< 2 Chronicles 31 >

1 And when all these thinges were finished, all Israel that were found in the cities of Iudah, went out and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake downe the hie places, and the altars thorowout all Iudah and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, vntil they had made an ende: afterwarde all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possession, into their owne cities.
這事既都完畢,在那裏的以色列眾人就到猶大的城邑,打碎柱像,砍斷木偶,又在猶大、便雅憫、以法蓮、瑪拿西遍地將邱壇和祭壇拆毀淨盡。於是以色列眾人各回各城,各歸各地。
2 And Hezekiah appoynted the courses of the Priests and Leuites by their turnes, euery man according to his office, both Priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offring and peace offrings, to minister and to giue thankes, and to prayse in the gates of the tentes of the Lord.
希西家派定祭司利未人的班次,各按各職獻燔祭和平安祭,又在耶和華殿門內事奉,稱謝頌讚耶和華。
3 (And the Kings portion was of his owne substance for the burnt offrings, euen for ye burnt offrings of the morning and of the euening, and the burnt offrings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moones, and for the solemne feastes, as it is written in the Law of the Lord)
王又從自己的產業中定出分來為燔祭,就是早晚的燔祭和安息日、月朔,並節期的燔祭,都是按耶和華律法上所載的;
4 He commanded also the people that dwelt in Ierusalem, to giue a part to the Priestes, and Leuites, that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord.
又吩咐住耶路撒冷的百姓將祭司、利未人所應得的分給他們,使他們專心遵守耶和華的律法。
5 And when the commandement was spread, the children of Israel brought abundance of first fruites, of corne, wine, and oyle, and honie, and of all the increase of the fielde, and the tithes of all things brought they abundantly.
諭旨一出,以色列人就把初熟的五穀、新酒、油、蜜,和田地的出產多多送來,又把各物的十分之一送來的極多。
6 And the children of Israel and Iudah that dwelt in ye cities of Iudah, they also brought the tithes of bullockes and sheepe, and the holy tithes which were consecrate vnto the Lord their God, and laide them on many heapes.
住猶大各城的以色列人和猶大人也將牛羊的十分之一,並分別為聖歸耶和華-他們上帝之物,就是十分取一之物,盡都送來,積成堆壘;
7 In the thirde moneth they beganne to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.
從三月積起,到七月才完。
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came, and saw the heapes, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.
希西家和眾首領來,看見堆壘,就稱頌耶和華,又為耶和華的民以色列人祝福。
9 And Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.
希西家向祭司、利未人查問這堆壘。
10 And Azariah the chiefe Priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and sayde, Since the people beganne to bring the offrings into the house of the Lord, we haue eaten and haue bene satisfied, and there is left in abundance: for the Lord hath blessed his people, and this abundance that is left.
撒督家的大祭司亞撒利雅回答說:「自從民將供物送到耶和華殿以來,我們不但吃飽,且剩下的甚多;因為耶和華賜福給他的民,所剩下的才這樣豐盛。」
11 And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord: and they prepared them,
希西家吩咐在耶和華殿裏預備倉房,他們就預備了。
12 And caryed in the first fruites, and the tithes, and the dedicate things faithfully: and ouer them was Conaniah the Leuite, the chiefe, and Shimei his brother the seconde.
他們誠心將供物和十分取一之物,並分別為聖之物,都搬入倉內。利未人歌楠雅掌管這事,他兄弟示每為副管。
13 And Iehiel, and Azariah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Ierimoth, and Iozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were ouerseers by the appointment of Conaniah, and Shimei his brother, and by the commandement of Hezekiah the King, and of Azariah the chiefe of the house of God.
耶歇、亞撒細雅、拿哈、亞撒黑、耶利末、約撒拔、以列、伊斯瑪基雅、瑪哈、比拿雅都是督理,在歌楠雅和他兄弟示每的手下,是希西家王和管理上帝殿的亞撒利雅所派的。
14 And Kore the sonne of Imnah the Leuite porter towarde the East, was ouer the things that were willingly offred vnto God, to distribute the oblations of the Lord, and the holy things that were consecrate.
守東門的利未人音拿的兒子可利,掌管樂意獻與上帝的禮物,發放獻與耶和華的供物和至聖的物。
15 And at his hande were Eden, and Miniamin, and Ieshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shechaniah, in the cities of the Priestes, to distribute with fidelitie to their brethren by courses, both to the great and small,
在他手下有伊甸、詿雅詿、耶書亞、示瑪雅、亞瑪利雅、示迦尼雅,在祭司的各城裏供緊要的職任,無論弟兄大小,都按着班次分給他們。
16 Their daily portion: beside their generation being males from three yeere olde and aboue, euen to all that entred into the house of the Lord to their office in their charge, according to their courses:
按家譜,三歲以外的男丁,凡每日進耶和華殿、按班次供職的,也分給他;
17 Both to the generation of the Priestes after the house of their fathers, and to the Leuites from twentie yeere olde and aboue, according to their charge in their courses:
又按宗族家譜分給祭司,按班次職任分給二十歲以外的利未人,
18 And to the generation of all their children, their wiues, and their sonnes and their daughters throughout all ye Congregation: for by their fidelitie are they partakers of the holy things.
又按家譜計算,分給他們會中的妻子、兒女;因他們身供要職,自潔成聖。
19 Also to the sonnes of Aaron, the Priestes, which were in the fieldes and suburbes of their cities, in euery citie the men that were appointed by names, shoulde giue portions to all the males of the Priestes, and to all the generation of the Leuites.
按名派定的人要把應得的分給亞倫子孫,住在各城郊野、祭司所有的男丁和一切載入家譜的利未人。
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout al Iudah, and did well, and vprightly, and truely before the Lord his God.
希西家在猶大遍地這樣辦理,行耶和華-他上帝眼中看為善為正為忠的事。
21 And in all the workes that he began for the seruice of the house of God, both in the Law and in the commandements, to seeke his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
凡他所行的,無論是辦上帝殿的事,是遵律法守誡命,是尋求他的上帝,都是盡心去行,無不亨通。

< 2 Chronicles 31 >