歴代誌 第二 24
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1ヨアシュは七歳で王となり、エルサレムで四十年間治めた。母の名はベエル・シェバのツィブヤであった。
1Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
2ヨアシュは祭司エホヤダの生きている間、主の目に正しいことを行った。
2And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.
3エホヤダはヨアシュに二人の妻を迎えさせ、彼は息子と娘たちの父となった。
3And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.
4その後、ヨアシュは主の家を修復しようと心に決めた。
4After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
5彼は祭司たちとレビ人を集めて、彼らに言った。「ユダの町々へ出て行き、全イスラエルから金銭を集め、年ごとにあなたがたの神の家を修復しなさい。この事を急いで行いなさい。」しかしレビ人は急がなかった。
5And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.
6王は長であるエホヤダを呼んで彼に言った。「なぜあなたは、主のしもべモーセとイスラエルの会衆が定めたあかしの幕屋のための税を、ユダとエルサレムから持って来るようにレビ人に要求しなかったのか。」
6And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the testimony?
7あの悪い女アタルヤの子らが神の家を破壊し、主の家のすべての聖別された物をバアルに与えてしまったからである。
7For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.
8そこで王が命じると、彼らは一つの箱を作り、それを主の家の門の外に置いた。
8And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
9彼らはユダとエルサレムに、神のしもべモーセが荒野でイスラエルに課した税を主のために持って来るようにと布告を出した。
9And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
10すべての君たちとすべての民は喜び、持って来て、箱がいっぱいになるまでその中に投げ入れた。
10And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going In they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it was filled.
11レビ人の手によって箱が王の役人たちのところに運ばれ、そこに多くの金銭があるのを見ると、王の書記と大祭司の役人が来て箱を空にし、それを取ってまた元の場所に戻した。彼らはこれを毎日行い、多額の金銭を集めた。
11And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king’s scribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they poured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the chest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was gathered an immense sum of money.
12王とエホヤダはそれを、主の家の奉仕のわざを行う者たちに与えた。彼らは主の家を修復するために石工や大工を雇い、また主の家を修理するために鉄や青銅を扱う者たちも雇った。
12And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works of the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and artificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.
13働き手たちが働き、修復は彼らの手によって順調に進んだ。彼らは神の家をその設計どおりに立て直し、それを強固にした。
13And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its former state, and made it stand firm.
14彼らが終えると、残りの金銭を王とエホヤダの前に持って来た。それで主の家のための器、すなわち仕えるため、またささげるための器、さじ、金や銀の器が作られた。彼らはエホヤダの生きている間、主の家で絶えず全焼のささげ物をささげた。
14And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other vessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.
15しかしエホヤダは高齢となり、長寿を全うして死んだ。彼が死んだときは百三十歳であった。
15But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a hundred and thirty years old.
16人々は彼をダビデの町で王たちとともに葬った。彼がイスラエルにおいて、また神と神の家のために良いことを行ったからである。
16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.
17エホヤダの死後、ユダの君たちが来て王にひれ伏した。そのとき王は彼らの言うことを聞き入れた。
17And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.
18彼らは父祖の神、主の家を捨てて、アシェラ像や偶像に仕えた。彼らのこの罪過のために、ユダとエルサレムに御怒りが下った。
18And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.
19それでも、主は彼らを主のもとに立ち返らせるために預言者たちを彼らのもとに遣わされた。預言者たちは彼らを戒めたが、彼らは耳を傾けようとはしなかった。
19And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.
20神の霊が祭司エホヤダの子ゼカリヤに臨み、彼は民の前に立って彼らに言った。「神はこう言われる。『なぜあなたがたは主の命令に背くのか。そのため、あなたがたは栄えない。あなたがたが主を捨てたので、主もあなたがたを捨てられたのだ。』」
20The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?
21しかし彼らはゼカリヤに対して陰謀を企て、王の命令によって、主の家の庭で彼を石で打ち殺した。
21And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king’s commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
22こうしてヨアシュ王は、ゼカリヤの父エホヤダが自分に示した恩を思い起こさず、その子を殺した。ゼカリヤは死ぬとき、「主がこれを顧みて、報いてくださるように」と言った。
22And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.
23その年の終わりに、アラムの軍隊が彼に向かって攻め上って来た。彼らはユダとエルサレムに来て、民の中からすべての君たちを滅ぼし、そのすべての分捕り品をダマスコの王に送った。
23And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.
24アラムの軍隊はわずかな人数で来たが、ユダが彼らの父祖の神、主を捨てていたため、主は非常に大きな軍隊をアラム人の手に渡された。こうして彼らはヨアシュにさばきを下した。
24And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments.
25彼らが彼を離れ去ったとき（彼らは彼を重病のまま残していった）、彼自身のしもべたちが祭司エホヤダの子らの血のゆえに彼に対して陰謀を企て、彼の寝台の上で彼を殺した。彼は死に、人々は彼をダビデの町に葬ったが、王たちの墓には葬らなかった。
25And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26彼に対して陰謀を企てた者は次のとおりである。アンモン人の女シムアテの子ザバドと、モアブ人の女シムリテの子エホザバドである。
26Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.
27彼の子らに関すること、彼に課せられた重い宣告、および神の家の再建については、見よ、王たちの書の註解書に記されている。彼の子アマツヤが代わって王となった。
27And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.
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