2 Kings 25
1 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
西底家背叛巴比伦王。他作王第九年十月初十日，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领全军来攻击耶路撒冷，对城安营，四围筑垒攻城。
2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
于是城被围困，直到西底家王十一年。
3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。
4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Kasdim were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
城被攻破，一切兵丁就在夜间从靠近王园两城中间的门逃跑。迦勒底人正在四围攻城，王就向亚拉巴逃走。
5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
迦勒底的军队追赶王，在耶利哥的平原追上他；他的全军都离开他四散了。
6 Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgement on him.
迦勒底人就拿住王，带他到在利比拉的巴比伦王那里审判他。
7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
在西底家眼前杀了他的众子，并且剜了西底家的眼睛，用铜链锁着他，带到巴比伦去。
8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒十九年五月初七日，巴比伦王的臣仆、护卫长尼布撒拉旦来到耶路撒冷，
9 He burnt the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burnt every great house with fire.
用火焚烧耶和华的殿和王宫，又焚烧耶路撒冷的房屋，就是各大户家的房屋。
10 All the army of the Kasdim, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
跟从护卫长迦勒底的全军就拆毁耶路撒冷四围的城墙。
11 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who were left in the city and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon—all the rest of the multitude.
那时护卫长尼布撒拉旦将城里所剩下的百姓，并已经投降巴比伦王的人，以及大众所剩下的人，都掳去了。
12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
但护卫长留下些民中最穷的，使他们修理葡萄园，耕种田地。
13 The Kasdim broke up the pillars of bronze that were in the LORD’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the LORD’s house, and carried the bronze pieces to Babylon.
耶和华殿的铜柱，并耶和华殿的盆座和铜海，迦勒底人都打碎了，将那铜运到巴比伦去了，
14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
又带去锅、铲子、蜡剪、调羹，并所用的一切铜器，
15 The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, for gold, and that which was of silver, for silver.
火鼎、碗，无论金的银的，护卫长也都带去了。
16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the LORD’s house, the bronze of all these vessels was not weighed.
所罗门为耶和华殿所造的两根铜柱、一个铜海，和几个盆座，这一切的铜，多得无法可称。
17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.
这一根柱子高十八肘，柱上有铜顶，高三肘；铜顶的周围有网子和石榴，都是铜的。那一根柱子，照此一样，也有网子。
18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
护卫长拿住大祭司西莱雅、副祭司西番亚，和三个把门的，
19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
又从城中拿住一个管理兵丁的官，并在城里所遇常见王面的五个人和检点国民军长的书记，以及城里遇见的国民六十个人。
20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
护卫长尼布撒拉旦将这些人带到在利比拉的巴比伦王那里。
21 The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
巴比伦王就把他们击杀在哈马地的利比拉。这样，犹大人被掳去离开本地。
22 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
至于犹大国剩下的民，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒所剩下的，巴比伦王立了沙番的孙子、亚希甘的儿子基大利作他们的省长。
23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Yochanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
众军长和属他们的人听见巴比伦王立了基大利作省长，于是军长尼探雅的儿子以实玛利、加利亚的儿子约哈难、尼陀法人单户篾的儿子西莱雅、玛迦人的儿子雅撒尼亚，和属他们的人都到米斯巴见基大利。
24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Kasdim. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
基大利向他们和属他们的人起誓说：“你们不必惧怕迦勒底臣仆，只管住在这地服事巴比伦王，就可以得福。”
25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah so that he died, with the Jews and the Kasdim that were with him at Mizpah.
七月间，宗室以利沙玛的孙子、尼探雅的儿子以实玛利带着十个人来，杀了基大利和同他在米斯巴的犹大人与迦勒底人。
26 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Kasdim.
于是众民，无论大小，连众军长；因为惧怕迦勒底人，都起身往埃及去了。
27 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison,
犹大王约雅斤被掳后三十七年，巴比伦王以未·米罗达元年十二月二十七日，使犹大王约雅斤抬头，提他出监；
28 and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
又对他说恩言，使他的位高过与他一同在巴比伦众王的位，
29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
给他脱了囚服。他终身常在 巴比伦王面前吃饭。
30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
王赐他所需用的食物，日日赐他一分，终身都是这样。
