历代志下 15
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
亚撒利雅的预言与劝勉
15 神的灵降在俄德的儿子亚撒利雅身上， 2 亚撒利雅就出来迎接亚撒，对他说：“亚撒和犹大、便雅悯所有的人哪！请听我说。你们跟随耶和华，耶和华就和你们同在；你们寻求他，就必给你们寻见；你们离弃他，他必离弃你们。 3 以色列人没有真神，没有教导他们的祭司，没有律法，已经很久了。 4 但他们在遭难的时候，回转归向耶和华以色列的 神，寻求他，他就给他们寻见。 5 那时，出入的人都没有平安，因为各国的居民都遭遇动乱。 6 这国攻击那国，这城攻击那城，因为 神用各样灾难使他们纷乱。 7 但你们要坚强，不要胆怯，因为你们所行的，必有赏报。”
亚撒的改革(A)
8 亚撒听了这些话，和俄德的儿子亚撒利雅先知所说的预言以后，就勇敢起来，在犹大、便雅悯全地，以及以法莲山地夺取的各城，把可憎的偶像除去，又在耶和华殿的走廊前面，重新修造耶和华的祭坛。 9 他又召聚了犹大和便雅悯所有的人，以及在他们中间寄居的以法莲人、玛拿西人、西缅人。以色列人看见了耶和华亚撒的 神和他同在，就有很多人投奔亚撒。 10 亚撒在位第十五年三月，他们聚集在耶路撒冷。 11 那一天，他们从夺回来的战利品当中，把七百头牛，七千只羊，献给耶和华为祭， 12 他们也立约，要一心一意寻求耶和华他们列祖的 神。 13 不寻求耶和华以色列的 神的，无论男女老幼，都必处死。 14 他们就大声欢呼，吹起号角，向耶和华起誓。 15 犹大众人都为了所起的誓快乐，因为他们一心起誓，尽意寻求耶和华，耶和华就给他们寻见，并且使他们四境安宁。
16 亚撒王也废掉他的祖母玛迦太后的位，因为她曾给亚舍拉做了可憎的像；亚撒把她那可憎的像砍了下来，捣得粉碎，烧在汲沦溪旁。 17 只是邱坛还没有从以色列中除掉，但亚撒的心一生都完全忠于耶和华。 18 亚撒把他父亲所分别为圣，和他自己所分别为圣的金银和器皿，都送进 神的殿里。 19 从那时，直到亚撒在位第三十五年，都没有战争。
2 Chronicles 15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 15
Further Reforms. 1 The spirit of God came upon Azariah, son of Oded. 2 He went forth to meet Asa and said to him: “Hear me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are with him, and if you seek him he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.(A) 3 For a long time Israel was without a true God, without a priest-teacher, without instruction, 4 but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.(B) 5 At that time there was no peace for anyone to go or come; rather, there were many terrors upon the inhabitants of the lands. 6 Nation crushed nation and city crushed city,(C) for God overwhelmed them with every kind of distress. 7 But as for you, be strong and do not slack off, for there shall be a reward for what you do.”(D)
8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy (Oded the prophet), he was encouraged to remove the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had taken in the highlands of Ephraim, and to restore the altar of the Lord which was before the vestibule of the Lord. 9 Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, together with those of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were resident with them; for many had defected to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord, his God, was with him. 10 They gathered at Jerusalem in the third month[a] of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign, 11 and sacrificed to the Lord on that day seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from the spoils they had brought. 12 (E)They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul; 13 and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, from least to greatest, man or woman. 14 They swore an oath to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting and with trumpets and horns. 15 All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with their whole heart and sought him with complete desire. The Lord was found by them,(F) and gave them rest on every side.
16 (G)He also deposed Maacah, the mother[b] of King Asa, from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene object for Asherah; Asa cut down this object, smashed it, and burnt it in the Wadi Kidron. 17 The high places did not disappear from Israel, yet Asa’s heart was undivided as long as he lived. 18 He brought into the house of God his father’s and his own votive offerings: silver, gold, and vessels. 19 There was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.
Footnotes
- 15:10–12 With this description of a covenant ceremony in “the third month” of a year beginning in the spring, the Chronicler provides a basis for the later understanding of the ancient Jewish spring feast of Weeks as a commemoration of the covenant on Mount Sinai; see Ex 19:1–3; Lv 23:16 and note on Lv 23:16–21. In the Greek period the feast came to be called Pentecost, from the Greek word for “fifty,” i.e., fifty days or seven weeks after Passover. The Chronicler’s presentation here has also influenced the celebration of Christian Pentecost as the “birthday of the Church”; cf. Acts 2.
- 15:16 Mother: see note on 1 Kgs 15:10.
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