열왕기하 18

1이스라엘 왕 엘라의 아들 호세아 삼년에 유다 왕 아하스의 아들 히스기야가 왕이 되니 2위에 나아갈 때에 나이 이십오 세라 예루살렘에서 이십구 년을 치리하니라 그 모친의 이름은 아비라 스가리야의 딸이더라 3히스기야가 그 조상 다윗의 모든 행위와 같이 여호와 보시기에 정직히 행하여 4여러 산당을 제하며 주상을 깨뜨리며 아세라 목상을 찍으며 모세가 만들었던 놋뱀을 이스라엘 자손이 이때까지 향하여 분향하므로 그것을 부수고 느후스단이라 일컬었더라 5히스기야가 이스라엘 하나님 여호와를 의지하였는데 그의 전후 유다 여러 왕 중에 그러한 자가 없었으니 6곧 저가 여호와께 연합하여 떠나지 아니하고 여호와께서 모세에게 명하신 계명을 지켰더라 7여호와께서 저와 함께 하시매 저가 어디로 가든지 형통하였더라 저가 앗수르 왕을 배척하고 섬기지 아니하였고 8블레셋 사람을 쳐서 가사와 그 사방에 이르고 망대에서부터 견고한 성까지 이르렀더라 9히스기야 왕 사년 곧 이스라엘 왕 엘라의 아들 호세아 칠년에 앗수르 왕 살만에셀이 사마리아로 올라와서 에워쌌더라 10삼 년 후에 그 성이 함락되니 곧 히스기야의 육년이요 이스라엘 왕 호세아의 구년이라 사마리아가 함락되매 11앗수르 왕이 이스라엘을 사로잡아 앗수르에 이르러 할라와 고산 하볼 하숫가와 메대 사람의 여러 성읍에 두었으니 12이는 저희가 그 하나님 여호와의 말씀을 준행치 아니하고 그 언약을 배반하고 여호와의 종 모세의 모든 명한 것을 거스려 듣지도 아니하며 행치도 아니하였음이더라 13히스기야 왕 십사년에 앗수르 왕 산헤립이 올라와서 유다 모든 견고한 성읍들을 쳐서 취하매 14유다 왕 히스기야가 라기스로 보내어 앗수르 왕에게 이르되 내가 범죄하였나이다 나를 떠나 돌아가소서 왕이 내게 지우시는 것을 내가 당하리이다 하였더니 앗수르 왕이 곧 은 삼백 달란트와 금 삼십 달란트를 정하여 유다 왕 히스기야로 내게 한지라 15히스기야가 이에 여호와의 전과 왕궁 곳간에 있는 은을 다 주었고 16또 그 때에 유다 왕 히스기야가 여호와의 전 문의 금과 자기가 모든 기둥에 입힌 금을 벗겨 모두 앗수르 왕에게 주었더라 17앗수르 왕이 다르단과 랍사리스와 랍사게로 대군을 거느리고 라기스에서부터 예루살렘으로 가서 히스기야 왕을 치게 하매 저희가 예루살렘으로 올라가니라 저희가 올라가서 윗못 수도 곁 곧 세탁자의 밭에 있는 큰 길에 이르러 서니라 18저희가 왕을 부르매 힐기야의 아들 궁내대신 엘리야김과 서기관 셉나와 아삽의 아들 사관 요아가 저에게 나가니 19랍사게가 저희에게 이르되 너희는 히스기야에게 고하라 대왕 앗수르 왕의 말씀이 너의 의뢰하는 이 의뢰가 무엇이냐 20네가 싸울만한 계교와 용력이 있다고 한다마는 이는 입에 붙은 말뿐이라 네가 이제 누구를 의뢰하고 나를 반역하였느냐 21이제 네가 저 상한 갈대 지팡이 애굽을 의뢰하도다 사람이 그것을 의지하면 그 손에 찔려 들어갈지라 애굽 왕 바로는 무릇 의뢰하는 자에게 이와 같으니라 22너희가 혹시 내게 이르기를 우리는 우리 하나님 여호와를 의뢰하노라 하리라마는 히스기야가 여호와의 산당과 제단을 제하고 유다와 예루살렘 사람에게 명하기를 예루살렘 이 단 앞에서만 숭배하라 하지 아니하였느냐 하셨나니 23이제 너는 내 주 앗수르 왕과 내기하라 네가 만일 그 말 탈 사람을 낼 수 있다면 나는 네게 말 이천 필을 주리라 24네가 어찌 내 주의 신복 중 지극히 작은 장관 하나인들 물리치며 애굽을 의뢰하고 그 병거와 기병을 얻을듯하냐 25내가 어찌 여호와의 뜻이 아니고야 이제 이곳을 멸하러 올라왔겠느냐 여호와께서 전에 내게 이르시기를 이 땅으로 올라와서 쳐서 멸하라 하셨느니라 26힐기야의 아들 엘리야김과 셉나와 요아가 랍사게에게 이르되 우리가 알아듣겠사오니 청컨대 아람 방언으로 당신의 종들에게 말씀하시고 성 위에 있는 백성의 듣는데 유다 방언으로 우리에게 말씀하지 마옵소서 27랍사게가 저에게 이르되 내 주께서 네 주와 네게만 이 말을 하라고 나를 보내신 것이냐 성 위에 앉은 사람들로도 너희와 함께 자기의 대변을 먹게 하고 자기의 소변을 마시게 하신 것이 아니냐 하고 28랍사게가 드디어 일어서서 유다 방언으로 크게 소리질러 불러 가로되 너희는 대왕 앗수르 왕의 말씀을 들으라 29왕의 말씀이 너희는 히스기야에게 속지 말라 저가 너희를 내 손에서 건져내지 못하리라 30또한 히스기야가 너희로 여호와를 의뢰하라 함을 듣지 말라 저가 이르기를 여호와께서 정녕 우리를 건지실지라 이 성이 앗수르 왕의 손에 함락되지 않게 하시리라 할지라도 31너희는 히스기야의 말을 듣지 말라 앗수르 왕의 말씀이 너희는 내게 항복하고 내게로 나아오라 그리하고 너희는 각각 그 포도와 무화과를 먹고 또한 각각 자기의 우물의 물을 마시라 32내가 장차 와서 너희를 한 지방으로 옮기리니 그곳은 너희 본토와 같은 지방 곧 곡식과 포도주가 있는 지방이요 떡과 포도원이 있는 지방이요 기름 나는 감람과 꿀이 있는 지방이라 너희가 살고 죽지 아니하리라 히스기야가 너희를 면려하여 이르기를 여호와께서 우리를 건지시리라 하여도 듣지 말라 33열국의 신들 중에 그 땅을 앗수르 왕의 손에서 건진 자가 있느냐 34하맛과 아르밧의 신들이 어디 있으며 스발와임과 헤나와 아와의 신들이 어디 있느냐 그들이 사마리아를 내 손에서 건졌느냐 35열국의 모든 신 중에 누가 그 땅을 내 손에서 건졌기에 여호와가 예루살렘을 내 손에서 능히 건지겠느냐 하셨느니라 36그러나 백성이 잠잠하고 한 말도 대답지 아니하니 이는 왕이 명하여 대답하지 말라 하였음이라 37이에 힐기야의 아들 궁내대신 엘리야김과 서기관 셉나와 아삽의 아들 사관 요아가 그 옷을 찢고 히스기야에게 나아가서 랍사게의 말을 고하니라

1Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 4He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 5He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6For he joined with Yahweh; he didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses. 7Yahweh was with him; wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him. 8He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. 9In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12because they didn’t obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. 13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 14Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house. 16At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. 18When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 19Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust? 20You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 21Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him. 22But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’ 23Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 24How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’” 26Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 27But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?” 28Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. 29Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. 30Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 31Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; 32until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” 33Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’” 36But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.” 37Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

1Het geschiedde nu in het derde jaar van Hosea, den zoon van Ela, den koning van Israel, dat Hizkia koning werd, de zoon van Achaz, koning van Juda. 2Vijf en twintig jaren was hij oud, toen hij koning werd, en hij regeerde negen en twintig jaren te Jeruzalem, en de naam zijner moeder was Abi, een dochter van Zacharia. 3En hij deed dat recht was in de ogen des HEEREN, naar alles, wat zijn vader David gedaan had. 4Hij nam de hoogten weg, en brak de opgerichte beelden, en roeide de bossen uit; en hij verbrijzelde de koperen slang, die Mozes gemaakt had, omdat de kinderen Israels tot die dagen toe haar gerookt hadden; en hij noemde haar Nehustan. 5Hij betrouwde op den HEERE, den God Israels, zodat na hem zijns gelijke niet was onder alle koningen van Juda, noch die voor hem geweest waren. 6Want hij kleefde den HEERE aan; hij week niet van Hem na te volgen, en hij hield Zijn geboden, die de HEERE aan Mozes geboden had. 7Zo was de HEERE met hem; overal, waar hij henen uittrok, handelde hij kloekelijk; daartoe viel hij af van den koning van Assyrie, dat hij hem niet diende. 8Hij sloeg de Filistijnen tot Gaza toe, en haar landpalen, van den wachttoren af tot de vaste steden toe. 9Het geschiedde nu in het vierde jaar van den koning Hizkia (hetwelk was het zevende jaar van Hosea, den zoon van Ela, den koning van Israel) dat Salmaneser, de koning van Assyrie, opkwam tegen Samaria, en haar belegerde. 10En zij namen haar in ten einde van drie jaren, in het zesde jaar van Hizkia; het was het negende jaar van Hosea, den koning van Israel, als Samaria ingenomen werd. 11En de koning van Assyrie voerde Israel weg naar Assyrie, en deed hen leiden in Halah, en in Habor, bij de rivier Gozan, en in de steden der Meden. 12Daarom dat zij de stem des HEEREN, huns Gods, niet waren gehoorzaam geweest, maar Zijn verbond overtreden hadden; en al wat Mozes, de knecht des HEEREN, geboden had, dat hadden zij niet gehoord, noch gedaan. 13Maar in het veertiende jaar van den koning Hizkia kwam Sanherib, de koning van Assyrie, op tegen alle vaste steden van Juda, en nam ze in. 14Toen zond Hizkia, de koning van Juda, tot den koning van Assyrie, naar Lachis, zeggende: Ik heb gezondigd, keer af van mij, wat gij mij opleggen zult, zal ik dragen. Toen legde de koning van Assyrie Hizkia, den koning van Juda, driehonderd talenten zilvers, en dertig talenten gouds op. 15Alzo gaf Hizkia al het zilver, dat gevonden werd in het huis des HEEREN, en in de schatten van het huis des konings. 16Te dier tijd sneed Hizkia het goud af van de deuren van den tempel des HEEREN, en van de posten, die Hizkia, de koning van Juda, had laten overtrekken, en gaf dat aan de koning van Assyrie. 17Evenwel zond de koning van Assyrie Tartan, en Rabsaris, en Rabsake, van Lachis tot den koning Hizkia, met een zwaar heir naar Jeruzalem; en zij togen op, en kwamen naar Jeruzalem. En als zij optogen en gekomen waren, bleven zij staan bij den watergang des oppersten vijvers, welke is bij den hogen weg van het veld des vollers. 18En zij riepen tot den koning; zo ging tot hen uit Eljakim, de zoon van Hilkia, de hofmeester, en Sebna, de schrijver, en Joah, de zoon van Asaf, de kanselier. 19En Rabsake zeide tot hen: Zegt nu tot Hizkia: Zo zegt de grote koning, de koning van Assyrie: Wat vertrouwen is dit, waarmede gij vertrouwt? 20Gij zegt (doch het is een woord der lippen): Er is raad en macht tot den oorlog; op wien vertrouwt gij nu, dat gij tegen mij rebelleert? 21Zie nu, vertrouwt gij u op dien gebroken rietstaf, op Egypte, op denwelken zo iemand leunt, zo zal hij in zijn hand gaan, en die doorboren; alzo is Farao, de koning van Egypte, al dengenen, die op hem vertrouwen. 22Maar zo gij tot mij zegt: Wij vertrouwen op den HEERE, onzen God; is Hij die niet, Wiens hoogten en Wiens altaren Hizkia weggenomen heeft, en tot Juda en tot Jeruzalem gezegd heeft: Voor dit altaar zult gij u buigen te Jeruzalem? 23Nu dan, wed toch met mijn heer, den koning van Assyrie; en ik zal u twee duizend paarden geven, zo gij voor u de ruiters daarop zult kunnen geven. 24Hoe zoudt gij dan het aangezicht van een enigen vorst van de geringste knechten mijns heren afkeren? Maar gij vertrouwt op Egypte, om de wagenen en om de ruiteren. 25Nu, ben ik zonder den HEERE opgetogen tegen deze plaats, om die te verderven? De HEERE heeft tot mij gezegd: Trek op tegen dat land, en verderf het. 26Toen zeide Eljakim, de zoon van Hilkia, en Sebna, en Joah tot Rabsake: Spreek toch tot uw knechten in het Syrisch, want wij verstaan het wel; en spreek met ons niet in het Joods, voor de oren des volks, dat op den muur is. 27Maar Rabsake zeide tot hen: Heeft mijn heer mij tot uw heer en tot u gezonden, om deze woorden te spreken? Is het niet tot de mannen, die op den muur zitten, dat zij met ulieden hun drek eten, en hun water drinken zullen? 28Alzo stond Rabsake, en riep met luider stem in het Joods; en hij sprak en zeide: Hoort het woord des groten konings, des konings van Assyrie! 29Zo zegt de koning: Dat Hizkia u niet bedriege: want hij zal u niet kunnen redden uit zijn hand. 30Daartoe dat Hizkia u niet doe vertrouwen op den HEERE, zeggende: De HEERE zal ons zekerlijk redden, en deze stad zal niet in de hand van den koning van Assyrie gegeven worden. 31Hoort naar Hizkia niet; want zo zegt de koning van Assyrie: Handelt met mij door een geschenk, en komt tot mij uit, en eet, een ieder van zijn wijnstok, en een ieder van zijn vijgeboom; en drinkt een ieder het water zijns bornputs; 32Totdat ik kom, en u haal in een land, als ulieder land, een land van koren en van most, een land van brood en van wijngaarden, een land van olijven, van olie en van honig; zo zult gij leven en niet sterven; en hoort niet naar Hizkia, want hij hitst u op, zeggende: De HEERE zal ons redden. 33Hebben de goden der volken, ieder zijn land, enigszins gered uit de hand van den koning van Assyrie? 34Waar zijn de goden van Hamath, en van Arpad? Waar zijn de goden van Sefarvaim, Hena en Ivva? Ja, hebben zij Samaria uit mijn hand gered? 35Welke zijn ze onder alle goden der landen, die hun land uit mijn hand gered hebben, dat de HEERE Jeruzalem uit mijn hand redden zou? 36Doch het volk zweeg stil en antwoordde hem niet een woord; want het gebod des konings was, zeggende: Gij zult hem niet antwoorden. 37Toen kwam Eljakim, de zoon van Hilkia, de hofmeester, en Sebna, de schrijver, en Joah, de zoon van Asaf, de kanselier, tot Hizkia, met gescheurde klederen; en zij gaven hem de woorden van Rabsake te kennen.