1有一位上帝的僕人奉耶和華的命令從猶大來到伯特利。那時，耶羅波安正站在祭壇旁燒香。2上帝的僕人奉耶和華的命令向祭壇喊道：「祭壇啊，祭壇啊，耶和華說，必有一子在大衛家出生，他名叫約西亞。他要在你上面殺死這些獻祭的祭司，在你上面焚燒人的骨頭。」3當日，他又說：「耶和華說要給你們一個徵兆，這壇必破裂，壇上的灰必撒出來。」4耶羅波安王聽了他的話，就伸手指著他說：「給我拿住他！」但王伸出來的手僵住了，不能收回。5這時，祭壇破裂了，壇上的灰也撒了出來，應驗了上帝的僕人奉耶和華之命所說的徵兆。6王對上帝的僕人說：「請你為我禱告，求你的上帝耶和華使我的手復原。」於是，上帝的僕人向耶和華禱告，王的手就復原了。7王對上帝的僕人說：「請你跟我回宮，吃點東西吧！我要酬謝你。」8上帝的僕人卻說：「你就是把你一半的財富送給我，我也不跟你去，也不在這地方用飯喝水，9因為耶和華吩咐我不可在伯特利用飯喝水，也不可原路返回。」10上帝的僕人就從另一條路回去了，沒有原路返回。11在伯特利住著一位老先知，他兒子們把上帝的僕人那天所行的事和對王所說的話告訴了他。12老先知問道：「上帝的僕人走的哪條路？」他的兒子們就把上帝的僕人走的那條路告訴了他。13於是，他囑咐兒子們為他備驢，然後騎驢去追趕上帝的僕人，看見他正坐在一棵橡樹下，便問：「你就是那位從猶大來的上帝的僕人嗎？」他說：「是。」15老先知說：「請你跟我一起回家吃飯吧！」16上帝的僕人說：「我不能跟你去，也不能跟你在這裡吃飯喝水，17因為耶和華吩咐我不可在這裡用飯喝水，也不可原路返回。」18老先知就說：「我也是先知，和你一樣。耶和華派天使來吩咐我帶你到我家吃飯喝水。」19上帝的僕人就隨他回家吃飯喝水。20席間，耶和華的話臨到老先知，21他就對從猶大來的上帝的僕人說：「耶和華說，你違背了你的上帝耶和華的命令，沒有遵從祂的吩咐，22竟然在祂禁止你吃喝的地方吃飯喝水，因此你的屍體必不得安葬在你的祖墳裡。」23吃喝完了，老先知為他帶回家的這位先知備驢啟程，24這位先知在路上遇到一頭獅子，被咬死了，屍體倒在路上，驢和獅子都站在屍體旁邊。25過路的人看見屍體倒在路上，旁邊還站著一頭獅子，就去老先知住的城報告這事。26老先知聽到消息，就說：「這是上帝的僕人，他違背了耶和華的命令，所以耶和華讓獅子咬死了他，正應驗了耶和華的話。」27他吩咐兒子們備好驢，28去了那裡，看見上帝僕人的屍體倒在路上，驢和獅子站在屍體旁。獅子既沒有吃屍體，也沒有傷害驢。29老先知把屍體馱在驢背上，運回城中為他哀悼，30把他葬在自己的墳墓裡，哀悼他說：「唉！我的弟兄啊！」31安葬之後，老先知又對兒子們說：「我死後，你們要把我跟上帝的僕人合葬，讓我們的屍骨在一起。32因為他奉耶和華的命令咒詛伯特利的祭壇和撒瑪利亞各城的神廟的話必應驗。」33這事以後，耶羅波安沒有改邪歸正，他任命各種人做邱壇的祭司，不管誰想做祭司，他都封立他們。34這罪使耶羅波安家走向沒落，最終徹底滅亡。
English Standard Version
A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam
1And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.2And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”3And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”4And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.5The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.6And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it was before.7And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”8And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place,9for so was it commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.’”10So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.
The Prophet’s Disobedience
11Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons* came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.12And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.13And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it.14And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”15Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”16And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,17for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.’”18And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.19So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.20And as they sat at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.21And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the command that the Lord your God commanded you,22but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”23And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.24And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.25And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.26And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.”27And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.28And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey.29And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city* to mourn and to bury him.30And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”31And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.32For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”33After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.34And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
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