列王記Ⅰ 13
1 見よ、神の人が主の命によってユダからベテルにきた。その時ヤラベアムは祭壇の上に立って香をたいていた。
Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.
2 神の人は祭壇にむかい主の命によって呼ばわって言った、「祭壇よ、祭壇よ、主はこう仰せられる、『見よ、ダビデの家にひとりの子が生れる。その名をヨシヤという。彼はおまえの上で香をたく高き所の祭司らを、おまえの上にささげる。また人の骨がおまえの上で焼かれる』」。
And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.
3 その日、彼はまた一つのしるしを示して言った、「主の言われたしるしはこれである、『見よ、祭壇は裂け、その上にある灰はこぼれ出るであろう』」。
The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.
4 ヤラベアム王は、神の人がベテルにある祭壇にむかって呼ばわる言葉を聞いた時、祭壇から手を伸ばして、「彼を捕えよ」と言ったが、彼にむかって伸ばした手が枯れて、ひっ込めることができなかった。
Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.
5 そして神の人が主の言葉をもって示したしるしのように祭壇は裂け、灰は祭壇からこぼれ出た。
And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
6 王は神の人に言った、「あなたの神、主に願い、わたしのために祈って、わたしの手をもとに返らせてください」。神の人が主に願ったので、王の手はもとに返って、前のようになった。
Then the king made answer and said to the man of God, Make a prayer now for the grace of the Lord your God, and for me, that my hand may be made well. And in answer to the prayer of the man of God, the king's hand was made well again, as it was before.
7 そこで王は神の人に言った、「わたしと一緒に家にきて、身を休めなさい。あなたに謝礼をさしあげましょう」。
And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.
8 神の人は王に言った、「たとい、あなたの家の半ばをくださっても、わたしはあなたと一緒にまいりません。またこの所では、パンも食べず水も飲みません。
But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of all you have, I would not go in with you, and I would not take food or a drink of water in this place;
9 主の言葉によってわたしは、『パンを食べてはならない、水を飲んではならない。また来た道から帰ってはならない』と命じられているからです」。
For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.
10 こうして彼はほかの道を行き、ベテルに来た道からは帰らなかった。
So he went another way, and not by the way he came to Beth-el.
11 さてベテルにひとりの年老いた預言者が住んでいたが、そのむすこたちがきて、その日神の人がベテルでした事どもを彼に話した。また神の人が王に言った言葉をもその父に話した。
Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.
12 父が彼らに「その人はどの道を行ったか」と聞いたので、むすこたちはユダからきた神の人の行った道を父に示した。
Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
13 父はむすこたちに言った、「わたしのためにろばにくらを置きなさい」。彼らがろばにくらを置いたので、彼はそれに乗り、
So the prophet said to his sons, Make ready an ass for me. So they made an ass ready, and he got on it,
14 神の人のあとを追って行き、かしの木の下にすわっているのを見て、その人に言った、「あなたはユダからこられた神の人ですか」。その人は言った、「そうです」。
And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.
15 そこで彼はその人に言った、「わたしと一緒に家にきてパンを食べてください」。
Then he said to him, Come back to the house with me and have a meal.
16 その人は言った、「わたしはあなたと一緒に引き返すことはできません。あなたと一緒に行くことはできません。またわたしはこの所であなたと一緒にパンも食べず水も飲みません。
But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;
17 主の言葉によってわたしは、『その所でパンを食べてはならない、水を飲んではならない。また来た道から帰ってはならない』と言われているからです」。
For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.
18 彼はその人に言った、「わたしもあなたと同じ預言者ですが、天の使が主の命によってわたしに告げて、『その人を一緒に家につれ帰り、パンを食べさせ、水を飲ませよ』と言いました」。これは彼がその人を欺いたのである。
Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.
19 そこでその人は彼と一緒に引き返し、その家でパンを食べ、水を飲んだ。
So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.
20 彼らが食卓についていたとき、主の言葉が、その人をつれて帰った預言者に臨んだので、
But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;
21 彼はユダからきた神の人にむかい呼ばわって言った、「主はこう仰せられます、『あなたが主の言葉にそむき、あなたの神、主がお命じになった命令を守らず、
And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,
22 引き返して、主があなたに、パンを食べてはならない、水を飲んではならない、と言われた場所でパンを食べ、水を飲んだゆえ、あなたの死体はあなたの先祖の墓に行かないであろう』」。
But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.
23 そしてその人がパンを食べ、水を飲んだ後、彼はその人のため、すなわちつれ帰った預言者のためにろばにくらを置いた。
Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.
24 こうしてその人は立ち去ったが、道でししが彼に会って彼を殺した。そしてその死体は道に捨てられ、ろばはそのかたわらに立ち、ししもまた死体のかたわらに立っていた。
And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.
25 人々はそこをとおって、道に捨てられている死体と、死体のかたわらに立っているししを見て、かの老預言者の住んでいる町にきてそれを話した。
And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.
26 その人を道からつれて帰った預言者はそれを聞いて言った、「それは主の言葉にそむいた神の人だ。主が彼に言われた言葉のように、主は彼をししにわたされ、ししが彼を裂き殺したのだ」。
Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.
27 そしてむすこたちに言った、「わたしのためにろばにくらを置きなさい」。彼らがくらを置いたので、
And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.
28 彼は行って、死体が道に捨てられ、ろばとししが死体のかたわらに立っているのを見た。ししはその死体を食べず、ろばも裂いていなかった。
And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.
29 そこで預言者は神の人の死体を取りあげ、それをろばに載せて町に持ち帰り、悲しんでそれを葬った。
Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.
30 すなわちその死体を自分の墓に納め、皆これがために「ああ、わが兄弟よ」と言って悲しんだ。
And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!
31 彼はそれを葬って後、むすこたちに言った、「わたしが死んだ時は、神の人を葬った墓に葬り、わたしの骨を彼の骨のかたわらに納めなさい。
And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.
32 彼が主の命によって、ベテルにある祭壇にむかい、またサマリヤの町々にある高き所のすべての家にむかって呼ばわった言葉は必ず成就するのです」。
For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.
33 この事の後も、ヤラベアムはその悪い道を離れて立ち返ることをせず、また一般の民を、高き所の祭司に任命した。すなわち、だれでも好む者は、それを立てて高き所の祭司とした。
After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.
34 この事はヤラベアムの家の罪となって、ついにこれを地のおもてから断ち滅ぼすようになった。
And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.
