歴代誌Ⅱ 9
1 シバの女王はソロモンの名声を聞いたので、難問をもってソロモンを試みようと、非常に多くの従者を連れ、香料と非常にたくさんの金と宝石とをらくだに負わせて、エルサレムのソロモンのもとに来て、その心にあることをことごとく彼に告げた。
When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. She came with a very long caravan, with camels loaded with spices, much gold, and many precious gemstones. When she had come to Solomon, she told him all that was in her heart.
2 ソロモンは彼女のすべての問に答えた。ソロモンが知らないで彼女に説明のできないことは一つもなかった。
Solomon answered her all her questions; nothing was too difficult for Solomon; there was no question that he did not answer.
3 シバの女王はソロモンの知恵と、彼が建てた家を見、
When the queen of Sheba saw Solomon's wisdom and the palace that he had built,
4 またその食卓の食物と、列座の家来たちと、その侍臣たちの伺候振りと彼らの服装、および彼の給仕たちとその服装、ならびに彼が主の宮でささげる燔祭を見て、全く気を奪われてしまった。
the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the work of his servants and their clothing, also his cupbearers and their clothing, and the burnt offerings he made at the house of Yahweh, and there was no more breath in her.
5 彼女は王に言った、「わたしが国であなたの事と、あなたの知恵について聞いたうわさは真実でした。
She said to the king, “It is true, the report that I heard in my own land of your words and your wisdom.
6 しかしわたしは来て目に見るまでは、そのうわさを信じませんでしたが、今見ると、あなたの知恵の大いなることはその半分もわたしに知らされませんでした。あなたはわたしの聞いたうわさにまさっています。
I did not believe what I heard until I came here, and now my eyes have seen it. Not half was told me about your wisdom and wealth! You have exceeded the fame that I heard about.
7 あなたの奥方たちはさいわいです。常にあなたの前に立って、あなたの知恵を聞くこのあなたの家来たちはさいわいです。
How blessed are your people, and how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you, because they hear your wisdom.
8 あなたの神、主はほむべきかな。主はあなたを喜び、あなたをその位につかせ、あなたの神、主のために王とされました。あなたの神はイスラエルを愛して、とこしえにこれを堅くするために、あなたをその王とされ、公道と正義を行われるのです」。
Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has taken pleasure in you, who placed you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God. Because your God loved Israel, in order to establish them forever, he had made you king over them, for you to do justice and righteousness!”
9 そして彼女は金百二十タラント、および非常に多くの香料と宝石とを王に贈った。シバの女王がソロモンに贈ったような香料は、いまだかつてなかった。
She gave the king 120 talents of gold and a large amount of spices and precious stones. No greater amount of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon was ever given to him again.
10 オフルから金を携えて来たヒラムのしもべたちとソロモンのしもべたちはまた、びゃくだんの木と宝石をも携えて来た。
The servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum wood and precious stones.
11 王はそのびゃくだんの木で、主の宮と王の家とに階段を造り、また歌うたう者のために琴と立琴を造った。このようなものはかつてユダの地で見たことがなかった。
With the algum wood, the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and for his house, as well as harps and lyres for the musicians. No wood like this had been seen before in the land of Judah.
12 ソロモン王は、シバの女王が贈った物に報いたほかに、彼女の望みにまかせて、すべてその求めるものを贈った。そして彼女はその家来たちと共に自分の国へ帰って行った。
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba everything she desired and whatever she asked for; he gave her more than what she had brought to the king. So she left and went back to her own land, she and her servants.
13 さて一年の間にソロモンの所にはいって来た金の目方は六百六十六タラントであった。
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
14 このほかに貿易商および商人の携えて来たものがあった。またアラビヤのすべての王たちおよび国の代官たちも金銀をソロモンに携えてきた。
besides the gold that the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors in the country also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
15 ソロモン王は延金の大盾二百を造った。その大盾にはおのおの六百シケルの延金を用いた。
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of gold went into each one.
16 また延金の小盾三百を造った。小盾にはおのおの三百シケルの金を用いた。王はこれらをレバノンの森の家に置いた。
He also made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three minas of gold went into each shield; the king put them into the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
17 王はまた大きな象牙の玉座を造り、純金でこれをおおった。
Then the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the finest gold.
18 その玉座には六つの段があり、また金の足台があって共に玉座につらなり、その座する所の両方に、ひじかけがあって、ひじかけのわきに二つのししが立っていた。
There were six steps to the throne, and a footstool was attached to the throne. On each side of the throne there were armrests with two lions standing beside each of them.
19 また十二のししが六つの段のおのおのの両側に立っていた。このような物はどこの国でも造られたことがなかった。
Twelve lions stood on the steps, one on each side of each of the six steps. There was no throne like it in any other kingdom.
20 ソロモン王が飲むときに用いた器はみな金であった。またレバノンの森の家の器もみな純金であって、銀はソロモンの世には尊ばれなかった。
All King Solomon's drinking cups were gold, and all the drinking cups in the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were silver because silver was not considered valuable in Solomon's days.
21 これは王の船がヒラムのしもべたちを乗せてタルシシへ行き、三年ごとに一度、そのタルシシの船が金、銀、象牙、さる、くじゃくを載せて来たからである。
The king had at sea a fleet of oceangoing ships, along with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet brought gold, silver, and ivory, as well as apes and baboons.
22 このようにソロモン王は富と知恵において、地のすべての王にまさっていたので、
So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the world in riches and in wisdom.
23 地のすべての王は神がソロモンの心に授けられた知恵を聞こうとしてソロモンに謁見を求めた。
All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon in order to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
24 人々はおのおの贈り物を携えてきた。すなわち銀の器、金の器、衣服、没薬、香料、馬、騾馬など年々定まっていた。
Those who visited brought tribute, vessels of silver and of gold, clothes, armor, and spices, as well as horses and mules, year after year.
25 ソロモンは馬と戦車のために馬屋四千と騎兵一万二千を持ち、これを戦車の町に置き、またエルサレムの王のもとに置いた。
Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with himself in Jerusalem.
26 彼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すべての王を治めた。
He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
27 王はまた銀を石のようにエルサレムに多くし、香柏を平野のいちじく桑のように多くした。
The king had silver in Jerusalem, as much as the stones on the ground. He made cedar wood to be as abundant as the sycamore fig trees that are in the lowlands.
28 また人々はエジプトおよび諸国から馬をソロモンのために輸入した。
They brought horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all the lands.
29 ソロモンのそのほかの始終の行為は、預言者ナタンの書と、シロびとアヒヤの預言と、先見者イドがネバテの子ヤラベアムについて述べた黙示のなかに、しるされているではないか。
As for the other matters concerning Solomon, first and last, are they not written in The History of Nathan the Prophet, in The Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in The Visions of Iddo the Seer (which also had information about Jeroboam son of Nebat)?
30 ソロモンはエルサレムで四十年の間イスラエルの全地を治めた。
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.
31 ソロモンはその先祖たちと共に眠って、父ダビデの町に葬られ、その子レハベアムが代って王となった。
He slept with his ancestors and the people buried him in the city of David his father. Rehoboam, his son, became king in his place.
