Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the Lord,

那时伯特利人已经打发沙利色和利坚米勒，并跟从他们的人，去恳求耶和华的恩，

那时伯特利人已经差遣沙利色和利坚‧米勒，并他们的人，去恳求耶和华的恩，

那时伯特利人已经差遣沙利色和利坚‧米勒，并他们的人，去恳求耶和华的恩，

那时，伯特利人差遣沙利色、利坚米勒及其随从去向耶和华求恩。

那时，伯特利人差派了沙利色、利坚米勒和他的随从，去恳求耶和华施恩。

那時伯特利人已經打發沙利色和利堅米勒，並跟從他們的人，去懇求耶和華的恩，

那時伯特利人已經差遣沙利色和利堅‧米勒，並他們的人，去懇求耶和華的恩，

那時伯特利人已經差遣沙利色和利堅‧米勒，並他們的人，去懇求耶和華的恩，

那時，伯特利人差遣沙利色、利堅米勒及其隨從去向耶和華求恩。

那時，伯特利人差派了沙利色、利堅米勒和他的隨從，去懇求耶和華施恩。

原來伯特利人曾經託沙利色、王的貴族首長、和他屬下的人去求永恆主的情面，

那時，伯特利人派遣了沙利色、利堅·米勒和隨同他們的人，去懇求耶和華的恩寵，

時、伯特利人遣沙利色、利堅米勒、偕其從者、求恩於耶和華、

適值伯特利人遣示哩斯、哩劍米勒、偕其僕從、求耶和華恩、

時沙列塞、利劍米勒、及其從人、遣人往主之殿、遣人往主之殿或作被遣至主之殿祈禱主、又作時伯特利人遣沙列塞與利劍米勒及其從人往祈禱主

The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the Lord

The people of Bethel wanted to ask the Lord for his blessing. So they sent Sharezer and Regem- Melek and their men.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord,

The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech, along with their attendants, to seek the Lord’s favor.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the LORD’s favor

when the people sent Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, to pray before the Lord,

Now they of Beth- el had sent Sharezer and Regem- melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the Lord’s favor

When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the LORD’s favor

The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying,“ Let’s go at once to plead for the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of armies; I also will go.”

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and plead for the favor of the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against our own lives!”

I thought,‘ Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the Lord.’ So I worked up the courage and offered the burnt offering.”

And the king responded and said to the man of God,“ Please appease the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God appeased the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you, The rams of Nebaioth will serve you; They will go up on My altar with acceptance, And I will glorify My glorious house.

“ Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah; and you shall go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon.

Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said,“ Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

and to bring the silver and gold, which the king and his advisers have voluntarily given to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,with all the silver and gold which you find in the entire province of Babylon, along with the voluntary offering of the people and of the priests, who offered willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;with this money, therefore, you shall diligently buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.And whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do according to the will of your God.Also the utensils which are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver in full before the God of Jerusalem.And the rest of the needs of the house of your God, for which it may be incumbent upon you to provide, provide for them from the royal treasury.“ I myself, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers who are in the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it shall be done diligently,up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred kors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of anointing oil, and salt as needed.Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, it shall be done with zeal for the house of the God of heaven, so that there will not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

so that they may offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

Then I said to them,“ You are holy to the Lord, and the utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord God of your fathers.Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers’ households of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.”So the priests and the Levites accepted the weight of silver and gold and the utensils, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.