< 2 Chronicles 24 >

1 Ioash was seuen yere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned fourty yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
約阿施登基的時候年七歲,在耶路撒冷作王四十年。他母親名叫西比亞,是別是巴人。
2 And Ioash did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, all the dayes of Iehoiada the Priest.
祭司耶何耶大在世的時候,約阿施行耶和華眼中看為正的事。
3 And Iehoiada tooke him two wiues, and he begate sonnes and daughters.
耶何耶大為他娶了兩個妻,並且生兒養女。
4 And afterward it came into Ioash mind, to renew the house of the Lord.
此後,約阿施有意重修耶和華的殿,
5 And he assembled the Priests and the Leuites, and said to them, Goe out vnto the cities of Iudah, and gather of all Israel money to repaire the house of your God, from yeere to yeere, and haste the thing: but the Leuites hasted not.
便召聚眾祭司和利未人,吩咐他們說:「你們要往猶大各城去,使以色列眾人捐納銀子,每年可以修理你們上帝的殿;你們要急速辦理這事。」只是利未人不急速辦理。
6 Therefore the King called Iehoiada, the chiefe, and said vnto him, Why hast thou not required of the Leuites to bring in out of Iudah and Ierusalem the taxe of Moses the seruant of the Lord, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the Tabernacle of the testimonie?
王召了大祭司耶何耶大來,對他說:「從前耶和華的僕人摩西,為法櫃的帳幕與以色列會眾所定的捐項,你為何不叫利未人照這例從猶大和耶路撒冷帶來作殿的費用呢?」(
7 For wicked Athaliah, and her children brake vp the house of God: and all the things that were dedicate for the house of the Lord, did they bestowe vpon Baalim.
因為那惡婦亞她利雅的眾子曾拆毀上帝的殿,又用耶和華殿中分別為聖的物供奉巴力。)
8 Therefore the King commanded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of the Lord without.
於是王下令,眾人做了一櫃,放在耶和華殿的門外,
9 And they made proclamation thorow Iudah and Ierusalem, to bring vnto the Lord the taxe of Moses the seruant of God, layde vpon Israel in the wildernesse.
又通告猶大和耶路撒冷的百姓,要將上帝僕人摩西在曠野所吩咐以色列人的捐項給耶和華送來。
10 And all the princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill they had finished.
眾首領和百姓都歡歡喜喜地將銀子送來,投入櫃中,直到捐完。
11 And when it was time, they brought the chest vnto the Kings officer by the hand of the Leuites: and when they saw that there was much siluer, then the Kings Scribe (and one appoynted by the hie Priest) came and emptied the chest, and tooke it, and caried it to his place againe: thus they did day by day, and gathered siluer in abundance.
利未人見銀子多了,就把櫃抬到王所派的司事面前;王的書記和大祭司的屬員來將櫃倒空,仍放在原處。日日都是這樣,積蓄的銀子甚多。
12 And the King and Iehoiada gaue it to such as did the labour and worke in the house of the Lord, and hyred masons and carpenters to repayre the house of the Lord: they gaue it also to workers of yron and brasse, to repayre the house of the Lord.
王與耶何耶大將銀子交給耶和華殿裏辦事的人,他們就雇了石匠、木匠重修耶和華的殿,又雇了鐵匠、銅匠修理耶和華的殿。
13 So the workemen wrought, and the worke amended through their hands: and they restored the house of God to his state, and strengthened it.
工人操作,漸漸修成,將上帝殿修造得與從前一樣,而且甚是堅固。
14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the siluer before the King and Iehoiada, and he made thereof vessels for the house of the Lord, euen vessels to minister, both morters and incense cuppes, and vessels of golde, and of siluer: and they offred burnt offrings in the house of the Lord continually all the dayes of Iehoiada.
工程完了,他們就把其餘的銀子拿到王與耶何耶大面前,用以製造耶和華殿供奉所用的器皿和調羹,並金銀的器皿。 耶何耶大在世的時候,眾人常在耶和華殿裏獻燔祭。
15 But Iehoiada waxed olde, and was ful of dayes and dyed. An hundreth and thirtie yeere olde was he when he dyed.
耶何耶大年紀老邁,日子滿足而死。死的時候年一百三十歲,
16 And they buried him in the citie of Dauid with the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
葬在大衛城列王的墳墓裏;因為他在以色列人中行善,又事奉上帝,修理上帝的殿。
17 And after the death of Iehoiada, came the princes of Iudah, and did reuerence to the King, and the King hearkened vnto them.
耶何耶大死後,猶大的眾首領來朝拜王;王就聽從他們。
18 And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and serued groues and idoles: and wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem, because of this their trespasse.
他們離棄耶和華-他們列祖上帝的殿,去事奉亞舍拉和偶像;因他們這罪,就有忿怒臨到猶大和耶路撒冷。
19 And God sent Prophets amog the, to bring them againe vnto the Lord: and they made protestation among them, but they would not heare.
但上帝仍遣先知到他們那裏,引導他們歸向耶和華。這先知警戒他們,他們卻不肯聽。
20 And the Spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the Priest, which stoode aboue the people, and sayde vnto them, Thus sayth God, Why transgresse ye the commandements of the Lord? surely ye shall not prosper: because ye haue forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken you.
那時,上帝的靈感動祭司耶何耶大的兒子撒迦利亞,他就站在上面對民說:「上帝如此說:你們為何干犯耶和華的誡命,以致不得亨通呢?因為你們離棄耶和華,所以他也離棄你們。」
21 Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandement of the King, in the court of the house of the Lord.
眾民同心謀害撒迦利亞,就照王的吩咐,在耶和華殿的院內用石頭打死他。
22 Thus Ioash the King remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada his father had done to him, but slewe his sonne. And when he dyed, he sayd, The Lord looke vpon it, and require it.
這樣,約阿施王不想念撒迦利亞的父親耶何耶大向自己所施的恩,殺了他的兒子。撒迦利亞臨死的時候說:「願耶和華鑒察伸冤!」
23 And when the yeere was out, the host of Aram came vp against him, and they came against Iudah and Ierusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoyle of them vnto the King of Damascus.
滿了一年,亞蘭的軍兵上來攻擊約阿施,來到猶大和耶路撒冷,殺了民中的眾首領,將所掠的財貨送到大馬士革王那裏。
24 Though the armie of Aram came with a small company of men, yet the Lord deliuered a very great armie into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers: and they gaue sentence against Ioash.
亞蘭的軍兵雖來了一小隊,耶和華卻將大隊的軍兵交在他們手裏,是因猶大人離棄耶和華-他們列祖的上帝,所以藉亞蘭人懲罰約阿施。
25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases) his owne seruants conspired against him for the blood of the children of Iehoiada the Priest, and slewe him on his bed, and he dyed, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid: but they buryed him not in the sepulchres of the Kings.
亞蘭人離開約阿施的時候,他患重病;臣僕背叛他,要報祭司耶何耶大兒子流血之仇,殺他在床上,葬他在大衛城,只是不葬在列王的墳墓裏。
26 And these are they that conspired against him, Zabad the sonne of Shimrath an Ammonitesse, and Iehozabad the sonne of Shimrith a Moabitesse.
背叛他的是亞捫婦人示米押的兒子撒拔和摩押婦人示米利的兒子約薩拔。
27 But his sonnes, and the summe of the taxe gathered by him, and the foundation of the house of God, behold, they are written in the storie of the booke of the Kings. And Amaziah his sonne reigned in his steade.
至於他的眾子和他所受的警戒,並他重修上帝殿的事,都寫在列王的傳上。他兒子亞瑪謝接續他作王。

< 2 Chronicles 24 >