历代志下 21
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
21 约沙法与祖先同眠后,葬在大卫城他的祖坟里。他儿子约兰继位。
犹大王约兰
2 亚撒利雅、耶歇、撒迦利雅、亚撒列夫、米迦勒和示法提雅是约兰的兄弟、犹大王约沙法的儿子。 3 他们的父亲赐给他们许多金银、财宝和犹大境内的坚城,但将王位赐给了约兰,因为他是长子。 4 约兰登基,巩固了王位后,就用刀杀了他所有的兄弟和一些以色列首领。 5 约兰三十二岁登基,在耶路撒冷执政八年。 6 他与亚哈家一样步以色列诸王的后尘,因为他娶了亚哈的女儿为妻,做耶和华视为恶的事。 7 但耶和华不愿毁灭大卫家,因为祂曾与大卫立约,应许让大卫和他的子孙永远做王。
8 约兰执政期间,以东人反叛犹大,自己立王。 9 约兰率将领及所有战车前去讨伐,结果被以东人包围。但他们乘夜突出重围。 10 以东人至今仍脱离犹大的统治,立拿人也在那时候叛变了,因为约兰背弃了他祖先的上帝耶和华。 11 约兰在犹大的山上修建丘坛,引诱耶路撒冷的居民和犹大人与假神苟合。
12 以利亚先知写信给约兰说:“你祖先大卫的上帝耶和华这样说,‘因为你没有效法你父亲约沙法,也没有效法犹大王亚撒, 13 而是重蹈以色列诸王的覆辙,与亚哈家一样,引诱犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民与假神苟合,还杀了比你好的兄弟。 14 因此,耶和华要降大灾祸给你的人民、儿女、妻妾及一切所有。 15 你必患严重的肠病,并且日益加重,直到你的肠子掉出来。’”
16 耶和华驱使非利士人和古实附近的阿拉伯人攻打约兰。 17 他们起兵攻打犹大,侵入境内,掳走了王宫里的所有财物以及约兰的儿子和妻妾,只留下他最小的儿子约哈斯。
18 这事以后,耶和华使约兰患了无法医治的肠病, 19 日益加重,两年后肠子掉了出来,他痛苦地死去了。他的百姓没有像对待他祖先那样向他焚火致哀。 20 约兰三十二岁登基,在耶路撒冷执政八年。他死后无人向他致哀。他葬在大卫城,但没有葬在王陵里。
2 Chronicles 21
Living Bible
21 When Jehoshaphat died, he was buried in the cemetery of the kings in Jerusalem, and his son Jehoram became the new ruler of Judah. 2 His brothers—other sons of Jehoshaphat—were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. 3-4 Their father had given each of them valuable gifts of money and jewels, also the ownership of some of the fortified cities of Judah. However, he gave the kingship to Jehoram because he was the oldest. But when Jehoram had become solidly established as king, he killed all of his brothers and many other leaders of Israel. 5 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6 But he was as wicked as the kings who were over in Israel. Yes, as wicked as Ahab, for Jehoram had married one of the daughters of Ahab, and his whole life was one constant binge of doing evil. 7 However, the Lord was unwilling to end the dynasty of David, for he had made a covenant with David always to have one of his descendants upon the throne.
8 At that time the king of Edom revolted, declaring his independence of Judah. 9 Jehoram attacked him with his full army and with all of his chariots, marching by night, and almost[a] managed to subdue him. 10 But to this day Edom has been successful in throwing off the yoke of Judah. Libnah revolted too because Jehoram had turned away from the Lord God of his fathers. 11 What’s more, Jehoram constructed idol shrines in the mountains of Judah and led the people of Jerusalem in worshiping idols; in fact, he compelled his people to worship them.
12 Then Elijah the prophet wrote him this letter: “The Lord God of your ancestor David says that because you have not followed in the good ways of your father Jehoshaphat, nor the good ways of King Asa, 13 but you have been as evil as the kings over in Israel and have made the people of Jerusalem and Judah worship idols just as in the times of King Ahab, and because you have killed your brothers who were better than you, 14 now the Lord will destroy your nation with a great plague. You, your children, your wives, and all that you have will be struck down. 15 You will be stricken with an intestinal disease and your bowels will rot away.”
16 Then the Lord stirred up the Philistines and the Arabs living next to the Ethiopians to attack Jehoram. 17 They marched against Judah, broke across the border, and carried away everything of value in the king’s palace, including his sons and his wives; only his youngest son, Jehoahaz, escaped.
18 It was after this that Jehovah struck him down with the incurable bowel disease. 19 In the process of time, at the end of two years, his intestines came out, and he died in terrible suffering. (The customary pomp and ceremony was omitted at his funeral.) 20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years and died unmourned. He was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the royal cemetery.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 21:9 Jehoram attacked him . . . and almost, literally, “Jehoram . . . struck down the Edomites. . . . Nevertheless Edom . . . revolted.”
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