2. Tarihler 16

¹Asa’nın krallığının otuz sekizinci yılında, İsrail Kralı Yahuda’ya karşı yukarı çıktı ve Yahuda Kralı Asa’nın çıkış ve girişini engellemek amacıyla Rama’yı tahkim etti.

²Bunun üzerine Asa, Rab’bin tapınağının ve kral sarayının hazinelerinden gümüş ve altın aldı; bunları Şam’da ikamet etmekte olan Suriye Kralı Ader’in oğluna göndererek şöyle dedi:

³"Benimle senin aranda ve babamla senin baban arasında bir antlaşma olsun. İşte sana altın ve gümüş gönderdim; gel, İsrail Kralı Baasa ile olan antlaşmanı bütünüyle boz ki üzerimden çekilip gitsin."

⁴Ader’in oğlu Kral Asa’nın sözünü dinledi ve ordusunun komutanlarını İsrail kentlerinin üzerine gönderdi; İyon’u, Dan’ı, Abelmain’i ve Neftali’nin bütün çevre bölgelerini vurdu.

⁵Baasa bunu duyunca Rama’yı tahkim etmeyi bıraktı ve işini tamamen durdurdu.

⁶Kral Asa bütün Yahuda halkını topladı; Baasa’nın Rama’yı tahkim etmekte kullandığı taşları ve keresteleri aldılar ve Asa bunlarla Gabae ile Masfa’yı inşa etti.

⁷O sırada peygamber Hanani, Yahuda Kralı Asa’ya gelip şöyle dedi: "Suriye Kralı’na güvendiğin ve Tanrın Rab’be güvenmediğin için, Suriye ordusu senin elinden kurtuldu.

⁸Habeşliler ve Libyalılar, çok sayıda savaş arabası, atlı ve muazzam bir cesaretle büyük bir ordu oluşturmuyor muydu? Ama sen Rab’be güvendiğin için onları senin eline teslim etmişti.

⁹Çünkü Rab’bin gözleri, yüreği kendisiyle bütünleşmiş olanlara güç vermek için bütün yeryüzünü denetler. Bu konuda bilgisizce davrandın; bundan böyle seninle hep savaş olacak."

¹⁰Asa peygambere öfkelendi ve bu sözden ötürü onu zindana attırdı. Asa o sırada halktan bazılarına da bizzat eziyet etti.

¹¹İşte Asa’nın yaptığı işler, ilk döneminden son dönemine kadar, Yahuda ve İsrail krallarının kitabında yazılıdır.

¹²Asa, krallığının otuz dokuzuncu yılında ayaklarından hastalandı ve hastalığı son derece ağırlaştı; ancak bu hastalığında bile Rab’bi aramadı, aksine hekimlere yöneldi.

¹³Asa, krallığının kırkıncı yılında atalarıyla birlikte uykuya daldı ve öldü.

¹⁴Onu Davut Kenti’nde kendisi için kazdırdığı mezara gömdüler. Kendisini baharatlarla ve usta işi kokulu merhem çeşitleriyle doldurulmuş bir yatağa yatırdılar ve onun için son derece büyük bir cenaze töreni düzenlediler.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐν τῷ ὀγδόῳ καὶ τριακοστῷ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας ᾿Ασὰ ἀνέβη βασιλεὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐπὶ ᾿Ιούδαν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὴν Ῥαμὰ τοῦ μὴ δοῦναι ἔξοδον καὶ εἴσοδον τῷ ᾿Ασὰ βασιλεῖ ᾿Ιούδα.

²καὶ ἔλαβεν ᾿Ασὰ ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον ἐκ θησαυρῶν οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ἀπέστειλε πρὸς τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ῎Αδερ βασιλέως Συρίας τὸν κατοικοῦντα ἐν Δαμασκῷ λέγων·

³διάθου διαθήκην ἀνὰ μέσον ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πατρός μου καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πατρός σου· ἰδοὺ ἀπέσταλκά σοι χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον, δεῦρο καὶ διασκέδασον ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ τὸν Βαασὰ βασιλέα ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἀπελθέτω ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ.

⁴καὶ ἤκουσεν υἱὸς ῎Αδερ τοῦ βασιλέως ᾿Ασὰ καὶ ἀπέστειλε τοὺς ἄρχοντας τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἐπάταξε τὴν ᾿Αϊὼν καὶ τὴν Δὰν καὶ τὴν ᾿Αβελμαΐν καὶ πάσας τὰς περιχώρους Νεφθαλί.

⁵καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἀκοῦσαι Βαασὰ ἀπέλιπε τοῦ μηκέτι οἰκοδομεῖν τὴν Ῥαμὰ καὶ κατέπαυσε τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ.

⁶καὶ ᾿Ασὰ βασιλεὺς ἔλαβε πάντα τὸν ᾿Ιούδαν καὶ ἔλαβε τοὺς λίθους τῆς Ῥαμὰ καὶ τὰ ξύλα αὐτῆς, ἃ ᾠκοδόμησε Βαασά, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐν αὐτοῖς τὴν Γαβαὲ καὶ τὴν Μασφά.

⁷καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἦλθεν ᾿Ανανὶ ὁ προφήτης πρὸς ᾿Ασὰ βασιλέα ᾿Ιούδα καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἐν τῷ πεποιθέναι σε ἐπὶ βασιλέα Συρίας καὶ μὴ πεποιθέναι σε ἐπὶ Κύριον Θεόν σου, διὰ τοῦτο ἐσώθη ἡ δύναμις Συρίας ἀπὸ τῆς χειρός σου.

⁸οὐχ οἱ Αἰθίοπες καὶ Λίβυες ἦσαν εἰς δύναμιν πολλὴν εἰς θάρσος, εἰς ἱππεῖς εἰς πλῆθος σφόδρα; καὶ ἐν τῷ πεποιθέναι σε ἐπὶ Κύριον παρέδωκεν εἰς χεῖράς σου;

⁹ὅτι οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου ἐπιβλέπουσιν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ κατισχῦσαι ἐν πάσῃ καρδίᾳ πλήρει πρὸς αὐτόν. ἠγνόηκας ἐπὶ τούτῳ· ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ἔσται μετὰ σοῦ πόλεμος.

¹⁰καὶ ἐθυμώθη ᾿Ασὰ τῷ προφήτῃ καὶ παρέθετο αὐτὸν εἰς φυλακήν, ὅτι ὠργίσθη ἐπὶ τούτῳ· καὶ ἐλυμήνατο ᾿Ασὰ ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ.

¹¹Καὶ ἰδοὺ οἱ λόγοι ᾿Ασὰ οἱ πρῶτοι καὶ οἱ ἔσχατοι γεγραμμένοι ἐν βιβλίῳ βασιλέων ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹²καὶ ἐμαλακίσθη ᾿Ασὰ ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ ἐνάτῳ καὶ τριακοστῷ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ τοὺς πόδας, ἕως σφόδρα ἐμαλακίσθη· καὶ ἐν τῇ μαλακίᾳ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐζήτησε τὸν Κύριον, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἰατρούς.

¹³καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ᾿Ασὰ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῷ τεσσαρακοστῷ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ,

¹⁴καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ μνήματι, ᾧ ὤρυξεν ἑαυτῷ ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐκοίμησαν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης καὶ ἔπλησαν ἀρωμάτων καὶ γένη μύρων μυρεψῶν καὶ ἐποίησαν αὐτῷ ἐκφορὰν μεγάλην ἕως σφόδρα.

¹And in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Asa, the king of Israel went up against Juda, and built Rama, so as not to allow egress or ingress to Asa king of Juda.

²And Asa took silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s house, and sent [them] to the son of Ader king of Syria, which dwelt in Damascus, saying,

³Make a covenant between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee gold and silver: come, and turn away from me Baasa king of Israel, and let him depart from me.

⁴And the son of Ader hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his host against the cities of Israel; and smote Aeon, and Dan, and Abelmain, and all the country round Nephthali.

⁵And it came to pass when Baasa heard [it] he left off building Rama, and put a stop to his work:

⁶then king Asa took all Juda, and took the stones of Rama, and its timber, [with] which Baasa [had] built; and he built with them Gabae and Maspha.

⁷And at that time came Anani the prophet to Asa king of Juda, and said to him, Because thou didst trust on the king of Syria, and didst not trust on the Lord thy God, therefore the army of Syria is escaped out of thy hand.

⁸Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a great force, in courage, in horsemen, in great numbers? and did not He deliver them into thy hands, because thou trustedst in the Lord?

⁹For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this thou hast done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with thee.

¹⁰And Asa was angry with the prophet, and put him in prison, for he was angry at this: and Asa vexed some of the people at that time.

¹¹And, behold, the acts of Asa, the first and the last, [are] written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

¹²And Asa was diseased [in] his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, until he was very ill: but in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

¹³And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the fortieth year of his reign.

¹⁴And they buried him in the sepulchre which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled [it] with spices and [all] kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.