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1 阿哈布死後，摩阿布就背叛了以色列。
After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.
2 阿哈齊雅在撒瑪黎雅從樓上的欄杆上跌下來就病了，遂打發使者，吩咐他們說：「你們去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，我這病寒能好嗎﹖」
Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice-work of his upper room in Samaria and had hurt himself badly. So he sent out messengers, telling them: “Go and ask Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will get better from this injury.”
3 上主的使者對提市貝人厄里亞說：「快起身，去迎撒瑪黎雅王的使者，問他們說：你們去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，難道在以色列沒有天主嗎﹖
But the angel of the Lord told Elijah the Tishbite, “Go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there's no God in Israel that you're going to ask advice from Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’
4 為此，上主這樣說：你再不能從你所上的床上下來，你必定要死。」厄里亞就去了。
So this is the Lord's answer: ‘You will not leave the bed on which you are lying. You're definitely going to die.’” And Elijah left.
5 使者回來見了君王，阿哈齊雅問他們說：「你們為什麼回來了。」
The messengers returned to the king, and he asked them, “Why have you come back?”
6 他們回答說：「有一個人迎上我們來，對我們說：你們回去見打發你們來的君王，對他說：上主這樣說：你派人去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，難道以色列沒有天主嗎﹖為此，你再不能從你所上的床上下來，你必定要死。」
“A man came and met us,” they replied. “He told us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and tell him, This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to ask advice from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? As a result you will not leave the bed on which you are lying. You're definitely going to die.’”
7 君王問他們說：「迎上你們，且告訴你們這些話的是怎樣的一個人﹖」
“What was he like, this man who met you and told you all this?” the king asked.
8 他們回答說，「是一個身穿皮毛衣，腰束皮帶的人。」君王說：「這一定是提市貝人厄里亞。」
“He was a hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist,” they replied. “It's Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
9 王遂派五十夫長，帶領五十人，去見厄里亞。他上去見厄里亞，厄里亞正坐在山頂上。五十夫長便對厄里亞說：「天主的人，王命你下去。」
Then the king sent an army captain with fifty men to Elijah. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and told him, “Man of God, the king orders you, ‘Come down!’”
10 厄里亞回答五十夫長說：「如果我是天主的人，願火從天降下，吞噬你和你這五十人! 」果然有火從天降下，吞噬了他和那五十人。
Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am a man of God, then let fire fall from heaven and burn up you and your fifty men.” Fire fell from heaven and burned up the captain and his men.
11 王又另派一個五十夫長，帶領五十人，去見厄里亞。五十夫長上去對厄里亞說：「天主的人! 王這樣吩咐：要你快下山! 」
So the king sent another captain with his fifty men to Elijah. The captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king orders you, Come down immediately!”
12 厄里亞回答說：「如果我是天主的人，願火從天降下，吞噬你和你這五十人。」果然天主的火從天降下，吞噬了他和那五十人。
Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am a man of God, then let fire fall from heaven and burn up you and your fifty men.” Fire fell from heaven and burned up the captain and his men.
13 王又派第三個五十夫長，帶領五十人去。這第三個五十夫長上去，一來到就屈膝跪在厄里亞面前，哀求他說：「天主的人，願我的生命和我這五十人的生命，在你眼中有點價值!
So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. The third captain went up, kneeled before Elijah, and pleaded with him, “Man of God, please value my life and the lives of these fifty men.
14 有火從天降下，吞噬了前兩個五十夫長，和他們每人帶領的五十人；現在，願我的生命在你眼中有點價值! 」
Yes, fire has fallen from heaven and burned up the first two captains of fifty, along with all their men. But now please value my life!”
15 上主的使者對厄里亞說：「你同他下去! 不必害怕。」厄里亞就起身同他一起下去見君王，
Then the angel of the Lord told Elijah, “Go down with him. You don't have to be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.
16 對君王說：「上主這樣說：由於你打發使者去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，好像在以色列沒有天主可以向他求問指示一樣，因此，你再不能從你所上的床下來，你必定要死。」
Elijah told the king, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Is it because there's no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to ask advice of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? As a result you will not leave the bed on which you are lying. You're definitely going to die.”
17 阿哈齊雅果然如上主藉著厄里亞所說的話死了；因為他沒有兒子，他的兄弟耶曷蘭繼位為王，時在猶大王約沙法特的兒子約蘭第二年。
Ahaziah died just as the Lord had said through Elijah. Because he had no son, Joram succeeded him as king in the second year of the reign of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
18 阿哈齊雅其餘的事蹟，都記載在以色列列王實錄上。
The rest of what happened in Ahaziah's reign and what he did are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
