歷代志下36:1-14

 

36:1 國民立約西亞的兒子約哈斯在耶路撒冷接續他父作王。
36:2 約哈斯登基的時候年二十三歲，在耶路撒冷作王三個月。
36:3 埃及王在耶路撒冷廢了他，又罰猶大國銀子一百他連得，金子一他連得。
36:4 埃及王尼哥立約哈斯的哥哥以利雅敬作猶大和耶路撒冷的王，改名叫約雅敬，又將約哈斯帶到埃及去了。
36:5 約雅敬登基的時候年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王十一年，行耶和華─他上帝眼中看為惡的事。
36:6 巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒上來攻擊他，用銅鍊鎖著他，要將他帶到巴比倫去。
36:7 尼布甲尼撒又將耶和華殿裡的器皿帶到巴比倫，放在他神的廟裡（或譯：自己的宮裡）。
36:8 約雅敬其餘的事和他所行可憎的事，並他一切的行為，都寫在以色列和猶大列王記上。他兒子約雅斤接續他作王。
36:9 約雅斤登基的時候年八歲（在列王下二十四章八節是十八歲），在耶路撒冷作王三個月零十天，行耶和華眼中看為惡的事。
36:10 過了一年，尼布甲尼撒差遣人將約雅斤和耶和華殿裡各樣寶貴的器皿帶到巴比倫，就立約雅斤的叔叔（原文是兄）西底家作猶大和耶路撒冷的王。
36:11 西底家登基的時候年二十一歲，在耶路撒冷作王十一年，
36:12 行耶和華─他上帝眼中看為惡的事。先知耶利米以耶和華的話勸他，他仍不在耶利米面前自卑。
36:13 尼布甲尼撒曾使他指著上帝起誓，他卻背叛，強項硬心，不歸服耶和華─以色列的上帝。
36:14 眾祭司長和百姓也大大犯罪，效法外邦人一切可憎的事，污穢耶和華在耶路撒冷分別為聖的殿。

 

 ¹ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

² Jehoahaz^[a] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. ³ The king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents^[b] of silver and a talent^[c] of gold. ⁴ The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Necho took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

⁵ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God. ⁶ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. ⁷ Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the Lord and put them in his temple^[d] there.

⁸ The other events of Jehoiakim’s reign, the detestable things he did and all that was found against him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.

⁹ Jehoiachin was eighteen^[e] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁰ In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, together with articles of value from the temple of the Lord, and he made Jehoiachin’s uncle,^[f] Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹¹ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. ¹² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the Lord. ¹³ He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God’s name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁴ Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

 

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    猶大國處於亞述和埃及兩大國之間，所以政局受到這兩國的影響，最後因為王不聽上帝的話，輕忽與上帝的關係，於是被巴比倫所滅！

 

    這些王的事蹟讓我們感觸的是，人必須敬畏上帝，不要畏懼附近的強敵，上帝必定會給我們出路的！