列王纪下 25
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
西底家背叛巴比倫王(A)
25 西底家作王第九年十月十日，巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領他的全軍來攻打耶路撒冷；他們在城外安營，又在四圍築壘攻城。 2 於是，城被圍困，直到西底家王第十一年。
聖城淪陷，人民被擄(B)
3 四月九日，城裡饑荒非常嚴重，甚至那地的人民都斷了糧食。 4 城終於被攻破了，所有的戰士就在夜間從靠近王的花園的兩牆中間的那門，逃跑出城。那時迦勒底人在四圍攻城；他們就往亞拉巴的方向逃走。 5 迦勒底人的軍隊追趕王，在耶利哥的原野上把他追上了；他的全軍都離開他四散了。 6 他們把王擒住，把他解到利比拉巴比倫王那裡；他們就宣判他的罪。 7 他們又在西底家眼前殺了他的眾子，並且把西底家的眼睛弄瞎，然後用銅鍊鎖住他，把他帶到巴比倫去。
8 五月七日，就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒第十九年，巴比倫王的大臣，護衛長尼布撒拉旦來到耶路撒冷。 9 他放火焚燒耶和華的殿和王宮，以及耶路撒冷一切房屋；一切高大的房屋，他都放火燒了。 10 跟隨護衛長的迦勒底人全軍拆毀了耶路撒冷周圍的城牆。 11 至於城中剩下的人民，和已經向巴比倫王投降的人，以及剩下的民眾，護衛長尼布撒拉旦都擄了去。 12 至於那地最貧窮的人，護衛長把他們留下，去修理葡萄園和耕種田地。
聖殿被掠(C)
13 耶和華殿的銅柱，以及耶和華殿的銅座和銅海，迦勒底人都打碎了，把銅運到巴比倫去。 14 他們又把鍋、鏟子、燭剪、碟子和敬拜用的一切銅器都拿去了。 15 此外，火鼎和碗，無論是金的或是銀的，護衛長都拿去了。 16 所羅門為耶和華殿所做的兩根銅柱、一個銅海和十個銅座，這一切器皿的銅，重得無法可稱。 17 銅柱每根高八公尺，柱上有銅柱頭；柱頭高一公尺三公寸，柱頭四周有網子和石榴都是銅的；另一根柱子同樣也有網子。
18 護衛長拿住祭司長西萊雅、副祭司長西番亞和三個守門的； 19 又從城裡拿住一個管理軍兵的官長，並且在城裡搜獲常見王面的五個人，和一個負責召募當地人民的軍長書記，又在城中搜獲六十個當地的人民。 20 護衛長尼布撒拉旦把他們拿住，帶到利比拉巴比倫王那裡。 21 巴比倫王擊殺他們，在哈馬地的利比拉把他們處死。這樣，猶大人被擄，離開了他們的國土。
立基大利作省長(D)
22 至於在猶大地剩下來的人民，就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒留下來的，巴比倫王委派沙番的孫子、亞希甘的兒子基大利管理他們。 23 眾將領和他們的士兵，聽見巴比倫王委派了基大利，他們就來到米斯巴去見基大利；其中有尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、加利亞的兒子約哈難、尼陀法人單戶篾的兒子西萊雅、瑪迦人的兒子雅撒尼亞，以及他們的士兵。 24 基大利向他們和他們的士兵起誓，又對他們說：“你們不必懼怕迦勒底的官員，只管住在這地，服事巴比倫王，就可以平安無事。”
基大利被殺(E)
25 但在七月的時候，王裔以利沙瑪的孫子、尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利，帶了十個人和他一起，他們襲擊基大利，把他殺死，和他一起在米斯巴的猶大人和迦勒底人，也被殺死。 26 因此，眾民無論大小，以及眾將領都起來逃往埃及去，因為他們懼怕迦勒底人。
巴比倫王善待約雅斤(F)
27 猶大王約雅斤被擄後第三十七年，就是巴比倫王以未．米羅達登基的那一年，十二月二十七日，他恩待（“恩待”原文作“使抬起頭來”）猶大王約雅斤，把他從獄中領出來， 28 並且安慰他，使他的地位高過和他一起在巴比倫的眾王。 29 又換下他的囚衣，賜他終生常在王面前吃飯。 30 他的生活費用，在他一生的年日中，每日不斷由王供應。
2 Kings 25
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 25
1 It was during the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and all his army came up against Jerusalem. He camped and made siege-works all around it.[a] 2 The city was under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah. 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe that there was no food left for the people of the land.
4 There was a breach in the city wall, and all of the warriors fled at night by way of the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They went toward the Arabah.
5 The Chaldean army chased after them and caught up with the king in the plains of Jericho, scattering his entire army. 6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon who was at Riblah where he pronounced his judgment. 7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, bound him in brass fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
Destruction of Jerusalem. 8 On the seventh day of the fifth month of the ninth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard and a servant of the king of Babylon, came up to Jerusalem. 9 He burned down the temple of the Lord, the royal palace, all of the buildings of Jerusalem. He burned down every large building. 10 All of the Chaldean army that was with the captain of the guard broke down all of the walls surrounding Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried off the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
12 But the captain of the guard left the poorest of the people who were to be vinedressers and herdsmen.
13 The Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord and the bronze sea and its base in the temple of the Lord. They carried the bronze off to Babylon. 14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all of the bronze vessels that were used for ministry there. 15 The captain of the guard also took away the censers and the bowls, and everything that was made with gold or silver. 16 One could not even measure the weight of the bronze from all these things: the two pillars, the sea, and its base that were made by Solomon for the temple of the Lord. 17 Each bronze pillar with its capital was eighteen cubits tall. The capital was three cubits high, along with a bronze network and pomegranates upon the capital. The other pillar was identical with its network.
18 The captain of the guard took away Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah, the second priest, as well as three of the doormen. 19 He also took the officer who was in charge of the fighting men out of the city as well as five of the king’s advisors who were caught in the city. He took the scribe assigned to the leader of the army, the one who would muster the people of the land. He also took sixty of the people of the land who were found in the city.
20 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon in Riblah. 21 The king of Babylon struck them down and killed them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus, Judah was carried away from their land into exile.
22 Gedaliah Governs Judah.[b] As for the rest of the people who had remained in the land of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, appointed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them.
23 When all of the captains of the army (they and their men) heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah in Mizpah. They were Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, Johanan, the son of Kareah, Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maachathite, and their men.
24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, saying to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and everything will be all right with you.”
25 But during the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah. He died along with the Jews and Chaldeans who were with him in Mizpah.
26 All of the people then rose up, the small and the great, and the captains of the army, and they went to Egypt because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27 Jehoiachin’s Release from Prison.[c] In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach who had become king that year, released Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, from prison. 28 He spoke kindly to him and he set him upon his throne which was above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 He changed his prison clothes, and he ate his meals with him for the rest of his life. 30 He was given a regular allowance from the king, a portion for each day of the rest of his life.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 25:1 For the third time, the Babylonian army invaded Judah, destroying the temple and taking the people captive. Judah, like Israel, was unfaithful to God, who gave them many opportunities to turn back to him.
- 2 Kings 25:22 These painful incidents are told in detail in Jeremiah (Jer 40–42). Judah is now like “a desert that no one can cross” (Jer 9:12), since Babylonia does not introduce new inhabitants as Assyria had done in the case of Israel. But the wintry silence is preparing for the germination of new seed. This will produce a new people, one that has the law written in its heart and that will come to rebuild these ruins (Jer 31:33).
- 2 Kings 25:27 Evil-merodach succeeds his father, Nebuchadnezzar, in 561 B.C. and being a more humane man, takes pity on Jehoiachin, who has been in prison since 597 B.C. His treatment of the vassal king has been brilliantly confirmed by discoveries in 1940 that mention “Jaukinu, king of the land of Judah” as among those who receive supplies from the king’s treasury.
2 Kings 25
Lexham English Bible
The Final Invasion of Nebuchadnezzar
25 It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around. 2 So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of the king. 3 In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war entered by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, so he[a] left by the way of the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him. 6 So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.[b] 7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.
Jerusalem Is Sacked and the Temple Burned
8 In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire. 10 He and all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around. 11 The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported.
12 But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling.
Plunder Taken by the Chaldeans
13 The bronze pillars which were in the temple[c] of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon. 14 The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took. 15 The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took for the gold and whatever was silver, for the silver. 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart which Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital being three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar.
18 Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers. 19 From the city he took one court official who was chief officer over the men of war, five men from the king’s council[d] who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city. 20 Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21 Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land.
Gedaliah Appointed Governor
22 Now as far as the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them. 23 When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, “You must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you.” 25 But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. 26 Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.
Elderly Jehoiachin Cared for in Babylon
27 It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment. 28 He spoke kindly[e] to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life. 30 His allowance was continually given to him from the king, a portion every day[f] all the days of his life.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 25:4 That is, Zedekiah
- 2 Kings 25:6 Literally “they spoke justice with him”
- 2 Kings 25:13 Or “house”
- 2 Kings 25:19 Literally “from those who saw the face of the king”
- 2 Kings 25:28 Literally “good things”
- 2 Kings 25:30 Literally “a thing of day on his day”
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