列王紀下 14
1 以色列王約阿哈次的兒子耶曷阿士二年，約阿士的兒子阿瑪責雅登極為猶大王。
In the second year of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, did Amessias also the son of Joas the king of Juda begin to reign.
2 他登極時二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王，凡二十九年；他的母親名叫約阿當，是耶路撒冷人。
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Joadim of Jerusalem.
3 他行了上主視為正義的事，只是不如他的祖先達味，事事仿效他父親約阿士，
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father: he did according to all things that his father Joas did.
4 只是沒有廢除高丘，人民仍在高丘上焚香獻祭。
Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
5 及至王權已掌握在他手中之後，即將弒殺他父王的那些臣僕殺掉；
And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants that had slain the king his father.
6 但沒有處死兇手們的子女，因為照梅瑟法律書上的記載，上主曾吩咐說：「不可為兒子的罪處死父親，亦不可為父親的罪處死兒子；每人只應因自己的罪而死。」
But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one shall die for his own sins.
7 阿瑪責雅在鹽谷擊殺了一萬厄東人，一戰而攻佔了色拉，改名叫約刻特耳，直到今日。猶大向以色列宣戰。
He smote of Edom ten thousand in the valley of salt, and took the Rock in the war, and called its name Jethoel until this day.
8 那時，阿瑪責雅派遣使者去見以色列王耶胡的孫子，約阿哈次的兒子耶曷阿士說：「來，讓我們見個高低! 」
Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz son of Ju king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
9 以色列王耶曷阿士派人去對猶大王阿瑪責雅說：「黎巴嫩的荊棘派使者對黎巴嫩的香柏說：將你的女兒嫁給我的兒子為妻! 然而有一隻黎巴嫩的野獸經過，將這棵荊棘踐踏了。
And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to thy son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.
10 你打敗了厄東，就心高氣傲嗎﹖你安居家中引以為榮好了，又何必惹禍，使你和猶大一同喪亡﹖」
Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So [both] thou wilt fall and Juda with thee.
11 但是，阿瑪責雅不肯聽從，於是以色列王耶曷阿士就上來，在猶大的貝特舍默士與猶大王阿瑪責雅相見了。
Nevertheless Amessias hearkened not: so Joas king of Israel went up, and he and Amessias king of Juda looked one another in the face in Baethsamys of Juda.
12 猶大為以色列擊敗，各自逃回帳幕去了。
And Juda was overthrown before Israel, and [every] man fled to his tent.
13 以色列王耶曷阿士在貝特舍默士生擒了阿哈齊雅的孫子，約阿士的兒子猶大王阿瑪責雅，帶到耶路撒冷，將耶路撒冷的城牆，從厄弗辣因門到「角門，」拆了一個缺口，共四百肘；
And Joas king of Israel took Amessias the son of Joas the son of Ochozias, in Baethsamys; and he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, [beginning] at the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.
14 又將上主殿內和王宮府庫裡所有的金銀和一切器皿，都拿了去，並帶了人質回撒瑪黎雅。
And he took the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15 耶曷阿士所行的其他事蹟，及他與猶大王阿瑪責雅交戰時所表現的英勇，都記載在以色列列王實錄上。
And the rest of the acts of Joas, [even] all that he did in his might, how he warred with Amessias king of Juda, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16 耶曷阿士與列祖同眠，與以色列列王同葬在撒瑪黎雅。他的兒子雅洛貝罕繼位為王。
And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
17 以色列王約阿哈次的兒子耶曷阿士死後，猶大王約阿士的兒子阿瑪責雅，還活了十五年。
And Amessias the son of Joas king of Juda lived after the death of Joas son of Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years.
18 阿瑪責雅其餘的事蹟，都記載在猶大列王實錄上。
And the rest of the acts of Amessias, and all that he did, [are] not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?
19 在耶路撒冷有人結黨反抗他，他即逃往拉基士，但是叛黨派人追到拉基士，在那裡將他殺死，
And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis: and they sent after him to Lachis, and slew him there.
20 將屍體用馬馱回，葬在耶路撒冷達味城，與他的祖先埋在一起。
And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
21 全猶大人民遂選立了十六歲的阿匝黎雅，繼他父親阿瑪責雅為王。
And all the people of Juda took Azarias, and he was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amessias.
22 在阿瑪責雅王與他的祖先同眠以後，阿匝黎雅將厄拉特收回仍歸猶大，加以重建。
He built Aeloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.
23 猶大王約阿士的兒子阿瑪責雅十五年，以色列王耶曷阿士的兒子雅洛貝罕，在撒瑪黎雅登極為王，在位凡四十一年。
In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda began Jeroboam son of Joas to reign over Israel in Samaria forty and one years.
24 他行了上主視為惡的事，沒有離開乃巴特的兒子雅洛貝罕，使以色列陷於罪惡的種種罪惡。
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin.
25 他收復了以色列邊境的疆域，從哈瑪特渡口直到阿辣巴海，正如上主以色列的天主，藉他僕人加特赫斐爾人阿米泰的兒子約納所說的話。
He recovered the coast of Israel from the entering in of Aemath to the sea of Araba, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet of Gethchopher.
26 因為上主看見了以色列遭受壓迫，極其痛苦；無論是自由的或不自由的，都沒有了；也沒有人援助以色列。
For the Lord saw [that] the affliction of Israel [was] very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in want, and destitute, and Israel had no helper.
27 然而上主並沒有意思，要從天下除去以色列的名字，因此，藉耶曷阿士的兒子雅洛貝罕拯救了他們。
And the Lord said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.
28 雅洛貝罕其餘的事蹟，他行的一切，他交戰時的英勇，以及他如何的攻下了大馬士革和收復了哈瑪特重歸於以色列，都記載在以色列列王實錄上。
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, which he achieved in war, and how he recovered Damascus and Aemath to Juda in Israel, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 雅洛貝罕與祖先以色列列王同眠後，他的兒子則加黎雅繼位為王。
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zacharias his son reigned in his stead.
