4. Krallar 16

¹Remelya oğlu Pekah’ın on yedinci yılında, Yahuda Kralı Yotam’ın oğlu Ahaz kral oldu.

²Ahaz kral olduğunda yirmi yaşındaydı ve Yeruşalim’de on altı yıl krallık yaptı; babası Davut gibi, Tanrısı Rab’bin gözünde doğru olanı sadakatle yapmadı.

³Bunun yerine İsrail krallarının yolunda yürüdü, hatta Rab’bin İsrail oğullarının önünden kovduğu ulusların iğrençliklerine uyarak kendi oğlunu ateşten geçirdi.

⁴Yüksek yerlerde, tepelerde ve her bol yapraklı ağacın altında kurbanlar kesip buhur yaktı.

⁵O sırada Suriye Kralı Rezin ile Remelya oğlu İsrail Kralı Pekah, savaşmak üzere Yeruşalim’e yürüdüler; Ahaz’ı kuşattılarsa da onu alt edip savaşmaya güçleri yetmedi.

⁶O dönemde Suriye Kralı Rezin, Elat’ı Suriye’ye geri kazandırdı ve Yahudileri Elat’tan sürdü; İdumeliler Elat’a gelip yerleştiler ve bugüne dek orada kaldılar.

⁷Ahaz, Asur Kralı Tiglat-Pileser’e ulaklar göndererek şöyle dedi: "Ben senin kulun ve senin oğlunum; gel ve beni üzerime ayaklanan Suriye Kralı’nın elinden ve İsrail Kralı’nın elinden kurtar."

⁸Ahaz, Rab’bin Tapınağı’nın ve kraliyet sarayının hazinelerinde bulunan gümüşü ve altını alıp Asur Kralı’na armağanlar olarak gönderdi.

⁹Asur Kralı onun dileğini kabul etti; Asur Kralı Şam’a yürüyüp orayı ele geçirdi, halkını sürgüne gönderdi ve Kral Rezin’i öldürdü.

¹⁰Kral Ahaz, Asur Kralı Tiglat-Pileser’i karşılamak üzere Şam’a gitti; Şam’daki sunağı görünce, sunağın bir maketini, tasarımını ve tüm yapılış ayrıntılarını Rahip Uriya’ya gönderdi.

¹¹Rahip Uriya, Kral Ahaz’ın Şam’dan gönderdiği her şeye göre sunağı inşa etti.

¹²Kral sunağı görünce ona yaklaştı ve üzerine çıktı.

¹³Kendi yakmalık sunusunu, sunusunu ve dökmelik sunusunu sundu ve esenlik kurbanlarının kanını sunağın üzerine serpti.

¹⁴Rab’bin önündeki tunç sunağı ise tapınağın önünden, yani yeni sunakla Rab’bin Tapınağı’nın arasından kaldırıp kendi sunağının kuzey yanına yerleştirdi.

¹⁵Kral Ahaz, Rahip Uriya’ya şu buyruğu verdi: "Büyük sunağın üzerinde sabahın yakmalık sunusunu, akşamın sunusunu, kralın yakmalık sunusuyla sunusunu, bütün ülke halkının yakmalık sunusunu, sunularını ve dökmelik sunularını sun; yakmalık sunuların ve kurbanların bütün kanını onun üzerine serp; tunç sunak ise sabahleyin benim kullanımım için kalacak."

¹⁶Rahip Uriya, Kral Ahaz’ın kendisine buyurduğu her şeyi aynen yaptı.

¹⁷Kral Ahaz ayaklıkların kenarlıklarını kesip çıkardı, üzerlerindeki kazanı kaldırdı; denizi altındaki tunç öküzlerin üzerinden indirip taş bir tabanın üzerine koydu.

¹⁸Asur Kralı’nın yüzünden, Rab’bin Tapınağı’nda inşa edilmiş olan seki temelini değiştirdi ve kralın dışarıdaki giriş yolunu Rab’bin Tapınağı’na doğru çevirdi.

¹⁹Ahaz’ın yaptığı diğer işler ve bütün eylemleri Yahuda Krallarının Günlükleri Kitabı’nda yazılı değil midir?

²⁰Ahaz atalarıyla birlikte uykuya daldı ve Davut Kenti’nde atalarının yanına gömüldü; yerine oğlu Hizkiya kral oldu.

¹ΕΝ ἔτει ἑπτακαιδεκάτῳ Φακεὲ υἱοῦ Ῥομελίου ἐβασίλευσεν ῎Αχαζ υἱὸς ᾿Ιωάθαμ βασιλέως ᾿Ιούδα.

²υἱὸς εἴκοσιν ἐτῶν ἦν ῎Αχαζ ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν καὶ ἑκκαίδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ. καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησε τὸ εὐθὲς ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ πιστῶς, ὡς Δαυὶδ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ

³καὶ ἐπορεύθη, ἐν ὁδῷ βασιλέων ᾿Ισραήλ, καί γε τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ διῆγεν ἐν πυρὶ κατὰ τὰ βδελύγματα τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὧν ἐξῇρε Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ,

⁴καὶ ἐθυσίαζε καὶ ἐθυμία ἐν τοῖς ὑψηλοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν βουνῶν καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸς ξύλου ἀλσώδους.

⁵τότε ἀνέβη Ῥαασσὼν βασιλεὺς Συρίας καὶ Φακεὲ υἱὸς Ῥομελίου βασιλεὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ εἰς πόλεμον καὶ ἐπολιόρκουν ἐπὶ ῎Αχαζ καὶ οὐκ ἠδύναντο πολεμεῖν.

⁶ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἐπέστρεψε Ῥαασσὼν βασιλεὺς Συρίας τὴν Αἰλὰθ τῇ Συρίᾳ καὶ ἐξέβαλε τοὺς ᾿Ιουδαίους ἐξ Αἰλὰθ καὶ ᾿Ιδουμαῖοι ἦλθον εἰς Αἰλὰθ καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐκεῖ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

⁷καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ῎Αχαζ ἀγγέλους πρὸς Θαγλαθφελλασὰρ βασιλέα ᾿Ασσυρίων λέγων· δοῦλός σου καὶ υἱός σου ἐγώ, ἀνάβηθι καὶ σῶσόν με ἐκ χειρὸς βασιλέως Συρίας καὶ ἐκ χειρὸς βασιλέως ᾿Ισραὴλ τῶν ἐπανισταμένων ἐπ᾿ ἐμέ.

⁸καὶ ἔλαβεν ῎Αχαζ ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον τὸ εὑρεθὲν ἐν θησαυροῖς οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ οἴκου βασιλέως καὶ ἀπέστειλε τῷ βασιλεῖ δῶρα.

⁹καὶ ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ βασιλεὺς ᾿Ασσυρίων, καὶ ἀνέβη βασιλεὺς ᾿Ασσυρίων εἰς Δαμασκὸν καὶ συνέλαβεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἀπῴκισεν αὐτὴν καὶ τὸν Ῥαασσὼν βασιλέα ἐθανάτωσε.

¹⁰καὶ ἐπορεύθη βασιλεὺς ῎Αχαζ εἰς Δαμασκὸν εἰς ἀπαντὴν Θαγλαθφελλασὰρ βασιλεῖ ᾿Ασσυρίων εἰς Δαμασκόν. καὶ εἶδε τὸ θυσιαστήριον ἐν Δαμασκῶ, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ῎Αχαζ πρὸς Οὐρίαν τὸν ἱερέα τὸ ὁμοίωμα τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου καὶ τὸν ῥυθμὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαν ποίησιν αὐτοῦ·

¹¹καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν Οὐρίας ὁ ἱερεὺς τὸ θυσιαστήριον κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἀπέστειλεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ῎Αχαζ ἐκ Δαμασκοῦ.

¹²καὶ εἶδεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸ θυσιαστήριον καὶ ἀνέβη ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ

¹³καὶ ἐθυμίασε τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν θυσίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν σπονδὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ προσέχεε τὸ αἷμα τῶν εἰρηνικῶν τῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον

¹⁴τὸ χαλκοῦν τὸ ἀπέναντι Κυρίου. καὶ προσήγαγε ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ οἴκου Κυρίου ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ ἔδειξεν αὐτὸ ἐπὶ μηρὸν τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου κατὰ βορρᾶν.

¹⁵καὶ ἐνετείλατο ὁ βασιλεὺς ῎Αχαζ τῷ Οὐρίᾳ τῷ ἱερεῖ λέγων· ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τὸ μέγα πρόσφερε τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν τὴν πρωϊνὴν καὶ τὴν θυσίαν τὴν ἑσπερινήν, καὶ τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τὴν θυσίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τὴν θυσίαν αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν σπονδὴν αὐτῶν καὶ πᾶν αἷμα ὁλοκαυτώσεως καὶ πᾶν αἷμα θυσίας ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ ἐκχεεῖς· καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τὸ χαλκοῦν ἔσται μοι εἰς τὸ πρωΐ.

¹⁶καὶ ἐποίησεν Οὐρίας ὁ ἱερεὺς κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ ὁ βασιλεὺς ῎Αχαζ.

¹⁷καὶ συνέκοψεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ῎Αχαζ τὰ συγκλείσματα τῶν μεχωνὼθ καὶ μετῇρεν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν τὸν λουτῆρα καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καθεῖλεν ἀπὸ τῶν βοῶν τῶν χαλκῶν τῶν ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ βάσιν λιθίνην.

¹⁸καὶ τὸν θεμέλιον τῆς καθέδρας ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου καὶ τὴν εἴσοδον τοῦ βασιλέως τὴν ἔξω ἐπέστρεψεν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου ἀπὸ προσώπου βασιλέως ᾿Ασσυρίων.

¹⁹καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων ῎Αχαζ, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐχὶ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ιούδα;

²⁰καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ῎Αχαζ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Εζεκίας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹In the seventeenth year of Phakee son of Romelias began Achaz the son of Joatham king of Juda to reign.

²Twenty years old was Achaz when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not that which was right in the eyes of the Lord his God faithfully, as David his father [had done].

³And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

⁴And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places, and upon the hills, and under every shady tree.

⁵Then went up Raasson king of Syria and Phakee son of Romelias king of Israel against Jerusalem to war, and besieged Achaz, but could not prevail [against him].

⁶At that time Raasson king of Syria recovered Aelath to Syria, and drove out the Jews from Aelath, and the Idumeans came to Aelath, and dwelt there until this day.

⁷And Achaz sent messengers to Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, deliver me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.

⁸And Achaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s house, and sent gifts to the king.

⁹And the king of the Assyrians hearkened to him: and the king of the Assyrians went up to Damascus and took it, and removed the inhabitants, and slew king Raasson.

¹⁰And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians at Damascus; and he saw an altar at Damascus. And king Achaz sent to Urias the priest the pattern of the altar, and its proportions, and all its workmanship.

¹¹And Urias the priest built the altar, according to all [the directions] which king Achaz sent from Damascus.

¹²And the king saw the altar, and went up to it,

¹³and offered his whole-burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and his drink-offering, and poured out the blood of his peace-offerings on the brazen altar that was before the Lord.

¹⁴And he brought forward [the one] before the house of the Lord from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and he set it openly by the side of the altar northwards.

¹⁵And king Achaz charged Urias the priest, saying, Offer upon the great altar the whole-burnt-offering in the morning and the meat-offering in the evening, and the whole-burnt-offering of the king, and his meat-offering, and the whole-burnt-offering of all the people, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering; and thou shalt pour all the blood of the whole-burnt-offering, and all the blood of [any other] sacrifice upon it: and the brazen altar shall be for me in the morning.

¹⁶And Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz commanded him.

¹⁷And king Achaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from the brazen oxen that were under it, and set it upon a base of stone.

¹⁸And he made a base for the throne in the house of the Lord, and he turned the king’s entrance without in the house of the Lord because of the king of the Assyrians.

¹⁹And the rest of the acts of Achaz, even all that he did, [are] not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

²⁰And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Ezekias his son reigned in his stead.