Section 69
And Shəlomah turned and looked at the Malak and stretched out both his hands, and said, “My Yahuah, is the coming of the Deliverer of which you speakest near or far off? ” And the Malak answered and said to him, “ He will come three and thirty generations from your kin and from your seed and will deliver you. But Yisra'el will hate their Deliverer, and will be envious of Him because He will work signs and miracles before them. And they will crucify Him, and will kill Him, and He shall rise up again and deliver them, for He is merciful to the penitent and good to those who are His chosen ones. And behold, I tell you plainly that He will not leave in Sheol His kinsmen of Yisra'el by whom the Pearl has been carried.” And when the Malak of Elohim had spoken these words to Shəlomah, he said to him, “ Peace be to you.” And Shəlomah answered and said to him, “ My Yahuah, I beseech you, I would ask you one question; be not unheedful of my cry.” And the Malak said to him, “ Speak, ask me your question, and I will make you to know what I have heard and seen.” And Shəlomah said to him, “ Now I am grieved because of Yisra'el, His people, whom He has chosen as His firstborn from among all the ancient tribes of His inheritance; tell me, will they be blotted out after the coming of the Deliverer? ” And the Malak of Elohim answered him again and said to him, “ Yea, I have told you that they will crucify the Deliverer. And when they have poured out His blood on the wood of the Cross they shall be scattered all over the world.” And Shəlomah said, “ I weep for my people. Woe to my people! who from first to last have always provoked their Creator to wrath. I and those who have been before me are unworthy to have mercy shown to us because of the evil of our works, for we are a faithless generation. Woe to those who shall pour out innocent blood, and calumniate the righteous man, and divide his spoil, and who neither believe on His word nor walk in His Mitswah! Their Mishpat is waiting, and their error abideth; great is their punishment. And their sin is waiting, and it shall never be forgiven to them, and the sin of their fathers shall be remembered; for their work was sin, and they shall be destroyed by that which they themselves have imagined. And woe also to my soul! for I who have been honoured shall on my death be treated with contempt; and I who have been renowned for wisdom upon the earth shall become dust. In what way is the king superior if he has not done good upon the earth to the poor? Their falling into the grave is the same, and their path in the deep is the same. Of what benefit (or, use) are we who are men? We are created in vain, and after a little time we become as if we had never been created. As for the breath which we breathe, if it cease for a short time, our soul passeth away, and if the beat of the spark of our heart which moveth in our mind passeth away we become dust, and our friends and acquaintances hold us to be a loathsome thing. And the understanding of our mind which is above [in] our heads [is destroyed] when our soul is poured out, and we become worms and filth; and when the heat of our body has passed away we become nothingness and we pass away like the dissolving of a cloud. What then? To multiply speech is useless, and the goodliness of the stature is destroyed, and the strength of kings is blotted out, and the might of governors is destroyed and is no more found. And we all pass away like shadows, and when we have passed away in death our name is forgotten, and the trace of us cannot be found; after three generations of our children there is none who will remember our name.” And straightway he turned his face to Reḥav'am his son, and he said to him, “ O my son, withhold thyself from evil and do the things that are good, so that you mayest find many days upon earth. And do not bow down to strange gods, and do not worship them, but fear and honour Elohim only, so that you mayest conquer your foes and your adversaries, and mayest inherit the habitation of your father in the heavens, and also eternal life.,> Ho w Rehohoam Reigned And he said to him, “ Write me in the roll of the Book, and lay it in the chest.” And he said to Tsadoq the Kohen, “ Anoint my son and make him king. As my father Daviyd, my Yahuah, made me king whilst he was alive, even so do I make my son Reḥav'am king. And his seed shall be the salvation of myself and of my fathers for ever, according to what the Malak of the Yahuah spoke to me.”