3. Krallar 20

¹Yezreelli Nabutay'ın, Samiriye Kralı Ahab'ın harman yerinin hemen yanında bir bağı vardı.

²Ahab Nabutay'a şöyle dedi: "Bağını bana ver, evime çok yakın olduğu için benim sebze bahçem olsun; karşılığında sana ondan daha iyi başka bir bağ veririm ya da istersen bu bağın değerini sana gümüş olarak öderim ve böylece benim sebze bahçem olur."

³Nabutay ise Ahab'a, "Atalarımın mirasını sana vermekten Tanrım beni tamamen uzak tutsun" dedi.

⁴Bunun üzerine Ahab'ın ruhu derinden sarsıldı; yatağına uzandı, yüzünü örttü ve yemek yemedi.

⁵Karısı İzebel yanına gelip ona, "Neden ruhun böyle sarsılmış durumda ve neden yemek yemiyorsun?" diye sordu.

⁶Ahab ona şöyle cevap verdi: "Çünkü Yezreelli Nabutay ile konuştum ve ona, 'Bağını gümüş karşılığında bana ver ya da istersen yerine başka bir bağ vereyim' dedim; ama o, 'Atalarımın mirasını sana vermeyeceğim' dedi."

⁷Karısı İzebel ona, "Sen şimdi İsrail üzerinde böyle mi krallık yapıyorsun?" dedi, "Kalk, yemek ye ve kendine gel; Yezreelli Nabutay'ın bağını sana ben bizzat vereceğim."

⁸Böylece Ahab'ın adına mektuplar yazdı, onun mührüyle mühürledi ve mektupları Nabutay ile birlikte yaşayan ihtiyarlara ve özgür yurttaşlara gönderdi.

⁹Mektuplarda şöyle yazmıştı: "Bir oruç ilan edin ve Nabutay'ı halkın önünde baş köşeye oturtun.

¹⁰Onun tam karşısına yasa tanımaz iki adam oturtun; bu adamlar, 'Tanrı'yı ve kralı kutsadı' diyerek onun aleyhinde tanıklık etsinler; sonra onu dışarı çıkarıp taşlayarak öldürün."

¹¹Nabutay'ın kentinde yaşayan ihtiyarlar ve özgür yurttaşlar, İzebel'in kendilerine gönderdiği mektuplarda yazılı olan her şeyi aynen yerine getirdiler.

¹²Oruç ilan edip Nabutay'ı halkın önünde baş köşeye oturttular.

¹³Yasa tanımaz iki adam gelip onun karşısına oturdu ve halkın önünde, "Sen Tanrı'yı ve kralı kutsadın!" diyerek Nabutay'ın aleyhinde tanıklık etti; bunun üzerine onu kentin dışına çıkardılar ve taşlarla taşlayarak öldürdüler.

¹⁴Sonra İzebel'e, "Nabutay taşlandı ve öldü" diye haber gönderdiler.

¹⁵İzebel bunu duyar duymaz Ahab'a, "Kalk, Yezreelli Nabutay'ın gümüş karşılığında sana vermeyi reddettiği bağı sahiplen; çünkü Nabutay artık yaşamıyor, öldü" dedi.

¹⁶Ahab, Yezreelli Nabutay'ın öldüğünü duyunca giysilerini yırttı ve çul kuşandı; bundan sonra kalkıp Yezreelli Nabutay'ın bağını sahiplenmek üzere oraya gitti.

¹⁷O zaman Rab, Tişbeli Eliyu'ya şöyle seslendi:

¹⁸"Kalk, Samiriye'de bulunan İsrail Kralı Ahab'ı karşılamaya in; kendisi şu anda Nabutay'ın bağındadır, orayı sahiplenmek için oraya inmiştir.

¹⁹Ona de ki: 'Rab şöyle diyor: Hem adam öldürdün hem de mülküne el mi koydun?' Ve ona şöyle söyle: 'Rab şöyle diyor: Domuzların ve köpeklerin Nabutay'ın kanını yaladığı her yerde, köpekler senin de kanını yalayacak ve fahişeler senin kanında yıkanacaklar.'"

²⁰Ahab Eliyu'ya, "Beni buldun mu, ey düşmanım?" dedi; Eliyu, "Buldum" dedi, "Çünkü Rab'bin gözünde kötü olanı yapmak ve O'nu öfkelendirmek için kendini boş yere sattın.

²¹'İşte, üzerine felaket getiriyorum; ardındakileri yakıp yok edeceğim; Ahab soyundan gelen, İsrail'deki köle ya da özgür her erkeği ortadan kaldıracağım.

²²Beni öfkelendirdiğin ve İsrail'i günaha sürüklediğin için, senin soyunu Nebat oğlu Yarovam'ın soyu ve Ahiya oğlu Baaşa'nın soyu gibi yapacağım.'

²³Rab İzebel için de şöyle diyor: 'Yezreel surlarının önünde köpekler İzebel'i yiyecek.'

²⁴Ahab'ın soyundan kentte ölenleri köpekler, kırda ölenleri ise gökteki kuşlar yiyecek."

²⁵Gerçekten de karısı İzebel'in kışkırtmasıyla Rab'bin gözünde kötü olanı yapmak için kendini satan Ahab gibisi hiç olmamıştı.

²⁶Rab'bin İsrail oğullarının önünden kovduğu Amorluların yaptığı her şeyi yaparak, iğrenç putların ardınca gitmekle çok büyük iğrençlik etti.

²⁷Ahab bu sözleri duyunca Rab'bin önünde büyük bir pişmanlık duydu; ağlayarak yürüdü, giysilerini yırttı, bedenine çul sardı ve oruç tuttu; Yezreelli Nabutay'ı öldürdüğü günden beri çul kuşanmış olarak geziyordu.

²⁸Bunun üzerine Rab, kulu Eliyu aracılığıyla Ahab hakkında şöyle seslendi:

²⁹"Ahab'ın önümde nasıl alçakgönüllü davrandığını gördün mü? Önümde alçaldığı için onun yaşadığı günlerde bu felaketi getirmeyeceğim; ancak oğlunun günlerinde ailesinin üzerine bu felaketi getireceğim."

¹ΚΑΙ ἀμπελὼν εἷς ἦν τῷ Ναβουθαὶ τῷ ᾿Ιεζραηλίτῃ παρὰ τῇ ἅλῳ ᾿Αχαὰβ βασιλέως Σαμαρείας.

²καὶ ἐλάλησεν ᾿Αχαὰβ πρὸς Ναβουθαὶ λέγων· δός μοι τὸν ἀμπελῶνά σου καὶ ἔσται μοι εἰς κῆπον λαχάνων, ὅτι ἐγγίζων οὗτος τῷ οἴκῳ μου, καὶ δώσω σοι ἀμπελῶνα ἄλλον ἀγαθὸν ὑπὲρ αὐτόν· εἰ δὲ ἀρέσκει ἐνώπιόν σου, δώσω σοι ἀργύριον ἄλλαγμα ἀμπελῶνός σου τούτου, καὶ ἔσται μοι εἰς κῆπον λαχάνων.

³καὶ εἶπε Ναβουθαὶ πρὸς ᾿Αχαάβ· μὴ γένοιτό μοι παρὰ Θεοῦ μου δοῦναι κληρονομίαν πατέρων μου σοί.

⁴καὶ ἐγένετο τὸ πνεῦμα ᾿Αχαὰβ τεταραγμένον, καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης αὐτοῦ καὶ συνεκάλυψε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν ἄρτον.

⁵καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ᾿Ιεζάβελ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ ἐλάλησε πρὸς αὐτόν· τί τὸ πνεῦμά σου τεταραγμένον καὶ οὐκ εἶ σὺ ἐσθίων ἄρτον;

⁶καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτήν, ὅτι ἐλάλησα πρὸς Ναβουθαὶ τὸν ᾿Ιεζραηλίτην λέγων· δός μοι τὸν ἀμπελῶνά σου ἀργυρίου· εἰ δὲ βούλῃ, δώσω σοι ἀμπελῶνα ἄλλον ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ· καὶ εἶπεν· οὐ δώσω σοι κληρονομίαν πατέρων μου.

⁷καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτὸν ᾿Ιεζάβελ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ· σὺ νῦν οὕτω ποιεῖς βασιλέα ἐπὶ ᾿Ισραήλ; ἀνάστηθι καὶ φάγε ἄρτον καὶ σαυτοῦ γενοῦ, ἐγὼ δὲ δώσω σοι τὸν ἀμπελῶνα Ναβουθαὶ τοῦ ᾿Ιεζραηλίτου.

⁸καὶ ἔγραψε βιβλίον ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Αχαὰβ καὶ ἐσφραγίσατο τῇ σφραγίδι αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέστειλε τὸ βιβλίον πρὸς τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους καὶ τοὺς ἐλευθέρους τοὺς κατοικοῦντας μετὰ Ναβουθαί.

⁹καὶ ἐγέγραπτο ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις λέγων· νηστεύσατε νηστείαν καὶ καθίσατε τὸν Ναβουθαὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ λαοῦ·

¹⁰καὶ ἐγκαθίσατε δύο ἄνδρας υἱοὺς παρανόμων ἐξεναντίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταμαρτυρησάτωσαν αὐτοῦ λέγοντες· ηὐλόγησε Θεὸν καὶ βασιλέα· καὶ ἐξαγαγέτωσαν αὐτὸν καὶ λιθοβολησάτωσαν αὐτόν, καὶ ἀποθανέτω.

¹¹καὶ ἐποίησαν οἱ ἄνδρες τῆς πόλεως αὐτοῦ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ οἱ ἐλεύθεροι οἱ κατοικοῆντες ἐν τῇ πόλει αὐτοῦ, καθὼς ἀπέστειλε πρὸς αὐτοὺς ᾿Ιεζάβελ καὶ καθὰ ἐγέγραπτο ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις, οἷς ἀπέστειλε πρὸς αὐτούς.

¹²καὶ ἐκάλεσαν νηστείαν καὶ ἐκάθισαν τὸν Ναβουθαὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ λαοῦ,

¹³καὶ εἰσῆλθον δύο ἄνδρες υἱοὶ παρανόμων καὶ ἐκάθισαν ἐξεναντίας αὐτοῦ καὶ κατεμαρτύρησαν αὐτοῦ λέγοντες· ηὐλόγηκας Θεὸν καὶ βασιλέα· καὶ ἐξήγαγον αὐτὸν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως καὶ ἐλιθοβόλησαν αὐτὸν ἐν λίθοις, καὶ ἀπέθανε.

¹⁴καὶ ἀπέστειλαν πρὸς ᾿Ιεζάβελ λέγοντες· λελιθοβόληται Ναβουθαὶ καὶ τέθνηκε.

¹⁵καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσεν ᾿Ιεζάβελ, καὶ εἶπε πρὸς ᾿Αχαάβ· ἀνάστα, κληρονόμει τὸν ἀμπελῶνα Ναβουθαὶ τοῦ ᾿Ιεζραηλίτου, ὃς οὐκ ἔδωκέ σοι ἀργυρίου, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι Ναβουθαὶ ζῶν, ὅτι τέθνηκε.

¹⁶καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσεν ᾿Αχαὰβ ὅτι τέθνηκε Ναβουθαὶ ὁ ᾿Ιεζραηλίτης, καὶ διέρρηξε τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ καὶ περιεβάλετο σάκκον· καὶ ἐγένετο μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ κατέβη ᾿Αχαὰβ εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα Ναβουθαὶ τοῦ ᾿Ιεζραηλίτου κληρονομῆσαι αὐτόν.

¹⁷Καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος πρὸς ᾿Ηλιοὺ τὸν Θεσβίτην λέγων·

¹⁸ἀνάστηθι καὶ κατάβηθι εἰς ἀπαντὴν ᾿Αχαὰβ βασιλέως ᾿Ισραὴλ τοῦ ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ, ὅτι οὗτος ἐν ἀμπελῶνι Ναβουθαί, ὅτι καταβέβηκεν ἐκεῖ κληρονομῆσαι αὐτόν.

¹⁹καὶ λαλήσεις πρὸς αὐτὸν λέγων· τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ὡς σὺ ἐφόνευσας καὶ ἐκληρονόμησας, διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ, ᾧ ἔλειξαν αἱ ὕες καὶ οἱ κύνες τὸ αἷμα Ναβουθαί, ἐκεῖ λείξουσιν οἱ κύνες τὸ αἷμα σου, καὶ αἱ πόρναι λούσονται ἐν τῷ αἵματί σου.

²⁰καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Αχαὰβ πρὸς ᾿Ηλιού· εἰ εὕρηκάς με, ὁ ἐχθρός μου; καὶ εἶπεν· εὕρηκα, διότι μάτην πέπρασαι ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου παροργίσαι αὐτόν.

²¹ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ἐπὶ σὲ κακὰ καὶ ἐκκαύσω ὀπίσω σου καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσω τοῦ ᾿Αχαὰβ οὐροῦντα πρὸς τοῖχον καὶ συνεχόμενον καὶ ἐγκαταλελειμμένον ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ·

²²καὶ δώσω τὸν οἶκόν σου ὡς τὸν οἶκον ῾Ιεροβοὰμ υἱοῦ Ναβὰτ καὶ ὡς τὸν οἶκον Βαασὰ υἱοῦ ᾿Αχιὰ περὶ τῶν παροργισμάτων, ὧν παρώργισας καὶ ἐξήμαρτες τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ.

²³καὶ τῇ ᾿Ιεζάβελ ἐλάλησε Κύριος λέγων· οἱ κύνες καταφάγονται αὐτὴν ἐν τῷ προτειχίσματι ᾿Ιεζράελ.

²⁴τὸν τεθνηκότα τοῦ ᾿Αχαὰβ ἐν τῇ πόλει φάγονται οἱ κύνες καὶ τὸν τεθνηκότα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ φάγονται τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ.

²⁵πλὴν ματαίως ᾿Αχαάβ, ὃς ἐπράθη ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, ὡς μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ᾿Ιεζάβελ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ·

²⁶καὶ ἐβδελύχθη σφόδρα πορεύεσθαι ὀπίσω τῶν βδελυγμάτων κατὰ πάντα, ἃ ἐποίησεν ὁ ᾿Αμορραῖος, ὃν ἐξωλόθρευσε Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ.

²⁷καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ λόγου, ὡς κατενύγη ᾿Αχαὰβ ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ ἐπορεύετο κλαίων καὶ διέρρηξε τὸν χιτῶνα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐζώσατο σάκκον ἐπὶ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνήστευσε καὶ περιεβάλετο σάκκον ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, ᾗ ἐπάταξε Ναβουθαὶ τὸν ᾿Ιεζραηλίτην, καὶ ἐπορεύθη,

²⁸καὶ ἐγένετο ῥῆμα Κυρίου ἐν χειρὶ δούλου αὐτοῦ ᾿Ηλιοὺ περὶ ᾿Αχαάβ, καὶ εἶπε Κύριος·

²⁹ἑώρακας ὡς κατενύγη ᾿Αχαὰβ ἀπὸ προσώπου μου; οὐκ ἐπάξω τὴν κακίαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπάξω τὴν κακίαν.

¹And Nabuthai the Jezraelite had a vineyard, near the threshingfloor of Achaab king of Samaria.

²And Achaab spoke to Nabuthai, saying, Give me thy vineyard, and I will have it for a garden of herbs, for it [is] near my house: and I will give thee another vineyard better than it; or if it please thee, I will give thee money, the price of this thy vineyard, and I will have it for a garden of herbs.

³And Nabuthai said to Achaab, My God forbid me that I should give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

⁴And the spirit of Achaab was troubled, and he lay down upon his bed, and covered his face, and ate no bread.

⁵And Jezabel his wife went in to him, and spoke to him, [saying], Why [is] thy spirit troubled, and [why] dost thou eat no bread?

⁶And he said to her, Because I spoke to Nabuthai the Jezraelite, saying, Give me thy vineyard for money; or if thou wilt, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

⁷And Jezabel his wife said to him, Dost thou now thus act the king over Israel? arise, and eat bread, and be thine own [master], and I will give thee the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite.

⁸And she wrote a letter in the name of Achaab, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders, and to the freemen who dwelt with Nabuthai

⁹And it was written in the letters, saying, Keep a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.

¹⁰And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, He blessed God and the king: and let them lead him forth, and stone him, and let him die.

¹¹And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them.

¹²And they proclaimed a fast, and set Nebuthai in a chief place among the people.

¹³And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died.

¹⁴And they sent to Jezabel, saying, Nabuthai is stoned, and is dead.

¹⁵And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard [it], that she said to Achaab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, who would not sell it to thee: for Nebuthai is not alive, for he is dead.

¹⁶And it came to pass, when Achaab heard that Nabuthai the Jezraelite was dead, that he rent his garments, and put on sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Achaab arose and went down to the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, to take possession of it.

¹⁷And the Lord spoke to Eliu the Thesbite, saying,

¹⁸Arise, and go down to meet Achaab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, for he [is] in the vineyard of Nabuthai, for he has gone down thither to take possession of it.

¹⁹And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast slain and taken possession, therefore thus saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthai, there shall the dogs lick thy blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in thy blood.

²⁰And Achaab said to Eliu, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? and he said, I have found [thee]: because thou hast wickedly sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger;

²¹behold, I bring evil upon thee: and I will kindle a fire after thee, and I will utterly destroy every male of Achaab, and him that is shut up and him that is left in Israel.

²²And I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and as the house of Baasa son of Achia, because of the provocations wherewith thou hast provoked [me], and caused Israel to sin.

²³And the Lord spoke of Jezabel, saying, The dogs shall devour her within the fortification of Jezrael.

²⁴Him that is dead of Achaab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that is dead of him in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.

²⁵But Achaab [did] wickedly, in that he sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his wife Jezabel led him astray.

²⁶And he did very abominably in following after the abominations, according to all that the Amorite did, whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.

²⁷And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment, and girt sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.

²⁸And the word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Eliu concerning Achaab, and the Lord said,

²⁹Hast thou seen how Achaab has been pricked [to the heart] before me? I will not bring on the evil in his days, but in his son’s days will I bring on the evil.