Jeremiah 41
1 Ishmael was a member of the king’s family. He had been one of King Zedekiah’s important officials. In October of that year, he went to Mizpah with ten other men to [talk with] Gedaliah. While they were eating together,
| اما در ماه هفتم، اسماعیل (پسر نتنیا، نوهٔ الیشاماع) که از خاندان سلطنتی و یکی از مقامات بلند پایۀ پادشاه بود، به همراه ده نفر به مصفه نزد جدلیا آمد. هنگامی که با هم غذا می‌خوردند، |
2 Ishmael and the other ten men jumped up, and with their swords they killed Gedaliah—the man whom the king of Babylon had appointed to be their governor!
| ناگهان اسماعیل و همراهانش، شمشیرهایشان را کشیدند و بر جدلیا که پادشاه بابِل او را فرماندار ساخته بود، حمله‌ور شده، او را کشتند. |
3 Ishmael [and the other men] also killed all the Jews and the soldiers from Babylonia who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.
| سپس بیرون رفتند و تمام سربازان یهودی و بابِلی را که در مصفه با جدلیا بودند، قتل عام کردند. |
4 The next day, before anyone had found out that Gedaliah had been murdered,
| روز بعد، پیش از آنکه خبر این ماجرا پخش شود، |
5 eighty men from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria [cities] came to worship at the temple of Yahweh [in Mizpah]. They had shaved off their beards and torn their clothes and cut themselves [to show that they were mourning]. And they had brought grain offerings and incense [to burn on the altar].
| هشتاد نفر از شهرهای شکیم، شیلوه و سامره از نزدیکی مصفه عبور می‌کردند و به رسم عزاداری، با ریش تراشیده، لباسهای دریده و صورت خراشیده، با هدیه و بخور به خانهٔ خداوند می‌رفتند. |
6 Ishmael went out of the city to meet them, crying as he went. When he reached them, he said, “Come [and see what has happened to] Gedaliah!”
| اسماعیل در حالی که می‌گریست، برای استقبال آنها از شهر بیرون رفت. وقتی به ایشان رسید، گفت: «بیایید و ببینید چه بر سر جدلیا آمده است!» |
7 But as soon as they had all entered the town, Ishmael and his men killed [most of] them and threw their corpses into a well.
| وقتی همه وارد شهر شدند، اسماعیل و همدستانش آنها را نیز کشتند و جنازه‌هایشان را در گودال انداختند. |
8 There were [only] ten of them whom they (spared/did not kill). They were not killed because they promised to Ishmael that [if he allowed them to remain alive, they would bring him] lots of wheat and barley and olive oil and honey that they had hidden.
| ولی در آن گروه، ده نفر بودند که به اسماعیل قول دادند که اگر آنها را نکشد، بروند و هر چه گندم، جو، روغن و عسل پنهان کرده‌اند، برایش بیاورند. پس آن ده نفر را نکشتند. |
9 The well where Ishmael’s men had thrown the corpses of the men whom they had murdered was the deep well that King Asa’s [men] had dug [in order that they would have water in the city] if the army of King Baasha of Israel would surround the city. Ishmael’s men filled that well with corpses.
| گودالی که اسماعیل جنازهٔ مقتولین را در آن انداخت همان گودالی است که آسای پادشاه، به هنگام بنای برج و باروی مصفه در زمان جنگ با بعشا، پادشاه اسرائیل، حفر نموده بود. |
10 Then Ishmael [and his men] captured the king’s daughters and some of the other people who had been left in Mizpah by Nebuzaradan in order that Gedaliah would take care of them. Ishmael and his men took those people and started back toward the Ammon area.
| در ضمن اسماعیل، دختران پادشاه و بازماندگان قوم را که در مصفه بودند و نبوزرادان فرماندهٔ گارد پادشاه بابِل ایشان را به دست جدلیا سپرده بود، اسیر کرد و همه را با خود برداشت و به سوی سرزمین عمونی‌ها به راه افتاد. |
11 But Johanan and all the other leaders of the Israeli soldiers who had not surrendered to the army of Babylonia heard about what Ishmael [and his men] had done.
| ولی یوحانان (پسر قاریح) و سایر سرداران لشکر وقتی از جنایت اسماعیل آگاهی یافتند، |
12 So they [immediately] went with all their men to stop them. They caught up with them at the large pool near Gibeon [city].
| با تمام نفرات خود به تعقیب او پرداختند تا او را بکشند. آنها در نزدیکی برکهٔ بزرگ واقع در جبعون به او رسیدند. |
13 When all the people whom Ishmael and his men had captured saw Johanan and the soldiers who were with him, they [shouted] joyfully.
| اشخاصی که در اسارت اسماعیل بودند، وقتی یوحانان و همراهان او را دیدند، از خوشحالی فریاد برآوردند و به سوی آنها دویدند. |
14 So all those who had been captured in Mizpah escaped, and they started to help Johanan.
15 But Ishmael and eight of his men escaped and fled to the Ammon area.
| در این گیرودار اسماعیل با هشت نفر از همدستانش موفق شد به سرزمین عمونی‌ها بگریزد. |
16 Then Johanan and the men who were with him [gathered together] all the people whom they had rescued at Gibeon. They included soldiers and women and children and some of the king’s palace officials. They were all people whom Ishmael [and his men] had captured after they had killed Gedaliah.
| یوحانان و افرادش بی‌درنگ همهٔ سربازان، زنان، بچه‌ها و خواجه‌سرایانی را که نجات داده بودند، برداشتند و از جبعون به دهکدهٔ جیروت کمهام در نزدیکی بیت‌لحم رفتند، تا از آنجا از ترس بابِلی‌ها به مصر بگریزند، زیرا جدلیا، فرماندار پادشاه بابِل، به دست اسماعیل کشته شده بود. |
17 They took them all to Geruth-Kimham [village] near Bethlehem. And they all prepared to go to Egypt.
18 They were worried about what the soldiers of Babylonia [would do to them when they found out] that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, who had been appointed by the King of Babylonia to be their governor.
