歷代志下 10 – CCBT & NIVUK

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

歷代志下 10:1-19

北方支派背叛羅波安

1羅波安前往示劍,因為以色列人都去了那裡要立他為王。 2尼八的兒子耶羅波安曾為了躲避所羅門王而逃往埃及,並一直住在那裡。他聽到消息便返回以色列3以色列人派人去請他,他就和以色列眾人去見羅波安,說: 4「你父親使我們負擔沉重,求你減輕我們的負擔吧,我們一定效忠你。」 5羅波安對他們說:「你們三天之後再來見我。」眾人就離開了。

6羅波安王去徵詢曾服侍他父親所羅門的老臣的意見,說:「你們認為我該怎樣回覆這些百姓?」 7他們回稟說:「王若善待這些百姓,使他們喜悅,對他們好言相待,他們會永遠做王的僕人。」

8羅波安卻沒有採納老臣的意見。他又去徵詢那些和他一起長大的青年臣僚的意見, 9說:「百姓求我減輕我父親加給他們的重擔。你們認為我該怎樣回覆他們?」 10他們說:「百姓說你父親使他們負擔沉重,請求你減輕他們的負擔。你可以這樣回覆他們,『我的小指頭比我父親的腰還粗。 11我父親使你們負重擔,我要使你們負更重的擔子;我父親用鞭子打你們,我要用刺鞭打你們。』」

12過了三天,耶羅波安和百姓遵照羅波安王的話來見他。 13-14羅波安王沒有採納老臣的建議,而是照青年臣僚的建議,疾言厲色地對他們說:「我父親使你們負重擔,我要使你們負更重的擔子!我父親用鞭子打你們,我要用刺鞭打你們!」 15王不聽百姓的請求。這事出於耶和華上帝,為要應驗祂藉示羅亞希雅先知對尼八的兒子耶羅波安說的話。

16以色列人見王不聽他們的請求,就說:

「我們與大衛有何相干?

我們與耶西的兒子沒有關係!

以色列人啊,各自回家吧!

大衛家啊,自己照顧自己吧!」

於是,以色列人都各自回家了。 17但住在猶大城邑的以色列人仍受羅波安統治。 18羅波安王派勞役總管哈多蘭以色列人那裡,以色列人卻用石頭打死了他,羅波安王連忙上車逃回耶路撒冷19從此,以色列人反叛大衛家,直到今天。

New International Version – UK

2 Chronicles 10:1-19

Israel rebels against Rehoboam

1Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. 2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. 3So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: 4‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labour and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.’

5Rehoboam answered, ‘Come back to me in three days.’ So the people went away.

6Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. ‘How would you advise me to answer these people?’ he asked.

7They replied, ‘If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favourable answer, they will always be your servants.’

8But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. 9He asked them, ‘What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, “Lighten the yoke your father put on us”?’

10The young men who had grown up with him replied, ‘The people have said to you, “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.” Now tell them, “My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. 11My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.” ’

12Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, ‘Come back to me in three days.’ 13The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders, 14he followed the advice of the young men and said, ‘My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’ 15So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfil the word that the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

16When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:

‘What share do we have in David,

what part in Jesse’s son?

To your tents, Israel!

Look after your own house, David!’

So all the Israelites went home. 17But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.

18King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,10:18 Hebrew Hadoram, a variant of Adoniram who was in charge of forced labour, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 19So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.