列王記Ⅰ 12

1 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

Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

2 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

And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt), he came straight to his own city in the land of Zererah in the hill country of Ephraim.

3 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

And they sent and called for him. And Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

4 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

"Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you."

5 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

He said to them, "Depart for three days, then come back to me." The people departed.

6 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

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?"

7 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

They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."

8 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

But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

9 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

He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?'"

10 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

The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

11 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

Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'"

12 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

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day."

13 王荒々しく民に答へ老人の敎へし敎を棄て

The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

14 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

and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."

15 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

So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of the LORD, that he might establish his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

16 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

When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel. Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

17 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

But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

18 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

Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

19 斯イスラエル、ダビデの家に背きて今日にいたる

So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

20 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

It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

21 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

When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

22 神の言神の人シマヤに臨みて曰く

But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

23 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

"Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

24 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

'Thus says the LORD, "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is of me."'" So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way, according to the word of the LORD.

25 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

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

26 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

Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

27 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

If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah."

28 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

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

29 而して彼一をベテルに安ゑ一をダンに置り

He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

30 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

Then this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one as far as Dan.

31 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

And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

32 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

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 in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

33 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

He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.