2 Chronicles 5
1 After Solomon’s workers had finished building the temple, Solomon put in the temple storage rooms everything that his father David had dedicated to Yahweh—all the silver and gold and all the other things that were used at the temple.
斯ソロモンがヱホバの家のために爲る一切の工事をはれり是においてソロモンその父ダビデが奉納たる物なる金銀および諸の器皿を携へいりて神の家の府庫の中に置り
2 Then King Solomon summoned to Jerusalem all the elders of Israel, all the leaders of the tribes and of the families/clans. He wanted them to help to bring to the temple Yahweh’s Sacred Chest from Zion [Hill], where it was in [the part of the city called] ‘The City of David’.
茲にソロモン、ヱホバの契約の櫃をダビデの邑シオンより舁のぼらんとてイスラエルの長老者と諸の支派の長等イスラエルの子孫の宗家の長をヱルサレムに召集めければ
3 So all the leaders of Israel gathered together along with the king, during the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters, in October.
イスラエルの人みな七月の節筵に當りて王の所に集まり
4 When they had all arrived, the descendants of Levi lifted up the Sacred Chest,
イスラエルの長老等みな至りレビ人契約の櫃を執あげ
5 and they carried it and the Sacred Tent and the sacred things that were inside it. The priests, who were also descended from Levi, carried them.
その契約の櫃と集會の幕屋と幕屋にありし諸の聖器を舁のぼれり即ち祭司レビ人これを舁のぼりぬ
6 King Solomon and many of the other people of Israel who had gathered there walked in front of the Sacred Chest. And they sacrificed a huge amount of sheep and cattle. No one was able to count them [because there were very many].
時にソロモン王および彼の許に集まれるイスラエルの會衆契約の櫃の前にありて羊と牛を献げたりしがその數多くして書すことも數ふることも能はざりき
7 The priests then brought the Sacred Chest into the Most Holy Place, the inner room of the temple, and they placed it under the wings of the statues of winged creatures.
かくて祭司等ヱホバの契約の櫃をその處に舁いれたり即ち室の神殿なる至聖所の中のケルビムの翼の下に舁いりぬ
8 The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.
ケルビムは翼を契約の櫃の所の上に舒べケルビム上より契約の櫃とその杠を掩ふ
9 The poles were very long, with the result that they could be seen by [those who were standing] at the entrance to the Most Holy Place, but they could not be seen by anyone standing outside the temple. Those poles are still there.
杠長かりければ杠の末は神殿の前の契約の櫃より見えたり然れども外には見えざりき其は今日まで彼處にあり
10 The only things that were inside the Sacred Chest were the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Sinai Mountain, where Yahweh made an agreement with the Israeli people after they came out of Egypt.
契約の櫃の内には二枚の板の外何もあらず是はイスラエルの子孫のエジプトより出たる時ヱホバが彼らと契約を結びたまへる時にモーセがホレブにて蔵めたる者なり
11 Then the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests who were there, from every group, had performed the rituals to cause them to be acceptable to God.
斯て祭司等は聖所より出たり此にありし祭司はみな身を潔めその班列によらずして職務をなせり
12 All the descendants of Levi who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons and their other relatives—stood on the east side of the altar. They were wearing linen clothes, and they were playing cymbals, harps, and lyres. There were 120 other priests who were blowing trumpets.
またレビ人の謳歌者すなはちアサフ、ヘマン、ヱドトン及び彼らの子等と兄弟等はみな細布を纒ひ鐃鈸と瑟と琴とを操て壇の東に立りまた祭司百二十人彼らとともにありて喇叭を吹り
13 The men blowing trumpets, those playing the cymbals and other musical instruments, and the singers, made music together, praising Yahweh and singing this song: “Yahweh is good [to us]; he faithfully loves us forever.” Then [suddenly] the temple was filled with a cloud.
喇叭を吹く者と謳歌者とは一人のごとくに聲を斉うしてヱホバを讃かつ頌へたりしが彼ら喇叭鐃鈸等の樂器をもちて聲をふりたて善かなヱホバその矜憫は世々限なしと言てヱホバを讃ける時に雲その室すなはちヱホバの室に充り
14 The glorious radiance of Yahweh filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue doing their work.
祭司は雲の故をもて立て奉事をなすことを得ざりきヱホバの榮光神の室に充たればなり
