2 Chronicles 36
1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and they appointed him king in place of his father, in Jerusalem.
[約阿哈次王朝]當地的人民立了約史雅的兒子約阿哈次在耶路撒冷繼父位為王。
2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem.
約阿哈次登極時二十三歲，在耶路撒冷為王三個月，
3 Then the king of Egypt, when he had arrived in Jerusalem, removed him, and condemned the land to one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
因為埃及王在耶路撒冷廢了他，且要那地方納一百「塔冷通」銀子，一「塔冷通」金子的罰款。
4 And he appointed Eliakim, his brother, as king in his place, over Judah and Jerusalem. And he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Truly, he took Jehoahaz with him, and he led him away to Egypt.
以後，埃及王立了他的兄弟厄里雅金為猶大和耶路撒冷王，給他改名叫約雅金；乃苛將他的兄弟約阿哈次帶到埃及去了。[約雅金王朝]
5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil before the Lord his God.
約雅金登極時年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷為王凡十一年。他行了上主視為惡的事。
6 Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, ascended against him, and led him bound in chains to Babylon.
巴比倫王拿步高前來攻擊他，用銅鏈將他綑住，帶往巴比倫。
7 And to there, he also took away the vessels of the Lord, and he placed them in his temple.
拿步高也將上主殿內一部份器皿帶到巴比倫，安置在巴比倫他的神廟裏。
8 But the rest of the words of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he worked, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. Then his son, Jehoiachin, reigned in his place.
約雅金其餘的事蹟，以及他所行的醜惡，和他遭遇的一切，都記載在以色列和猶大列王實錄上。他的兒子耶苛尼雅繼位為王。耶苛尼雅王朝
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
耶苛尼雅即位時年十八歲，在耶路撒冷作王三個月又十天。他行了上主視為惡的事。
10 And when the course of a year had turned, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, carrying away, at the same time, the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord. Truly, he appointed his uncle, Zedekiah, as king over Judah and Jerusalem.
次年歲首，拿步高派人來，將耶苛尼雅和上主殿內的珍器，帶往巴比倫，立了他的叔父漆德克雅為王，管理猶大和耶路撒冷。[猶大滅亡]
11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.
漆德克雅登極時年二十一歲，在耶路撒冷為王凡十一年。
12 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God. And he did not show remorse before the face of the prophet Jeremiah, who was speaking to him from the mouth of the Lord.
他行了上主視為惡的事，雖然先知耶肋米亞奉上主的命來勸勉他，他仍不在耶肋米亞面前自謙自卑。
13 Also, he withdrew from king Nebuchadnezzar, who had bound him by an oath to God, and he hardened his own neck and his own heart, so that he did not return to the Lord, the God of Israel.
拿步高王雖曾叫他指著天主起誓，他仍背叛了拿步高；更加執拗頑固，總不肯歸依上主，以色列的天主。
14 Then too, all the leaders of the priests, with the people, transgressed iniquitously, in accord with all the abominations of the Gentiles. And they polluted the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.
此外，所有的司祭首長和百姓罪上加罪，仿傚了異族所行的一切醜惡之事，污辱了上主在耶路撒冷祝聖的殿宇。
15 Then the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising in the night and daily admonishing them. For he was lenient to his people and to his habitation.
上主他們祖先的天主，由於愛惜自己的百姓和自己的居所，時常不斷派遣使者警戒他們；
16 But they ridiculed the messengers of God, and they gave little weight to his words, and they mocked the prophets, until the fury of the Lord ascended against his people, and there was no remedy.
無奈他們都嘲笑了天主的使者，輕視了他的勸告，譏笑了他的先知，致使上主的怒火發洩在他的百姓身上，直到無法救治。
17 For he led over them the king of the Chaldeans. And he put to death their young men by the sword, in the house of his sanctuary. There was no pity for adolescents, nor virgins, nor the elderly, nor even for the disabled. Instead, he delivered them all into his hands.
因此，上主使加色丁人的君王前來攻打他們，用刀將他們的壯丁在聖殿裏殺死，沒有憐恤他們的幼男少女，以及白髮耆老；上主將所有的人都交在敵人手中。
18 And all the vessels of the house of Lord, as much the greater as the lesser, and the treasures of the temple, and of the king and the rulers, he carried away to Babylon.
加色丁人王又將天主殿內所有的大小器皿，上主殿內的寶物，君王和朝臣的寶物，都帶往巴比倫，
19 The enemies set fire to the house of God, and they destroyed the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the towers. And whatever was precious, they demolished.
焚毀了上主的殿宇，拆壞了耶路撒冷的城牆，燒了城中所有的宮殿，毀壞了城內一切珍貴的器皿；
20 If anyone had escaped from the sword, he was led into Babylon. And he served the king and his sons, until the king of Persia would command,
凡免於刀下的人，都被擄到巴比倫去，作他及他子孫的奴僕，直到波斯帝國興起。
21 and the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah would be fulfilled, and the land would celebrate her Sabbaths. For during all the days of the desolation, she kept a Sabbath, until the seventy years were completed.
這樣，就應驗了上主藉耶肋米亞的口所說的話：「直到這地域補享了它的安息年，應該在荒蕪期中獲享安息，直到七十年。」[居魯士頒發上諭]
22 Then, in the first year of Cyrus, the king of the Persians, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, the king of the Persians, who commanded this to be proclaimed throughout his entire kingdom, and also in writing, saying:
波斯王居魯士元年，為應驗上主藉耶肋米加的口所說的話，上主感動了波斯王居魯士的心，叫他出一道號令，向全國頒發上諭說：「
23 “Thus says Cyrus, the king of the Persians: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. And he has instructed me that I should build for him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea. Who among you is from his entire people? May the Lord his God be with him, and let him ascend.”
波思王居魯士這樣說：上主的神「雅威，」將地上萬國交給了我，囑咐我在猶大的耶路撒冷為他建築一座殿宇，你們中間凡作他子民的，可以上去；願他的神與他同在! 」
