你们不要效法你们列祖和你们的弟兄。他们干犯耶和华他们列祖的神,以致耶和华丢弃他们,使他们败亡(或作令人惊骇),正如你们所见的。
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
*For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
以法莲,玛拿西,以萨迦,西布伦有许多人尚未自洁,他们却也吃逾越节的羊羔,不合所记录的定例。希西家为他们祷告说,凡专心寻求神,就是耶和华他列祖之神的,虽不照着圣所洁净之礼自洁,求至善的耶和华也饶恕他。
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
希西家力图自强,就修筑所有拆毁的城墙,高与城楼相齐。在城外又筑一城,坚固大卫城的米罗,制造了许多军器,盾牌。
Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
所以你们不要叫希西家这样欺哄诱惑你们,也不要信他。因为没有一国一邦的神能救自己的民脱离我手和我列祖的手,何况你们的神更不能救你们脱离我的手。
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
有许多人到耶路撒冷,将供物献与耶和华,又将宝物送给犹大王希西家。此后,希西家在列邦人的眼中看为尊大。
And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
又建造仓房,收藏五谷,新酒,和油,又为各类牲畜盖棚立圈。
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
他在急难的时候,就恳求耶和华他的神,且在他列祖的神面前极其自卑。
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
亚们登基的时候年二十二岁,在耶路撒冷作王二年。
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
就是交给木匠,石匠,买凿成的石头和架木与楝梁,修犹大王所毁坏的殿。
Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.