嫩的儿子约书亚。因为摩西曾按手在他头上,就被智慧的灵充满,以色列人便听从他,照着耶和华吩咐摩西的行了。
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
约西亚登基的时候年八岁,在耶路撒冷作王三十一年。
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
众人在他面前拆毁巴力的坛,砍断坛上高高的日像,又把木偶和雕刻的像,并铸造的像打碎成灰,撒在祭偶像人的坟上,
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
将他们祭司的骸骨烧在坛上,洁净了犹大和耶路撒冷。
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
又在玛拿西,以法莲,西缅,拿弗他利各城,和四围破坏之处,都这样行。
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
又拆毁祭坛,把木偶和雕刻的像打碎成灰,砍断以色列遍地所有的日像,就回耶路撒冷去了。
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
约西亚王十八年,净地净殿之后,就差遣亚萨利雅的儿子沙番,邑宰玛西雅,约哈斯的儿子史官约亚去修理耶和华他神的殿。
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
他们就去见大祭司希勒家,将奉到神殿的银子交给他。这银子是看守殿门的利未人从玛拿西,以法莲,和一切以色列剩下的人,以及犹大,便雅悯众人,并耶路撒冷的居民收来的。
And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
又将这银子交给耶和华殿里督工的,转交修理耶和华殿的工匠,
And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
耶和华殿里的银子倒出来,交给督工的和匠人的手里了。
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.