2 Kings 25
1 Then it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, arrived against Jerusalem. And they encircled it, and they constructed fortifications all around it.
そこでゼデキヤの治世の第九年の十月十日に、バビロンの王ネブカデネザルはもろもろの軍勢を率い、エルサレムにきて、これにむかって陣を張り、周囲にとりでを築いてこれを攻めた。
2 And the city was enclosed and besieged, even until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,
こうして町は囲まれて、ゼデキヤ王の第十一年にまで及んだが、
3 on the ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; neither was there bread for the people of the land.
その四月九日になって、町のうちにききんが激しくなり、その地の民に食物がなくなった。
4 And the city was breached. And all the men of war fled in the night along the way of the gate which is between the double wall at the garden of the king. Now the Chaldeans were besieging the city on all sides. And so Zedekiah fled along the way which leads to the plains of the wilderness.
町の一角がついに破れたので、王はすべての兵士とともに、王の園のかたわらにある二つの城壁のあいだの門の道から夜のうちに逃げ出して、カルデヤびとが町を囲んでいる間に、アラバの方へ落ち延びた。
5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. And all the warriors who were with him were dispersed, and they abandoned him.
しかしカルデヤびとの軍勢は王を追い、エリコの平地で彼に追いついた。彼の軍勢はみな彼を離れて散り去ったので、
6 Therefore, having apprehended him, they led the king to the king of Babylon at Riblah. And he was speaking with him in judgment.
カルデヤびとは王を捕え、彼をリブラにいるバビロンの王のもとへ引いていって彼の罪を定め、
7 Then he killed the sons of Zedekiah before him, and he dug out his eyes, and he bound him with chains, and he led him away to Babylon.
ゼデキヤの子たちをゼデキヤの目の前で殺し、ゼデキヤの目をえぐり、足かせをかけてバビロンへ連れて行った。
8 In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, went into Jerusalem.
バビロンの王ネブカデネザルの第十九年の五月七日に、バビロンの王の臣、侍衛の長ネブザラダンがエルサレムにきて、
9 And he set fire to the house of the Lord, and to the house of the king. And the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house, he burned with fire.
主の宮と王の家とエルサレムのすべての家を焼いた。すなわち火をもってすべての大きな家を焼いた。
10 And the entire army of the Chaldeans, which was with the leader of the military, tore down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
また侍衛の長と共にいたカルデヤびとのすべての軍勢はエルサレムの周囲の城壁を破壊した。
11 Then Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, carried away the rest of the people, who had remained in the city, and the fugitives, who had fled over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.
そして侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、町に残された民およびバビロン王に降服した者と残りの群衆を捕え移した。
12 But he left behind some vinedressers and farmers from the poor of the land.
ただし侍衛の長はその地の貧しい者を残して、ぶどうを作る者とし、農夫とした。
13 Now the pillars of brass which were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke apart. And they took all the brass to Babylon.
カルデヤびとはまた主の宮の青銅の柱と、主の宮の洗盤の台と、青銅の海を砕いて、その青銅をバビロンに運び、
14 Also, they took away the cooking pots of brass, and the scoops, and the forks, and the cups, and the little mortars, and all the articles of brass with which they were ministering.
またつぼと、十能と、心切りばさみと、香を盛る皿およびすべて神殿の務に用いる青銅の器、
15 And the leader of the military even took away the censers and the bowls, whatever was of gold for the gold, and whatever was of silver for the silver,
また心取り皿と鉢を取り去った。侍衛の長はまた金で作った物と銀で作った物を取り去った。
16 and also the two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord. The brass of all these items was beyond measure.
ソロモンが主の宮のために造った二つの柱と、一つの海と洗盤の台など、これらのもろもろの器の青銅の重さは量ることができなかった。
17 One pillar had eighteen cubits in height. And the head of brass upon it was three cubits in height. And the network and pomegranates upon the head of the pillar were all of brass. And the second pillar had a similar adornment.
一つの柱の高さは十八キュビトで、その上に青銅の柱頭があり、柱頭の高さは三キュビトで、柱頭の周囲に網細工とざくろがあって、みな青銅であった。他の柱もその網細工もこれと同じであった。
18 Also, the leader of the military took away Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and three doorkeepers,
侍衛の長は祭司長セラヤと次席の祭司ゼパニヤと三人の門を守る者を捕え、
19 and from the city, one eunuch, who was in charge of the men of war, and five men out of those who had stood before the king, whom he found in the city, and Sopher, the leader of the army who trained the young soldiers from the people of the land, and sixty men from the common people, who had been found in the city.
また兵士をつかさどるひとりの役人と、王の前にはべる者のうち、町で見つかった者五人と、その地の民を募った軍勢の長の書記官と、町で見つかったその地の民六十人を町から捕え去った。
20 Taking them, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
侍衛の長ネブザラダンは彼らを捕えて、リブラにいるバビロンの王のもとへ連れて行ったので、
21 And the king of Babylon struck them and killed them at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. And Judah was taken away from his land.
バビロンの王はハマテの地のリブラで彼らを撃ち殺した。このようにしてユダはその地から捕え移された。
22 But over the people who had remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had permitted, he appointed as ruler Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.
さてバビロンの王ネブカデネザルはユダの地に残してとどまらせた民の上に、シャパンの子アヒカムの子であるゲダリヤを立てて総督とした。
23 And when all the commanders of the military had heard this, they and the men who were with them, specifically, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah: Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth, the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of a Maacathite, they and their companions.
時に軍勢の長たちおよびその部下の人々は、バビロンの王がゲダリヤを総督としたことを聞いて、ミヅパにいるゲダリヤのもとにきた。すなわちネタニヤの子イシマエル、カレヤの子ヨハナン、ネトパびとタンホメテの子セラヤ、マアカびとの子ヤザニヤおよびその部下の人々がゲダリヤのもとにきた。
24 And Gedaliah swore to them and to their companions, saying: “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Remain in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”
ゲダリヤは彼らとその部下の人々に誓って言った、「あなたがたはカルデヤびとのしもべとなることを恐れてはならない。この地に住んで、バビロンの王に仕えなさい。そうすればあなたがたは幸福を得るでしょう」。
25 But it happened that, in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of royal offspring, and ten men with him, went and struck Gedaliah, who then died, along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
ところが七月になって、王の血統のエリシャマの子であるネタニヤの子イシマエルは十人の者と共にきて、ゲダリヤを撃ち殺し、また彼と共にミヅパにいたユダヤ人と、カルデヤびとを殺した。
26 And all the people, from small to great, and the leaders of the military, rising up, went away to Egypt, fearing the Chaldeans.
そのため、大小の民および軍勢の長たちは、みな立ってエジプトへ行った。彼らはカルデヤびとを恐れたからである。
27 Truly, it happened that, in the thirty-seventh year of the transmigration of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach, the king of Babylon, in the year when he had begun to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, from prison.
ユダの王エホヤキンが捕え移されて後三十七年の十二月二十七日、すなわちバビロンの王エビルメロダクの治世の第一年に、王はユダの王エホヤキンを獄屋から出して
28 And he spoke kindly to him. And he set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him at Babylon.
ねんごろに彼を慰め、その位を彼と共にバビロンにいる王たちの位よりも高くした。
29 And he changed his garments that he had worn in prison. And he ate bread before him always, during all the days of his life.
こうしてエホヤキンはその獄屋の衣を脱ぎ、一生の間、常に王の前で食事した。
30 Also, he appointed to him an allowance without ceasing, which also was given to him by the king, for each day, during all the days of his life.
彼は一生の間、たえず日々の分を王から賜わって、その食物とした。
