2. kniha kráľov

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(KJV - Anglický - King James)

2Kr 19, 1-37

1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God. 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only. 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 23 By the messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. 25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. 27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. 29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. 30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

Verš 1

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

Iz 37:1 - And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

Verš 2

And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Iz 1:1 - The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Verš 35

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Iz 37:36 - Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Verš 34

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

2Kr 20:6 - And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Verš 37

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

2Krn 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

Iz 37:38 - And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

2Kr 19,4 - "Zvyšok" sú obyvatelia Jeruzalema.

2Kr 19,7 - Výraz: "vložím doň ducha" rozumej: naplním mu myseľ starosťami pre nepriaznivú správu a odíde od Jeruzalema.

2Kr 19,8 - Lobnu porov. 8,22.

2Kr 19,9 - Etópia ležala južne od Egypta, jej hlavné mesto bolo Napata. Bola sprvoti poddaná Egyptu, ale koncom ôsmeho storočia pr. Kr. sa etiópski králi zmocnili aj egyptského trónu. Taraka bol tretím a posledným kráľom tejto 25. dynastie, zvanej dynastiou etiópskou. V r. 701 ešte nebol kráľom, len vojvodcom faraóna Sabataku, ktorý ho poveril vedením výpravy proti Sennacheribovi. Pisateľ deja mu však dáva titul, ktorý mal vtedy, keď on dej opisoval, titul "kráľ".

2Kr 19,11 - O kliatbe pozri 1 Sam 15,3.

2Kr 19,12 - O Gozane pozri 17,6. Haran, kde kedysi býval Abrahámov otec Táre, bolo mesto v severnej Mezopotámii. – Mesto Resef ležalo severovýchodne od Ematu. "Eden" bola asi krajina medzi Ematom a Resefom. Asýrske klinopisné pamiatky ju volajú Bít Adini (Dom Adiniho). Hlavným mestom tejto krajiny bolo Tilbašeri, ktoré sa tu volá Telasár.

2Kr 19,13 - O Emate, Ave, Sefarvaime pozri 17,24, porov. 18,34. O Ane 18,34.

2Kr 19,15 - Pán tróni nad cherubmi v nebi (porov. Ez hl. 1 n.); ale aj nad archou zmluvy mu boli trónom krídla dvoch cherubov (Ex 25,17 n.).

2Kr 19,21 - Mesto je zosobnené, volá sa "dcéra Siona", "dcéra Jeruzalema". Panenskou dcérou sa volajú mestá, ktoré nepriateľ ešte nedobyl.

2Kr 19,25 - Verš 25 je odpoveď Pánova na samochválu. Sennacherib bol len nástrojom, aby sa splnili Božie proroctvá; odtiaľ sú jeho úspechy.

2Kr 19,26 - "Spálenina nerozvinutá" je zeleň poľa, ktorú spálilo slnko alebo horúci juhovýchodný vietor.

2Kr 19,28 - Obraz má pôvod v spôsobe, akým krotili zvieratá. Ale aj Asýrčania takto zaobchádzali so zajatcami.

2Kr 19,29 - Druhá sloha básne (v. 29–31) hovorí o znamení pre Ezechiáša. S výkladom 29. verša sú ťažkosti. Najpravdepodobnejší je výklad Knabenbauerov: Predošlú jeseň nemohli siať, lebo zem bola zničená asýrskym vojskom; tohto leta je pokojnejšie, môžu aspoň to zobrať z poľa, čo sa urodilo samo; v jeseni zas nebudú môcť siať, preto aj nasledujúci rok sa budú živiť len tým, čo narastie samo od seba. Ale v jeseni toho druhého roku už budú môcť obrobiť pole, takže tretí rok budú v pokoji požívať plody svojej práce.

2Kr 19,35 - V osnove sa nehovorí, akým spôsobom usmrtil anjel asýrske vojsko. Možno, že Asýrčania pomreli na mor. Čo ako sa však vec stala, nebolo to bez zázračného Božieho zákroku. Počet mŕtvych sa zdá priveľkým, možno, že číslica je porušená. – I keď Sennacherib vo svojich nápisových pamiatkach mlčí o tejto porážke – veď sa králi svojimi porážkami nikdy nechvália –, sú náznaky, že odišiel od Jeruzalema s nezdarom: 1. Asýrska správa o tejto výprave spomína, že Sennacherib obliehal Jeruzalem, ale nespomína, že ho aj dobyl, čo by správa iste nebola zamlčala. 2. Pri iných výpravách spomína Sennacherib aj víťazstvá na spiatočnej ceste, z tejto výpravy nie.

2Kr 19,36 - Výraz "býval v Ninive" neznamená, že sa Sennacherib z Ninive už viac nepohol. Zachovali sa správy aj o jeho ďalších výpravách, ale proti Júdsku viac neviedol boj.

2Kr 19,37 - Sennacheriba zavraždili až v r. 681. – Asýrsky boh Nesroch je známy len z tohto miesta Svätého písma – Ararat (Urartu) je Arménia. – Asarhadon (Asarhaddon) panoval v r. 681–668 pr. Kr.