3 Kingdoms 14

Old Testament · Brenton Septuagint with Greek parallel

3 Kingdoms 14

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21† And Roboam son of Solomon ruled over Juda. Roboam ‡ was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother's name was Naama the Ammonitess.Καὶ Ῥοβοὰμ υἱὸς Σαλωμὼν ἐβασίλευσεν ἐπὶ Ἰούδαν· υἱὸς τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἑνὸς ἐνιαυτῶν Ῥοβοὰμ ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτόν· καὶ ἑπτακαίδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῇ πόλει, ἣν ἐξελέξατο Κύριος θέσθαι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ἐκ πασῶν φυλῶν τοῦ Ἰσραήλ· καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Νααμὰ ἡ Ἀμμωνίτις.

22And Roboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.Καὶ ἐποίησε Ῥοβοὰμ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου· καὶ παρεζήλωσεν αὐτὸν ἐν πᾶσιν οἷς ἐποίησαν οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις αὐτῶν αἷς ἥμαρτον.

23And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν ἑαυτοῖς ὑψηλὰ καὶ στήλας καὶ ἄλση ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν, καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸς ξύλου συσκίου.

24And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did § according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed ** from before the children of Israel.Καὶ σύνδεσμος ἐγενήθη ἐν τῇ γῇ, καὶ ἐποίησαν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν βδελυγμάτων τῶν ἐθνῶν ὧν ἐξῇρε Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.

25And it came to pass in the fifth year †† of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τῷ πέμπτῳ βασιλεύοντος Ῥοβοὰμ, ἀνέβη Σουσακεὶμ βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ,

26and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and the golden spears which David took out of the hand of the sons of Adrazaar king of Suba, and brought them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, and the ‡‡ golden shields which Solomon had made, §§ and carried them away into Egypt.καὶ ἔλαβε πάντας τοὺς θησαυροὺς οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ τοὺς θησαυροὺς οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ τὰ δόρατα τὰ χρυσᾶ ἃ ἔλαβε Δαυὶδ ἐκ χειρὸς τῶν παίδων Ἀδραζαὰρ βασιλέως Σουβὰ, καὶ εἰσήνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ τὰ πάντα ἃ ἔλαβεν, ὅπλα τὰ χρυσᾶ ὅσα ἐποίησε Σαλωμὼν, καὶ ἀπήνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς Αἴγυπτον.

27And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them; and the chiefs of the golden shields which Solomon had made, and the chiefs of the *** body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were placed in charge over them.Καὶ ἐποίησε Ῥοβοὰμ ὁ βασιλεὺς ὅπλα χαλκᾶ ἀντʼ αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐπέθεντο ἐπʼ αὐτὸν οἱ ἡγούμενοι τῶν παρατρεχόντων οἱ φυλάσσοντες τὸν πυλῶνα οἴκου βασιλέως.

28And it came to pass when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the body guard took them up, and fixed them in the ††† chamber of the body guard.Καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε εἰσεπορεύετο ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου, καὶ ᾖρον αὐτὰ οἱ παρατρέχοντες καὶ ἀπηρείδοντο αὐτὰ εἰς τὸ θεὲ τῶν παρατρεχόντων.

29And the rest of the ‡‡‡ history of Roboam, and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles §§§ of the kings of Juda?Καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Ῥοβοὰμ καὶ πάντα ἃ ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐν βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν Ἰούδα;

30And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam continually.Καὶ πόλεμος ἦν ἀναμέσον Ῥοβοὰμ καὶ ἀναμέσον Ἱεροβοὰμ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.

31And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Abiu his son reigned in his stead.Καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Ῥοβοὰμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, καὶ θάπτεται μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀβιοὺ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ.

Translator's Notes

These notes come from the printed edition of Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX), and record where the Greek differs from the English rendering or admits more than one reading.

• v. 1-20*Verses. 1 to 20. The substance of these verses is found in the Vatican copy after v. 24 chap. 12.
• v. 21†Brenton's footnote here says 'The first 20 verses of this chapter are supplied by the Alex.'
• v. 21‡Gr. a son of 41 years in his reigning.
• v. 24§Gr. of.
• v. 24**Gr. from the face of.
• v. 25††Gr. of Roboam reigning.
• v. 26‡‡Gr. arms.
• v. 26§§the remainder of this verse (here shown in italics) is not in Heb. or Alex.
• v. 27***Gr. runners by the side of.
• v. 28†††The Heb. חא is retained in the Gr.
• v. 29‡‡‡Gr. words.
• v. 29§§§Gr. to or for.