¹亞述王攻打猶大（王下18:13~18；賽36:1~3）在希西家行了這些忠誠的事以後，亞述王西拿基立進侵猶大，圍困猶大的設防城，企圖攻陷佔領。

¹After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

²希西家見西拿基立有意攻打耶路撒冷，

²When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

³就與眾領袖和眾勇士商議，要把城外各道水泉堵塞，他們都贊同。

³he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.

⁴於是有一大班人集合起來，堵塞了一切泉源和流通那地的溪流，他們說：“為甚麼要讓亞述王得著充沛的水源呢？”

⁴So many people gathered together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?”

⁵希西家發憤圖強，重建所有拆毀了的城牆，牆上築起瞭望樓，又建造一道外牆，並且鞏固大衛城內的米羅，又製造了很多兵器和盾牌。

⁵He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

⁶他又委派軍長統管眾民，集合他們到城門的廣場那裡去見他；他鼓勵他們說：

⁶He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,

⁷“你們要堅強勇敢，不要因亞述王和他統領的大軍懼怕驚慌；因為和我們同在的，比和他們同在的更多。

⁷“Be strong and courageous, don’t be afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him.

⁸和他們同在的，不過是人血肉的手臂；和我們同在的，卻是耶和華我們的　神，他必幫助我們，為我們作戰。”眾民因猶大王希西家的話都得著鼓勵了。

⁸With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

⁹勸降的話（王下18:28~35；賽36:13~20）隨後，亞述王西拿基立和他統領的全軍攻打拉吉的時候，就差派他的臣僕到耶路撒冷來見猶大王希西家和所有在耶路撒冷的猶大人，說：

⁹After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

¹⁰“亞述王西拿基立這樣說：‘你們現在還在耶路撒冷受困，你們可倚靠甚麼呢？

¹⁰Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

¹¹希西家曾對你們說：耶和華我們的　神必拯救我們脫離亞述王的手。他不是迷惑你們，使你們因飢渴而死嗎？

¹¹Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

¹²這希西家不是曾經把耶和華的邱壇和祭壇除去，吩咐猶大和耶路撒冷的人說：你們要在一個壇前敬拜，要在它上面燒香嗎？

¹²Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?’

¹³我和我列祖向各地的民族所行的，你不知道嗎？各地列國的神能拯救他們的國脫離我的手嗎？

¹³Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

¹⁴我列祖消滅的那些國的眾神，有哪一位能拯救自己的子民脫離我的手呢？難道你們的　神能拯救你們脫離我的手嗎？

¹⁴Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁵所以，你們現在不要讓希西家欺騙、迷惑你們；你們也不要信他；因為無論哪一邦哪一國的神，都不能拯救自己的子民脫離我的手和我列祖的手，你們的神不是更不能拯救你們脫離我的手嗎？’”

¹⁵Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, neither believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

¹⁶西拿基立的臣僕還說了別的話毀謗耶和華　神和他的僕人希西家。

¹⁶His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

¹⁷西拿基立又寫信來辱罵耶和華以色列的　神，譏誚他說：“各地列國的神沒有拯救它們的子民脫離我的手，希西家的神也照樣不能拯救他的子民脫離我的手。”

¹⁷He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

¹⁸亞述王的臣僕用猶大語，向耶路撒冷城牆上的人民大聲呼叫，要驚嚇他們，使他們慌亂，好攻取那城。

¹⁸They cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

¹⁹他們論到耶路撒冷的　神，就好像世上萬民的神一樣，把他當作是人手所做的。

¹⁹They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

²⁰　神懲罰亞述王（王下19:35~37；賽37:36~38）希西家王和亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞先知為了這事禱告，向天呼求。

²⁰Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

²¹耶和華就差派一位使者，進入亞述王的軍營中，把所有英勇的戰士、官長和將帥，盡都消滅了。亞述王滿面羞愧返回本國去了。他進入自己的神廟的時候，他親生的兒子在那裡用刀把他殺了。

²¹Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.

²²這樣，耶和華拯救了希西家和耶路撒冷的居民，脫離了亞述王西拿基立的手，和其他仇敵的手，又使他們四境平安。

²²Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.

²³有很多人把供物帶到耶路撒冷獻給耶和華，又把很多寶物送給猶大王希西家；從此，希西家受到各國的尊重。

²³Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

²⁴希西家病危與康復（王下20:1~11；賽38:1~8、21~22）那時，希西家患病垂危，就禱告耶和華；耶和華應允了他，又賜他一個徵兆。

²⁴In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

²⁵希西家卻沒有照著他蒙受的恩惠報答耶和華；因為他心高氣傲，所以耶和華的忿怒臨到他，以及猶大和耶路撒冷的人身上。

²⁵But Hezekiah didn’t render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁶但希西家因為自己心高氣傲而謙卑下來，他和耶路撒冷的居民都謙卑下來，因此耶和華的忿怒，在希西家在世的日子，沒有臨到他們身上。

²⁶Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

²⁷希西家之財富與尊榮（參王下20:12~15；賽39:1~4）希西家的財富甚多，尊榮極大；他為自己建造庫房，收藏金銀、寶石、香料、盾牌和各樣的珍寶；

²⁷Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all kinds of goodly vessels;

²⁸又建造倉庫，收藏五穀、新酒和油；又為各類牲畜蓋棚欄、羊圈。

²⁸storehouses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.

²⁹他又為自己建造城鎮，並且擁有大批牛羊牲口，因為　神賜給他極多的財物。

²⁹Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

³⁰這希西家堵塞了基訓泉上游的水，引水直下，流到大衛城的西邊。希西家所行的一切事，盡都亨通。

³⁰This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

³¹唯有巴比倫王的使者奉派來見希西家，詢問猶大地發生的奇事的時候，　神就離開了他，為要試驗他，好知道他心中的一切。

³¹However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

³²希西家逝世（王下20:20~21）希西家其餘的事蹟和他的善行，都記在亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞先知的異象書上，以及猶大和以色列諸王記上。

³²Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

³³希西家和他的列祖同睡，埋葬在大衛子孫墓地的高層；他死的時候，猶大眾人和耶路撒冷的居民都向他致敬。他的兒子瑪拿西接續他作王。

³³Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.