列王記Ⅱ 21
1 マナセは十二歳で王となり、五十五年の間、エルサレムで世を治めた。母の名はヘフジバといった。
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 マナセは主がイスラエルの人々の前から追い払われた国々の民の憎むべきおこないにならって、主の目の前に悪をおこなった。
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
3 彼は父ヒゼキヤがこわした高き所を建て直し、またイスラエルの王アハブがしたようにバアルのために祭壇を築き、アシラ像を造り、かつ天の万象を拝んで、これに仕えた。
For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he built altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them.
4 また主の宮のうちに数個の祭壇を築いた。これは主が「わたしの名をエルサレムに置こう」と言われたその宮である。
Manasseh built altars in the house of Yahweh, although Yahweh had commanded, “It is in Jerusalem that my name will be forever.”
5 彼はまた主の宮の二つの庭に天の万象のために祭壇を築いた。
He built altars for all the stars of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
6 またその子を火に焼いてささげ物とし、占いをし、魔術を行い、口寄せと魔法使を用い、主の目の前に多くの悪を行って、主の怒りを引き起した。
He caused his son to pass through the fire, he performed sorcery and divination and consulted with those who talked with the dead and with those who talked with spirits. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger.
7 彼はまたアシラの彫像を作って主の宮に置いた。主はこの宮についてダビデとその子ソロモンに言われたことがある、「わたしはこの宮と、わたしがイスラエルのすべての部族のうちから選んだエルサレムとに、わたしの名を永遠に置く。
The carved figure of Asherah that he had made, he placed it in the house of Yahweh. It was about this house that Yahweh had spoken to David and Solomon his son; he had said: “It is in this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, that I will put my name forever.
8 もし、彼らがわたしが命じたすべての事、およびわたしのしもべモーセが命じたすべての律法を守り行うならば、イスラエルの足を、わたしが彼らの先祖たちに与えた地から、重ねて迷い出させないであろう」。
I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land that I gave to their ancestors, if they will only be careful to obey all that I have commanded them, and to follow all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
9 しかし彼らは聞きいれなかった。マナセが人々をいざなって悪を行ったことは、主がイスラエルの人々の前に滅ぼされた国々の民よりもはなはだしかった。
But the people did not listen, and Manasseh led them to do evil even more than the nations that Yahweh had destroyed before the people of Israel.
10 そこで主はそのしもべである預言者たちによって言われた、
So Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 「ユダの王マナセがこれらの憎むべき事を行い、彼の先にあったアモリびとの行ったすべての事よりも悪い事を行い、またその偶像をもってユダに罪を犯させたので、
“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these disgusting things, and has acted wickedly more than all that the Amorites who were before him did, and has also made Judah sin with his idols,
12 イスラエルの神、主はこう仰せられる、見よ、わたしはエルサレムとユダに災をくだそうとしている。これを聞く者は、その耳が二つながら鳴るであろう。
therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this: Look, I am about to bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
13 わたしはサマリヤをはかった測りなわと、アハブの家に用いた下げ振りをエルサレムにほどこし、人が皿をぬぐい、これをぬぐって伏せるように、エルサレムをぬぐい去る。
I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria, and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem clean, as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14 わたしは、わたしの嗣業の民の残りを捨て、彼らを敵の手に渡す。彼らはもろもろの敵のえじきとなり、略奪にあうであろう。
I will throw off the remnant of my inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies. They will become victims and plunder for all their enemies,
15 これは彼らの先祖たちがエジプトを出た日から今日に至るまで、彼らがわたしの目の前に悪を行って、わたしを怒らせたためである」。
because they have done what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their ancestors came out of Egypt, to this day.”
16 マナセはまた主の目の前に悪を行って、ユダに罪を犯させたその罪のほかに、罪なき者の血を多く流して、エルサレムのこの果から、かの果にまで満たした。
Moreover, Manasseh shed much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another with death. This was in addition to the sin by which he made Judah to sin, when they did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
17 マナセのその他の事績と、彼がおこなったすべての事およびその犯した罪は、ユダの王の歴代志の書にしるされているではないか。
As for the other matters concerning Manasseh, all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
18 マナセは先祖たちと共に眠って、その家の園すなわちウザの園に葬られ、その子アモンが代って王となった。
Manasseh slept with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place.
19 アモンは王となった時二十二歳であって、エルサレムで二年の間、世を治めた。母はヨテバのハルツの娘で、名をメシュレメテといった。
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth; she was the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 アモンはその父マナセのおこなったように、主の目の前に悪を行った。
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done.
21 すなわち彼はすべてその父の歩んだ道に歩み、父の仕えた偶像に仕えて、これを拝み、
Amon followed in all the way that his father had walked in and worshiped the idols that his father worshiped, and bowed down to them.
22 先祖たちの神、主を捨てて、主の道に歩まなかった。
He abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.
23 アモンの家来たちはついに彼に敵して徒党を結び、王をその家で殺したが、
The servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his own house.
24 国の民は、アモン王に敵して徒党を結んだ者をことごとく撃ち殺した。そして国の民はアモンの子ヨシヤを王としてアモンに代らせた。
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
25 アモンのその他の事績は、ユダの王の歴代志の書にしるされているではないか。
As for the other matters concerning Amon that he did, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
26 アモンはウザの園にある墓に葬られ、その子ヨシヤが代って王となった。
The people buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.
