2 Chronicles 10
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all the Israelites had gone to Shechem to make him king.
[南北分裂]勒哈貝罕去了舍根，因為全以色列人集合在舍根，要立他為王。
2 Jeroboam, son of Nebat, was still in Egypt when he heard about this. (He had run away to Egypt to escape from King Solomon and was living there.)
乃巴特的兒子雅絡貝罕，─為躲避撒羅滿王，曾逃往埃及，─一聽見這事，便從埃及回來，
3 The Israelite leaders sent for him. Jereboam and all the Israelites went to talk with Rehoboam.
有人派人去請了他來，他便和全以色列人前來對勒哈貝罕說：
4 “Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load your father imposed and the heavy demands he laid on us, we will serve you.”
「你的父親使我們的負擔繁重，現在請你減輕你父親加給我們的苦役喊重軛，我們縩肯服事你! 」
5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back in three days time.” So the people left.
他回答他們說：「三天以後，你們再來見我。」人民都走了。
6 King Rehoboam asked for advice from the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive. “How do you advise me to reply to these people about this?” he asked.
勒哈貝罕王同那些在他父親撒羅滿生時作臣僕的老年人商議，問他們說：「你們有什麼主意，叫我好答覆這些人民﹖」
7 They replied, “If you treat these people well, and please them by speaking kindly to them, they will always serve you.”
他們回答說：「如果你今日善待這些百姓，使他們心悅，向他們說好話，他們必會常常服事你。」
8 But Rehoboam dismissed the advice of the elders. He instead asked advice from the young men who he had grown up with, and who were close to him.
但是，君王竟拒絕老年人給他出的主意，反去同那些與他一同長大，侍立在他面前的少年人商議，
9 He asked them, “What response do you advise that we send back to these people who have told me, ‘Lighten the burden your father put on us’?”
問他們說：「這些人民對我說：請你將你父親給我們加給我們的負擔減輕些。你們有什麼主意，好使我答覆他們﹖」
10 The young men who he had grown up with told him, “This is what you have to tell these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our burden heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should answer them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!
那些與他一同長大的少年人答說：「這些百姓曾對你說：你父親曾加重我們的負擔，請你給我們減輕些。你要這樣回答他們，這樣對他們說：我的小指比我父親的腰還粗；
11 My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips; I will punish you with scorpions.’”
我父親曾加給你你們重擔，我更要加重你們的負擔；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我卻要用鐵刺鞭責打你們。」
12 Three days later, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, because the king had told them, “Come back in three days time.”
雅洛貝罕和全人民照君王所說「你們第三天再來見我」的話，第三天來見勒哈貝罕王。
13 The king answered them sharply. Dismissing the advice of the elders,
嚴厲答覆了人民；勒哈貝罕王拋棄了老年人的意見，
14 he replied using the advice of the young men. He said, “My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips; I will punish you with scorpions.”
依照少年人的主張答覆人民說：「我的父親加重了你們的負擔，我更要加重；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用鐵刺鞭責打你們。」
15 The king did not listen to what the people said, for this change in circumstances was from God, to fulfill what Lord had told Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
君王始終不肯聽從人民；這種轉變原是出於天主，為實現上主藉史羅人阿希雅論及乃巴特的兒子雅洛貝罕所說的話。
16 When all the Israelites saw that the king wasn't listening to them, they told the king: “What share do we have in David, and what part do we have in the son of Jesse? Go home, Israel! You're on your own, house of David!” So all the Israelites went home.
全以色列人見王不肯依從他們，便回覆君王說：「我們與達味有什麼分子﹖我們與葉瑟的兒子毫無關係! 以色列! 回到你的帳幕去! 達味現在你只顧你本家罷! 」於是全以色列人都回了自己的帳幕，
17 However, Rehoboam still ruled over the Israelites who lived in Judah.
只那些住在猶大城內的以色列子民，歸勒哈貝罕統治。
18 Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam quickly jumped into his chariot and raced back to Jerusalem.
勒哈貝罕王派遣監管勞役的阿多蘭去見以色列，以色列子民卻用石頭將他砸死；勒哈貝罕王急忙上車，逃回了耶路撒冷。
19 As a result, Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
這樣，以色列叛離達味王朝，直到現在。
