2 Chronicles 12
1 After Rehoboam was in complete control of his kingdom, he and all [the other people in] Judah stopped obeying the laws of Yahweh.
レハベアムはその国が堅く立ち、強くなるに及んで、主のおきてを捨てた。イスラエルも皆彼にならった。
2 As a result, after Rehoboam had been king for almost five years, Yahweh sent Shishak, the king of Egypt, [with his army] to attack Jerusalem.
彼らがこのように主に向かって罪を犯したので、レハベアム王の五年にエジプトの王シシャクがエルサレムに攻め上ってきた。
3 Along with his army he brought 1,200 chariots and 60,000 soldiers riding horses and a very large number of troops from two regions in Libya, and from Ethiopia.
その戦車は一千二百、騎兵は六万、また彼に従ってエジプトから来た民、すなわちリビアびと、スキびと、エチオピヤびとは無数であった。
4 They captured many of the cities in Judah that had walls around them, and they came as far as Jerusalem.
シシャクはユダの要害の町々を取り、エルサレムに迫って来た。
5 Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the other leaders of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because they were afraid of [the army of] Shishak. Shemaiah said to them, “Yahweh says this: ‘You have abandoned me; so now I am abandoning you, to [allow you to be captured by the army of] Shishak.’”
そこで預言者シマヤは、レハベアムおよびシシャクのゆえに、エルサレムに集まったユダのつかさたちのもとにきて言った、「主はこう仰せられる、『あなたがたはわたしを捨てたので、わたしもあなたがたを捨ててシシャクにわたした』と」。
6 Then the king and the other Israeli leaders humbled themselves and said, “What Yahweh is doing to us is fair.”
そこでイスラエルのつかさたち、および王はへりくだって、「主は正しい」と言った。
7 When Yahweh realized that they had humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not allow them to be destroyed. Instead, I will soon rescue them. I will not use Shishak’s army to completely destroy the people of Jerusalem,
主は彼らのへりくだるのを見られたので、主の言葉がシマヤにのぞんで言った、「彼らがへりくだったから、わたしは彼らを滅ぼさないで、間もなく救を施す。わたしはシシャクの手によって、怒りをエルサレムに注ぐことをしない。
8 but they will conquer Jerusalem and force the people there to do what Shishak wants them to do. As a result, the people of Jerusalem will learn [that it is better] to serve me than to serve the kings of other countries.”
しかし彼らはシシャクのしもべになる。これは彼らがわたしに仕えることと、国々の王たちに仕えることとの相違を知るためである」。
9 When Shishak’s [army] attacked Jerusalem, they took/carried away the valuable things that were in the temple of Yahweh and the valuable things that were in the king’s palace. They took everything [that was valuable], including the gold shields that Solomon’s [workers] had made.
エジプトの王シシャクはエルサレムに攻めのぼって、主の宮の宝物と、王の家の宝物とを奪い去った。すなわちそれらをことごとく奪い去り、またソロモンの造った金の盾をも奪い去った。
10 So King Rehoboam’s workers made bronze shields to be used instead of the gold ones and gave the bronze shields to the commanders of the men who guarded the entrance to his palace.
それでレハベアム王は、その代りに青銅の盾を造って、王の家の門を守る侍衛長たちの手に渡した。
11 After that, whenever the king went to the temple, the guards went with him, carrying those bronze shields. Then [when the king left, ] they would return the shields to the guards’ room.
王が主の宮にはいるごとに侍衛は来て、これを負い、またこれを侍衛のへやへ持って帰った。
12 Because Rehoboam humbled himself, Yahweh stopped being angry with him and did not get rid of him. Instead, he caused good things to happen in Judah.
レハベアムがへりくだったので主の怒りは彼を離れ、彼をことごとく滅ぼそうとはされなかった。またユダの事情もよくなった。
13 King Rehoboam again was in complete control in Jerusalem and continued to be the king [of Judah]. He was 41 years old when he became the king. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes in Israel to be the place in which people were to worship him.
レハベアム王はエルサレムで自分の地位を確立し、世を治めた。すなわちレハベアムは四十一歳のとき位につき、十七年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。エルサレムは主がその名を置くためにイスラエルのすべての部族のうちから選ばれた町である。彼の母はアンモンの女で、名をナアマといった。
14 Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people-group. Rehoboam did evil things because he did not try to find out what Yahweh wanted him to do.
レハベアムは主を求めることに心を傾けないで、悪い事を行った。
15 An account of all the things that Rehoboam did while he was the king, and lists of the members of his family, are in the scrolls written by the prophets Shemaiah and Iddo. The armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly fighting each other.
レハベアムの始終の行為は、預言者シマヤおよび先見者イドの書にしるされているではないか。レハベアムとヤラベアムとの間には絶えず戦争があった。
16 When Rehoboam died, he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then his son Abijah became the king.
レハベアムはその先祖たちと共に眠って、ダビデの町に葬られ、その子アビヤが彼に代って王となった。
