2 Reis 10

1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying, 2 "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor, 3 select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house."

4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?" 5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes."

6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time."

Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. 7 When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel. 8 A messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king’s sons."

He said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning." 9 In the morning, he went out and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? 10 Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."

11 So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.

12 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way, 13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?"

They answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen."

14 He said, "Take them alive!"

They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them.

15 When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?"

Jehonadab answered, "It is."

"If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 16 He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot. 17 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed them, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Elijah.

18 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much. 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live." But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

20 Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!"

So they proclaimed it. 21 Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another. 22 He said to him who kept the wardrobe, "Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!"

So he brought robes out to them. 23 Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal."

24 So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him."

25 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in and kill them! Let no one escape." So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal. 26 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal and burned them. 27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

29 However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin—the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan. 30 Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation."

31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

32 In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel 33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 35 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. 36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

Te Tārukenga o ngā Tama a Āhapa

1 Nā, e whitu tekau ngā tama a Āhapa i Hamaria. Nā, ka tuhituhi pukapuka a Iehu, ā, ungā ana e ia kia kawea ki Hamaria ki ngā rangatira o Ietereere, arā ki ngā kaumātua, ā, ki ngā tāngata nāna i atawhai ngā tama a Āhapa. I mea ia, 2 "Nā āianei, i te taenga atu anō o tēnei pukapuka ki a koutou, i te mea kei a koutou nā ngā tama a tō tātou ariki, ā, kei a koutou ngā hāriata me ngā hōiho, me te pā kua oti te taiepa, me ngā mea whawhai; 3 tirohia e koutou te tangata pai, te tangata tika rawa o ngā tama a tō koutou ariki, ka whakanoho i a ia ki te torōna o tōna pāpā, ka whawhai mō te whare o tō koutou ariki."

4 Otiia i tino nui tō rātou wehi, i mea hoki, "Nanā, kīhai ngā kīngi tokorua rā i tū ki tōna aroaro; nā, me pēhea tātou ka tū ai?"

5 Nā, ka unga tāngata te rangatira o te whare, me te rangatira o te pā, ngā kaumātua hoki, me te hunga nāna i atawhai ngā tamariki, ki a Iehu, hei mea, "Ko mātou āu pononga, ā, ka meinga e mātou ngā mea katoa e whakahaua mai e koe. E kore mātou e whakakīngi i tētahi; māu e mea tā tōu kanohi i whakapai ai."

6 Nā, ka tuhituhi pukapuka anō ia ki a rātou, ka mea, "Ki te mea kei ahau koutou, ā, ka rongo koutou ki tōku reo, tangohia ngā upoko o aua tāngata, o ngā tama a tō koutou ariki, ka haere mai ki ahau ki Ietereere i tēnei takiwā āpōpō."

Nā, ko ngā tama a te kīngi, ko tōna whitu tekau tāngata, i ngā tāngata nunui o te pā, nāna rā rātou i whakatuputupu. 7 Nā, i te taenga o taua pukapuka ki a rātou, ka mau rātou ki ngā tama a te kīngi, ā, patua iho, arā te whitu tekau tāngata, whaowhina ana ō rātou upoko ki te kete, ā, tukua ana rātou ki a ia ki Ietereere. 8 Nā, ka tae mai tētahi karere, ka kōrero ki a ia, "Kua kawea mai e rātou ngā upoko o ngā tama a te kīngi."

Anō rā ko ia, "Whakatakotoria kia rua ngā pūranga i te tomokanga o te kūwaha, ā te ata rā anō."

9 Nā, i te ata ka puta ia ki waho, ka tū, ka kōrero ki te iwi katoa, "He tika koutou. Nanā, i whakatupu ahau i te hē mō tōku ariki, ā, patua iho ia e ahau; engari, nā wai ēnei katoa i whakamate? 10 Nā, kia mōhio, e kore e taka ki te whenua tētahi wāhi o te kupu a Ihowā, i kōrero ai a Ihowā mō te whare o Āhapa; kua tutuki hoki i a Ihowā tāna i kōrero ai, nā tāna pononga nā Irāia." 11 Heoi, patua ana e Iehu ngā mōrehu katoa o te whare o Āhapa i Ietereere, āna tāngata rarahi, ōna hoa i matatau ai ia, me āna tohunga; ā, kore noa iho tētahi mōrehu ōna i waiho e ia.

Ka Patua ngā Whanaunga o Kīngi Ahatia

12 Nā, whakatika ana ia, tūria atu ana, ā, haere ana ki Hamaria. Ā, i a ia i te whare kutikuti o ngā hēpara i te ara, 13 ka tūtaki a Iehu ki ngā tēina o Ahatia kīngi o Hūrā, ā, ka mea, "Ko wai koutou?"

Anō rā ko rātou, "He tēina mātou nō Ahatia; ā, e haere ana mātou ki raro, ki te oha ki ngā tama a te kīngi, ki ngā tama hoki a te kuīni."

14 Anō rā ko ia, "Hopukia oratia rātou." Nā, hopukia oratia ana e rātou, ā, patua iho ki te rua i te whare kutikuti hipi, tōna whā tekau mā rua tāngata; kīhai hoki tētahi o rātou i waiho e ia.

Ka Patua ngā Whanaunga i Toenga o Āhapa

15 Nā, i tōna haerenga atu i reira, ka tūpono ia ki a Ionārapa, ki te tama a Rekapa, e haere ana mai ki te whakatau i a ia; heoi ka oha ki a ia, ka mea ki a ia, "Kei te tika rānei tōu ngākau, kei te rite rānei ki tōku ngākau e mea nei ki tōu ngākau?"

Anō rā ko Ionārapa, "Kei te pēnā."

"Ki te mea ko te tikanga tēnā, hōmai tōu ringa ki ahau." Nā, hoatu ana e ia tōna ringa; ā, ka meinga e tērā kia eke ki a ia ki runga ki te hāriata. 16 Nā, ka mea tērā, "Haere mai tāua, kia kite ai koe i tōku ngākau nui ki a Ihowā." Heoi, ka meinga ia kia rere i runga i tōna hāriata.

17 Ā, i tōna taenga ki Hamaria, patua iho e ia te hunga katoa o Āhapa i mahue ki Hamaria, ā poto noa ia i a ia; pērātia ana me tā Ihowā kupu i kōrero ai ki a Irāia.

Ka Whakamatea ngā Kaikoropiko o Paara

18 Nā, ka huihuia te iwi katoa e Iehu, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "He iti tā Āhapa mahi ki a Paara; ka nui atu ia tā Iehu mahi ki a ia. 19 Nā, karangatia āianei ki ahau ngā poropiti katoa a Paara, āna tāngata katoa, me āna tohunga katoa; kei ngaro tētahi; he whakahere nui hoki tāku ki a Paara; ko te tangata e ngaro atu ana, e kore e ora." Otiia he mahi mūrere tā Iehu, kia whakangaromia ai e ia ngā tāngata a Paara.

20 Nā, ka mea a Iehu, "Whakatapua he huihui nui ki a Paara." Nā, karangatia ana e rātou. 21 Nā, ka unga tāngata a Iehu puta noa i a Īharaira; ā, haere katoa mai ana ngā tāngata a Paara, kīhai tētahi tangata i mahue, i kore te haere mai. Nā, haere ana rātou ki te whare o Paara, ā, kikī ana te whare o Paara i tētahi pito ki tētahi. 22 Nā, ka mea atu ia ki te kaitiaki kākahu, "Mauria mai he kākahu mō ngā tāngata katoa a Paara." Nā, mauria ana mai e ia he kākahu mō rātou.

23 Nā, haere ana a Iehu rāua ko Ionārapa tama a Rekapa ki te whare o Paara; ā, ka mea atu ia ki ngā tāngata a Paara, "Rapua, tirohia, kei noho ki konei ki a koutou tētahi o ngā tāngata a Ihowā, engari ko ngā tāngata anake a Paara." 24 Nā, haere ana rātou ki te mea i ngā whakahere, i ngā tahunga tinana. Nā, tērā kua whakaritea e Iehu ki waho ētahi tāngata māna, e waru tekau, ā, i mea ia, "Ki te puta tētahi o ngā tāngata i kawea mai nei e ahau ki ō koutou ringa, ko te tangata nāna ia i tuku, ko tōna matenga hei utu mō tō tērā matenga."

25 Nā, i te mutunga o tāna whakahere i te tahunga tinana, ka mea a Iehu ki ngā kaitiaki rātou ko ngā rangatira: "Haere ki roto, patua rātou; kei puta tētahi ki waho." Nā, patua iho e rātou ki te mata o te hoari; ā, makā ana rātou e ngā kaitiaki rātou ko ngā rangatira ki waho, ā, haere ana rātou ki te pā o te whare o Paara. 26 Nā, whakaputaina ana e rātou ngā whakapakoko o te whare o Paara, ā, tahuna ana ki te ahi. 27 I wāhia hoki e rātou te whakapakoko o Paara, i wāhia anō te whare o Paara, ā, meinga ana hei whare paru tae noa ki tēnei rā.

28 Ko te whakamōtītanga tēnei a Iehu i a Paara i roto i a Īharaira. 29 Ko ngā hara ia o Ieropoama tama a Nēpata i hara ai a Īharaira, kīhai ērā i mahue i a Iehu te whai, arā ngā kūao kau kōura i Pētēre, i Rāna.

30 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Iehu, "Kua pai nei tāu, kua mahia e koe te tika ki tōku aroaro, ā, kua meatia e koe ki te whare o Āhapa rite tonu ki ngā mea katoa i tōku ngākau, nā, e whā ngā whakatupuranga o āu tama e noho ki te torōna o Īharaira."

31 Otiia kīhai a Iehu i aro nui ki te haere i runga i te ture a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira, kīhai i mahue i a ia ngā hara o Ieropoama i hara ai a Īharaira.

Te Matenga o Iehu

32 I aua rā ka tīmata a Ihowā te tapahi i ngā taha o Īharaira; i patua hoki rātou e Hataere i ngā rohe katoa o Īharaira: 33 i Horano atu whaka te rāwhiti, ko te whenua katoa o Kireara, ko ngā Kari, ko ngā Reupeni, ko ngā Mānahi; i Aroere atu, i te awa o Aranona, arā a Kireara, a Pahana.

34 Nā, ko ērā atu meatanga a Iehu me āna mahi katoa, me āna mahi toa katoa, kāhore ianei i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka o ngā meatanga o Ngā Rā o Ngā Kīngi o Īharaira?

35 Nā, ka moe a Iehu ki ōna mātua, ā, tanumia iho ki Hamaria. Ā, ko tāna tama, ko Iehoahata te kīngi i muri i a ia. 36 Ā, ko ngā rā i kīngi ai a Iehu ki a Īharaira i Hamaria e rua tekau mā waru ngā tau.