歴代誌Ⅱ 36
1 国の民はヨシヤの子エホアハズを立て、エルサレムでその父に代って王とならせた。
The people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in succession to his father.
2 エホアハズは王となった時二十三歳で、エルサレムで三月の間、世を治めたが、
Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months.
3 エジプトの王はエルサレムで彼を廃し、かつ銀百タラント、金一タラントの罰金を国に課した。
Then the king of Egypt removed him from the throne in Jerusalem and imposed a tax on Judah of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 そしてエジプト王は彼の兄弟エリアキムをユダとエルサレムの王とし、その名をエホヤキムと改め、その兄弟エホアハズを捕えてエジプトへ引いて行った。
Neco, king of Egypt, made Eliakim, Jehoahaz's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz back with him to Egypt.
5 エホヤキムは王となった時二十五歳で、十一年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。彼はその神、主の前に悪を行った。
Jehoiakim was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 時に、バビロンの王ネブカデネザルが彼の所に攻め上り、彼をバビロンに引いて行こうとして、かせにつないだ。
Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jehoiakim. He captured him and put bronze shackles on him, and brought him to Babylon.
7 ネブカデネザルはまた主の宮の器物をバビロンに運んで行って、バビロンにあるその宮殿にそれをおさめた。
Nebuchadnezzar also took some items from the Lord's Temple, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
8 エホヤキムのその他の行為、その行った憎むべき事および彼がひそかに行った事などは、イスラエルとユダの列王の書にしるされている。その子エホヤキンが彼に代って王となった。
The rest of what Jehoiakim, the disgusting sins he committed, and all the evidence against him, are written down in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiachin took over as king.
9 エホヤキンは王となった時八歳で、エルサレムで三月と十日の間、世を治め、主の前に悪を行った。
Jehoiachin was eighteen when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months and ten days. He did evil in the Lord's sight.
10 年が改まり春になって、ネブカデネザル王は人をつかわして、彼を主の宮の尊い器物と共にバビロンに連れて行かせ、その兄弟ゼデキヤをユダとエルサレムの王とした。
In the spring of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and brought him to Babylon, along with valuable items from the Lord's Temple, and he made Jehoiachin's uncle Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 ゼデキヤは王となった時二十一歳で、十一年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。
Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years.
12 彼はその神、主の前に悪を行い、主の言葉を伝える預言者エレミヤの前に、身をひくくしなかった。
He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and he refused to admit his pride when the prophet Jeremiah warned him directly from the Lord.
13 彼はまた、彼に神をさして誓わせたネブカデネザル王にもそむいた。彼は強情で、その心をかたくなにして、イスラエルの神、主に立ち返らなかった。
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath of loyalty by God. Zedekiah was arrogant and hard-hearted, and refused to come back to the Lord, the God of Israel.
14 祭司のかしらたちおよび民らもまた、すべて異邦人のもろもろの憎むべき行為にならって、はなはだしく罪を犯し、主がエルサレムに聖別しておかれた主の宮を汚した。
All the leaders of the priests and the people were also totally faithless and sinful, following all the disgusting practices of the heathen nations. They defiled the Lord's Temple that he had set apart as holy in Jerusalem.
15 その先祖の神、主はその民と、すみかをあわれむがゆえに、しきりに、その使者を彼らにつかわされたが、
Again and again the Lord, the God of their fathers, warned his people through his prophets, because he wanted to show mercy to them and to his Temple.
16 彼らが神の使者たちをあざけり、その言葉を軽んじ、その預言者たちをののしったので、主の怒りがその民に向かって起り、ついに救うことができないようになった。
But they ridiculed God's messengers, they despised his warnings and mocked his prophets, until the Lord's anger against his people was provoked to such an extent it couldn't be stopped.
17 そこで主はカルデヤびとの王を彼らに攻めこさせられたので、彼はその聖所の家でつるぎをもって若者たちを殺し、若者をも、処女をも、老人をも、しらがの者をもあわれまなかった。主は彼らをことごとく彼の手に渡された。
So the Lord brought the king of Babylon to attack them. His army killed by the sword their best young men even in the sanctuary. The Babylonians did not spare young men or young women, the sick or the elderly. God handed them all over to Nebuchadnezzar.
18 彼は神の宮のもろもろの大小の器物、主の宮の貨財、王とそのつかさたちの貨財など、すべてこれをバビロンに携えて行き、
He took back to Babylon all the articles, large and small, from God's Temple, and from the Temple treasury, and from the king and from his officials.
19 神の宮を焼き、エルサレムの城壁をくずし、そのうちの宮殿をことごとく火で焼き、そのうちの尊い器物をことごとくこわした。
Then the Babylonians burned down God's Temple and demolished Jerusalem's walls. They set fire to all the palaces and destroyed everything that had any value.
20 彼はまたつるぎをのがれた者どもを、バビロンに捕えて行って、彼とその子らの家来となし、ペルシャの国の興るまで、そうして置いた。
Nebuchadnezzar took into exile in Babylon those who had not been killed. They were slaves for himself and his sons, until the kingdom of Persia took over.
21 これはエレミヤの口によって伝えられた主の言葉の成就するためであった。こうして国はついにその安息をうけた。すなわちこれはその荒れている間、安息して、ついに七十年が満ちた。
So to fulfill the Lord's prophecy given through Jeremiah, the land enjoyed its Sabbaths as rest all the time it was left desolate, keeping the Sabbath until seventy years were completed.
22 ペルシャ王クロスの元年に当り、主はエレミヤの口によって伝えた主の言葉を成就するため、ペルシャ王クロスの霊を感動されたので、王はあまねく国中にふれ示し、またそれを書き示して言った、
In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, to fulfill the Lord's prophecy given through Jeremiah, the Lord encouraged Cyrus, king of Persia, to issue a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also to put it in writing, saying,
23 「ペルシャの王クロスはこう言う、『天の神、主は地上の国々をことごとくわたしに賜わって、主の宮をユダにあるエルサレムに建てることをわたしに命じられた。あなたがたのうち、その民である者は皆、その神、主の助けを得て上って行きなさい』」。
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, who has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, has given me the responsibility to build a Temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone among you who belongs to his people can go there. May the Lord your God be with you.’”
