| 24-1 |
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba. |
ヨアシは位についた時七歳で、エルサレムで四十年の間、世を治めた。彼の母はベエルシバから出た者で名をヂビアといった。 |
| 24-2 |
And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest. |
ヨアシは祭司エホヤダの世にある日の間は常に主の良しと見られることを行った。 |
| 24-3 |
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. |
エホヤダは彼のためにふたりの妻をめとり、彼に男子と女子が生れた。 |
| 24-4 |
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of Jehovah. |
この後ヨアシは主の宮を修繕しようと志して、 |
| 24-5 |
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. |
祭司とレビびとを集めて言った、「ユダの町々へ行って、あなたがたの神の宮を年々修繕する資金をすべてのイスラエルびとから集めなさい。その事を急いでしなさい」。ところがレビびとはこれを急いでしなかった。 |
| 24-6 |
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Jehovah, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony? |
それで王はかしらであるエホヤダを召して言った、「あなたはなぜレビびとに求めて、主のしもべモーセがあかしの幕屋のためにイスラエルの会衆に課した税金をユダとエルサレムから取り立てさせないのか」。 |
| 24-7 |
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of Jehovah did they bestow upon the Baalim. |
かの悪い女アタリヤの子らが神の宮に侵入して主の宮のもろもろの奉納物をとり、バアルのために用いたからである。 |
| 24-8 |
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of Jehovah. |
そこで王は命じて一個の箱を造らせ、これを主の宮の門の外に置き、 |
| 24-9 |
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Jehovah the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. |
ユダとエルサレムにふれて、神のしもべモーセが荒野でイスラエルに課した税金を主のために持ってこさせた。 |
| 24-10 |
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. |
すべてのつかさたちおよびすべての民は皆喜んでその税金を持って来て、その箱に投げ入れたので、ついに箱はいっぱいになった。 |
| 24-11 |
And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. |
レビびとはその箱に金が多くあるのを見て、王の役人の所へ持って行くと、王の書記と祭司長の下役とが来て、その箱を傾け、これを取ってもとの所に返した。彼らは日々このようにして金をおびただしく集めた。 |
| 24-12 |
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Jehovah, and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Jehovah. |
王とエホヤダはこれを主の宮の工事をなす者に渡し、石工および木工を雇って、主の宮を修繕させ、また鉄工および青銅工を雇って、主の宮を修復させた。 |
| 24-13 |
So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it. |
工人たちは働いたので、修復の工事は彼らの手によってはかどり、神の宮を、もとの状態に復し、これを堅固にした。 |
| 24-14 |
And when they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of Jehovah, even vessels wherewith to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of Jehovah continually all the days of Jehoiada. |
それをなし終ったとき、余った金を王とエホヤダの前に持って来たので、それをもって主の宮のために器物を造った。すなわち勤めの器、燔祭の器、香の皿、および金銀の器を造った。エホヤダの世にある日の間は、絶えず主の宮で燔祭をささげた。 |
| 24-15 |
But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. |
しかしエホヤダは年老い、日が満ちて死んだ。その死んだ時は百三十歳であった。 |
| 24-16 |
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house. |
人々は彼をダビデの町で王たちの中に葬った。彼はイスラエルにおいて神とその宮とに良い事を行ったからである。 |
| 24-17 |
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. |
エホヤダの死んだ後、ユダのつかさたちが来て、うやうやしく王に敬意を表した。王は彼らに聞き従った。 |
| 24-18 |
And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. |
彼らはその先祖の神、主の宮を捨てて、アシラ像および偶像に仕えたので、そのとがのために、怒りがユダとエルサレムに臨んだ。 |
| 24-19 |
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear. |
主は彼らをご自分に引き返そうとして、預言者たちをつかわし、彼らにむかってあかしをさせられたが、耳を傾けなかった。 |
| 24-20 |
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of Jehovah, so that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken Jehovah, he hath also forsaken you. |
そこで神の霊が祭司エホヤダの子ゼカリヤに臨んだので、彼は民の前に立ち上がって言った、「神はこう仰せられる、『あなたがたが主の戒めを犯して、災を招くのはどういうわけであるか。あなたがたが主を捨てたために、主もあなたがたを捨てられたのである』」。 |
| 24-21 |
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah. |
しかし人々は彼を害しようと計り、王の命によって、石をもって彼を主の宮の庭で撃ち殺した。 |
| 24-22 |
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah look upon it, and require it. |
このようにヨアシ王はゼカリヤの父エホヤダが自分に施した恵みを思わず、その子を殺した。ゼカリヤは死ぬ時、「どうぞ主がこれをみそなわして罰せられるように」と言った。 |
| 24-23 |
And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. |
年の終りになって、スリヤの軍勢はヨアシにむかって攻め上り、ユダとエルサレムに来て、民のつかさたちをことごとく民のうちから滅ぼし、そのぶんどり物を皆ダマスコの王に送った。 |
| 24-24 |
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Jehovah delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash. |
この時スリヤの軍勢は少数で来たのであるが、主は大軍を彼らの手に渡された。これは彼らがその先祖の神、主を捨てたためである。このように彼らはヨアシを罰した。 |
| 24-25 |
And when they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. |
スリヤ軍はヨアシに大傷を負わせて捨て去ったが、ヨアシの家来たちは祭司エホヤダの子の血のために、党を結んで彼にそむき、彼を床の上に殺して、死なせた。人々は彼をダビデの町に葬ったが、王の墓には葬らなかった。 |
| 24-26 |
And these are they that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. |
党を結んで彼にそむいた者は、アンモンの女シメアテの子ザバデおよびモアブの女シムリテの子ヨザバデであった。 |
| 24-27 |
Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. |
ヨアシの子らのこと、ヨアシに対する多くの預言および神の宮の修理の事などは、列王の書の注釈にしるされている。ヨアシの子アマジヤが彼に代って王となった。 |