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¹Kralın saltanatının dokuzuncu yılında, onuncu ayda, Babil Kralı Nabukadnezar bütün ordusuyla birlikte Yeruşalim'e karşı yürüdü, kentin karşısında ordugah kurup çevresine bir kuşatma duvarı inşa etti.

²Kent, Kral Sedekiya'nın on birinci yılına, ayın dokuzuncu gününe kadar kuşatma altında kaldı.

³Kentte kıtlık öyle şiddetlendi ki, ülke halkı için yiyecek ekmek kalmadı.

⁴Kentin surlarında bir gedik açıldı; Keldaniler kenti her yandan kuşatmış olduğu halde, bütün savaşçılar geceleyin kralın bahçesindeki iki sur arasında bulunan kapının yolundan kaçtılar; kral ise Arava yoluna doğru gitti.

⁵Keldani ordusu kralın peşine düştü ve onu Eriha düzlüklerinde yakaladı; kralın bütün ordusu yanından dağılıp kaçmıştı.

⁶Kralı yakalayıp Deblata'da bulunan Babil Kralı'nın huzuruna götürdüler; Babil Kralı onun hakkında hükmünü bizzat bildirdi.

⁷Sedekiya'nın gözleri önünde oğullarını boğazladılar; sonra Sedekiya'nın gözlerini kör ettiler, onu prangaya vurup Babil'e götürdüler.

⁸Beşinci ayda, ayın yedinci günü ki bu, Babil Kralı Nabukadnezar'ın krallığının on dokuzuncu yılıydı, Babil Kralı'nın huzurunda duran muhafız birliği komutanı Nabuzardan Yeruşalim'e geldi.

⁹Rab'bin Tapınağı'nı, kral sarayını ve Yeruşalim'deki bütün evleri ateşe verdi; kentteki her evi muhafız birliği komutanı yaktı.

¹⁰Yeruşalim'i çevreleyen surları Keldani ordusu bütünüyle yıktı.

¹¹Kentte sağ kalan halkı, Babil Kralı'nın tarafına sığınan dönekleri ve halkın geri kalan kalabalığını muhafız birliği komutanı Nabuzardan sürgün etti.

¹²Ancak muhafız birliği komutanı, bağcı ve çiftçi olarak çalışmak üzere ülkenin yoksullarından bazılarını geride bıraktı.

¹³Keldaniler, Rab'bin Tapınağı'ndaki tunç sütunları, ayaklıkları ve Rab'bin Tapınağı'ndaki tunç havuzu parçalayıp tunçlarını Babil'e taşıdılar.

¹⁴Kazanları, kürekleri, çanakları, buhurdanları ve tapınak hizmetinde kullanılan bütün tunç eşyaları aldılar.

¹⁵Muhafız birliği komutanı ateş kaplarını, altın ve gümüş çanakları da aldı.

¹⁶Süleyman'ın Rab'bin Tapınağı için yapmış olduğu iki sütun, bir havuz ve ayaklıklar için kullanılan tuncun ağırlığı ölçülemeyecek miktardaydı.

¹⁷Sütunlardan her birinin yüksekliği on sekiz arşındı; üzerindeki tunç başlığın yüksekliği ise üç arşındı. Başlığın çevresindeki ağ örgüsü ve narların hepsi tunçtandı. İkinci sütun da ağ örgüsüyle birlikte bunun aynısıydı.

¹⁸Muhafız birliği komutanı, Başkâhin Seraya'yı, ikinci kâhin Sefanya'yı ve üç kapı nöbetçisini tutsak aldı.

¹⁹Kentten ise savaşçıların başında bulunan bir haremağasını, kentte bulunan ve kralın huzuruna kabul edilen kişilerden beşini, ülke halkını askere yazan ordu komutanının yazıcısını ve kentte bulunan ülke halkından altmış kişiyi aldı.

²⁰Muhafız birliği komutanı Nabuzardan onları alıp Deblata'da bulunan Babil Kralı'nın huzuruna götürdü.

²¹Babil Kralı, Hamat ülkesindeki Deblata'da onları vurdurtup öldürdü. Böylece Yahuda halkı kendi topraklarından sürgün edildi.

²²Babil Kralı Nabukadnezar, Yahuda ülkesinde bıraktığı geri kalan halkın başına Şafan oğlu Ahikam oğlu Gedalya'yı atadı.

²³Bütün ordu komutanları ve adamları, Babil Kralı'nın Gedalya'yı vali atadığını duyunca, adamlarıyla birlikte Masfata'ya, Gedalya'nın yanına geldiler. Gelenler şunlardı: Netofalı Tanamat oğlu Seraya, Maakatlının oğlu Yezonias, Netanyahu oğlu İsmail ve Kareah oğlu Yohanan.

²⁴Gedalya onlara ve adamlarına ant içerek şöyle dedi: Keldanilerin gelmesinden korkmayın; ülkede kalın, Babil Kralı'na kulluk edin, sizin için iyi olur.

²⁵Ancak yedinci ayda, kral soyundan gelen Elişama oğlu Netanyahu oğlu İsmail yanında on adamla birlikte gelip Gedalya'yı vurdu; Gedalya öldü. Onunla birlikte Masfata'da bulunan Yahudileri ve Keldanileri de öldürdüler.

²⁶Bunun üzerine küçük büyük bütün halk ve ordu komutanları ayağa kalkıp Mısır'e kaçtılar; çünkü Keldanilerden korkuyorlardı.

²⁷Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakin'in sürgünlüğünün otuz yedinci yılında, on ikinci ayda, ayın yirmi yedinci gününde, Babil Kralı Evialmarodak, krallığının ilk yılında Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakin'i bağışlayıp zindandan çıkardı.

²⁸Onunla iyi şeyler konuştu ve tahtını Babil'de kendisiyle birlikte olan diğer kralların tahtlarının üstüne koydu.

²⁹Yehoyakin zindan giysilerini değiştirdi ve ömrü boyunca her gün kralın huzurunda yemek yedi.

³⁰Yaşamı boyunca, her gün kendisine düşen pay, kral tarafından ömrünün sonuna dek sürekli olarak verildi.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ ἐνάτῳ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τῷ δεκάτῳ ἦλθε Ναβουχοδονόσορ ὁ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος καὶ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ παρενέβαλεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν περίτειχος κύκλῳ.

²καὶ ἦλθεν ἡ πόλις ἐν περιοχῇ ἕως τοῦ ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους τοῦ βασιλέως Σεδεκίου ἐνάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς

³καὶ ἐνίσχυσεν ὁ λιμὸς ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ οὐκ ἦσαν ἄρτοι τῷ λαῷ τῆς γῆς.

⁴καὶ ἐρράγη ἡ πόλις, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες τοῦ πολέμου ἐξῆλθον νυκτὸς ὁδὸν πύλης τῆς ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν τειχῶν, αὕτη ἥ ἐστι τοῦ κήπου τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ οἱ Χαλδαῖοι ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν κύκλῳ. καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁδὸν τὴν ῎Αραβα,

⁵καὶ ἐδίωξεν ἡ δύναμις τῶν Χαλδαίων ὀπίσω τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ κατέλαβον αὐτὸν ἐν ᾿Αραβὼθ ῾Ιεριχώ, καὶ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις αὐτοῦ διεσπάρη ἐπάνωθεν αὐτοῦ.

⁶καὶ συνέλαβον τὸν βασιλέα καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν πρὸς βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος εἰς Δεβλαθά, καὶ ἐλάλησε μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ κρίσιν·

⁷καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς Σεδεκίου ἔσφαξε κατ᾿ ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς Σεδεκίου ἐξετύφλωσε καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸν ἐν πέδαις καὶ ἤγαγεν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα.

⁸Καὶ ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τῷ πέμπτῳ ἑβδόμῃ τοῦ μηνὸς (αὐτὸς ἐνιαυτὸς ἐννεακαιδέκατος τῷ Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος) ἦλθε Ναβουζαρδὰν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος ἑστὼς ἐνώπιον βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁹καὶ ἐνέπρησε τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ πάντας τοὺς οἴκους ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ πᾶν οἶκον ἐνέπρησεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος.

¹⁰καὶ τὸ τεῖχος ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ κυκλόθεν κατέσπασεν ἡ δύναμις τῶν Χαλδαίων.

¹¹καὶ τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ λαοῦ τὸ καταλειφθὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ τοὺς ἐμπεπτωκότας, οἳ ἐνέπεσον πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ στηρίγματος μετῇρε Ναβουζαρδὰν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος.

¹²καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν πτωχῶν τῆς γῆς ὑπέλιπεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος εἰς ἀμπελουργοὺς καὶ εἰς γαβίν.

¹³καὶ τοὺς στύλους τοὺς χαλκοῦς τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου καὶ τὰς μεχωνὼθ καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν χαλκῆν τὴν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου συνέτριψαν οἱ Χαλδαῖοι. καὶ ᾖραν τὸν χαλκὸν αὐτῶν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα.

¹⁴καὶ τοὺς λέβητας καὶ τὰ ἰαμὶν καὶ τὰς φιάλας καὶ τὰς θυΐσκας καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη τὰ χαλκᾶ, ἐν οἷς λειτουργοῦσιν ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἔλαβε·

¹⁵καὶ τὰ πυρεῖα καὶ τὰς φιάλας τὰς χρυσᾶς καὶ τὰς ἀργυρᾶς ἔλαβεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος,

¹⁶στύλους δύο καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν μίαν καὶ τὰς μεχωνώθ, ἃς ἐποίησε Σαλωμὼν τῷ οἴκῳ Κυρίου· οὐκ ἦν σταθμὸς τοῦ χαλκοῦ πάντων τῶν σκευῶν.

¹⁷ὀκτωκαίδεκα πήχεων ὕψος τοῦ στύλου τοῦ ἑνός, καὶ τὸ χωθὰρ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ τὸ χαλκοῦν, καὶ τὸ ὕψος τοῦ χωθὰρ τριῶν πήχεων, σαβαχὰ καὶ ῥοαὶ ἐπὶ τῷ χωθὰρ κύκλῳ, τὰ πάντα χαλκᾶ· καὶ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ τῷ στύλῳ τῷ δευτέρῳ ἐπὶ τῶ σαβαχά.

¹⁸καὶ ἔλαβεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος τὸν Σαραίαν ἱερέα τὸν πρῶτον καὶ τὸν Σοφονίαν υἱὸν τῆς δευτερώσεως καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς τοὺς φυλάσσοντας τὸν σταθμὸν

¹⁹καὶ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἔλαβον εὐνοῦχον ἕνα, ὃς ἦν ἐπιστάτης τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν πολεμιστῶν, καὶ πέντε ἄνδρας τῶν ὁρώντων τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ βασιλέως τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ τὸν γραμματέα τοῦ ἄρχοντος τῆς δυνάμεως τὸν ἐκτάσσοντα τὸν λαὸν τῆς γῆς καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἄνδρας τοῦ λαοῦ τῆς γῆς τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν τῇ πόλει.

²⁰καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτοὺς Ναβουζαρδὰν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος, καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτοὺς πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος εἰς Δεβλαθά.

²¹καὶ ἔπαισεν αὐτοὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἐθανάτωσεν αὐτοὺς εἰς Δεβλαθὰ ἐν γῇ Αἰμάθ. καὶ ἀπῳκίσθη ᾿Ιούδας ἐπάνωθεν τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ.

²²Καὶ ὁ λαὸς ὁ καταλειφθεὶς ἐν τῇ γῇ ᾿Ιούδα, οὓς κατέλιπε Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ κατέστησεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῶν τὸν Γοδολίαν υἱὸν ᾿Αχικὰμ υἱοῦ Σαφάν.

²³καὶ ἤκουσαν πάντες οἱ ἄρχοντες τῆς δυνάμεως, αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες αὐτῶν, ὅτι κατέστησε βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος τὸν Γοδολίαν, καὶ ἦλθον πρὸς Γοδολίαν εἰς Μασσηφάθ, καὶ ᾿Ισμαὴλ υἱὸς Ναθανίου καὶ ᾿Ιωανὰν υἱὸς Καρὴθ καὶ Σαραίας υἱὸς Θαναμὰθ ὁ Νετωφαθίτης καὶ ᾿Ιεζονίας υἱὸς τοῦ Μαχαθί, αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες αὐτῶν.

²⁴καὶ ὤμοσε Γοδολίας αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀνδράσιν αὐτῶν καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· μὴ φοβεῖσθε πάροδον τῶν Χαλδαίων· καθίσατε ἐν τῇ γῇ καὶ δουλεύσατε τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ καλῶς ἔσται ὑμῖν.

²⁵καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῷ ἑβδόμῳ μηνὶ ἦλθεν ᾿Ισμαὴλ υἱὸς Ναθανίου υἱοῦ ῾Ελισαμὰ ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος τῶν βασιλέων καὶ δέκα ἄνδρες μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸν Γοδολίαν, καὶ ἀπέθανε, καὶ τοὺς ᾿Ιουδαίους καὶ τοὺς Χαλδαίους, οἳ ἦσαν μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐν Μασσηφάθ.

²⁶καὶ ἀνέστη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν δυνάμεων καὶ εἰσῆλθον εἰς Αἴγυπτον, ὅτι ἐφοβήθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν Χαλδαίων.

²⁷Καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ καὶ ἑβδόμῳ ἔτει τῆς ἀποικίας τοῦ ᾿Ιωαχὶμ βασιλέως ᾿Ιούδα, ἐν τῷ δωδεκάτῳ μηνὶ ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνὸς ὕψωσεν Εὐιαλμαρωδὰχ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν ᾿Ιωαχὶμ τοῦ βασιλέως ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἐξήγαγεν αὐτὸν ἐξ οἴκου φυλακῆς αὐτοῦ.

²⁸καὶ ἐλάλησε μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθὰ καὶ ἔδωκε τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ ἐπάνωθεν τῶν θρόνων τῶν βασιλέων τῶν μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι,

²⁹καὶ ἠλλοίωσε τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς φυλακῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤσθιεν ἄρτον διαπαντὸς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ·

³⁰καὶ ἡ ἑστιατορία αὐτοῦ ἑστιατορία διαπαντὸς ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἐξ οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως λόγον ἡμέρας ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ.

¹And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, [that] Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a mound against it.

²And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias on the ninth day of the month.

³And the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁴And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went forth by night, by the way of the gate between the walls, this is [the gate] of the king’s garden: and the Chaldeans [were set] against the city round about: and [the king] went by the way of the plain.

⁵And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was dispersed from about him.

⁶And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha; and he gave judgment upon him.

⁷And he slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this [is] the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.

⁹And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.

¹⁰And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.

¹¹And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

¹²But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

¹³And the Chaldeans broke to pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and carried their brass to Babylon.

¹⁴And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the bowls, and the censers, and all the brazen vessels with which they minister, he took.

¹⁵And the captain of the guard took the fire-pans, and the gold and silver bowls.

¹⁶Two pillars, and one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all the vessels.

¹⁷The height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was of brass: and the height of the chapiter was three cubits: the border, and the pomegranates on the chapiter round about were all of brass: and so it was with the second pillar with its border.

¹⁸And the captain of the guard took Saraias the high-priest, and Sophonias the second in order, and the three doorkeepers.

¹⁹And they took out of the city one eunuch who was commander of the men of war, and five men that saw the face of the king, that were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander-in-chief, who took account of the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.

²⁰And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.

²¹And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Aemath. So Juda was carried away from his land.

²²And [as for] the people that were left in the land of Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon left, even over them he set Godolias son of Achicam son of Saphan.

²³And all the captains of the host, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had [thus] appointed Godolias, and they came to Godolias to Massephath, both Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Jona son of Careth, and Saraias, son of Thanamath the Netophathite, and Jezonias son of a Machathite, they and their men.

²⁴And Godolias swore to them and their men, and said to them, Fear not the incursion of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

²⁵And it came to pass in the seventh month [that] Ismael son of Nathanias son of Helisama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and he smote Godolias, that he died, [him] and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him in Massepha.

²⁶And all the people, great and small rose up, [they] and the captains of the forces, and went into Egypt; because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

²⁷And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away of Joachim king of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, [that] Evialmarodec king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Joachim king of Juda, and brought him out of his prison-house.

²⁸And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

²⁹And changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.

³⁰And his portion, a continual portion, was given him out of the house of the king, a daily rate for every day all the days of his life.