歴代誌Ⅱ 34

1 ヨシアは八歳の時位に即きヱルサレムにて三十一年の間世を治めたり

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

2 彼はヱホバの善と觀たまふ事を爲しその父ダビデの道にあゆみて右にも左にも曲らざりき

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

3 即ち尚若かりしかどもその治世の八年にその父ダビデの神を求むる事を始めその十二年には崇邱アシラ像刻たる像鋳たる像などを除きてユダとヱルサレムを潔むることを始め

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

4 諸のバアルの壇を己の前にて毀たしめ其上に立る日の像を斫たふしアシラ像および雕像鋳像を打碎きて粉々にし是等に犠牲を献げし者等の墓の上に其を撒ちらし

And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves [of them] that had sacrificed unto them.

5 祭司の骨をその諸の壇の上に焚き斯してユダとヱルサレムを潔めたり

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

6 またマナセ、エフライム、シメオンおよびナフタリの荒たる邑々にも斯なし

And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

7 諸壇を毀ちアシラ像および諸の雕像を微塵に打碎きイスラエル全國の日の像を盡く斫たふしてヱルサレムに歸りぬ

And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

8 ヨシアその治世の十八年にいたりて已に國と殿とを潔め了りその神ヱホバの家を修繕はしめんとてアザリヤの子シヤパン邑の知事マアセヤおよびヨアハズの子史官ヨアを遣せり

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.

9 彼ら祭司の長ヒルキヤの許に至りてヱホバの室に入し金を交せり是は門守のレビ人がマナセ、エフライムおよび其餘の一切のイスラエル人ならびにユダとベニヤミンの人およびヱルサレムの民の手より斂めたる者なり

And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

10 やがてヱホバの室を監督するところの工師等の手にこれを交しければ彼等ヱホバの室にて操作ところの工人にこれを交して室を繕ひ修めしむ

And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and the workmen that wrought in the house of Jehovah gave it to mend and repair the house:

11 即ち木匠および建築者に之を交しユダの王等が壞りたる家々のために琢石および骨木を買しめ梁木をととのはしむ

even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

12 その人々忠實に操作けりその監督者はメラリの子孫たるヤハテ、オバデヤおよびコハテの子孫たるゼカリヤ、メシユラムなどのレビ人なりき彼等すなはち之を主どる又樂器を弄ぶに精巧なるレビ人凡て之に伴なふ

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all that were skilful with instruments of music.

13 彼等亦荷を負ものを監督し種々の工事に操作ところの諸の工人をつかさどれり別のレビ人書記となり役人となり門守となれり

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

14 ヱホバの室にいりし金を取いだすに當りて祭司ヒルキヤ、モーセの傳へしヱホバの律法の書を見いだせり

And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Jehovah [given] by Moses.

15 ヒルキヤ是において書記官シヤパンにきて言けるは我ヱホバの室にて律法の書を見いだせりと而してヒルキヤその書をシヤパンに付しければ

And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

16 シヤパンその書を王の所に持ゆき王に復命まうして言ふ僕等その手に委ねられし所を盡く爲し

And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they are doing.

17 ヱホバの室にありし金を打あけて之を監督者の手および工人の手に交せりと

And they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.

18 書記官シヤパン亦王に告て祭司ヒルキヤ我に一の書を交せりと言ひシヤパンそれを王の前に讀けるに

And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read therein before the king.

19 王その律法の言を聞て衣服を裂り

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

20 而して王ヒルキヤとシヤパンの子アヒカムとミカの子アブドンと書記官シヤパンと王の内臣アサヤとに命じて言ふ

And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

21 汝ら往てこの見當りし書の言につきて我の爲またイスラエルとユダに遺れる者等のためにヱホバに問へ我らの先祖等はヱホバの言を守らず凡て此書に記されたる所を行ふことを爲ざりしに因てヱホバ我等に大なる怒を斟ぎ給ふべければなりと

Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.

22 是においてヒルキヤおよび王の人々シヤルムの妻なる女預言者ホルダの許に往りシヤルムはハルハスの子なるテクワの子にして衣裳を守る者なり時にホルダはヱルサレムの第二の邑に住をれり彼等すなはちホルダに斯と語りしかば

So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they spake to her to that effect.

23 ホルダこれに答へけるはイスラエルの神ヱホバかく言たまふ汝らを我に遣はせる人に告よ

And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me,

24 ヱホバかく言たまふユダの王の前に讀し書に記されたる諸の呪詛に循ひて我この處と此に住む者に災害を降さん

Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

25 其は彼ら我を棄て他の神に香を焚きおのが手にて作れる諸の物をもて我怒を惹起さんとしたればなりこの故にわが震怒この處に斟ぎて滅ざるべし

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.

26 されど汝らを遣はしてヱホバに問しむるユダの王には汝ら斯いふべしイスラエルの神ヱホバかく言たまふ汝が聞る言につきては

But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard,

27 汝此處と此にすむ者を責る神の言を聞し時に心やさしくして神の前に於て身を卑くし我前に身を卑くし衣服を裂て我前に泣たれば我も汝に聽りとヱホバ宣まふ

because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

28 然ば我汝をして汝の先祖等に列ならしめん汝は安然に墓に歸する事を得べし汝は我が此處と此に住む者に降すところの諸の災害を目に見る事あらじと彼等即ち王に復命まうしぬ

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.

29 是において王人を遣はしてユダとヱルサレムの長老をことごとく集め

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

30 而して王ヱホバの室に上りゆけりユダの人々ヱルサレムの民祭司レビ人及び一切の民大より小にいたるまでことごとく之にともなふ王すなはちヱホバの室に見あたりし契約の書の言を盡く彼らの耳に讀聞せ

And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah.

31 而して王己の所に立ちてヱホバの前に契約を立てヱホバにしたがひて歩み心を盡し精神を盡してその誡命と證詞と法度を守り此書にしるされたる契約の言を行はんと言ひ

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

32 ヱルサレムおよびベニヤミンの有ゆる人々をみな之に加はらしめたりヱルサレムの民すなはちその先祖の神にまします御神の契約にしたがひて行へり

And he caused all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

33 かくてヨシア、イスラエルの子孫に屬する一切の地より憎むべき者を盡く取のぞきイスラエルの有ゆる人をしてその神ヱホバに事まつらしめたりヨシアの世にある日の間は彼らその先祖の神ヱホバに從ひて離れざりき

And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.