列王記Ⅱ 21

1 マナセ十二歳にして王となり五十五年の間ヱルサレムにて世を治めたりその母の名はヘフジバといふ

Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba.

2 マナセはヱホバの目の前に惡をなしヱホバがイスラエルの子孫の前より逐はらひたまひし國々の人がなすところの憎むべき事に傚へり

And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

3 彼はその父ヒゼキヤが毀たる崇邱を改め築き又イスラエルの王アハブのなせしごとくバアルのために祭壇を築きアシラ像を作り天の衆群を拝みてこれに事へ

And he turned, and built up the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 またヱホバの家の中に數箇の祭壇を築けり是はヱホバがこれをさして我わが名をヱルサレムにおかんと言たまひし家なり

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

5 彼ヱホバの家の二の庭に祭壇を築き

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

6 またその子に火の中を通らしめ卜占をなし魔術をおこなひ口寄者と卜筮師を取もちひヱホバの目の前に衆多の惡を爲てその震怒を惹おこせり

And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divination, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

7 彼はその作りしアシラの銅像を殿にたてたりヱホバこの殿につきてダビデとその子ソロモンに言たまひしことあり云く我この家と我がイスラエルの諸の支派の中より選みたるヱルサレムとに吾名を永久におかん

He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

8 彼等もし我が凡てこれに命ぜし事わが僕モーセがこれに命ぜし一切の律法を謹みて行はば我これが足をしてわがその先祖等に與へし地より重てさまよひ出ることなからしむべしと

And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them.

9 然るに彼等は聽ことをせざりきマナセが人々を誘ひて惡をなせしことはヱホバがイスラエルの子孫の前に滅したまひし國々の人よりも甚だしかりき

But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 是においてヱホバその僕なる預言者等をもて語て言給はく

And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:

11 ユダの王マナセこれらの憎むべき事を行ひその前にありしアモリ人の凡て爲しところにも踰たる惡をなし亦ユダをしてその偶像をもて罪を犯させたれば

Because Manasses king of Juda hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:

12 イスラエルの神ヱホバかく言ふ視よ我ヱルサレムとユダに災害をくだす是を聞く者はその耳ふたつながら鳴ん

Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle.

13 我サマリヤを量りし繩とアハブの家にもちひし準縄をヱルサレムにほどこし人が皿を拭ひこれを拭ひて反覆がごとくにヱルサレムを拭ひさらん

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the pencil often over the face thereof.

14 我わが產業の民の殘餘を棄てこれをその敵の手に付さん彼等はその諸の敵の擄掠にあひ掠奪にあふべし

And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and a spoil to all their enemies.

15 是は彼等その先祖等がエジプトより出し日より今日にいたるまで吾目の前に惡をおこなひて我を怒らするが故なり

Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

16 マナセはヱホバの目の前に惡をおこなひてユダに罪を犯させたる上にまた無辜者の血を多く流してヱルサレムのこの極よりかの極にまで盈せり

Moreover Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

17 マナセのその餘の行爲とその凡て爲たる事およびその犯したる罪はユダの王の歴代志の書にしるさるるにあらすや

Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

18 マナセその先祖等とともに寝りてその家の園すなはちウザの園に葬られその子アモンこれに代りて王となれり

And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amen his son reigned in his stead.

19 アモンは王となれる時二十二歳にしてヱルサレムにおいて二年世を治めたりその母はヨテバのハルツの女にしてその名をメシユレメテと云ふ

Two and twenty years old was Amen when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth the daughter of Harus of Jeteba.

20 アモンはその父マナセのなせしごとくヱホバの目の前に惡をなせり

And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done.

21 すなはち彼は凡てその父のあゆみし道にあゆみその父の事へし偶像に事へてこれを拝み

And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them;

22 その先祖等の神ヱホバを棄てヱホバの道にあゆまざりき

And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

23 茲にアモンの臣僕等黨をむすびて王をその家に弑したりしが

And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.

24 國の民そのアモン王に敵して黨をむすびし者をことごとく撃ころせり而して國の民アモンの子ヨシアを王となしてそれに代らしむ

But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.

25 アモンのなしたるその餘の行爲はユダの王の歴代志の書にしるさるるにあらずや

But the rest of the acts of Amen which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

26 アモンはウザの園にてその墓に葬られその子ヨシアこれに代りて王となれり

And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead.