2 Kings 16
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.
レマリヤの子ペカの第十七年にユダの王ヨタムの子アハズが王となった。
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
アハズは王となった時二十歳で、エルサレムで十六年の間、世を治めたが、その神、主の目にかなう事を先祖ダビデのようには行わなかった。
3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
彼はイスラエルの王たちの道に歩み、また主がイスラエルの人々の前から追い払われた異邦人の憎むべきおこないにしたがって、自分の子を火に焼いてささげ物とした。
4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
かつ彼は高き所、また丘の上、すべての青木の下で犠牲をささげ、香をたいた。
5 Then Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him.
そのころ、スリヤの王レヂンおよびレマリヤの子であるイスラエルの王ペカがエルサレムに攻め上って、アハズを囲んだが、勝つことができなかった。
6 At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.
その時エドムの王はエラテを回復してエドムの所領とし、ユダの人々をエラテから追い出した。そしてエドムびとがエラテにきて、そこに住み、今日に至っている。
7 So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.
そこでアハズは使者をアッスリヤの王テグラテピレセルにつかわして言わせた、「わたしはあなたのしもべ、あなたの子です。スリヤの王とイスラエルの王がわたしを攻め囲んでいます。どうぞ上ってきて、彼らの手からわたしを救い出してください」。
8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.
そしてアハズは主の宮と王の家の倉にある金と銀をとり、これを贈り物としてアッスリヤの王におくったので、
9 And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
アッスリヤの王は彼の願いを聞きいれた。すなわちアッスリヤの王はダマスコに攻め上って、これを取り、その民をキルに捕え移し、またレヂンを殺した。
10 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.
アハズ王はアッスリヤの王テグラテピレセルに会おうとダマスコへ行ったが、ダマスコにある祭壇を見たので、アハズ王はその祭壇の作りにしたがって、その詳しい図面と、ひな型とを作って、祭司ウリヤに送った。
11 And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
そこで祭司ウリヤはアハズ王がダマスコから送ったものにしたがって祭壇を建てた。すなわち祭司ウリヤはアハズ王がダマスコから帰るまでにそのとおりに作った。
12 And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.
王はダマスコから帰ってきて、その祭壇を見、祭壇に近づいてその上に登り、
13 He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.
燔祭と素祭を焼き、灌祭を注ぎ、酬恩祭の血を祭壇にそそぎかけた。
14 And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.
彼はまた主の前にあった青銅の祭壇を宮の前から移した。すなわちそれを新しい祭壇と主の宮の間から移して、新しい祭壇の北の方にすえた。
15 And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.
そしてアハズ王は祭司ウリヤに命じて言った、「朝の燔祭と夕の素祭および王の燔祭とその素祭、ならびに国中の民の燔祭とその素祭および灌祭は、この大きな祭壇の上で焼きなさい。また燔祭の血と犠牲の血はすべてこれにそそぎかけなさい。あの青銅の祭壇をわたしは伺いを立てるのに用いよう」。
16 So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said
祭司ウリヤはアハズ王がすべて命じたとおりにおこなった。
17 And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.
またアハズ王は台の鏡板を切り取って、洗盤をその上から移し、また海をその下にある青銅の牛の上からおろして、石の座の上にすえ、
18 the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.
また宮のうちに造られていた安息日用のおおいのある道、および王の用いる外の入口をアッスリヤの王のために主の宮から除いた。
19 Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
アハズのその他の事績は、ユダの王の歴代志の書にしるされているではないか。
20 And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.
アハズは先祖たちと共に眠って、ダビデの町にその先祖たちと共に葬られ、その子ヒゼキヤが代って王となった。
