2 Chronicles 30
1 Also, Hezekiah sent to all of Israel and Judah. And he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, so that they would come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and so that they would keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.
[宣告舉行逾越節]希則克雅派人到全以色列和猶大，且也寫了封公函給厄弗辣因和默納協，叫他們來耶路撒冷上主的殿內，向上主以色列的天主舉行逾越節，
2 Therefore, having taken counsel, the king and the rulers, and the entire assembly of Jerusalem, resolved that they would keep the Passover, in the second month.
因為君王與首領和耶路撒冷會眾已商妥，在二月舉行逾越節。
3 For they had not been able to keep it at its proper time. For the priests, who were unable to suffice, had not been sanctified. And the people had not yet been gathered together in Jerusalem.
他們不能如期舉行的原因，是因為自潔的司祭尚不敷用，百姓又尚未齊集在耶路撒冷。
4 And the word was pleasing to the king, and to the entire multitude.
君王和全會眾都認為這樣做很對，
5 And they resolved that they would send messengers to all of Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, so that they might come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem. For many had not kept it, just as it was prescribed by the law.
遂下令通告全以色列，從貝爾舍巴直到丹，都來耶路撒冷，向上主以色列的天主舉行逾越節，因為人很久沒有照章舉行這節了。
6 And carriers traveled with the letters, by order of the king and his rulers, to all of Israel and Judah, proclaiming, in accord with what the king had ordered: “O sons of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel. And he will return to the remnant who escaped from the hand of the king of the Assyrians.
使者遂帶君王和首領的公函，走遍全以色列和猶大，照君王的吩咐，宣佈說：「以色列的子民，你們應當轉向上主，亞巴郎、依撒格和以色列的天主，好使他轉向你們，這些擺脫亞述王權下的遺民。
7 Do not choose to be like your fathers and brothers, who withdrew from the Lord, the God of their fathers. And so he delivered them over to destruction, as you yourselves discern.
你們不可像你們的祖先和弟兄一樣，因為他們背叛了上主，他們祖先的天主，上主遂叫他們成了驚駭的對象，有如你們親眼所見的。
8 Do not choose to harden your necks, as your fathers did. Surrender to the hands of the Lord. And go to his Sanctuary, which he has sanctified unto eternity. Serve the Lord, the God of your fathers, and the fury of his wrath will be turned away from you.
現在，你們再別頸硬，如同你們祖先一樣，反應投奔上主，進入他永遠祝聖的居所，奉事上主你們的天主，使他的震怒轉離你們。
9 For if you will return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will find mercy before their masters, who led them away as captives, and they will be returned to this land. For the Lord your God is compassionate and lenient, and he will not avert his face from you, if you will return to him.”
如果你們轉向上主你們的天主，你們的弟兄子女，在擄掠他們的人面前必會蒙受憐憫，會再回到這地；因為上主你們的天主是慈悲的，是仁愛的；如果你們轉向他，他決不會轉面不顧你們。」
10 And so, the carriers were traveling quickly from city to city, throughout the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, though they were ridiculing and mocking them.
使者由這城到那城，奏遍了厄弗辣因和默納協各地，直到則步隆；但是，那裏的人卻嘲笑侮辱他們。
11 Even so, certain men from Asher, and from Manasseh, and from Zebulun, acquiescing to this counsel, went to Jerusalem.
可是，有些阿協爾、默納協和則步隆人自謙自卑，來到耶路撒冷。
12 Truly, the hand of God was working in Judah, to give them one heart, so that they would accomplish the word of the Lord, according to the precept of the king and of the rulers.
天主的手也在猶大行事，使民眾一心遵從君王和首領，照上主的話所出的命令。[舉行逾越節]
13 And many people gathered together in Jerusalem, so that they could keep the solemnity of unleavened bread, in the second month.
二月，有很多人民聚集在耶路撒冷，舉行無酵節，實行是一個大盛會。
14 And rising up, they destroyed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the things in which incense was burned to idols. Overturning these things, they cast them into the torrent Kidron.
民眾起來，將耶路撒冷所有的丘壇拆毀，將所有焚香的器具拿去，丟在克德龍溪裏。
15 Then they immolated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. Also, the priests and Levites, at length having been sanctified, offered the holocausts in the house of the Lord.
二月十四日宰殺了逾越節羔羊；司祭和肋未人自覺慚愧，便聖潔自己，好能在上主殿內奉獻全燔祭。
16 And they stood in their order, according to the disposition and law of Moses, the man of God. Yet truly, the priests took up the blood, which was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,
他們都按天主僕人梅瑟的法律，各自立在自己的地方，司祭由肋未人手中取過血來，灑在祭壇上。
17 because a great number were not sanctified. And therefore, the Levites immolated the Passover for those who had not been sanctified to the Lord in time.
因為會眾中有許多人尚未自潔，肋未人便為所有不潔的人，宰殺逾越節的羔羊，好奉獻給上主。
18 And now a great portion of the people from Ephraim, and Manasseh, and Issachar, and Zebulun, who had not been sanctified, ate the Passover, which is not in accord with what was written. And Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “The good Lord will be forgiving
實在，有許多人，有許多來自厄弗辣因，默納協、依撒加爾和則布隆的人，沒有自潔，就吃了逾越節的羔羊，竟沒有遵守明文的規定；為此，希則克雅為他們祈禱說：「
19 to all who, with their whole heart, seek the Lord, the God of their fathers. And he will not impute it to them, though they have not been sanctified.”
凡誠心尋求天主，上主，他們祖先的天主的人，雖然沒有依照聖所的潔禮自潔，願良善的上主予以寬恕! 」
20 And the Lord heeded him, and was reconciled to the people.
上主垂允了希則克雅，寬恕了百姓。
21 And the sons of Israel who were found at Jerusalem kept the solemnity of unleavened bread for seven days with great rejoicing, praising the Lord throughout each day, with the Levites and the priests, accompanied by the musical instruments corresponding to their office.
在耶路撒冷的以色列子民，極其歡樂，七天舉行了無酵節；肋未人和司祭們，天天讚頌上主，極力讚頌上主。
22 And Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites, who had a good understanding concerning the Lord. And they ate during the seven days of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.
由於所有的肋未人慇勤服事上主，希則克雅便慰勞他們。七天之久，眾人吃了節宴，獻了和平祭，稱謝了上主，他們祖先的天主。
23 And it pleased the entire multitude that they should celebrate, even for another seven days. And they did this with enormous gladness.
以後，全會眾議定，再舉行七天，於是歡樂地又舉行了七天，
24 For Hezekiah, the king of Judah, had offered to the multitude one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. Truly, the rulers had given the people one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. Then a great multitude of priests was sanctified.
因為猶大王希則克雅送給了會眾一千頭牛犢，七千隻綿羊；首領們也送給了會眾一千頭牛犢，一萬隻綿羊；且有許多司祭已行了自潔禮。
25 And the whole multitude of Judah, as much the priests and Levites as the entire crowd that had arrived from Israel, and also the converts from the land of Israel, and those with a habitation in Judah, was overflowing with cheerfulness.
猶大全會眾、司祭和肋未人，來自以色列的全會眾，以及由以色列地來的，或是僑居在猶大的人，都非常高興。
26 And there was a great celebration in Jerusalem, to such an extent as had not been in that city since the days of Solomon, the son of David, the king of Israel.
歡樂瀰漫了耶路撒冷，自以色列王達味的兒子撒羅滿以來，耶路撒冷從未有過這樣大的喜慶。
27 Then the priests and Levites rose up and blessed the people. And their voice was heeded. And their prayer reached the holy habitation of heaven.
肋未人司祭起來為民眾祝福，他們的聲音承蒙垂聽，他們的祈禱達於他天上的神聖居所。
