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1 那時，有一個神人奉耶和華的命從猶大來到伯特利。耶羅波安正站在壇旁要燒香；
The Lord ordered a man of God from Judah to go to Bethel. He arrived just as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar about to present a burnt offering.
2 神人奉耶和華的命向壇呼叫，說：「壇哪，壇哪！耶和華如此說：大衛家裏必生一個兒子，名叫約西亞，他必將邱壇的祭司，就是在你上面燒香的，殺在你上面，人的骨頭也必燒在你上面。」
He shouted out the Lord's condemnation of the altar: “Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says. A son will be born to the house of David. His name will be Josiah, and on you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn offerings on you, and human bones will be burned on you.”
3 當日，神人設個預兆，說：「這壇必破裂，壇上的灰必傾撒，這是耶和華說的預兆。」
The same day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “This is the sign to prove that the Lord has spoken. Look! The altar will be split apart, and the ashes on it will spill out.”
4 耶羅波安王聽見神人向伯特利的壇所呼叫的話，就從壇上伸手，說：「拿住他吧！」王向神人所伸的手就枯乾了，不能彎回；
When King Jeroboam heard the condemnation the man of God had shouted out against the altar in Bethel, he pointed his hand at him and said, “Arrest him!” But the hand the king had pointed at him had become paralyzed and he couldn't draw it back.
5 壇也破裂了，壇上的灰傾撒了，正如神人奉耶和華的命所設的預兆。
The altar split apart, and the ashes spilled out from it, fulfilling the sign that the man of God had given from the Lord.
6 王對神人說：「請你為我禱告，求耶和華－你上帝的恩典使我的手復原。」於是神人祈禱耶和華，王的手就復了原，仍如尋常一樣。
Then the king said to the man of God, “Please plead with the Lord your God—pray for me that I may have my hand back!” The man of God pleaded with the Lord, and the king was given back the use of his hand as it was before.
7 王對神人說：「請你同我回去吃飯，加添心力，我也必給你賞賜。」
Then the king said to the man of God, “Come to my home and have a meal so I can give you a present.”
8 神人對王說：「你就是把你的宮一半給我，我也不同你進去，也不在這地方吃飯喝水；
But the man of God told the king, “Even if you gave me half of everything you own, I still wouldn't go with you. In fact I refuse to eat or drink anything in this place.
9 因為有耶和華的話囑咐我，說不可在伯特利吃飯喝水，也不可從你去的原路回來。」
The Lord ordered me not to eat or drink anything, and not to return by the way I came.”
10 於是神人從別的路回去，不從伯特利來的原路回去。
So he went a different way—he did not return the way he had come to Bethel.
11 有一個老先知住在伯特利，他兒子們來，將神人當日在伯特利所行的一切事和向王所說的話都告訴了父親。
It so happened that an old prophet lived in Bethel. His sons came and told him everything the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father what the man had said to the king.
12 父親問他們說：「神人從哪條路去了呢？」兒子們就告訴他；原來他們看見那從猶大來的神人所去的路。
“Which way did he go?” their father asked them. So his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God from Judah.
13 老先知就吩咐他兒子們說：「你們為我備驢。」他們備好了驢，他就騎上，
“Saddle up a donkey for me,” he told his sons. They saddled up a donkey and he got on.
14 去追趕神人，遇見他坐在橡樹底下，就問他說：「你是從猶大來的神人不是？」他說：「是。」
He rode after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” he asked him. “Yes I am,” the man replied.
15 老先知對他說：「請你同我回家吃飯。」
“Come home with me and have something to eat,” he told him.
16 神人說：「我不可同你回去進你的家，也不可在這裏同你吃飯喝水；
“I can't turn around and go with you, and I won't eat or drink with you in this place,” the man of God replied.
17 因為有耶和華的話囑咐我說：『你在那裏不可吃飯喝水，也不可從你去的原路回來。』」
“The Lord ordered me, saying ‘You must not eat or drink anything there, or return by the way you came.’”
18 老先知對他說：「我也是先知，和你一樣。有天使奉耶和華的命對我說：『你去把他帶回你的家，叫他吃飯喝水。』」這都是老先知誆哄他。
But the old prophet told him, “I am also a prophet, just like you. An angel told me God said, ‘Take him home with you so that he can have something to eat and drink’” But he was lying to him.
19 於是神人同老先知回去，在他家裏吃飯喝水。
So the man of God went back with him, and ate and drank in his house.
20 二人坐席的時候，耶和華的話臨到那帶神人回來的先知，
As they were sitting at the table, a message from the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.
21 他就對那從猶大來的神人說：「耶和華如此說：你既違背耶和華的話，不遵守耶和華－你上帝的命令，
He called out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not followed the orders that the Lord your God gave you,
22 反倒回來，在耶和華禁止你吃飯喝水的地方吃了喝了，因此你的屍身不得入你列祖的墳墓。」
instead you went back and ate and drank in the place where he told you not to, your body will not be buried in the tomb of your fathers.”
23 吃喝完了，老先知為所帶回來的先知備驢。
After the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his own donkey for him.
24 他就去了，在路上有個獅子遇見他，將他咬死，屍身倒在路上，驢站在屍身旁邊，獅子也站在屍身旁邊。
But as he went on his way a lion came across him on the road and killed him. His body was left lying in the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
25 有人從那裏經過，看見屍身倒在路上，獅子站在屍身旁邊，就來到老先知所住的城裏述說這事。
Some passers-by saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, so they went and let people know about it in the town where the old prophet lived.
26 那帶神人回來的先知聽見這事，就說：「這是那違背了耶和華命令的神人，所以耶和華把他交給獅子；獅子抓傷他，咬死他，是應驗耶和華對他說的話。」
When the old prophet who had led the other astray heard what had happened, he said, “It's the man of God who disobeyed the Lord's orders. That's why the Lord put him in the path of the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, just as the Lord told him would happen.”
27 老先知就吩咐他兒子們說：「你們為我備驢。」他們就備了驢。
The prophet told his sons, “Saddle up a donkey for me.” So they saddled a donkey,
28 他去了，看見神人的屍身倒在路上，驢和獅子站在屍身旁邊，獅子卻沒有吃屍身，也沒有抓傷驢。
and he went and found the body. It was still lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or attacked the donkey.
29 老先知就把神人的屍身馱在驢上，帶回自己的城裏，要哀哭他，葬埋他；
The prophet picked up the body of the man of God, placed it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own town to mourn over him and bury him.
30 就把他的屍身葬在自己的墳墓裏，哀哭他，說：「哀哉！我兄啊。」
He laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him, crying, “My poor brother!”
31 安葬之後，老先知對他兒子們說：「我死了，你們要葬我在神人的墳墓裏，使我的屍骨靠近他的屍骨，
After he'd buried him, he told his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
32 因為他奉耶和華的命指着伯特利的壇和撒馬利亞各城有邱壇之殿所說的話必定應驗。」
For the message from the Lord that he gave in condemnation against the altar in Bethel, and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria, will definitely happen.”
33 這事以後，耶羅波安仍不離開他的惡道，將凡民立為邱壇的祭司；凡願意的，他都分別為聖，立為邱壇的祭司。
But even after all this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways. He went on choosing priests from all kinds of people. He appointed anyone who wanted to be a priest of the high places.
34 這事叫耶羅波安的家陷在罪裏，甚至他的家從地上除滅了。
This was because of this sin that the house of Jeroboam was wiped out, completely destroyed from the face of the earth.
