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。
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
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 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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。
The king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and one 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。
The king of Egypt made Eliakim, who was the brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem (and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim). Then Necho took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and brought 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 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh 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 him and bound him in chains to lead him away 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 carried some of the objects in the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his palace at 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。
As for the other matters concerning Jehoiakim, the disgusting things that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. Then Jehoiachin, his son, became king in his place.
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 eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
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, King Nebuchadnezzar sent men and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable things from the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah, his relative, 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 years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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 what was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of Yahweh.
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。
Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear loyalty to him by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, 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。
Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people were extremely unfaithful, and they followed the disgusting practices of the nations. They polluted the house of Yahweh which he had consecrated 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、
Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them by his messengers again and again, because he had compassion on his people and on the place where he lives.
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 mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no help for it.
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 God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.
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、
All the furnishings of the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king and his officials—all these he took to Babylon.
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。
They burned down the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all the beautiful things in it.
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。
The king carried away to Babylon those who had escaped the sword. They became servants for him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia.
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。
This happened to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land should have enjoyed its Sabbath rests. It observed its Sabbath for as long as it lay abandoned, in order to pass seventy years in this way.
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、
Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be carried out, Yahweh motivated the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing. He said,
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: Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has commanded me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh your God, be with you. Let him go up to the land.”
