¹In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.

¹亞瑪謝作猶大王（代下25:1~13）以色列王約哈斯的兒子約阿施在位第二年，猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝登基作王。

²He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

²他登基的時候是二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王共二十九年。他母親名叫約耶但，是從耶路撒冷來的。

³He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

³他行耶和華看為正的事；只是不像他的祖先大衛，卻是照著他父親約阿施所行的一切去行。

⁴However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴只是邱壇還沒有廢去，人民仍在邱壇獻祭焚香。

⁵It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:

⁵當國家在他手中穩定以後，他就把那些擊殺他父王的臣僕殺了。

⁶but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

⁶但他們的兒子沒有處死，這是按照摩西律法書上所寫，是耶和華的吩咐：“不可因兒子的罪處死父親，也不可因父親的罪處死兒子；各人要因自己的罪而死。”

⁷He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

⁷他在鹽谷擊殺了一萬以東人，又攻取了西拉，然後把它的名字改稱為約帖，直到今日。

⁸Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

⁸亞瑪謝向約阿施挑戰（代下25:17~24）那時，亞瑪謝派使者去見耶戶的孫子、約哈斯的兒子以色列王約阿施說：“來，我們在戰場相見吧！”

⁹Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

⁹以色列王約阿施派人去見猶大王亞瑪謝說：“黎巴嫩的蒺藜派人去見黎巴嫩的香柏樹說：‘請你把你的女兒給我的兒子作妻子吧！’後來有黎巴嫩的野獸經過，就把蒺藜踩倒了。

¹⁰You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

¹⁰不錯，你打敗了以東人，你的心就高傲。你儘管自己誇耀，安坐家中就是了。為甚麼要惹禍，使你覆亡，也使猶大跟你一起覆亡呢？”

¹¹But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

¹¹但是亞瑪謝不聽他的話。於是以色列王約阿施上來，和猶大王亞瑪謝在屬猶大的伯．示麥相見。

¹²Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.

¹²猶大人被以色列人擊敗，各人逃回自己的家去了。

¹³Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

¹³以色列王約阿施捉住了亞哈謝的孫子、約阿施的兒子猶大王亞瑪謝。他們來到耶路撒冷，拆毀了耶路撒冷一段城牆，從以法蓮門直到角門，共兩百公尺。

¹⁴He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

¹⁴又掠去耶和華殿裡和王宮的寶庫裡所有的金子、銀子和一切器皿，還有人質，就回撒瑪利亞去了。

¹⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

¹⁵約阿施其餘的事蹟和他的英勇事蹟，就是與猶大王亞瑪謝作戰的事，不是都寫在以色列諸王的年代誌上嗎？

¹⁶Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

¹⁶約阿施和他的祖先一同長眠，他和以色列諸王一樣，葬在撒瑪利亞。他的兒子耶羅波安接續他作王。

¹⁷Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

¹⁷亞瑪謝在拉吉被弒（代下25:25~28）以色列王約哈斯的兒子約阿施死後，猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝仍活了十五年。

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¹⁸亞瑪謝其餘的事蹟不是都寫在猶大列王的年代誌上嗎？

¹⁹They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

¹⁹在耶路撒冷有人陰謀反叛他，他就逃到拉吉去。他們派人跟蹤他到拉吉，就在那裡把他殺死了。

²⁰They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

²⁰他們把他的屍首馱在馬背上運回來，葬在耶路撒冷，在大衛的城裡，和他的祖先在一起。

²¹All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

²¹猶大的眾民選立了亞撒利雅；他只有十六歲，他們就立他接續他父親亞瑪謝作王。

²²He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

²²亞瑪謝和他的祖先一同長眠以後，亞撒利雅重建了以拉他，並且收歸猶大。

²³In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.

²³耶羅波安二世作以色列王猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝十五年，以色列王約阿施的兒子耶羅波安在撒瑪利亞登基，他作王共四十一年。

²⁴He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

²⁴他行耶和華看為惡的事，不轉離尼八的兒子耶羅波安使以色列人陷於罪中的一切罪。

²⁵He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.

²⁵他收復以色列的邊境，從哈馬口直到亞拉巴海，正如耶和華以色列的　神的話，就是藉著他的僕人迦特希弗人亞米太的兒子約拿先知所說的；

²⁶For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.

²⁶因為耶和華看見以色列十分艱苦，無論是自由的或為奴的都沒有了，也沒有幫助以色列的。

²⁷Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

²⁷耶和華沒有定命要將以色列的名從天下塗抹，所以藉著約阿施的兒子耶羅波安的手拯救他們。

²⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

²⁸耶羅波安其餘的事蹟和他所行的一切，以及他作戰時的英勇，怎樣收復大馬士革和原屬猶大的哈馬歸以色列，不是都寫在以色列諸王的年代誌上嗎？

²⁹Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.

²⁹耶羅波安和他的祖先以色列諸王一同長眠。他的兒子撒迦利雅就接續他作王。