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II Regum 18:9-19:37
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II Regum 18:9-19:37
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9 Anno quarto regis Ezechiae, qui erat annus septimus Osee filii Ela regis Israel, ascendit Salmanasar rex Assyriorum in Samariam, et oppugnavit eam,
10 et cepit. Nam post annos tres, anno sexto Ezechiae, id est nono anno Osee regis Israel, capta est Samaria:
11 et transtulit rex Assyriorum Israel in Assyrios, collocavitque eos in Hala et in Habor fluviis Gozan in civitatibus Medorum:
12 quia non audierunt vocem Domini Dei sui, sed praetergressi sunt pactum ejus: omnia quae praeceperat Moyses servus Domini non audierunt, neque fecerunt.
13 Anno quartodecimo regis Ezechiae, ascendit Sennacherib rex Assyriorum ad universas civitates Juda munitas, et cepit eas.
14 Tunc misit Ezechias rex Juda nuntios ad regem Assyriorum in Lachis, dicens: Peccavi: recede a me, et omne quod imposueris mihi, feram. Indixit itaque rex Assyriorum Ezechiae regi Judae trecenta talenta argenti, et triginta talenta auri.
15 Deditque Ezechias omne argentum quod repertum fuerat in domo Domini et in thesauris regis.
16 In tempore illo confregit Ezechias valvas templi Domini, et laminas auri quas ipse affixerat, et dedit eas regi Assyriorum.
17 Misit autem rex Assyriorum Tharthan, et Rabsaris, et Rabsacen de Lachis ad regem Ezechiam cum manu valida Jerusalem: qui cum ascendissent, venerunt Jerusalem, et steterunt juxta aquaeductum piscinae superioris, quae est in via Agrifullonis.
18 Vocaveruntque regem: egressus est autem ad eos Eliacim filius Helciae praepositus domus, et Sobna scriba, et Joahe filius Asaph a commentariis.
19 Dixitque ad eos Rabsaces: Loquimini Ezechiae: Haec dicit rex magnus, rex Assyriorum: Quae est ista fiducia, qua niteris?
20 forsitan inisti consilium, ut praepares te ad praelium. In quo confidis, ut audeas rebellare?
21 an speras in baculo arundineo atque confracto AEgypto, super quem, si incubuerit homo, comminutus ingredietur manum ejus, et perforabit eam? sic est Pharao rex AEgypti omnibus qui confidunt in se.
22 Quod si dixeritis mihi: In Domino Deo nostro habemus fiduciam: nonne iste est, cujus abstulit Ezechias excelsa et altaria, et praecepit Judae et Jerusalem: Ante altare hoc adorabitis in Jerusalem?
23 Nunc igitur transite ad dominum meum regem Assyriorum, et dabo vobis duo millia equorum, et videte an habere valeatis ascensores eorum.
24 Et quomodo potestis resistere ante unum satrapam de servis domini mei minimis? an fiduciam habes in AEgypto propter currus et equites?
25 Numquid sine Domini voluntate ascendi ad locum istum, ut demolirer eum? Dominus dixit mihi: Ascende ad terram hanc, et demolire eam.
26 Dixerunt autem Eliacim filius Helciae, et Sobna, et Joahe Rabsaci: Precamur ut loquaris nobis servis tuis syriace: siquidem intelligimus hanc linguam: et non loquaris nobis judaice, audiente populo qui est super murum.
27 Responditque eis Rabsaces, dicens: Numquid ad dominum tuum, et ad te misit me dominus meus, ut loquerer sermones hos, et non potius ad viros qui sedent super murum, ut comedant stercora sua, et bibant urinam suam vobiscum?
28 Stetit itaque Rabsaces, et exclamavit voce magna judaice, et ait: Audite verba regis magni, regis Assyriorum.
29 Haec dicit rex: Non vos seducat Ezechias: non enim poterit eruere vos de manu mea:
30 neque fiduciam vobis tribuat super Dominum, dicens: Eruens liberabit nos Dominus, et non tradetur civitas haec in manu regis Assyriorum.
31 Nolite audire Ezechiam. Haec enim dicit rex Assyriorum: Facite mecum quod vobis est utile, et egredimini ad me: et comedet unusquisque de vinea sua, et de ficu sua: et bibetis aquas de cisternis vestris,
32 donec veniam, et transferam vos in terram quae similis est terrae vestrae, in terram fructiferam, et fertilem vini, terram panis et vinearum, terram olivarum et olei ac mellis: et vivetis, et non moriemini. Nolite audire Ezechiam, qui vos decipit, dicens: Dominus liberabit nos.
33 Numquid liberaverunt dii gentium terram suam de manu regis Assyriorum?
34 ubi est deus Emath, et Arphad? ubi est deus Sepharvaim, Ana, et Ava? numquid liberaverunt Samariam de manu mea?
35 Quinam illi sunt in universis diis terrarum, qui eruerunt regionem suam de manu mea, ut possit eruere Dominus Jerusalem de manu mea?
36 Tacuit itaque populus, et non respondit ei quidquam: siquidem praeceptum regis acceperant ut non responderent ei.
37 Venitque Eliacim filius Helciae, praepositus domus, et Sobna scriba, et Joahe filius Asaph a commentariis ad Ezechiam scissis vestibus, et nuntiaverunt ei verba Rabsacis.
19 Quae cum audisset Ezechias rex, scidit vestimenta sua, et opertus est sacco, ingressusque est domum Domini.
2 Et misit Eliacim praepositum domus, et Sobnam scribam, et senes de sacerdotibus, opertos saccis, ad Isaiam prophetam filium Amos.
3 Qui dixerunt: Haec dicit Ezechias: Dies tribulationis, et increpationis, et blasphemiae dies iste: venerunt filii usque ad partum, et vires non habet parturiens.
4 Si forte audiat Dominus Deus tuus universa verba Rabsacis, quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus ut exprobraret Deum viventem et argueret verbis, quae audivit Dominus Deus tuus: et fac orationem pro reliquiis quae repertae sunt.
5 Venerunt ergo servi regis Ezechiae ad Isaiam.
6 Dixitque eis Isaias: Haec dicetis domino vestro: Haec dicit Dominus: Noli timere a facie sermonum quos audisti, quibus blasphemaverunt pueri regis Assyriorum me.
7 Ecce ego immittam ei spiritum, et audiet nuntium, et revertetur in terram suam, et dejiciam eum gladio in terra sua.
8 Reversus est ergo Rabsaces, et invenit regem Assyriorum expugnantem Lobnam: audierat enim quod recessisset de Lachis.
9 Cumque audisset de Tharaca rege AEthiopiae, dicentes: Ecce egressus est ut pugnet adversum te: et iret contra eum, misit nuntios ad Ezechiam, dicens:
10 Haec dicite Ezechiae regi Juda: Non te seducat Deus tuus in quo habes fiduciam, neque dicas: Non tradetur Jerusalem in manus regis Assyriorum.
11 Tu enim ipse audisti quae fecerunt reges Assyriorum universis terris, quomodo vastaverunt eas: num ergo solus poteris liberari?
12 Numquid liberaverunt dii gentium singulos quos vastaverunt patres mei, Gozan videlicet, et Haran, et Reseph, et filios Eden qui erant in Thelassar?
13 ubi est rex Emath, et rex Arphad, et rex civitatis Sepharvaim, Ana, et Ava?
14 Itaque cum accepisset Ezechias litteras de manu nuntiorum, et legisset eas, ascendit in domum Domini, et expandit eas coram Domino,
15 et oravit in conspectu ejus, dicens: Domine Deus Israel, qui sedes super cherubim, tu es Deus solus regum omnium terrae: tu fecisti caelum et terram.
16 Inclina aurem tuam, et audi: aperi, Domine, oculos tuos, et vide: audi omnia verba Sennacherib, qui misit ut exprobraret nobis Deum viventem.
17 Vere, Domine, dissipaverunt reges Assyriorum gentes, et terras omnium.
18 Et miserunt deos eorum in ignem: non enim erant dii, sed opera manuum hominum, ex ligno et lapide: et perdiderunt eos.
19 Nunc igitur Domine Deus noster, salvos nos fac de manu ejus, ut sciant omnia regna terrae quia tu es Dominus Deus solus.
20 Misit autem Isaias filius Amos ad Ezechiam, dicens: Haec dicit Dominus Deus Israel: Quae deprecatus es me super Sennacherib rege Assyriorum, audivi.
21 Iste est sermo, quem locutus est Dominus de eo: Sprevit te, et subsannavit te, virgo filia Sion: post tergum tuum caput movit, filia Jerusalem.
22 Cui exprobrasti, et quem blasphemasti? contra quem exaltasti vocem tuam, et elevasti in excelsum oculos tuos? Contra Sanctum Israel.
23 Per manum servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino, et dixisti: In multitudine curruum meorum ascendi excelsa montium in summitate Libani, et succidi sublimes cedros ejus, et electas abietes illius. Et ingressus sum usque ad terminos ejus, et saltum Carmeli ejus
24 ego succidi. Et bibi aquas alienas, et siccavi vestigiis pedum meorum omnes aquas clausas.
25 Numquid non audisti quid ab initio fecerim? ex diebus antiquis plasmavi illud, et nunc adduxi: eruntque in ruinam collium pugnantium civitates munitae.
26 Et qui sedent in eis, humiles manu, contremuerunt et confusi sunt: facti sunt velut foenum agri, et virens herba tectorum, quae arefacta est antequam veniret ad maturitatem.
27 Habitaculum tuum, et egressum tuum, et introitum tuum, et viam tuam ego praescivi, et furorem tuum contra me.
28 Insanisti in me, et superbia tua ascendit in aures meas: ponam itaque circulum in naribus tuis, et camum in labiis tuis, et reducam te in viam per quam venisti.
29 Tibi autem, Ezechia, hoc erit signum: comede hoc anno quae repereris: in secundo autem anno, quae sponte nascuntur: porro in tertio anno seminate et metite: plantate vineas, et comedite fructum earum.
30 Et quodcumque reliquum fuerit de domo Juda, mittet radicem deorsum, et faciet fructum sursum.
31 De Jerusalem quippe egredientur reliquiae, et quod salvetur de monte Sion: zelus Domini exercituum faciet hoc.
32 Quam ob rem haec dicit Dominus de rege Assyriorum: Non ingredietur urbem hanc, nec mittet in eam sagittam, nec occupabit eam clypeus, nec circumdabit eam munitio.
33 Per viam qua venit, revertetur: et civitatem hanc non ingredietur, dicit Dominus.
34 Protegamque urbem hanc, et salvabo eam propter me, et propter David servum meum.
35 Factum est igitur in nocte illa, venit angelus Domini, et percussit in castris Assyriorum centum octoginta quinque millia. Cumque diluculo surrexisset, vidit omnia corpora mortuorum: et recedens abiit,
36 et reversus est Sennacherib rex Assyriorum, et mansit in Ninive.
37 Cumque adoraret in templo Nesroch deum suum, Adramelech et Sarasar filii ejus percusserunt eum gladio, fugeruntque in terram Armeniorum: et regnavit Asarhaddon filius ejus pro eo.
2 Kings 18:9-19:37
New International Version
2 Kings 18:9-19:37
New International Version
9 In King Hezekiah’s fourth year,(A) which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. 10 At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah’s sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. 11 The king(B) of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.(C) 12 This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant(D)—all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.(E) They neither listened to the commands(F) nor carried them out.
13 In the fourteenth year(G) of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah(H) and captured them. 14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:(I) “I have done wrong.(J) Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[a] of silver and thirty talents[b] of gold. 15 So Hezekiah gave(K) him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
16 At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors(L) and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem(M)(N)
17 The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander,(O) his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool,(P) on the road to the Washerman’s Field. 18 They called for the king; and Eliakim(Q) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna(R) the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.
19 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
“‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence(S) of yours? 20 You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 21 Look, I know you are depending on Egypt,(T) that splintered reed of a staff,(U) which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 22 But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
23 “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 24 How can you repulse one officer(V) of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[c]? 25 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord?(W) The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”
26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(X) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
27 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
28 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive(Y) you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. 30 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
31 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(Z) and drink water from your own cistern,(AA) 32 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life(AB) and not death!
“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ 33 Has the god(AC) of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath(AD) and Arpad?(AE) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 35 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”(AF)
36 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
37 Then Eliakim(AG) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn,(AH) and told him what the field commander had said.
Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold(AI)
19 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore(AJ) his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim(AK) the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests,(AL) all wearing sackcloth,(AM) to the prophet Isaiah(AN) son of Amoz. 3 They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment(AO) of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(AP) the living God, and that he will rebuke(AQ) him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant(AR) that still survives.”
5 When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid(AS) of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed(AT) me. 7 Listen! When he hears a certain report,(AU) I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.(AV)’”
8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(AW) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.(AX)
9 Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[d] was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend(AY) on deceive(AZ) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’ 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver(BA) them—the gods of Gozan,(BB) Harran,(BC) Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”(BD)
Hezekiah’s Prayer(BE)
14 Hezekiah received the letter(BF) from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,(BG) you alone(BH) are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16 Give ear,(BI) Lord, and hear;(BJ) open your eyes,(BK) Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
17 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods(BL) but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.(BM) 19 Now, Lord our God, deliver(BN) us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms(BO) of the earth may know(BP) that you alone, Lord, are God.”
Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall(BQ)(BR)
20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard(BS) your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against(BT) him:
“‘Virgin Daughter(BU) Zion
despises(BV) you and mocks(BW) you.
Daughter Jerusalem
tosses her head(BX) as you flee.
22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(BY)
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One(BZ) of Israel!
23 By your messengers
you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,(CA)
“With my many chariots(CB)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down(CC) its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
the finest of its forests.
24 I have dug wells in foreign lands
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
25 “‘Have you not heard?(CD)
Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned(CE) it;
now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
into piles of stone.(CF)
26 Their people, drained of power,(CG)
are dismayed(CH) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
like tender green shoots,(CI)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
scorched(CJ) before it grows up.
27 “‘But I know(CK) where you are
and when you come and go
and how you rage against me.
28 Because you rage against me
and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(CL) in your nose
and my bit(CM) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(CN)
by the way you came.’
29 “This will be the sign(CO) for you, Hezekiah:
“This year you will eat what grows by itself,(CP)
and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
plant vineyards(CQ) and eat their fruit.
30 Once more a remnant(CR) of the kingdom of Judah
will take root(CS) below and bear fruit above.
31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(CT)
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(CU)
“The zeal(CV) of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
32 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:
“‘He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp against it.
33 By the way that he came he will return;(CW)
he will not enter this city,
declares the Lord.
34 I will defend(CX) this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David(CY) my servant.’”
35 That night the angel of the Lord(CZ) went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!(DA) 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.(DB) He returned to Nineveh(DC) and stayed there.
37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek(DD) and Sharezer killed him with the sword,(DE) and they escaped to the land of Ararat.(DF) And Esarhaddon(DG) his son succeeded him as king.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 18:14 That is, about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons
- 2 Kings 18:14 That is, about 1 ton or about 1 metric ton
- 2 Kings 18:24 Or charioteers
- 2 Kings 19:9 That is, the upper Nile region
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