4. Krallar 14

¹İsrail Kralı Yehoahaz oğlu Yoaş’ın krallığının ikinci yılında, Yahuda Kralı Yoaş oğlu Amasyas tahta çıktı.

²Tahta çıktığında yirmi beş yaşındaydı ve Yeruşalim’de yirmi dokuz yıl krallık yaptı; annesinin adı Yeruşalim kökenli Yoadim’di.

³Rabbin gözünde doğru olanı yaptı, ancak atası Davut kadar değil; bütünüyle babası Yoaş’ın yapmış olduğu her şeye göre davrandı.

⁴Ne var ki yüksek yerlerdeki tapınakları ortadan kaldırmadı; halk hâlâ o yüksek yerlerde kurban kesip buhur yakmaya devam ediyordu.

⁵Krallık kendi elinde güç kazandığında, babası olan kralı katleden uşaklarını öldürdü.

⁶Ancak katillerin çocuklarını öldürmedi; Musa’nın yasalar kitabında yazılı olan ve Rabbin, "Babalar çocukları için ölmeyecek, çocuklar da babaları için ölmeyecek; aksine her biri kendi günahı yüzünden ölecektir" diyerek buyurduğu kurala sadık kaldı.

⁷Gaimela’da on bin Edomluyu kılıçtan geçiren ve savaşta Petra’yı ele geçirip adını bugüne dek kalan Kathoel olarak değiştiren oydu.

⁸O zaman Amasyas, Yehu oğlu Yehoahaz oğlu İsrail Kralı Yoaş’a, "Gel, yüz yüze gelelim" diyerek elçiler gönderdi.

⁹İsrail Kralı Yoaş, Yahuda Kralı Amasyas’a şu yanıtı gönderdi: "Lübnan’daki diken çalı, Lübnan’daki sedir ağacına, 'Kızını oğluma eş olarak ver' diye haber yolladı; fakat Lübnan’daki kırın vahşi hayvanları geçip o dikeni çiğneyip ezdiler.

¹⁰Edom’u bozguna uğrattın diye yüreğin seni kibirlendirdi; evinde oturup bununla onurlan, neden kendi felaketini hazırlayıp hem kendinin hem de Yahuda’nın yıkımına yol açacak bir çekişmeye giresin?"

¹¹Fakat Amasyas dinlemedi. Bunun üzerine İsrail Kralı Yoaş sefere çıktı; kendisi ve Yahuda Kralı Amasyas, Yahuda sınırları içindeki Beyt-Şemeş’te karşı karşıya geldiler.

¹²Yahuda, İsrail önünde bozguna uğradı ve her adam kendi çadırına kaçtı.

¹³İsrail Kralı Yoaş, Ahazyas oğlu Yoaş oğlu Yahuda Kralı Amasyas’ı Beyt-Şemeş’te esir aldı; ardından Yeruşalim’e girerek Yeruşalim surunun Efrayim Kapısı’ndan Köşe Kapısı’na kadar olan dört yüz arşınlık kısmını yıktı.

¹⁴Rabbin tapınağında ve kral sarayının hazinelerinde bulunan bütün altını, gümüşü, tüm kapları ve rehineleri alarak Samiriye’ye döndü.

¹⁵Yoaş’ın yaptığı diğer işler, gösterdiği güç ve Yahuda Kralı Amasyas ile yaptığı savaş, İsrail krallarının tarihler kitabında yazılı değil midir?

¹⁶Yoaş ölüp atalarına kavuştu ve Samiriye’de İsrail krallarının yanına gömüldü; yerine oğlu Yarobam kral oldu.

¹⁷Yahuda Kralı Yoaş oğlu Amasyas, Yehoahaz oğlu İsrail Kralı Yoaş’ın ölümünden sonra on beş yıl daha yaşadı.

¹⁸Amasyas’ın yaptığı diğer işler Yahuda krallarının tarihler kitabında yazılı değil midir?

¹⁹Yeruşalim’de ona karşı bir suikast çetesi kuruldu; o da Lakiş’e kaçtı. Fakat arkasından Lakiş’e adamlar göndererek onu orada katlettiler.

²⁰Cenazesini atlar üzerinde getirdiler ve Yeruşalim’de, Davut’un kentinde atalarının yanına gömdüler.

²¹Bütün Yahuda halkı, henüz on altı yaşında olan Azaryas’ı alıp babası Amasyas’ın yerine kral ilan etti.

²²Kral atalarına kavuştuktan sonra, Ailoth’u yeniden inşa edip Yahuda’ya geri kazandıran oydu.

²³Yahuda Kralı Yoaş oğlu Amasyas’ın krallığının on beşinci yılında, Yoaş oğlu Yarobam Samiriye’de İsrail üzerinde kral oldu ve kırk bir yıl krallık yaptı.

²⁴Rabbin gözünde kötü olanı yaptı; Nebat oğlu Yarobam’ın İsrail’i sürüklediği günahların hiçbirinden uzaklaşmadı.

²⁵İsrail’in Tanrısı Rabbin, Gethchopher’li peygamber Amathi oğlu kulu Yunus aracılığıyla bildirdiği söz uyarınca, İsrail sınırını Emath girişinden Araba Denizi’ne kadar yeniden ele geçiren oydu.

²⁶Çünkü Rab, İsrail’in çektiği acının son derece şiddetli olduğunu, kuşatılmış ve çaresiz kalmış kimselerin tükendiğini ve İsrail’e yardım edecek hiç kimsenin bulunmadığını gördü.

²⁷Rab, İsrail’in soyunu göklerin altından tamamen silmeyi amaçlamamıştı; bu yüzden onları Yoaş oğlu Yarobam’ın eliyle kurtardı.

²⁸Yarobam’ın yaptığı diğer işler, gösterdiği bütün güç, nasıl savaştığı, Şam’ı ve Emath’ı İsrail’deki Yahuda’ya nasıl geri kazandırdığı, İsrail krallarının tarihler kitabında yazılı değil midir?

²⁹Yarobam ölüp atalarına, İsrail krallarına kavuştu; yerine oğlu Zekeriya kral oldu.

¹ΕΝ ἔτει δευτέρῳ τῷ ᾿Ιωὰς υἱῷ ᾿Ιωάχαζ βασιλεῖ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Αμεσσίας υἱὸς ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεὺς ᾿Ιούδα.

²υἱὸς εἴκοσι καὶ πέντε ἐτῶν ἦν ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ ἐννέα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ᾿Ιωαδὶμ ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

³καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ εὐθὲς ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου, πλὴν οὐχ ὡς Δαυὶδ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ· κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησεν ᾿Ιωὰς ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, ἐποίησε·

⁴πλὴν τὰ ὑψηλὰ οὐκ ἐξῇρεν, ἔτι ὁ λαὸς ἐθυσίαζε καὶ ἐθυμίων ἐν τοῖς ὑψηλοῖς.

⁵καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε κατίσχυεν ἡ βασιλεία ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπάταξε τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ τοὺς πατάξαντας τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ·

⁶καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν παταξάντων οὐκ ἐθανάτωσε, καθὼς γέγραπται ἐν βιβλίῳ νόμων Μωυσῆ, ὡς ἐνετείλατο Κύριος λέγων· οὐκ ἀποθανοῦνται πατέρες ὑπὲρ υἱῶν, καὶ υἱοὶ οὐκ ἀποθανοῦνται ὑπὲρ πατέρων, ὅτι ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἕκαστος ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις αὐτοῦ ἀποθανεῖται.

⁷αὐτὸς ἐπάταξε τὴν ᾿Εδὼμ ἐν Γαιμελὲ δέκα χιλιάδας καὶ συνέλαβε τὴν Πέτραν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς Καθοὴλ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

⁸τότε ἀπέστειλεν ᾿Αμεσσίας ἀγγέλους πρὸς ᾿Ιωὰς υἱὸν ᾿Ιωάχαζ υἱοῦ ᾿Ιοὺ βασιλέως ᾿Ισραὴλ λέγων· δεῦρο ὀφθῶμεν προσώποις.

⁹καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ πρὸς ᾿Αμεσσίαν βασιλέα ᾿Ιούδα λέγων· ὁ ἄκαν ὁ ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ ἀπέστειλε πρὸς τὴν κέδρον τὴν ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ λέγων· δὸς τὴν θυγατέρα σου τῷ υἱῷ μου εἰς γυναῖκα· καὶ διῆλθον τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ τὰ ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ καὶ συνεπάτησαν τὴν ἄκανα.

¹⁰τύπτων ἐπάταξας τὴν ᾿Ιδουμαίαν, καὶ ἐπῇρέ σε καρδία σου· ἐνδοξάσθητι καθήμενος ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ σου, καὶ ἱνατί ἐρίζεις ἐν κακίᾳ σου; καὶ πεσῇ σὺ καὶ ᾿Ιούδας μετὰ σοῦ.

¹¹καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσεν ᾿Αμεσσίας. καὶ ἀνέβη ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεὺς ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ὤφθησαν προσώποις αὐτὸς καὶ ᾿Αμεσσίας βασιλεὺς ᾿Ιούδα ἐν Βαιθσαμὺς τῇ τοῦ ᾿Ιούδα·

¹²καὶ ἔπταισεν ᾿Ιούδας ἀπὸ προσώπου ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἔφυγεν ἀνὴρ εἰς τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ·

¹³καὶ τὸν ᾿Αμεσσίαν υἱὸν ᾿Ιωὰς υἱοῦ ᾿Οχοζίου συνέλαβεν ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν Βαιθσαμύς. καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ καθεῖλεν ἐν τῷ τείχει ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐν τῇ πύλῃ ᾿Εφραὶμ ἕως πύλης τῆς γωνίας τετρακοσίους πήχεις·

¹⁴καὶ ἔλαβεν τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη τὰ εὑρεθέντα ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου καὶ ἐν θησαυροῖς οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν συμμίξεων καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν εἰς Σαμάρειαν.

¹⁵καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων ᾿Ιωάς, ὅσα ἐποίησεν ἐν δυναστείᾳ αὐτοῦ, ἃ ἐπολέμησε μετὰ ᾿Αμεσσίου βασιλέως ᾿Ιούδα, οὐχὶ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ισραήλ;

¹⁶καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ᾿Ιωὰς μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ μετὰ τῶν βασιλέων ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ῾Ιεροβοὰμ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁷καὶ ἔζησεν ᾿Αμεσσίας υἱὸς ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεὺς ᾿Ιούδα μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν ᾿Ιωὰς υἱὸν ᾿Ιωάχαζ βασιλέα ᾿Ισραὴλ πεντεκαίδεκα ἔτη.

¹⁸καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων ᾿Αμεσσίου καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐχὶ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ιούδα;

¹⁹καὶ συνεστράφησαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν σύστρεμμα ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ἔφυγεν εἰς Λαχίς· καὶ ἀπέστειλαν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ εἰς Λαχὶς καὶ ἐθανάτωσαν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ.

²⁰καὶ ᾖραν αὐτὸν ἐφ᾿ ἵππων, καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ.

²¹καὶ ἔλαβε πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ᾿Ιούδα τὸν ᾿Αζαρίαν —καὶ αὐτὸς υἱὸς ἑκκαίδεκα ἐτῶν— καὶ ἐβασίλευσαν αὐτὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ᾿Αμεσσίου.

²²αὐτὸς ᾠκοδόμησε τὴν Αἰλὼθ καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν αὐτὴν τῷ ᾿Ιούδᾳ μετὰ τὸ κοιμηθῆναι τὸν βασιλέα μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ.

²³᾿Εν ἔτει πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ τοῦ ᾿Αμεσσίου υἱῷ ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεῖ ᾿Ιούδα ἐβασίλευσεν ῾Ιεροβοὰμ υἱὸς ᾿Ιωὰς ἐπὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἓν ἔτος.

²⁴καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου· οὐκ ἀπέστη ἀπὸ πασῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ῾Ιεροβοὰμ υἱοῦ Ναβάτ, ὃς ἐξήμαρτε τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ.

²⁵αὐτὸς ἀπέστησε τὸ ὅριον ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ εἰσόδου Αἰμὰθ ἕως τῆς θαλάσσης τῆς ῎Αραβα κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμα Κυρίου Θεοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ, ὃ ἐλάλησεν ἐν χειρὶ δούλου αὐτοῦ ᾿Ιωνᾶ υἱοῦ ᾿Αμαθὶ τοῦ προφήτου τοῦ ἐν Γεθχοφέρ.

²⁶ὅτι εἶδε Κύριος τὴν ταπείνωσιν ᾿Ισραὴλ πικρὰν σφόδρα καὶ ὀλιγοστοὺς συνεχομένους καὶ ἐσπανισμένους καὶ ἐγκαταλελειμμένους, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ βοηθῶν τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ.

²⁷καὶ οὐκ ἐλάλησε Κύριος ἐξαλεῖψαι τὸ σπέρμα ᾿Ισραὴλ ὑποκάτωθεν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἔσωσεν αὐτοὺς διὰ χειρὸς ῾Ιεροβοὰμ υἱοῦ ᾿Ιωάς.

²⁸καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων ῾Ιεροβοὰμ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησε, καὶ αἱ δυναστεῖαι αὐτοῦ, ὅσα ἐπολέμησε καὶ ὅσα ἐπέστρεψε τὴν Δαμασκὸν καὶ τὴν Αἰμὰθ τῷ ᾿Ιούδᾳ ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ, οὐχὶ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ισραήλ;

²⁹καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ῾Ιεροβοὰμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ μετὰ βασιλέων ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσε Ζαχαρίας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹In the second year of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, did Amessias also the son of Joas the king of Juda begin to reign.

²Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name [was] Joadim of Jerusalem.

³And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father: he did according to all things that his father Joas did.

⁴Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

⁵And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants that had slain the king his father.

⁶But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one shall die for his own sins.

⁷He smote of Edom ten thousand in the valley of salt, and took the Rock in the war, and called its name Jethoel until this day.

⁸Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz son of Ju king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

⁹And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to thy son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.

¹⁰Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So [both] thou wilt fall and Juda with thee.

¹¹Nevertheless Amessias hearkened not: so Joas king of Israel went up, and he and Amessias king of Juda looked one another in the face in Baethsamys of Juda.

¹²And Juda was overthrown before Israel, and [every] man fled to his tent.

¹³And Joas king of Israel took Amessias the son of Joas the son of Ochozias, in Baethsamys; and he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, [beginning] at the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.

¹⁴And he took the gold, ad the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.

¹⁵And the rest of the acts of Joas, [even] all that he did in his might, how he warred with Amessias king of Juda, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

¹⁶And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁷And Amessias the son of Joas king of Juda lived after the death of Joas son of Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years.

¹⁸And the rest of the acts of Amessias, and all that he did, [are] not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

¹⁹And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis: and they sent after him to Lachis, and slew him there.

²⁰And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

²¹And all the people of Juda took Azarias, and he was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amessias.

²²He built Aeloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.

²³In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda began Jeroboam son of Joas to reign over Israel in Samaria forty and one years.

²⁴And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin.

²⁵He recovered the coast of Israel from the entering in of Aemath to the sea of Araba, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet of Gethchopher.

²⁶For the Lord saw [that] the affliction of Israel [was] very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in want, and destitute, and Israel had no helper.

²⁷And the Lord said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.

²⁸And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, which he achieved in war, and how he recovered Damascus and Aemath to Juda in Israel, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

²⁹And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zacharias his son reigned in his stead.