< 2 Chronicles 21 >
1 Iehosphaphat then slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his steade.
[約蘭王的惡行]約沙法特與列祖同眠,與祖先一同葬在達味城;他的兒子約蘭繼位為王。
2 And he had brethren the sonnes of Iehoshaphat, Azariah, and Iehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sonnes of Iehoshaphat King of Israel.
他的兄弟,約沙法特的兒子:哈匝黎雅、耶希耳、則加黎雅、阿匝黎雅、米加耳和舍法提雅,這些都是猶大王約沙法特的兒子,
3 And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with strong cities in Iudah, but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram: for he was the eldest.
他們的父親將許多禮品,金銀財寶,以及猶大的堅城分封了他們,卻將王位賜給了約蘭,因為他是長子。
4 And Iehoram rose vp vpon the kingdom of his father, and made himselfe strong, and slew all his brethren with the sworde, and also of the princes of Israel.
當約蘭登上了他父親的王位鞏固了自己的勢力以後,就殺了他所有的兄弟,和幾個以色列首領。
5 Iehoram was two and thirtie yeere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eyght yeere in Ierusalem.
約蘭即位時年三十二歲,在耶路撒冷作王八年。
6 And he walked in the way of the Kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife, and he wrought euill in the eyes of the Lord.
他走了以色列王所走的道路,有如阿哈布家一樣,因為他娶了阿哈布的女兒為妻,行了上主視為惡的事。
7 Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenant that he had made with Dauid, and because he had promised to giue a light to him, and to his sonnes for euer.
但是,上主不願消滅達味家室,因為曾與達味立過約,應許時常給他和他的子孫留下一盞明燈。[天主降罰]
8 In his dayes Edom rebelled from vnder the hand of Iudah, and made a King ouer them.
約蘭年間,厄東反叛,脫離了猶大的統治,自立為王。
9 And Iehoram went forth with his princes, and all his charets with him: and hee rose vp by night, and smote Edom, which had compassed him in, and the captaines of the charets.
約蘭率領自己的軍長和所有的戰車前去聲討;他夜間起來,衝出了包圍他和戰車隊長的厄東人。
10 But Edom rebelled from vnder the hande of Iudah vnto this day. then did Libnah rebell at the same time from vnder his hand, because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.
這樣,厄東人脫離了猶大的統治,直到現在。里貝納也同時叛變,脫離了猶大的統治,因為君王離棄了上主,他祖先的天主,
11 Moreouer hee made hie places in the mountaines of Iudah, and caused the inhabitants of Ierusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Iudah thereto.
並且在猶大山上建立了高丘,使耶路撒冷的居民行淫,使猶大人背信。
12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the Prophet, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God of Dauid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehoshaphat thy father, nor in the wayes of Asa King of Iudah,
有人給他送來厄里亞先知的一封信,信上說:「上主,你祖先達味的天主這樣說:因為你沒有走你父親約沙法特的路,又沒有走猶大王阿撒的路,
13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Iudah and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem to go a whoring, as the house of Ahab went a whoring, and hast also slaine thy brethre of thy fathers house, which were better then thou,
反而走了以色列王的路,引誘猶大和耶路撒冷的居民行淫,如同阿哈布家行淫一樣;又因為你殺了你父親家中那些比你好的兄弟,
14 Beholde, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy substance,
上主必以巨大的災禍打擊你的百姓,你的妻子兒女,以及你所有的財產。
15 And thou shalt be in great diseases in the disease of thy bowels, vntill thy bowels fall out for the disease, day by day.
至於你,你必生一種極嚴厲的病,腸胃病,以至兩年內,你的腸子都要流出來。」[預言實現]
16 So the Lord stirred vp against Iehoram the spirite of the Philistims, and the Arabians that were beside the Ethiopians.
上主激起培肋舍特人和臨近雇士的阿剌伯人的心,與約蘭為敵。
17 And they came vp into Iudah, and brake into it, and caryed away all the substance that was found in the Kings house, and his sonnes also, and his wiues, so that there was not a sonne left him, saue Iehoahaz, the yongest of his sonnes.
他們遂前來攻擊猶大,侵入境內,掠去了王宮所有的財物,擄去了他的兒子妻妾;除他最小的兒子約阿哈次,沒有給他留下一個兒子。
18 And after all this, the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
此後,上主以一種不能醫治的腸胃病打擊了約蘭。
19 And in processe of time, euen after the end of two yeeres, his guttes fell out with his disease: so he dyed of sore diseases: and his people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers.
這病纏綿了一年多;二年末,當他的終期來到時,他的腸子因病都流了出來,他在極苦痛中死了。他的百姓沒有為他舉行焚香禮,如同為他的列祖所行的一樣。
20 When he began to reigne, he was two and thirtie yeere olde, and reigned in Ierusalem eight yeere, and liued without being desired: yet they buryed him in the citie of Dauid, but not among the sepulchres of the Kings.
他即位時年三十二歲,在耶路撒冷作王八年。他逝世後,無人表示悲哀。人將他葬於達味城,但沒有葬在王陵內。