2 Kings 16
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah, has reigned.
勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑十七年，約堂的兒子阿哈次登極為猶大王。
2 Ahaz [is] a son of twenty years in his reigning, and he has reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and he has not done that which [is] right in the eyes of his God YHWH, like his father David,
他登極時年二十歲，在耶路撒冷作王十六年。他沒有像他祖先達味一樣，行了上主視正義之事，
3 and he walks in the way of the kings of Israel, and he has also caused his son to pass over into fire, according to the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,
卻走了以色列土的路，仿效上主從以色列子民面前趕走的異民的醜惡之事，令自己的兒女經火獻神，
4 and he sacrifices and makes incense in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
又在高丘和綠樹下，焚香獻祭。
5 Then Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, go up to Jerusalem, to battle, and they lay siege to Ahaz, and they have not been able to fight.
那時，阿蘭王勒斤和以色列王勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑前來進攻耶路撒冷，圍困阿哈次，卻不能取勝。
6 At that time Rezin king of Aram has brought back Elath to Aram, and casts out the Jews from Elath, and the Arameans have come to Elath, and dwell there to this day.
就在這時，厄東王收回厄拉特重歸厄東，將猶大人從厄拉特趕走；厄東人進入厄拉特，住在那裏直到今日。
7 And Ahaz sends messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur, saying, “I [am] your servant and your son; come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”
阿哈次派者去見亞述王提革拉特丕肋色爾你的僕人，你的兒子，請你上來救我脫離阿蘭王和以色列王的手，因為他們來攻打我」。
8 And Ahaz takes the silver and the gold that is found in the house of YHWH, and in the treasures of the house of the king, and sends to the king of Asshur [as] a bribe.
阿哈次拿出上主殿內和王宮府庫內貯藏的金銀來，送給亞述王作為禮品。
9 And the king of Asshur listens to him, and the king of Asshur goes up to Damascus, and seizes it, and removes [the people of] it to Kir, and he has put Rezin to death.
亞述王遂聽從了他的要求，立即前去進攻大馬士革，佔領了那城，將那裏的居民往克爾，殺了勒斤。
10 And King Ahaz goes to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur [at] Damascus, and sees the altar that [is] in Damascus, and King Ahaz sends to Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its work,
阿哈次曾去大馬士革，會見亞述王提革拉特丕肋色爾，他看見了大馬士革的祭壇，就給司祭烏黎雅送去了那座祭壇的圖案模型，和詳盡的製造法。
11 and Urijah the priest builds the altar according to all that King Ahaz has sent from Damascus; so Urijah the priest did until the coming in of King Ahaz from Damascus.
烏黎雅完全照樣依照阿哈次王從大馬士革送來的祭壇式樣，建築了一座祭壇；烏黎雅司祭就在阿哈次王從大馬士革回來以前，完全照樣造好。
12 And the king comes in from Damascus, and the king sees the altar, and the king draws near on the altar, and offers on it,
君王從大馬士革回來，看見那座祭壇，就近前上去，
13 and burns his burnt-offering and his present as incense, and pours out his drink-offering, and sprinkles the blood of the peace-offerings that he has, on the altar.
奉獻了他的全燔祭和素祭，行了奠祭，將和平祭的血灑在祭壇上。
14 As for the altar of bronze that [is] before YHWH—he brings [it] near from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of YHWH, and puts it on the side of the altar, northward.
然後將上主面前的銅祭壇，從殿的前面，即從新祭壇和上主之殿的中間搬出來，放在祭壇的北邊。
15 And King Ahaz commands him—Urijah the priest—saying, “On the great altar burn as incense the burnt-offering of the morning, and the present of the evening, and the burnt-offering of the king, and his present, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their present, and their drink-offerings; and all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice, you sprinkle on it, and the altar of bronze is for me to inquire [by].”
阿哈次王吩咐司祭烏黎雅說：「你應在這大祭壇上焚燒早晨的全燔祭，晚上的素祭，君王的全燔祭和素祭，地方上全體人民的全燔祭、素祭和奠祭；全燔祭的血和各種犧牲的血，你也應灑在這祭壇上；至於這銅祭壇，讓我再加考慮」。
16 And Urijah the priest does according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
司祭烏黎雅就照阿哈次所吩咐的一切做了。
17 And King Ahaz cuts off the borders of the bases, and turns aside the laver from off them, and he has taken down the sea from off the bronze oxen that [are] under it, and puts it on a pavement of stones.
後來，阿哈次王又拆毀了盆座上的鑲板，挪去了座的銅盆，將銅牛上的銅海搬下，放在石鋪的地上。
18 And the covered place for the Sabbath that they built in the house, and the entrance of the king outside, he turned [from] the house of YHWH, because of the king of Asshur.
此外，為了亞述王的緣故，又拆除了殿內建造的寶座，和君王從外面來到上主殿內的外門。
19 And the rest of the matters of Ahaz that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
阿哈次其餘的事蹟，都記載在猶大列王寶錄上。
20 And Ahaz lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigns in his stead.
阿哈次與祖先同眼，與祖先同葬在達味城；他的兒子則克雅繼位為王。
