1 亚玛谢登基的时候是二十五岁， 他在耶路撒冷作王二十九年。他的母亲名叫约耶但， 是耶路撒冷人。 2 亚玛谢行耶和华看为正的事， 只是心不专一。 3 他巩固了王位以后， 就把击杀他父王的臣仆杀了。 4 他却没有处死他们的儿子， 因为照着摩西律法书上所记， 耶和华曾吩咐： "不可因儿子的罪处死父亲， 也不可因父亲的罪处死儿子； 各人要因自己的罪被处死。" 5 亚玛谢召集了犹大人， 按着他们的家族为全犹大和便雅悯人， 设立千夫长和百夫长， 又数点他们的数目， 从二十岁以上， 能出去打仗， 能拿枪持盾的精兵， 共有三十万。 6 又用了三千四百公斤银子， 从以色列中雇了十万英勇的战士。 7 有一位神人来见亚玛谢， 说： "王啊， 请不要领以色列的军队和你同去， 因为耶和华不和以色列人， 不和任何以法莲的子孙同在。 8 即使你一定要去， 奋勇争战， 神也会使你在敌人面前覆灭， 因为 神有能力帮助人， 也有能力使人覆灭。" 9 亚玛谢问神人： "我给以色列雇佣兵的那三千四百公斤银子怎么办呢？"神人回答： "耶和华能把比这更多赐给你。" 10 于是亚玛谢把那从以法莲来的雇佣兵解散了， 遣送他们回家； 因此他们非常恼怒犹大人， 就气冲冲地回家去了。 11 亚玛谢鼓起勇气， 率领他的人民到盐谷去， 击杀了一万西珥人。 12 犹大人又生擒了一万人， 带到一处崖顶， 从崖顶把他们拋下去， 使他们都摔得肢离破碎。 13 但亚玛谢打发回去、不许和他一同作战的雇佣兵， 竟侵入犹大各城， 从撒玛利亚直到伯．和仑， 击杀了三千人， 又掠去了很多财物。 14 亚玛谢击败了以东人回来的时候， 把西珥人的神像也带回来， 立为自己的神， 在它们面前叩拜， 又向它们烧香。 15 因此， 耶和华向亚玛谢发怒， 于是差派一位先知去见他， 对他说： "这民族的神不能拯救自己的人民脱离你的手， 你为什么还寻求它们呢？" 16 先知向王讲话的时候， 王对他说： "我们立了你作王的谋士吗？住口吧！ 你要挨打吗？"先知就住口， 可是又说： "我知道 神已定意消灭你， 因为你作了这事， 又不听从我的劝戒。" 17 犹大王亚玛谢和群臣商议以后， 就派人去见耶户的孙子、约哈斯的儿子、以色列王约阿施， 说： "来吧， 我们在战场上相见吧！ " 18 以色列王约阿施派人去见犹大王亚玛谢， 说： "黎巴嫩的蒺藜派人去见黎巴嫩的香柏树， 说： ‘把你的女儿给我的儿子作妻子吧！ ’后来有一只黎巴嫩的野兽从那里经过， 把蒺藜践踏了。 19 你心里说你击败了以东人， 你就心里骄傲， 以这事夸口。现在你留在家里吧， 为什么要惹祸， 使犹大和你一同覆亡呢？" 20 亚玛谢却不听从； 这原是出于 神， 好把他们交在约阿施手里， 因为他们寻求以东的神。 21 于是以色列王约阿施上来， 在犹大的伯．示麦， 和犹大王亚玛谢相会于战场上。 22 犹大人在以色列人面前被击败， 各自逃回家去了。 23 以色列王约阿施在伯．示麦捉住了约哈斯的孙子、约阿施的儿子、犹大王亚玛谢， 把他带到耶路撒冷， 又拆毁耶路撒冷的城墙， 从以法莲门直到角门， 共两百公尺。 24 又把俄别．以东负责看守 神殿里的一切金银和一切器皿， 以及王宫里的宝物都掠去， 又掳走人质， 然后回撒玛利亚去了。 25 以色列王约哈斯的儿子约阿施死后， 犹大王约阿施的儿子亚玛谢还活了十五年。 26 亚玛谢其余的事迹， 一生的始末， 不是都记在犹大和以色列诸王记上吗？ 27 自从亚玛谢离弃耶和华以后， 在耶路撒冷有人要谋害他； 他就逃到拉吉去。谋害他的人派人追到拉吉， 在那里把他杀死。 28 然后用马把他的尸体运回来， 埋葬在大卫城里， 和他的列祖一起。

1 A son of twenty and five years hath Amaziah reigned, and twenty and nine years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem,2 and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah -- only, not with a perfect heart.3 And it cometh to pass, when the kingdom hath been strong upon him, that he slayeth his servants, those smiting the king his father,4 and their sons he hath not put to death, but [did] as is written in the law, in the book of Moses, whom Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers do not die for sons, and sons die not for fathers, but each for his own sin they die.`5 And Amaziah gathereth Judah, and appointeth them, according to the house of the fathers, for heads of the thousands, and for heads of the hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin; and he inspecteth them from a son of twenty years and upward, and findeth them three hundred thousand chosen ones, going forth to the host, holding spear and target.6 And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;7 and a man of God hath come in unto him, saying, `O king, the host of Israel doth not go with thee; for Jehovah is not with Israel -- all the sons of Ephraim;8 but if thou art going -- do [it], be strong for battle, God doth cause thee to stumble before an enemy, for there is power in God to help, and to cause to stumble.`9 And Amaziah saith to the man of God, `And what -- to do for the hundred talents that I have given to the troop of Israel?` And the man of God saith, `Jehovah hath more to give to thee than this.`10 And Amaziah separateth them -- for the troop that hath come in unto him from Ephraim to go to their own place, and their anger doth burn mightily against Judah, and they turn back to their place in the heat of anger.11 And Amaziah hath strengthened himself, and leadeth his people, and goeth to the Valley of Salt, and smiteth the sons of Seir -- ten thousand.12 And ten thousand alive have the sons of Judah taken captive, and they bring them to the top of the rock, and cast them from the top of the rock, and all of them have been broken.13 And the sons of the troop that Amaziah hath sent back from going with him to battle -- they rush against cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-Horon, and smite of them three thousand, and seize much prey.14 And it cometh to pass, after the coming in of Amaziah from smiting the Edomites, that he bringeth in the gods of the sons of Seir, and establisheth them to him for gods, and before them doth bow himself, and to them he maketh perfume.15 And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Amaziah, and He sendeth unto him a prophet, and he saith unto him, `Why hast thou sought the gods of the people that have not delivered their people out of thy hand?`16 And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?` And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, `I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.`17 And Amaziah king of Judah taketh counsel, and sendeth unto Joash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,18 `Come, we look one another in the face.` And Joash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that [is] in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that [is] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that [is] in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.19 Thou hast said, Lo, I have smitten Edom; and thy heart hath lifted thee up to boast; now, abide in thy house, why dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou, and Judah with thee?`20 And Amaziah hath not hearkened, for from God it [is] in order to give them into hand, because they have sought the gods of Edom;21 and go up doth Joash king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that [is] Judah`s,22 and Judah is smitten before Israel, and they flee -- each to his tents.23 And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, hath Joash king of Israel caught in Beth-Shemesh, and bringeth him in to Jerusalem, and breaketh down in the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits,24 and [taketh] all the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that are found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the house of the king, and the sons of the pledges, and turneth back to Samaria.25 And Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, liveth after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years;26 and the rest of the matters of Amaziah, the first and the last, lo, are they not written on the books of the kings of Judah and Israel?27 And from the time that Amaziah hath turned aside from after Jehovah -- they make a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fleeth to Lachish, and they send after him to Lachish, and put him to death there,28 and lift him up on the horses, and bury him with his fathers in the city of Judah.