2 Chronicles 15
1 And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,
上帝的靈感動俄德的兒子亞撒利雅。
2 and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, 'Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah [is] with you — in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;
他出來迎接亞撒，對他說：「亞撒和猶大、便雅憫眾人哪，要聽我說：你們若順從耶和華，耶和華必與你們同在；你們若尋求他，就必尋見；你們若離棄他，他必離棄你們。
3 and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
以色列人不信真神，沒有訓誨的祭司，也沒有律法，已經好久了；
4 and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,
但他們在急難的時候歸向耶和華－以色列的上帝，尋求他，他就被他們尋見。
5 and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands,
那時，出入的人不得平安，列國的居民都遭大亂；
6 and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;
這國攻擊那國，這城攻擊那城，互相破壞，因為上帝用各樣災難擾亂他們。
7 and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'
現在你們要剛強，不要手軟，因你們所行的必得賞賜。」
8 And at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that [is] before the porch of Jehovah,
亞撒聽見這話和俄德兒子先知亞撒利雅的預言，就壯起膽來，在猶大、便雅憫全地，並以法蓮山地所奪的各城，將可憎之物盡都除掉，又在耶和華殿的廊前重新修築耶和華的壇；
9 and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon — for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God [is] with him.
又招聚猶大、便雅憫的眾人，並他們中間寄居的以法蓮人、瑪拿西人、西緬人。有許多以色列人歸降亞撒，因見耶和華－他的上帝與他同在。
10 And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
亞撒十五年三月，他們都聚集在耶路撒冷。
11 and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in — oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,
當日他們從所取的擄物中，將牛七百隻、羊七千隻獻給耶和華。
12 and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,
他們就立約，要盡心盡性地尋求耶和華－他們列祖的上帝。
13 and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.
凡不尋求耶和華－以色列上帝的，無論大小、男女，必被治死。
14 And they swear to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets,
他們就大聲歡呼，吹號吹角，向耶和華起誓。
15 and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about.
猶大眾人為所起的誓歡喜；因他們是盡心起誓，盡意尋求耶和華，耶和華就被他們尋見，且賜他們四境平安。
16 And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king — he hath removed her from [being] mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth [it] small, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron:
亞撒王貶了他祖母瑪迦太后的位，因她造了可憎的偶像亞舍拉。亞撒砍下她的偶像，搗得粉碎，燒在汲淪溪邊。
17 yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.
只是邱壇還沒有從以色列中廢去，然而亞撒的心一生誠實。
18 And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.
亞撒將他父所分別為聖、與自己所分別為聖的金銀和器皿都奉到上帝的殿裏。
19 And war hath not been till the thirty and fifth year of the reign of Asa.
從這時直到亞撒三十五年，都沒有爭戰的事。
