4. Krallar 24

¹Onun döneminde Babil Kralı Nabukadnezar ülkeye saldırdı ve Yehoyakim üç yıl boyunca onun kulu oldu; fakat daha sonra dönerek ona karşı isyan etti.

²Rab, peygamberler olan kullarının eliyle bildirdiği kendi sözü uyarınca, Yahuda'yı alt etmek için onun üzerine Keldanilerin, Suriyelilerin, Moavlıların ve Ammon oğullarının akıncı kollarını gönderdi ve onları Yahuda toprağına saldırttı.

³Şüphesiz ki bu durum, Manaşşe'nin işlemiş olduğu bütün günahlar yüzünden Yahuda'yı kendi huzurundan uzaklaştırmak isteyen Rab'bin öfkesinin onların üzerinde olması nedeniyle gerçekleşti.

⁴Üstelik Manaşşe'nin döktüğü masum kanlar ve Yeruşalim'i suçsuzların kanıyla doldurması yüzünden oldu; ve Rab yatıştırılmak istemedi.

⁵Yehoyakim'in yaptığı diğer işler ve bütün yaptıkları, Yahuda krallarının tarihlerini içeren günlük kitapta yazılı değil midir?

⁶Yehoyakim ölüp atalarıyla birlikte uyudu ve yerine oğlu Yehoyakin kral oldu.

⁷Mısır kralı bir daha kendi ülkesinden dışarı çıkmadı; çünkü Babil kralı, Mısır deresinden Fırat nehrine kadar Mısır kralına ait olan bütün toprakları ele geçirmişti.

⁸Yehoyakin on sekiz yaşında kral oldu ve Yeruşalim'de üç ay krallık yaptı; annesinin adı Neşta'ydı, Yeruşalimli Elnatan'ın kızıydı.

⁹Yehoyakin, babasının yapmış olduğu her şey gibi, Rab'bin gözünde kötü olanı yaptı.

¹⁰O dönemde Babil Kralı Nabukadnezar'ın ordusu Yeruşalim'in üzerine yürüdü ve kent kuşatma altına girdi.

¹¹Babil Kralı Nabukadnezar kente girdiğinde, adamları kenti kuşatmaktaydı.

¹²Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakin; kendisi, annesi, kulları, önderleri ve saray görevlileriyle birlikte Babil kralının huzuruna çıktı; Babil kralı, krallığının sekizinci yılında onu tutsak aldı.

¹³Rab'bin söylediği söz uyarınca, Rab'bin tapınağındaki ve kral sarayındaki bütün hazineleri oradan çıkardı; İsrail Kralı Süleyman'ın Rab'bin tapınağı için yaptırmış olduğu bütün altın kapları kesip parçaladı.

¹⁴Bütün Yeruşalim halkını, bütün önderleri, yiğit savaşçıları, bütün marangozları ve demircileri tutsak ederek on bin kişiyi sürgüne gönderdi; ülkenin en yoksul halkından başka kimse geride bırakılmadı.

¹⁵Yehoyakin'i Babil'e sürgün etti; kralın annesini, saray görevlilerini ve ülkenin güçlülerini de Yeruşalim'den Babil'e sürgüne götürdü.

¹⁶Babil kralı, yedi bin yiğit savaşçıyı, bin marangoz ve demirciyi, yani savaşa muktedir bütün güçlü adamları Babil'e sürgün olarak götürdü.

¹⁷Babil kralı, Yehoyakin'in yerine onun oğlu Mattanya'yı kral yaptı ve onun adını Sidkiya olarak değiştirdi.

¹⁸Sidkiya yirmi bir yaşında kral oldu ve Yeruşalim'de on bir yıl krallık yaptı; annesinin adı Hamutal'dı, Yeremya'nın kızıydı.

¹⁹Sidkiya, Yehoyakim'in yapmış olduğu her şey gibi, Rab'bin huzurunda kötü olanı yaptı.

²⁰Çünkü Rab'bin öfkesi Yeruşalim ve Yahuda'nın üzerindeydi, en sonunda onları kendi huzurundan fırlatıp attı; ve Sidkiya Babil kralına karşı isyan etti.

¹ΕΝ ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ ἀνέβη Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἐγενήθη αὐτῷ ᾿Ιωακὶμ δοῦλος τρία ἔτη, καὶ ἐπέστρεψε καὶ ἠθέτησεν ἐν αὐτῷ.

²καὶ ἀπέστειλε Κύριος αὐτῷ τοὺς μονοζώνους τῶν Χαλδαίων καὶ τοὺς μονοζώνους Συρίας καὶ τοὺς μονοζώνους Μωὰβ καὶ τοὺς μονοζώνους υἱῶν ᾿Αμὼν καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ γῇ ᾿Ιούδα τοῦ κατισχῦσαι κατὰ τὸν λόγον Κυρίου, ὃν ἐλάλησεν ἐν χειρὶ τῶν δούλων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν.

³πλὴν ἐπὶ τὸν θυμὸν Κυρίου ἦν ἐν τῷ ᾿Ιούδᾳ ἀποστῆσαι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἐν ἁμαρτίαις Μανασσῆ κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησε.

⁴καί γε τὸ αἷμα ἀθῷον ἐξέχεε καὶ ἔπλησε τὴν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ αἵματος ἀθῴου· καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησε Κύριος ἱλασθῆναι.

⁵καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων ᾿Ιωακὶμ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ιούδα;

⁶καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ᾿Ιωακὶμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Ιωαχὶμ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

⁷καὶ οὐ προσέθετο ἔτι βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου ἐξελθεῖν ἐκ τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἔλαβε βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἀπὸ τοῦ χειμάρρου Αἰγύπτου ἕως τοῦ ποταμοῦ Εὐφράτου πάντα, ὅσα ἦν τοῦ βασιλέως Αἰγύπτου.

⁸Υἱὸς ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἐτῶν ᾿Ιωαχὶμ ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν καὶ τρίμηνον ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Νέσθα, θυγάτηρ ᾿Ελλαναθὰν ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁹καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησεν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁰ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἀνέβη Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἦλθεν ἡ πόλις ἐν περιοχῇ.

¹¹καὶ εἰσῆλθε Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος εἰς πόλιν, καὶ οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ ἐπολιόρκουν ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν.

¹²καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ᾿Ιωαχὶμ βασιλεὺς ᾿Ιούδα ἐπὶ βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος, αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ εὐνοῦχοι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτὸν βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐν τῷ ὀγδόῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ.

¹³καὶ ἐξήνεγκεν ἐκεῖθεν πάντας τοὺς θησαυροὺς οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ τοὺς θησαυροὺς οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ συνέκοψε πάντα τὰ σκεύη τὰ χρυσᾶ, ἃ ἐποίησε Σαλωμὼν ὁ βασιλεὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν τῷ ναῷ Κυρίου κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμα Κυρίου.

¹⁴καὶ ἀπῴκισε τὴν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἄρχοντας καὶ τοὺς δυνατοὺς ἰσχύϊ αἰχμαλωσίας δέκα χιλιάδας αἰχμαλωτίσας καὶ πᾶν τέκτονα καὶ τὸν συγκλείοντα, καὶ οὐχ ὑπελείφθη πλὴν οἱ πτωχοὶ τῆς γῆς.

¹⁵καὶ ἀπῴκισε τὸν ᾿Ιωαχὶμ εἰς Βαβυλῶνα καὶ τὴν μητέρα τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τοὺς εὐνούχους αὐτοῦ· καὶ τοὺς ἰσχυροὺς τῆς γῆς ἀπήγαγεν εἰς ἀποικεσίαν ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ εἰς Βαβυλῶνα

¹⁶καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἄνδρας τῆς δυνάμεως ἑπτακισχιλίους καὶ τὸν τέκτονα καὶ τὸν συγκλείοντα χιλίους, πάντες δυνατοὶ ποιοῦντες πόλεμον, καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτοὺς βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος μετοικεσίαν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα.

¹⁷καὶ ἐβασίλευσε βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος τὸν Ματθανίαν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπέθηκε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Σεδεκία.

¹⁸Υἱὸς εἴκοσι καὶ ἑνὸς ἐνιαυτῶν Σεδεκίας ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν καὶ ἕνδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ ᾿Αμιτὰλ θυγάτηρ ῾Ιερεμίου.

¹⁹καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησεν ᾿Ιωακίμ·

²⁰ὅτι ἐπὶ τὸν θυμὸν Κυρίου ἦν ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐν τῷ ᾿Ιούδᾳ, ἕως ἀπέρριψεν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἠθέτησε Σεδεκίας ἐν τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος.

¹In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and [then] he turned and revolted from him.

²And the Lord sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of Syria, and the bands of Moab, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them into the land of Juda to prevail [against it], according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

³Moreover it was the purpose of the Lord concerning Juda, to remove them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses, according to all that he did.

⁴Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon [it].

⁵And the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, behold, [are] not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

⁶And Joakim slept with his fathers: and Joachim his son reigned in his stead.

⁷And the king of Egypt came no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon took away all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the river of Egypt as far as the river Euphrates.

⁸Eighteen years old [was] Joachim when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name [was] Nestha, daughter of Ellanastham, of Jerusalem.

⁹And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father did.

¹⁰At that time went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

¹¹And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.

¹²And Joachim king of Juda came forth to the king of Babylon, he and his servants, and his mother, and his princes, and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

¹³And he brought forth thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and he cut up all the golden vessels which Solomon the king of Israel [had] made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁴And he carried away [the inhabitants of] Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand prisoners, and every artificer and smith: and only the poor of the land were left.

¹⁵And he carried Joachim away to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his eunuchs: and he carried away the mighty men of the land into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

¹⁶And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and one thousand artificers and smiths: all [were] mighty [men] fit for war; and the king of Babylon carried them captive to Babylon.

¹⁷And the king of Babylon made Batthanias his son king in his stead, and called his name Sedekias.

¹⁸Twenty and one years old [was] Sedekias when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name [was] Amital daughter of Jeremias.

¹⁹And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Joachim did.

²⁰For it was according to the Lord’s anger against Jerusalem and on Juda, until he cast them out of his presence, that Sedekias revolted against the king of Babylon.