1 Kings 12
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
爰にレハベアム、シケムに往り其はイスラエル皆彼を王と爲んとてシケムに至りたればなり
2 And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
ネバテの子ヤラベアム尚エジブトに在て聞りヤラベアムはソロモン王の面をさけて逃さりエジプトに住居たるなり
3 And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
時に人衆人を遣はして彼を招けり斯てヤラベアムとイスラエルの會衆皆來りてレハベアムに告て言けるは
4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
汝の父我儕の軛を難くせり然ども爾今爾の父の難き役と爾の父の我儕に蒙らせたる重き軛を軽くせよ然ば我儕爾に事へん
5 And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
レハベアム彼等に言けるは去て三日を經て再び我に來れと民乃ち去り
6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?
レハベアム王其父ソロモンの生る間其前に立たる老人等と計りていひけるは爾等如何に敎へて此民に答へしむるや
7 And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.
彼等レハベアムに告て言けるは爾若今日此民の僕となり之に事へて之に答へ善き言を之に語らば彼等永く爾の僕となるべしと
8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:
然に彼老人の敎へし敎を棄て自己と倶に生長て己のまへに立つ少年等と計れり
9 And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?
即ち彼等に言けるは爾等何を敎へて我儕をして此我に告て爾の父の我儕に蒙むらせし軛を軽くせよと言ふ民に答へしむるやと
10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
彼と偕に生長たる少年彼に告ていひけるは爾に告て爾の父我儕の軛を重くしたれど爾これを我儕のために軽くせよと言たる此民に爾斯言ベし我が小指はわが父の腰よりも太し
11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
またわが父爾等に重き軛を負せたりしが我は更に爾等の軛を重くせん我父は鞭にて爾等を懲したれども我は蠍をもて爾等を懲んと爾斯彼等に告べしと
12 So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.
ヤラベアムと民皆王の告て第三日に再び我に來れと言しごとく第三日にレハベアムに詣りしに
13 And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;
王荒々しく民に答へ老人の敎へし敎を棄て
14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
少年の敎の如く彼等に告て言けるは我父は爾等の軛を重くしたりしが我は更に爾等の軛を重くせん我父は鞭を以て爾等を懲したれども我は蠍をもて爾等を懲さんと
15 So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
王斯民に聽ざりき此事はヱホバより出たる者なり是はヱホバその甞てシロ人アヒヤに由てネバテの子ヤラベアムに告し言をおこなはんとて爲たまへるなり
16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.
かくイスラエル皆王の己に聽ざるを見たり是において民王に答へて言けるは我儕ダビデの中に何の分あらんやヱサイの子の中に產業なしイスラエルよ爾等の天幕に歸れダビデよ今爾の家を視よと而してイスラエルは其天幕に去りゆけり
17 (But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)
然どもユダの諸邑に住るイスラエルの子孫の上にはレハベアム其王となれり
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.
レハベアム王徴募頭なるアドラムを遣はしけるにイスラエル皆石にて彼を撃て死しめたればレハベアム王急ぎて其車に登りエルサレムに逃たり
19 So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.
斯イスラエル、ダビデの家に背きて今日にいたる
20 Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.
爰にイスラエル皆ヤラベアムの歸りしを聞て人を遣して彼を集會に招き彼をイスラエルの全家の上に王と爲りユダの支派の外はダビデの家に從ふ者なし
21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.
ソロモンの子レハベアム、エルサレムに至りてユダの全家とベニヤミンの支派の者即ち壯年の武夫十八萬を集む斯してレハベアム國を己に皈さんがためにイスラエルの家と戰はんとせしが
22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,
神の言神の人シマヤに臨みて曰く
23 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:
ソロモンの子ユダの王レハベアムおよびユダとベニヤミンの全家並に其餘の民に告て言べし
24 The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers, the children of Israel; go back, every man to his house, because this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the word of the Lord, and went back, as the Lord had said.
ヱホバ斯言ふ爾等上るべからず爾等の兄弟なるイスラエルの子孫と戰ふべからず各人其家に歸れ此事は我より出たるなりと彼等ヱホバの言を聽きヱホバの言に循ひて轉り去りぬ
25 Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.
ヤラベアムはエフライムの山地にシケムを建て其處に住み又其所より出てペヌエルを建たり
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:
爰にヤラベアム其心に謂けるは國は今ダビデの家に歸らん
27 If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.
若此民エルサレムにあるヱホバの家に禮物を献げんとて上らば此民の心ユダの王なる其主レハベアムに歸りて我を殺しユダの王レハベアムに歸らんと
28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
是に於て王計議て二の金の犢を造り人々に言けるは爾らのエルサレムに上ること旣に足りイスラエルよ爾をエジブトの地より導き上りし汝の神を視よと
29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.
而して彼一をベテルに安ゑ一をダンに置り
30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.
此事罪となれりそは民ダンに迄往て其一の前に詣たればなり
31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.
彼又崇邱の家を建てレビの子孫にあらざる凡民を祭司となせり
32 And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.
ヤラベアム八月に節期を定めたり即ち其月の十五日なりユダにある節期に等し而して壇の上に上りたりベテルにて彼斯爲し其作りたる犢に禮物を献げたり又彼其造りたる崇邱の祭司をベテルに立たり
33 He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.
かく彼其ベテルに造れる壇の上に八月の十五日に上れり是は彼が己の心より造り出したる月なり而してイスラエルの人々のために節期を定め壇の上にのぼりて香を焚り
