1 Kings 12
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel was coming to Shechem to make him king.
爰にレハベアム、シケムに往り其はイスラエル皆彼を王と爲んとてシケムに至りたればなり
2 It happened that Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of this (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), for Jeroboam had settled down in Egypt.
ネバテの子ヤラベアム尚エジブトに在て聞りヤラベアムはソロモン王の面をさけて逃さりエジプトに住居たるなり
3 So they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,
時に人衆人を遣はして彼を招けり斯てヤラベアムとイスラエルの會衆皆來りてレハベアムに告て言けるは
4 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now make lighter the hard work of your father and make lighter the heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”
汝の父我儕の軛を難くせり然ども爾今爾の父の難き役と爾の父の我儕に蒙らせたる重き軛を軽くせよ然ば我儕爾に事へん
5 Rehoboam said to them, “Go away for three days, then come back to me.” So the people went away.
レハベアム彼等に言けるは去て三日を經て再び我に來れと民乃ち去り
6 King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, and he said, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
レハベアム王其父ソロモンの生る間其前に立たる老人等と計りていひけるは爾等如何に敎へて此民に答へしむるや
7 They spoke to him and said, “If you will be a servant today to these people and serve them, and answer them by saying good words to them, then they will always be your servants.”
彼等レハベアムに告て言けるは爾若今日此民の僕となり之に事へて之に答へ善き言を之に語らば彼等永く爾の僕となるべしと
8 But Rehoboam ignored the advice that the old men had given him and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
然に彼老人の敎へし敎を棄て自己と倶に生長て己のまへに立つ少年等と計れり
9 He said to them, “What advice do you give me that we may answer the people who spoke to me and said, 'Lighten the yoke that your father put on us'?”
即ち彼等に言けるは爾等何を敎へて我儕をして此我に告て爾の父の我儕に蒙むらせし軛を軽くせよと言ふ民に答へしむるやと
10 The young men who had grown up with Rehoboam spoke to him, saying, “Speak to these people who told you that your father Solomon made their yoke heavy but that you must make it lighter. You should say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
彼と偕に生長たる少年彼に告ていひけるは爾に告て爾の父我儕の軛を重くしたれど爾これを我儕のために軽くせよと言たる此民に爾斯言ベし我が小指はわが父の腰よりも太し
11 So now, although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.'”
またわが父爾等に重き軛を負せたりしが我は更に爾等の軛を重くせん我父は鞭にて爾等を懲したれども我は蠍をもて爾等を懲んと爾斯彼等に告べしと
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had instructed when he said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
ヤラベアムと民皆王の告て第三日に再び我に來れと言しごとく第三日にレハベアムに詣りしに
13 The king answered the people roughly and ignored the advice of the old men that they had given him.
王荒々しく民に答へ老人の敎へし敎を棄て
14 He spoke to them following the advice of the young men; he said, “My father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.”
少年の敎の如く彼等に告て言けるは我父は爾等の軛を重くしたりしが我は更に爾等の軛を重くせん我父は鞭を以て爾等を懲したれども我は蠍をもて爾等を懲さんと
15 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events brought about by Yahweh, that he might carry out his word that he had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
王斯民に聽ざりき此事はヱホバより出たる者なり是はヱホバその甞てシロ人アヒヤに由てネバテの子ヤラベアムに告し言をおこなはんとて爲たまへるなり
16 When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered him and said, “What share do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse! Go to your tents, Israel. Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel went back to their tents.
かくイスラエル皆王の己に聽ざるを見たり是において民王に答へて言けるは我儕ダビデの中に何の分あらんやヱサイの子の中に產業なしイスラエルよ爾等の天幕に歸れダビデよ今爾の家を視よと而してイスラエルは其天幕に去りゆけり
17 But as for the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam became king over them.
然どもユダの諸邑に住るイスラエルの子孫の上にはレハベアム其王となれり
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, who was over the forced laborers, but all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam fled quickly in his chariot to Jerusalem.
レハベアム王徴募頭なるアドラムを遣はしけるにイスラエル皆石にて彼を撃て死しめたればレハベアム王急ぎて其車に登りエルサレムに逃たり
19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
斯イスラエル、ダビデの家に背きて今日にいたる
20 It happened that when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to their assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the family of David, except only the tribe of Judah.
爰にイスラエル皆ヤラベアムの歸りしを聞て人を遣して彼を集會に招き彼をイスラエルの全家の上に王と爲りユダの支派の外はダビデの家に從ふ者なし
21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin; there were 180,000 chosen men who were soldiers, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
ソロモンの子レハベアム、エルサレムに至りてユダの全家とベニヤミンの支派の者即ち壯年の武夫十八萬を集む斯してレハベアム國を己に皈さんがためにイスラエルの家と戰はんとせしが
22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God; it said,
神の言神の人シマヤに臨みて曰く
23 “Speak to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people; say,
ソロモンの子ユダの王レハベアムおよびユダとベニヤミンの全家並に其餘の民に告て言べし
24 'Yahweh says this: You must not attack or fight against your brothers the people of Israel. Each man must return to his home, for this thing has been made to happen by me.'” So they listened to the word of Yahweh and turned back and went their way, and they obeyed his word.
ヱホバ斯言ふ爾等上るべからず爾等の兄弟なるイスラエルの子孫と戰ふべからず各人其家に歸れ此事は我より出たるなりと彼等ヱホバの言を聽きヱホバの言に循ひて轉り去りぬ
25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived there. He went out from there and built Peniel.
ヤラベアムはエフライムの山地にシケムを建て其處に住み又其所より出てペヌエルを建たり
26 Jeroboam thought in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
爰にヤラベアム其心に謂けるは國は今ダビデの家に歸らん
27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then the heart of these people will turn again to their master, to Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
若此民エルサレムにあるヱホバの家に禮物を献げんとて上らば此民の心ユダの王なる其主レハベアムに歸りて我を殺しユダの王レハベアムに歸らんと
28 So King Jeroboam sought advice and made two calves of gold; he said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, these are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
是に於て王計議て二の金の犢を造り人々に言けるは爾らのエルサレムに上ること旣に足りイスラエルよ爾をエジブトの地より導き上りし汝の神を視よと
29 He set up one in Bethel and the other in Dan.
而して彼一をベテルに安ゑ一をダンに置り
30 So this act became a sin. The people went to one or the other, all the way to Dan.
此事罪となれりそは民ダンに迄往て其一の前に詣たればなり
31 Jeroboam made houses on high places and he also made priests from among all the people, who were not among the sons of Levi.
彼又崇邱の家を建てレビの子孫にあらざる凡民を祭司となせり
32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places he had made.
ヤラベアム八月に節期を定めたり即ち其月の十五日なりユダにある節期に等し而して壇の上に上りたりベテルにて彼斯爲し其作りたる犢に禮物を献げたり又彼其造りたる崇邱の祭司をベテルに立たり
33 Jeroboam went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month he had planned in his own mind; he ordained a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
かく彼其ベテルに造れる壇の上に八月の十五日に上れり是は彼が己の心より造り出したる月なり而してイスラエルの人々のために節期を定め壇の上にのぼりて香を焚り
