歴代誌Ⅱ 15
1 時に神の霊がオデデの子アザリヤに臨んだので、
The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded.
2 彼は出ていってアサを迎え、これに言った、「アサおよびユダとベニヤミンの人々よ、わたしに聞きなさい。あなたがたが主と共におる間は、主もあなたがたと共におられます。あなたがたが、もし彼を求めるならば、彼に会うでしょう。しかし、彼を捨てるならば、彼もあなたがたを捨てられるでしょう。
He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
3 そもそも、イスラエルには長い間、まことの神がなく、教をなす祭司もなく、律法もなかった。
Now for a long period, Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without the law.
4 しかし、悩みの時、彼らがイスラエルの神、主に立ち返り、彼を求めたので彼に会った。
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
5 そのころは、出る者にも入る者にも、平安がなく、大いなる騒乱が国々のすべての住民を悩ました。
In those times there was no peace for him who traveled away, nor for him who traveled to here; instead, great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
6 国は国に、町は町に撃ち砕かれた。神がもろもろの悩みをもって彼らを苦しめられたからです。
They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city, for God troubled them with all kinds of suffering.
7 しかしあなたがたは勇気を出しなさい。手を弱くしてはならない。あなたがたのわざには報いがあるからです」。
But be strong, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work will be rewarded.”
8 アサはこれらの言葉すなわちオデデの子アザリヤの預言を聞いて勇気を得、憎むべき偶像をユダとベニヤミンの全地から除き、また彼がエフライムの山地で得た町々から除き、主の宮の廊の前にあった主の祭壇を再興した。
When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and drove away the disgusting things from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt Yahweh's altar, which was in front of the portico of Yahweh's house.
9 彼はまたユダとベニヤミンの人々およびエフライム、マナセ、シメオンから来て、彼らの間に寄留していた者を集めた。その神、主がアサと共におられるのを見て、イスラエルからアサのもとに下った者が多くあったからである。
He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who stayed with them—people from of Ephraim and Manasseh, and from Simeon. For they came from Israel to him in great numbers, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
10 彼らはアサの治世の十五年の三月にエルサレムに集まり、
So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
11 携えてきたぶんどり物のうちから牛七百頭、羊七千頭をその日主にささげた。
They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day some of the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep and goats.
12 そして彼らは契約を結び、心をつくし、精神をつくして先祖の神、主を求めることと、
They entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their soul.
13 すべてイスラエルの神、主を求めない者は老幼男女の別なく殺さるべきことを約した。
They agreed that whoever refused to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether the person was small or great, whether man or woman.
14 そして彼らは大声をあげて叫び、ラッパを吹き、角笛を鳴らして、主に誓いを立てた。
They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, and with trumpets and horns.
15 ユダは皆その誓いを喜んだ。彼らは心をつくして誓いを立て、精神をつくして主を求めたので、主は彼らに会い、四方で彼らに安息を賜わった。
All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and they sought God with their whole desire, and he was found by them. Yahweh gave them peace all around them.
16 アサ王の母マアカがアシラのために憎むべき像を造ったので、アサは彼女をおとして太后とせず、その憎むべき像を切り倒して粉々に砕き、キデロン川でそれを焼いた。
He also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen, because she had made a disgusting figure out of an Asherah pole. Asa cut down the disgusting figure, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron.
17 ただし高き所はイスラエルから除かなかったが、アサの心は一生の間、正しかった。
But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days.
18 彼はまた、その父のささげた物および自分のささげた物、すなわち銀、金並びに器物などを主の宮に携え入れた。
He brought into the house of God the silver and gold and the utensils that he and his father had dedicated for that purpose.
19 そしてアサの治世の三十五年までは再び戦争がなかった。
There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.
