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1 漆德克雅為王九年十月十日，巴比倫王拿步高率領全軍前進攻耶路撒冷，紮營圍城，在城四周建築了壁壘，
Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.
2 圍攻京城，直到漆德克雅為王十一年。
And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 是年四月九日，城中發生了嚴重的飢荒，當地人民已沒有食糧，
Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
4 京城遂被攻破。加加丁人還在圍攻城時，君王和全體士兵，夜間出了靠近御園的雙牆城門，逃往阿辣巴。
So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town: ) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
5 加色丁軍隊便追趕君王，在耶利哥曠野追上了；此時他的軍隊都已離開他散了。
But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
6 加色丁軍隊擒獲了君王，帶他去黎貝拉去見巴比倫王。巴比倫王就宣判他的罪案，
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
7 且在漆德克雅眼前殺了他的兒子，也剜了他的眼，給他帶上鎖鏈，送往巴比倫去。
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
8 巴比倫王拿步高為王十九年五月七日，巴比倫王的大臣，衛隊長乃步匝辣當來到了耶路撒冷，
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
9 燒毀了上主的殿、王宮和耶路撒冷所有的民房；凡是高大的建築都用火燒了。
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;
10 跟隨衛長的所有加色丁軍隊，拆毀了耶路撒冷周圍是城牆。
And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
11 城中剩下的人民和已投降巴比倫王的人，以及其餘的平民，衛隊長乃步匝辣當都擄了去，
And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;
12 只留下當地一部分最窮的平民作園丁和農夫。
But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
13 加色丁人又將上主殿前的銅柱，和上主殿內的銅座、銅海都打碎，把銅運往巴比倫；
And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.
14 此外，鍋、鏟、蠟剪、香盤，以及行禮的一切銅器，全都帶走；
And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.
15 提爐、杯爵，凡是純金純銀的，衛隊長都拿走了。
And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.
16 撒羅滿為上主的殿所製造的兩根柱子，一個銅海和一些盆座，這一切器皿所用的銅，重量無法估計。
The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17 一根柱子高十八肘，上端有同柱頭，高五肘，柱頭四周有網子和石榴，全是銅的；另一根柱子，也有網子。
One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.
18 隊長又擒獲了大司祭色辣雅、副大司祭責法尺雅和三個門丁；
And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;
19 由城中擄去了一個管理軍隊的宦官，五個在城內搜到的君王的親信，一個徵募當地人民的軍長的書記．和城中搜到的六十個當地平民。
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
20 衛隊長乃步匝辣當捉住他們，帶到黎貝拉去見巴比倫王；
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
21 巴比倫王就在哈瑪特地的黎貝拉將他們殺了；從此，猶大人由本鄉被擄去充軍。
And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.
22 巴比倫王拿步高對留在猶大地的人民，派定了沙番的孫子，阿希甘的兒子革達里雅作他們的首長。
As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them.
23 眾軍長和他們的士兵一聽說巴比倫王委派了革達里雅為首長，乃塔尺雅的兒子依市瑪耳，卡勒亞的兒子約哈南，乃托法人堂胡默特的兒子色辣雅，瑪阿加人的兒子雅匝尼雅和他們的士兵，都來到米茲帕見革達里雅。
Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.
24 革達里雅遂對他們和他們的士兵起誓說：「你們不要害怕加色丁人的臣僕，安心住在此地，服事巴比倫王，就必能相安無事」。
Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans; go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.
25 但是到了七月，王家的後裔厄里沙瑪的孫子，乃塔尼雅的兒子依市瑪耳帶了十個人前來，殺了革達里雅，和與他同在米茲帕的猶大人及加色丁人。
But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah.
26 於是所有的人民，不分貴賤大小和眾軍長，因為害怕加色丁人，都起身逃往埃及去了。
Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans.
27 猶大王耶苛尼雅被擄後第三十七年十二月二十七日，巴比倫王厄威耳默洛達客在他登極元年，大赦猶大王耶苛尼雅，放他出獄，
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;
28 親切與他交談，令他坐在與他一同在巴比倫的眾王之上。
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
29 耶苛尼雅脫去囚服，以後一生日日與王共進飲食。
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
30 他的生活費用，在他有生之日，每天不斷由巴比倫王供應。
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
