2 Chronicles 32
1 After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
ヒゼキヤが此等の事を行ひ且つ忠實なりし後アツスリヤの王セナケリブ來りてユダに入り堅固なる邑々にむかひて陣を張り之を攻取んとす
2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to make war against Jerusalem,
ヒゼキヤ、セナケリブの旣に來りヱルサレムに攻むかはんとするを見
3 he consulted with his leaders and commanders about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.
その牧伯等および勇士等と謀りて邑の外なる一切の泉水を塞がんとす彼等これを助く
4 Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
衆多の民あつまりて一切の泉水および國の中を流れわたる渓河を塞ぎていひけるはアツスリヤの王等來りて水を多く得ば豈で可らんやと
5 Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.
ヒゼキヤまた力を強くし破れたる石垣をことごとく建なほして之を戌樓まで築き上げその外にまた石垣をめぐらしダビデの邑のミロを堅くし戈盾を多く造り
6 Hezekiah appointed military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them, saying,
軍長を多く民の上に立て邑の門の廣場に民を集めてこれを努ひて言ふ
7 “Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged before the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater One with us than with him.
汝ら心を強くし且勇めアツスリヤの王のためにも彼とともなる群衆のためにも懼るる勿れ慄く勿れ我らとともなる者は彼とともになる者よりも多きぞかし
8 With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
彼とともなる者は肉の腕なり然れども我らとともなる者は我らの神ヱホバにして我らを助け我らに代りて戰かひたまふべしと民はユダの王ヒゼキヤの言に安んず
9 Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:
此後アツスリヤの王セナケリブその全軍をもてラキシを攻圍み居りて臣僕をヱルサレムに遣はしてユダの王ヒゼキヤおよびヱルサレムにをる一切のユダ人に告しめて云く
10 “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
アツスリヤの王セナケリブかく言ふ汝ら何を恃みてヱルサレムに閉籠りをるや
11 Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
ヒゼキヤ我らの神ヱホバ、アツスリヤの王の手より我らを救ひ出したまはんと言て汝らを浚かし汝らをして饑渇て死しめんとするに非ずや
12 Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
此ヒゼキヤはすなはちヱホバの諸の崇邱と祭壇を取のぞきユダとヱルサレムとに命じて汝らは唯一の壇の前にて崇拝を爲しその上に香を焚べしと言し者にあらずや
13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?
汝らは我およびわが先祖等が諸の國の民に爲したる所を知ざるか其等の國々の民の神少許にてもその國をわが手より救ひ取ることを得しや
14 Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
わが先祖等の滅ぼし盡せし國民の諸の神の中誰か己の民をわが手より救ひ出すことを得し者あらんや然れば汝らの神いかでか汝らをわが手より救ひいだすことを得ん
15 So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
然れば斯ヒゼキヤに欺かるる勿れ浚かさるる勿れまた彼を信ずる勿れ何の民何の國の神もその民を我手または我父祖の手より救ひ出すことを得ざりしなれば况て汝らの神いかでか我手より汝らを救ひ出すことを得んと
16 And the servants of Sennacherib spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
セナケリブの臣僕等この外にも多くヱホバ神およびその僕ヒゼキヤを誹れり
17 He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
セナケリブまた書をかきおくりてイスラエルの神ヱホバを嘲りかつ誹り諸國の民の神々その民をわが手より救ひいださざりし如くヒゼキヤの神もその民をわが手より救ひ出さじと云ふ
18 Then the Assyrians called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order to capture the city.
彼ら遂に大聲を擧げユダヤ語をもて石垣の上なるヱルサレムの民に語ひ之を威しかつ擾せり是は邑を取んとてなり
19 They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
斯かれらはヱルサレムの神を論ずること人の手の作なる地上の民の神々を論ずるがごとくせり
20 In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer,
是によりてヒゼキヤ王およびアモツの子預言者イザヤともに祈祷て天に呼はりければ
21 and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
ヱホバ天の使一箇を遣はしてアツスリヤ王の陣營にある一切の大勇士および將官軍長等を絶しめたまへり斯りしかば王面を赧らめて己の國に還りけるがその神の家にいりし時其身より出たる者等劍をもて之を其處に弑せり
22 So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all the others, and He gave them rest on every side.
是のごとくヱホバ、ヒゼキヤとヱルサレムの民をアツスリヤの王セナケリブの手および諸人の手より救ひいだし四方において之を守護たまへり
23 Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.
是において衆多の人献納物をヱルサレムに携へきたりてヱホバに奉りまた財寳をユダの王ヒゼキヤに餽れり此後ヒゼキヤは萬國の民に尊び見らる
24 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.
當時ヒゼキヤ病て死んとせしがヱホバに祈りければヱホバこれに告をなし之に休徴を賜へり
25 But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
然るにヒゼキヤその蒙むりし恩に酬ゆることをせずして心に高ぶりければ震怒これに臨まんとしまたユダとヱルサレムに臨まんとせしが
26 Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
ヒゼキヤその心に高慢を悔て身を卑くしヱルサレムの民も同じく然なしたるに因てヒゼキヤの世にはヱホバの震怒かれらに臨まざりき
27 Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made treasuries for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuable articles.
ヒゼキヤは富と貴を極め府庫を造りて金銀寶石香物楯および各種の寶貴き器物を蔵め
28 He also made storehouses for the harvest of grain and new wine and oil, stalls for all kinds of livestock, and pens for the flocks.
また倉廩を造りて穀物酒油などの產物を蔵め圈を造りて種々の家畜を置き牢を造りて羊の群を置き
29 He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him very great wealth.
また許多の邑を設けかつ牛羊を夥多しく有り是は神貨財を甚だ多くこれに賜ひしが故なり
30 It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
このヒゼキヤまたギホンの水の上の源を塞ぎてこれを下より眞直にダビデの邑の西の方に引り斯ヒゼキヤはその一切の工を善なし就たり
31 And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
但しバビロンの君等が使者を遣はしてこの國にありし奇蹟を問しめたる時には神かれを棄おきたまへり是その心に有ところの事を盡く知んがために之を試みたまへるなり
32 As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion, they are indeed written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
ヒゼキヤのその餘の行爲およびその徳行はユダとイスラエルの列王紀の書の中なるアモツの子預言者イザヤの默示の中に記さる
33 And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
ヒゼキヤその先祖等と偕に寝りたればダビデの子孫の墓の中なる高き處にこれを葬りユダの人々およびヱルサレムの民みな厚くその死を送れり其子マナセこれに代りて王となる
