列王記Ⅰ 8
1 ソロモンは主の契約の箱をダビデの町、すなわちシオンからかつぎ上ろうとして、イスラエルの長老たちと、すべての部族のかしらたちと、イスラエルの人々の氏族の長たちをエルサレムでソロモン王のもとに召し集めた。
Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem all the elders of Israel, all the leaders of the tribes, and the leaders of the clans. He wanted them to join in bringing Yahweh’s Sacred Chest from Zion [Hill to the temple], where it was in the part of the city called ‘The City of David’.
2 イスラエルの人は皆エタニムの月すなわち七月の祭にソロモン王のもとに集まった。
So all the Israeli leaders came to King Solomon during the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters, in October.
3 イスラエルの長老たちが皆来たので、祭司たちは箱を取りあげた。
When they had all arrived, the priests lifted up the Sacred Chest
4 そして彼らは主の箱と、会見の幕屋と、幕屋にあるすべての聖なる器をかつぎ上った。すなわち祭司とレビびとがこれらの物をかつぎ上った。
and brought it to the temple. The descendants of Levi [who assisted the priests] helped them to carry to the temple the Sacred Tent and all the sacred things that had been in the tent.
5 ソロモン王および彼のもとに集まったイスラエルの会衆は皆彼と共に箱の前で、羊と牛をささげたが、その数が多くて調べることも数えることもできなかった。
Then King Solomon and many of the Israeli people who had gathered in front of Yahweh’s Sacred Chest sacrificed a huge amount of sheep and oxen. No one was able to count the sacrifices [because there were so many].
6 祭司たちは主の契約の箱をその場所にかつぎ入れた。すなわち宮の本殿である至聖所のうちのケルビムの翼の下に置いた。
The the priests then brought the Sacred Chest into the Very Holy Place in the temple, and they placed it under the wings of the [statues of the] winged creatures.
7 ケルビムは翼を箱の所に伸べていたので、ケルビムは上から箱とそのさおをおおった。
The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.
8 さおは長かったので、さおの端が本殿の前の聖所から見えた。しかし外には見えなかった。そのさおは今日までそこにある。
The poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen [by people who were standing] at the entrance to the Most Holy Place, but they could not be seen [by people standing] outside the temple. Those poles are still there.
9 箱の内には二つの石の板のほか何もなかった。これはイスラエルの人々がエジプトの地から出たとき、主が彼らと契約を結ばれたときに、モーセがホレブで、それに納めたものである。
The only things that were in the Sacred Chest were the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Sinai [Mountain], where Yahweh made an agreement with the people after they left Egypt.
10 そして祭司たちが聖所から出たとき、雲が主の宮に満ちたので、
When the priests came out of the temple, [suddenly] it was filled with a cloud.
11 祭司たちは雲のために立って仕えることができなかった。主の栄光が主の宮に満ちたからである。
It was the glory/radiance of Yahweh that filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue their work.
12 そこでソロモンは言った、「主は日を天に置かれた。しかも主は自ら濃き雲の中に住まおうと言われた。
Then Solomon prayed this: “Yahweh, you have placed the sun in the sky, but you have decided that you would live in very dark [clouds].
13 わたしはあなたのために高き家、とこしえのみすまいを建てた」。
I have built for you a magnificent temple, a place for you to live in forever.”
14 王は身をめぐらして、イスラエルのすべての会衆を祝福した。その時イスラエルのすべての会衆は立っていた。
Then, while all the people stood there, the king turned around and faced them, and he [asked God to] bless them.
15 彼は言った、「イスラエルの神、主はほむべきかな。主はその口をもってわたしの父ダビデに約束されたことを、その手をもってなし遂げられた。主は言われた、
He said, “Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis belong! By his own power he has done what he promised to give to my father David. What he promised was this:
16 『わが民イスラエルをエジプトから導き出した日から、わたしはわたしの名を置くべき宮を建てるために、イスラエルのもろもろの部族のうちから、どの町をも選んだことがなかった。ただダビデを選んで、わが民イスラエルの上に立たせた』と。
‘From the time that I brought my people out of Egypt, I have never chosen any city in Israel in which a temple should be built for my people to worship me there. But I chose you, David, to rule my people.”
17 イスラエルの神、主の名のために宮を建てることは、わたしの父ダビデの心にあった。
[Then Solomon said], “My father David wanted to build a temple in order that we Israeli people could worship Yahweh our God there.
18 しかし主はわたしの父ダビデに言われた、『わたしの名のために宮を建てることはあなたの心にあった。あなたの心にこの事のあったのは結構である。
But Yahweh said to him, ‘You have wanted to build a temple for me, and what you wanted to do was good.
19 けれどもあなたはその宮を建ててはならない。あなたの身から出るあなたの子がわたしの名のために宮を建てるであろう』と。
However, you are not the one [who I want] to build it. It is one of your sons, who [I want to] build a temple for me.’
20 そして主はその言われた言葉を行われた。すなわちわたしは父ダビデに代って立ち、主が言われたように、イスラエルの位に座し、イスラエルの神、主の名のために宮を建てた。
And now Yahweh has done what he promised to do. I have become the king of Israel to succeed my father, and I am ruling my people, like Yahweh promised. I have [arranged for] this temple [to be] built for us Israelis to worship Yahweh, the God, to whom we Israelis belong.
21 わたしはまたそこに主の契約を納めた箱のために一つの場所を設けた。その契約は主がわれわれの先祖をエジプトの地から導き出された時に、彼らと結ばれたものである」。
I have also provided a place [in the temple] for the Sacred Chest in which are the two stone tablets [on which are engraved the Ten Commandments of] the agreement that Yahweh made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”
22 ソロモンはイスラエルの全会衆の前で、主の祭壇の前に立ち、手を天に伸べて、
Then Solomon stood in front of the altar which was facing the Israeli people who had gathered there. He spread out his arms toward heaven,
23 言った、「イスラエルの神、主よ、上の天にも、下の地にも、あなたのような神はありません。あなたは契約を守られ、心をつくしてあなたの前に歩むあなたのしもべらに、いつくしみを施し、
and he prayed, “Yahweh, the God whom we Israeli people [belong to/worship], there is no god like you up in heaven or down here on the earth. You solemnly promised that you would faithfully love us. And that is what you have done for us who earnestly do what you want us to do.
24 あなたのしもべであるわたしの父ダビデに約束されたことを守られました。あなたが口をもって約束されたことを、手をもってなし遂げられたことは、今日見るとおりであります。
You have done the things that you promised my father David, who served you [very well], that you would do. Truly, you promised to do these things for him, and today we see that by your power you have done them.
25 それゆえ、イスラエルの神、主よ、あなたのしもべであるわたしの父ダビデに、あなたが約束して『おまえがわたしの前に歩んだように、おまえの子孫が、その道を慎んで、わたしの前に歩むならば、おまえにはイスラエルの位に座する人が、わたしの前に欠けることはないであろう』と言われたことを、ダビデのために守ってください。
So now, Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [belong to/worship], please do the things that you promised my father that you would do. You told him that there would always be some of his descendants who would rule Israel, if they would conduct their lives as he did.
26 イスラエルの神よ、どうぞ、あなたのしもべであるわたしの父ダビデに言われた言葉を確認してください。
So now, God of us Israeli people, cause what you promised to do for my father David, who served you [well], to happen.
27 しかし神は、はたして地上に住まわれるでしょうか。見よ、天も、いと高き天もあなたをいれることはできません。ましてわたしの建てたこの宮はなおさらです。
But God, you cannot really live on the earth. There is surely not enough space for you in the sky, or even in the heaven. So there is surely not enough space for you to live in this temple that my workers have built.
28 しかしわが神、主よ、しもべの祈と願いを顧みて、しもべがきょう、あなたの前にささげる叫びと祈をお聞きください。
But Yahweh, my God, please listen to me while I am praying to you this day,
29 あなたが『わたしの名をそこに置く』と言われた所、すなわち、この宮に向かって夜昼あなたの目をお開きください。しもべがこの所に向かって祈る祈をお聞きください。
Please keep protecting this temple night and day. This is the place about which you have said, ‘I will always be there.’ I request that you listen to me whenever I turn toward this temple and pray.
30 しもべと、あなたの民イスラエルがこの所に向かって祈る時に、その願いをお聞きください。あなたのすみかである天で聞き、聞いておゆるしください。
I request that when I pray to you and your people pray to you while they turn toward this place, that in your home in heaven you will hear us and forgive us [for the sins that we have committed].
31 もし人がその隣り人に対して罪を犯し、誓いをすることを求められる時、来てこの宮であなたの祭壇の前に誓うならば、
If someone is accused of doing something wrong to another person, and they bring him to your altar outside this holy temple, and if he says, ‘I did not do that; may God punish me if I am not telling the truth,’
32 あなたは天で聞いて行い、あなたのしもべらをさばき、悪人を罰して、そのおこないの報いをそのこうべに帰し、義人を義として、その義にしたがって、その人に報いてください。
then you listen from heaven, and decide who is telling the truth. Then punish the person who is guilty as he deserves to be punished, and declare that the other person is innocent.
33 もしあなたの民イスラエルが、あなたに対して罪を犯したために敵の前に敗れた時、あなたに立ち返って、あなたの名をあがめ、この宮であなたに祈り願うならば、
And when your Israeli people are defeated by their enemies [in a battle] because they have sinned against you, [and if they are forced to go to some distant country, ] if they turn away from their sinful behavior and turn toward this temple and admit that you [have justly punished them], and if they plead [that you will forgive them],
34 あなたは天にあって聞き、あなたの民イスラエルの罪をゆるして、あなたが彼らの先祖に賜わった地に彼らを帰らせてください。
listen to them from heaven, and forgive your Israeli people for the sins that they [have committed], and bring them back to this land that you gave to our ancestors.
35 もし彼らがあなたに罪を犯したために、天が閉ざされて雨がなく、あなたが彼らを苦しめられる時、彼らがこの所に向かって祈り、あなたの名をあがめ、その罪を離れるならば、
And when you do not allow any rain to fall on the land because your people have sinned against you, if they turn toward this temple and admit that you [have justly punished them], if they turn away from their sinful behavior and [humbly] pray to you,
36 あなたは天で聞き、あなたのしもべ、あなたの民イスラエルの罪をゆるし、彼らに歩むべき良い道を教えて、あなたが、あなたの民に嗣業として与えられた地に雨を降らせてください。
listen to them from heaven, and forgive your Israeli people for the sins [that they have committed]. Teach them the right way to conduct their lives. Then send rain on this land that you have given to your people to belong to them [permanently].
37 もし国にききんがあるか、もしくは疫病、立ち枯れ、腐り穂、いなご、青虫があるか、もしくは敵のために町の中に攻め囲まれることがあるか、どんな災害、どんな病気があっても、
And when the people of this land experience famines, or if there is a plague/illness that causes many people to become sick, or if [their crops are destroyed by] very hot winds or [by] mildew or [by] locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies surround any of their cities [in order to attack them], if any of those bad things happen to them,
38 もし、だれでも、あなたの民イスラエルがみな、おのおのその心の悩みを知って、この宮に向かい、手を伸べるならば、どんな祈、どんな願いでも、
when your Israeli people earnestly plead with you knowing that they are suffering because they [have sinned], and if they stretch out their arms toward this temple and pray,
39 あなたは、あなたのすみかである天で聞いてゆるし、かつ行い、おのおのの人に、その心を知っておられるゆえ、そのすべての道にしたがって報いてください。ただ、あなただけ、すべての人の心を知っておられるからです。
listen to them from your home in heaven, and forgive them, and help them. You are the only one who knows what people are thinking, so act toward everyone as they deserve,
40 あなたが、われわれの先祖に賜わった地に、彼らの生きながらえる日の間、常にあなたを恐れさせてください。
in order that your people may then have an awesome respect for you, all the years that they live in this land that you gave to our ancestors.
41 またあなたの民イスラエルの者でなく、あなたの名のために遠い国から来る異邦人が、
There will be some foreigners who do not belong to your Israeli people who have come here from countries far away because they have heard that you are very great and that you perform great miracles. If they come here to this temple to worship you and pray,
42 それは彼らがあなたの大いなる名と、強い手と、伸べた腕とについて聞き及ぶからです、もしきて、この宮に向かって祈るならば、
43 あなたは、あなたのすみかである天で聞き、すべて異邦人があなたに呼び求めることをかなえさせてください。そうすれば、地のすべての民は、あなたの民イスラエルのように、あなたの名を知り、あなたを恐れ、またわたしが建てたこの宮があなたの名によって呼ばれることを知るにいたるでしょう。
in your home in heaven, listen to their prayers, and do for them what they request you to do. Do that so that all the people-groups in the world will know about you and revere you, like we your Israeli people do. And then they will know that this temple that I have [caused to be] built to honor you, is where you [should be worshiped].
44 あなたの民が敵と戦うために、あなたがつかわされる道を通って出て行くとき、もし彼らがあなたの選ばれた町、わたしがあなたの名のために建てた宮の方に向かって、主に祈るならば、
And if you send your people to go to fight against their enemies, if they pray to you, wherever they are, if they turn toward this city that you have chosen and toward this temple that I have caused to be built for you,
45 あなたは天で、彼らの祈と願いを聞いて彼らをお助けください。
listen in heaven to their prayers; listen to what they plead for you to do, and assist them.
46 彼らがあなたに対して罪を犯すことがあって、人は罪を犯さない者はないのです、あなたが彼らを怒り、彼らを敵にわたし、敵が彼らを捕虜として遠近にかかわらず、敵の地に引いて行く時、
[It is true that] everyone sins. So, if your people sin against you, and you become angry with them, you may allow their enemies to defeat them and capture them and take them away to their enemies’ country, even to countries that are far away.
47 もし彼らが捕われていった地で、みずから省みて悔い、自分を捕えていった者の地で、あなたに願い、『われわれは罪を犯しました、そむいて悪を行いました』と言い、
If that happens, while they are in those countries to which they were forced to go, if they sincerely repent and plead with you there saying ‘We have sinned and have done things that are very wicked,’
48 自分を捕えていった敵の地で、心をつくし、精神をつくしてあなたに立ち返り、あなたが彼らの先祖に与えられた地、あなたが選ばれた町、わたしがあなたの名のために建てた宮の方に向かって、あなたに祈るならば、
if they very sincerely repent, and turn toward this land that you gave to our ancestors, and toward this city that you have chosen [to be the place where we should worship you], and toward this temple that I have [caused to be] built for you, and if they pray,
49 あなたのすみかである天で、彼らの祈と願いを聞いて、彼らを助け、
then from your home in heaven listen to them while they plead [for your help], and assist them.
50 あなたの民が、あなたに対して犯した罪と、あなたに対して行ったすべてのあやまちをゆるし、彼らを捕えていった者の前で、彼らにあわれみを得させ、その人々が彼らをあわれむようにしてください。
Forgive them for all the sins that they [have committed] against you, and cause their enemies to be kind to them.
51 （彼らはあなたがエジプトから、鉄のかまどの中から導き出されたあなたの民、あなたの嗣業であるからです）。
Do not forget that the Israelis are your people; they are your special possession; you brought [our ancestors] out of Egypt where [they were greatly suffering as though] they were in a blazing furnace.
52 どうぞ、しもべの願いと、あなたの民イスラエルの願いに、あなたの目を開き、すべてあなたに呼び求める時、彼らの願いをお聞きください。
I request that you always listen to your Israeli people and to me, their king, and heed their prayers whenever they call out to you [to help them].
53 あなたは彼らを地のすべての民のうちから区別して、あなたの嗣業とされたからです。主なる神よ、あなたがわれわれの先祖をエジプトから導き出された時、モーセによって言われたとおりです」。
You chose them from all the other people-groups in the world to belong to you, which is what you told Moses to tell them when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
54 ソロモンはこの祈と願いをことごとく主にささげ終ると、それまで天に向かって手を伸べ、ひざまずいていた主の祭壇の前から立ちあがり、
After Solomon had finished praying and pleading to Yahweh [for his help], he stood up in front of the altar where he had been kneeling. He lifted up his arms.
55 立って大声でイスラエルの全会衆を祝福して言った、
Then he [asked God to] bless all the Israeli people. [He prayed] loudly, saying,
56 「主はほむべきかな。主はすべて約束されたように、その民イスラエルに太平を賜わった。そのしもべモーセによって仰せられたその良き約束は皆一つもたがわなかった。
“Praise Yahweh, who has given us his people peace, like he promised that he would do. He has done every one of the good things that he promised to Moses, the man who served him [very well].
57 われわれの神がわれわれの先祖と共におられたように、われわれと共におられるように。われわれを離れず、またわれわれを見捨てられないように。
I pray that our God will be with us like he was with our ancestors, and that he will never abandon us.
58 われわれの心を主に傾けて、主のすべての道に歩ませ、われわれの先祖に命じられた戒めと定めと、おきてとを守らせられるように。
I pray that he will cause us to loyally serve him, to conduct our lives as he wants us to, and to obey all his commandments and statutes and laws that he gave to our ancestors.
59 主の前にわたしが述べたこれらの願いの言葉が、日夜われわれの神、主に覚えられるように。そして主は日々の事に、しもべを助け、主の民イスラエルを助けられるように。
I pray that Yahweh our God will never forget these words that I have prayed, pleading for his help; I pray that he will think about them by day and by night. I pray that he will always help [us] Israeli people and me, giving us the things that we need day by day.
60 そうすれば、地のすべての民は主が神であることと、他に神のないことを知るに至るであろう。
If he does that, all the people-groups in the world will know that he is the only one who is God, and that there is no other one who is God.
61 それゆえ、あなたがたは、今日のようにわれわれの神、主に対して、心は全く真実であり、主の定めに歩み、主の戒めを守らなければならない」。
I pray that you, [his people, ] will always be fully committed to Yahweh, and that you will obey all his statutes and commands, like you are doing now.”
62 そして王および王と共にいるすべてのイスラエルびとは主の前に犠牲をささげた。
Then the king and all the Israeli people who were there offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
63 ソロモンは酬恩祭として牛二万二千頭、羊十二万頭を主にささげた。こうして王とイスラエルの人々は皆主の宮を奉献した。
They sacrificed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then the king and all the people dedicated the temple.
64 その日、王は主の宮の前にある庭の中を聖別し、その所で燔祭と素祭と酬恩祭の脂肪をささげた。これは主の前にある青銅の祭壇が素祭と酬恩祭の脂肪とを受けるに足りなかったからである。
On that day, the king also dedicated/set apart the middle part of the courtyard that was in front of the temple. Then he offered sacrifices that would be completely burned [in the courtyard], the offerings of grain and the fat of the animals that were sacrificed to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. They sacrificed them there because the bronze altar was not big enough for all those sacrifices to be burned on it [that day].
65 その時ソロモンは七日の間われわれの神、主の前に祭を行った。ハマテの入口からエジプトの川に至るまでのすべてのイスラエルびとの大いなる会衆が彼と共にいた。
Then Solomon and all the Israeli people celebrated the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters for seven days. There was a huge crowd of people there, some of whom had come from [distant places like] Hamath [in the far north] and the border of Egypt [in the far south].
66 八日目にソロモンは民を帰らせた。民は王を祝福し、主がそのしもべダビデと、その民イスラエルとに施されたもろもろの恵みを喜び、心に楽しんでその天幕に帰って行った。
On the eighth day, Solomon sent the people to their homes. They all praised him and went home happy because of all the things that Yahweh had done to bless [King] David and his Israeli people.
