歴代誌Ⅱ 27

1 ヨタムは王となった時二十五歳で、十六年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。その母はザドクの娘で名をエルシャといった。

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 ヨタムはその父ウジヤがしたように主の良しと見られることをした。しかし主の宮には、はいらなかった。民はなお悪を行った。

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

3 彼は主の宮の上の門を建て、オペルの石がきを多く築き増し、

He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

4 またユダの山地に数個の町を建て、林の間に城とやぐらを築いた。

In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

5 彼はアンモンびとの王と戦ってこれに勝った。その年アンモンの人々は銀百タラント、小麦一万コル、大麦一万コルを彼に贈った。アンモンの人々は第二年にも第三年にも同じように彼に納めた。

He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

6 ヨタムはその神、主の前にその行いを堅くしたので力ある者となった。

So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

7 ヨタムのその他の行為、そのすべての戦いおよびその行いなどは、イスラエルとユダの列王の書にしるされている。

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

8 彼は王となった時、二十五歳で、十六年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

9 ヨタムはその先祖と共に眠ったので、ダビデの町に葬られ、その子アハズが彼に代って王となった。

And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.