2 Chronicles 10
1 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
羅波安往示劍去，因為以色列人都到了示劍，要立他作王。
2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
尼八的兒子耶羅波安先前躲避所羅門王，逃往埃及，住在那裏；他聽見這事，就從埃及回來。
3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
以色列人打發人去請他，他就和以色列眾人來見羅波安，對他說：
4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
「你父親使我們負重軛做苦工，現在求你使我們做的苦工負的重軛輕鬆些，我們就事奉你。」
5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
羅波安對他們說：「第三日再來見我吧！」民就去了。
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
羅波安之父所羅門在世的日子，有侍立在他面前的老年人，羅波安王和他們商議，說：「你們給我出個甚麼主意，我好回覆這民。」
7 They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
老年人對他說：「王若恩待這民，使他們喜悅，用好話回覆他們，他們就永遠作王的僕人。」
8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
王卻不用老年人給他出的主意，就和那些與他一同長大、在他面前侍立的少年人商議，
9 He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
說：「這民對我說：『你父親使我們負重軛，求你使我們輕鬆些』；你們給我出個甚麼主意，我好回覆他們。」
10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
那同他長大的少年人說：「這民對王說：『你父親使我們負重軛，求你使我們輕鬆些』；王要對他們如此說：『我的小拇指比我父親的腰還粗；
11 Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們。』」
12 After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
耶羅波安和眾百姓遵着羅波安王所說「你們第三日再來見我」的那話，第三日他們果然來了。
13 And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
羅波安王用嚴厲的話回覆他們，不用老年人所出的主意，
14 and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
照着少年人所出的主意對他們說：「我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們。」
15 So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
王不肯依從百姓；這事乃出於上帝，為要應驗耶和華藉示羅人亞希雅對尼八兒子耶羅波安所說的話。
16 When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
以色列眾民見王不依從他們，就對王說： 我們與大衛有甚麼分兒呢？ 與耶西的兒子並沒有關涉！ 以色列人哪，各回各家去吧！ 大衛家啊，自己顧自己吧！ 於是，以色列眾人都回自己家裏去了。
17 but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
惟獨住在猶大城邑的以色列人，羅波安仍作他們的王。
18 Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
羅波安王差遣掌管服苦之人的哈多蘭往以色列人那裏去，以色列人就用石頭打死他。羅波安王急忙上車，逃回耶路撒冷去了。
19 So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
這樣，以色列人背叛大衛家，直到今日。
