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Hê-sakia Cỡt Puo Yuda

¹Tâng cumo pái Hô-sê con samiang E-lah cỡt puo cruang I-sarel, bữn Hê-sakia con samiang puo Ahat chỗn cỡt puo cruang Yuda. ²Hê-sakia chỗn cỡt puo cruang Yuda bo án bar chít la sỡng cumo; án cỡt sốt tâng vil Yaru-salem bar chít takêh cumo. Mpiq án ramứh Abi, con mansễm Sa-chari. ³Án táq máh ranáq pĩeiq choâng moat Yiang Sursĩ, machớng puo Davĩt achúc achiac án khoiq táq. ⁴Án talốh táh máh ntốq noau cucốh sang yiang canŏ́h; án pieih máh tamáu khớt cớp poâiq táh nheq tanũl noau dốq sang yiang Asê-ra. Án pieih talốh nheq rup cusân Môi-se khoiq tooc toâq sapoan; rup ki noau dŏq ramứh Nê-hutan. Yuaq máh cũai proai I-sarel noâng chŏ́ng crơng phuom dŏq chiau sang rup cusân ki toau toâq dỡi ki.
⁵Hê-sakia sa‑âm Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu cũai I-sarel, nheq rangứh rahỡ. Máh puo cruang Yuda tỡ bữn puo aléq ma ariang án, dếh cũai puo nhũang tỡ la ntun án. ⁶Án puai cớp trĩh Yiang Sursĩ samoât samơi lứq, cớp án yống pacái lứq dũ ŏ́c Yiang Sursĩ khoiq patâp na Môi-se. ⁷Yiang Sursĩ ỡt níc cớp án; ngkíq dũ ranáq án táq cỡt moâm nheq. Án táq choac chóq puo Asi-ria cớp tỡ bữn pruam noâng táq ranáq puo ki. ⁸Án chíl riap vil cớt cớp vil toâr tỗp Phi-li-tin, toau toâq pỡ vil toâr Casa, cớp máh vil ỡt mpễr ki. ⁹Tâng cumo pỗn Hê-sakia cỡt puo cruang Yuda, bữn Hô-sê con samiang E-lah cỡt puo tâng cruang I-sarel tapul cumo chơ. Ma Sal-mana-sê puo Asi-ria toâq chíl cruang I-sarel, cớp tỗp tahan án ỡt crŏ́q lavíng dŏq vil Sa-mari. ¹⁰Vớt pái cumo, ki nŏ́q tỗp alới sarbữn cớp bữn vil Sa-mari. Ranáq nâi cỡt tâng cumo tapoât Hê-sakia cỡt puo, ma tâng cumo takêh Hô-sê cỡt puo I-sarel. ¹¹Puo Asi-ria cỗp máh cũai proai I-sarel dững chu cruang Asi-ria. Án yỗn muoi tỗp ỡt tâng vil Hala, muoi tỗp ỡt tâng cruang Cô-san cheq crỗng Habor, cớp muoi tỗp ễn ỡt tâng máh vil tâng cruang Mê-dia. ¹²Vil Sa-mari cỡt ralốh la cỗ tian cũai I-sarel tỡ bữn trĩh santoiq Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu alới. Ma alới táh máh ŏ́c parkhán Yiang Sursĩ khoiq yỗn tỗp alới na Môi-se, la cũai táq ranáq Yiang Sursĩ. Alới tỡ bữn tamứng cớp tỡ bữn trĩh án.

Tỗp Asi-ria Padâm Máh Cũai Tâng Vil Yaru-salem

¹³Tâng cumo muoi chít la pỗn Hê-sakia cỡt puo cruang Yuda, Sê-naca-rip puo Asi-ria toâq chíl máh vil cũai Yuda bữn viang khâm, cớp án cheng bữn máh vil ki. ¹⁴Puo Hê-sakia cơiq parnai yỗn puo Sê-naca-rip ỡt tâng vil Lakit, bữn santoiq neq: “Cứq khoiq táq lôih; sễq anhia carlũn aloŏh nheq máh tahan anhia, cớp máh léq anhia ễ bữn la cứq yỗn.”
Puo Sê-naca-rip ta‑ỡi loah án neq: “Puo Hê-sakia ơi! Cứq ễ bữn práq muoi chít tân, cớp yễng muoi tân tễ mới.”
¹⁵Chơ puo Hê-sakia ĩt máh práq tễ Dống Sang Toâr cớp tễ dống puo cơiq yỗn án. ¹⁶Cớp án pŏ́c ĩt nheq máh yễng tễ santŏ́ng Dống Sang Toâr Yiang Sursĩ. Máh yễng ki án toâp blom tễ nhũang. Chơ án cơiq nheq yỗn puo Asi-ria.
¹⁷Chơ án ớn pái náq cũai taniap tahan án dững tahan clứng lứq tễ vil Lakit pỡq chu vil Yaru-salem dŏq ớn puo Hê-sakia cóq chĩuq pê. Án tayứng tâng rana bân ntốq cũai dốq pooh aroâiq, cheq parchong dỡq hoi tễ amống coah pỡng. ¹⁸Chơ tỗp alới arô puo Hê-sakia yỗn toâq ramóh alới. Cớp bữn pái náq ayững atĩ Hê-sakia pỡq ramóh alới; ramứh alới pái náq la neq: E-lia-kim con samiang Hil-kia, cũai táq ranáq tâng dống puo; Sêp-na, cũai ayững atĩ chĩc choâiq yỗn puo; cớp Yũa con samiang Asap, cũai sốt chĩc máh ranáq noau atỡng. ¹⁹Cũai taniap tahan tỗp Asi-ria pai chóq alới pái náq ki neq: “Puo Asi-ria, án ca bữn chớc toâr lứq, yoc ễ dáng ntrớu ca táq yỗn puo Hê-sakia cỡt mứt clŏ́q cớp sabớng? ²⁰Nŏ́q anhia chanchớm láih parnai têq pláih tỗp tahan rêng cớp khễuq nâi tỡ? Anhia chanchớm noau toâp têq rachuai anhia, mŏ anhia lớn-sarlớn chóq cruang Asi-ria? ²¹Sanua anhia ngcuang cruang Ê-yip-tô toâq rachuai anhia. Ma táq ngkíq la ariang anhia yống ralỡng khoiq proam; toâq anhia troaq ralỡng ki, atĩ anhia lứq cỡt sarong. Puo Ê-yip-tô la samoât ngkíq yỗn máh cũai ca poâng án.”
²²Ma cũai ayững atĩ Asi-ria pai tữm ễn neq: “Cŏh lơ anhia ễ atỡng cứq la anhia poâng Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu anhia. Ma puo Hê-sakia khoiq talốh táh máh ntốq sang toam cớp máh prông sang Yiang Sursĩ chơ.⚓ Cớp án khoiq atỡng cũai proai tâng cruang Yuda cớp cũai proai tâng vil Yaru-salem la cóq alới sang toam Yiang Sursĩ tâng prông sang pỡ vil Yaru-salem sâng. ²³Cứq ễ par‑ữq cớp anhia nhơ ramứh puo cũai Asi-ria neq: Cứq ễ yỗn anhia aséh bar ngin lám khân anhia bữn cũai têq ỡt máh aséh ki! ²⁴Lứq samoât anhia tỡ bữn li mŏ cớp cũai bữn chớc cacớt lứq tâng cruang Asi-ria, tam anhia ngcuang cruang Ê-yip-tô cơiq máh sễ aséh rachíl cớp tỗp tahan ỡt aséh. ²⁵Anhia chanchớm Yiang Sursĩ tỡ bữn chuai cứq dŏq chíl cớp talốh cruang anhia tỡ? Ống Yiang Sursĩ toâp ớn cứq toâq chíl cớp talốh nheq cruang anhia.”
²⁶Chơ E-lia-kim, Sêp-na, cớp Yũa atỡng cũai sốt ki neq: “Sễq anhia táq ntỡng toâq parnai Aram chóq hếq, yuaq hếq dáng tê parnai ki. Ma chỗi táq ntỡng toâq parnai Hê-brơ, yuaq dũ náq cũai ỡt tâng pỡng viang vil, alới bữn tamứng tê.”
²⁷Cũai sốt ki ta‑ỡi loah neq: “Tỗp anhia chanchớm puo ớn cứq toâq pỡ nâi dŏq atỡng ống anhia cớp puo anhia sâng tỡ? Lứq tỡ cỡn ngkíq! Cứq atỡng la ễq dếh alới ca tacu tâng pỡng viang vil nâi sâng tê. Yuaq nỡ‑ra tỗp alới lứq cha créq cớp nguaiq ralũm bữm machớng cớp anhia tê.”
²⁸Chơ cũai sốt ki yuor tayứng cớp pai casang toâq parnai Hê-brơ neq: “Cóq anhia tamứng máh parnai puo Asi-ria atỡng anhia. ²⁹Án catoaih anhia chỗi yỗn puo Hê-sakia raphếq rathũ anhia, yuaq puo ki tỡ têq rachuai anhia ntrớu mŏ. ³⁰Chỗi yỗn án radững anhia poâng ống Yiang Sursĩ sâng. Chỗi chanchớm pai Yiang Sursĩ têq chuai amoong anhia; cớp chỗi chanchớm pai Yiang Sursĩ têq catáng máh tahan Asi-ria tỡ yỗn toâq cheng ĩt vil anhia. ³¹Chỗi tamứng santoiq puo Hê-sakia. puo Asi-ria ớn anhia loŏh tễ vil anhia, cớp chĩuq pê. Án ễ yỗn dũ náq anhia bữn cha palâi nho tễ voar nho anhia chóh bữm, cớp bữn cha palâi tarúng tễ nỡm anhia chóh bữm, dếh nguaiq dỡq tễ chữong anhia píq bữm hỡ. ³²Vớt ki án chuaq bữn ntốq yỗn anhia ỡt loâng táng vil tâng muoi cruang canŏ́h ĩn tháng cruang anhia bữm, la ntốq bữn nưong nho dŏq táq blŏ́ng, racáu dŏq táq bễng mi. Tâng cruang ki bữn moang palâi o‑li‑vê, dỡq nsễng o‑li‑vê, cớp dỡq khĩal. Khân anhia trĩh parnai cứq, anhia tỡ bữn cuchĩt, ma anhia bữn tamoong. Chỗi yỗn Hê-sakia raphếq rathũ anhia, cớp chỗi chanchớm pai Yiang Sursĩ têq chuai amoong anhia. ³³Bữn yiang aléq têq chuai cruang alới yỗn vớt tễ puo Asi-ria tỡ? ³⁴Sanua, pỡ léq máh yiang vil Hamat cớp vil Ar-pat ỡt? Cớp nléq yiang vil Sê-phar-vêm, yiang vil Hê-na, cớp yiang vil I-va ỡt? Tễ nhũang tỡ bữn yiang aléq têq rachuai tỗp Sa-mari. ³⁵Máh yiang ki tỡ têq rachuai cruang alới yỗn vớt tễ talang atĩ puo hếq. Khân ngkíq, nŏ́q anhia chanchớm Yiang Sursĩ têq chuai amoong cũai tâng vil Yaru-salem?”
³⁶Ma máh cũai proai ỡt rangiac sâng, tỡ bữn noau ta‑ỡi muoi ŏ́c ntrớu loâng. Yuaq puo Hê-sakia khoiq pai; “Chỗi ta‑ỡi ntrớu án.”
³⁷Chơ E-lia-kim, Sêp-na, cớp Yũa háq tampâc alới bữm cỗ sâng ngua lứq tâng mứt, cớp alới atỡng puo Hê-sakia tễ máh santoiq cũai ayững atĩ puo Asi-ria khoiq pai.

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Hezekiah King of Judah

¹In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. ²He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah⚓ daughter of Zechariah. ³He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done. ⁴He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.⚓ )
⁵Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. ⁶He held fast to the Lord and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses. ⁷And the Lord was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. ⁸From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.
⁹In King Hezekiah’s fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. ¹⁰At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah’s sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. ¹¹The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes. ¹²This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.
¹³In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. ¹⁴So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents⚓ of silver and thirty talents⚓ of gold. ¹⁵So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
¹⁶At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

¹⁷The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. ¹⁸They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.
¹⁹The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
“ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? ²⁰You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? ²¹Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. ²²But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
²³“ ‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! ²⁴How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen⚓ ? ²⁵Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’ ”
²⁶Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
²⁷But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
²⁸Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! ²⁹This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. ³⁰Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
³¹“Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, ³²until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!
“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ ³³Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? ³⁴Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? ³⁵Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
³⁶But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
³⁷Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.