< 2 Chronicles 36 >
1 And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, —and made him king instead of his father, in Jerusalem.
[約阿哈次王朝]當地的人民立了約史雅的兒子約阿哈次在耶路撒冷繼父位為王。
2 Twenty-three years old, was Joahaz when he began to reign, —and, three months, reigned he in Jerusalem.
約阿哈次登極時二十三歲,在耶路撒冷為王三個月,
3 And the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem, —and condemned the land, in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
因為埃及王在耶路撒冷廢了他,且要那地方納一百「塔冷通」銀子,一「塔冷通」金子的罰款。
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim, —but Neco took, Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
以後,埃及王立了他的兄弟厄里雅金為猶大和耶路撒冷王,給他改名叫約雅金;乃苛將他的兄弟約阿哈次帶到埃及去了。[約雅金王朝]
5 Twenty-five years old, was Jehoiakim when he began to reign, and, eleven years, reigned he in Jerusalem, —and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh his God.
約雅金登極時年二十五歲,在耶路撒冷為王凡十一年。他行了上主視為惡的事。
6 Against him, came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, —and bound him in fetters of bronze, to carry him to Babylon.
巴比倫王拿步高前來攻擊他,用銅鏈將他綑住,帶往巴比倫。
7 And, some of the utensils of the house of Yahweh, did Nebuchadnezzar carry to Babylon, —and put them in his own temple in Babylon.
拿步高也將上主殿內一部份器皿帶到巴比倫,安置在巴比倫他的神廟裏。
8 But, the rest of the story of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he made, and that which was found upon him, there they are, written in the book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, —and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
約雅金其餘的事蹟,以及他所行的醜惡,和他遭遇的一切,都記載在以色列和猶大列王實錄上。他的兒子耶苛尼雅繼位為王。耶苛尼雅王朝
9 Eight years old, was Jehoiachin when he began to reign, and, three months and ten days, reigned he in Jerusalem, and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh;
耶苛尼雅即位時年十八歲,在耶路撒冷作王三個月又十天。他行了上主視為惡的事。
10 and, when the year came round, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and carried him to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of Yahweh, —and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
次年歲首,拿步高派人來,將耶苛尼雅和上主殿內的珍器,帶往巴比倫,立了他的叔父漆德克雅為王,管理猶大和耶路撒冷。[猶大滅亡]
11 Twenty-one years old, was Zedekiah when he began to reign, —and, eleven years, reigned he in Jerusalem.
漆德克雅登極時年二十一歲,在耶路撒冷為王凡十一年。
12 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh his God, -he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet, from the mouth of Yahweh.
他行了上主視為惡的事,雖然先知耶肋米亞奉上主的命來勸勉他,他仍不在耶肋米亞面前自謙自卑。
13 Moreover also—against King Nebuchadnezzar, he rebelled, who had made him swear by God, -and he stiffened his neck, and emboldened his heart, from turning unto Yahweh, God of Israel.
拿步高王雖曾叫他指著天主起誓,他仍背叛了拿步高;更加執拗頑固,總不肯歸依上主,以色列的天主。
14 Also, all the rulers of the priests and of the people, abounded in committing treachery, according to all the abominable ways of the nations, —and polluted the house of Yahweh, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
此外,所有的司祭首長和百姓罪上加罪,仿傚了異族所行的一切醜惡之事,污辱了上主在耶路撒冷祝聖的殿宇。
15 And, though Yahweh God of their fathers sent unto them through his messengers, zealously sending them, —because he had compassion upon his people and upon his habitation,
上主他們祖先的天主,由於愛惜自己的百姓和自己的居所,時常不斷派遣使者警戒他們;
16 yet became they mockers of the messengers of God, and despisers of his words, and mimics of his prophets, —until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people, until there was no healing.
無奈他們都嘲笑了天主的使者,輕視了他的勸告,譏笑了他的先知,致使上主的怒火發洩在他的百姓身上,直到無法救治。
17 So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient, -all, delivered he into his hand.
因此,上主使加色丁人的君王前來攻打他們,用刀將他們的壯丁在聖殿裏殺死,沒有憐恤他們的幼男少女,以及白髮耆老;上主將所有的人都交在敵人手中。
18 And, all the utensils of the house of God, both great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king and of his rulers, the whole, carried he to Babylon;
加色丁人王又將天主殿內所有的大小器皿,上主殿內的寶物,君王和朝臣的寶物,都帶往巴比倫,
19 and they burned the house of God, and threw down the wall of Jerusalem, —and, all the palaces thereof, burned they with fire, and, all the precious vessels thereof, he destroyed;
焚毀了上主的殿宇,拆壞了耶路撒冷的城牆,燒了城中所有的宮殿,毀壞了城內一切珍貴的器皿;
20 and he exiled the remnant left from the sword, into Babylon, —where they became his and his sons, as servants, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
凡免於刀下的人,都被擄到巴比倫去,作他及他子孫的奴僕,直到波斯帝國興起。
21 to fulfil the word of God, by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had paid off her sabbaths, —all the days of her lying desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
這樣,就應驗了上主藉耶肋米亞的口所說的話:「直到這地域補享了它的安息年,應該在荒蕪期中獲享安息,直到七十年。」[居魯士頒發上諭]
22 But, in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to accomplish the word of God by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh aroused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made proclamation throughout all his kingdom, moreover also in writing, saying:
波斯王居魯士元年,為應驗上主藉耶肋米加的口所說的話,上主感動了波斯王居魯士的心,叫他出一道號令,向全國頒發上諭說:「
23 Thus, saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth, hath Yahweh God of the heavens, given unto me, and, he himself, hath laid charge upon me, to build to him a house, in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people with whom is Yahweh his God? Then let him go up.
波思王居魯士這樣說:上主的神「雅威,」將地上萬國交給了我,囑咐我在猶大的耶路撒冷為他建築一座殿宇,你們中間凡作他子民的,可以上去;願他的神與他同在! 」