列王記Ⅰ 4
1 ソロモン王はイスラエルの全地の王であった。
Solomon was the king who ruled all of Israel,
2 彼の高官たちは次のとおりである。ザドクの子アザリヤは祭司。
and these were his most important officials: Zadok’s son Azariah was the priest.
3 シシャの子エリホレフとアヒヤは書記官。アヒルデの子ヨシャバテは史官。
Shisha’s sons Elihoreph and Ahijah were the [official] secretaries. Ahilud’s son Jehoshaphat was the one who announced to the people the king’s decisions.
4 エホヤダの子ベナヤは軍の長。ザドクとアビヤタルは祭司。
Benaiah was the commander of the army. Zadok and Abiathar were also priests.
5 ナタンの子アザリヤは代官の長。ナタンの子ザブデは祭司で、王の友であった。
Nathan’s son Azariah was the administrator of the governors. Another of Nathan’s sons, Zabud, was a priest and the king’s chief advisor.
6 アヒシャルは宮内卿。アブダの子アドニラムは徴募の長であった。
Ahishar supervised the servants who worked in the palace. Abda’s son Adoniram supervised the men who were forced to do work [for the government].
7 ソロモンはまたイスラエルの全地に十二人の代官を置いた。その人々は王とその家のために食物を備えた。すなわちおのおの一年に一月ずつ食物を備えるのであった。
Solomon appointed twelve men, one to govern [each of the regions] in Israel. They also were required to provide food for the king and all the others who lived and worked in the palace. Each man was required to provide from his own region the food for one month each year.
8 その名は次のとおりである。エフライムの山地にはベンホル。
Their names were: Ben-Hur, for the hilly area of the tribe of Ephraim.
9 マカヅと、シャラビムと、ベテシメシと、エロン・ベテハナンにはベンデケル。
Ben-Deker, for Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Bethhanan [cities];
10 アルボテにはベンヘセデ、（彼はソコとヘペルの全地を担当した）。
Ben-Hesed, for Arubboth and Socoh [towns] and the area near Hepher [town];
11 ドルの高地の全部にはベン・アビナダブ、（彼はソロモンの娘タパテを妻とした）。
Ben-Abinadab, who was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath, for all the Dor district;
12 アヒルデの子バアナはタアナクとメギドと、エズレルの下、ザレタンのかたわらにあるベテシャンの全地を担当して、ベテシャンからアベル・メホラに至り、ヨクメアムの向こうにまで及んだ。
Ahilud’s son Baana, for Taanach and Megiddo [towns], and all the region near Zarethan [city], and from Beth-Shan [city] south of Jezreel as far as Abel-Meholah [town] and Jokmeam [city];
13 ラモテ・ギレアデにはベンゲベル、（彼はギレアデにあるマナセの子ヤイルの村々を担当し、またバシャンにあるアルゴブの地方の城壁と青銅の貫の木のある大きな町六十を担当した）。
Ben-Geber, for Ramoth [city] in [the] Gilead [region], and for the villages in Gilead that belonged to Jair, who was a descendant of Manasseh, and the Argob area in [the] Bashan [region]. There were 60 large towns in that region altogether, each town with a wall around it and bronze bars across the gates.
14 マハナイムにはイドの子アヒナダブ。
Iddo’s son Ahinadab, for Mahanaim [city east of the Jordan River];
15 ナフタリにはアヒマアズ、（彼もソロモンの娘バスマテを妻にめとった）。
Ahimaaz, who had married Solomon’s daughter Basemath, for [the territory of the tribe of] Naphtali;
16 アセルとベアロテにはホシャイの子バアナ。
Hushai’s son Baana, for [the territory of the tribe of] Asher and for Aloth [town];
17 イッサカルにはパルアの子ヨシャパテ。
Paruah’s son Jehoshaphat, for [the territory of the tribe of] Issachar;
18 ベニヤミンにはエラの子シメイ。
Ela’s son Shimei, for [the territory of the tribe of] Benjamin;
19 アモリびとの王シホンの地およびバシャンの王オグの地なるギレアデの地にはウリの子ゲベル。彼はその地のただひとりの代官であった。
Uri’s son Geber, for the Gilead region, the land that Sihon the king of the Amor people-group [formerly ruled], and the Bashan [area], which was the area that Og [formerly ruled]. [In addition to all those], Solomon appointed one governor for the [territory of the] tribe of Judah.
20 ユダとイスラエルの人々は多くて、海べの砂のようであったが、彼らは飲み食いして楽しんだ。
There were as many people in Judah and Israel as there are grains of sand [HYP] on the seashore. They [had plenty to] eat and drink and they were happy.
21 ソロモンはユフラテ川からペリシテびとの地と、エジプトの境に至るまでの諸国を治めたので、皆みつぎ物を携えてきて、ソロモンの一生のあいだ仕えた。
Solomon’s kingdom extended from the Euphrates [River in the northeast] to the Philistia area [in the west] and to the border of Egypt [in the south]. The [conquered] people in those areas paid taxes and were under Solomon’s control for the rest of his life.
22 さてソロモンの一日の食物は細かい麦粉三十コル、荒い麦粉六十コル、
[To feed the people in his palace and his guests] Solomon needed people to bring to him every day 150 bushels of fine flour and 300 bushels of wheat,
23 肥えた牛十頭、牧場の牛二十頭、羊百頭で、そのほかに雄じか、かもしか、こじか、および肥えた鳥があった。
ten cattle that were kept in stalls/barns, 20 cattle that were kept in pastures, 100 sheep, and (deer and gazelles and roebucks/three kinds of deer), and poultry.
24 これはソロモンがユフラテ川の西の地方をテフサからガザまで、ことごとく治めたからである。すなわち彼はユフラテ川の西の諸王をことごとく治め、周囲至る所に平安を得た。
Solomon ruled over all the area west of the Euphrates [River], from Tiphsah [city in the northeast] to Gaza [city in the southwest]. He ruled over all the kings in that area. And there was peace between his [government] and the [governments of] nearby countries.
25 ソロモンの一生の間、ユダとイスラエルはダンからベエルシバに至るまで、安らかにおのおの自分たちのぶどうの木の下と、いちじくの木の下に住んだ。
All during the years that Solomon ruled, the people of Judah and Israel lived safely. Each family had its own grapevines and fig trees.
26 ソロモンはまた戦車の馬の、うまや四千と、騎兵一万二千を持っていた。
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for the horses [that pulled] his chariots and 12,000 men who rode on horses (OR, in the chariots).
27 そしてそれらの代官たちはおのおの当番の月にソロモン王のため、およびすべてソロモン王の食卓に連なる者のために、食物を備えて欠けることのないようにした。
His twelve governors supplied the food that King Solomon needed for himself and for all those who ate in the palace. Each governor supplied food for one month each year. They provided everything [LIT] that Solomon required.
28 また彼らはおのおのその割当にしたがって馬および早馬に食わせる大麦とわらを、その馬のいる所に持ってきた。
They also brought [stalks of] barley and wheat for the fast horses [that pulled the chariots] and for the [other work] horses. They brought it to the places where the horses were kept.
29 神はソロモンに非常に多くの知恵と悟りを授け、また海べの砂原のように広い心を授けられた。
God enabled Solomon to be extremely wise and to have great insight/understanding. He understood about more things than the number of grains of sand on the seashore [HYP].
30 ソロモンの知恵は東の人々の知恵とエジプトのすべての知恵にまさった。
He was wiser than all the wise men in Arabia and Mesopotamia and all the wise men in Egypt.
31 彼はすべての人よりも賢く、エズラびとエタンよりも、またマホルの子ヘマン、カルコル、ダルダよりも賢く、その名声は周囲のすべての国々に聞えた。
Ethan from Ezrah and Heman and Calcol and Darda and the sons of Mahol were [considered to be] very wise, but Solomon was wiser than all of them. People in all the nearby countries heard about Solomon.
32 彼はまた箴言三千を説いた。またその歌は一千五首あった。
He composed/wrote 3,000 (proverbs/wise sayings) and more than 1,000 songs.
33 彼はまた草木のことを論じてレバノンの香柏から石がきにはえるヒソプにまで及んだ。彼はまた獣と鳥と這うものと魚のことを論じた。
He talked about various kinds of plants, from the [huge] cedar trees in Lebanon to the [tiny] hyssop plants that grow in cracks in walls. He also talked about wild animals and birds and reptiles and fish.
34 諸国の人々はソロモンの知恵を聞くためにきた。地の諸王はソロモンの知恵を聞いて人をつかわした。
People came from all over the world to hear the wise things that Solomon said. Many kings sent men to listen to him [and then return and tell them what Solomon said].
