3. Krallar 14

¹Süleyman oğlu Rehavam Yahuda üzerinde kral oldu. Rehavam tahta çıktığında kırk bir yaşındaydı ve Rab'bin, Kendi adını oraya yerleştirmek için İsrail'in bütün oymakları arasından seçtiği şehir olan Yeruşalim'de on yedi yıl krallık yaptı. Annesinin adı Ammonlu Naama'ydı.

²Rehavam Rab'bin gözünde kötü olanı yaptı; atalarının işlemiş olduğu günahlarla yaptıkları her şeyde O'nu kıskançlığa ve öfkeye sevk etti.

³Kendileri için yüksek yerler, dikili taşlar ve her yüksek tepenin üzerine, her gölgeli ağacın altına kutsal koruluklar kurdular.

⁴Ülkede dinsel sapkınlık ittifakları da kuruldu; Rab'bin İsrailoğullarının önünden kovmuş olduğu ulusların bütün iğrençliklerine göre davrandılar.

⁵Kral Rehavam'ın krallığının beşinci yılında, Mısır Kralı Şişak Yeruşalim'e karşı sefere çıktı.

⁶Kral sarayının bütün hazinelerini ve Davut'un, Suba Kralı Hadadezer'in kullarının elinden alıp Yeruşalim'e getirmiş olduğu altın mızrakları yağmaladı; Süleyman'ın yaptırmış olduğu bütün altın kalkanlar dahil, aldığı her şeyi Mısır'a götürdü.

⁷Kral Rehavam bunların yerine tunç kalkanlar yaptırdı ve bunları kral sarayının kapısını bekleyen muhafız birliğinin komutanlarına emanet etti.

⁸Kral ne zaman Rab'bin tapınağına girse, muhafızlar bu kalkanları taşır, sonra yine muhafız odasına geri götürürlerdi.

⁹Rehavam'ın yaptığı diğer işler ve gerçekleştirdiği her şey, Yahuda Krallarının Günlükleri Kitabı'nda yazılı değil midir?

¹⁰Rehavam ile Yarovam arasında yaşadıkları sürece sürekli savaş vardı.

¹¹Rehavam atalarıyla birlikte uyudu ve Davut Kenti'nde atalarının yanına gömüldü. Yerine oğlu Aviyu kral oldu.

¹O sırada Yarovam'ın oğlu Aviya hastalandı.

²Yarovam karısına şöyle dedi: "Kalk, kendini öyle bir başkalaştır ki Yarovam'ın karısı olduğun anlaşılmasın ve Şilo'ya git. Bak, bu halkın üzerine kral olacağımı bana bildiren Peygamber Ahya oradadır.

³Tanrı adamına sunmak üzere yanına ekmekler, çocukları için çörekler, kuru üzüm ve bir kap bal alıp ona git; o sana çocuğa ne olacağını bildirecektir."

⁴Yarovam'ın karısı denileni yaptı; kalkıp Şilo'ya gitti ve Ahya'nın evine girdi. Ahya yaşlanmıştı, yaşlılıktan gözlerinin feri kaçtığı için göremiyordu.

⁵Rab Ahya'ya şöyle demişti: "İşte, Yarovam'ın karısı, hastalanan oğlu hakkında senden bir söz almak için geliyor. Ona şunları şunları söyleyeceksin." Kadın içeri girerken kendini yabancı biri gibi göstermeye çalışıyordu.

⁶Ahya, kadının kapıdan girerken ayak seslerini işitince şöyle dedi: "İçeri gir, ey Yarovam'ın karısı! Neden kendini yabancı biri gibi gösteriyorsun? Ben sana sert bir haber iletmekle görevlendirilmiş bir elçiyim.

⁷Git, Yarovam'a de ki: 'İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab şöyle diyor: Seni halkın arasından yükselttiğim, halkım İsrail'in üzerine önder yaptığım,

⁸krallığı Davut'un soyundan tamamen koparıp sana verdiğim halde, buyruklarımı tutan ve gözümde doğru olanı yapmak için bütün yüreğiyle ardımdan giden kulum Davut gibi olmadın.

⁹Senden önce yaşayanların hepsinden daha çok kötülük yaptın; beni öfkelendirmek için kendine başka ilahlar ve dökme putlar yaptın, beni ise bedeninin arkasına fırlatıp hiçe saydın.

¹⁰Bu yüzden, Yarovam soyunun üzerine felaket getireceğim; Yarovam soyundan duvara işeyen her erkeği, İsrail'deki köle ya da özgür herkesi yok edeceğim. Gübre nasıl tamamen temizlenip yok edilirse, Yarovam soyunu da öylece silip süpüreceğim.

¹¹Yarovam soyundan şehirde ölenleri köpekler yiyecek, kırda ölenleri ise gökteki kuşlar yiyecek. Çünkü Rab böyle konuştu.'

¹²Sana gelince, kalk ve evine git; ayakların şehre basar basmaz çocuk ölecektir.

¹³Bütün İsrail onun için yas tutacak ve onu gömecek. Yarovam soyundan mezara konulacak tek kişi o olacak; çünkü Yarovam'ın evinde İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab'be yönelik iyi bir durum sadece onda bulundu.

¹⁴Rab Kendi için İsrail üzerine, o gün Yarovam soyunu ortadan kaldıracak bir kral çıkaracaktır; evet, hatta şimdiden başladı bile!

¹⁵Rab, sudaki sazın rüzgarda sallandığı gibi İsrail'i vuracak; atalarına vermiş olduğu bu güzel topraklardan İsrail'i söküp atacak ve onları Nehrin ötesine dağıtacak. Çünkü kutsal koruluklar yaparak Rab'bi öfkelendirdiler.

¹⁶Yarovam'ın işlediği ve İsrail'i de sürüklediği günahlar yüzünden Rab İsrail'i düşmanlarına teslim edecektir."

¹⁷Yarovam'ın karısı kalkıp yola çıktı ve Sarira topraklarına vardı; evin eşiğinden içeri adımını atar atmaz çocuk öldü.

¹⁸Rab'bin, kulu Peygamber Ahya aracılığıyla bildirdiği söz uyarınca, onu gömdüler ve bütün İsrail onun için yas tuttu.

¹⁹Yarovam'ın yaptığı diğer işler, nasıl savaşlar yaptığı ve nasıl krallık ettiği, İsrail Krallarının Günlükleri Kitabı'nda yazılıdır.

²⁰Yarovam yirmi iki yıl krallık yaptı; sonra atalarıyla birlikte uyudu ve yerine oğlu Nabat kral oldu.

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²¹ΚΑΙ Ῥοβοὰμ υἱὸς Σαλωμὼν ἐβασίλευσεν ἐπὶ ᾿Ιούδαν· υἱὸς τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἑνὸς ἐνιαυτῶν Ῥοβοὰμ ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν καὶ ἑπτακαίδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ τῇ πόλει, ἣν ἐξελέξατο Κύριος θέσθαι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ἐκ πασῶν φυλῶν τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ· καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Νααμὰ ἡ ᾿Αμμωνῖτις.

²²καὶ ἐποίησε Ῥοβοὰμ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου καὶ παρεζήλωσεν αὐτὸν ἐν πᾶσιν, οἷς ἐποίησαν οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις αὐτῶν, αἷς ἥμαρτον,

²³καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν ἑαυτοῖς ὑψηλὰ καὶ στήλας καὶ ἄλση ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸς ξύλου συσκίου.

²⁴καὶ σύνδεσμος ἐγενήθη ἐν τῇ γῇ, καὶ ἐποίησαν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν βδελυγμάτων τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὧν ἐξῇρε Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ.

²⁵καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τῷ πέμπτῳ βασιλεύοντος Ῥοβοάμ, ἀνέβη Σουσακὶμ βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ

²⁶καὶ ἔλαβε πάντας τοὺς θησαυροὺς οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τὰ δόρατα τὰ χρυσᾶ, ἃ ἔλαβε Δαυὶδ ἐκ χειρὸς τῶν παίδων ᾿Αδραζὰρ βασιλέως Σουβά, καὶ εἰσήνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ τὰ πάντα, ἃ ἔλαβεν, ὅπλα τὰ χρυσᾶ, ὅσα ἐποίησε Σαλωμών, καὶ ἐπήνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς Αἴγυπτον.

²⁷καὶ ἐποίησε Ῥοβοὰμ ὁ βασιλεὺς ὅπλα χαλκᾶ ἀντ᾿ αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐπέθεντο ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν οἱ ἡγούμενοι τῶν παρατρεχόντων οἱ φυλάσσοντες τὸν πυλῶνα οἴκου βασιλέως.

²⁸καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε εἰσεπορεύετο ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου, καὶ ᾖρον αὐτὰ οἱ παρατρέχοντες καὶ ἀπηρείδοντο αὐτὰ εἰς τὸ θεὲ τῶν παρατρεχόντων.

²⁹καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Ῥοβοὰμ καὶ πάντα, ἃ ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐν βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ιούδα;

³⁰καὶ πόλεμος ἦν ἀνὰ μέσον Ῥοβοὰμ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον ῾Ιεροβοὰμ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.

³¹καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Ῥοβοὰμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ θάπτεται μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Αβιοὺ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ. __________________

¹᾿Εν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἠρρώστησεν ᾿Αβιὰ υἱὸς ῾Ιεροβοὰμ

²καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ῾Ιεροβοὰμ πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ· ἀνάστηθι καὶ ἀλλοιωθήσῃ, καὶ οὐ γνώσονται ὅτι σὺ γυνὴ ῾Ιεροβοάμ, καὶ πορευθήσῃ εἰς Σηλώ· καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐκεῖ ᾿Αχιὰ ὁ προφήτης, αὐτὸς ἐλάλησεν ἐμὲ τοῦ βασιλεῦσαι ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον.

³καὶ λαβὲ εἰς τὴν χεῖρά σου τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἄρτους καὶ κολλυρίδα τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτοῦ καὶ σταφίδας καὶ στάμνον μέλιτος, καὶ ἐλεύσῃ πρὸς αὐτόν. αὐτὸς ἀναγγείλῃ σοι τί ἔσται τῷ παιδί.

⁴καὶ ἐποίησεν οὕτως γυνὴ ῾Ιεροβοάμ· καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰς Σηλώ, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ἐν οἴκῳ ᾿Αχιά· καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος πρεσβύτερος τοῦ ἰδεῖν, καὶ ἠμβλυώπουν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ γήρους αὐτοῦ.

⁵καὶ Κύριος εἶπε πρὸς ᾿Αχιά· ἰδοὺ γυνὴ τοῦ ῾Ιεροβοὰμ εἰσέρχεται τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι ῥῆμα παρὰ σοῦ περὶ υἱοῦ αὐτῆς, ὅτι ἄρρωστός ἐστι· κατὰ τοῦτο καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο λαλήσεις πρὸς αὐτήν. καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ εἰσέρχεσθαι αὐτὴν καὶ αὐτὴ ἀπεξενοῦτο.

⁶καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσεν ᾿Αχιὰ τὴν φωνὴν ποδῶν αὐτῆς, εἰσερχομένης αὐτῆς ἐν τῷ ἀνοίγματι, καὶ εἶπεν· εἴσελθε, γυνὴ ῾Ιεροβοάμ· ἱνατί σὺ τοῦτο ἀποξενοῦσαι; καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι ἀπόστολος πρός σε σκληρός.

⁷πορευθεῖσα εἰπὸν τῷ ῾Ιεροβοάμ· τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· ἀνθ᾿ οὗ ὅσον ὕψωσά σε ἀπὸ μέσου λαοῦ καὶ ἔδωκά σε ἡγούμενον ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν μου ᾿Ισραήλ,

⁸καὶ ἔρρηξα σὺν τὸ βασίλειον ἀπὸ τοῦ οἶκου Δαυὶδ καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτό σοι καὶ οὐκ ἐγένου ὡς ὁ δοῦλός μου Δαυίδ, ὃς ἐφύλαξε τὰς ἐντολάς μου καὶ ὃς ἐπορεύθη ὀπίσω μου ἐν πάσῃ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ποιῆσαι ἕκαστος τὸ εὐθὲς ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς μου

⁹καὶ ἐπονηρεύσω τοῦ ποιῆσαι παρὰ παντός, ὅσοι ἐγένοντο εἰς πρόσωπόν σου καὶ ἐπορεύθης καὶ ἐποίησας σεαυτῷ θεοὺς ἑτέρους χωνευτὰ τοῦ παροργίσαι με καὶ ἐμὲ ἔρριψας ὀπίσω σώματός σου·

¹⁰διὰ τοῦτο ἐγὼ ἄγω κακίαν πρός σε εἰς οἶκον ῾Ιεροβοάμ· ἐξολοθρεύσω τοῦ ῾Ιεροβοὰμ οὐροῦντα πρὸς τοῖχον ἐχόμενον καὶ ἐγκαταλελειμμένον ἐν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἐπιλέξω οἴκου ῾Ιεροβοάμ, καθὼς ἐπιλέγεται ἡ κόπρος, ὡς τελειωθῆναι αὐτόν·

¹¹οἱ τεθνηκότες τοῦ ῾Ιεροβοὰμ ἐν τῇ πόλει, καταφάγονται οἱ κύνες, καὶ τὸν τεθνηκότα ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ καταφάγονται τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ὅτι Κύριος ἐλάλησε.

¹²καὶ σὺ ἀναστᾶσα πορεύθητι εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου· ἐν τῷ εἰσέρχεσθαι πόδα σου τὴν πόλιν, ἀποθανεῖται τὸ παιδάριον·

¹³καὶ κόψονται αὐτὸν πᾶς ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ θάψουσιν αὐτόν, ὅτι οὗτος μόνος εἰσελεύσεται τῷ ῾Ιεροβοὰμ πρὸς τάφον, ὅτι εὑρέθη ἐν αὐτῷ ρῆμα καλὸν περὶ τοῦ Κυρίου Θεοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν οἴκῳ ῾Ιεροβοάμ·

¹⁴καὶ ἀναστήσει Κύριος ἑαυτῷ βασιλέα ἐπὶ ᾿Ισραήλ, ὃς πλήξει τὸν οἶκον ῾Ιεροβοάμ ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ· καὶ τί καὶ νῦν;

¹⁵Κύριος πλήξει τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ, καθὰ κινεῖται ὁ ἄνεμος ἐν τῷ ὕδατι, καὶ ἐκτελεῖ τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ ἄνω τῆς χθονὸς τῆς ἀγαθῆς ταύτης, ἧς ἔδωκε τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, καὶ λικμήσει αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ· ἀνθ᾿ οὗ ὅσον ἐποίησαν τὰ ἄλση αὐτῶν παροργίζοντες τὸν Κύριον·

¹⁶καὶ παραδώσει Κύριος τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ χάριν ἁμαρτιῶν ῾Ιεροβοάμ, ὃς ἥμαρτε καὶ ὃς ἐξήμαρτε τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁷καὶ ἀνέστη ἡ γυνὴ ῾Ιεροβοὰμ καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰς γῆν Σαριρά· καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς εἰσῆλθεν ἐν τῷ προθύρῳ τοῦ οἴκου καὶ τὸ παιδάριον ἀπέθανε.

¹⁸καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐκόψαντο αὐτὸν πᾶς ᾿Ισραήλ, κατὰ τὸ ρῆμα Κυρίου, ὃ ἐλάλησεν ἐν χειρὶ δούλου αὐτοῦ ᾿Αχιὰ τοῦ προφήτου.

¹⁹καὶ περισσὸν ρημάτων ῾Ιεροβοάμ, ὅσα ἐπολέμησε καὶ ὅσα ἐβασίλευσεν, ἰδοὺ αὐτὰ γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίου ρημάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν τῶν βασιλέων ᾿Ισραὴλ.

²⁰καὶ αἱ ἡμέραι, ἃς ἐβασίλευσεν ῾Ιεροβοὰμ εἴκοσι δύο ἔτη· καὶ ἐκοιμήθη μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐβασίλευσε Ναβὰτ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹* 1-20 [Τhe first

²⁰verses of this chapter are supplied by the Alex . See Appendix ]

²¹And Roboam son of Solomon ruled over Juda. Roboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother’s name [was] Naama the Ammonitess.

²²And Roboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.

²³And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and [planted] groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

²⁴And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel.

²⁵And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

²⁶and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the golden spears which David took out of the hand of the sons of Adrazaar king of Suba, and brought them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, [and] the golden shields which Solomon had made, [[and carried them away into Egypt.]]

²⁷And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them; and the chiefs of the body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were placed in charge over them.

²⁸And it came to pass when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the body guard took them up, and fixed them in the chamber of the body guard.

²⁹And the rest of the history of Roboam, and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

³⁰And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam continually.

³¹And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Abiu his son reigned in his stead. ________________

¹At that time Abia son of Jeroboam was ill.

²And Jeroboam said to his wife, Rise up And disguise [yourself] that they shall not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go unto Selo! Behold, Achia the prophet is there, he spoke unto me to reign over this people.

³And take in your hand to the man of God bread loaves and small cakes to his children, and dried grapes, and a jar of honey, and you shall go to him; he will announce to you what will be to the child.

⁴And thus did the wife of Jeroboam. And she rose up and went to Selo, and entered into the house of Achia. And the man was too old to see, and his eyes were dim from his old age.

⁵And the Lord said to Achia, Behold the wife of Jeroboam enters to seek an utterance from you concerning his son, for he is ill. According to this and according to that you shall say to her. And it came to pass in her entering that she was as a stranger.

⁶And it came to pass as Achia heard the sound of her feet in her entering in the passage, that he said, Enter, O wife of Jeroboam, why is this you are [disguised] as a stranger and I am to you a harsh envoy.

⁷In going, say to Jeroboam, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Because as much as I exalted you from the midst of the people and appointed you leading over the people of Israel,

⁸and tore the crown of state from the house of David and gave it to you; and you have not become as my servant David who kept my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart, to do right in my eyes.

⁹But you did wickedly doing more than all as many as were in front of you, and you have gone and made yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me to anger, and have tossed me behind you.

¹⁰On account of this, behold, I bring evil to the house of Jeroboam, and I will utterly destroy of Jeroboam the one urinating against the wall; the one coming and the one being left behind in Israel; and I shall choose over the house of Jeroboam as one chooses the dung unto finishing it.

¹¹The one having died of Jeroboam in the city the dogs shall devour, and the one having died in the field the birds of heaven shall devour; for the Lord has spoken it.

¹²And you rise up, go unto your house! In the entering of your feet in the city the child shall die.

¹³And all Israel shall lament him, and entomb him, for this one only of Jeroboam shall enter the tomb; for there shall be found in him a good word concerning the Lord God of Israel among the house of Jeroboam.

¹⁴And the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall strike the house of Jeroboam this day, and yet also indeed now.

¹⁵And the Lord shall strike Israel as a shaken reed in the water. And he shall pluck Israel upward out of this good soil which he gave their fathers. And he shall winnow them on the other side of the river, because of the many sacred groves that they made, provoking the Lord to anger.

¹⁶And the Lord gave Israel favor from the sins of Jeroboam who sinned and who led Israel into sin.

¹⁷And the wife of Jeroboam rose up and went into Sarira. And it came to pass as she entered in the threshold of the house that the child died.

¹⁸And they entombed him, and all Israel lamented him according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by the hand of his servant Achia the prophet.

¹⁹And the extra things of Jeroboam, as much as he waged war, and as much as he reigned, behold, they have been written in the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

²⁰And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty and two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nabat his son reigned instead of him.