歴代誌Ⅱ 36
1 是において國の民ヨシアの子ヱホアハズを取りヱルサレムにてその父にかはりて王とならしむ
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
2 ヱホアハズは二十三歳の時位に即きヱルサレムにて三月が間世を治めけるが
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3 エジプトの王ヱルサレムにて彼を廢し且銀百タラント金一タラントの罰金を國に課せり
The king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
4 而してエジプトの王ネコ彼の兄弟エリアキムをもてユダとヱルサレムの王となして之が名をヱホヤキムと改めその兄弟ヱホアハズを執へてエジプトに曳ゆけり
The king of Egypt made Eliakim, who was the brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem (and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim). Then Necho took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt.
5 ヱホヤキムは二十五歳の時位に即きヱルサレムにて十一年の間世を治めその神ヱホバの惡と視たまふことを爲り
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.
6 彼の所にバビロンの王ネブカデネザル攻のぼりバビロンに曳ゆかんとて之を杻械に繋げり
Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked him and bound him in chains to lead him away to Babylon.
7 ネブカデネザルまたヱホバの家の器具をバビロンに携へゆきてバビロンにあるその宮にこれを蔵めたり
Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the objects in the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his palace at Babylon.
8 ヱホヤキムのその餘の行爲その行ひし憎むべき事等およびその心に企みし事などはイスラエルとユダの列王の書に記さる其子ヱホヤキンこれに代りて王となる
As for the other matters concerning Jehoiakim, the disgusting things that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. Then Jehoiachin, his son, became king in his place.
9 ヱホヤキンは八歳の時位に即きヱルサレムにて三月と十日の間世を治めヱホバの惡と視たまふ事を爲けるが
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
10 歳の歸るにおよびてネブカデネザル王人を遣はして彼とヱホバの室の貴き器皿とをバビロンに携へいたらしめ之が兄弟ゼデキヤをもてユダとヱルサレムの王となせり
In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent men and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable things from the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah, his relative, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 ゼデキヤは二十一歳の時位に即きヱルサレムにて十一年の間世を治めたり
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 彼はその神ヱホバの惡と視たまふ事を爲しヱホバの言を傳ふる預言者ヱレミヤの前に身を卑くせざりき
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of Yahweh.
13 ネブカデネザル彼をして神を指て誓はしめたりしにまた之にも叛けり彼かくその項を強くしその心を剛愎にしてイスラエルの神ヱホバに立かへらざりき
Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear loyalty to him by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
14 祭司の長等および民もまた凡て異邦人の中にある諸の憎むべき事に傚ひて太甚しく大に罪を犯しヱホバのヱルサレムに聖め置たまへるその室を汚せり
Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people were extremely unfaithful, and they followed the disgusting practices of the nations. They polluted the house of Yahweh which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
15 其先祖の神ヱホバその民とその住所とを恤むが故に頻りにその使者を遣はして之を諭したまひしに
Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them by his messengers again and again, because he had compassion on his people and on the place where he lives.
16 彼ら神の使者等を嘲けり其御言を軽んじその預言者等を罵りたればヱホバの怒その民にむかひて起り遂に救ふべからざるに至れり
But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no help for it.
17 即ちヱホバ、カルデヤ人の王を之に攻きたらせたまひければ彼その聖所の室にて劍をもて少者を殺し童男をも童女をも老人をも白髮の者をも憐まざりき皆ひとしく彼の手に付したまへり
So God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.
18 神の室の諸の大小の器皿ヱホバの室の貨財王とその牧伯等の貨財など凡て之をバビロンに携へゆき
All the furnishings of the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king and his officials—all these he took to Babylon.
19 神の室を焚きヱルサレムの石垣を崩しその中の宮殿を盡く火にて焚きその中の貴き器を盡く壞なへり
They burned down the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all the beautiful things in it.
20 また劍をのがれし者等はバビロンに擄れゆきて彼處にて彼とその子等の臣僕となりペルシヤの國の興るまで斯てありき
The king carried away to Babylon those who had escaped the sword. They became servants for him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia.
21 是ヱレミヤの口によりて傳はりしヱホバの言の應ぜんがためなりき斯この地遂にその安息を享たり即ち是はその荒をる間安息して終に七十年滿ぬ
This happened to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land should have enjoyed its Sabbath rests. It observed its Sabbath for as long as it lay abandoned, in order to pass seventy years in this way.
22 ペルシヤ王クロスの元年に當りヱホバ曩にヱレミヤの口によりて傳へたまひしその聖言を成んとてペルシヤ王クロスの心を感動したまひければ王すなはち宣命をつたへ詔書を出して徧く國中に告示して云く
Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be carried out, Yahweh motivated the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing. He said,
23 ペルシヤ王クロスかく言ふ天の神ヱホバ地上の諸國を我に賜へりその家をユダのエルサレムに建ることを我に命ず凡そ汝らの中もしその民たる者あらばその神ヱホバの助を得て上りゆけ
“This is what Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has commanded me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh your God, be with you. Let him go up to the land.”
