2 राजा 19
1 जब हिजकिय्याह राजा ने यह सुना, तब वह अपने वस्त्र फाड़, टाट ओढ़कर यहोवा के भवन में गया।
2 और उसने एल्याकीम को जो राजघराने के काम पर था, और शेब्ना मन्त्री को, और याजकों के पुरनियों को, जो सब टाट ओढ़े हुए थे, आमोस के पुत्र यशायाह भविष्यद्वक्ता के पास भेज दिया।
3 उन्होंने उस से कहा, हिजकिय्याह यों कहता है, आज का दिन संकट, और उलहने, और निन्दा का दिन है; बच्चे जन्मने पर हुए पर जच्चा को जन्म देने का बल न रहा।
4 कदाचित तेरा परमेश्वर यहोवा रबशाके की सब बातें सुने, जिसे उसके स्वामी अश्शूर के राजा ने जीवते परमेश्वर की निन्दा करने को भेजा है, और जो बातें तेरे परमेश्वर यहावा ने सुनी हैं उन्हें डपटे; इसलिये तू इन बचे हुओं के लिये जो रह गए हैं प्रार्थना कर।
5 जब हिजकिय्याह राजा के कर्मचारी यशायाह के पास आए,
6 तब यशायाह ने उन से कहा, अपने स्वामी से कहो, यहेवा यों कहता है, कि जो वचन तू ने सुने हैं, जिनके द्वारा अश्शूर के राजा के जनों ने मेरी निन्दा की है, उनके कारण मत डर।
7 सुन, मैं उसके मन में प्रेरणा करूंगा, कि वह कुछ समाचार सुन कर अपने देश को लौट जाए, और मैं उसको उसी के देश में तलवार से मरवा डालूंगा।
8 तब रबशाके ने लौटकर अश्शूर के राजा को लिब्ना नगर से युद्ध करते पाया, क्योंकि उसने सुना था कि वह लाकीश के पास से उठ गया है।
9 और जब उसने कूश के राजा तिर्हाका के विष्य यह सुना, कि वह मुझ से लड़ने को निकला है, तब उसने हिजकिय्याह के पास दूतों को यह कह कर भेजा,
10 तुम यहूदा के राजा हिजकिय्याह से यों कहना: तेरा परमेश्वर जिसका तू भरोसा करता है, यह कह कर तुझे धोखा न देने पाए, कि यरूशलेम अश्शूर के राजा के वश में न पड़ेगा।
11 देख, तू ने तो सुना है अश्शूर के राजाओं ने सब देशों से कैसा व्यवहार किया है उन्हें सत्यानाश कर दिया है। फिर क्या तू बचेगा?
12 गोजान और हारान और रेसेप और तलस्सार में रहने वाले एदेनी, जिन जातियों को मेरे पुरखाओं ने नाश किया, क्या उन में से किसी जाति के देवताओं ने उसको बचा लिया?
13 हमात का राजा, और अर्पाद का राजा, और समवैंम नगर का राजा, और हेना और इव्वा के राजा ये सब कहां रहे? इस पत्री को हिजकिय्याह ने दूतों के हाथ से ले कर पढ़ा।
14 तब यहोवा के भवन में जा कर उसको यहोवा के साम्हने फैला दिया।
15 और यहोवा से यह प्रार्थना की, कि हे इस्राएल के परमेश्वर यहोवा! हे करूबों पर विराजने वाले ! पृथ्वी के सब राज्यों के ऊपर केवल तू ही परमेश्वर है। आकाश और पृथ्वी को तू ही ने बनाया है।
16 हे यहोवा! कान लगाकर सुन, हे यहोवा आंख खोल कर देख, और सन्हेरीब के वचनों को सुन ले, जो उसने जीवते परमेश्वर की निन्दा करने को कहला भेजे हैं।
17 हे यहोवा, सच तो है, कि अश्शूर के राजाओं ने जातियों को और उनके देशों को उजाड़ा है।
18 और उनके देवताओं को आग में झोंका है, क्योंकि वे ईश्वर न थे; वे मनुष्यों के बनाए हुए काठ और पत्थर ही के थे; इस कारण वे उन को नाश कर सके।
19 इसलिये अब हे हमारे परमेश्वर यहोवा तू हमें उसके हाथ से बचा, कि पृथ्वी के राज्य राज्य के लोग जान लें कि केवल तू ही यहोवा है।
20 तब आमोस के पुत्र यशायाह ने हिजकिय्याह के पास यह कहला भेजा, कि इस्राएल का परमेश्वर यहोवा यों कहता है, कि जो प्रार्थना तू ने अश्शूर के राजा सन्हेरीब के विषय मुझ से की, उसे मैं ने सुना है।
21 उसके विषय में यहोवा ने यह वचन कहा है, कि सिय्योन की कुमारी कन्या तुझे तुच्छ जानती और तुझे ठट्ठों में उड़ाती है, यरूशलेम की पुत्री, तुझ पर सिर हिलाती है।
22 तू ने जो नामधराई और निन्दा की है, वह किसकी की है? और तू ने जो बड़ा बोल बोला और घमण्ड किया है वह किसके विरुद्ध किया है? इस्राएल के पवित्र के विरुद्ध तू ने किया है!
23 अपने दूतों के द्वारा तू ने प्रभु की निन्दा कर के कहा है, कि बहुत से रथ ले कर मैं पर्वतों की चोटियों पर, वरन लबानोन के बीच तक चढ़ आया हूँ, और मैं उसके ऊंचे ऊंचे देवदारुओं और अच्छे अच्छे सनोवरों को काट डालूंगा; और उस में जो सब से ऊंचा टिकने का स्थान होगा उस में और उसके वन की फलदाई बारियों में प्रवेश करूंगा।
24 मैं ने तो खुदवा कर परदेश का पानी पिया; और मिस्र की नहरों में पांव धरते ही उन्हें सुखा डालूंगा।
25 क्या तू ने नहीं सुना, कि प्राचीनकाल से मैं ने यही ठहराया? और अगले दिनों से इसकी तैयारी की थी, उन्हें अब मैं ने पूरा भी किया है, कि तू गढ़ वाले नगरों को खण्डहर ही खण्डहर कर दे,
26 इसी कारण उनके रहने वालों का बल घट गया; वे विस्मित और लज्जित हुए; वे मैदान के छोटे छोटे पेड़ों और हरी घास और छत पर की घास, और ऐसे अनाज के समान हो गए, जो बढ़ने से पहिले सूख जाता है।
27 मैं तो तेरा बैठा रहना, और कूच करना, और लौट आना जानता हूँ, और यह भी कि तू मुझ पर अपना क्रोध भड़काता है।
28 इस कारण कि तू मुझ पर अपना क्रोध भड़काता और तेरे अभिमान की बातें मेरे कानों में पड़ी हैं; मैं तेरी नाक में अपनी नकेल डाल कर और तेरे मुंह में अपना लगाम लगा कर, जिस मार्ग से तू आया है, उसी से तुझे लोटा दूंगा।
29 और तेरे लिये यह चिन्ह होगा, कि इस वर्ष तो तुम उसे खाओगे जो आप से आप उगे, और दूसरे वर्ष उसे जो उत्पन्न हो वह खाओगे; और तीसरे वर्ष बीज बोने और उसे लवने पाओगे, और दाख की बारियां लगाने और उनका फल खाने पाओगे।
30 और यहूदा के घराने के बचे हुए लोग फिर जड़ पकड़ेंगे, और फलेंगे भी।
31 क्योंकि यरूशलेम में से बचे हुए और सिय्योन पर्वत के भागे हुए लोग निकलेंगे। यहोवा यह काम अपनी जलन के कारण करेगा।
32 इसलिये यहोवा अश्शूर के राजा के विषय में यों कहता है कि वह इस नगर में प्रवेश करने, वरन इस पर एक तीर भी मारने न पाएगा, और न वह ढाल ले कर इसके साम्हने आने, वा इसके विरुद्ध दमदमा बनाने पाएगा।
33 जिस मार्ग से वह आया, उसी से वह लौट भी जाएगा, और इस नगर में प्रवेश न करने पाएगा, यहोवा की यही वाणी है।
34 और मैं अपने निमित्त और अपने दास दाऊद के निमित्त इस नगर की रक्षा कर के इसे बचाऊंगा।
35 उसी रात में क्या हुआ, कि यहोवा के दूत ने निकल कर अश्शूरियों की छावनी में एक लाख पचासी हजार पुरुषों को मारा, और भोर को जब लोग सबेरे उठे, तब देखा, कि लोथ ही लोथ पड़ी है।
36 तब अश्शूर का राजा सन्हेरीब चल दिया, और लौट कर नीनवे में रहने लगा।
37 वहां वह अपने देवता निस्रोक के मन्दिर में दण्डवत कर रहा था, कि अदेम्मेलेक और सरेसेर ने उसको तलवार से मारा, और अरारात देश में भाग गए। और उसी का पुत्र एसर्हद्दोन उसके स्थान पर राज्य करने लगा।
1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
16 Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.