歴代誌Ⅱ 20
1 この後モアブの子孫アンモンの子孫およびマオニ人等ヨシヤパテと戰はんとて攻きたれり
And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 時に或人きたりてヨシヤパテに告て云ふ海の彼旁スリアより大衆汝に攻きたる視よ今ハザゾンタマルにありとハザゾンタマルはすなはちエンゲデなり
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying: 'There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea from Aram; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar' — the same is En-gedi.
3 是においてヨシヤパテ懼れ面をヱホバに向てその助を求めユダ全國に斷食を布令しめたれば
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto the LORD; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4 ユダ擧て集りヱホバの助を求めたり即ちユダの一切の邑より人々きたりてヱホバを求む
And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
5 時にヨシヤパテ、ヱホバの室の新しき庭の前においてユダとヱルサレムの會衆の中に立ち
And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court;
6 言けるは我らの先祖の神ヱホバよ汝は天の神にましますに非ずや異邦人の諸國を統たまふに非ずや汝の手には能力あり權勢ありて誰もなんぢを禦ぐこと能はざるに非ずや
and he said: 'O LORD, the God of our fathers, art not Thou alone God in heaven? and art not Thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in Thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee.
7 我らの神よ汝は此國の民を汝の民イスラエルの前より逐はらひて汝の友アブラハムの子孫に之を永く與へたまひしに非ずや
Didst not Thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever?
8 彼らは此に住み汝の名のために此に聖所を建て言へり
And they dwelt therein, and have built Thee a sanctuary therein for Thy name, saying:
9 刑罰の劍疫病饑饉などの災禍われらに臨まん時は我らこの家の前に立て汝の前にをりその苦難の中にて汝に呼號らんしかして汝聽て助けたまはん汝の名はこの家にあればなりと
If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before Thee — for Thy name is in this house — and cry unto Thee in our affliction, and Thou wilt hear and save.
10 今アンモン、モアブおよびセイル山の子孫を視たまへ在昔イスラエル、エジプトの國より出きたれる時汝イスラエルに是等を侵さしめたまはざりしかば之を離れさりて滅ぼさざりしなり
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not;
11 かれらが我らに報ゆる所を視たまへ彼らは汝がわれらに有たしめたまへる汝の產業より我らを逐はらはんとす
behold, they render unto us evil, to come to cast us out of Thy possession, which Thou hast given us to inherit.
12 我らの神よ汝かれらを鞫きたまはざるや我らは此斯く攻よせたる此の大衆に當る能力なく又爲ところを知ず唯汝を仰ぎ望むのみと
O our God, wilt Thou not execute judgment on them? for we have no might against this great multitude that cometh against us; neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon Thee.'
13 ユダの人々はその小者および妻子とともに皆ヱホバの前に立をれり
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
14 時に會衆の中にてヱホバの霊アサフの子孫たるレビ人ヤハジエルに臨めりヤハジエルはゼカリヤの子ゼカリヤはベナヤの子ベナヤはヱイエルの子ヱイエルはマツタニヤの子なり
Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, came the spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
15 ヤハジエルすなはち言けるはユダの人衆およびヱルサレムの居民ならびにヨシヤパテ王よ聽べしヱホバかく汝らに言たまふ此大衆のために懼るる勿れ慄くなかれ汝らの戰に非ずヱホバの戰なればなり
and he said: 'Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat: thus saith the LORD unto you: Fear not ye, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
16 なんぢら明日彼らの所に攻くだれ彼らはヂヅの坡より上り來る汝らヱルエルの野の前なる谷の口にて之に遇ん
To-morrow go ye down against them; behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
17 この戰爭には汝ら戰ふにおよばずユダおよびヱルサレムよ汝ら惟進みいでて立ち汝らとともに在すヱホバの拯救を見よ懼る勿れ慄くなかれ明日彼らの所に攻いでよヱホバ汝らとともに在せばなりと
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem; fear not, nor be dismayed; to-morrow go out against them; for the LORD is with you.'
18 是においてヨシヤパテ首をさげて地に俯伏りユダの人衆およびヱルサレムの民もヱホバの前に伏てヱホバを拝す
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
19 時にコハテの子孫およびコラの子孫たるレビ人立あがり聲を高くあげてイスラエルの神ヱホバを讃美せり
And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
20 かくて皆朝はやく起てテコアの野に出ゆけり其いづるに當りてヨシヤパテ立て言けるはユダの人衆およびヱルサレムの民よ我に聽け汝らの神ヱホバを信ぜよ然ば汝ら堅くあらんその預言者を信ぜよ然ば汝ら利あらん
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said: 'Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.'
21 彼また民と議りて人々を選び之をして聖き飾を著て軍勢の前に進ましめヱホバにむかひて歌をうたひ且これを讃美せしめヱホバに感謝せよ其恩惠は世々かぎりなしと言しむ
And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed them that should sing unto the LORD, and praise in the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and say: 'Give thanks unto the LORD, for His mercy endureth for ever.'
22 その歌を歌ひ讃美をなし始むるに當りてヱホバ伏兵を設けかのユダに攻きたれるアンモン、モアブ、セイル山の子孫をなやましたまひければ彼ら打敗られたり
And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, that were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
23 即ちアンモンとモアブの子孫起てセイル山の民にむかひ盡くこれを殺して滅ししがセイルの民を殺し盡すに及びて彼らも亦力をいだして互に滅ぼしあへり
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
24 ユダの人々野の觀望所に至りてかの群衆を觀たりければ唯地に仆れたる死屍のみにして一人だに逃れし者なかりき
And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.
25 是においてヨシヤパテおよびその民彼らの物を奪はんとて來り觀にその死屍の間に財寳衣服および珠玉などおびただしく在たれば則ち各々これを剥とりけるが餘に多くして携さへ去こと能はざる程なりき其物多かりしに因て之を取に三日を費しけるが
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
26 第四日にベラカ(感謝)の谷に集り其處にてヱホバに感謝せり是をもてその處の名を今日までベラカ(感謝)の谷と呼ぶ
And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed the LORD; therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah, unto this day.
27 而してユダとヱルサレムの人々みな各々歸りきたりヨシヤパテの後にしたがひ歓びてヱルサレムに至れり其はヱホバ彼等をしてその敵の故によりて歓喜を得させたまひたればなり
Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
28 即ち彼ら瑟と琴および喇叭を合奏してヱルサレムに往てヱホバの室にいたる
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
29 諸の國の民ヱホバがイスラエルの敵を攻撃たまひしことを聞て神を畏れたれば
And a terror from God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
30 ヨシヤパテの國は平穩なりき即ちその神四方において之に安息を賜へり
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.
31 ヨシヤパテはユダの王となり三十五歳のときその位に即き二十五年の間ヱルサレムにて世を治めたり其母はシルヒの女にして名をアズバといふ
And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah; he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
32 ヨシヤパテはその父アサの道にあゆみて之を離れずヱホバの目に善と觀たまふ事を行へり
And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD.
33 然れども崇邱はいまだ除かず又民はいまだその先祖の神に心を傾けざりき
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
34 ヨシヤパテのその餘の始終の行爲はハナニの子ヱヒウの書に記さるヱヒウの事はイスラエルの列王の書に載す
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
35 ユダの王ヨシヤパテ後にイスラエルの王アハジアと相結べりアハジアは大に惡を行ふ者なりき
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly;
36 ヨシヤパテ、タルシシに遣る舟を造らんとて彼と相結びてエジオンゲベルにて共に舟數隻を造れり
and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
37 時にマレシヤのドダワの子エリエゼル、ヨシヤパテにむかひて預言して云ふ汝アハジアと相結びたればヱホバなんぢの作りし者を毀ちたまふと即ちその舟は皆壞れてタルシシに往くことを得ざりき
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying: 'Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath made a breach in thy works.' And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
