1 Reis 22

1 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2 In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. 3 The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?" 4 He said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?"

Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word."

6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?"

They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."

7 But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?"

8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil."

Jehoshaphat said, "Don’t let the king say so."

9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah."

10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, "Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’" 12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king."

13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good."

14 Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak."

15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?"

He answered him, "Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king."

16 The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?"

17 He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’"

18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

19 Micaiah said, "Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing, and another said another.

21 A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

22 Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’

He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’ 23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you."

24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?"

25 Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to hide yourself."

26 The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son. 27 Say, ‘The king says, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace."’"

28 Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!"

29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes." The king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.

31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel."

32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely that is the king of Israel!" and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out. 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am severely wounded." 35 The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. 36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"

37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 44 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. 47 There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled. 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber. 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not. 50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. 52 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin. 53 He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.

Ka Whakatūpatoria a Ārapa e te Poropiti Mikaia

1 Nā, e toru ō rātou tau e noho ana, ā, kāhore he whawhai a Hīria ki a Īharaira. 2 Nā, i te toru o ngā tau ka haere iho a Iehohāpata kīngi o Hūrā ki raro, ki te kīngi o Īharaira.

3 Nā, ka mea te kīngi o Īharaira ki āna tāngata, "E mōhio ana rānei koutou nō tātou Rāmoto Kireara, ā, e āta noho nei tātou, kāhore e tangohia e tātou i te ringa o te kīngi o Hīria?"

4 Nā, ka mea ia ki a Iehohāpata, "Ka haere rānei koe, tāua ki Rāmoto Kireara ki te whawhai?"

Anō rā ko Iehohāpata ki te kīngi o Īharaira, "Ko ahau, ko koe, tāua tāua; ko tōku iwi, ko tōu iwi, rātou rātou; ko ōku hōiho, ko ōu hōiho, rite tonu." 5 I mea anō a Iehohāpata ki te kīngi o Īharaira, "Tēnā, rapua āianei tētahi kupu i a Ihowā."

6 Kātahi ka huihuia ngā poropiti e te kīngi o Īharaira, e whā rau aua tāngata. Nā, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Me haere rānei ahau ki Rāmoto Kireara ki te whawhai, kauaka rānei?"

Anō rā ko rātou; "Haere; mā te Ariki hoki e hōmai ki te ringa o te kīngi."

7 Nā, ka mea a Iehohāpata, "Kāhore rānei tētahi atu i konei, tētahi poropiti a Ihowā, hei rapunga atu mā tātou?"

8 Anō rā ko te kīngi o Īharaira ki a Iehohāpata, "Tēnei anō tētahi, ko Mikaia tama a Imirā hei rapunga atu mā tātou i tā Ihowā. Otiia, e kino ana ahau ki a ia; kāhore hoki āna poropiti pai mōku; engari he kino."

Nā, ka mea a Iehohāpata, "Kaua e pēnā te kupu a te kīngi."

9 Kātahi te kīngi o Īharaira ka karanga ki tētahi rangatira, ka mea, "Kia hohoro te tiki atu i a Mikaia tama a Imirā."

10 Nā, ka noho te kīngi o Īharaira rāua ko Iehohāpata kīngi o Hūrā, tēnā i runga i tōna torōna, tēnā i runga i tōna torōna, rākai rawa ki ō rāua kākahu, i te wāhi takoto kau i te tomokanga ki te kūwaha o Hamaria; me te poropiti anō ngā poropiti katoa i tō rāua aroaro.

11 Nā, ka meatia e Terekia tama a Kenāna ētahi haona rino māna, ā, ka mea ia, "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: ‘Ka panā ngā Hīriani e koe ki ēnei ā poto noa.’ "

12 Ā, pērā tonu te poropiti a ngā poropiti katoa, i mea rātou, "Haere ki Rāmoto Kireara, kia taea hoki tāu; kua hōmai hoki e Ihowā ki te ringa o te kīngi."

13 Ā, i kōrero te karere i haere ki te karanga i a Mikaia, i mea ki a ia, "Nanā, ko ngā kupu a ngā poropiti ki te kīngi kotahi tonu te māngai mō te pai. Nā, kia rite tāu kupu ki tā tētahi o rātou, kia pai āu kōrero."

14 Nā, ka mea a Mikaia, "E ora ana a Ihowā, inā, ko tā Ihowā e kōrero mai ai ki ahau, ko tāku tēnā e kōrero ai."

15 Ā, nō tōna taenga ki te kīngi, ka mea te kīngi ki a ia, "E Mikaia, me haere rānei mātou ki Rāmoto Kireara ki te whawhai, kaua rānei?"

Anō rā ko tērā ki a ia, "Haere, kia taea hoki tāu; kua hoatu hoki e Ihowā ki te ringa o te kīngi."

16 Nā, ka mea te kīngi ki a ia, "Kia hia ianei āku whakaoati i a koe kia kāti āu e kōrero mai ai ki ahau, ko te mea pono anake, i runga i te ingoa o Ihowā?"

17 Nā, ka kī tērā, "I kite ahau i a Īharaira katoa e marara noa ana i runga i ngā maunga, koia anō kei ngā hipi kāhore nei ō rātou kaitiaki, ā, i mea a Ihowā, ‘Kāhore o ēnei ariki; kia hoki mārie tērā, tērā, ki ō rātou whare.’ "

18 Nā, ka mea te kīngi o Īharaira ki a Iehohāpata, "Kāhore ianei ahau i kī atu ki a koe, e kore e pai tāna poropiti mōku; engari he kino?"

19 Nā, ka kī tērā, "Mō reira whakarongo mai ki te kupu a Ihowā; i kite ahau i a Ihowā e noho ana i runga i tōna torōna, i te mano katoa anō o te rangi e tū ana i tōna taha ki matau, i tōna taha ki mauī. 20 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā, ‘Ko wai hei whakapati i a Āhapa kia haere ai, kia hinga ai ki Rāmoto Kireara?’

"Nā, puta kē tā tēnei kupu, puta kē tā tēnei kupu. 21 Nā, ka puta tētahi wairua, ka tū ki te aroaro o Ihowā, ka mea, ‘Māku ia e whakapati.’

22 "Ā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a ia, ‘Me pēhea?’

"Anō rā ko tērā, ‘Me haere ahau, ā, hei wairua teka ahau i roto i ngā māngai o āna poropiti katoa.’

"Nā, ka mea ia, ‘Māu ia e whakapati, ka taea anō e koe; haere, meatia tāu nā.’

23 "Nā, kua hoatu ināianei e Ihowā he wairua teka ki te māngai o ēnei poropiti katoa āu, ā, kua kino tā Ihowā kōrero mōu."

24 Nā, ka whakatata a Terekia tama a Kenāna, ka papaki i te pāpāringa o Mikaia, ka mea, "I nā hea te haerenga atu o te Wairua o Ihowā i ahau ki a koe kōrero ai?"

25 Anō rā ko Mikaia, "Tērā koe e kite i te rā e haere ai koe ki tētahi rūma i roto rawa piri ai."

26 Nā, ka mea te kīngi o Īharaira, "Kawea atu a Mikaia, whakahokia ki a Amono rangatira o te pā, ki a Ioaha tama a te kīngi; 27 kī atu hoki, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a te kīngi: Hoatu tēnei ki te whare herehere, whāngaia ki te taro o te tangihanga, ki te wai o te tangihanga, kia hoki mai rā anō ahau i runga i te rangimārie.’ "

28 Anō rā ko Mikaia, "Ki te hoki mai koe i runga i te rangimārie, ehara ahau i te kaiwhakapuaki i a Ihowā kōrero." I mea anō ia, "Whakarongo, e ngā iwi, e koutou katoa!"

Te Matenga o Āhapa

29 Heoi, haere ana te kīngi o Īharaira rāua ko Iehohāpata kīngi o Hūrā ki runga, ki Rāmoto Kireara. 30 Nā, ka mea te kīngi o Īharaira ki a Iehohāpata, "Me whakaputa kē tōku āhua, ka haere ki te whawhai; ko koe ia kākahuria ōu kākahu." Nā, whakaputa kē ana te kīngi o Īharaira i tōna āhua, ā, haere ana ki te whawhai.

31 Nā, kua oti i te kīngi o Hīria te whakahau āna rangatira e toru tekau mā rua, ngā kaiwhakahaere o ana hāriata, kua mea, "Kaua e whawhai ki te iti, ki te rahi; engari ki te kīngi anake o Īharaira." 32 Ā, nō te kitenga o ngā rangatira o ngā hāriata i o Iehohāpata, ka mea rātou, "Koia anō tēnei te kīngi o Īharaira." Nā, peka ana rātou ki a ia ki te whawhai ki a ia. Nā, ko te hāmamatanga o Iehohāpata; 33 ā, i te kitenga o ngā rangatira o ngā hāriata ehara ia i te kīngi o Īharaira, hoki ana rātou i te whai i a ia.

34 Nā, ka kūmea te kōpere e tētahi tangata, he mea noa iho, tū tonu te kīngi o Īharaira i waenga pū o te hononga iho o te pukupuku. Nā, ka mea ia ki te kaiarataki o tana hāriata, "Tahuri tōu ringa; kawea atu ahau i roto i te ope; kua tū hoki ahau, he tū kino."

35 Nā, ka rahi haere te whawhai i taua rā; ā, he mea pupuri ake te kīngi i runga i te hāriata kia tū tonu atu ai ia ki ngā Hīriani; ā, i te ahiahi ka mate; nā, rere ana ngā toto o te tūnga ki te riu o te hāriata.

36 Nā, ka pā te karanga puta noa i te ope i te mea ka tō te rā; ko te kupu tēnei, "Ki tōna pā, ki tōna whenua, e tērā tangata, e tērā tangata!"

37 Heoi, ka mate te kīngi, ā, ka kawea ki Hamaria, tanumia iho e rātou te kīngi ki Hamaria. 38 Ā, i horoia te hāriata ki te poka wai i Hamaria; ā, mitikia ana ōna toto e ngā kurī; nā, he wāhi horoinga tērā nō ngā wāhine kairau; ko tā Ihowā ia i kōrero ai.

39 Nā, ko ērā atu mahi a Āhapa me ngā mea katoa i mea ai ia, me te whare rei i hangā e ia, me ngā pā katoa i hangā e ia, kāhore ianei i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka o ngā meatanga o Ngā Rā o Ngā Kīngi o Īharaira? 40 Nā, moe ana a Āhapa ki ōna mātua, ā, ko tāna tama, ko Ahatia, te kīngi i muri i a ia.

Ko Kīngi Iehohāpata o Hūrā

41 Nō te whā o ngā tau o Āhapa kīngi o Īharaira i kīngi ai a Iehohāpata tama a Aha ki a Hūrā. 42 E toru tekau mā rima ngā tau o Iehohāpata i tōna kīngitanga, ā, e rua tekau mā rima ngā tau i kīngi ai ia ki Hiruhārama; ko te ingoa hoki o tōna whaea, ko Atupa, he tamāhine nā Hirihi.

43 Ā, i haere ia i ngā ara katoa o tōna pāpā, o Aha; kīhai i peka kē; i mahi ia i te mea e tika ana ki tā Ihowā titiro. Otiia, kīhai ngā wāhi tiketike i whakakāhoretia; i patu whakahere anō te iwi, i tahu whakakakara ki ngā wāhi tiketike. 44 Ā, i houhia te rongo e Iehohāpata ki te kīngi o Īharaira.

45 Nā, ko ērā atu meatanga a Iehohāpata me āna mahi toa, me āna whawhaitanga, kāhore ianei i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka o ngā meatanga o Ngā Rā o Ngā Kīngi o Hūrā? 46 I whakamōtītia atu anō e ia i te whenua ērā atu o te hunga whakahoroma i mahue nei i ngā rā o tōna pāpā, o Aha.

47 Nā, i taua wā kāhore o Ēroma kīngi; he kāwana te kīngi.

48 Ā, i hangā ētahi kaipuke o Tarahihi e Iehohāpata hei tiki kōura ki Ōpira. Otiia kīhai i rere; i pakaru hoki ngā kaipuke ki Ehiono Kēpere. 49 Kātahi a Ahatia tama a Āhapa ka mea ki a Iehohāpata, "Kia eke tahi āku tāngata me āu tāngata ki runga ki ngā kaipuke." Otiia kīhai a Iehohāpata i pai.

50 Nā, ka moe a Iehohāpata ki ōna mātua, ā, tanumia ana ki ōna mātua ki te pā o tōna tupuna, o Rāwiri; ā, ko tāna tama, ko Iehorama te kīngi i muri i a ia.

Ko Kīngi Ahatia o Īharaira

51 Nō te tekau mā whitu o ngā tau o Iehohāpata kīngi o Hūrā i kīngi ai a Ahatia tama a Āhapa ki a Īharaira i Hamaria; ā, e rua ngā tau i kīngi ai ia ki a Īharaira.

52 Ā, i kino tāna mahi ki te aroaro o Ihowā, i haere hoki i te ara o tōna pāpā, i te ara o tōna whaea, i te ara anō o Ieropoama tama a Nēpata, i hara ai a Īharaira. 53 I mahi hoki ki a Paara, i koropiko ki a ia; i whakapātaritari i a Ihowā, i te Atua o Īharaira; rite tonu tāna ki ngā mea katoa i mea ai tōna pāpā.