¹希西家作猶大王（王下18:1~3）希西家登基的時候，是二十五歲；他在耶路撒冷作王二十九年。他的母親名叫亞比雅，是撒迦利雅的女兒。

¹Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

²希西家行耶和華看為正的事，像他祖先大衛一切所行的。

²He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.

³潔淨聖殿他在位的元年正月，開了耶和華殿的門，重新修理。

³He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.

⁴他把祭司和利未人都召了來，聚集在東面的廣場上，

⁴He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

⁵對他們說：“利未人哪，你們要聽我的話；現在你們要自潔，又要潔淨耶和華你們列祖的　神的殿，把污穢之物從聖所中除去。

⁵and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.

⁶我們的列祖冒犯了　神，行了耶和華我們的　神看為惡的事，離棄了他，轉臉不顧耶和華的居所，以背向他。

⁶For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

⁷他們又封閉廊門，熄滅燈火，不在聖所中向以色列的　神燒香或獻燔祭。

⁷Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

⁸因此，耶和華的震怒臨到猶大和耶路撒冷的居民身上，使他們成為令人恐懼、驚駭和嗤笑的對象，就像你們親眼看見的一樣。

⁸Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

⁹所以我們的列祖倒在刀下；我們的兒女和妻子也都因此作了俘虜。

⁹For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

¹⁰現在我心中有意要和耶和華以色列的　神立約，好使他的震怒轉離我們。

¹⁰Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

¹¹我的孩子們，你們現在不要懈怠，因為耶和華揀選了你們站在他面前事奉他，為要作他的僕人，向他燒香。”

¹¹My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”

¹²於是，利未人哥轄的子孫亞瑪賽的兒子瑪哈、亞撒利雅的兒子約珥；米拉利的子孫亞伯底的兒子基士、耶哈利勒的兒子亞撒利雅；革順的子孫薪瑪的兒子約亞、約亞的兒子伊甸；

¹²Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

¹³以利撒反的子孫申利和耶利；亞薩的子孫撒迦利亞和瑪探雅；

¹³and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

¹⁴希幔的子孫耶歇和示每；耶杜頓的子孫示瑪雅和烏薛都起來，

¹⁴and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

¹⁵集合他們的親族，潔淨自己，照著王的吩咐，根據耶和華的命令，進去潔淨耶和華的殿。

¹⁵They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

¹⁶祭司進入耶和華殿的裡面進行潔淨，他們在耶和華殿裡發現的一切污穢之物，都搬到耶和華殿的院子裡；利未人接過，就搬到城外的汲淪溪邊。

¹⁶The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

¹⁷他們在正月初一開始潔淨聖殿，第八日去到耶和華殿的走廊；他們用了八日潔淨耶和華的殿，到了正月十六日才完工。

¹⁷Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

¹⁸於是他們進王宮見希西家王，說：“我們已經把整個耶和華的殿、燔祭壇和壇的一切器皿、陳設餅的桌子和桌子上的一切器皿，都潔淨了。

¹⁸Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and the table of show bread, with all its vessels.

¹⁹亞哈斯王在位，他得罪　神的時候丟棄的一切器皿，我們都預備齊全，也都潔淨好了；現在都放在耶和華的祭壇前。”

¹⁹Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh.”

²⁰獻贖罪祭希西家王清早起來，召集城中的領袖，上耶和華的殿去。

²⁰Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.

²¹他們牽來了七頭公牛、七隻公綿羊、七隻羊羔和七隻公山羊，要為國家、為聖所和為猶大人作贖罪祭；王吩咐亞倫的子孫眾祭司把牠們獻在耶和華的壇上。

²¹They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.

²²他們宰了公牛，祭司把血接過來，灑在祭壇上；他們又宰了公綿羊，把血灑在祭壇上；他們又宰了羊羔，也把血灑在祭壇上。

²²So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

²³最後把作贖罪祭的公山羊，牽到王和會眾面前，王和會眾就按手在公山羊的身上。

²³They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:

²⁴祭司宰了公山羊，把血灑在祭壇上作贖罪祭，為所有以色列人贖罪；因為王曾經吩咐要為所有以色列人獻上燔祭和贖罪祭。

²⁴and the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

²⁵獻燔祭王又指派在耶和華殿中的利未人拿著響鈸和琴瑟，是照著大衛、王的先見迦得和拿單先知所吩咐的，就是耶和華藉他的先知所吩咐的。

²⁵He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets.

²⁶利未人拿著大衛的樂器，祭司持著號筒，一同站著。

²⁶The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

²⁷希西家吩咐在祭壇上獻上燔祭。開始獻燔祭的時候，就開始向耶和華歌唱，並且用號筒和以色列王大衛的樂器伴奏。

²⁷Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.

²⁸全體會眾都叩拜，歌唱的歌唱，吹號的吹號，直到燔祭都獻完了。

²⁸All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

²⁹獻感恩祭與其他的燔祭獻完了祭，王和所有在場的人，都屈膝叩拜。

²⁹When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.

³⁰希西家王和眾領袖，又吩咐利未人用大衛和先見亞薩的詩詞讚美耶和華，於是他們歡歡喜喜地讚美耶和華，低頭敬拜。

³⁰Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

³¹希西家說：“你們現在歸耶和華為聖了。請前來，把祭物和感恩祭帶到耶和華的殿裡來。”於是會眾把祭物和感恩祭帶來；凡是甘心樂意的，都把燔祭帶來。

³¹Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of Yahweh.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

³²會眾帶來的燔祭如下：公牛七十頭、公綿羊一百隻、羊羔二百隻。這些都是作燔祭獻給耶和華的。

³²The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

³³還有分別為聖之物：公牛六百頭、綿羊三千隻。

³³The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.

³⁴只是祭司太少，不能把所有燔祭牲剝皮，所以他們的親族協助他們，直到剝皮的工作完了，又等到其他祭司自潔完了，因為利未人在自潔的事上比眾祭司更加誠心。

³⁴But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

³⁵此外，還有很多燔祭牲和平安祭牲的脂肪，以及和燔祭同獻的奠祭很多。這樣，耶和華殿裡的事奉就重新恢復了。

³⁵Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of Yahweh was set in order.

³⁶因為事情很快辦完，希西家和全體人民因　神為他的子民所預備的，都甚歡樂。

³⁶Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.