι καὶ ἔδωκεν ἐν αὐταῖς ἡγουμένους καὶ παραθέσεις βρωμάτων, ἔλαιον καὶ οἶνον,

¹²κατὰ πόλιν καὶ κατὰ πόλιν θυρεοὺς καὶ δόρατα, καὶ κατίσχυσεν αὐτὰς εἰς πλῆθος σφόδρα· καὶ ἦσαν αὐτῷ ᾿Ιούδα καὶ Βενιαμίν.

¹³καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ οἱ Λευῖται, οἳ ἦσαν ἐν παντὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ συνήχθησαν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐκ πάντων τῶν ὁρίων·

¹⁴ὅτι ἐγκατέλιπον οἱ Λευῖται τὰ σκηνώματα τῆς κατασχέσεως αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν πρὸς ᾿Ιούδα εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, ὅτι ἐξέβαλεν αὐτοὺς ῾Ιεροβοὰμ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ μὴ λειτουργεῖν Κυρίῳ

¹⁵καὶ κατέστησεν ἑαυτῷ ἱερεῖς τῶν ὑψηλῶν καὶ τοῖς εἰδώλοις καὶ τοῖς ματαίοις καὶ τοῖς μόσχοις, ἃ ἐποίησεν ῾Ιεροβοάμ,

¹⁶καὶ ἐξέβαλεν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ φυλῶν ᾿Ισραήλ, οἳ ἔδωκαν καρδίαν αὐτῶν τοῦ ζητῆσαι Κύριον Θεὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἦλθον εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ θῦσαι Κυρίῳ Θεῷ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν

¹⁷καὶ κατίσχυσαν τὴν βασιλείαν ᾿Ιούδα καὶ κατίσχυσαν Ῥοβοὰμ τὸν τοῦ Σαλωμὼν εἰς ἔτη τρία, ὅτι ἐπορεύθη ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς Δαυὶδ καὶ Σαλωμὼν ἔτη τρία.

¹⁸καὶ ἔλαβεν ἑαυτῷ Ῥοβοὰμ γυναῖκα τὴν Μολλὰθ θυγατέρα ῾Ιεριμοὺθ υἱοῦ Δαυὶδ καὶ ᾿Αβιγαίαν θυγατέρα ῾Ελιὰβ τοῦ ᾿Ιεσσαί,

¹⁹καὶ ἔτεκεν αὐτῷ υἱοὺς τὸν ᾿Ιαοὺς καὶ τὸν Σαμαρίαν καὶ τὸν Ζαάμ.

²⁰καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἔλαβεν ἑαυτῷ τὴν Μααχὰ θυγατέρα ᾿Αβεσσαλώμ, καὶ ἔτεκεν αὐτῷ τὸν ᾿Αβιὰ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ιετθὶ καὶ τὸν Ζηζὰ καὶ τὸν Σαλημώθ.

²¹καὶ ἠγάπησε Ῥοβοὰμ τὴν Μααχὰ θυγατέρα ᾿Αβεσσαλὼμ ὑπὲρ πάσας τὰς γυναῖκας αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς παλλακὰς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι γυναῖκας δεκαοκτὼ εἶχε καὶ παλλακὰς τριάκοντα· καὶ ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς εἴκοσι καὶ ὀκτὼ καὶ θυγατέρας ἑξήκοντα.

²²καὶ κατέστησεν εἰς ἄρχοντα ᾿Αβιὰ τὸν τῆς Μααχὰ εἰς ἡγούμενον ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι βασιλεῦσαι διενοεῖτο αὐτόν·

²³καὶ ηὐξήθη παρὰ πάντας τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ὁρίοις ᾿Ιούδα καὶ Βενιαμὶν καὶ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι ταῖς ὀχυραῖς καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐταῖς τροφὰς πλῆθος πολὺ καὶ ᾐτήσατο πλῆθος γυναικῶν.

¹And Roboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled Juda and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand young men fit for war, and he waged war with Israel to recover the kingdom to Roboam.

²And the Word of the Lord came to Samaias the man of God, saying,

³Speak to Roboam the [son] of Solomon, and to all Juda and Benjamin, saying,

⁴Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, and ye shall not war against your brethren: return every one to his home; for this thing is of me. And they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

⁵And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and he built walled cities in Judea.

⁶And he built Bethleem, and Aetan and Thecoe,

⁷and Baethsura, and Sochoth, and Odollam,

⁸and Geth, and Marisa, and Ziph,

⁹and Adorai, and Lachis, and Azeca,

¹⁰and Saraa, and Aelom, and Chebron, which belong to Juda and Benjamin, walled cities.

¹¹And he fortified them with walls, and placed in them captains, and stores of provisions, oil and wine,

¹²shields and spears in every several city, and he fortified them very strongly, and he had on his side Juda and Benjamin.

¹³And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel were gathered to him out of all the coasts.

¹⁴For the Levites left the tents of their possession, and went to Juda to Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had ejected them so that they should not minister to the Lord.

¹⁵And he made for himself priests of the high places, and for the idols, and for the vanities, and for the calves which Jeroboam made.

¹⁶And he cast out from the tribes of Israel those who set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel: and they came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers.

¹⁷And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda; and [Juda] strengthened Roboam the [son] of Solomon for three years, for he walked three years in the ways of David and Solomon.

¹⁸And Roboam took to himself for a wife, Moolath daughter of Jerimuth the son of David, and Abigaia daughter of Heliab the son of Jessae.

¹⁹And she bore him sons; Jeus, and Samoria, and Zaam.

²⁰And afterwards he took to himself Maacha the daughter of Abessalom; and she bore him Abia, and Jetthi, and Zeza, and Salemoth.

²¹And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Abessalom more than all his wives and all his concubines: for he had eighteen wives and sixty [sc. thirty] concubines; and he begot twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.

²²And he made Abia the son of Maacha chief, [even] a leader among his brethren, for he intended to make him king.

²³And he was exalted beyond all his [other] sons in all the coasts of Juda and Benjamin, and in the strong cities; and he gave them provisions in great abundance: and he desired many wives.