2. Tarihler 12

¹Roboam'ın krallığı kurulup pekiştirildiğinde ve kendisi güçlendirildiğinde, Rab'bin buyruklarını terk etti; bütün İsrail de onunla birlikte terk etti.

²Roboam'ın krallığının beşinci yılında, Mısır Kralı Susakim Yeruşalim'e karşı sefere çıktı; çünkü Rab'bin önünde günah işlemişlerdi.

³Bin iki yüz savaş arabası ve altmış bin atlıyla geldi; Mısır'dan onunla birlikte gelen halkın –Libyalılar, Trogloditler ve Etiyopyalılar– hesabı yoktu.

⁴Yahuda'da bulunan surlu kentleri ele geçirdiler ve Yeruşalim'e kadar geldiler.

⁵Peygamber Samaias, Susakim'in önünden kaçıp Yeruşalim'de toplanmış olan Roboam'ın ve Yahuda önderlerinin yanına gelip onlara şöyle dedi: "Rab şöyle diyor: 'Siz beni bıraktınız, ben de sizi Susakim'in eline bırakacağım.'"

⁶Bunun üzerine İsrail önderleri ve kral dize gelip utandılar ve, "Rab adildir" dediler.

⁷Rab onların dize geldiğini görünce, Samaias'a Rab'bin şu sözü geldi: "Dize geldiler; onları yok etmeyeceğim. Onlara kurtuluş için küçük bir pay vereceğim ve öfkem Yeruşalim üzerine damlamayacak."

⁸Ancak ona kul olacaklar; böylece bana kulluk etmekle yeryüzü krallıklarına kulluk etmek arasındaki farkı anlayacaklar.

⁹Mısır Kralı Susakim Yeruşalim'e karşı sefere çıktı; Rab'bin tapınağındaki hazineleri ve kral sarayındaki hazineleri aldı, her şeyi alıp götürdü. Süleyman'ın yaptırmış olduğu altın kalkanları da aldı.

¹⁰Kral Roboam bunların yerine tunç kalkanlar yaptırdı. Ve Susakim, kralın kapısını koruyan muhafızların önderlerini Roboam'ın üzerine denetçi olarak atadı.

¹¹Ve öyle oldu ki, kral ne zaman Rab'bin tapınağına girse, muhafızlar, koşucular ve koşucuları karşılamak için geri dönen nöbetçiler içeri girerlerdi.

¹²Roboam dize gelince, Rab'bin öfkesi ondan uzaklaştı ve onu tamamen yok etmedi; çünkü gerçekten Yahuda'da iyi işler de vardı.

¹³Kral Roboam Yeruşalim'de konumunu güçlendirip krallığını sürdürdü. Roboam kral olduğunda kırk bir yaşındaydı; Rab'bin kendi adını oraya koymak için bütün İsrail oymakları arasından seçtiği kent olan Yeruşalim'de on yedi yıl krallık yaptı. Annesinin adı Ammonlu Noomma'ydı.

¹⁴Kötülük yaptı, çünkü yüreğini Rab'bi aramaya doğrultmadı.

¹⁵Roboam'ın yaptığı ilk ve son işler, Peygamber Samaias'ın ve Bilici Addo'nun kayıtlarında ve onun eylemlerinde yazılı değil midir? Roboam ile Yeroboam arasında her zaman savaş vardı.

¹⁶Roboam babalarıyla birlikte uyudu ve Davut Kenti'nde gömüldü. Yerine oğlu Abia kral oldu.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο ὡς ἡτοιμάσθη ἡ βασιλεία Ῥοβοὰμ καὶ ὡς κατεκρατήθη, ἐγκατέλιπε τὰς ἐντολὰς Κυρίου καὶ πᾶς ᾿Ισραὴλ μετ’ αὐτοῦ.

²καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ πέμπτῳ τῆς βασιλείας Ῥοβοὰμ ἀνέβη Σουσακὶμ βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, ὅτι ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον Κυρίου,

³ἐν χιλίοις καὶ διακοσίοις ἅρμασι καὶ ἑξήκοντα χιλιάσιν ἵππων, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀριθμὸς τοῦ πλήθους τοῦ ἐλθόντος μετ’ αὐτοῦ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, Λίβυες, Τρωγοδύται καὶ Αἰθίοπες.

⁴καὶ κατεκράτησαν τῶν πόλεων τῶν ὀχυρῶν, αἳ ἦσαν ἐν ᾿Ιούδᾳ, καὶ ἦλθον εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁵καὶ Σαμαίας ὁ προφήτης ἦλθε πρὸς Ῥοβοὰμ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἄρχοντας ᾿Ιούδα τοὺς συναχθέντας εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἀπὸ προσώπου Σουσακὶμ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· ὑμεῖς ἐγκατελίπετέ με, καὶ ἐγὼ ἐγκαταλείψω ὑμᾶς ἐν χειρὶ Σουσακίμ.

⁶καὶ ᾐσχύνθησαν οἱ ἄρχοντες ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ εἶπαν· δίκαιος ὁ Κύριος.

⁷καὶ ἐν τῷ ἰδεῖν Κύριον ὅτι ἐνετράπησαν, καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς Σαμαίαν λέγων· ἐνετράπησαν, οὐ καταφθερῶ αὐτούς· καὶ δώσω αὐτοὺς ὡς μικρὸς εἰς σωτηρίαν, καὶ οὐ μὴ στάξῃ ὁ θυμός μου ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ,

⁸ὅτι ἔσονται εἰς παῖδας καὶ γνώσονται τὴν δουλείαν μου καὶ τὴν δουλείαν τῆς βασιλείας τῆς γῆς.

⁹καὶ ἀνέβη Σουσακὶμ βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἔλαβε τοὺς θησαυροὺς τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου καὶ τοὺς θησαυροὺς τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ τοῦ βασιλέως, τὰ πάντα ἔλαβε· καὶ ἔλαβε τοὺς θυρεοὺς τοὺς χρυσοῦς, οὓς ἐποίησε Σαλωμών,

¹⁰καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥοβοὰμ θυρεοὺς χαλκοῦς ἀντ’ αὐτῶν. καὶ κατέστησεν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν Σουσακὶμ ἄρχοντας παρατρεχόντων, τοὺς φυλάσσοντας τὸν πυλῶνα τοῦ βασιλέως.

¹¹καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ εἰσελθεῖν τὸν βασιλέα εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου. εἰσεπορεύοντο οἱ φυλάσσοντες καὶ οἱ παρατρέχοντες καὶ οἱ ἐπιστρέφοντες εἰς ἀπάντησιν τῶν παρατρεχόντων.

¹²καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐντραπῆναι αὐτὸν ἀπεστράφη ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ὀργὴ Κυρίου καὶ οὐκ εἰς καταφθορὰν εἰς τέλος· καὶ γὰρ ἐν ᾿Ιούδᾳ ἦσαν λόγοι ἀγαθοί.

¹³Καὶ κατίσχυσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥοβοὰμ ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐβασίλευσε. καὶ τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἑνὸς ἐτῶν Ῥοβοὰμ ἐν τῷβασιλεῦσαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἑπτακαίδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, ἐν τῇ πόλει, ᾗ ἐξελέξατο Κύριος ἐπονομάσαι τό ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ἐκ πασῶν φυλῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ· καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Νοομμὰ ἡ ᾿Αμανῖτις.

¹⁴καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ πονηρόν, ὅτι οὐ κατεύθυνε τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι τὸν Κύριον.

¹⁵καὶ λόγοι Ῥοβοὰμ οἱ πρῶτοι καὶ ἔσχατοι οὐκ ἰδοὺ γεγραμμένοι ἐν τοῖς λόγοις Σαμαία τοῦ προφήτου καὶ ᾿Αδδὼ τοῦ ὁρῶντος καὶ πράξεις αὐτοῦ; καὶ ἐπολέμησε Ῥοβοὰμ τὸν ῾Ιεροβοὰμ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.

¹⁶καὶ ἀπέθανε Ῥοβοὰμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Αβιὰ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ.

¹And it came to pass when the kingdom of Roboam was established, and when he had grown strong, [that] he forsook the commandments of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

²And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had sinned against the Lord,

³with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horses: and there was no number of the multitude that came with him from Egypt; Libyans, Troglodytes, and Ethiopians.

⁴And they obtained possession of the strong cities, which were in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

⁵And Samaias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda that were gathered to Jerusalem for fear of Susakim, and said to them, Thus said the Lord, Ye have left me, and I will leave you in the hand of Susakim.

⁶And the elders of Israel and the king were ashamed, and said, The Lord [is] righteous.

⁷And when the Lord saw that they repented, then came the word of the Lord to Samaias, saying, They have repented; I will not destroy them, but I will set them in safety for a little while, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem.

⁸Nevertheless they shall be servants, and know my service, and the service of the kings of the earth.

⁹So Susakim king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures that were in the house of the Lord, and the treasures that were in the king’s house: he took all; and he took the golden shields which Solomon had made.

¹⁰And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them. And Susakim set over him captains of footmen, as keepers of the gate of the king.

¹¹And it came to pass, when the king went into the house of the Lord, the guards and the footmen went in, and they that returned to meet the footmen.

¹²And when he repented, the anger of the Lord turned from him, and did not destroy him utterly; for there were good things in Juda.

¹³So king Roboam strengthened [himself] in Jerusalem, and reigned: and Roboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, in the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of the children of Israel to call his name there: and his mother’s name was Noomma the Ammanitess.

¹⁴And he did evil, for he directed not his heart to seek the Lord.

¹⁵And the acts of Roboam, the first and the last, behold, are they not written in the book of Samaia the prophet, and Addo the seer, with his achievements.

¹⁶And Roboam made war with Jeroboam all [his] days. And Roboam died with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abia his son reigned in his stead.