¹The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

¹王宣讀約書並與　神立約（代下34:29~32）於是王派人召集猶大和耶路撒冷所有的長老到他那裡。

²The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh.

²王登上耶和華的殿，猶大眾人、耶路撒冷所有的居民，還有祭司、先知和眾民，不論大小，都一同前往。王就把在耶和華殿發現的約書所記的一切話都念給他們聽。

³The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

³王站在柱旁，在耶和華面前立約，要一心一意跟從耶和華，謹守他的誡命、典章和律例，實行這書上所寫有關這約的話。眾民都一同立約。

⁴The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

⁴除去偶像與一切惡行（代下34:3~7、33）王吩咐希勒家大祭司、副祭司和守殿門的，把所有為巴力、亞舍拉和天上的萬象所製造的器皿，從耶和華殿裡搬出去，在耶路撒冷城外汲淪谷的田野，把它們燒了。然後把它們的灰燼帶到伯特利去。

⁵He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

⁵他廢除了從前猶大列王所立、在猶大各城的邱壇，和耶路撒冷的周圍焚香拜偶像的祭司。又廢除向巴力、日、月、星辰和天上萬象焚香的人。

⁶He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

⁶他把亞舍拉像從耶和華殿裡搬走，拿到耶路撒冷外的汲淪溪去，在汲淪溪把它燒毀，磨碎成灰，把灰撒在平民的墳墓上。

⁷He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

⁷他拆毀在耶和華殿內男性廟妓的房屋，就是婦女為亞舍拉編織袍子的地方。

⁸He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

⁸他又從猶大各城把祭司們召來，污穢祭司們焚香的邱壇，從迦巴直到別是巴。他又拆毀設在城門的邱壇，就是在市長約書亞門的出入處，在城門的左邊。

⁹Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

⁹但是邱壇的祭司不會登上在耶路撒冷耶和華的祭壇，他們只是在他們的兄弟中間吃無酵餅。

¹⁰He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

¹⁰他又污穢在欣嫩子谷的陀斐特，人在那裡將兒女焚燒獻給摩洛。

¹¹He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

¹¹他又除去猶大列王獻給日頭的馬匹；這些馬匹是在耶和華殿的入口處，靠近太監拿單．米勒在院子裡的住宅。他又把獻給日頭的戰車用火燒掉。

¹²The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

¹²他又把亞哈斯的樓房頂上，猶大列王所做的祭壇，和瑪拿西在耶和華殿的兩院中所做的祭壇拆毀，就地打碎，把它們的灰塵倒進汲淪溪去。

¹³The the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

¹³在耶路撒冷東面、橄欖山南面的邱壇，就是以色列王所羅門為西頓人可憎的神亞斯他錄、摩押人可憎的神基抹，和亞捫人可憎的神米勒公所築的邱壇，王都污穢了。

¹⁴He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

¹⁴他又打碎神柱，砍下亞舍拉，把死人的骨頭布滿那個地方。

¹⁵Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

¹⁵此外，甚至在伯特利的祭壇和那使以色列人陷於罪中的尼八的兒子耶羅波安所做的邱壇，他都拆毀焚燒，壓碎成灰，又把亞舍拉燒了。

¹⁶As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

¹⁶約西亞轉過身來，看見在山上的墳墓，於是派人把骨頭從墳墓中取出來，燒在祭壇上，污穢它，就像神人從前所宣告的耶和華的話。

¹⁷Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

¹⁷約西亞說：“我看見的這墓碑是誰的呢？”那城的人對他說：“這是以前從猶大來預告你在伯特利祭壇上所作的事的神人的墳墓。”

¹⁸He said, “Let him be! Let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

¹⁸所以王說：“由他吧！不要讓人動他的骨頭。”於是他們沒有碰他的骨頭和那從撒瑪利亞來的先知的骨頭。

¹⁹All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

¹⁹以色列諸王在撒瑪利亞各城市建造，以致激怒耶和華的一切邱壇上的廟堂，約西亞都除去；他照著在伯特利所行的一切對付它們。

²⁰He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

²⁰他又把所有邱壇的祭司都在祭壇上宰了。他把人的骨頭燒在它們上面，然後回到耶路撒冷去了。

²¹The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

²¹王下令守逾越節（代下35:1~19）王又命令眾民說：“照著這約書上所寫的，守逾越節，記念耶和華你們的　神。”

²²Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

²²真的自從士師治理以色列的日子以來，以及以色列諸王和猶大列王所有的日子以來，沒有守過像這次的逾越節的。

²³but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

²³只有在約西亞王第十八年，在耶路撒冷守了這逾越節，記念耶和華。

²⁴Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

²⁴其他改革約西亞也除去在猶大地和耶路撒冷所有招魂的、行巫術的、家神、偶像和一切可憎之物，為要實踐希勒家祭司在耶和華殿裡所尋得的書上所寫律法的話。

²⁵Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

²⁵在他以前沒有王好像他按著摩西一切律法，全心、全性、全力歸向耶和華；在他以後也沒有興起一個王好像他的。

²⁶Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

²⁶但耶和華並沒有把他向猶大所發的烈怒消除，因瑪拿西種種的惡行激怒了他。

²⁷Yahweh said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

²⁷耶和華說：“我也要把猶大從我面前趕走，好像我把以色列除去一樣。我要丟棄我所揀選的城市耶路撒冷，以及聖殿，我曾說：‘我的名必立在那裡。’”

²⁸Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²⁸約西亞陣亡（代下35:20~36:1）約西亞其餘的事蹟和他所行的一切，不是都寫在猶大列王的年代誌上嗎？

²⁹In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

²⁹在約西亞的日子，埃及王法老尼哥上來幼發拉底河幫助亞述王，約西亞王竟去迎戰他，法老看見他的時候，就把他殺死在米吉多。

³⁰His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

³⁰他的臣僕把他的屍體從米吉多用馬車運載，送到耶路撒冷，把他埋葬在他自己的墳墓裡。國民選舉約西亞的兒子約哈斯，膏了他，立他接續他父親作王。

³¹Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

³¹約哈斯作猶大王（代下36:2~4）約哈斯登基時是二十三歲，他在耶路撒冷作王三個月。他母親名叫哈慕他，是立拿人耶利米的女兒。

³²He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.

³²他行耶和華看為惡的事，好像他的祖先所行的。

³³Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

³³約雅敬作猶大王（代下36:5~8）法老尼哥把他囚禁在哈馬地的利比拉，使他不能在耶路撒冷作王；又罰了猶大國三千公斤銀子和三十公斤金子。

³⁴Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

³⁴法老尼哥另立約西亞的兒子以利雅敬接續他的父親約西亞作王，改了他的名字作約雅敬。他俘擄了約哈斯，把他帶到埃及，他就死在那裡。

³⁵Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

³⁵約雅敬把銀子、金子付給法老；為了應付法老的命令，他向全國徵收稅銀，按著他的評估，向每位國民索取金銀，好付給法老尼哥。

³⁶Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

³⁶約雅敬登基的時候是二十五歲，他在耶路撒冷作王十一年。他母親名叫西布大，是魯瑪人毗大雅的女兒。

³⁷He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.

³⁷他行耶和華看為惡的事，好像他的祖先一切所行的。