歴代誌Ⅱ 17
1 アサの子ヨシヤパテ、アサに代りて王となりイスラエルにむかひて力を強くし
And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.
2 ユダの一切の堅固なる邑々に兵を置きユダの地およびその父アサが取たるエフライムの邑々に鎮臺を置く
He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3 ヱホバ、ヨシヤパテとともに在せり其は彼その父ダビデの最初の道に歩みてバアル等を求めず
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,
4 その父の神を求めてその誡命に歩みイスラエルの行爲に傚はざればなり
But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.
5 このゆゑにヱホバ國を彼の手に堅く立たまへりまたユダの人衆みなヨシヤパテに禮物を餽れり彼は富と貴とを極めたり
So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.
6 是において彼ヱホバの道にその心を勵まし遂に崇邱とアシラ像とをユダより除けり
His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.
7 彼またその治世の三年にその牧伯ベネハイル、オバデヤ、ゼカリヤ、ネタンエルおよびミカヤを遣はしてユダの邑々にて敎誨をなさしめ
In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;
8 またレビ人の中よりシマヤ、ネタニヤ、ゼバデヤ、アサヘル、セミラモテ、ヨナタン、アドニヤ、トビヤ、トバドニヤなどいふレビ人を遣して之と偕ならしめ且祭司エリシヤマとヨラムをも之と偕に遣はしけるが
And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.
9 彼らはヱホバの律法の書を携ヘユダにおいて敎誨をなしユダの邑々を盡く行めぐりて民を敎へたり。
And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.
10 是においてユダの周圍の地の國々みなヱホバを懼れてヨシヤパテを攻ることをせざりき
And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.
11 またペリシテ人の中に禮物および貢の銀をヨシヤパテに餽れる者あり且又アラビヤ人は家畜をこれに餽れり即ち牡羊七千七百牡山羊七千七百
And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.
12 ヨシヤパテは益々大になりゆきてユダに城および府庫邑を多く建て
Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.
13 ユダの邑々に多くの工事を爲し大勇士たる軍人をヱルサレムに置り
He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.
14 彼等を數ふるにその宗家に循へば左のごとしユダより出たる千人の長の中にはアデナといふ軍長あり大勇士三十萬これに從がふ
This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;
15 その次は軍長ヨハナン之に從ふ者は二十八萬人
Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;
16 その次はジクリの子アマシヤ彼は悦びてその身をヱホバに献げたり大勇士二十萬これに從がふ
After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;
17 ベニヤミンより出たる者の中にはエリアダといふ大勇士あり弓および楯を持もの二十萬これに從がふ
And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;
18 その次はヨザバデ戰門の準備をなせる者十八萬これに從がふ
And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.
19 是等は皆王に事ふる者等なり此外にまたユダ全國の堅固なる邑々に王の置る者あり
These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.
