2 Chronicles 27

1 Jotham [is] a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he has reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

ヨタムは王となった時二十五歳で、十六年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。その母はザドクの娘で名をエルシャといった。

2 And he does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his father Uzziah did; only, he has not come into the temple of YHWH; and again the people are doing corruptly.

ヨタムはその父ウジヤがしたように主の良しと見られることをした。しかし主の宮には、はいらなかった。民はなお悪を行った。

3 He has built the Upper Gate of the house of YHWH, and in the wall of Ophel he has built abundantly;

彼は主の宮の上の門を建て、オペルの石がきを多く築き増し、

4 and he has built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and he has built palaces and towers in the forests.

またユダの山地に数個の町を建て、林の間に城とやぐらを築いた。

5 And he has fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevails over them, and the sons of Ammon give to him in that year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley; the sons of Ammon have returned this to him both in the second year and in the third.

彼はアンモンびとの王と戦ってこれに勝った。その年アンモンの人々は銀百タラント、小麦一万コル、大麦一万コルを彼に贈った。アンモンの人々は第二年にも第三年にも同じように彼に納めた。

6 And Jotham strengthens himself, for he has prepared his ways before his God YHWH.

ヨタムはその神、主の前にその行いを堅くしたので力ある者となった。

7 And the rest of the matters of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, behold, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.

ヨタムのその他の行為、そのすべての戦いおよびその行いなどは、イスラエルとユダの列王の書にしるされている。

8 He was a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he has reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem;

彼は王となった時、二十五歳で、十六年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。

9 and Jotham lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the City of David, and his son Ahaz reigns in his stead.

ヨタムはその先祖と共に眠ったので、ダビデの町に葬られ、その子アハズが彼に代って王となった。