2 Chronicles 7
1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
ソロモンが祈り終ったとき、天から火が下って燔祭と犠牲を焼き、主の栄光が宮に満ちた。
2 The priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house.
主の栄光が主の宮に満ちたので、祭司たちは主の宮に、はいることができなかった。
3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever."
イスラエルの人々はみな火が下ったのを見、また主の栄光が宮に臨んだのを見て、敷石の上で地にひれ伏して拝し、主に感謝して言った、「主は恵みふかく、そのいつくしみはとこしえに絶えることがない」。
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
そして王と民は皆主の前に犠牲をささげた。
5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God's house.
ソロモン王のささげた犠牲は、牛二万二千頭、羊十二万頭であった。こうして王と民は皆神の宮をささげた。
6 The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, when David praised by their ministry, saying "For his loving kindness endures for ever." The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
祭司はその持ち場に立ち、レビびとも主の楽器をとって立った。その楽器はダビデ王が主に感謝するために造ったもので、ダビデが彼らの手によってさんびをささげるとき、「そのいつくしみは、とこしえに絶えることがない」ととなえさせたものである。祭司は彼らの前でラッパを吹き、すべてのイスラエルびとは立っていた。
7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat.
ソロモンはまた主の宮の前にある庭の中を聖別し、その所で、燔祭と酬恩祭のあぶらをささげた。これはソロモンが造った青銅の祭壇が、その燔祭と素祭とあぶらとを載せるに足りなかったからである。
8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.
その時ソロモンは七日の間祭を行った。ハマテの入口からエジプトの川に至るまでのすべてのイスラエルびとが彼と共にあり、非常に大きな会衆であった。
9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
そして八日目に聖会を開いた。彼らは七日の間、祭壇奉献の礼を行い、七日の間祭を行ったが、
10 On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
七月二十三日に至ってソロモンは民をその天幕に帰らせた。皆主がダビデ、ソロモンおよびその民イスラエルに施された恵みのために喜び、かつ心に楽しんで去った。
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house.
こうしてソロモンは主の家と王の家とを造り終えた。すなわち彼は主の家と自分の家について、しようと計画したすべての事を首尾よくなし遂げた。
12 The LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
時に主は夜ソロモンに現れて言われた、「わたしはあなたの祈を聞き、この所をわたしのために選んで、犠牲をささげる家とした。
13 If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among my people;
わたしが天を閉じて雨をなくし、またはわたしがいなごに命じて地の物を食わせ、または疫病を民の中に送るとき、
14 then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
わたしの名をもってとなえられるわたしの民が、もしへりくだり、祈って、わたしの顔を求め、その悪い道を離れるならば、わたしは天から聞いて、その罪をゆるし、その地をいやす。
15 Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
今この所にささげられる祈にわたしの目を開き、耳を傾ける。
16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
今わたしはわたしの名をながくここにとどめるために、この宮を選び、かつ聖別した。わたしの目とわたしの心は常にここにある。
17 As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
あなたがもし父ダビデの歩んだようにわたしの前に歩み、わたしが命じたとおりにすべて行って、わたしの定めとおきてとを守るならば、
18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.'
わたしはあなたの父ダビデに契約して『イスラエルを治める人はあなたに欠けることがない』と言ったとおりに、あなたの王の位を堅くする。
19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
しかし、あなたがたがもし翻って、わたしがあなたがたの前に置いた定めと戒めとを捨て、行って他の神々に仕え、それを拝むならば、
20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
わたしはあなたがたをわたしの与えた地から抜き去り、またわたしの名のために聖別したこの宮をわたしの前から投げ捨てて、もろもろの民のうちにことわざとし、笑い草とする。
21 And this house, which is exalted, will become a heap of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will say, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land, and to this house?'
またこの宮は高いけれども、ついには、そのかたわらを過ぎる者は皆驚いて、『何ゆえ主はこの地と、この宮とにこのようにされたのか』と言うであろう。
22 And they shall answer, 'Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all these disasters on them.'"
その時、人々は答えて『彼らはその先祖たちをエジプトの地から導き出した彼らの神、主を捨てて、他の神々につき従い、それを拝み、それに仕えたために、主はこのすべての災を彼らの上に下したのである』と言うであろう」。
