Kings IV 1
1 And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Achaab.
阿哈布死後，摩阿布就背叛了以色列。
2 And Ochozias fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and enquire of Baal fly, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to enquire of him.
阿哈齊雅在撒瑪黎雅從樓上的欄杆上跌下來就病了，遂打發使者，吩咐他們說：「你們去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，我這病寒能好嗎﹖」
3 And an angel of the Lord called Eliu the Thesbite, saying, Arise, and go to meet the messengers of Ochozias king of Samaria, and thou shalt say to them, [Is it] because there is no God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baal fly, the God of Accaron? but [it shall] not [be] so.
上主的使者對提市貝人厄里亞說：「快起身，去迎撒瑪黎雅王的使者，問他們說：你們去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，難道在以色列沒有天主嗎﹖
4 For thus saith the Lord, The bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die. And Eliu went, and said [so] to them.
為此，上主這樣說：你再不能從你所上的床上下來，你必定要死。」厄里亞就去了。
5 And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why have ye returned?
使者回來見了君王，阿哈齊雅問他們說：「你們為什麼回來了。」
6 And they said to him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, [Is it] because there is no God in Israel, [that] thou goest to enquire of Baal fly, the God of Accaron? [it shall] not [be] so: the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die.
他們回答說：「有一個人迎上我們來，對我們說：你們回去見打發你們來的君王，對他說：上主這樣說：你派人去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，難道以色列沒有天主嗎﹖為此，你再不能從你所上的床上下來，你必定要死。」
7 So they returned and reported to the king as Eliu said: and he said to them, What [was] the manner of the man who went up to meet you, and spoke to you these words?
君王問他們說：「迎上你們，且告訴你們這些話的是怎樣的一個人﹖」
8 And they said to him, [He was] a hairy man, and girt with a leathern girdle about his loins. And he said, This is Eliu the Thesbite.
他們回答說，「是一個身穿皮毛衣，腰束皮帶的人。」君王說：「這一定是提市貝人厄里亞。」
9 And he sent to him a captain of fifty and his fifty; and he went up to him: and, behold, Eliu sat on the top of a mountain. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, the king has called thee, come down.
王遂派五十夫長，帶領五十人，去見厄里亞。他上去見厄里亞，厄里亞正坐在山頂上。五十夫長便對厄里亞說：「天主的人，王命你下去。」
10 And Eliu answered and said to the captain of fifty, And if I [am] a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour thee and thy fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.
厄里亞回答五十夫長說：「如果我是天主的人，願火從天降下，吞噬你和你這五十人! 」果然有火從天降下，吞噬了他和那五十人。
11 And the king sent a second time to him another captain of fifty, and his fifty. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, thus says the king, Come down quickly.
王又另派一個五十夫長，帶領五十人，去見厄里亞。五十夫長上去對厄里亞說：「天主的人! 王這樣吩咐：要你快下山! 」
12 And Eliu answered and spoke to him, and said, If I [am] a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour thee and thy fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.
厄里亞回答說：「如果我是天主的人，願火從天降下，吞噬你和你這五十人。」果然天主的火從天降下，吞噬了他和那五十人。
13 And the king sent yet again a captain and his fifty. And the third captain of fifty came, and knelt on his knees before Eliu, and entreated him, and spoke to him and said, O man of God, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thine eyes.
王又派第三個五十夫長，帶領五十人去。這第三個五十夫長上去，一來到就屈膝跪在厄里亞面前，哀求他說：「天主的人，願我的生命和我這五十人的生命，在你眼中有點價值!
14 Behold, fire came down from heaven, and devoured the two first captains of fifty: and now, I pray, let my life be precious in thine eyes.
有火從天降下，吞噬了前兩個五十夫長，和他們每人帶領的五十人；現在，願我的生命在你眼中有點價值! 」
15 And the angel of the Lord spoke to Eliu, and said, Go down with him, be not afraid of them. And Eliu rose up, and went down with him to the king.
上主的使者對厄里亞說：「你同他下去! 不必害怕。」厄里亞就起身同他一起下去見君王，
16 And Eliu spoke to him, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Why hast thou sent messengers to enquire of Baal fly, the god of Accaron? [it shall] not [be] so: the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die.
對君王說：「上主這樣說：由於你打發使者去求問厄刻龍的神巴耳則步布，好像在以色列沒有天主可以向他求問指示一樣，因此，你再不能從你所上的床下來，你必定要死。」
17 So he died according to the word of the Lord which Eliu has spoken.
阿哈齊雅果然如上主藉著厄里亞所說的話死了；因為他沒有兒子，他的兄弟耶曷蘭繼位為王，時在猶大王約沙法特的兒子約蘭第二年。
18 And the rest of the acts of Ochozias which he did, behold, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
阿哈齊雅其餘的事蹟，都記載在以色列列王實錄上。
