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1 王差遣人招聚猶大和耶路撒冷的眾長老來。
And they reported to the king what she had said. And he sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
2 王和猶大眾人與耶路撒冷的居民,並祭司、先知,和所有的百姓,無論大小,都一同上到耶和華的殿;王就把耶和華殿裏所得的約書念給他們聽。
And the king ascended to the temple of the Lord. And with him were all the men of Judah and all who were living in Jerusalem: the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, from the small to the great. And in the hearing of everyone, he read all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.
3 王站在柱旁,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。眾民都服從這約。
And the king stood upon the step. And he struck a covenant before the Lord, so that they would walk after the Lord, and keep his precepts and testimonies and ceremonies, with all their heart and with all their soul, and so that they would carry out the words of this covenant, which had been written in that book. And the people agreed to the covenant.
4 王吩咐大祭司希勒家和副祭司,並把門的,將那為巴力和亞舍拉,並天上萬象所造的器皿,都從耶和華殿裏搬出來,在耶路撒冷外汲淪溪旁的田間燒了,把灰拿到伯特利去。
And the king instructed Hilkiah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, so that they would cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels which had been made for Baal, and for the sacred grove, and for the entire army of heaven. And he burned them outside of Jerusalem, in the steep valley of Kidron. And he carried their dust into Bethel.
5 從前猶大列王所立拜偶像的祭司,在猶大城邑的邱壇和耶路撒冷的周圍燒香,現在王都廢去,又廢去向巴力和日、月、行星,並天上萬象燒香的人;
And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Judah had appointed to sacrifice in the high places throughout the cities of Judah, and all around Jerusalem, along with those who were burning incense to Baal, and to the Sun, and to the Moon, and to the twelve signs, and to the entire army of heaven.
6 又從耶和華殿裏將亞舍拉搬到耶路撒冷外汲淪溪邊焚燒,打碎成灰,將灰撒在平民的墳上;
And he caused the sacred grove to be carried away from the house of the Lord, outside of Jerusalem, to the steep valley of Kidron. And he burned it there, and reduced it to dust. And he cast the dust over the graves of the common people.
7 又拆毀耶和華殿裏孌童的屋子,就是婦女為亞舍拉織帳子的屋子,
Also, he destroyed the small places of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women were weaving something like little houses in the sacred grove.
8 並且從猶大的城邑帶眾祭司來,污穢祭司燒香的邱壇,從迦巴直到別是巴,又拆毀城門旁的邱壇,這邱壇在邑宰約書亞門前,進城門的左邊。
And he gathered together all the priests from the cities of Judah. And he defiled the high places, where the priests were sacrificing, from Geba as far as Beersheba. And he tore down the altars of the gates at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, the leader of the city, which was to the left of the gate of the city.
9 但是邱壇的祭司不登耶路撒冷耶和華的壇,只在他們弟兄中間吃無酵餅。
Yet truly, the priests of the high places did not ascend to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem. For they would only eat from the unleavened bread in the midst of their brothers.
10 又污穢欣嫩子谷的陀斐特,不許人在那裏使兒女經火獻給摩洛;
Also, he defiled Topheth, which is in the steep valley of the son of Hinnom, so that no one would consecrate his son or his daughter, through fire, to Molech.
11 又將猶大列王在耶和華殿門旁、太監拿單‧米勒靠近遊廊的屋子、向日頭所獻的馬廢去,且用火焚燒日車。
Also, he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the Sun, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, beside the hallway of Nathan-melech, the eunuch, who was in Pharurim. And he burned the chariots of the Sun with fire.
12 猶大列王在亞哈斯樓頂上所築的壇和瑪拿西在耶和華殿兩院中所築的壇,王都拆毀打碎了,就把灰倒在汲淪溪中。
Also, the altars which were upon the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king destroyed. And he hurried from there, and he scattered their ashes into the torrent Kidron.
13 從前以色列王所羅門在耶路撒冷前、邪僻山右邊為西頓人可憎的神亞斯她錄、摩押人可憎的神基抹、亞捫人可憎的神米勒公所築的邱壇,王都污穢了,
Also, the high places which were in Jerusalem, to the right side of the Mount of Offense, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built to Ashtoreth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh, the offense of Moab, and to Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.
14 又打碎柱像,砍下木偶,將人的骨頭充滿了那地方。
And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead.
15 他將伯特利的壇,就是叫以色列人陷在罪裏、尼八的兒子耶羅波安所築的那壇,都拆毀焚燒,打碎成灰,並焚燒了亞舍拉。
Then too, the altar which was in Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made: both that altar and the high place he tore down, and burned, and reduced to dust. And then he also set fire to the sacred grove.
16 約西亞回頭,看見山上的墳墓,就打發人將墳墓裏的骸骨取出來,燒在壇上,污穢了壇,正如從前神人宣傳耶和華的話。
And in that place Josiah, turning, saw the sepulchers which were on the mount. And he sent and took the bones from the sepulchers. And he burned them upon the altar, and he defiled it in accord with the word of the Lord, which was spoken by the man of God, who had predicted these events.
17 約西亞問說:「我所看見的是甚麼碑?」那城裏的人回答說:「先前有神人從猶大來,預先說王現在向伯特利壇所行的事,這就是他的墓碑。」
And he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the citizens of that city responded to him: “It is the sepulcher of the man of God, who came from Judah, and who predicted these events, which you have carried out concerning the altar of Bethel.”
18 約西亞說:「由他吧!不要挪移他的骸骨。」他們就不動他的骸骨,也不動從撒馬利亞來那先知的骸骨。
And he said: “Permit him. Let no one move his bones.” And his bones have remained untouched, with the bones of the prophet who had arrived from Samaria.
19 從前以色列諸王在撒馬利亞的城邑建築邱壇的殿,惹動耶和華的怒氣,現在約西亞都廢去了,就如他在伯特利所行的一般;
Then too, all the shrines of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josiah took away. And he acted toward them according to all the works that he had done in Bethel.
20 又將邱壇的祭司都殺在壇上,並在壇上燒人的骨頭,就回耶路撒冷去了。
And all the priests of the high places, who were in that place, he killed upon the altars. And he burned the bones of the men upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.
21 王吩咐眾民說:「你們當照這約書上所寫的,向耶和華-你們的上帝守逾越節。」
And he instructed all the people, saying: “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, according to what has been written in the book of this covenant.”
22 自從士師治理以色列人和以色列王、猶大王的時候,直到如今,實在沒有守過這樣的逾越節;
Now no similar Passover was kept, from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, and from all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,
23 只有約西亞王十八年在耶路撒冷向耶和華守這逾越節。
as this Passover, which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah.
24 凡猶大國和耶路撒冷所有交鬼的、行巫術的,與家中的神像和偶像,並一切可憎之物,約西亞盡都除掉,成就了祭司希勒家在耶和華殿裏所得律法書上所寫的話。
Then too, Josiah took away those who divined by spirits, and the soothsayers, and the images of the idols, and the defilements, and the abominations, which had been in the land of Judah and Jerusalem, so that he might establish the words of the law, which were written in the book, which Hilkiah, the priest, found in the temple of the Lord.
25 在約西亞以前沒有王像他盡心、盡性、盡力地歸向耶和華,遵行摩西的一切律法;在他以後也沒有興起一個王像他。
There was no king before him similar to him, who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses. And after him, there rose up no one similar to him.
26 然而,耶和華向猶大所發猛烈的怒氣仍不止息,是因瑪拿西諸事惹動他。
Yet truly, the Lord did not turn away from the wrath of his great fury, his fury which was enraged against Judah because of the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.
27 耶和華說:「我必將猶大人從我面前趕出,如同趕出以色列人一般;我必棄掉我從前所選擇的這城-耶路撒冷和我所說立我名的殿。」
And so the Lord said: “And now I will remove Judah from my face, just as I removed Israel. And I will cast aside this city, Jerusalem, which I have chosen, and the house, about which I said: My name shall be there.”
28 約西亞其餘的事,凡他所行的都寫在猶大列王記上。
Now the rest of the words of Josiah, and all that he did, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
29 約西亞年間,埃及王法老尼哥上到幼發拉底河攻擊亞述王;約西亞王去抵擋他。埃及王遇見約西亞在米吉多,就殺了他。
During his days, Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, ascended against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates. And king Josiah went out to meet him. And when he had seen him, he was killed at Megiddo.
30 他的臣僕用車將他的屍首從米吉多送到耶路撒冷,葬在他自己的墳墓裏。國民膏約西亞的兒子約哈斯接續他父親作王。
And his servants carried him dead from Megiddo. And they took him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah. And they anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
31 約哈斯登基的時候年二十三歲,在耶路撒冷作王三個月。他母親名叫哈慕她,是立拿人耶利米的女兒。
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
32 約哈斯行耶和華眼中看為惡的事,效法他列祖一切所行的。
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 法老尼哥將約哈斯鎖禁在哈馬地的利比拉,不許他在耶路撒冷作王,又罰猶大國銀子一百他連得,金子一他連得。
And Pharaoh Neco bound him at Riblah, which is in the land of Hamath, so that he would not reign in Jerusalem. And he imposed a penalty on the land: one hundred talents of silver, and one talent of gold.
34 法老尼哥立約西亞的兒子以利亞敬接續他父親約西亞作王,給他改名叫約雅敬,卻將約哈斯帶到埃及,他就死在那裏。
And Pharaoh Neco appointed Eliakim, the son of Josiah, as king in place of Josiah his father. And he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz away, and he brought him into Egypt, and there he died.
35 約雅敬將金銀給法老,遵着法老的命向國民徵取金銀,按着各人的力量派定,索要金銀,好給法老尼哥。
Now Jehoiakim gave silver and gold to Pharaoh, when he had taxed the land, according to each one who would contribute by the command of Pharaoh. And he exacted both silver and gold from the people of the land, from each one according to his ability, so that he would give to Pharaoh Neco.
36 約雅敬登基的時候年二十五歲,在耶路撒冷作王十一年。他母親名叫西布大,是魯瑪人毗大雅的女兒。
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.
37 約雅敬行耶和華眼中看為惡的事,效法他列祖一切所行的。
And he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all that his fathers had done.

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