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.
西底家背叛巴比倫王。他作王第九年十月初十日，巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領全軍來攻擊耶路撒冷，對城安營，四圍築壘攻城。
2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
於是城被圍困，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，城裏有大饑荒，甚至百姓都沒有糧食。
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 Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
城被攻破，一切兵丁就在夜間從靠近王園兩城中間的門逃跑。迦勒底人正在四圍攻城，王就向亞拉巴逃走。
5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
迦勒底的軍隊追趕王，在耶利哥的平原追上他；他的全軍都離開他四散了。
6 Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
迦勒底人就拿住王，帶他到在利比拉的巴比倫王那裏審判他。
7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
在西底家眼前殺了他的眾子，並且剜了西底家的眼睛，用銅鍊鎖着他，帶到巴比倫去。
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.
巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒十九年五月初七日，巴比倫王的臣僕、護衛長尼布撒拉旦來到耶路撒冷，
9 He burned the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every great house with fire.
用火焚燒耶和華的殿和王宮，又焚燒耶路撒冷的房屋，就是各大戶家的房屋。
10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
跟從護衛長迦勒底的全軍就拆毀耶路撒冷四圍的城牆。
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.
那時護衛長尼布撒拉旦將城裏所剩下的百姓，並已經投降巴比倫王的人，以及大眾所剩下的人，都擄去了。
12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
但護衛長留下些民中最窮的，使他們修理葡萄園，耕種田地。
13 The Chaldeans 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.
耶和華殿的銅柱，並耶和華殿的盆座和銅海，迦勒底人都打碎了，將那銅運到巴比倫去了，
14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
又帶去鍋、鏟子、蠟剪、調羹，並所用的一切銅器，
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，無論金的銀的，護衛長也都帶去了。
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.
所羅門為耶和華殿所造的兩根銅柱、一個銅海，和幾個盆座，這一切的銅，多得無法可稱。
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.
這一根柱子高十八肘，柱上有銅頂，高三肘；銅頂的周圍有網子和石榴，都是銅的。那一根柱子，照此一樣，也有網子。
18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
護衛長拿住大祭司西萊雅、副祭司西番亞，和三個把門的，
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.
又從城中拿住一個管理兵丁的官，並在城裏所遇常見王面的五個人和檢點國民軍長的書記，以及城裏遇見的國民六十個人。
20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
護衛長尼布撒拉旦將這些人帶到在利比拉的巴比倫王那裏。
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.
巴比倫王就把他們擊殺在哈馬地的利比拉。這樣，猶大人被擄去離開本地。
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.
至於猶大國剩下的民，就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒所剩下的，巴比倫王立了沙番的孫子、亞希甘的兒子基大利作他們的省長。
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, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
眾軍長和屬他們的人聽見巴比倫王立了基大利作省長，於是軍長尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、加利亞的兒子約哈難、尼陀法人單戶蔑的兒子西萊雅、瑪迦人的兒子雅撒尼亞，和屬他們的人都到米斯巴見基大利。
24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Do not be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
基大利向他們和屬他們的人起誓說：「你們不必懼怕迦勒底臣僕，只管住在這地服事巴比倫王，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 Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
七月間，宗室以利沙瑪的孫子、尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利帶着十個人來，殺了基大利和同他在米斯巴的猶大人與迦勒底人。
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 Chaldeans.
於是眾民，無論大小，連眾軍長；因為懼怕迦勒底人，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,
猶大王約雅斤被擄後三十七年，巴比倫王以未‧米羅達元年十二月二十七日，使猶大王約雅斤抬頭，提他出監；
28 and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
又對他說恩言，使他的位高過與他一同在巴比倫眾王的位，
29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
給他脫了囚服。他終身常在 巴比倫王面前吃飯。
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.
王賜他所需用的食物，日日賜他一分，終身都是這樣。
