列王纪下 25
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
西底家王叛
25 西底家背叛巴比伦王。他做王第九年十月初十日，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领全军来攻击耶路撒冷，对城安营，四围筑垒攻城。 2 于是城被围困，直到西底家王十一年。
耶路撒冷陷
3 四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。 4 城被攻破，一切兵丁就在夜间从靠近王园两城中间的门逃跑。迦勒底人正在四围攻城，王就向亚拉巴逃走。 5 迦勒底的军队追赶王，在耶利哥的平原追上他；他的全军都离开他四散了。 6 迦勒底人就拿住王，带他到利比拉巴比伦王那里审判他。 7 在西底家眼前杀了他的众子，并且剜了西底家的眼睛，用铜链锁着他，带到巴比伦去。
8 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒十九年五月初七日，巴比伦王的臣仆护卫长尼布撒拉旦来到耶路撒冷， 9 用火焚烧耶和华的殿和王宫，又焚烧耶路撒冷的房屋，就是各大户家的房屋。 10 跟从护卫长迦勒底的全军就拆毁耶路撒冷四围的城墙。 11 那时护卫长尼布撒拉旦将城里所剩下的百姓，并已经投降巴比伦王的人，以及大众所剩下的人，都掳去了。 12 但护卫长留下些民中最穷的，使他们修理葡萄园，耕种田地。
圣殿被掠
13 耶和华殿的铜柱并耶和华殿的盆座和铜海，迦勒底人都打碎了，将那铜运到巴比伦去了。 14 又带去锅、铲子、蜡剪、调羹，并所用的一切铜器。 15 火鼎、碗，无论金的银的，护卫长也都带去了。 16 所罗门为耶和华殿所造的两根铜柱、一个铜海和几个盆座，这一切的铜，多得无法可称。 17 这一根柱子高十八肘，柱上有铜顶，高三肘，铜顶的周围有网子和石榴，都是铜的。那一根柱子照此一样，也有网子。
18 护卫长拿住大祭司西莱雅、副祭司西番亚和三个把门的， 19 又从城中拿住一个管理兵丁的官[a]，并在城里所遇常见王面的五个人和检点国民军长的书记，以及城里遇见的国民六十个人。 20 护卫长尼布撒拉旦将这些人带到利比拉巴比伦王那里。 21 巴比伦王就把他们击杀在哈马地的利比拉。这样，犹大人被掳去离开本地。
立基大利做省长
22 至于犹大国剩下的民，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒所剩下的，巴比伦王立了沙番的孙子、亚希甘的儿子基大利做他们的省长。 23 众军长和属他们的人听见巴比伦王立了基大利做省长，于是军长尼探雅的儿子以实玛利、加利亚的儿子约哈难、尼陀法人单户篾的儿子西莱雅、玛迦人的儿子雅撒尼亚，和属他们的人，都到米斯巴见基大利。 24 基大利向他们和属他们的人起誓说：“你们不必惧怕迦勒底臣仆，只管住在这地服侍巴比伦王，就可以得福。”
以实玛利杀基大利
25 七月间，宗室以利沙玛的孙子、尼探雅的儿子以实玛利带着十个人来，杀了基大利和同他在米斯巴的犹大人与迦勒底人。 26 于是众民无论大小，连众军长，因为惧怕迦勒底人，都起身往埃及去了。
巴比伦王厚待约雅斤
27 犹大王约雅斤被掳后三十七年，巴比伦王以未米罗达元年十二月二十七日，使犹大王约雅斤抬头，提他出监， 28 又对他说恩言，使他的位高过与他一同在巴比伦众王的位， 29 给他脱了囚服。他终身常在巴比伦王面前吃饭。 30 王赐他所需用的食物，日日赐他一份，终身都是这样。
Footnotes
- 列王纪下 25:19 或作：太监。
2 Kings 25
1599 Geneva Bible
25 1 Jerusalem is besieged of Nebuchadnezzar, and taken. 7 The sons of Zedekiah are slain before his eyes, and after are his own eyes put out. 11 Judah is brought to Babylon. 25 Gedaliah is slain. 27 Jehoiachin is exalted.
1 (A)And in the [a]ninth year of his reign, the [b]tenth month, and tenth day of the month Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and they built [c]forts against it round about it.
2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 And the ninth day of the month the famine was [d]sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night, by the way of the [e]gate, which is between two walls that was by the king’s garden: now the Chaldeans were by the city round about: and the king went by the way of the wilderness.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took him in the deserts of Jericho, and all his host was scattered from him.
6 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah, where they [f]gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, and [g]seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan [h]chief steward and servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem,
9 And burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the chief steward, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11 And the rest of the people that were left in the city, and those that were fled and [i]fallen to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan chief steward carry away captive.
12 But the chief steward left of the poor of the land to dress the vines, and to till the land.
13 (B)Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen Sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldeans break, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14 The pots [j]also and the besoms, and the instruments of music, and the incense dishes, and all the vessels of brass that they ministered in, took they away.
15 And the ash pans, and the basins, and all that was of gold, and that was of silver, took the chief steward away,
16 With the two pillars, one Sea and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17 (C)The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter thereon was brass, and the height of the chapiter was with network three cubits, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and likewise was the second pillar with the network.
18 And the chief steward took Seraiah the chief Priest, and Zephaniah the [k]second Priest, and the three keepers of the door.
19 And out of the city he took an Eunuch that had the oversight of the men of war, and [l]five men of them that were in the King’s presence, which were found in the city, and Sopher captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city.
20 And Nebuzaradan the chief steward took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
22 (D)Howbeit, there remained people in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, and made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ruler over them.
23 Then when all the captains of the host and their men heard, that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, to wit, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of Maachathi, they and their men.
24 And Gedaliah [m]sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and ye shall be well.
25 (E)But in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the king’s seed, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, and he died, and so did he the Jews, and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
26 Then all the people both small and great, and the captains of the army arose, and came to [n]Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27 Notwithstanding in the seven and thirtieth year after [o]Jehoiachin King of Judah was carried away, in the twelfth month and the seven and twentieth day of the month, Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of the prison,
28 And spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
29 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him, all the days of his life.
30 And his [p]portion was a continual portion given him by the king, every day a certain, all the days of his life.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 25:1 That is, of Zedekiah.
- 2 Kings 25:1 Which the Hebrews call Tebet, and it containeth part of December, and part of January.
- 2 Kings 25:1 Or, a mount.
- 2 Kings 25:3 Insomuch that the mothers did eat their children, Lam. 4:10.
- 2 Kings 25:4 Which was a postern door, or some secret gate to issue out at.
- 2 Kings 25:6 Or, condemned him for his perjury and treason, 2 Chron. 36:13.
- 2 Kings 25:8 Jeremiah writeth, Jer. 52:12, the tenth day, because the fire continued from the seventh day to the tenth.
- 2 Kings 25:8 Or, captain of the guard.
- 2 Kings 25:11 While the siege endured.
- 2 Kings 25:14 Of these read Exod. 27:3.
- 2 Kings 25:18 That is, one appointed to succeed in the high Priest’s room, if he were sick or else otherwise letted.
- 2 Kings 25:19 Jeremiah maketh mention of seven, but here he speaketh of them that were the chiefest.
- 2 Kings 25:24 That is, he did exhort them in the Name of the Lord, according to Jeremiah’s counsel, to submit themselves to Nebuchadnezzar, seeing it was the revealed will of the Lord.
- 2 Kings 25:26 Contrary to Jeremiah’s counsel, Jer. 40–43.
- 2 Kings 25:27 Thus long was he, his wife and his children in Babylon, whom Nebuchadnezzar’s son, after his father’s death preferred to honor: thus by God’s providence the seed of David was preserved even unto Christ.
- 2 Kings 25:30 Meaning, that he had an ordinary in the court.
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