11:1 亚哈谢的母亲亚他利雅见她儿子死了,就起来剿灭王室。
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
11:2 但约兰王的女儿,亚哈谢的妹子约示巴,将亚哈谢的儿子约阿施从那被杀的王子中偷出来,把他和他的乳母都藏在卧房里,躲避亚他利雅,免得被杀。
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
11:3 约阿施和他的乳母藏在耶和华的殿里六年。亚他利雅篡了国位。
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
11:4 第七年,耶何耶大打发人叫迦利人(或作亲兵)和护卫兵的众百夫长来,领他们进了耶和华的殿,与他们立约,使他们在耶和华殿里起誓,又将王的儿子指给他们看,And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
11:5 吩咐他们说,你们当这样行,凡安息日进班的三分之一要看守王宫,And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
11:6 三分之一要在苏珥门,三分之一要在护卫兵院的后门。这样把守王宫,拦阻闲人。
And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
11:7 你们安息日所有出班的三分之二要在耶和华的殿里护卫王。
And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
11:8 各人手拿兵器,四围护卫王。凡擅入你们班次的必当治死,王出入的时候,你们当跟随他。
And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
11:9 众百夫长就照着祭司耶何耶大一切所吩咐的去行,各带所管安息日进班出班的人来见祭司耶何耶大。
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
11:10 祭司便将耶和华殿里所藏大卫王的枪和盾牌交给百夫长。
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.