代下15:1 神的灵降在俄德的儿子亚撒利雅身上,
代下15:1 And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;
代下15:2 亚撒利雅就出来迎接亚撒,对他说:“亚撒和犹大、便雅悯所有的人哪!请听我说。你们跟随耶和华,耶和华就和你们同在;你们寻求他,就必给你们寻见;你们离弃他,他必离弃你们。
代下15:2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
代下15:3 以色列人没有真神,没有教导他们的祭司,没有律法,已经很久了。
代下15:3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;
代下15:4 但他们在遭难的时候,回转归向耶和华以色列的 神,寻求他,他就给他们寻见。
代下15:4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.
代下15:5 那时,出入的人都没有平安,因为各国的居民都遭遇动乱。
代下15:5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.
代下15:6 这国攻击那国,这城攻击那城,因为 神用各样灾难使他们纷乱。
代下15:6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
代下15:7 但你们要坚强,不要胆怯,因为你们所行的,必有赏报。”
代下15:7 But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.
代下15:8 亚撒听了这些话,和俄德的儿子亚撒利雅先知所说的预言以后,就勇敢起来,在犹大、便雅悯全地,以及以法莲山地夺取的各城,把可憎的偶像除去,又在耶和华殿的走廊前面,重新修造耶和华的祭坛。
代下15:8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
代下15:9 他又召聚了犹大和便雅悯所有的人,以及在他们中间寄居的以法莲人、玛拿西人、西缅人。以色列人看见了耶和华亚撒的 神和他同在,就有很多人投奔亚撒。
代下15:9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
代下15:10 亚撒在位第十五年三月,他们聚集在耶路撒冷。
代下15:10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.
代下15:11 那一天,他们从夺回来的战利品当中,把七百头牛,七千只羊,献给耶和华为祭,
代下15:11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
代下15:12 他们也立约,要一心一意寻求耶和华他们列祖的 神。
代下15:12 And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;
代下15:13 不寻求耶和华以色列的 神的,无论男女老幼,都必处死。
代下15:13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
代下15:14 他们就大声欢呼,吹起号角,向耶和华起誓。
代下15:14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.
代下15:15 犹大众人都为了所起的誓快乐,因为他们一心起誓,尽意寻求耶和华,耶和华就给他们寻见,并且使他们四境安宁。
代下15:15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.
代下15:16 亚撒王也废掉他的祖母玛迦太后的位,因为她曾给亚舍拉做了可憎的像;亚撒把她那可憎的像砍了下来,捣得粉碎,烧在汲沦溪旁。
代下15:16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.
代下15:17 只是邱坛还没有从以色列中除掉,但亚撒的心一生都完全忠于耶和华。
代下15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
代下15:18 亚撒把他父亲所分别为圣,和他自己所分别为圣的金银和器皿,都送进 神的殿里。
代下15:18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.
代下15:19 从那时,直到亚撒在位第三十五年,都没有战争。
代下15:19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.