Capítulo 35

¹Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover [animals] on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

¹約西亞在耶路撒冷向耶和華守逾越節。正月十四日，就宰了逾越節的羊羔。

²He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

²王分派祭司各盡其職，又勉勵他們辦耶和華殿中的事；

³He also said to the Levites who taught all Israel [and] who were holy to the LORD, 'Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; it will be a burden on [your] shoulders no longer. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

³又對那歸耶和華為聖、教訓以色列人的利未人說：你們將聖約櫃安放在以色列王大衛兒子所羅門建造的殿裡，不必再用肩扛抬。現在要事奉耶和華─你們的神，服事他的民以色列。

⁴'Prepare [yourselves] by your fathers' households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and according to the writing of his son Solomon.

⁴你們應當按著宗族，照著班次，遵以色列王大衛和他兒子所羅門所寫的，自己預備。

⁵'Moreover, stand in the holy place according to the sections of the fathers' households of your brethren the lay people, and according to the Levites, by division of a father's household.

⁵要按著你們的弟兄，這民宗族的班次，站在聖所，每班中要利未宗族的幾個人。

⁶'Now slaughter the Passover [animals], sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.'

⁶要宰逾越節的羊羔，潔淨自己，為你們的弟兄預備了，好遵守耶和華藉摩西所吩咐的話。

⁷Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.

⁷約西亞從群畜中賜給在那裡所有的人民，綿羊羔和山羊羔三萬隻，牛三千隻，作逾越節的祭物；這都是出自王的產業中。

⁸His officers also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 [from the flocks] and 300 bulls.

⁸約西亞的眾首領也樂意將犧牲給百姓和祭司利未人；又有管理神殿的希勒家、撒迦利亞、耶歇將羊羔二千六百隻，牛三百隻，給祭司作逾越節的祭物。

⁹Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 [from the flocks] and 500 bulls.

⁹利未人的族長歌楠雅和他兩個兄弟示瑪雅、拿坦業，與哈沙比雅、耶利、約撒拔將羊羔五千隻，牛五百隻，給利未人作逾越節的祭物。

¹⁰So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.

¹⁰這樣，供獻的事齊備了。祭司站在自己的地方，利未人按著班次站立，都是照王所吩咐的。

¹¹They slaughtered the Passover [animals], and while the priests sprinkled the blood [received] from their hand, the Levites skinned [them].

¹¹利未人宰了逾越節的羊羔，祭司從他們手裡接過血來灑在壇上；利未人剝皮，

¹²Then they removed the burnt offerings that [they] might give them to the sections of the fathers' households of the lay people to present to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. [They did] this also with the bulls.

¹²將燔祭搬來，按著宗族的班次分給眾民，好照摩西書上所寫的，獻給耶和華；獻牛也是這樣。

¹³So they roasted the Passover [animals] on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried [them] speedily to all the lay people.

¹³他們按著常例，用火烤逾越節的羊羔。別的聖物用鍋，用釜，用罐煮了，速速地送給眾民。

¹⁴Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, [were] offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

¹⁴然後為自己和祭司預備祭物；因為祭司亞倫的子孫獻燔祭和脂油，直到晚上。所以利未人為自己和祭司亞倫的子孫，預備祭物。

¹⁵The singers, the sons of Asaph, [were] also at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

¹⁵歌唱的亞薩之子孫，照著大衛、亞薩、希幔，和王的先見耶杜頓所吩咐的，站在自己的地位上。守門的看守各門，不用離開他們的職事，因為他們的弟兄利未人給他們預備祭物。

¹⁶So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.

¹⁶當日，供奉耶和華的事齊備了，就照約西亞王的吩咐守逾越節，獻燔祭在耶和華的壇上。

¹⁷Thus the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.

¹⁷當時在耶路撒冷的以色列人守逾越節，又守除酵節七日。

¹⁸There had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁸自從先知撒母耳以來，在以色列中沒有守過這樣的逾越節，以色列諸王也沒有守過，像約西亞、祭司、利未人、在那裡的猶大人，和以色列人，以及耶路撒冷居民所守的逾越節。

¹⁹In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign this Passover was celebrated.

¹⁹這逾越節是約西亞作王十八年守的。

²⁰After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.

²⁰這事以後，約西亞修完了殿，有埃及王尼哥上來，要攻擊靠近伯拉河的迦基米施；約西亞出去抵擋他。

²¹But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, 'What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? [I am] not [coming] against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from [interfering with] God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you.'

²¹他差遣使者來見約西亞，說：猶大王啊，我與你何干？我今日來不是要攻擊你，乃是要攻擊與我爭戰之家，並且神吩咐我速行，你不要干預　神的事，免得他毀滅你，因為　神是與我同在。

²²However, Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of Megiddo.

²²約西亞卻不肯轉去離開他，改裝要與他打仗，不聽從神藉尼哥之口所說的話，便來到米吉多平原爭戰。

²³The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, 'Take me away, for I am badly wounded.'

²³弓箭手射中約西亞王。王對他的臣僕說：我受了重傷，你拉我出陣罷！

²⁴So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

²⁴他的臣僕扶他下了戰車，上了次車，送他到耶路撒冷，他就死了，葬在他列祖的墳墓裡。猶大人和耶路撒冷人都為他悲哀。

²⁵Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.

²⁵耶利米為約西亞作哀歌。所有歌唱的男女也唱哀歌，追悼約西亞，直到今日；而且在以色列中成了定例。這歌載在哀歌書上。

²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of the LORD,

²⁶約西亞其餘的事和他遵著耶和華律法上所記而行的善事，

²⁷and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

²⁷並他自始至終所行的，都寫在以色列和猶大列王記上。