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1 約西亞登基的時候年八歲,在耶路撒冷作王三十一年。
Iosiah was eight yeere olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirtie yeere.
2 他行耶和華眼中看為正的事,效法他祖大衛所行的,不偏左右。
And he did vprightly in the sight of ye Lord, and walked in the wayes of Dauid his father, and bowed neither to the right hand nor to the left.
3 他作王第八年,尚且年幼,就尋求他祖大衛的上帝。到了十二年才潔淨猶大和耶路撒冷,除掉邱壇、木偶、雕刻的像,和鑄造的像。
And in the eight yeere of his reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, and the carued images, and molten images:
4 眾人在他面前拆毀巴力的壇,砍斷壇上高高的日像,又把木偶和雕刻的像,並鑄造的像打碎成灰,撒在祭偶像人的墳上,
And they brake downe in his sight the altars of Baalim, and hee caused to cut downe the images that were on hie vpon them: he brake also the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images, and stampt them to pouder, and strowed it vpon the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them.
5 將他們祭司的骸骨燒在壇上,潔淨了猶大和耶路撒冷;
Also he burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars, and purged Iudah and Ierusalem.
6 又在瑪拿西、以法蓮、西緬、拿弗他利各城,和四圍破壞之處,都這樣行;
And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their maules they brake all round about.
7 又拆毀祭壇,把木偶和雕刻的像打碎成灰,砍斷以色列遍地所有的日像,就回耶路撒冷去了。
And when he had destroyed the altars and the groues, and had broken and stamped to pouder the images, and had cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem.
8 約西亞王十八年,淨地淨殿之後,就差遣亞薩利雅的兒子沙番、邑宰瑪西雅、約哈斯的兒子史官約亞去修理耶和華-他上帝的殿。
Then in the eightenth yere of his reigne, when hee had purged the lande and the Temple, he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the Lord his God.
9 他們就去見大祭司希勒家,將奉到上帝殿的銀子交給他;這銀子是看守殿門的利未人從瑪拿西、以法蓮,和一切以色列剩下的人,以及猶大、便雅憫眾人,並耶路撒冷的居民收來的。
And when they came to Hilkiah the hie Priest, they deliuered ye money that was brought into the house of God, which the Leuites that kept the doore, had gathered at the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the residue of Israel, and of all Iudah and Beniamin, and of the inhabitantes of Ierusalem.
10 又將這銀子交給耶和華殿裏督工的,轉交修理耶和華殿的工匠,
And they put it in the hands of them that should doe the worke and had the ouersight in the house of the Lord: and they gaue it to the workemen that wrought in the house of ye Lord, to repaire and amend the house.
11 就是交給木匠、石匠,買鑿成的石頭和架木與棟樑,修猶大王所毀壞的殿。
Euen to the workemen and to the builders gaue they it, to bye hewed stone and timber for couples and for beames of the houses, which the Kings of Iudah had destroyed.
12 這些人辦事誠實,督工的是利未人米拉利的子孫雅哈、俄巴底;督催的是哥轄的子孫撒迦利亞、米書蘭;還有善於作樂的利未人。
And the men did the worke faithfully, and the ouerseers of them were Iahath and Obadiah the Leuites, of the children of Merari, and Zechariah, and Meshullam, of the children of the Kohathites to set it forward: and of the Leuites all that could skill of instruments of musike.
13 他們又監管扛抬的人,督催一切做工的。利未人中也有作書記、作司事、作守門的。
And they were ouer the bearers of burdens, and them that set forwarde all the workemen in euery worke: and of the Leuites were scribes, and officers and porters.
14 他們將奉到耶和華殿的銀子運出來的時候,祭司希勒家偶然得了摩西所傳耶和華的律法書。
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the Priest found the booke of the Lawe of the Lord giuen by the hand of Moses.
15 希勒家對書記沙番說:「我在耶和華殿裏得了律法書。」遂將書遞給沙番。
Therefore Hilkiah answered and sayde to Shaphan the chaceler, I haue found the booke of the Law in the house of the Lord: and Hilkiah gaue the booke to Shaphan.
16 沙番把書拿到王那裏,回覆王說:「凡交給僕人們辦的都辦理了。
And Shaphan caried the booke to the King, and brought the King worde againe, saying, All that is committed to the hand of thy seruants, that do they.
17 耶和華殿裏的銀子倒出來,交給督工的和匠人的手裏了。」
For they haue gathered the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and haue deliuered it into the handes of the ouerseers, and to the handes of the workemen.
18 書記沙番又對王說:「祭司希勒家遞給我一卷書。」沙番就在王面前讀那書。
Also Shaphan ye chanceler declared to the King, saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath giuen mee a booke, and Shaphan read it before the King.
19 王聽見律法上的話,就撕裂衣服,
And when the King had heard the wordes of the Lawe, he tare his clothes.
20 吩咐希勒家與沙番的兒子亞希甘、米迦的兒子亞比頓、書記沙番,和王的臣僕亞撒雅說:
And the King commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Abdon the sonne of Micah, and Shaphan the chanceler, and Asaiah the Kings seruant, saying,
21 「你們去為我、為以色列和猶大剩下的人,以這書上的話求問耶和華;因我們列祖沒有遵守耶和華的言語,沒有照這書上所記的去行,耶和華的烈怒就倒在我們身上。」
Goe and enquire of the Lord for me, and for the rest in Israel and Iudah, concerning the wordes of this booke that is founde: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is fallen vpon vs, because our fathers haue not kept the worde of the Lord, to doe after all that is written in this booke.
22 於是,希勒家和王所派的眾人都去見女先知戶勒大。戶勒大是掌管禮服沙龍的妻,沙龍是哈斯拉的孫子、特瓦的兒子。戶勒大住在耶路撒冷第二區;他們請問於她。
Then Hilkiah and they that the King had appoynted, went to Huldah the Prophetesse ye wife of Shallum, the sonne of Tokhath, the sonne of Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe (and she dwelt in Ierusalem within the colledge) and they communed hereof with her.
23 她對他們說:「耶和華-以色列的上帝如此說:『你們可以回覆那差遣你們來見我的人說,
And shee answered them, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, Tell yee the man that sent you to me,
24 耶和華如此說:我必照着在猶大王面前所讀那書上的一切咒詛,降禍與這地和其上的居民;
Thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitantes thereof, euen all the curses, that are written in the booke which they haue read before the King of Iudah:
25 因為他們離棄我,向別神燒香,用他們手所做的惹我發怒,所以我的忿怒如火倒在這地上,總不熄滅。』
Because they haue forsaken me, and burnt incense vnto other gods, to anger mee with al the workes of their hands, therefore shall my wrath fall vpon this place, and shall not be quenched.
26 然而差遣你們來求問耶和華的猶大王,你們要這樣回覆他說:『耶和華-以色列的上帝如此說:至於你所聽見的話,
But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The words which thou hast heard, shall come to passe.
27 就是聽見我指着這地和其上居民所說的話,你便心裏敬服,在我面前自卑,撕裂衣服,向我哭泣,因此我應允了你。這是我-耶和華說的。
But because thine heart did melt, and thou didest humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his wordes against this place and against the inhabitantes thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before mee and tarest thy clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also heard it, sayth the Lord.
28 我必使你平平安安地歸到墳墓,到你列祖那裏,我要降與這地和其上居民的一切災禍,你也不致親眼看見。』」他們就回覆王去了。
Beholde, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt bee put in thy graue in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the euill, which I will bring vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants of the same. Thus they brought ye King word againe.
29 王差遣人招聚猶大和耶路撒冷的眾長老來。
Then the King sent and gathered all the Elders of Iudah and Ierusalem.
30 王和猶大眾人,與耶路撒冷的居民,並祭司利未人,以及所有的百姓,無論大小,都一同上到耶和華的殿;王就把殿裏所得的約書念給他們聽。
And the King went vp into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and the Priests and the Leuites, and all the people from the greatest to the smallest, and hee read in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenant that was found in the house of the Lord.
31 王站在他的地位上,在耶和華面前立約,要盡心盡性地順從耶和華,遵守他的誡命、法度、律例,成就這書上所記的約言;
And the King stood by his pillar, and made a couenant before the Lord, to walke after the Lord, and to keepe his commandements, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soule, and that he would accomplish the wordes of the couenant written in the same booke.
32 又使住耶路撒冷和便雅憫的人都服從這約。於是耶路撒冷的居民都遵行他們列祖之上帝的約。
And he caused all that were found in Ierusalem, and Beniamin to stande to it: and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God, euen the God of their fathers.
33 約西亞從以色列各處將一切可憎之物盡都除掉,使以色列境內的人都事奉耶和華-他們的上帝。約西亞在世的日子,就跟從耶和華-他們列祖的上帝,總不離開。
So Iosiah tooke away al the abominations out of all the countreis that perteined to the children of Israel, and compelled all that were found in Israel, to serue the Lord their God: so all his dayes they turned not backe from the Lord God of their fathers.

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