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Ezequias reina em Judá

18 Ezequias, filho de Acaz, começou a reinar em Judá no terceiro ano do reinado de Oseias, filho de Elá, rei de Israel. 2 Tinha 25 anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou em Jerusalém por 29 anos. Sua mãe se chamava Abi e era filha de Zacarias. 3 Ezequias fez o que era certo aos olhos do Senhor, como seu antepassado Davi. 4 Removeu os santuários idólatras, quebrou as colunas sagradas e derrubou os postes de Aserá. Despedaçou a serpente de bronze que Moisés havia feito, pois os israelitas queimavam incenso para ela. A serpente de bronze se chamava Neustã.[a]

5 Ezequias confiava no Senhor, o Deus de Israel. Não houve ninguém como ele entre todos os reis de Judá, nem antes nem depois. 6 Ezequias se apegou ao Senhor, não se afastou dele e teve o cuidado de obedecer a todos os mandamentos que o Senhor tinha ordenado por meio de Moisés. 7 Assim, o Senhor estava com Ezequias, e ele era bem-sucedido em tudo que fazia. Rebelou-se contra o rei da Assíria e não lhe pagou tributo. 8 Derrotou os filisteus até Gaza e seu território, desde o menor posto de vigilância até a maior cidade fortificada.

9 No quarto ano do reinado de Ezequias, o sétimo ano do reinado de Oseias, filho de Elá, rei de Israel, Salmaneser, rei da Assíria, atacou a cidade de Samaria e a cercou. 10 Três anos depois, no sexto ano do reinado de Ezequias e no nono ano do reinado de Oseias, rei de Israel, Samaria foi conquistada. 11 O rei assírio deportou os israelitas para a Assíria e os colocou em assentamentos em Hala, ao longo das margens do rio Habor, em Gozã, e nas cidades da Média. 12 Isso aconteceu porque eles não ouviram nem obedeceram ao Senhor, seu Deus. Em vez disso, violaram sua aliança, todas as leis às quais Moisés, servo do Senhor, havia ordenado que obedecessem.

A Assíria invade Judá

13 No décimo quarto ano do reinado de Ezequias, Senaqueribe, rei da Assíria, atacou as cidades fortificadas de Judá e as conquistou. 14 Ezequias, rei de Judá, enviou esta mensagem ao rei da Assíria, em Laquis: “Cometi um erro. Se você se retirar, eu lhe pagarei qualquer tributo que exigir”. O rei da Assíria exigiu 10.500 quilos de prata e 1.050 quilos de ouro.[b] 15 Para juntar essa quantia, Ezequias usou toda a prata guardada no templo do Senhor e nos tesouros do palácio. 16 Arrancou até o ouro das portas e dos batentes do templo do Senhor que ele havia coberto com ouro e entregou tudo ao rei da Assíria.

Senaqueribe ameaça Jerusalém

17 Apesar disso, o rei da Assíria enviou, de Laquis, seu comandante em chefe, seu comandante de campo e seu porta-voz,[c] juntamente com um grande exército, para confrontarem o rei Ezequias em Jerusalém. Os assírios se posicionaram ao lado do aqueduto que abastece o tanque superior, perto do caminho para o campo onde se lava[d] roupa. 18 Mandaram chamar o rei Ezequias, mas ele enviou os seguintes oficiais ao encontro deles: Eliaquim, filho de Hilquias, o administrador do palácio; Sebna, o secretário da corte; e Joá, filho de Asafe, o historiador do reino.

19 O porta-voz do rei assírio mandou que transmitissem esta mensagem a Ezequias:

“Assim diz o grande rei da Assíria: Em que você confia, que lhe dá tanta segurança? 20 Pensa que meras palavras podem substituir experiência e força militar? Com quem você conta para se rebelar contra mim? 21 Com o Egito? Se você se apoiar no Egito, ele será como um junco que se quebra sob seu peso e perfura sua mão. O faraó, rei do Egito, não é digno de nenhuma confiança!

22 “Talvez vocês digam: ‘Confiamos no Senhor, nosso Deus!’. Mas não foi a ele que Ezequias insultou? Ezequias não destruiu os santuários e altares dele e obrigou todos em Judá e Jerusalém a adorarem somente no altar em Jerusalém?

23 “Vou lhes dizer uma coisa: Façam um acordo com meu senhor, o rei da Assíria. Eu lhes darei dois mil cavalos se forem capazes de encontrar homens em número suficiente para montá-los! 24 Com seu exército minúsculo, como podem pensar em desafiar até o contingente mais fraco do exército de meu senhor, mesmo com a ajuda dos carros de guerra e dos cavaleiros do Egito? 25 Além disso, imaginam que invadimos sua terra sem a direção do Senhor? Foi o próprio Senhor que nos disse: ‘Ataquem essa terra e destruam-na!’”.

26 Então Eliaquim, filho de Hilquias, Sebna e Joá disseram ao porta-voz: “Por favor, fale conosco em aramaico, pois entendemos bem essa língua. Não fale em hebraico,[e] pois o povo sobre o muro o ouvirá”.

27 O porta-voz, no entanto, respondeu: “Vocês pensam que meu senhor enviou essa mensagem apenas para vocês e para seu senhor? Ele quer que todo o povo a ouça, pois, quando cercarmos esta cidade, eles sofrerão junto com vocês. Ficarão tão famintos e sedentos que comerão as próprias fezes e beberão a própria urina!”.

28 Então o porta-voz se levantou e gritou em hebraico: “Ouçam esta mensagem do grande rei da Assíria! 29 Assim diz o rei: Não deixem que Ezequias os engane. Ele jamais será capaz de livrá-los de meu poder. 30 Não deixem que ele os convença a confiar no Senhor, dizendo: ‘Certamente o Senhor nos livrará; esta cidade jamais cairá nas mãos do rei da Assíria!’.

31 “Não deem ouvidos a Ezequias! Estas são as condições que o rei da Assíria oferece: Façam as pazes comigo, abram as portas e saiam. Então, cada um de vocês continuará a comer de sua própria videira e de sua própria figueira e a beber de seu próprio poço. 32 Depois, providenciarei que sejam levados a outra terra como esta, uma terra com cereais e vinho novo, com pão e vinhedos, com olivais e mel. Escolham a vida, e não a morte!

“Não deem ouvidos a Ezequias quando ele tentar enganá-los, dizendo: ‘O Senhor nos livrará!’. 33 Acaso os deuses de alguma outra nação livraram seu povo do rei da Assíria? 34 O que aconteceu aos deuses de Hamate e de Arpade? E quanto aos deuses de Sefarvaim, de Hena e de Iva? Acaso algum deus livrou Samaria de meu poder? 35 Qual dos deuses de qualquer nação foi capaz de livrar seu povo de meu poder? O que os faz pensar que o Senhor pode livrar Jerusalém de minhas mãos?”.

36 Mas o povo permaneceu em silêncio e não disse uma palavra sequer, pois Ezequias havia ordenado: “Não lhe respondam”.

37 Então Eliaquim, filho de Hilquias, administrador do palácio, Sebna, secretário da corte, e Joá, filho de Asafe, historiador do reino, voltaram a Ezequias. Rasgaram suas roupas e foram contar ao rei o que o porta-voz tinha dito.

Footnotes

  1. 18.4 O som da palavra Neustã é semelhante ao de termos hebraicos que significam “serpente”, “bronze” e “coisa impura”.
  2. 18.14 Em hebraico, 300 talentos de prata e 30 talentos de ouro.
  3. 18.17a Ou o rabsaqué; também em 18.19,26,27,28,37.
  4. 18.17b Ou onde se branqueia.
  5. 18.26 Em hebraico, no dialeto de Judá; também em 18.28.
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Hezekiah Reigns in Judah

18 (A)In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, (B)Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was (C)twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was (D)Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 (E)And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. 4 (F)He removed the high places and broke the (G)pillars and cut down (H)the Asherah. And he broke in pieces (I)the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).[a] 5 (J)He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, (K)so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him. 6 (L)For he held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses. 7 (M)And the Lord was with him; wherever he went out, (N)he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. 8 (O)He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, (P)from watchtower to fortified city.

9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, (Q)Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, 10 and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in (R)Halah, and on the (S)Habor, (T)the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.

Sennacherib Attacks Judah

13 (U)In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” (V)And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[b] of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah (W)gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house. 16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17 And the king of Assyria sent the (X)Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by (Y)the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field. 18 And when they called for the king, there came out to them (Z)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and (AA)Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

19 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 20 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 21 Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of (AB)a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 22 But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord our God,” is it not he (AC)whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”? 23 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 24 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”

26 Then (AD)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and (AE)Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in (AF)Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”

28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my[c] hand. 30 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ 31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me[d] and come out to me. Then (AG)each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, (AH)a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and (AI)honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us.” 33 (AJ)Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 (AK)Where are the gods of (AL)Hamath and (AM)Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and (AN)Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, (AO)that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

36 But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, “Do not answer him.” 37 Then (AP)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah (AQ)with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and serpent
  2. 2 Kings 18:14 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
  3. 2 Kings 18:29 Hebrew his
  4. 2 Kings 18:31 Hebrew Make a blessing with me
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Hezekiah Reigns in Judah(A)

18 Now it came to pass in the third year of (B)Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that (C)Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was (D)Abi[a] the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.

4 (E)He removed the [b]high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the [c]wooden image and broke in pieces the (F)bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it [d]Nehushtan. 5 He (G)trusted in the Lord God of Israel, (H)so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. 6 For he (I)held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses. 7 The Lord (J)was with him; he (K)prospered wherever he went. And he (L)rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. 8 (M)He [e]subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory, (N)from watchtower to fortified city.

9 Now (O)it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the 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. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, (P)the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 (Q)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them (R)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they (S)did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do them.

13 And (T)in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay.” And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 So Hezekiah (U)gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave [f]it to the king of Assyria.

Sennacherib Boasts Against the Lord(V)

17 Then the king of Assyria sent the [g]Tartan, the [h]Rabsaris, and the [i]Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the (W)aqueduct from the upper pool, (X)which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. 18 And when they had called to the king, (Y)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the [j]scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. 19 Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: (Z)“What confidence is this in which you trust? 20 You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are [k]mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? 21 (AA)Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He (AB)whose [l]high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’ 23 Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them! 24 How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25 Have 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 (AC)Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in (AD)Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in [m]Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”

28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in [n]Hebrew, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 Thus says the king: (AE)‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; 30 nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’ 31 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me [o]by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own (AF)vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, (AG)a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The Lord will deliver us.” 33 (AH)Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of (AI)Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and (AJ)Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, (AK)that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”

36 But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.” 37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah (AL)with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:2 Abijah, 2 Chr. 29:1ff.
  2. 2 Kings 18:4 Places for pagan worship
  3. 2 Kings 18:4 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
  4. 2 Kings 18:4 Lit. Bronze Thing, also similar to Heb. nahash, serpent
  5. 2 Kings 18:8 Lit. struck
  6. 2 Kings 18:16 Lit. them
  7. 2 Kings 18:17 A title, probably Commander in Chief
  8. 2 Kings 18:17 A title, probably Chief Officer
  9. 2 Kings 18:17 A title, probably Chief of Staff or Governor
  10. 2 Kings 18:18 secretary
  11. 2 Kings 18:20 Lit. a word of the lips
  12. 2 Kings 18:22 Places for pagan worship
  13. 2 Kings 18:26 Lit. Judean
  14. 2 Kings 18:28 Lit. Judean
  15. 2 Kings 18:31 By paying tribute
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