Yeremya 48

¹Yedinci ayda, kraliyet soyundan gelen Netanya oğlu Eleasa oğlu İsmail ve yanındaki on adam, Mispa'da bulunan Gedalya'nın yanına geldiler ve orada birlikte ekmek yediler.

²İsmail ve yanındaki on adam ayağa kalkarak, Babil Kralı'nın ülkede vali olarak görevlendirdiği Gedalya'yı kılıçtan geçirip vurdular.

³Mispa'da onunla birlikte bulunan tüm Yahudileri ve orada bulunan tüm Keldani askerlerini de katlettiler.

⁴Gedalya'yı vurmasının ikinci gününde, henüz hiç kimse bu olaydan haberdar değilken,

⁵Şekem'den, Şalem'den ve Samiriye'den sakalları tıraş edilmiş, giysileri yırtılmış ve yas tutarak dövünen seksen adam geldi; Rab'bin tapınağına sunmak üzere ellerinde tahıl sunuları ve akgünlük taşıyorlardı.

⁶İsmail onları karşılamak üzere dışarı çıktı; adamlar ağlayarak ilerlerken onlara, "Gedalya'nın yanına gelin" dedi.

⁷Şehrin ortasına girdiklerinde, İsmail onları boğazlayarak kuyuya attı.

⁸Ancak aralarından on adam sıyrılarak İsmail'e, "Bizi öldürme! Çünkü tarlada gizlenmiş buğday, arpa, bal ve zeytinyağı hazinelerimiz var" dediler; bunun üzerine İsmail onları es geçti ve kardeşlerinin arasında öldürmedi.

⁹İsmail'in katlettiği adamların cesetlerini attığı kuyu, vaktiyle Kral Asa'nın İsrail Kralı Baaşa'nın saldırı korkusuyla yaptırdığı büyük sarnıçtı; İsmail bu sarnıcı öldürülenlerin bedenleriyle tamamen doldurdu.

¹⁰İsmail, Mispa'da geride kalan tüm halkı ve saray muhafız başının Ahikam oğlu Gedalya'ya emanet etmiş olduğu kralın kızlarını esir alıp sürükleyerek Ammon oğullarının karşı yakasına geçmek üzere yola çıktı.

¹¹Kareah oğlu Yohanan ve yanındaki tüm ordu komutanları, İsmail'in işlediği tüm bu kötülükleri haber aldılar.

¹²Bütün askeri güçlerini toplayıp onunla savaşmak üzere harekete geçtiler ve onu Gibeon'daki büyük suların kıyısında kıstırdılar.

¹³İsmail'in yanındaki tüm halk, Yohanan'ı ve beraberindeki ordu komutanlarını görünce büyük bir sevinç yaşadı.

¹⁴Ve hemen yönlerini değiştirerek Yohanan'ın tarafına geçtiler.

¹⁵Ancak İsmail sekiz adamıyla birlikte kaçıp kurtulmayı başararak Ammon oğullarının topraklarına sığındı.

¹⁶Yohanan ve yanındaki tüm ordu komutanları, İsmail'in elinden kurtardıkları halkın geri kalanını, yani Gibeon'dan geri getirdikleri savaşçı yiğitleri, kadınları, çocukları ve saray hadımlarını yanlarına aldılar.

¹⁷Mısır'a gitmek üzere yola koyularak Beytlehem yakınlarındaki Gaberot-Hamaam'da konakladılar.

¹⁸Keldanilerden kaçıyorlardı; çünkü Babil Kralı'nın ülkede vali tayin ettiği Gedalya'yı İsmail'in vurup öldürmesinden ötürü onlardan çok korkuyorlardı.

¹(Μασ. ΜΑ´) ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο τῷ μηνὶ τῷ ἑβδόμῳ ἦλθεν ᾿Ισμαὴλ υἰὸς Ναθανίου υἱοῦ ᾿Ελεασὰ ἀπὸ γένους τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ δέκα ἄνδρες μετ’ αὐτοῦ πρὸς Γοδολίαν εἰς Μασσηφά, καὶ ἔφαγον ἐκεῖ ἄρτον ἅμα.

²καὶ ἀνέστη ᾿Ισμαὴλ καὶ οἱ δέκα ἄνδρες, οἳ ἦσαν μετ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπάταξαν τὸν Γοδολίαν, ὃν κατέστησε βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,

³καὶ πάντας τοὺς ᾿Ιουδαίους τοὺς ὄντας μετ’ αὐτοῦ ἐν Μασσηφᾷ καὶ πάντας τοὺς Χαλδαίους τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐκεῖ. -

⁴Καὶ ἐγένετο τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ δευτέρᾳ πατάξαντος αὐτοῦ τὸν Γοδολίαν, καὶ ἄνθρωπος οὐκ ἔγνω,

⁵καὶ ἤλθοσαν ἄνδρες ἀπὸ Συχὲμ καὶ ἀπὸ Σαλὴμ καὶ ἀπὸ Σαμαρείας, ὀγδοήκοντα ἄνδρες, ἐξυρημένοι πώγωνας καὶ διερρηγμένοι τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ κοπτόμενοι, καὶ μαναὰ καὶ λίβανος ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν τοῦ εἰσενεγκεῖν εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου.

⁶καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῖς ᾿Ισμαήλ· αὐτοὶ ἐπορεύοντο καὶ ἔκλαιον, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· εἰσέλθετε πρὸς Γοδολίαν.

⁷καὶ ἐγένετο εἰσελθόντων αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ μέσον τῆς πόλεως, ἔσφαξεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ φρέαρ.

⁸καὶ δέκα ἄνδρες εὑρέθησαν ἐκεῖ καὶ εἶπαν τῷ ᾿Ισμαήλ· μὴ ἀνέλῃς ἡμᾶς, ὅτι εἰσὶν ἡμῖν θησαυροὶ ἐν ἀγρῷ, πυροὶ καὶ κριθαί, μέλι καὶ ἔλαιον· καὶ παρῆλθε καὶ οὐκ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτοὺς ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτῶν.

⁹καὶ τὸ φρέαρ, εἰς ὃ ἔρριψεν ἐκεῖ ᾿Ισμαὴλ πάντας, οὓς ἐπάταξε, φρέαρ μέγα τοῦτό ἐστιν, ὃ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ᾿Ασὰ ἀπὸ προσώπου Βαασὰ βασιλέως ᾿Ισραήλ· τοῦτο ἐνέπλησεν ᾿Ισμαὴλ τραυματιῶν.

¹⁰καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν ᾿Ισμαὴλ πάντα τὸν λαὸν τὸν καταλειφθέντα εἰς Μασσηφὰ καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας τοῦ βασιλέως, ἃς παρακατέθετο ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος τῷ Γοδολίᾳ υἱῷ ᾿Αχεικάμ, καὶ ᾤχετο εἰς τὸ πέραν υἱῶν ᾿Αμμών. -

¹¹Καὶ ἤκουσεν ᾿Ιωανὰν υἱὸς Καρηὲ καὶ πάντες οἱ ἡγεμόνες τῆς δυνάμεως οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ πάντα τὰ κακά, ἃ ἐποίησεν ᾿Ισμαήλ,

¹²καὶ ἤγαγον ἅπαν τὸ στρατόπεδον αὐτῶν καὶ ᾤχοντο πολεμεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ εὗρον αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ὕδατος πολλοῦ ἐν Γαβαών.

¹³καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε εἶδε πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὁ μετὰ ᾿Ισμαὴλ τὸν ᾿Ιωανὰν καὶ τοὺς ἡγεμόνας τῆς δυνάμεως τῆς μετ’ αὐτοῦ,

¹⁴καὶ ἀνέστρεψαν πρὸς ᾿Ιωανάν.

¹⁵καὶ ᾿Ισμαὴλ ἐσώθη σὺν ὀκτὼ ἀνθρώποις καὶ ᾤχετο πρὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Αμμών. -

¹⁶Καὶ ἔλαβεν ᾿Ιωανὰν καὶ πάντες οἱ ἡγεμόνες τῆς δυνάμεως οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ πάντας τοὺς καταλοίπους τοῦ λαοῦ, οὓς ἀπέστρεψεν ἀπὸ ᾿Ισμαήλ, δυνατοὺς ἄνδρας ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ καὶ τοὺς εὐνούχους, οὓς ἀπέστρεψαν ἀπὸ Γαβαών,

¹⁷καὶ ᾤχοντο καὶ ἐκάθισαν ἐν Γαβηρώθ - Χαμαὰμ τῇ πρὸς Βηθλεὲμ τοῦ πορευθῆναι εἰς Αἴγυπτον

¹⁸ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν Χαλδαίων, ὅτι ἐφοβήθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐπάταξεν ᾿Ισμαὴλ τὸν Γοδολίαν, ὃν κατέστησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐν τῇ γῇ.

¹Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ismael the son of Nathanias the son of Eleasa of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, to Godolias to Massepha: and they ate bread there together.

²And Ismael rose up, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Godolias, whom the king of Babylon had appointed [governor] over the land,

³and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.

⁴And it came to pass on the second day after he had smitten Godolias, and no man knew [of it],

⁵that there came men from Sychem, and from Salem, and from Samaria, [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and beating their breasts, and [they had] manna and frankincense in their hands, to bring [them] into the house of the Lord.

⁶And Ismael went out to meet them; [and] they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.

⁷And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, [that] he slew them [and cast them] into a pit.

⁸But ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren.

⁹Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he smote, is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: [even] this Ismael filled with slain men.

¹⁰And Ismael brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king’s daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon.

¹¹And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ismael had done.

¹²And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near much water in Gabaon.

¹³And it came to pass, when all the people that were with Ismael saw Joanan, and the leaders of the host that were with him,

¹⁴that they returned to Joanan.

¹⁵But Ismael escaped with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.

¹⁶And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he [had] brought back from Ismael, mighty men in war, and the women, and the other [property], and the eunuchs, whom they [had] brought back from Gabaon:

¹⁷and they departed, and dwelt in Gaberoth-Hamaam, that is by Bethleem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans:

¹⁸for they were afraid of them, because Ismael had smitten Godolias, whom the king of Babylon made [governor] in the land.