2 Kings 22
1 जब योशिय्याह राज्य करने लगा, तब वह आठ वर्ष का था, और यरूशलेम में एकतीस वर्ष तक राज्य करता रहा। और उसकी माता का नाम यदीदा था जो बोस्कतवासी अदाया की बेटी थी।
2 उसने वह किया, जो यहोवा की दृष्टि में ठीक है और जिस मार्ग पर उसका मूलपुरुष दाऊद चला ठीक उसी पर वह भी चला, और उस से न तो दाहिनी ओर और न बाईं ओर मुड़ा।
3 अपने राज्य के अठारहवें वर्ष में राजा योशिय्याह ने असल्याह के पुत्र शापान मंत्री को जो मशुल्लाम का पोता था, यहोवा के भवन में यह कह कर भेजा, कि हिलकिय्याह महायाजक के पास जा कर कह,
4 कि जो चान्दी यहोवा के भवन में लाई गई है, और द्वारपालों ने प्रजा से इकट्ठी की है,
5 उसको जोड़ कर, उन काम कराने वालों को सौंप दे, जो यहोवा के भवन के काम पर मुखिये हैं; फिर वे उसको यहोवा के भवन में काम करने वाले कारीगरों को दें, इसलिये कि उस में जो कुछ टूटा फूटा हो उसकी वे मरम्मत करें।
6 अर्थात बढ़इयों, राजों और संगतराशों को दें, और भवन की मरम्मत के लिये लकड़ी और गढ़े हुए पत्थर मोल लेने में लगाएं।
7 परन्तु जिनके हाथ में वह चान्दी सौंपी गई, उन से हिसाब न लिया गया, क्योंकि वे सच्चाई से काम करते थे।
8 और हिलकिय्याह महायाजक ने शापान मंत्री से कहा, मुझे यहोवा के भवन में व्यवस्था की पुस्तक मिली है; तब हिलकिय्याह ने शापान को वह पुस्तक दी, और वह उसे पढ़ने लगा।
9 तब शापान मंत्री ने राजा के पास लौट कर यह सन्देश दिया, कि जो चानदी भवन में मिली, उसे तेरे कर्मचारियो ने थैलियों में डाल कर, उन को सौंप दिया जो यहोवा के भवन में काम कराने वाले हैं।
10 फिर शपान मंत्री ने राजा को यह भी बता दिया, कि हिलकिय्याह याजक ने उसे एक पुस्तक दी है। तब शपान उसे राजा को पढ़कर सुनाने लगा।
11 व्यवस्था की उस पुस्तक की बातें सुन कर राजा ने अपने वस्त्र फाड़े।
12 फिर उसने हिलकिय्याह याजक, शापान के पुत्र अहीकाम, मीकायाह के पुत्र अकबोर, शापान मंत्री और असाया नाम अपने एक कर्मचारी को आज्ञा दी,
13 कि यह पुस्तक जो मिली है, उसकी बातों के विष्य तुम जा कर मेरी और प्रजा की और सब यहूदियों की ओर से यहोवा से पूछो, क्योंकि यहोवा की बड़ी ही जलजलाहट हम पर इस कारण भड़की है, कि हमारे पुरखाओं ने इस पुस्तक की बातें न मानी कि कुछ हमारे लिये लिखा है, उसके अनुसार करते।
14 हिलकिय्याह याजक और अहीकाम, अकबोर, शापान और असाया ने हुल्दा नबिया के पास जा कर उस से बातें की, वह उस शल्लूम की पत्नी थी जो तिकवा का पुत्र और हर्हस का पोता और वस्त्रों का रखवाला था, ( और वह स्त्री यरूशलेम के नये टोले में रहती थी )।
15 उसने उन से कहा, इस्राएल का परमेश्वर यहोवा यों कहता है, कि जिस पुरुष ने तुम को मेरे पास भेजा, उस से यह कहो,
16 यहोवा यों कहता है, कि सुन, जिस पुस्तक को यहूदा के राजा ने पढ़ा है, उसकी सब बातों के अनुसार मैं इस स्थान और इसके निवासियों पर विपत्ति डाला चाहता हूँ।
17 उन लोगों ने मुझे त्याग कर पराये देवताओं के लिये धूप जलाया और अपनी बनाई हुई सब वस्तुओं के द्वारा मुझे क्रोध दिलाया है, इस कारण मेरी जलजलाहट इस स्थान पर भड़केगी और फिर शांत न होगी।
18 परन्तु यहूदा का राजा जिसने तुम्हें यहोवा से पूछने को भेजा है उस से तुम यों कहो, कि इस्राएल का परमेश्वर यहोवा कहता है।
19 इसलिये कि तू वे बातें सुन कर दीन हुआ, और मेरी वे बातें सुन कर कि इस स्थान और इसके निवासियों देख कर लोग चकित होंगे, और शाप दिया करेंगे, तू ने यहोवा के साम्हने अपना सिर नवाया, और अपने वस्त्र फाड़ कर मेरे साम्हने रोया है, इस कारण मैं ने तेरी सुनी है, यहोवा की यही वाणी है।
20 इसलिये देख, मैं ऐसा करूंगा, कि तू अपने पुरखाओं के संग मिल जाएगा, और तू शांति से अपनी कबर को पहुंचाया जाएगा, और जो विपत्ति मैं इस स्थान पर डाला चाहता हूँ, उस में से तुझे अपनी आंखों से कुछ भी देखना न पड़ेगा। तब उन्होंने लौट कर राजा को यही सन्देश दिया।
1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,
13 Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
16 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.