Chronicles II 36
1 And the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king over Jerusalem in the room of his father.
国の民はヨシヤの子エホアハズを立て、エルサレムでその父に代って王とならせた。
2 Joachaz [was] twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Amital, daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. And Pharao Nechao bound him in Deblatha in the land of Aemath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem.
エホアハズは王となった時二十三歳で、エルサレムで三月の間、世を治めたが、
3 And the king brought him over to Egypt; and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
エジプトの王はエルサレムで彼を廃し、かつ銀百タラント、金一タラントの罰金を国に課した。
4 And Pharao Nechao made Eliakim the son of Josias king over Juda in the room of his father Josias, and changed his name [to] Joakim. And Pharao Nechao took his brother Joachaz and brought him into Egypt, and he died there: but [he] had given the silver and gold to Pharao. At that time the land began to be taxed to give the money at the command of Pharao; and every one as he could borrowed the silver and the gold of the people of the land, to give to Pharao Nechao.
そしてエジプト王は彼の兄弟エリアキムをユダとエルサレムの王とし、その名をエホヤキムと改め、その兄弟エホアハズを捕えてエジプトへ引いて行った。
5 Joachim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
エホヤキムは王となった時二十五歳で、十一年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。彼はその神、主の前に悪を行った。
6 And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon.
時に、バビロンの王ネブカデネザルが彼の所に攻め上り、彼をバビロンに引いて行こうとして、かせにつないだ。
7 And he carried away a part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon.
ネブカデネザルはまた主の宮の器物をバビロンに運んで行って、バビロンにあるその宮殿にそれをおさめた。
8 And the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, behold, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in Ganozae: and Jechonias his son reigned in his stead.
エホヤキムのその他の行為、その行った憎むべき事および彼がひそかに行った事などは、イスラエルとユダの列王の書にしるされている。その子エホヤキンが彼に代って王となった。
9 Jechonias [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
エホヤキンは王となった時八歳で、エルサレムで三月と十日の間、世を治め、主の前に悪を行った。
10 And at the turn of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Sedekias his father's brother king over Juda and Jerusalem.
年が改まり春になって、ネブカデネザル王は人をつかわして、彼を主の宮の尊い器物と共にバビロンに連れて行かせ、その兄弟ゼデキヤをユダとエルサレムの王とした。
11 Sedekias [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and be reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
ゼデキヤは王となった時二十一歳で、十一年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。
12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God: he was not ashamed before the prophet Jeremias, nor because of the word of the Lord;
彼はその神、主の前に悪を行い、主の言葉を伝える預言者エレミヤの前に、身をひくくしなかった。
13 in that he rebelled against king Nabuchodonosor, which he adjured him by God [not to do]: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.
彼はまた、彼に神をさして誓わせたネブカデネザル王にもそむいた。彼は強情で、その心をかたくなにして、イスラエルの神、主に立ち返らなかった。
14 And all the great men of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land transgressed abundantly in the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which [was] in Jerusalem.
祭司のかしらたちおよび民らもまた、すべて異邦人のもろもろの憎むべき行為にならって、はなはだしく罪を犯し、主がエルサレムに聖別しておかれた主の宮を汚した。
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent by the hand of his prophets; rising early and sending his messengers, for he spared his people, and his sanctuary.
その先祖の神、主はその民と、すみかをあわれむがゆえに、しきりに、その使者を彼らにつかわされたが、
16 Nevertheless they sneered at his messengers, and set at nothing his words, and mocked his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people, till there was no remedy.
彼らが神の使者たちをあざけり、その言葉を軽んじ、その預言者たちをののしったので、主の怒りがその民に向かって起り、ついに救うことができないようになった。
17 And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and killed their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands.
そこで主はカルデヤびとの王を彼らに攻めこさせられたので、彼はその聖所の家でつるぎをもって若者たちを殺し、若者をも、処女をも、老人をも、しらがの者をもあわれまなかった。主は彼らをことごとく彼の手に渡された。
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and all the treasures of the king and the great men; he brought all to Babylon.
彼は神の宮のもろもろの大小の器物、主の宮の貨財、王とそのつかさたちの貨財など、すべてこれをバビロンに携えて行き、
19 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt its palaces with fire, and [utterly destroyed] every beautiful vessel.
神の宮を焼き、エルサレムの城壁をくずし、そのうちの宮殿をことごとく火で焼き、そのうちの尊い器物をことごとくこわした。
20 And he carried away the remnant to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until [the establishment of] the kingdom of the Medes.
彼はまたつるぎをのがれた者どもを、バビロンに捕えて行って、彼とその子らの家来となし、ペルシャの国の興るまで、そうして置いた。
21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, until the land should enjoy its sabbaths in resting [and] sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.
これはエレミヤの口によって伝えられた主の言葉の成就するためであった。こうして国はついにその安息をうけた。すなわちこれはその荒れている間、安息して、ついに七十年が満ちた。
22 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, after the fulfillment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and told him to make proclamation in writing throughout all his kingdom, saying,
ペルシャ王クロスの元年に当り、主はエレミヤの口によって伝えた主の言葉を成就するため、ペルシャ王クロスの霊を感動されたので、王はあまねく国中にふれ示し、またそれを書き示して言った、
23 Thus says Cyrus king of the Persians to all the kingdoms of the earth, The Lord God of heaven has given me [power], and he has commanded me to build a house to him in Jerusalem, in Judea. Who [is there] of you of all his people? His God shall be with him, and let him go up.
「ペルシャの王クロスはこう言う、『天の神、主は地上の国々をことごとくわたしに賜わって、主の宮をユダにあるエルサレムに建てることをわたしに命じられた。あなたがたのうち、その民である者は皆、その神、主の助けを得て上って行きなさい』」。
