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1 Khi Sê-đê-kia lên làm vua, có hai mươi mốt tuổi; trị vì mười một năm tại thành Giê-ru-sa-lem. Mẹ vua tên là Ha-mu-ta, con gái của Giê-rê-mi, người Líp-na.

2 Vua ấy làm đều dữ trước mắt Ðức Giê-hô-va, như mọi việc vua Giê-hô-gia-kim đã làm.

3 Vì cớ Ðức Giê-hô-va nổi giận, thì điều đó xảy ra trong Giê-ru-sa-lem và Giu-đa, cho đến Ngài ném bỏ chúng nó khỏi trước mặt mình. Sê-đê-kia dấy loạn nghịch cùng vua Ba-by-lôn.

4 Ngày mồng mười, tháng mười, năm thứ chín đời vua Sê-đê-kia, thì Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa, vua Ba-by-lôn, đem cả đạo binh mình đi đánh Giê-ru-sa-lem, đóng trại nghịch cùng nó, và chúng nó lập đồn vây lấy.

5 Thành bị vây mãi đến năm thứ mười một đời vua Sê-đê-kia.

6 Ngày mồng chín tháng tư, trong thành bị đói kém lắm, đến nỗi dân của đất nầy không có bánh nữa.

7 Vách thành bị phá vỡ, hết thảy những lính chiến bèn trốn ra khỏi thành lúc ban đêm, và do cửa ở giữa hai cái vách, gần vườn vua, mà đi ra; trong khi người Canh-đê đương vây thành, thì chúng nó chạy trốn hướng về A-ra-ba.

8 Nhưng đạo binh của người Canh-đê đuổi theo vua; khi đã đuổi kịp Sê-đê-kia tại đồng bằng Giê-ri-cô, thì quân vua chạy tan và bỏ vua lại.

9 Người Canh-đê bắt vua và dẫn đến cùng vua Ba-by-lôn, tại íp-la, trong đất Ha-mát, nơi đó vua bị vua Ba-by-lôn xử đoán.

10 Vua Ba-by-lôn khiến giết các con trai của Sê-đê-kia trước mắt người, cũng khiến giết mọi quan trưởng Giu-đa tại íp-la.

11 Ðoạn sai móc mắt Sê-đê-kia, lấy xiềng xiềng lại. Vua Ba-by-lôn đem Sê-đê-kia về Ba-by-lôn, khiến giam trong ngục cho đến ngày người chết.

12 Ngày mồng mười tháng năm, năm thứ mười chín về đời Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa, vua Ba-by-lôn, thì Nê-bu-xa-a-đan, quan đầu thị vệ, hầu vua Ba-by-lôn, vào thành Giê-ru-sa-lem.

13 Người sai đốt nhà Ðức Giê-hô-va, cung vua, và hết thảy nhà cửa trong thành Giê-ru-sa-lem. Mọi nhà lớn cũng đều phó cho lửa.

14 ồi cả đạo binh của người Canh-đê thuộc quyền quan đầu thị vệ, phá hết thảy các vách thành chung quanh Giê-ru-sa-lem.

15 Những kẻ rất nghèo trong dân, với những kẻ sống sót đương ở trong thành, những kẻ đã hàng đầu vua Ba-by-lôn, và từ trong đám đông sót lại, thì Nê-bu-xa-a-đan, qua đầu thị vệ, bắt đem đi làm phu tù hết thảy.

16 Nê-bu-xa-a-đan, quan đầu thị vệ, chỉ để những người rất nghèo khó lại trong đất, đặng trồng vườn nho và làm ruộng.

17 Quân Canh-đê phá tan các cột đồng trong nhà Ðức Giê-hô-va, cả đến đế tảng và biển đồng trong nhà Ðức Giê-hô-va, rồi đem những đồng đó về Ba-by-lôn.

18 Những nồi, và, kéo, chậu thìa, cùng hết thảy khí mạnh bằng đồng về việc thờ phượng, chúng nó cũng đều đem đi nữa.

19 Quan đầu thị vệ, lại khuân đi cả những chén, lư hương, chậu, nồi, chơn đèn, thìa, và bát, phàm những đồ gì làm bằng vàng thì lấy vàng, đồ gì làm bằng bạc thì lấy bạc.

20 Còn như hai cột đồng, biển đồng, và mười hai con bò đồng dùng làm đế nó, mà vua Sa-lô-môn đã chế tạo cho nhà Ðức Giê-hô-va, đồng của những đồ ấy, thì không thể cân được.

21 Mỗi cột cao mười tám thước, yêu vi mười hai thước; trong tầm phổng, dầy bằng bốn ngón tay.

22 Trên đầu cột có chúp đồng, cao năm thước, chung quanh chóp có lưới và trái lựu, đều bằng đồng cả. Cột kia giống như cột nầy, cũng có lưới và trái lựu.

23 Bốn bề có chín mươi sáu trái lựu, và hết thảy những trái lựu đặt xung quanh lưới cọng là một trăm.

24 Quan đầu thị vệ bắt Sê-ra-gia, thầy tế lễ cả, và Sô-phô-ni, thầy tế lễ phó, cùng ba người giữ cửa đền.

25 Cũng bắt tại trong thành một hoạn quan coi lính chiến, bảy người cận thần của vua ở trong thành, một viên thơ ký của qua chánh lãnh binh, coi việc mộ dân trong đất, cùng sáu mươi người dân đất đó gặp tại trong thành.

26 Nê-bu-xa-a-đan, quan đầu thị vệ, đem hết thảy những tù ấy về cho vua Ba-by-lôn, tại íp-la.

27 Vua Ba-by-lôn sai đánh và giết họ tại íp-la, trong đất Ha-mát. Ấy vậy người Giu-đa bị điệu đi làm phu tù khỏi đất mình.

28 Nầy là dân mà Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa đã đem đi làm phu tù; năm thứ bảy, ba ngàn hai mươi ba người Giu-đa.

29 Năm thứ mười tạm đời Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa, từ thành Giê-ru-sa-lem bắt đi tám trăm ba mươi hai người.

30 Năm thứ hai mươi ba đời vua ấy, Nê-bu-xa-a-đan, quan đầu thị vệ, đem đi bảy trăm bốn mươi lăm người Giu-đa. Hết thảy là bốn ngàn sáu trăm người.

31 Năm thứ ba mươi bảy, sau khi vua Giu-đa là Giê-hô-gia-kin bị bắt, tức là năm đầu vua Ba-by-lôn là Ê-vinh-Mê-rô-đác mới lên ngôi, ngày hai mươi lăm tháng mười hai, vua nầy trả lại chức vua cho Giê-hô-gia-kin vua Giu-đa, và đem ra khỏi ngục;

32 lấy lời lành nói với, và lập ngôi người cai hơn ngôi các vua cùng ở với mình tại Ba-by-lôn.

33 Lại sai đổi áo tù, Giê-hô-gia-kin đến ngồi bàn với vua trọn đời mình.

34 Giê-hô-gia-kin còn sống bao lâu, thì vua Ba-by-lôn ban đồ cần dùng hằng ngày cho mãi mãi, trọn đờai người.

   

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601. Verse 3. And cried out with a great voice, as a lion roareth, signifies the testification of grievous distress on account of the desolation of Divine truth in the church. This is evident from the signification of "crying out with a great voice," as being the testification of grievous distress (of which presently); and from the signification of "as a lion roareth," as being on account of the desolation of Divine truth in the church; for a "lion" signifies Divine truth in its power (See above, n. 278), and "to roar" signifies the result of distress because of the desolation of truth.

[2] That this is the signification of "crying out with a great voice, as a lion roareth," can be seen from what follows in this chapter, where the desolation of Divine truth in the church is treated of; for "a strong angel coming down out of heaven" means the Lord in relation to the Word, which is Divine truth, of whom it is said afterwards that "the angel lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth unto the ages of the ages, that there shall be time no longer," which signifies that there shall be no longer any understanding of Divine truth, and thence no state of the church.

[3] And afterwards it is said, "In the days of the voice of the seventh angel the mystery of God shall be finished," which signifies the Last Judgment that was to come when there should be no faith in Divine truth because there would be no good of charity. From this it can be seen that "He cried out with a great voice, as a lion roareth," signifies the testification of grievous distress on account of the desolation of Divine truth in the church.

[4] Moreover, a "lion" is often mentioned in the Word; and in the highest sense a "lion" signifies the Lord in relation to Divine truth, likewise heaven and the church in respect to Divine truth from the Lord; and from this a "lion" signifies Divine truth in respect to power (See above, n. 278). This makes evident what "to roar" or "the roaring of a lion" signifies, namely, an ardent affection for defending heaven and the church, and thus for saving the angels of heaven and the men of the church, which is done by destroying the falsities of evil by means of Divine truth and its power; but in the contrary sense "to roar" or "the roaring of a lion" signifies an ardent desire to destroy and devastate the church, which is done by destroying Divine truth by means of the falsities of evil. Such is the signification of a "lion's roaring," because when a lion is hungry and seeks its prey, and also when it is enraged with anger against its enemy, it is its habit to roar.

[5] That this is the signification of "to roar" and "roaring" in the Word can be seen from the following passages. In Isaiah:

Thus Jehovah said unto me, Like as the lion, and the young lion roareth over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds goeth out against him, and he is not dismayed at their voice nor affected by their tumult, so shall Jehovah of Hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion and upon the hill thereof (Isaiah 31:4).

Jehovah is compared to a lion roaring, because a "lion" signifies the Lord in relation to Divine truth and its power, and "to roar" signifies the eagerness to defend the church against evils and falsities; therefore it is said, "so shall Jehovah of Hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof," "Mount Zion" meaning the celestial church, and "the hill thereof" (or Jerusalem) the spiritual church; the "prey over which the lion roareth" signifies deliverance from hell.

[6] In Joel:

Jehovah shall roar out of Zion, and shall give forth His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall quake; but Jehovah shall be a shelter for His people, and a stronghold for the sons of Israel (Joel 3:16).

The protection of the faithful by the Lord by means of Divine truth is described by "Jehovah shall roar out of Zion, and shall give forth His voice from Jerusalem;" the vehement power of Divine truth, and consequent terror, are described by "the heavens and the earth shall quake;" and salvation and protection by "Jehovah shall be a shelter for His people, and a stronghold for the sons of Israel;" "the people of Jehovah" and "the sons of Israel" being the faithful who are of the church.

[7] In Hosea:

I will not return to destroy Ephraim. They shall go after Jehovah; He shall roar like a lion, for He shall roar, and sons from the sea shall draw near with honor, with honor shall they come as the bird out of Egypt and as the dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell upon their houses (Hosea 11:9-11).

"Ephraim" signifies the church in respect to the understanding of truth, concerning which therefore what follows is said. "To go after Jehovah" signifies to worship the Lord and to live from Him; "He shall roar like a lion, for He shall roar," signifies the protection of such by the Divine truth; "the sons from the sea shall draw near with honor," signifies that those who are in natural good shall draw near to the church; "with honor shall they come as a bird out of Egypt," signifies their natural thought from true knowledges [scientifica]; the "bird" meaning thought, and "Egypt" knowledge, which is natural truth; "and as the dove out of the land of Assyria," signifies that they shall have rational good and truth, a "dove" meaning rational good, and "the land of Assyria" the church in respect to rational truth; for in man there are both natural and rational good and truth; the natural is lower or exterior, looking to the world, the rational is higher or interior, conjoining the natural with the spiritual; the natural is meant by "Egypt," the rational by "Assyria," and the spiritual by "Israel." "To make them to dwell upon their houses" signifies life from the will of good and from the understanding of truth; the human mind, which consists of these, is meant by a "house," and "to dwell" signifies to live.

[8] In Amos:

The Lord Jehovih will not do 1 a word unless He shall reveal His secret unto His servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord Jehovih hath spoken, who will not prophesy? (Amos 3:7, 8).

"The Lord Jehovih will not do a word unless He hath revealed His secret to His servants the prophets" signifies that the Lord opens the interior things of the Word and of doctrine to those who are in truths from good; "to reveal a secret," signifies to enlighten and to open the interior things of the Word; "His servants the prophets" signify those who are in the truths of doctrine and who receive; "the lion hath roared, who will not fear?" signifies a powerful revelation and manifestation of Divine truth; "the Lord Jehovih hath spoken, who will not prophesy?" signifies its reception and manifestation. The Lord is called "Lord Jehovih" when good is treated of.

[9] In Zechariah:

The voice of the howling of the shepherds that their magnificence is devastated; the voice of the roaring of the young lions that the pride of Jordan is devastated (Zechariah 11:3).

"The voice of the howling of the shepherds that their magnificence is devastated" signifies the grief of those who teach, because the good of the church has perished; those are called "shepherds" who teach truth and by truth lead to the good of life, and "magnificence" means the good of the church; "the voice of the roaring of the young lions that the pride of Jordan is devastated" signifies grief, because of the desolation of Divine truth in the church. Those are called "lions" who are in Divine truths; "roaring" signifies grief; "the pride of Jordan, which is devastated," signifies the church in respect to Divine truth which introduces.

[10] In Job:

God roareth with His voice; He thundereth with the voice of His majesty; nor yet doth He overthrow when His voice is heard; God thundereth marvelously with His voice (Job 37:4, 5).

"To roar" and "to thunder with the voice" signify the power and efficacy of Divine truth or the Word.

[11] In the passages that have been cited, "to roar" signifies in a broad sense the ardent affection of protecting heaven and the church, or the angels of heaven and the men of the church, which is done by destroying the falsities of evil by means of Divine truth and its power. But in the contrary sense, "to roar" signifies an eager cupidity for ruining and destroying the church, which is done by destroying Divine truth by means of the falsities of evil. In this sense "to roar" is used in the following passages. In Jeremiah:

Babylon shall become heaps, the abode of dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing. They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps; when they are heated I will set 2 their feasts, and I will make them drunken that they may exult and may sleep the sleep of an age and not awake (Jeremiah 51:37-39).

The destruction of Babylon so that there may be in it no truth or good, is signified by "Babylon shall become heaps, the abode of dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing." "Babylon" signifies those who abuse holy things for the sake of dominion; their eager cupidity for destroying Divine truth by means of the falsities of evil is signified by "they shall roar together like lions, they shall growl like lions' whelps." The eagerness of those who unite in doing this crime is signified by "when they are heated I will set their feasts;" that such will become insane from the falsities of evil is signified by "I will make them drunken that they may exult." That they will never understand anything of truth, and therefore will not see life, is signified by "that they may sleep the sleep of an age and not awake."

[12] In the same:

Is Israel a servant? Is he one born of the house? Why has he become a prey? The young lions roar against him, they give forth their voice, they reduce his land to a waste; his cities are burned, even so that there is no inhabitant (Jeremiah 2:14, 15).

"Is Israel a servant? Is he one born of the house?" signifies the church that had been in truths and goods, but is so no longer. "Israel" signifies the church; a "servant" those who are in truths, and "one born of the house," those who are in goods; "why has he become a prey?" signifies its devastation; "the young lions roar against him, they give forth their voice" signifies the desolation of Divine truth in the church by the falsities of evil; "they reduce his land to a waste" signifies the destruction of the church itself by evils; "his cities are burned even so that there is no inhabitant" signifies the destruction of the doctrinals also of the church by evils, so that there is no good of the church left.

[13] In Ezekiel:

One of the whelps of the lioness grew up, it became a young lion, and it learned to tear the prey; it devoured men. It ravished widows and devastated their cities, and the land was devastated 3 and the fullness thereof by the voice of his roaring (Ezekiel 19:3, 7).

This is said of the Jewish Church, which is here meant by "the mother of lions." A "young lion" signifies the falsity of evil in eagerness to destroy the truth of the church; "to tear the prey" signifies the destruction of the truth and good of the church. "It devoured men, it ravished widows, and devastated cities," signifies the destruction of all the understanding of truth and of good desiring truth, likewise of doctrinals; "men" signifying the understanding of truth, "widows" good desiring truth, and "cities" doctrinals; "the land was laid waste and the fullness thereof by the voice of his roaring" signifies the devastation of the church and the extinction of all truth from the Word by the falsity of evil, "land" meaning the church, "fullness" its truths from the Word, and "the voice of roaring" the falsity of evil destroying.

[14] In Jeremiah:

I call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the land. Therefore say unto them, Jehovah shall roar from on high, and give forth His voice from the abode of His holiness; in roaring He shall roar against their habitations; a tumult cometh even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy against the nations. He shall enter judgment with all flesh, He shall give the wicked to the sword (25 Jeremiah 25:29-31).

The vastation of the church is attributed to Jehovah, although men are the cause of it. "I call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the land" signifies falsity destroying every truth in the universal church. "Jehovah shall roar from on high, and give forth His voice from the abode of His holiness," signifies the testification of grief in heaven on account of the vastation of Divine truth. "In roaring He shall roar against their habitations" signifies great grief and lamentation over all things of the church; "a tumult cometh even to the end of the earth" signifies the disturbance of all things of the church from first to last; "for Jehovah hath a controversy against the nations, He shall enter judgment with all flesh," signifies visitation and judgment upon all who are in evils; "He shall give the wicked to the sword" signifies their destruction by falsities.

[15] In Amos:

Jehovah shall roar from Zion, and give forth His voice from Jerusalem; that the habitations of the shepherds may mourn, and the head of Carmel dry up (Amos 1:2).

"Roaring from Zion" signifies grievous distress, and "the voice from Jerusalem" lamentation; "the mourning of the habitations of the shepherds, and the drying up of the head of Carmel," signifies because of the vastation of all the goods and truths of the church; "the habitations of shepherds" signifying all the goods of the church; "the head of Carmel" all its truths, and "mourning" and "drying up" vastation. "The head of Carmel" signifies the truths of the church, because in Carmel there were vineyards, and "wine" signifies the truth of the church.

[16] In Isaiah:

The anger of Jehovah is kindled against His people. He hath lifted up an ensign to the nations from far, and hath hissed to him from the end of the earth. His roaring is like that of a lion, He roareth like young lions; He growleth and seizeth the prey, he shall snatch and none shall deliver, and he growleth against him like the growling of the sea; and if He shall look unto the earth, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the ruins thereof (5 Isaiah 5:25-30).

Here, too, "the roaring like that of a lion, and like that of young lions," signifies grief and lamentation over the vastation of Divine truth in the church by the falsities of evil. "He seizeth the prey and none shall deliver" signifies the deliverance and salvation of those who are in truths from good. The vastation itself is described by "behold darkness, distress, and the light is darkened in the ruins thereof;" "darkness" meaning falsities; "distress" evil; "the darkening of the light" the disappearance of Divine truth, and "ruins" total overthrow.

[17] In David:

The enemy hath destroyed all things in the sanctuary; the adversaries have roared in the midst of thy feast (Psalms 74:3, 4).

"The enemy" signifies evil from hell; "the sanctuary" the church, and "feast" worship. This makes clear what is signified by these words in series. That roaring signifies grievous lamentation from grief of heart can be seen from these passages. In David:

When I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day (Psalms 32:3).

In the same:

I am weakened and crushed exceedingly; I have roared by reason of the roaring of my heart (Psalms 38:8).

And in Job:

My sighing cometh before bread, and my roarings are poured out like the waters (Job 3:24).

Бележки под линия:

1. Latin has "does," the Hebrew, as cited just before, has "will do."

2. Latin has "little," the Hebrew "set," as is also found in AE 187, 481.

3. Latin has "devastated," in AC 304, and AC 9348 we have "desolated."

  
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7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.