< 2 Kings 24 >

1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come up, and Jehoiakim is a servant to him [for] three years; and he turns and rebels against him,
約雅金年間,巴比倫王拿步高進犯,約雅金臣服了他三年,以後又背叛了他。
2 and YHWH sends against him the troops of the Chaldeans, and the troops of Aram, and the troops of Moab, and the troops of the sons of Ammon, and He sends them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of YHWH that He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets;
上主派加色丁、阿蘭、摩阿布和阿孟人的雜軍來,不斷侵犯約雅金;上主派這些人來進攻消滅猶大,正如上主藉他的僕人先知們所說的話。
3 only, by the command of YHWH it has been against Judah to turn [them] aside from His presence, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
猶大遭遇這件事,確是由上主的命令,因為衪要由自己面前拋棄猶大:這是為了默納舍所犯的一切罪患,
4 and also the innocent blood that he has shed, and he fills Jerusalem with innocent blood, and YHWH was not willing to forgive.
也是因了他所流的無辜者的血,他使無辜者的血流滿了耶路撒冷,上主不肯寬恕。
5 And the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
約雅金其餘的事蹟,他行的一切,都記載在猶大列王的實錄上。
6 And Jehoiakim lies with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigns in his stead.
約雅金與祖先同眼,他的兒子耶苛尼雅繼位為王。
7 And the king of Egypt has not added anymore to go out from his own land, for the king of Babylon has taken, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River, all that had been to the king of Egypt.
從此埃及王不敢再離開本國出征,因為巴比倫王征服了從埃及河直到幼發拉的河屬於埃及的領土。
8 Jehoiachin [is] a son of eighteen years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem,
耶苛尼雅登極時年十八歲,在耶路撒冷作王三個月;他的母親名叫胡市達,是耶路撒冷人厄耳納堂的女兒。
9 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his fathers did.
他行了上主視為惡的事,像他父親所行的一樣。
10 At that time servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon have come up to Jerusalem, and the city goes into siege,
那時巴比倫王拿步高的臣僕前來圍攻耶路撒冷。
11 and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon comes against the city, and his servants are laying siege to it,
當他的臣僕圍攻耶路撒冷時,巴比倫王拿步高親自來督戰攻城。
12 and Jehoiachin king of Judah goes out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his eunuchs, and the king of Babylon takes him in the eighth year of his reign,
耶苛尼雅和他的母親臣僕、公卿以及太監,都出來投降巴比倫王;巴比倫王將他們擄去,時在巴比倫王在位第八年。
13 and brings out from there all the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cuts in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of YHWH, as YHWH had spoken.
巴比倫王且搶去了上主殿內的一切寶藏,和王宮中的寶藏,打碎了以色列王撒羅滿為上主聖殿所製的一切金器,正如上主所預言的;
14 And he has removed all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty men of valor—ten thousand [is] the expulsion—and every craftsman and smith; none has been left except the poor of the people of the land.
也擄去了耶路撒冷的民眾,所有的官紳和勇士,共一萬人,以及所有的工匠和鐵匠,只留下了地方上最窮苦的平民。
15 And he removes Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs, and the mighty ones of the land—he has caused a removal to go from Jerusalem to Babylon,
他將耶苛尼雅擄到巴比倫去,也將太后、后妃、君王的內侍,以及地方上的王公大人,都從耶路撒冷擄到巴比倫去。
16 and all the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, the whole [are] mighty men, warriors; and the king of Babylon brings them in a captivity to Babylon.
一切有氣力的人,人數約七千,工匠和鐵匠,人數約一千,都是能打仗的勇士,巴比倫王都擄到巴比倫去。
17 And the king of Babylon causes his father’s brother Mattaniah to reign in his stead, and turns his name to Zedekiah.
巴比倫王立了耶苛尼雅的叔父瑪塔尼雅代他為王,給他改名叫漆德克雅。
18 Zedekiah [is] a son of twenty-one years in his reigning, and he has reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah,
漆德克雅登極時年二十一歲,在耶路撒冷為王十一年;他的母親始叫哈慕塔耳,是里貝納人耶勒米雅的女兒。
19 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH according to all that Jehoiakim did,
他行了上主視為惡的事,伓像約雅金所行的一樣;
20 for by the anger of YHWH it has been against Jerusalem and against Judah, until He [finally] cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebels against the king of Babylon.
因此,上主向耶路撒冷和猶大大發憤怒,由自己面前將他們拋棄。以後漆德克雅背叛了巴比倫王。

< 2 Kings 24 >