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Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 亚哈谢在撒马利亚,一日从楼上的栏杆里掉下来,就病了;于是差遣使者说:“你们去问以革伦的神巴力·西卜,我这病能好不能好。”
Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
3 但耶和华的使者对提斯比人以利亚说:“你起来,去迎着撒马利亚王的使者,对他们说:‘你们去问以革伦神巴力·西卜,岂因以色列中没有 神吗?’
But the LORD’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?
4 所以耶和华如此说:‘你必不下你所上的床,必定要死!’”以利亚就去了。
Now therefore the LORD says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.
5 使者回来见王,王问他们说:“你们为什么回来呢?”
The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
6 使者回答说:“有一个人迎着我们来,对我们说:‘你们回去见差你们来的王,对他说:耶和华如此说,你差人去问以革伦神巴力·西卜,岂因以色列中没有 神吗?所以你必不下所上的床,必定要死。’”
They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “The LORD says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”
7 王问他们说:“迎着你们来告诉你们这话的,是怎样的人?”
He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?”
8 回答说:“他身穿毛衣,腰束皮带。”王说:“这必是提斯比人以利亚。”
They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”
9 于是,王差遣五十夫长,带领五十人去见以利亚,他就上到以利亚那里;以利亚正坐在山顶上。五十夫长对他说:“神人哪,王吩咐你下来!”
Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”
10 以利亚回答说:“我若是神人,愿火从天上降下来,烧灭你和你那五十人!”于是有火从天上降下来,烧灭五十夫长和他那五十人。
Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
11 王第二次差遣一个五十夫长,带领五十人去见以利亚。五十夫长对以利亚说:“神人哪,王吩咐你快快下来!”
Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”
12 以利亚回答说:“我若是神人,愿火从天上降下来,烧灭你和你那五十人!”于是 神的火从天上降下来,烧灭五十夫长和他那五十人。
Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
13 王第三次差遣一个五十夫长,带领五十人去。这五十夫长上去,双膝跪在以利亚面前,哀求他说:“神人哪,愿我的性命和你这五十个仆人的性命在你眼前看为宝贵!
Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty of your servants be precious in your sight.
14 已经有火从天上降下来,烧灭前两次来的五十夫长和他们各自带的五十人;现在愿我的性命在你眼前看为宝贵!”
Behold, fire came down from the sky and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”
15 耶和华的使者对以利亚说:“你同着他下去,不要怕他!”以利亚就起来,同着他下去见王,
The LORD’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” Then he arose and went down with him to the king.
16 对王说:“耶和华如此说:‘你差人去问以革伦神巴力·西卜,岂因以色列中没有 神可以求问吗?所以你必不下所上的床,必定要死!’”
He said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”
17 亚哈谢果然死了,正如耶和华借以利亚所说的话。因他没有儿子,他兄弟约兰接续他作王,正在犹大王约沙法的儿子约兰第二年。
So he died according to the LORD’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?