2 Chronicles 31
1 After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.
[清除偶像]這一切完成以後，所有在場的以色列人就都出去，到猶大各城，將石柱搗碎，將木偶砍倒，將猶大、本雅明、厄弗辣因和默納協各地的高丘和香壇完全拆除；以後，所有的以色列子民各回了本城，各歸己業。[重整神職班次]
2 Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.
希則克雅又整編了司祭和肋未人的班次，使司祭和肋未人各照自己的班次，各照自己的任務，獻權燔祭與和平祭，或服務於上主的螢幕門口，稱謝讚頌上主。
3 The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].
君王又由自己的產業中劃出一份，作為早晚的全燔祭，安息日、新月和節期的全燔祭，如上主法律上所規定的；
4 Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.
又吩咐住在耶路撒冷的百姓，交出司祭和肋未人所應得的一分，令他們堅守上主的法律。
5 As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.
這道諭旨一出，以色列子民便獻了許多初熟的五穀、新酒、蜜，以及田地的出產；同時將所有物的十分之一，也大批的送了來，
6 The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.
連住在猶大各城的以色列和猶大子民，也將牛羊的十分之一，並應獻於上主，他們天主的聖物的十分之一，都送了來，堆積成堆；
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
由三月開始堆積，至七月纔完畢。
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
希則克雅和首領們前來，看見這些堆積之物，便稱讚了上主和他的百姓以色列。
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
希則克雅向司祭和肋未人問及這些堆積之物，
10 Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”
匝多克家的司祭之長阿匝黎雅答說：「自從人民將供物獻入上主的殿內以來，我們不但可以飽食，而且還有許多剩餘，因為上主祝福了他的百姓；這一大堆全是剩餘的。」[儲藏與分配供物]
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
希則克雅吩咐在上主殿內預備倉房；人便預備了，
12 Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.
細心將供物和什一之物，以及奉獻的聖物，都搬入倉內。肋未人苛納尼雅為總管，他的兄弟史米為副。
13 Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.
耶希耳、阿匝齊雅、納哈特、阿撒耳、耶黎摩特、約匝巴得，厄里耳、依斯瑪基雅、瑪哈特和貝納雅，自苛納尼和他兄弟史米之下作督察，全是由君王希則克雅和上主殿宇的主席阿匝黎雅所委任的。
14 Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.
守東門的肋未人，依默納的兒子科勒，掌管自願捐獻於天主的禮品，發放獻於上主的供物和至聖之物；
15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
他以下有厄登、本雅明、耶叔亞、舍瑪雅、阿瑪黎雅和舍加尼雅，在各司祭城內，按照班次，不分老幼，將物品細心分發給他們的弟兄。
16 They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.
此外，又登記了每日進上主殿，依照班次盡職，三十歲以上的男子：
17 The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.
司祭依照家族登記；二十歲以上的肋未人，依照職分班次登記。
18 They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.
登記時，他們全家妻子兒女，都應包括在內，因為他們都應自潔成聖。
19 [Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.
至於那住在各城郊外作司祭的亞郎子孫，在各城內有指定的人，給司祭中的男子及登記的肋未人，發放應得的一份。
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
希則克雅在全猶大行事都是如此：行了上主他的天主視為善，視為正義的事。
21 In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
凡他著手所行的，不論是關於上主殿內的敬禮，或關於法律和誡命，都是為了尋求他的天主；凡他誠心所行的，無不順利。
