< 2 Chronicles 23 >

1 And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.
第七年,耶何耶大奋勇自强,将百夫长耶罗罕的儿子亚撒利雅,约哈难的儿子以实玛利,俄备得的儿子亚撒利雅,亚大雅的儿子玛西雅,细基利的儿子以利沙法召来,与他们立约。
2 And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
他们走遍犹大,从犹大各城里招聚利未人和以色列的众族长到耶路撒冷来。
3 And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king’s son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.
会众在 神殿里与王立约。耶何耶大对他们说:“看哪,王的儿子必当作王,正如耶和华指着大卫子孙所应许的话”;
4 And this is the thing that you shall do:
又说:“你们当这样行:祭司和利未人凡安息日进班的,三分之一要把守各门,
5 A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters, shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king’s house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.
三分之一要在王宫,三分之一要在基址门;众百姓要在耶和华殿的院内。
6 And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord.
除了祭司和供职的利未人之外,不准别人进耶和华的殿;惟独他们可以进去,因为他们圣洁。众百姓要遵守耶和华所吩咐的。
7 And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his arms; (and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; ) and let them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.
利未人要手中各拿兵器,四围护卫王;凡擅入殿宇的,必当治死。王出入的时候,你们当跟随他。”
8 So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest bad commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.
利未人和犹大众人都照着祭司耶何耶大一切所吩咐的去行,各带所管安息日进班出班的人来,因为祭司耶何耶大不许他们下班。
9 And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.
祭司耶何耶大便将 神殿里所藏大卫王的枪、盾牌、挡牌交给百夫长,
10 And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.
又分派众民手中各拿兵器,在坛和殿那里,从殿右直到殿左,站在王子的四围;
11 And they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.
于是领王子出来,给他戴上冠冕,将律法书交给他,立他作王。耶何耶大和众子膏他,众人说:“愿王万岁!”
12 Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the Lord.
亚她利雅听见民奔走赞美王的声音,就到民那里,进耶和华的殿,
13 And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.
看见王站在殿门的柱旁,百夫长和吹号的人侍立在王左右,国民都欢乐吹号,又有歌唱的,用各样的乐器领人歌唱赞美;亚她利雅就撕裂衣服,喊叫说:“反了!反了!”
14 And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.
祭司耶何耶大带管辖军兵的百夫长出来,吩咐他们说:“将她赶到班外,凡跟随她的必用刀杀死!”因为祭司说:“不可在耶和华殿里杀她。”
15 And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.
众兵就闪开,让她去;她走到王宫的马门,便在那里把她杀了。
16 And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the Lord.
耶何耶大与众民和王立约,都要作耶和华的民。
17 And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars.
于是众民都到巴力庙,拆毁了庙,打碎坛和像,又在坛前将巴力的祭司玛坦杀了。
18 And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition of David.
耶何耶大派官看守耶和华的殿,是在祭司利未人手下。这祭司利未人是大卫分派在耶和华殿中、照摩西律法上所写的,给耶和华献燔祭,又按大卫所定的例,欢乐歌唱;
19 He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.
且设立守门的把守耶和华殿的各门,无论为何事,不洁净的人都不准进去。
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king’s house, and set him on the royal throne.
又率领百夫长和贵胄,与民间的官长,并国中的众民,请王从耶和华殿下来,由上门进入王宫,立王坐在国位上。
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword.
国民都欢乐,合城都安静。众人已将亚她利雅用刀杀了。

< 2 Chronicles 23 >