列王紀下 16
1 勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑十七年，約堂的兒子阿哈次登極為猶大王。
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 他登極時年二十歲，在耶路撒冷作王十六年。他沒有像他祖先達味一樣，行了上主視正義之事，
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD his God’s eyes, like David his father.
3 卻走了以色列土的路，仿效上主從以色列子民面前趕走的異民的醜惡之事，令自己的兒女經火獻神，
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
4 又在高丘和綠樹下，焚香獻祭。
He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 那時，阿蘭王勒斤和以色列王勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑前來進攻耶路撒冷，圍困阿哈次，卻不能取勝。
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
6 就在這時，厄東王收回厄拉特重歸厄東，將猶大人從厄拉特趕走；厄東人進入厄拉特，住在那裏直到今日。
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there to this day.
7 阿哈次派者去見亞述王提革拉特丕肋色爾你的僕人，你的兒子，請你上來救我脫離阿蘭王和以色列王的手，因為他們來攻打我」。
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
8 阿哈次拿出上主殿內和王宮府庫內貯藏的金銀來，送給亞述王作為禮品。
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the LORD’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
9 亞述王遂聽從了他的要求，立即前去進攻大馬士革，佔領了那城，將那裏的居民往克爾，殺了勒斤。
The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
10 阿哈次曾去大馬士革，會見亞述王提革拉特丕肋色爾，他看見了大馬士革的祭壇，就給司祭烏黎雅送去了那座祭壇的圖案模型，和詳盡的製造法。
King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
11 烏黎雅完全照樣依照阿哈次王從大馬士革送來的祭壇式樣，建築了一座祭壇；烏黎雅司祭就在阿哈次王從大馬士革回來以前，完全照樣造好。
Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.
12 君王從大馬士革回來，看見那座祭壇，就近前上去，
When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.
13 奉獻了他的全燔祭和素祭，行了奠祭，將和平祭的血灑在祭壇上。
He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14 然後將上主面前的銅祭壇，從殿的前面，即從新祭壇和上主之殿的中間搬出來，放在祭壇的北邊。
The bronze altar, which was before the LORD, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the LORD’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.
15 阿哈次王吩咐司祭烏黎雅說：「你應在這大祭壇上焚燒早晨的全燔祭，晚上的素祭，君王的全燔祭和素祭，地方上全體人民的全燔祭、素祭和奠祭；全燔祭的血和各種犧牲的血，你也應灑在這祭壇上；至於這銅祭壇，讓我再加考慮」。
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to enquire by.”
16 司祭烏黎雅就照阿哈次所吩咐的一切做了。
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
17 後來，阿哈次王又拆毀了盆座上的鑲板，挪去了座的銅盆，將銅牛上的銅海搬下，放在石鋪的地上。
King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
18 此外，為了亞述王的緣故，又拆除了殿內建造的寶座，和君王從外面來到上主殿內的外門。
He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s outer entrance to the LORD’s house, because of the king of Assyria.
19 阿哈次其餘的事蹟，都記載在猶大列王寶錄上。
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 阿哈次與祖先同眼，與祖先同葬在達味城；他的兒子則克雅繼位為王。
Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
