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Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν ἔτει τρίτῳ τῷ Ὡσῆε υἱῷ Ἠλὰ βασιλεῖ Ἰσραὴλ
ἐβασίλευσεν Ἐζεκίας υἱὸς Ἀχὰζ βασιλέως Ἰούδα.

υἱὸς εἵκοσι καὶ
πέντε ἐτῶν ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειον αὐτόν, καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ ἐννέα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Ἀβού, θυγάτηρ Ζαχαρίου.

καὶ ἐποίησεν τὸ εὐθὲς ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου κατὰ πάντα
¹²
ὅσα ἐποίησεν Δαυεὶε ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ.

αὐτὸς ἐξῆρεν τὰ ὑψηλά, καὶ ³ συνέτριψεν τὰς στήλας, καὶ ἐξωλέθρευσεν τὰ ἀλση καὶ τὸν ὄφιν τὸν χαλκοῦν ὃν ἐποίησεν Μωυςῆς, ὅτι ἕως τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐκείνων ἦσαν
οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ θυμιῶντες αὐτῷ. καὶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὸν Νεσθαλεί.

ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἢλπισεν, καὶ μετ’αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐγενήθη ὄμοιος αὐτῷ
ἐν βασιλεῦσιν Ἰούδα καὶ ἐν τοῖς γενομένοις ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ.

καὶ ἐκολλήθη τῷ κυρίῳ, οὑκ ἀπέστη ὅπισθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐφύλαξεν τὰς
ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ ὅσας ἐνετείλατο Μωυςῇ.

καὶ ἦν Κύριος μετ’αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν οἶς ἐποίει συνῆκεν. καὶ ἡθέτησεν ἐν τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἀσσυρίων,
καὶ οὐκ ἐδούλευσεν αὐτῷ.

αὐτὸς ἐπάταξεν τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους ἕως Γάξης καὶ ἕως ὁρίου αὐτῆς, ἀπὸ πύργου Φθλασσόντων καὶ ἕως πόλεως ὀχυρᾶς.

καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ τετάρτῳ βασιλεῖ Ἐξεκίᾳ, αὐτὸς ἐνιαυτὸς ὁ ἕβδομος τῷ Ὡσῆε υἱῷ Ἠλὰ βασιλεῖ Ἰσραήλ, ἀνέβη Σαλαμανάσσαρ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων ἐπὶ Σαμάρειαν καὶ ἐπολιόρκει ἐπ’αὐτήν.

καὶ κατελάβετο αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τἐλους τριῶν ἐτῶν ἐν ἔτει ἕκτῳ τῷ Ἑξεκίᾳ, αὐτὸς ἐνιαυτὸς ἔνατος τῷ Ὡσῆε βασιλεῖ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ συνελήμφθη
Σαμάρεια.

καὶ ἀπᾠκισεν βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων τὴν Σαμάρειαν εἰς Ἀσσυρίους, καὶ ἔθηκεν αὐτοὺς ἐν Ἁλάε καὶ ἐν Ἀβιὼρ
ποταμῷ Γωξὰν καὶ Ὀρὴ Μήδων.

ἀνθ’ ὧν ὅτι οὐκ ἤκουσαν τῆς Φωνῆς Κυρίου Θεοῦ αὐτῶν, καὶ παρέβησαν τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ πάντα ὅσα ἐνετείλατο Μωςῆς ὁ δοῦλος Κυρίου, καὶ οὑκ ἥκουσαν καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησαν.

Καὶ τῷ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάῳ ἔτει βασιλεῖ Ἑζεκιοὺ ἀνέβη Σενναχηρεὶμ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις Ἰούδα τὰς ὀχυρὰς καὶ
συνέλαβεν αὐτάς.

καὶ ἀπέστελιεν Ἑζεκίας βασιλεὺς Ἰούδα ἀγγέ λους πρὸς βασιλέα Ἀσσυρίων εἰς Δαχεὶς λέγων Ἡμάρτηκα, ἁποστράΦητι ἀπ’ἐμοῦ. ὃ ἐὰν ἐπιθῇς ἐπ’ἐμὲ βαστάσω. καὶ ἐπέθηκεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων ἐπὶ Ἑξεκίαν βασιλέα Ἰούδα τριακόσια τάλαντα
ἀργυρίου καὶ τριάκοντα τάλαντα χρυσίου.

καὶ ἔδωκεν Ἑξεκίας πᾶν τὸ ἀργύριον

ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ συνέκοψεν Ἑζεκίας τὰς θύρας ναοῦ καὶ τὰ ἐστηριγμένα ἃ ἐχρύσωσεν Ἑζεκίας βασιλεὺς Ἰούδα, καὶ ἔδωκεν ⁴⁵ αὐτὰ βασιλεῖ Ἀσσυῤίων.

Καὶ ἀπέστειλεν βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων
τὸν θανθὰν καὶ τὸν Ῥαφεὶς καὶ τὸν Ῥαψάκην ἐκ Λαχεὶς πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Ἑζεκίαν ἐν δυνάμει βαρείᾳ ἐπὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ· καὶ ἀνέβησαν καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ ἔστησαν ἐν τῷ ὑδραγωγῷ τῆς κολυμβήθρας τῆς ἄνω ἥ ἐστιν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ ἀγροῦ τοῦ γναφέως.

καὶ
ἐβόησαν πρὸς Ἑζεκίαν, καὶ ἦλθον πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἐλιακεὶμ νἰὸς Χελκίου ὁ οἰκονόμος καὶ Σόμνας ὁ γραμματεὺς καὶ Ἰωσαφὰτ ὁ ἀναμιμνήσκων.

καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτοὺς Ῥαψάκης Εἴπατε δὴ πρὸς
Ἑζεκίαν Τάδε λέγει ὀ βασιλεὺς ὀ μεγας βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων Τί ἡ πεποίθησις αὕτη ἣν πέποιθας;

εἶπας, πλὴν λόγοι χειλέων Βουλὴ
καὶ δύναμις εὶς πόλεμον· νῦν οὖν τίνι πεποιθὼς ἠθέτησας ἐν ἐμοί;

νῦν ἰδοὺ πέποιθας σαυτῷ ἐπὶ τὴν ῥάβδον τὴν καλαμίνην τὴν
τεθλασμένην ταύτην, ἐπ’ Αἴγυπτον· ὃς ἂν στηριχθῇ ἀνὴρ ἐπ’ αὐτήν, καὶ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὴν χεὶρα αὐτοῦ, καὶ τρήσει αὐτήν· οὕτως Φαραὼ βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου πᾶσιν τοῖς πεποιθόσιν ἐπ’ αὐτόν.

καὶ ὅτι
εἶπας πρὸς μέ Ἐπὶ Κύριον θεὸν πεποίθαμεν· οὐχὶ αὐτὸς οὖτος ἀπέστησεν Ἑζεκίας τὰ ὑψηλὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ θυσιαστήρια αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν τῷ Ἰούδᾳ καὶ τῇ Ἰερουσαλήμ Ἐνώπιον τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου τούτου προσκυνήσετε ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ;

καὶ νῦν μίχθητε δὴ τῷ κυρίῳ μου
βασιλεῖ Ἀσσυρίων, καὶ δώσω σοι δισχιλίους ἵππους, εἰ δυνήσῃ δοῦναι σεαυτῷ ἐπιβάτας ἐπ’ αὐτούς.

καὶ πῶς ἀποστρέψετε τὸ πρόσωπον
τοπάρχου ἑνὸς τῶν δούλων τοῦ κυρίου μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων; καὶ ἤλπισας σαυτῷ ἐπ’ Αἴγυπτον εἰς ἅρματα καὶ ἱππεῖς.

καὶ νῦν
μὴ ἄνευ Κυρίου ἀνέβημεν ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον διαφθεῖραι αὐτόν; Κύριος εἶπεν πρὸς μέ Ἀνάβηθι ἐπὶ τὴν γὴν ταύτην καὶ διάφθειρον αὐτήν.

καὶ εἶπεν Ἐλιακεὶμ οἱὸς Χελκείου καὶ Σόμνας καὶ Ἰώας πρὸς
Ῥαψάκην Λάλησον δὴ πρὸς τοὺς τοὺς παῖδάς σου Συριστί· ἀκούομεν ἡμεῖς, καὶ οὐ λαλήσεις μεθ’ ἡμῶν Ἰουδαιστί· καὶ ἵνα τί λαλεῖς ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν τοῦ λαοῦ τοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους;

καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτοὺς
Ῥαψακης Μὴ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριόν σου καὶ πρὸς σὲ ἀπέστειλέν με ὁ κύριός μου λαλῆσαι τοὺς λόγους τούτους; οὐχὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ανδρας τοὺς καθη- ⁶⁷ μένους ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους, τοῦ Φαγεῖν τὴν κόπρον αἠτῶν καὶ πιεὶν ⁸
τὸ οὖρον αὐτῶν μεθ’ ὑμῶν ἅμα;

καὶ .ἔστη Ῥαψάκης καὶ ἐβόησεν μεγάλῃ Ἰουδαιστί· καὶ ἐλάλησεν καὶ εἶπεν Ἀκούσατε τοὺς λόγους
τοῦ μεγάλου βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων

Τάδε λέγει ὁ βασιλεύς Μὴ ἐπαιρέτω ὑμᾶς Ἑζεκίας λόγοις, ὅτι οὐ μὴ δύνηται ὑμᾶς ἐξελέσθαι ἐκ χειρὸς
αὐτοῦ.

καὶ μὴ ἐπελπιζέτω ὑμᾶς Ἐςεκίας πρὸς Κύριον λέγων Ἐξαιρούμενος ἐξελεῖται Κύριος· οὐ μὴ παραδοθῇ ἡ πόλις αὔτη ἐν χειρὶ
βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων.

μὴ ἀκούετε Ἑζεκίου, ὅτι τάδε λέγει ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων Ποιήσατε μετ’ ἐμοῦ εὐλογίαν καὶ ἐξέλθατε πρὸς μέ, καὶ πίεται ἀνὴρ τὴν ἄμπελον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνὴρ τὴν συκὴν αὐτοῦ Φάγεται,
καὶ πίεται ὕδωρ τοῦ λάκκου αὐτοῦ,

ἕως ἔλθω καὶ λάβω ὑμᾶς εἰς γῆν ὡς γῆ ὑμῶν, σίτου καὶ οἴνου καὶ ἄρτου καὶ ἀμπελώνων, γῆ έλαίας ἐλαίου καὶ μέλιτος· καὶ ζήσετε καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνητε. καὶ μὴ ἀκούετε
Ἑζεκίου, ὅτι ἀπατᾷ ὑμᾶς λέγων Κύριος ῥύσεται ὑμᾶς.

μὴ ῥυόμενοι ἐρύσαντο οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἕκαστιος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χώραν ἐκ χειρός
βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων;

ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς Αἱμὰθ καὶ Ἀρφάλ ; ποῦ ἔστιν ὁ θεὸς Σεπφαρουμάιν ; καὶ ὅτι ἐξείλαντο Σαμάρειαν ἐκ χειρός
μου ;

τίς ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς θεοῖς τῶν γαιῶν οἳ ἐξεἰλαντο τὰς γᾶς αὐτῶν ἐκ χειρός μου, ὄτι ἐξελεῖται Κύριος τὴν Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐκ χειρός μου ;

καὶ ἐκώφευσαν καὶ οὐκ ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ λόγον, ὄτι ἐντολὴ τοῦ
βασιλέως λέγων Οὐκ ἀποκριθήσεσθε αὐτῷ.

καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Ἐλιακεὶμ υἱὸς χελκείου ὁ οἰκονόμος καὶ Σόμνας ὁ γραμματεὺς καὶ Ἰώας υἱὸς Σαφὰν ὁ ἀναμιμνήσκων πρὸς τὸν Ἑζεκίαν διερρηχότες τὰ ἱμάτια, καὶ XIX

II Kings. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete. Germany. 2015.

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Βασιλειῶν Δʹ (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 1: Genesis-IV Kings. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.)

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II Kings Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 18 focus

Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

He 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.

He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.

He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him.

For he joined with Yahweh; he didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

He struck the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

At 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.

The 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,

because 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.

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

The 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 were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

When 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.

Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?

You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Now, behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

But 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?

Now 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.

How 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?

Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.

But 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?

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, Hear you the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

Thus says the king, Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

neither 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.

Don’t listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

Until 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: and don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us.

Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

Where 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?

Who 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?

But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Don’t answer him.

Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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II Kings

1. Α

2. 31 Σεπφαρουν] Σεφφαρουαιμ Α | κατεκεον Β* (κατεκαιον Βab [αι σθπερσψρ] Α) | Αδραμελεκ Α | Αμημελεχ Α | Σεφφαρουν] θεοις Σεφφατοις ρουαιμ Α 32 εποιησαν 2°] + εαυτοις Bab (mg) vid A 34 τοις υιοις] om Α 35 om μετ αυτων Α | προσκυνησετε] pr ου Βab (superscr) Α | θυσιασετε] θυμιασεται Α 36 προσκυνησεται αυτω Α | αυτω θυσετε] και αυτω θυμιασεται Α 37 φυλασσεσθαι ποιειν Α 39 αλλ η] pr οτι Α 40 ετι] επι Α | ο] ε Β* (τω Ως. Βab) om τω Α 2 ετων] ετων] + ην Α | εβασιλευσεν] σ 1° sup ras A1 | Zαχαριου] Ζαχχαιου Α

3. Β

5. B

6. Α

8. Β

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