歷代志下 24
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1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。
1Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
2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。
2And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.
3耶何耶大 為他娶了兩個妻，並且生兒養女。
3And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.
4此後， 約阿施 有意重修耶和華的殿，
4After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
5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。
5And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.
6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 ？」（
6And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the testimony?
7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 。）
7For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.
8於是王下令，眾人做了一櫃，放在耶和華殿的門外，
8And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
9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。
9And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
10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。
10And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going In they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it was filled.
11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。
11And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king’s scribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they poured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the chest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was gathered an immense sum of money.
12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。
12And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works of the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and artificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.
13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。
13And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its former state, and made it stand firm.
14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。
14And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other vessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.
15耶何耶大 年紀老邁，日子滿足而死。死的時候年一百三十歲，
15But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a hundred and thirty years old.
16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。
16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.
17耶何耶大 死後， 猶大 的眾首領來朝拜王；王就聽從他們。
17And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.
18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 。
18And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.
19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。
19And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.
20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。」
20The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?
21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。
21And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king’s commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
22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！」
22And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.
23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。
23And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.
24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 。
24And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments.
25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。
25And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26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 。
26Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.
27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。
27And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.
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