2 Chronicles 25

1 Amaziah was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.

۱ امصیا بیست و پنج ساله بود که پادشاه شد و بیست و نه سال در اورشلیم پادشاهی کرد و اسم مادرش یهوعدان اورشلیمی بود.

2 Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not do them enthusiastically.

۲ و آنچه در نظر خداوند پسند بود، به عمل آورد، اما نه به دل کامل.

3 As soon as he was in complete control of his kingdom, he caused to be executed the officials who had murdered his father.

۳ و چون سلطنت در دستش مستحکم شد، خادمان خود را که پدرش پادشاه را کشته بودند، به قتل رسانید.

4 But he did not command their sons to be executed; he obeyed what was in the laws that Moses had written. In those laws Yahweh had commanded, “People must not be executed because of [what] their children [have done], and children must not be executed for [what] their parents [have done]. People must be executed only for the sins that they themselves have committed.”

۴ اما پسران ایشان را نکشت به موجب نوشته کتاب تورات موسی که خداوند امر فرموده و گفته بود: «پدران به جهت پسران کشته نشوند و پسران به جهت پدران مقتول نگردند، بلکه هر کس به جهت گناه خود کشته شود.»

5 Amaziah summoned the men of [the tribes of] Judah and Benjamin to come to Jerusalem, and there he put them in groups, each clan in a group by themselves. Then he appointed officers to command each group. Some officers commanded 100 men and some commanded 1,000 men. They counted the men who were at least 20 years old; altogether there were 300,000 men. They were all men who were prepared to be in the army, and able to [fight well, ] using spears and shields.

۵ و امصیا یهودا را جمع کرده، سرداران هزاره و سرداران صده از ایشان در تمامی یهودا وبنیامین مقرر فرمود و ایشان را از بیست ساله بالاترشمرده، سیصد هزار مرد برگزیده نیزه و سپردار راکه به جنگ بیرون می‌رفتند، یافت.

6 Amaziah also hired 100,000 capable soldiers from Israel and paid almost four tons of silver for them.

۶ و صد هزارمرد شجاع جنگ آزموده به صد وزنه نقره ازاسرائیل اجیر ساخت.

7 But a prophet came to him and said, “Your majesty, you must not allow those soldiers from Israel to march with your soldiers, because Yahweh does not help the people of the tribe of Ephraim or from [anywhere else in] Israel.

۷ اما مرد خدایی نزد وی آمده، گفت: «ای پادشاه، لشکر اسرائیل با تونروند زیرا خداوند با اسرائیل یعنی با تمامی بنی افرایم نیست.

8 Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.”

۸ و اگر می‌خواهی بروی برو وبه جهت جنگ قوی شو لیکن خدا تو را پیش دشمنان مغلوب خواهد ساخت زیرا قدرت نصرت دادن و مغلوب ساختن با خدا است.»

9 Amaziah asked that prophet, “If I do that, what about the huge amount of silver that I paid to hire those soldiers from Israel?” The prophet replied, “Yahweh is able to pay you back more money than you paid [to hire those soldiers].”

۹ امصیا به مرد خدا گفت: «برای صد وزنه نقره که به لشکر اسرائیل داده‌ام، چه کنم؟» مرد خداجواب داد: «خداوند قادر است که تو را بیشتر ازاین بدهد.»

10 So Amaziah told those soldiers from Israel to return home. They left to go home, but they were very angry with the king of Judah [for not allowing them to stay and fight].

۱۰ پس امصیا لشکری را که از افرایم نزد او آمده بودند، جدا کرد که به‌جای خودبرگردند و از این سبب خشم ایشان بر یهودا به شدت افروخته شد و بسیار غضبناک گردیده، به‌جای خود رفتند.

11 Then Amaziah became brave, and he led his army to the Salt Valley. There they killed 10,000 men from the Edom people-group.

۱۱ و امصیا خویشتن را تقویت نموده، قوم خود را بیرون برد و به وادی الملح رسیده، ده هزار نفر از بنی سعیر را کشت.

12 The army of Judah also captured 10,000 others, and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them all down over the cliff, with the result that their corpses were all smashed to pieces.

۱۲ و بنی یهودا ده هزار نفر دیگر را زنده اسیر کرد، و ایشان را به قله سالع برده، از قله سالع به زیر انداختند که جمیع خرد شدند.

13 While that was happening, the soldiers from Israel whom Amaziah had sent home after not allowing them to fight along with his soldiers, raided cities and towns in Judea, from Samaria [city] to Beth-Horon [town]. They killed 3,000 people and took away a great amount of valuable things.

۱۳ و اما مردان آن فوج که امصیا بازفرستده بود تا همراهش به جنگ نروند، برشهرهای یهودا از سامره تا بیت حورون تاختند وسه هزار نفر را کشته، غنیمت بسیار بردند.

14 When Amaziah returned [to Jerusalem] after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to [worship] them and offered sacrifices to them.

۱۴ و بعد از مراجعت امصیا از شکست دادن ادومیان، او خدایان بنی سعیر را آورده، آنها راخدایان خود ساخت و آنها را سجده نموده، بخور برای آنها سوزانید.

15 Because of that, Yahweh was very angry with Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you worship these foreign gods that were not even able to save their own people when your army attacked them?”

۱۵ پس خشم خداوند برامصیا افروخته شد و نبی نزد وی فرستاد که او رابگوید: «چرا خدایان آن قوم را که قوم خود را ازدست تو نتوانستند رهانید، طلبیدی؟»

16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop [talking]! If you say anything more, [I will tell my soldiers to] kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have [begun to] worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.

۱۶ و چون این سخن را به وی گفت، او را جواب داد: «آیا تورا مشیر پادشاه ساخته‌اند؟ ساکت شو! چرا تو رابکشند؟» پس نبی ساکت شده، گفت: «می‌دانم که خدا قصد نموده است که تو را هلاک کند، چونکه این کار را کردی و نصیحت مرا نشنیدی.»

17 Some time later Amaziah, the king of Judah, consulted his advisors. Then he sent a message to Jehoash, the king of Israel. He wrote, “Come here and let’s talk together.”

۱۷ پس امصیا، پادشاه یهودا، مشورت کرده، نزد یوآش بن یهوآحاز بن ییهو پادشاه اسرائیل فرستاده، گفت: «بیا تا با یکدیگر مقابله نماییم.»

18 But Jehoash replied to King Amaziah, “One time a thistle growing [in the mountains] in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar tree saying, ‘Let your daughter marry my son.’ But a wild animal in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle under its feet.

۱۸ و یوآش پادشاه اسرائیل نزد امصیا پادشاه یهودا فرستاده، گفت: «شترخار لبنان نزد سروآزاد لبنان فرستاده، گفت: دختر خود را به پسر من به زنی بده. اما حیوان وحشی که در لبنان بود گذرکرده، شترخار را پایمال نمود.

19 [The meaning of what I am saying is that] you are saying to yourself that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so you have become very proud. But you should stay at your home. It would not be good for you to cause trouble, which would result in you and your kingdom of Judah being destroyed.”

۱۹ می‌گویی، هان ادوم را شکست دادم و دلت تو را مغرور ساخته است که افتخار نمایی؟ حال به خانه خود برگرد. چرا بلا را برای خود برمی انگیزانی تا خودت ویهودا همراهت بیفتید؟»

20 But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash’s message. That happened because God wanted Jehoash’s army to defeat them, because they were worshiping the gods of Edom.

۲۰ اما امصیا گوش نداد زیرا که این امر از جانب خدا بود تا ایشان را به‌دست دشمنان تسلیم نماید، چونکه خدایان ادوم را طلبیدند.

21 So Jehoash’s army attacked. Their two armies faced each other at Beth-Shemesh [city] in Judah.

۲۱ پس یوآش پادشاه اسرائیل برآمد و او و امصیا پادشاه یهودا در بیت شمس که در یهودا است، با یکدیگرمقابله نمودند.

22 The army of Judah was badly defeated by the army of Israel, and all the soldiers of Judah fled to their homes.

۲۲ و یهودا از حضور اسرائیل منهزم شده، هر کس به خیمه خود فرار کرد.

23 King Jehoash’s army also captured King Amaziah there. Then he brought Amaziah to Jerusalem, and his soldiers tore down the wall [that was around the city], from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about 600 feet long.

۲۳ ویوآش پادشاه اسرائیل امصیا ابن یوآش بن یهوآحاز پادشاه یهودا را در بیت شمس گرفت و او را به اورشلیم آورده، چهارصد ذراع حصاراورشلیم را از دروازه افرایم تا دروازه زاویه منهدم ساخت.

24 His soldiers also carried away the gold and silver and other valuable furnishings from the temple which the descendants of Obed-Edom had previously been guarding. They also took away the valuable things in the palace, and they took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.

۲۴ و تمامی طلا و نقره و تمامی ظروفی را که در خانه خدا نزد (بنی ) عوبید ادوم ودر خزانه های خانه پادشاه یافت شد و یرغمالان را گرفته، به سامره مراجعت کرد.

25 King Jehoash of Israel died, and King Amaziah of Judah lived for 15 years after that.

۲۵ و امصیاابن یوآش پادشاه یهودا، بعد از وفات یوآش بن یهوآحاز پادشاه اسرائیل، پانزده سال زندگانی نمود.

26 An account of all the other things that Amaziah did while he was the king [of Judah] is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.

۲۶ و بقیه وقایع اول و آخر امصیا، آیا درتواریخ پادشاهان یهودا و اسرائیل مکتوب نیست؟

27 From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to Lachish [city], but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.

۲۷ و از زمانی که امصیا از پیروی خداوندانحراف ورزید، بعضی در اورشلیم فتنه بر وی انگیختند. پس به لاکیش فرار کرد و از عقبش به لاکیش فرستادند و او را در آنجا کشتند.

28 They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors [had been buried] in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’.

۲۸ و او رابر اسبان آوردند و با پدرانش در شهر یهودا دفن کردند.