2 Kings 25
1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. He set up camp around the city and built siege ramps against the walls.
西底家背叛巴比伦王。他作王第九年十月初十日，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领全军来攻击耶路撒冷，对城安营，四围筑垒攻城。
2 The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
于是城被围困，直到西底家王十一年。
3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.
四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。
4 Then the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers escaped at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, even though the Babylonians had the city surrounded. They ran away in the direction of the Arabah,
城被攻破，一切兵丁就在夜间从靠近王园两城中间的门逃跑。迦勒底人正在四围攻城，王就向亚拉巴逃走。
5 but the Babylonian army chased after the king and caught up with him on the plains of Jericho. His whole army had scattered and left him.
迦勒底的军队追赶王，在耶利哥的平原追上他；他的全军都离开他四散了。
6 They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he was sentenced.
迦勒底人就拿住王，带他到在利比拉的巴比伦王那里审判他。
7 They slaughtered Zedekiah's sons while he watched, and then gouged out his eyes, bound him in bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
在西底家眼前杀了他的众子，并且剜了西底家的眼睛，用铜链锁着他，带到巴比伦去。
8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, an officer of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒十九年五月初七日，巴比伦王的臣仆、护卫长尼布撒拉旦来到耶路撒冷，
9 He burned down the Lord's Temple, the royal palace, and all the large buildings of Jerusalem.
用火焚烧耶和华的殿和王宫，又焚烧耶路撒冷的房屋，就是各大户家的房屋。
10 The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the guard knocked down the walls around Jerusalem.
跟从护卫长迦勒底的全军就拆毁耶路撒冷四围的城墙。
11 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, deported those who were left in the city, even those who had gone over to the side of the king of Babylon, as well as the rest of the population.
那时护卫长尼布撒拉旦将城里所剩下的百姓，并已经投降巴比伦王的人，以及大众所剩下的人，都掳去了。
12 But the commander of the guard allowed the poor people who were left in the country to stay and take care of the vineyards and the fields.
但护卫长留下些民中最穷的，使他们修理葡萄园，耕种田地。
13 The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the movable carts, and the bronze Sea that belonged to the Lord's Temple, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
耶和华殿的铜柱，并耶和华殿的盆座和铜海，迦勒底人都打碎了，将那铜运到巴比伦去了，
14 They also took all the pots, shovels, lamp snuffers, dishes, and all the other bronze items used in the Temple service.
又带去锅、铲子、蜡剪、调羹，并所用的一切铜器，
15 The commander of the guard removed the censers and bowls, anything that was made of pure gold or silver.
火鼎、碗，无论金的银的，护卫长也都带去了。
16 The amount of bronze that came from the two columns, the Sea and the movable carts, which Solomon had made for the Lord's Temple, all of this weighed more than could be measured.
所罗门为耶和华殿所造的两根铜柱、一个铜海，和几个盆座，这一切的铜，多得无法可称。
17 Each column was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital on top of one column was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates around it. The second column was the same, and also had a decorative network.
这一根柱子高十八肘，柱上有铜顶，高三肘；铜顶的周围有网子和石榴，都是铜的。那一根柱子，照此一样，也有网子。
18 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest, second in rank, and the three Temple doorkeepers.
护卫长拿住大祭司西莱雅、副祭司西番亚，和三个把门的，
19 From those left in the city he took the officer in charge of the soldiers, and five of the king's advisors. He also took the secretary to the army commander who was in charge of calling up the people for military service, and sixty other men who were present in the city.
又从城中拿住一个管理兵丁的官，并在城里所遇常见王面的五个人和检点国民军长的书记，以及城里遇见的国民六十个人。
20 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took them and brought them before the king of Babylon at Riblah.
护卫长尼布撒拉旦将这些人带到在利比拉的巴比伦王那里。
21 The king of Babylon had them executed at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So the people of Judah had to leave their land.
巴比伦王就把他们击杀在哈马地的利比拉。这样，犹大人被掳去离开本地。
22 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people he had left in the land of Judah.
至于犹大国剩下的民，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒所剩下的，巴比伦王立了沙番的孙子、亚希甘的儿子基大利作他们的省长。
23 When all the army officers of Judah and their men learned that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they and their men met with Gedaliah at Mizpah. They included: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan, son of Kareah, Seraiah, son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah, son of the Maakathite.
众军长和属他们的人听见巴比伦王立了基大利作省长，于是军长尼探雅的儿子以实玛利、加利亚的儿子约哈难、尼陀法人单户篾的儿子西莱雅、玛迦人的儿子雅撒尼亚，和属他们的人都到米斯巴见基大利。
24 Gedaliah swore an oath to them and their men, telling them, “Don't be afraid of the Babylonian officials. Stay here in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and you'll be fine.”
基大利向他们和属他们的人起誓说：“你们不必惧怕迦勒底臣仆，只管住在这地服事巴比伦王，就可以得福。”
25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of royal blood, came with ten men. They attacked and killed Gedaliah, along with the men of Judea and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
七月间，宗室以利沙玛的孙子、尼探雅的儿子以实玛利带着十个人来，杀了基大利和同他在米斯巴的犹大人与迦勒底人。
26 As a result, all the people, from the least to the greatest, along with the army commanders, ran away to Egypt, terrified of what the Babylonians would do.
于是众民，无论大小，连众军长；因为惧怕迦勒底人，都起身往埃及去了。
27 In the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison. This happened on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah.
犹大王约雅斤被掳后三十七年，巴比伦王以未·米罗达元年十二月二十七日，使犹大王约雅斤抬头，提他出监；
28 The king of Babylon treated him well him and gave him a position of honor higher than the other kings there with him in Babylon.
又对他说恩言，使他的位高过与他一同在巴比伦众王的位，
29 So Jehoiachin was able to remove his prison clothes, and he ate frequently at the king's table for the rest of his life.
给他脱了囚服。他终身常在巴比伦王面前吃饭。
30 The king provided Jehoiachin with a daily allowance for the rest of his life.
王赐他所需用的食物，日日赐他一分，终身都是这样。
