2 Kings 24

1 In his days Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.

約雅金年間，巴比倫王拿步高進犯，約雅金臣服了他三年，以後又背叛了他。

2 And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants the prophets.

上主派加色丁、阿蘭、摩阿布和阿孟人的雜軍來，不斷侵犯約雅金；上主派這些人來進攻消滅猶大，正如上主藉他的僕人先知們所說的話。

3 And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did.

猶大遭遇這件事，確是由上主的命令，因為衪要由自己面前拋棄猶大：這是為了默納舍所犯的一切罪患，

4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

也是因了他所流的無辜者的血，他使無辜者的血流滿了耶路撒冷，上主不肯寬恕。

5 But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers:

約雅金其餘的事蹟，他行的一切，都記載在猶大列王的實錄上。

6 And Joachin his son reigned in his stead.

約雅金與祖先同眼，他的兒子耶苛尼雅繼位為王。

7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own country: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.

從此埃及王不敢再離開本國出征，因為巴比倫王征服了從埃及河直到幼發拉的河屬於埃及的領土。

8 Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, a and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

耶苛尼雅登極時年十八歲，在耶路撒冷作王三個月；他的母親名叫胡市達，是耶路撒冷人厄耳納堂的女兒。

9 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

他行了上主視為惡的事，像他父親所行的一樣。

10 At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts.

那時巴比倫王拿步高的臣僕前來圍攻耶路撒冷。

11 And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came to the city with his servants to assault it.

當他的臣僕圍攻耶路撒冷時，巴比倫王拿步高親自來督戰攻城。

12 And Joachin king of Juda went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

耶苛尼雅和他的母親臣僕、公卿以及太監，都出來投降巴比倫王；巴比倫王將他們擄去，時在巴比倫王在位第八年。

13 And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

巴比倫王且搶去了上主殿內的一切寶藏，和王宮中的寶藏，打碎了以色列王撒羅滿為上主聖殿所製的一切金器，正如上主所預言的；

14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

也擄去了耶路撒冷的民眾，所有的官紳和勇士，共一萬人，以及所有的工匠和鐵匠，只留下了地方上最窮苦的平民。

15 And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem into Babylon.

他將耶苛尼雅擄到巴比倫去，也將太后、后妃、君王的內侍，以及地方上的王公大人，都從耶路撒冷擄到巴比倫去。

16 And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and the smiths a thousand, all that were valiant men and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.

一切有氣力的人，人數約七千，工匠和鐵匠，人數約一千，都是能打仗的勇士，巴比倫王都擄到巴比倫去。

17 And he appointed Matthanias his uncle in his stead: and called his name Sedecias.

巴比倫王立了耶苛尼雅的叔父瑪塔尼雅代他為王，給他改名叫漆德克雅。

18 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

漆德克雅登極時年二十一歲，在耶路撒冷為王十一年；他的母親始叫哈慕塔耳，是里貝納人耶勒米雅的女兒。

19 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

他行了上主視為惡的事，伓像約雅金所行的一樣；

20 For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till he cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.

因此，上主向耶路撒冷和猶大大發憤怒，由自己面前將他們拋棄。以後漆德克雅背叛了巴比倫王。