2 Kings 18

1 In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.

1 以拉的儿子以色列王何细亚执政第三年，犹大王亚哈斯的儿子希西迦登基。

2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 他二十五岁登基，在耶路撒冷执政二十九年。他母亲叫亚比雅 ，是撒迦利雅的女儿。

3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

3 希西迦事事效法他祖先大卫，做耶和华视为正的事。

4 He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

4 他拆除丘坛，砸碎神柱，砍倒亚舍拉神像，打碎摩西造的铜蛇，因为当时以色列人仍向铜蛇烧香，称之为尼忽士旦 。

5 Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.

5 希西迦信靠以色列的上帝耶和华，在他前后的犹大诸王没有一个可与他相比。

6 He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.

6 他对耶和华忠心不渝，遵守耶和华颁给摩西的诫命。

7 And the LORD was with Hezekiah, and he prospered wherever he went. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.

7 耶和华与他同在，他凡事顺利。他反抗亚述王的统治，不再臣服于他。

8 He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

8 他击败非利士人，从他们的瞭望塔到坚城，一直打到迦萨及其四境。

9 In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

9 希西迦执政第四年，即以拉的儿子以色列王何细亚执政第七年，亚述王撒缦以色起兵攻打撒玛利亚，将城包围。

10 And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.

10 三年之后，就是希西迦执政第六年，以色列王何细亚执政第九年，撒玛利亚失陷。

11 The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

11 亚述王把以色列人掳到亚述，将他们安置在哈腊、歌散的哈博河一带以及玛代人的城邑里。

12 This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.

12 这都是因为以色列人没有听从他们的上帝耶和华，违背了祂的约，不遵行祂仆人摩西所吩咐的一切。

13 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

13 希西迦王执政第十四年，亚述王西拿基立起兵攻取了犹大所有的坚城。

14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

14 犹大王希西迦差遣使者去拉吉见亚述王说：“我错了，求你退兵！我愿意满足你的任何要求。”亚述王向希西迦索要二十万两银子和两万两金子。

15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

15 希西迦将耶和华殿里和王宫库房里的所有银子都给了他，

16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold with which he had plated the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.

16 又刮下他包在耶和华殿门和门柱上的金子，一并送给亚述王。

17 Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

17 但亚述王派他的元帅、都统和将军从拉吉率领大军到耶路撒冷的希西迦王那里。到了耶路撒冷后，他们驻扎在上池的水沟旁、通往漂布场的路上。

18 Then they called for the king. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.

18 他们要求见王。希勒迦的儿子宫廷总管以利亚敬、书记舍伯那和亚萨的儿子史官约亚出来见他们。

19 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

19 亚述的将军对他们说：“你们去告诉希西迦，伟大的亚述王说，‘你凭什么这样自信呢？

20 You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

20 你所谓的战略和军力不过是空话。你究竟倚靠谁，竟敢背叛我？

21 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

21 看啊，你所倚靠的埃及不过是一根破裂的芦苇杖，倚靠它的必被刺破手。倚靠埃及王法老的下场都是这样。’

22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

22 也许你们会说，‘我们倚靠我们的上帝耶和华。’希西迦不是拆除了祂的丘坛和祭坛，又吩咐犹大和耶路撒冷的人必须在耶路撒冷的这座祭坛前敬拜吗？

23 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

23 来，跟我主人亚述王打个赌，你若能找到两千骑士，我就给你两千匹马！

24 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

24 你们即使依靠埃及的战车和骑兵，又怎能打败我主人的一个最小的将领呢？

25 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

25 更何况我来攻打、毁灭这地方，不正是耶和华的意思吗？耶和华吩咐我攻打、毁灭这地方。”

26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

26 以利亚敬、舍伯那和约亚对亚述的将军说：“求你用亚兰语跟仆人们说话，我们都听得懂。求你不要用犹大话跟我们说话，免得城墙上的人听见。”

27 But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

27 亚述的将军却说：“难道我主人派我来只对你们和你们的主人说这些话吗？不也是对坐在城墙上的人说吗？他们和你们一样都要吃自己的粪，喝自己的尿。”

28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

28 于是，他站着用犹大话大喊：“你们要听伟大的亚述王的话。

29 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.

29 王说，‘你们不要被希西迦欺骗，他不能从我手中救你们。

30 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

30 不要听希西迦的话去倚靠耶和华，说什么耶和华必拯救你们，这城必不会落在亚述王手中。’

31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

31 不要听希西迦的话。亚述王说，‘你们要跟我讲和，出来归顺我，这样就可以吃自己葡萄树和无花果树的果子，喝自己井里的水。

32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’

32 以后我会来领你们到一个地方，那里和这里一样有五谷和新酒、饼和葡萄园、橄榄树和蜂蜜，好让你们存活，不至于死。希西迦说耶和华必拯救你们，不要听信他的话，他在哄骗你们。

33 Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

33 列国有哪个神明从亚述王手中救了它的国家呢？

34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

34 哈马和亚珥拔的神明在哪里呢？西法瓦音、希拿和以瓦的神明在哪里呢？它们从我手中救撒玛利亚了吗？

35 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

35 这些国家有哪个神明从我手中救了它的国家呢？难道耶和华能从我手中救耶路撒冷吗？’”

36 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

36 民众默不作声，一言不发，因为希西迦王曾吩咐他们不要答话。

37 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

37 这时，管希勒家的儿子宫廷总以利亚敬、书记舍伯那和亚萨的儿子史官约亚都撕裂衣服去见希西迦，把亚述将军的话回禀他。