列王紀下 3
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
World English Bible
1猶大 王 約沙法 十八年， 亞哈 的兒子 約蘭 在 撒馬利亞 登基作了 以色列 王十二年。
1Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2他行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，但不致像他父母所行的，因為除掉他父所造 巴力 的柱像。
2He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3然而，他貼近 尼八 的兒子 耶羅波安 使 以色列 人陷在罪裏的那罪，總不離開。
3Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.
4摩押 王 米沙 牧養許多羊， 每年 將十萬羊羔的毛和十萬公綿羊的毛給 以色列 王進貢。
4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.
5亞哈 死後， 摩押 王背叛 以色列 王。
5But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6那時 約蘭 王出 撒馬利亞 ，數點 以色列 眾人。
6King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
7前行的時候，差人去見 猶大 王 約沙法 ，說：「 摩押 王背叛我，你肯同我去攻打 摩押 嗎？」他說：「我肯上去，你我不分彼此，我的民與你的民一樣，我的馬與你的馬一樣。」
7He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?” He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
8約蘭 說：「我們從哪條路上去呢？」回答說：「從 以東 曠野的路上去。」
8Then he said, “Which way shall we go up?” Jehoram answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
9於是， 以色列 王和 猶大 王，並 以東 王，都一同去繞行七日的路程；軍隊和所帶的牲畜沒有水喝。
9So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
10以色列 王說：「哀哉！耶和華招聚我們這三王，乃要交在 摩押 人的手裏。」
10The king of Israel said, “Alas! For the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
11約沙法 說：「這裏不是有耶和華的先知嗎？我們可以託他求問耶和華。」 以色列 王的一個臣子回答說：「這裏有 沙法 的兒子 以利沙 ，就是從前服事 以利亞 的。」
11But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
12約沙法 說：「他必有耶和華的話。」於是 以色列 王和 約沙法 ，並 以東 王都下去見他。
12Jehoshaphat said, “The LORD’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
13以利沙 對 以色列 王說：「我與你何干？去問你父親的先知和你母親的先知吧！」 以色列 王對他說：「不要這樣說，耶和華招聚我們這三王，乃要交在 摩押 人的手裏。」
13Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
14以利沙 說：「我指着所事奉永生的萬軍耶和華起誓，我若不看 猶大 王 約沙法 的情面，必不理你，不顧你。
14Elisha said, “As the LORD of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
15現在你們給我找一個彈琴的來。」彈琴的時候，耶和華的靈就降在 以利沙 身上。
15But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, the LORD’s hand came on him.
16他便說：「耶和華如此說：『你們要在這谷中滿處挖溝；
16He said, “The LORD says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
17因為耶和華如此說：你們雖不見風，不見雨，這谷必滿了水，使你們和牲畜有水喝。』
17For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals.
18在耶和華眼中這還算為小事，他也必將 摩押 人交在你們手中。
18This is an easy thing in the LORD’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
19你們必攻破一切堅城美邑，砍伐各種佳樹，塞住一切水泉，用石頭糟踏一切美田。」
19You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”
20次日早晨，約在獻祭的時候，有水從 以東 而來，遍地就滿了水。
20In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
21摩押 眾人聽見這三王上來要與他們爭戰，凡能頂盔貫甲的，無論老少，盡都聚集站在邊界上。
21Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, and stood on the border.
22次日早晨，日光照在水上， 摩押 人起來，看見對面水紅如血，
22They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
23就說：「這是血啊！必是三王互相擊殺，俱都滅亡。 摩押 人哪，我們現在去搶奪財物吧！」
23They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”
24摩押 人到了 以色列 營， 以色列 人就起來攻打他們，以致他們在 以色列 人面前逃跑。 以色列 人往前追殺 摩押 人，直殺入 摩押 的境內，
24When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites.
25拆毀 摩押 的城邑，各人拋石填滿一切美田，塞住一切水泉，砍伐各種佳樹，只剩下 吉珥‧哈列設 的石 牆 ；甩石的兵在四圍攻打那城。
25They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it and attacked it.
26摩押 王見陣勢甚大，難以對敵，就率領七百拿刀的兵，要衝過陣去到 以東 王那裏，卻是不能；
26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
27便將那應當接續他作王的長子，在城上獻為燔祭。 以色列 人遭遇 耶和華的 大怒，於是三王離開 摩押 王，各回本國去了。
27Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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