دوم تواریخ 12

۱ 1 و چون سلطنت رحبعام استوار گردیدو خودش تقویت یافت، او با تمامی اسرائیل شریعت خداوند را ترک نمودند.

After Rehoboam was in complete control of his kingdom, he and all [the other people in] Judah stopped obeying the laws of Yahweh.

۲ 2 و درسال پنجم سلطنت رحبعام، شیشق پادشاه مصربه اورشلیم برآمد زیراکه ایشان بر خداوند عاصی شده بودند.

As a result, after Rehoboam had been king for almost five years, Yahweh sent Shishak, the king of Egypt, [with his army] to attack Jerusalem.

۳ 3 با هزار و دویست ارابه و شصت هزار سوار و خلقی که از مصریان و لوبیان وسکیان و حبشیان همراهش آمدند بیشمار بودند.

Along with his army he brought 1,200 chariots and 60,000 soldiers riding horses and a very large number of troops from two regions in Libya, and from Ethiopia.

۴ 4 پس شهرهای حصاردار یهودا را گرفت و به اورشلیم آمد.

They captured many of the cities in Judah that had walls around them, and they came as far as Jerusalem.

۵ 5 و شمعیای نبی نزد رحبعام وسروران یهودا که از ترس شیشق در اورشلیم جمع بودند آمده، به ایشان گفت: «خداوند چنین می‌گوید: شما مرا ترک کردید پس من نیز شما رابه‌دست شیشق ترک خواهم نمود.»

Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the other leaders of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because they were afraid of [the army of] Shishak. Shemaiah said to them, “Yahweh says this: ‘You have abandoned me; so now I am abandoning you, to [allow you to be captured by the army of] Shishak.’”

۶ 6 آنگاه سروران اسرائیل و پادشاه تواضع نموده، گفتند: «خداوند عادل است.»

Then the king and the other Israeli leaders humbled themselves and said, “What Yahweh is doing to us is fair.”

۷ 7 و چون خداوند دید که ایشان متواضع شده‌اند کلام خداوند بر شمعیانازل شده، گفت: «چونکه ایشان تواضع نموده اند ایشان را هلاک نخواهم کرد بلکه ایشان را اندک زمانی خلاصی خواهم داد و غضب من به‌دست شیشق بر اورشلیم ریخته نخواهد شد.

When Yahweh realized that they had humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not allow them to be destroyed. Instead, I will soon rescue them. I will not use Shishak’s army to completely destroy the people of Jerusalem,

۸ 8 لیکن ایشان بنده او خواهند شد تا بندگی من و بندگی ممالک جهان را بدانند.»

but they will conquer Jerusalem and force the people there to do what Shishak wants them to do. As a result, the people of Jerusalem will learn [that it is better] to serve me than to serve the kings of other countries.”

۹ 9 پس شیشق پادشاه مصر به اورشلیم برآمده، خزانه های خانه خداوند و خزانه های خانه پادشاه را گرفت و همه‌چیز را برداشت و سپرهای طلا راکه سلیمان ساخته بود برد.

When Shishak’s [army] attacked Jerusalem, they took/carried away the valuable things that were in the temple of Yahweh and the valuable things that were in the king’s palace. They took everything [that was valuable], including the gold shields that Solomon’s [workers] had made.

۱۰ 10 و رحبعام پادشاه به عوض آنها سپرهای برنجین ساخت و آنها را به‌دست سرداران شاطرانی که در خانه پادشاه رانگاهبانی می‌کردند سپرد.

So King Rehoboam’s workers made bronze shields to be used instead of the gold ones and gave the bronze shields to the commanders of the men who guarded the entrance to his palace.

۱۱ 11 و هر وقتی که پادشاه به خانه خداوند داخل می‌شد شاطران آمده، آنهارا برمی داشتند و آنها را به حجره شاطران بازمی آوردند.

After that, whenever the king went to the temple, the guards went with him, carrying those bronze shields. Then [when the king left, ] they would return the shields to the guards’ room.

۱۲ 12 و چون او متواضع شد خشم خداوند از او برگشت تا او را بالکل هلاک نسازد، و در یهودا نیز اعمال نیکو پیدا شد.

Because Rehoboam humbled himself, Yahweh stopped being angry with him and did not get rid of him. Instead, he caused good things to happen in Judah.

۱۳ 13 و رحبعام پادشاه، خویشتن را در اورشلیم قوی ساخته، سلطنت نمود و رحبعام چون پادشاه شد چهل و یک ساله بود، و در شهراورشلیم که خداوند آن را از تمام اسباط اسرائیل برگزید تا اسم خود را در آن بگذارد، هفده سال پادشاهی کرد و اسم مادرش نعمه عمونیه بود.

King Rehoboam again was in complete control in Jerusalem and continued to be the king [of Judah]. He was 41 years old when he became the king. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes in Israel to be the place in which people were to worship him.

۱۴ 14 و او شرارت ورزید زیرا که خداوند را به تصمیم قلب طلب ننمود.

Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people-group. Rehoboam did evil things because he did not try to find out what Yahweh wanted him to do.

۱۵ 15 و اما وقایع اول و آخر رحبعام آیا آنها درتواریخ شمعیای نبی و تواریخ انساب عدوی رایی مکتوب نیست؟ و در میان رحبعام و یربعام پیوسته جنگ می‌بود.

An account of all the things that Rehoboam did while he was the king, and lists of the members of his family, are in the scrolls written by the prophets Shemaiah and Iddo. The armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly fighting each other.

۱۶ 16 پس رحبعام با پدران خود خوابید و در شهر داود دفن شد و پسرش ابیا به‌جایش سلطنت کرد.

When Rehoboam died, he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then his son Abijah became the king.