Kings IV 10
1 And Achaab [had] seventy sons in Samaria. And Ju wrote a letter, and sent it into Samaria to the rulers of Samaria, and to the elders, and to the guardians of [the children of] Achaab, saying.
阿哈布在撒瑪黎雅尚有七十個孫子，為此，耶胡寫信給撒瑪黎雅城中的首領、長老和阿哈布子孫的師保，說：「
2 Now then, as soon as this letter shall have reached you, whereas [there are] with you the sons of your master, and with you chariots and horses, and strong cities, and arms,
你們主上的子孫，既然都同你們在一起，又有車馬、堅城和武器；那麼，這信一到你們手中，
3 do you accordingly look out the best and fit amongst your master's sons, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your master.
你們就在你們主上的子孫中，選出一位最好最能幹的，坐上他父親的寶座，來為你們主上的家作戰。」
4 And they feared greatly, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: and how shall we stand?
但是，他們都很害怕說：「哎! 兩位君王尚且不能抵抗他，我們又怎能抵抗﹖」
5 So they that were over the house, and they that were over the city, and the elders and the guardians, sent to Ju, saying, We also [are] your servants, and whatever you shall say to us we will do; we will not make [any] man king: we will do that which is right in your eyes.
因此，家臣、市長、長老和師保，便派人去見耶胡說：「我們是你的僕人，凡你吩咐的，我們都必照辦。我們不選立任何人作王；你看著怎樣好，就怎樣辦罷! 」
6 And Ju wrote them a second letter, saying, If you [are] for me, and listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and bring [them] to me at this time to-morrow in Jezrael. Now the sons of the king were seventy men; these great men of the city brought them up.
耶胡又給他們寫了第二封信：「如果你們擁護我，願聽從我的號令；那麼，明天這個時候，你們就帶著你們主上的子孫的頭，到依次勒耳來見我。」君王的七十個子孫，其時都教養在城中的官紳家中。
7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, [even] seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezrael.
這封信一到，他們便將君王的七十個子孫全都殺了，把他們的頭放在籃子裏，送到依次勒耳耶胡那裏。
8 And a messenger came and told [him], saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay them [in] two heaps by the door of the gate until the morning.
有使者來報告耶胡說：「他們將君王子孫的頭送來了。」耶胡即下令說：「將頭分成兩堆，放在城門口，直到明天早晨。」
9 And the morning came, and he went forth, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him: but who killed all these?
第二天早晨，耶胡出來，站著對全民眾說：「你們都沒有罪。看，我背叛了我的主上，且殺了他，但是，這些人是誰殺的呢﹖
10 See now that there shall not fall to the ground anything of the word of the Lord which the Lord spoke against the house of Achaab: for the Lord has performed all that he spoke of by the hand of his servant Eliu.
你們也知道上主的話，即上主論及阿哈布家所說的話，一句也沒有落空；上主藉他僕人厄里亞所說的話，都實現了。」
11 And Ju struck all that were left of the house of Achaab in Jezrael, and all his great men, and his acquaintance, and his priests, so as not to leave him [any] remnant.
然後，耶胡把阿哈布家在依次勒耳所剩下的人，所有的親屬、友人和司祭，全都殺了，一個也沒有留下。
12 And he arose and went to Samaria, [and] he [was] in the house of sheep-shearing in the way.
以後，耶胡起程往撒瑪黎雅去了。途中經過牧人聚集地貝特厄刻得時，
13 And Ju found the brethren of Ochozias king of Juda, and said, Who [are] you? And they said, We [are] the brethren of Ochozias, and we have come down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.
遇見猶大王阿哈齊雅的兄弟，就問他們說：「你們是誰﹖」他們回答說：「我們是阿哈齊雅的兄弟，現在下去向君王和太后的兒子請安。」
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they killed them at the shearing-house, forty and two men: he left not a man of them.
耶胡遂下令說：「將他們活活捉住! 」隨從就將他們活活捉住，在貝特厄刻得井旁把他們殺了，共計四十二人，一個也沒有留下。
15 And he went thence and found Jonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him; and he saluted him, and Ju said to him, Is your heart right with my heart, as my heart [is] with your heart? And Jonadab said, It is. And Ju said, If it is then, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot.
耶胡從那裏起身前行，又遇見勒加布的兒子約納達布前來迎接他；耶胡向他請安，問他說：「你對我的心是否同我對你的心，請你伸出手來。」他就向耶胡伸過手去；耶胡就拉他上車，坐在自己身旁，
16 And he said to him, Come with me, and see me zealous for the Lord. And he caused him to sit in his chariot.
對他說：「你跟我來，看看我對天主是怎樣的熱誠。」於是叫他坐上他自己的車。
17 And he entered into Samaria, and struck all that were left of Achaab in Samaria, until he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Eliu.
到了撒瑪黎雅，就照上主對厄里亞所說的話，將阿哈布家在撒瑪黎雅剩下的人，全都殺了。
18 And Ju gathered all the people, and said to them, Achaab served Baal a little; Ju shall serve him much.
耶胡召集了全國人民，對他們說：「阿哈布事奉巴耳不夠熱心，我耶胡要更熱心事奉他。
19 Now then do all [you] the prophets of Baal call all his servants and his priests to me; let not a man be lacking: for I have a great sacrifice [to offer] to Baal; every one who shall be missing shall die. But Ju did it in subtilty, that he might destroy the servants of Baal.
所以現在，你們去召集所有巴耳的先知，所有敬拜巴耳的人，和所有的司祭，都到我這裏來，一個也不要缺席，因為我要向巴耳奉獻大祭；誰缺席，誰就不能生存。」這原是耶胡運用的詭計，想消滅所有敬拜巴耳的人。
20 And Ju said, Sanctify a solemn festival to Baal, and they made a proclamation.
耶胡下令說：「你們要為巴耳召開一個聖會! 」他們就宣布召開。
21 And Ju sent throughout all Israel, saying, Now then let all [Baal's] servants, and all his priests, and all his prophets [come], let none be lacking: for I am going to offer a great sacrifice; whoever shall be missing, shall not live. So all the servants of Baal came, and all his priests, and all his prophets: there was not one left who came not. And they entered into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.
耶胡派人走遍全以色列；凡敬百拜巴耳的人都來了，沒有一個缺席不來的；他們都進了巴耳廟，巴耳廟內全擠滿了人。
22 And he said to the man who was over the house of the wardrobe, Bring forth a robe for all the servants of Baal. And the keeper of the robes brought forth to them.
耶胡對管祭衣的人說：「為所有敬拜巴耳的人，拿出衣服來! 」那人就給他們拿出衣服來。
23 And Ju and Jonadab the son of Rechab entered into the house of Baal, and said to the servants of Baal, Search, and see whether there is amongst you any of the servants of the Lord, or only the servants of Baal, by themselves.
耶胡和勒加布的兒子約納達布進了巴耳廟，對敬拜巴耳的人說：「你們要搜查看看，這裏不要有事奉雅威的人同你們在一起，只准敬拜巴耳的人。」
24 And he went in to offer sacrifices and whole burnt offerings; and Ju set for himself eighty men without, and said, Every man who shall escape of the men whom I bring into your hand, the life of him [that spares him] shall go for his life.
他們於是進去奉獻犧牲和全燔祭。耶胡預先在外已派定八十人，對他們說：「誰若讓我交於你們手中的一個人逃走，就要他以命抵命。」
25 And it came to pass, when he had finished offering the whole burnt offering, that Ju said to the footmen and to the officers, Go you in and kill them; let not a man of them escape. So they struck them with the edge of the sword, and the footmen and the officers cast [the bodies] forth, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
全燔祭奉獻完畢，耶胡吩咐衛兵和軍官說：「你們進去擊殺，一個耶不可叫他逃走! 」衛兵和軍官便用刀擊殺了他們，把他們的屍體拋出，然後進入巴耳廟的內堂，
26 And they brought out the pillar of Baal, and burnt it.
把巴耳廟內的神柱搬出來燒了，
27 And they tore down the pillars of Baal, and made his house a draught-house until this day.
推倒了巴耳偶像，拆毀了巴耳廟，使之成為一個廁所，直到今日。
28 So Ju abolished Baal out of Israel.
這樣，耶胡將巴耳從以色列中剷除了；
29 Nevertheless Ju departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin: [these were] the golden heifers in Baethel and in Dan.
但他仍沒有離棄乃巴特的兒子雅洛貝罕使以色列陷於罪惡的罪：即那兩頭設在貝特耳和丹的金牛。
30 And the Lord said to Ju, Because of all your deeds wherein you have acted well in doing that which was right in my eyes, according to all things which you have done to the house of Achaab [as they were] in my heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.
上主對耶胡說：「由於你好好執行了我視為義的事，照我心中所想的一切對待了阿哈布家，你的子孫要坐以色列的王位，直到第四代。」
31 But Ju took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
但耶胡並沒有全心謹守遵行上主以色列天主的法律，沒有放棄雅洛貝罕使以色列陷於罪惡的罪。
32 In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Azael struck them in every coast of Israel;
那時，上主開始削弱以色列，哈匝耳也在四面邊境上攻擊以色列，
33 from Jordan eastward all the land of Galaad belonging to the Gadites, of Gaddi and that of Ruben, and of Manasses, from Aroer, which is on the brink of the brook of Arnon, and Galaad and Basan.
侵佔了約旦河東基肋阿得全地，即加得人，勒烏本和默納協人的地方，從阿爾農河附近的阿洛厄爾城，直到基肋阿得和巴商。
34 And the rest of the acts of Ju, and all that he did, and all his might, and the wars wherein he engaged, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
耶胡其餘的事蹟，他的一切作為和武功，都記載在以色列列王實錄上。
35 And Ju slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz his son reigned in his stead.
耶胡與列祖同眠，人將他葬在撒瑪黎雅；他的兒子約阿哈次繼位為王。
36 And the days which Ju reigned over Israel [were] twenty-eight years in Samaria.
耶胡在撒瑪黎雅作以色列王，凡二十八年。
