列王纪上 12
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
北方支派背叛罗波安
12 罗波安前往示剑，因为以色列人都去了那里，要立他为王。 2 尼八的儿子耶罗波安曾为了躲避所罗门王而逃往埃及，并一直住在那里。他听到消息后，便返回以色列。 3 以色列人派人去请他，他就和以色列会众去见罗波安，说： 4 “你父亲使我们负担沉重，求你减轻我们的负担吧，我们一定效忠你。”
5 罗波安对他们说：“你们先回去，三天之后再来见我。”众人就离开了。
6 罗波安王去征询曾服侍他父亲所罗门的老臣的意见，说：“你们认为我该怎样回复众民？” 7 他们建议说：“现今王若像仆人一样服侍民众，对他们好言相待，他们会永远做王的仆人。”
8 罗波安却没有采纳老臣的意见。他又去征询那些和他一起长大的青年臣僚的意见， 9 说：“民众求我减轻我父亲加给他们的重担。你们认为我该怎样回复他们？”
10 他们说：“民众说你父亲使他们负担沉重，请求你减轻他们的负担。你可以这样回复他们，‘我的小指头比我父亲的腰还粗。 11 我父亲使你们负重担，我要使你们负更重的担子；我父亲用鞭子打你们，我要用刺鞭打你们。’”
12 过了三天，耶罗波安和民众遵照罗波安王的话来见他。 13-14 王没有采纳老臣的建议，而是照青年臣僚的建议，疾言厉色地对他们说：“我父亲使你们负重担，我要使你们负更重的担子！我父亲用鞭子打你们，我要用刺鞭打你们！” 15 王不听民众的请求。这事是出于耶和华的旨意，为要应验祂借示罗人亚希雅先知对尼八的儿子耶罗波安说的话。
16 以色列人见王不听他们的请求，就说：
“我们与大卫有何相干？
我们与耶西的儿子没有关系！
以色列人啊，各自回家吧！
大卫家啊，自己照顾自己吧！”
于是，以色列人各自回家了。 17 但住在犹大城邑的以色列人仍受罗波安统治。 18 罗波安王派劳役总管亚多兰去以色列人那里，以色列人却用石头打死了他，罗波安王连忙上车逃回耶路撒冷。 19 从此，以色列人反叛大卫家，一直到今天。 20 以色列人听说耶罗波安回来了，就请他到会众面前，拥立他做以色列人的王。只有犹大支派仍然效忠大卫家。
21 罗波安回到耶路撒冷，从犹大和便雅悯支派召集了十八万精兵，要攻打以色列人，收复全国。 22 然而，上帝对祂的仆人示玛雅说： 23 “你去告诉所罗门的儿子犹大王罗波安和犹大、便雅悯支派的人以及其他民众， 24 耶和华这样说，‘你们不要上去与以色列同胞交战，都回家吧！今日的景况是出于我的旨意。’”众人听从了耶和华的话，各自回家去了。
耶罗波安背弃上帝
25 耶罗波安在以法莲山区修建示剑城，住在那里。他后来又去修建毗努伊勒。 26 他心想：“国权恐怕会重归大卫家。 27 若百姓去耶路撒冷，在耶和华的殿献祭，他们的心必重新归向他们的主——犹大王罗波安。他们会杀了我，然后投奔犹大王罗波安。” 28 他征询臣僚的意见后，就铸造了两个金牛犊，对民众说：“以色列人啊，你们上耶路撒冷敬拜太麻烦了。这两个金牛犊就是领你们出埃及的神明。” 29 他把一个金牛犊安置在伯特利，另一个安置在但。 30 这使民众陷入罪中，因为他们开始到但去拜金牛犊。
31 耶罗波安又在高岗上修建神庙，任命各样的人做祭司，他们并非利未人。 32 耶罗波安规定每年八月十五日为节期，好像犹大的节期一样。他自己在伯特利的祭坛上向金牛犊献祭烧香，又派神庙的祭司在献祭中司职。 33 在八月十五日，就是他私自为以色列人定为节期的日子，他在伯特利的祭坛上烧香。
列王纪上 12
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
羅波安繼位(A)
12 羅波安往示劍去，因為以色列眾人都到了示劍，要立他作王。 2 尼八的兒子耶羅波安那時因逃避所羅門的面，仍然住在埃及，他聽見了這事。 3 以色列人就派遣人去請他來，於是耶羅波安和以色列全體會眾都來見羅波安，告訴他說： 4 “你父親加給我們的重擔，現在求你減輕你父親使我們作的苦工和加在我們背上的重擔，我們就服事你。” 5 羅波安回答他們：“你們暫時回去，三天以後再來見我。”眾民就離開了。
不採納老年人的意見(B)
6 羅波安王請教他父親所羅門在世的時候，侍立在他面前的長老說：“你們給我出個主意，我應該怎樣回答這民呢？” 7 長老對他說：“今天如果王作這民的僕人，服事他們，用好話回答他們，他們就常作王的僕人。”
聽從少年人的計謀(C)
8 可是王拒絕了老年人給他出的主意，反去請教那些與他一起長大，侍立在他面前的年輕人， 9 問他們：“你們的主意怎樣，我應該怎樣回覆這民？他們對我說：‘請你減輕你父親加在我們身上的重擔。’” 10 那些與他一同長大的年輕人回答他：“這民對王說：‘你父親加重我們的重擔，現在求你減輕我們的重擔。’你要這樣回答他們：‘我的小指頭比我父親的腰還粗！ 11 我父親把一個重擔加在你們身上，我要使你們負更重的重擔；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們。’”
12 耶羅波安和眾民，照王所說“三天以後再來見我”的那話，第三天來見羅波安。 13 王嚴厲地回答眾人。他拒絕了老年人給他所出的主意， 14 卻照著年輕人給他所出的主意，對他們說：“我父親加重你們所負的重擔，我要使你們負更重的重擔；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們。” 15 王不肯聽從民眾的請求，因為這個轉變是出於耶和華，為要應驗他藉示羅人亞希雅對尼八的兒子耶羅波安所說的話。
以色列人背叛(D)
16 以色列眾人見王不肯聽從他們的請求，就回答王說：
“我們在大衛裡面有甚麼分呢？
我們在耶西的兒子裡面也沒有產業；
以色列人哪，回你們自己的家去吧！
大衛啊，照顧你自己的家吧！”
於是以色列人都回自己的家去了。 17 不過住在猶大各城的以色列人，羅波安仍然作他們的王。 18 羅波安王差派掌管作苦工之人的亞多蘭往以色列人那裡去，以色列眾人卻用石頭打死他。羅波安王急忙上車逃回耶路撒冷去了。 19 這樣，以色列人背叛了大衛家，直到今日。
立耶羅波安作以色列人的王
20 以色列眾人聽說耶羅波安回來了，就派人去請他到會眾面前，立他作以色列的王；除了猶大支派以外，沒有跟隨大衛家的。
耶和華禁止他們交戰(E)
21 羅波安來到耶路撒冷，就召集了猶大全家和便雅憫支派精選的戰士十八萬人，要與以色列家爭戰，好把國奪回，重歸所羅門的兒子羅波安。 22 但是， 神的話臨到神人示瑪雅，說： 23 “你去告訴所羅門王的兒子猶大王羅波安、猶大全家和便雅憫，以及其餘的人民，說： 24 ‘耶和華這樣說：你們不可上去，不可與你們的兄弟以色列人爭戰。你們各自回家去吧！因為這事是出於我。’”眾人就聽從了耶和華的話，照著耶和華的話回家去了。
耶羅波安做金牛犢
25 耶羅波安在以法蓮山地修築了示劍城，就住在城中，又從那裡出去，修建了毘努伊勒。 26 耶羅波安心裡說：“現在這國仍然要歸回大衛家。 27 這民若是上去，在耶路撒冷耶和華的殿裡獻祭，這民的心就必歸向他們的主猶大王羅波安，他們必把我殺了，然後回到猶大王羅波安那裡去。” 28 王打定了主意，就做了兩個金牛犢，對眾民說：“以色列人哪，你們上耶路撒冷去實在夠了。看哪，這是你們的神，就是從埃及地領你們上來的那位。” 29 他就把一個牛犢安放在伯特利，一個安放在但。 30 這事成了以色列人的罪，因為眾民都到但那個牛犢面前敬拜。 31 耶羅波安在邱壇那裡建殿，把不是利未子孫的平民立為祭司。 32 耶羅波安又定了八月十五日為節期，像在猶大的節期一樣，他自己在祭壇上獻祭，他在伯特利也是這樣向他所鑄造的牛犢獻祭；他又在伯特利為他所建造的邱壇設立祭司。 33 八月十五日，就是他心裡私定作為以色列人節期的日子，他在伯特利在自己所建的祭壇上獻祭燒香。
1 Kings 12
Living Bible
12 Rehoboam’s inauguration was at Shechem, and all Israel came for the coronation ceremony. 2-4 Jeroboam, who was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon, heard about the plans from his friends. They urged him to attend, so he joined the rest of Israel at Shechem and was the ringleader in getting the people to make certain demands upon Rehoboam.
“Your father was a hard master,” they told Rehoboam. “We don’t want you as our king unless you promise to treat us better than he did.”
5 “Give me three days to think this over,” Rehoboam replied. “Come back then for my answer.” So the people left.
6 Rehoboam talked it over with the old men who had counseled his father Solomon.
“What do you think I should do?” he asked them.
7 And they replied, “If you give them a pleasant reply and agree to be good to them and serve them well, you can be their king forever.”
8 But Rehoboam refused the old men’s counsel and called in the young men with whom he had grown up.
9 “What do you think I should do?” he asked them.
10 And the young men replied, “Tell them, ‘If you think my father was hard on you, well, I’ll be harder! 11 Yes, my father was harsh, but I’ll be even harsher! My father used whips on you, but I’ll use scorpions!’”
12 So when Jeroboam and the people returned three days later, 13-14 the new king answered them roughly. He ignored the old men’s advice and followed that of the young men; 15 so the king refused the people’s demands. (But the Lord’s hand was in it—he caused the new king to do this in order to fulfill his promise to Jeroboam, made through Ahijah, the prophet from Shiloh.)
16-17 When the people realized that the king meant what he said and was refusing to listen to them, they began shouting, “Down with David and all his relatives! Let’s go home! Let Rehoboam be king of his own family!”
And they all deserted him except for the tribe of Judah, who remained loyal and accepted Rehoboam as their king. 18 When King Rehoboam sent Adoram (who was in charge of the draft) to conscript men from the other tribes, a great mob stoned him to death. But King Rehoboam escaped by chariot and fled to Jerusalem. 19 And Israel has been in rebellion against the dynasty of David to this day.
20 When the people of Israel learned of Jeroboam’s return from Egypt, he was asked to come before an open meeting of all the people; and there he was made king of Israel. Only the tribe of Judah[a] continued under the kingship of the family of David.
21 When King Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned his army—all the able-bodied men of Judah and Benjamin: 180,000 special troops—to force the rest of Israel to acknowledge him as their king. 22 But God sent this message to Shemaiah, the prophet:
23-24 “Tell Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and all the people of Judah and Benjamin that they must not fight against their brothers, the people of Israel. Tell them to disband and go home, for what has happened to Rehoboam is according to my wish.” So the army went home as the Lord had commanded.
25 Jeroboam now built the city of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and it became his capital. Later he built Penuel. 26 Jeroboam thought, “Unless I’m careful, the people will want a descendant of David as their king. 27 When they go to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices at the Temple, they will become friendly with King Rehoboam; then they will kill me and ask him to be their king instead.”
28 So on the advice of his counselors, the king had two golden calf idols made and told the people, “It’s too much trouble to go to Jerusalem to worship; from now on these will be your gods—they rescued you from your captivity in Egypt!”
29 One of these calf idols was placed in Bethel and the other in Dan. 30 This was of course a great sin, for the people worshiped them. 31 He also made shrines on the hills and ordained priests from the rank and file of the people—even those who were not from the priestly tribe of Levi. 32-33 Jeroboam also announced that the annual Tabernacle Festival would be held at Bethel on the first of November[b] (a date he decided upon himself), similar to the annual festival at Jerusalem; he himself offered sacrifices upon the altar to the calves at Bethel and burned incense to them. And it was there at Bethel that he ordained priests for the shrines on the hills.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 12:20 Only the tribe of Judah. Judah and Benjamin were sometimes (as in this instance) counted together as one tribe.
- 1 Kings 12:32 on the first of November, literally, “on the fifteenth day of the eighth month” (of the Hebrew calendar). This was a month later than the annual celebration in Jerusalem, which God had ordained.
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