Capítulo 21

¹Then Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place.

¹約沙法與他列祖同睡，葬在大衛城他列祖的墳地裡。他兒子約蘭接續他作王。

²He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azaryahu, Michael and Shephatiah. All these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

²約蘭有幾個兄弟，就是約沙法的兒子亞撒利雅、耶歇、撒迦利雅、亞撒利雅、米迦勒、示法提雅。這都是猶大王約沙法的兒子。

³Their father gave them many gifts of silver, gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

³他們的父親將許多金銀、財寶，和猶大地的堅固城賜給他們；但將國賜給約蘭，因為他是長子。

⁴Now when Jehoram had taken over the kingdom of his father and made himself secure, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and some of the rulers of Israel also.

⁴約蘭興起坐他父的位，奮勇自強，就用刀殺了他的眾兄弟和以色列的幾個首領。

⁵Jehoram [was] thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

⁵約蘭登基的時候年三十二歲，在耶路撒冷作王八年。

⁶He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did (for Ahab's daughter was his wife), and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

⁶他行以色列諸王的道，與亞哈家一樣；因他娶了亞哈的女兒為妻，行耶和華眼中看為惡的事。

⁷Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David because of the covenant which He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.

⁷耶和華卻因自己與大衛所立的約，不肯滅大衛的家，照他所應許的，永遠賜燈光與大衛和他的子孫。

⁸In his days Edom revolted against the rule of Judah and set up a king over themselves.

⁸約蘭年間，以東人背叛猶大，脫離他的權下，自己立王。

⁹Then Jehoram crossed over with his commanders and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night and struck down the Edomites who were surrounding him and the commanders of the chariots.

⁹約蘭就率領軍長和所有的戰車，夜間起來，攻擊圍困他的以東人和車兵長。

¹⁰So Edom revolted against Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time against his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

¹⁰這樣，以東人背叛猶大，脫離他的權下，直到今日。那時，立拿人也背叛了，因為約蘭離棄耶和華─他列祖的神。

¹¹Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray.

¹¹他又在猶大諸山建築邱壇，使耶路撒冷的居民行邪淫，誘惑猶大人。

¹²Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, 'Thus says the LORD God of your father David, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah,

¹²先知以利亞達信與約蘭說：耶和華─你祖大衛的神如此說：因為你不行你父約沙法和猶大王亞撒的道，

¹³but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you,

¹³乃行以色列諸王的道，使猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民行邪淫，像亞哈家一樣，又殺了你父家比你好的諸兄弟。

¹⁴behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity;

¹⁴故此，耶和華降大災與你的百姓和你的妻子、兒女，並你一切所有的。

¹⁵and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.''

¹⁵你的腸子必患病，日加沉重，以致你的腸子墜落下來。

¹⁶Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians;

¹⁶以後，耶和華激動非利士人和靠近古實的亞拉伯人來攻擊約蘭。

¹⁷and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

¹⁷他們上來攻擊猶大，侵入境內，擄掠了王宮裡所有的財貨和他的妻子、兒女，除了他小兒子約哈斯(又名亞哈謝)之外，沒有留下一個兒子。

¹⁸So after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.

¹⁸這些事以後，耶和華使約蘭的腸子患不能醫治的病。

¹⁹Now it came about in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died in great pain. And his people made no fire for him like the fire for his fathers.

¹⁹他患此病纏綿日久，過了二年，腸子墜落下來，病重而死。他的民沒有為他燒甚麼物件，像從前為他列祖所燒的一樣。

²⁰He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one's regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

²⁰約蘭登基的時候年三十二歲，在耶路撒冷作王八年。他去世無人思慕，眾人葬他在大衛城，只是不在列王的墳墓裡。