2 Chronicles
Chapter 35
1 Josiah celebrated in Jerusalem a Passover to honor the LORD; the Passover sacrifice was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
事后，约史雅王在耶路撒冷向上主举行逾越节；正月十四日宰杀了逾越节羔羊，
2 He reappointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the LORD'S house.
分派了司祭的职务，勉励他们在上主殿内服务；
3 He said to the Levites who were to instruct all Israel, and who were consecrated to the LORD: ＂Put the holy ark in the house built by Solomon, son of David, king of Israel. It shall no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Serve now the LORD, your God, and his people Israel.
然后对那些教诲以色列民众并祝圣于上主的肋未人说：＂你们应将约柜放在以色列王达味的儿子撒罗满所建的殿里，不必再用肩抬；从今以后，只应为上主你们的天主，和他的人民以色列服务。
4 Prepare yourselves in your ancestral houses and your classes according to the prescriptions of King David of Israel and his son Solomon.
你们应依家族和班次，照以色列王达味和他的儿子撒罗满所规定的，自做准备；
5 Stand in the sanctuary according to the divisions of the ancestral houses of your brethren, the common people, so that the distribution of the Levites and the families may be the same.
要按照家族的班次，照平民兄弟们的需要，在圣殿内值班，每班内应有几个肋未家族的人。
6 Slay the Passover sacrifice, sanctify yourselves, and be at the disposition of your brethren, that all may be carried out according to the word of the LORD given through Moses.＂
应宰杀逾越节羔羊，圣洁自己，为你们弟兄预备一切，全照上主借着梅瑟吩咐的进行。＂
7 Josiah contributed to the common people a flock of lambs and kids, thirty thousand in number, each to serve as a Passover victim for any who were present, and also three thousand oxen; these were from the king's property.
约史雅于是送给了百姓绵羔羊和山羔羊，凡三万只，为在场的人作逾越节的祭品；此外，还有公牛羊三千头，全是出于君王所有的。
8 His princes also gave a free-will gift to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, prefects of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover victims together with three hundred oxen.
他的朝臣也自愿给百姓、司祭和肋未人赠送祭品。天主圣殿的主管希耳克雅、则加黎雅和耶希耳，送给了司祭们二千六百只羔羊，三百头公牛，作为逾越节的祭品。
9 Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah, Nethanel, Hashabiah, Jehiel and Jozabad, the rulers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover victims, together with five hundred oxen.
肋未人的领袖苛纳尼雅和他的两个兄弟舍玛雅和乃塔乃耳，以及哈沙彼雅、耶依耳和约匝巴得，送给了肋未人五千只羔羊，五百头公牛，作为逾越节的祭品。
10 When the service had been arranged, the priests took their places, as did the Levites in their classes according to the king's command.
职务安排好了以后，司祭各站在自己的地方，肋未人亦各按班次，照君王所吩咐的，站在自己的地方，
11 The Passover sacrifice was slaughtered, whereupon the priests sprinkled some of the blood and the Levites proceeded to the skinning.
宰杀逾越节羔羊，司祭由他们手中接过血来洒，肋未人继续剥去牲皮，
12 They separated what was destined for the holocaust and gave it to various groups of the ancestral houses of the common people to offer to the LORD, as is prescribed in the book of Moses. They did the same with the oxen.
将应烧的一份取出来，交给平民按家族分成的小组，叫他们依照梅瑟法律所载，奉献给上主；他们也照样奉献了公牛。
13 They cooked the Passover on the fire as prescribed, and also cooked the sacred meals in pots, caldrons and pans, then brought them quickly to all the common people.
然后按照常例，用火烤熟逾越节羔羊，用锅或鼎，或罐煮熟其于奉献的圣物，迅速分给百姓。
14 Afterward they prepared the Passover for themselves and for the priests. Indeed the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busy offering holocausts and the fatty portions until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
这以后才为自己和司祭预备，因为亚郎的子孙司祭们，直到晚上，忙于奉献全燔祭和脂油，故此肋未人应为自己，也为亚郎的子孙司祭准备一切。
15 The singers, the sons of Asaph, were at their posts as prescribed by David: Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer. The gatekeepers were at every gate; there was no need for them to leave their stations, for their brethren, the Levites, prepared for them.
阿撒夫的后裔歌咏者，遵照达味、阿撒夫、赫曼和王的先见者耶杜通的规定，立在自己的地方；门丁看守各门，无须离开自己的职守，因为有他们的弟兄肋未人为他们准备。
16 Thus the entire service of the LORD was arranged that day so that the Passover could be celebrated and the holocausts offered on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had commanded.
这样，一切为供奉上主，守逾越节，在上主的祭坛上奉献全燔祭的事务，当日都依照约史雅王的吩咐准备好了。
17 The Israelites who were present on that occasion kept the Passover and the feast of the Unleavened Bread for seven days.
在场的以色列子民当时便举行逾越节，并举行无酵节七天。
18 No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel, nor had any king of Israel kept a Passover like that of Josiah, the priests and Levites, all of Judah and Israel that was present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
自先知撒慕尔时日以来，在以色列就从未曾举行过这样的逾越节；以色列各君王也没有举行过象约史雅同司祭、肋未人，在场的犹大和以色列民众，并耶路撒冷居民所举行的这逾越节。
19 It was in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign that this Passover was observed.
这次逾越节是在约史雅第十八年上举行的。
20 After Josiah had done all this to restore the temple, Neco, king of Egypt, came up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to intercept him.
这些事以后，约史雅修理完了圣殿，埃及王乃苛上来攻打幼发拉的河畔的加革米士。约史雅便出兵抵抗他。
21 Neco sent messengers to him, saying: ＂What quarrel is between us, king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, for my war is with another kingdom, and God has told me to hasten. Do not interfere with God who is with me, as otherwise he will destroy you.＂
乃苛派使者对约史雅说：＂犹大王，我与你有什么关系？我今天来不是攻击你，而是要进攻幼发拉的河，并且天主吩咐我急速前进；你不要干预天主的事，因为天主与我同在，免得他毁灭你。＂
22 But Josiah would not withdraw from him, for he had sought a pretext for fighting with him. Therefore he would not listen to the words of Neco that came from the mouth of God, but went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo.
约史雅不但不转身离去，反而坚持要攻打他，不听从天主借乃苛所说的话，遂到默基多平原去作战。
23 Then the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, ＂Take me away, for I am seriously wounded.＂
弓手射伤了约史雅王，王对自己的仆人说：＂我受了重伤，将我带走！＂
24 His servants removed him from his own chariot, placed him in another he had in reserve, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned him.
他的仆人将他由所乘的车中抱出来，放在另一辆车上，带到耶路撒冷，王遂死了，葬在他祖先的坟墓里。全犹大和耶路撒冷都举丧哀悼约史雅，
25 1 Jeremiah also composed a lamentation over Josiah, which is recited to this day by all the male and female singers in their lamentations over Josiah. These have been made obligatory for Israel, and can be found written in the Lamentations.
耶肋米亚为约史雅作了一首挽歌，所有歌唱的男女都唱这首歌词来哀悼约史雅，直到今日，甚至在以色列中成了常例。这些歌词都载在挽歌集内。
26 The rest of the chronicle of Josiah, his pious deeds in regard to what is written in the law of the LORD, and his acts, first and last, can be found written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
约史雅其余的事迹，以及他遵循上主法律所载而行的大业， 和他前后所行的事迹，都记载在以色列和犹大列王时录上。
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Footnotes（注解）
1 [25] The reference to a lamentation over Josiah composed by Jeremiah is not found either in 2 Kgs or Jer; but see note on Zechariah 12:11. Their lamentations: probably a reference to the canonical Book of Lamentations.