< 2 Chronicles 31 >
1 And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.
[清除偶像]這一切完成以後,所有在場的以色列人就都出去,到猶大各城,將石柱搗碎,將木偶砍倒,將猶大、本雅明、厄弗辣因和默納協各地的高丘和香壇完全拆除;以後,所有的以色列子民各回了本城,各歸己業。[重整神職班次]
2 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests, and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, as well the priests as the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to serve and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the courts of Jehovah.
希則克雅又整編了司祭和肋未人的班次,使司祭和肋未人各照自己的班次,各照自己的任務,獻權燔祭與和平祭,或服務於上主的螢幕門口,稱謝讚頌上主。
3 And [he ordered] that the king's portion [should be taken] from his substance for the burnt-offerings: for the morning and evening burnt-offerings, for the burnt-offerings of the sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Jehovah.
君王又由自己的產業中劃出一份,作為早晚的全燔祭,安息日、新月和節期的全燔祭,如上主法律上所規定的;
4 And he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of Jehovah.
又吩咐住在耶路撒冷的百姓,交出司祭和肋未人所應得的一分,令他們堅守上主的法律。
5 And as soon as the commandment was published, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, new wine and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all [things].
這道諭旨一出,以色列子民便獻了許多初熟的五穀、新酒、蜜,以及田地的出產;同時將所有物的十分之一,也大批的送了來,
6 And the children of Israel and of Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.
連住在猶大各城的以色列和猶大子民,也將牛羊的十分之一,並應獻於上主,他們天主的聖物的十分之一,都送了來,堆積成堆;
7 In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
由三月開始堆積,至七月纔完畢。
8 And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.
希則克雅和首領們前來,看見這些堆積之物,便稱讚了上主和他的百姓以色列。
9 And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
希則克雅向司祭和肋未人問及這些堆積之物,
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.
匝多克家的司祭之長阿匝黎雅答說:「自從人民將供物獻入上主的殿內以來,我們不但可以飽食,而且還有許多剩餘,因為上主祝福了他的百姓;這一大堆全是剩餘的。」[儲藏與分配供物]
11 And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared [them],
希則克雅吩咐在上主殿內預備倉房;人便預備了,
12 and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
細心將供物和什一之物,以及奉獻的聖物,都搬入倉內。肋未人苛納尼雅為總管,他的兄弟史米為副。
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the command of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
耶希耳、阿匝齊雅、納哈特、阿撒耳、耶黎摩特、約匝巴得,厄里耳、依斯瑪基雅、瑪哈特和貝納雅,自苛納尼和他兄弟史米之下作督察,全是由君王希則克雅和上主殿宇的主席阿匝黎雅所委任的。
14 And Kore the son of Jimnah the Levite, the doorkeeper toward the east, was over the voluntary-offerings of God, to distribute the heave-offerings of Jehovah, and the most holy things.
守東門的肋未人,依默納的兒子科勒,掌管自願捐獻於天主的禮品,發放獻於上主的供物和至聖之物;
15 And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set trust, to make distributions to their brethren by [their] divisions, to the great as to the small,
他以下有厄登、本雅明、耶叔亞、舍瑪雅、阿瑪黎雅和舍加尼雅,在各司祭城內,按照班次,不分老幼,將物品細心分發給他們的弟兄。
16 besides those from three years old and upward who as males were entered in the genealogical register, — all that came into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their charges, according to their divisions,
此外,又登記了每日進上主殿,依照班次盡職,三十歲以上的男子:
17 — both to the priests enregistered according to their fathers' houses, and to the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their divisions;
司祭依照家族登記;二十歲以上的肋未人,依照職分班次登記。
18 and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy.
登記時,他們全家妻子兒女,都應包括在內,因為他們都應自潔成聖。
19 And for the sons of Aaron the priests who were in the country, in the suburbs of their cities, there were, in every several city, men expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all the Levites that were entered in the register.
至於那住在各城郊外作司祭的亞郎子孫,在各城內有指定的人,給司祭中的男子及登記的肋未人,發放應得的一份。
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what was good and right and true before Jehovah his God.
希則克雅在全猶大行事都是如此:行了上主他的天主視為善,視為正義的事。
21 And in every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
凡他著手所行的,不論是關於上主殿內的敬禮,或關於法律和誡命,都是為了尋求他的天主;凡他誠心所行的,無不順利。