列王紀下 9
1 那時，先知厄里叟叫一個先知弟子來，對他說：「你束上腰，手裏拿著這瓶油，往辣摩特基肋阿得去，
Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2 一到了那裏，就去求見尼默史的孫子約沙法特的兒子耶胡；得見後，叫他離開同僚，領踢進入一間內室，
When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.
3 將這瓶油倒在他的頭上說：上主這樣說：我傅你為以色列王。然後，開門逃走，不要逗留。」
Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘The LORD says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and do not wait.”
4 那青年人，即那青年先知就往辣摩特基肋阿得去了。
So the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.
5 他到了那裏，看見眾將軍都在坐，青年人遂說：「將軍，我有話對你說。」耶胡問說：「我們中，你要對那一個說話﹖」他答說：「將軍，就是你。」
When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.” Jehu said, “To which one of us?” He said, “To you, O captain.”
6 耶胡站起來，進了內室，那青年人就將油倒在他頭上，對他說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：我傅你為上主的人民以色列的君王。
He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
7 你要消滅你主上阿哈布的家，使我在依則貝耳身上，為我的僕人先知和上主的一切僕人報寫仇。
You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
8 阿哈布的全家必要喪亡；我要消滅以色列凡屬於阿哈布的一切男人，無論是自由的，或不自由的。
For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
9 我要使阿哈布家像乃巴特的兒子雅洛貝罕家，又像阿希雅的兒子巴厄沙家一樣；
I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
10 於依則貝耳，狗要在依次勒耳的田間吞食她，沒有人來埋怨。」那青年人說完，就開門逃走了。
The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.
11 耶胡出來回到他主上的臣僕那裏，他們問他說：「一切都好嗎﹖那瘋子來見你有什麼事﹖」耶胡答說：「你們應認識這個人，也知道他說些什麼。」
When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
12 他們說：「定說些胡話! 請給我們說說! 」耶胡遂說：「他如此如此告訴我說：上主這樣說：我傅你為以色列王。」
They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘The LORD says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”
13 他們一聽，急忙將自己的衣服舖在光台階他的腳下，吹角喊說：「耶胡作王了! 」
Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
14 尼默史的孫子約沙法特的兒子耶胡於是背叛了耶曷蘭。─那時，耶曷蘭曾率領全以色列人在辣摩特基肋阿得，對抗阿蘭君王哈匝耳。
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
15 但耶曷蘭已回了依次勒耳，治療他與阿蘭王哈匝耳交戰時，被阿蘭人所射的創傷。─耶胡說：「如果這件事合你們的心意，那麼就不要讓任何人逃出城去，到依次勒耳報信。」
but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.”
16 耶胡於是親自駕車去了依次勒耳，因為耶曷蘭正在那裏臥病未起；猶大王阿哈齊雅也下到那裏去探望他。
So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
17 站在依次勒耳堡壘上的守兵，見有耶胡的兵隊來到，就喊叫說：「我看見了一大隊人馬! 」耶曷蘭下令說：「叫一個騎兵來，派他去探問他們說：都平安嗎﹖」
Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
18 騎兵就去迎接耶胡說：「王問：都平安嗎﹖」耶胡答說：「平安不平安與你何干﹖轉到我後面去! 」守兵隨號報告說：「使者到了他們那裏，卻沒有回來。」
So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he is not coming back.”
19 耶曷蘭又打發第二個騎兵去，這騎兵到了他們那裏說：「王問：都平安嗎﹖」耶胡答說：「平安不平安與你何干？轉到我後面去！」
Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
20 守兵隨後又報告說：「他到了他們你裏，也沒有回來；那駕車法很像尼默史的孫子耶胡的駕駛法，駕得很狂猛。」
The watchman said, “He came to them, and is not coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
21 耶曷蘭遂即吩咐說：「套車! 」人就套好他的車。以色列王耶曷蘭和猶大王阿哈齊雅出來，各自上車，去迎接耶胡，在依次勒耳人納波特的莊田那裏，迎上了他。
Joram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.
22 耶曷蘭一見耶胡就問說：「耶胡! 都平安嗎﹖」耶胡回答說：「你母親依則貝耳的淫行和妖術那樣多，還有什麼平安﹖」
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
23 耶曷蘭即刻轉車逃走，對阿哈齊雅說：「阿喝齊雅，他反了! 」
Joram turned his hands and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”
24 耶胡用手拉弓，射中了耶曷蘭兩臂之間，箭從心窩穿出，耶曷蘭就倒在車上。
Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
25 耶胡吩咐自己的侍衛彼德卡說：「將他抬起，丟在依次肋耳人納波特的莊田裏! 你該記得：當我你二人一起駕車跟隨他父親阿哈布時，上主即向他宣布了這個神諭：「
Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:
26 昨天我確實看見了納波特和他兒子們的血，上主的斷語；我必要在這塊田地裏面報復你，上主的斷語。所以現在，你要照上主的話，將他抬起，丟在這塊田地裏。」
‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the LORD’s word.”
27 猶大王阿哈齊雅見了這事，就向貝特干逃去，耶胡追趕他，吩咐說：「也將他射殺在車上! 」果然，在離依貝肋罕不遠的古爾山坡上，把他射傷；他逃到默基多，就死在那裏。
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28 他的臣僕用車把他送到耶路撒冷，與祖先葬在達味城，他自己的墳墓裏。
His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.
29 阿哈齊雅登極為猶大王，是在阿哈布的兒子耶曷蘭在位第十一年。
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
30 當耶胡來到依次勒耳時，依則貝耳就聽說了，遂畫眉梳頭，從窗戶往外眺望，
When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
31 見耶胡進城門的時候，她便問說：「弒殺主上的齊默黎，你平安嗎﹖」
As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
32 耶胡舉目看見那窗戶說：「誰擁護我﹖誰﹖」有兩三個太監從窗戶裏往下看他。
He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
33 耶胡說：「把她推下來! 」他們便把她推下來，她的血濺在牆上和馬身上；馬在她身上踏過。
He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
34 耶胡進去，吃喝完了，吩咐說：「你們去料理那可詛咒的女人，將她埋怨，因為她究竟是君王的女兒。」
When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
35 但是，當他們去埋葬她時，只找到了她的頭蓋、腳和手掌，
They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
36 遂回來告訴耶胡。耶胡說：「這正應驗了上主藉自己的僕人提市貝人厄里亞所說的話：在依次勒耳的莊田裏，狗要吞食依則貝耳的肉；
Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
37 依則貝耳的屍首要成為依次勒耳田地裏的糞土，以致人不能說：這是依則貝耳。」
and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the surface of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they will not say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
