2 Re 3
1 OR l'anno diciottesimo di Giosafat, re di Giuda, Gioram, figliuolo di Achab, cominciò a regnare sopra Israele in Samaria; e regnò dodici anni.
After Jehoshaphat had been ruling Judah for almost 18 years, Ahab’s son Joram became the king of Israel. He ruled in Samaria [city] for twelve years.
2 E fece ciò che dispiace al Signore; non però come suo padre, e come sua madre; perciocchè tolse via la statua di Baal, che suo padre avea fatta.
He did things that Yahweh considered to be evil, but he did not do as much evil as his father and mother had done, and he got rid of the pillar [for worshiping] Baal which his father had made.
3 Ma egli si attenne a' peccati di Geroboamo, figliuolo di Nebat, per i quali egli avea fatto peccare Israele; egli non se ne rivolse.
But he committed the sins that [King] Jeroboam had committed and which led the Israeli people to sin, and he did not stop committing those sins.
4 Or Mesa, re di Moab, nudriva molto minuto bestiame; e pagava [per tributo] al re d'Israele centomila agnelli, e centomila montoni con la lana.
Mesha, the king of Moab, raised sheep. [Every year] he was forced to give 100,000 lambs and the wool from 100,000 rams to the king of Israel, [because his kingdom was controlled by the king of Israel].
5 Ma quando Achab fu morto, il re di Moab si ribellò contro al re d'Israele.
But after King Ahab died, Mesha rebelled against the king of Israel.
6 Laonde il re Gioram uscì in quel dì fuor di Samaria, e fece la rassegna di tutto Israele.
So King Joram left Samaria and gathered together all his soldiers.
7 E, partendo, mandò a dire a Giosafat, re di Giuda: Il re di Moab si è ribellato contro a me; verrai tu meco alla guerra contro a Moab? Ed egli disse: Sì, io vi salirò: [fa' conto] di me come di te, della mia gente come della tua, e de' miei cavalli come dei tuoi.
Then he sent this message to Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. So will your army join my army and fight against the army of Moab?” Jehoshaphat replied, “Yes, we will help you. We are ready to do whatever you want us to. My soldiers and my horses are ready to help you.”
8 Poi disse: Per qual via saliremo? E [Gioram] disse: Per la via del deserto di Edom.
He asked, “On which road shall we march to attack them?” Joram replied, “We will go [south to Jerusalem, where your army will join us. Then we will all go south of the Dead Sea, and then turn north] through the Edom Desert.”
9 Il re d'Israele adunque, e il re di Giuda, e il re di Edom, si partirono; e fatto il circuito di sette giornate di cammino, non vi era acqua per lo campo, nè per le bestie di servigio, che menavano con loro.
So the king of Israel [and his army] went with the kings of Judah and Edom [and their armies]. They marched for seven days. Then there was no water left for their soldiers or for their animals that carried supplies.
10 E il re d'Israele disse: Oimè! certamente il Signore ha chiamati insieme questi tre re, per darli in mano di Moab.
The king of Israel exclaimed, “This is a terrible situation! [It seems that] Yahweh will allow the three of us to be captured by [the army of] [MTY] Moab!”
11 E Giosafat disse: Non [evvi] qui alcun profeta del Signore, acciocchè per lui domandiamo il Signore; Ed uno dei servitori del re d'Israele rispose, e disse: Eliseo, figliuolo di Safat, che versava l'acqua sopra le mani d'Elia, [è] qui.
Jehoshaphat said, “Is there a prophet here who can ask Yahweh for us [what we should do]?” One of Joram’s army officers said, “Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here. He was Elijah’s assistant.” [IDM]
12 E Giosafat disse: La parola del Signore è con lui. Il re d'Israele adunque, e Giosafat, e il re di Edom, andarono a lui.
Jehoshaphat said, “[It will be good to ask him, because] he speaks what Yahweh tells him to say.” So those three kings went to Elisha.
13 Ma Eliseo disse al re d'Israele: Che ho io a far teco? vattene a' profeti di tuo padre, ed a' profeti di tua madre. E il re d'Israele gli disse: No; perciocchè il Signore ha chiamati insieme questi tre re, per darli in mano di Moab.
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you come to me [RHQ]? Go and ask those prophets that your father and mother consulted!” But Joram replied, “No, [we want you to ask Yahweh, because it seems that] Yahweh is going to allow us three kings to be captured by the army of Moab.”
14 Ed Eliseo disse: [Come] il Signore degli eserciti, al quale io ministro, vive, se io non avessi rispetto a Giosafat, re di Giuda, io non ti riguarderei pure, e non ti vorrei vedere.
Elisha replied, “I serve Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels in heaven. As surely as he lives, if I did not respect Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not even think about doing anything to help you.
15 Ora, fatemi venire un sonatore. E come il sonatore sonava, la mano del Signore fu sopra Eliseo; ed egli disse:
But, bring a musician to me.” [So they did that]. And when the musician played [on his harp], the power of Yahweh came on Elisha.
16 Così ha detto il Signore: Facciansi in questa valle molte fosse.
He said, “Yahweh says that he will cause this dry stream-bed to be full of water.
17 Perciocchè così ha detto il Signore: Voi non sentirete vento, e non vedrete pioggia, e pur questa valle si empierà d'acqua, della quale berrete, e voi, e le vostre gregge, e le vostre bestie di servigio.
The result will be that your soldiers and your animals that carry supplies and your livestock will have plenty of water to drink.
18 E ciò è ancora leggier cosa agli occhi del Signore; perciocchè egli vi darà eziandio Moab nelle mani.
That is not difficult for Yahweh to do. [But he will do more than that]. He will also enable you to defeat [the army of] Moab.
19 E voi disfarete tutte le città murate, e tutte le città principali, ed abbatterete ogni buon albero, e turerete ogni fontana d'acqua, e desolerete con pietre ogni buon campo.
You will conquer all their beautiful cities, cities that have high walls around them. You must cut down all their fruit trees, stop water from flowing from their springs, and ruin their fertile fields by covering them with rocks.”
20 E la mattina [seguente], nell'ora che si offerisce l'offerta, avvenne che, ecco delle acque che venivano di verso Edom; e la terra fu ripiena d'acque.
The next morning, at the time when they offered the sacrifices [of grain], they were surprised to see water flowing from Edom and covering the ground.
21 Or tutti i Moabiti, avendo inteso che quei re erano saliti per far loro guerra, si erano adunati a grida, da chiunque si cominciava a cingere [la spada] in su; e si erano fermati in su le frontiere.
When the people of Moab heard that the three kings had come [with their armies] to fight against them, all the men who were able to fight in battles, from the youngest men to the oldest ones, were summoned, and they (took their positions/prepared to fight) at the [southern] border of their land.
22 E quella mattina si levarono, come il sole dava già sopra quelle acque; e videro davanti a loro da lontano quelle acque rosse come sangue;
But when they rose early the next morning, they saw that the water across from them appeared to be as red as blood.
23 e dissero: Questo [è] sangue; per certo quei re si son distrutti, e l'uno ha percosso l'altro. Or dunque, Moabiti, alla preda.
They exclaimed, “It is blood! The three enemy armies must have fought and killed each other! So let’s go and take everything that they have left!”
24 Così vennero verso il campo d'Israele; ma gl'Israeliti si levarono, e percossero i Moabiti, ed essi fuggirono d'innanzi a loro; [e gl'Israeliti] entrarono nel paese de' Moabiti, sempre percotendoli.
But when they reached the area where the Israeli soldiers had set up their tents, the Israelis attacked the soldiers from Moab and forced them to retreat. The Israeli soldiers pursued the soldiers from Moab and killed many of them.
25 E disfecero le città; e ciascuno gittò la sua pietra ne' migliori campi, e [così] li empierono [di pietre]; e turarono ogni fontana d'acqua, e abbatterono ogni buon albero; tanto che in Chir-hareset lasciarono sol le pietre; ma i frombolatori [la] circondarono, e la percotevano.
The Israelis also destroyed their cities. And whenever they passed fertile fields, they threw rocks on those fields, until the fields were covered with rocks. They stopped water from flowing from the springs and cut down the fruit trees. Finally, only [the capital city, ] Kir-Hareseth, remained. The Israeli soldiers who threw stones with slings surrounded the city and attacked it.
26 E il re di Moab, veggendo che la battaglia lo sopraffaceva, prese seco settecent'uomini con la spada tratta in mano, per ispuntare della parte del re di Edom; ma non poterono.
When the king of Moab realized that his army was being defeated, he took with him 700 men who fought with swords, and they tried to force a way through the Israeli lines of soldiers to escape to [get help from] the king of Syria, but they were unable to escape.
27 Allora egli prese il suo figliuolo primogenito, che dovea regnare in luogo suo, e l'offerse in olocausto in sul muro, e vi fu grande indegnazione contro agl'Israeliti. E [gli altri] si partirono da lui, e ritornarono al paese.
Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have become the next king, and killed him and offered him for a sacrifice [to their god Chemosh], burning him on top of the city wall. The Israeli soldiers were horrified, with the result that they left that city and returned to their own country.
