歴代誌Ⅱ 35

1 茲にヨシア、ヱルサレムにおいてヱホバに逾越節を行はんとし正月の十四日に逾越の物を宰らしめ

Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem, and they killed the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 祭司をしてその職を執行はせ之を勵してヱホバの室の務をなさしめ

He placed the priests in their positions and encouraged them in the service of the house of Yahweh.

3 またヱホバの聖者となりてイスラエルの人衆を誨ふるレビ人に言ふ汝らイスラエルの王ダビデの子ソロモンが建たる家に聖契約の匱を放け再び肩に擔ふこと有ざるべし然ば今汝らの神ヱホバおよびその民イスラエルに事ふべし

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were set apart to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel built. Do not carry it around on your shoulders any longer. Now worship Yahweh your God, and serve his people Israel.

4 汝らまたイスラエルの王ダビデの書およびその子ソロモンの書に本づきて父祖の家に循がひその班列に依て自ら準備をなし

Organize yourselves by the name of your ancestral houses and your divisions, following the written instructions of David, king of Israel, and those of Solomon, his son.

5 汝らの兄弟なる民の人々の宗家の區分に循ひて聖所に立ち之にレビ人の宗族の分缺ること無らしむべし

Stand in the holy place, taking your position with your divisions within the ancestral houses of your brothers, the descendants of the people, and taking your places with your divisions within the ancestral houses of the Levites.

6 汝ら逾越の物を宰り身を潔め汝らの兄弟のために準備をなしモーセが傳へしヱホバの言のごとく行ふべしと

Kill the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, prepare the lambs for your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh that was given by the hand of Moses.”

7 ヨシアすなはち羔羊および羔山羊を民の人々に餽る其數三萬また牡牛三千を餽る是みな王の所有の中より出して其處に居る一切の人のために逾越の祭物となせるなり

Josiah gave to all the people thirty thousand lambs and kids from flocks for the Passover offerings to all who were present. He also gave three thousand bulls; these were from the king's possessions.

8 その牧伯等も民と祭司とレビ人に誠意より與ふる所ありまた神の室の長等ヒルキヤ、ゼカリヤ、ヱヒエルも綿羊二千六百牛三百を祭司に與へて逾越の祭物と爲す

His leaders gave a free will offering to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the officials in charge of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 small cattle and three hundred oxen.

9 またレビ人の長たる人々すなはちコナニヤおよびその兄弟シマヤ、ネタンエル並にハシヤビヤ、ヱイエル、ヨザバデなども綿羊五千牛五百をレビ人に餽りて逾越の祭物となす

Also Konaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

10 是のごとく献祭の事備はりぬれば王の命にしたがひて祭司等はその擔任場に立ちレビ人はその班列に循がひ居り

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, with the Levites by their divisions, in response to the king's command.

11 やがて逾越の物を宰りければ祭司その血をこれが手より受て洒げりレビ人その皮を剥り

They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood that they received from the Levites' hand, and the Levites skinned the lambs.

12 かくて燔祭の物を移して民の人々の父祖の家の區分に付してヱホバに献げしむモーセの書に記されたるが如し其牛に行ふところも亦是のごとし

They removed the burnt offerings, in order to distribute them to the divisions of the ancestral houses of the people, to offer them to Yahweh, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the bulls.

13 而して例規のごとくに逾越の物を火にて炙りその他の聖物を鍋釜鼎などに烹て一切の民の人々に奔配れり

They roasted the Passover lambs with fire following the instructions. As for the consecrated offerings, they boiled them in pots, cauldrons, and pans, and they quickly carried them to all the people.

14 かくて後かれら自身のためと祭司等のために備ふ其はアロンの子孫たる祭司等は燔祭と脂を献げて夜に入たればなり是に因て斯レビ人自分のためとアロンの子孫たる祭司等のために備ふるなり

They later prepared offerings for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were occupied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until nightfall, so the Levites prepared the offerings for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

15 アサフの子孫たる謳歌者等はダビデ、アサフ、ヘマンおよび王の先見者ヱドトンの命にしたがひてその擔任場に居り門を守る者等は門々に居てその職務を離るるに及ばざりき其はその兄弟たるレビ人これがために備へたればなり

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were in their place, as directed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer, and the guards were at every gate. They did not have to leave their post, because their brothers the Levites made preparations for them.

16 斯のごとく其日ヱホバの献祭の事ことごとく備はりければヨシア王の命にしたがひて逾越節を行ひヱホバの壇に燔祭を献げたり

So, at that time the entire service of Yahweh was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, as King Josiah commanded.

17 即ち其處に來れるイスラエルの子孫その時逾越節を行ひ七日の間酵いれぬパンの節を行へり

The people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and then the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

18 預言者サムエルの日より以來イスラエルにて是のごとくに逾越節を行ひし事なし又イスラエルの諸王の中にはヨシアが祭司レビ人ならびに來りあつまれるユダとイスラエルの諸人およびヱルサレムの民とともに行ひし如き逾越節を行ひし者一人もあらず

Such a Passover celebration had never been held in Israel from the days of the prophet Samuel, nor had any of the other kings of Israel ever celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did, along with the priests, Levites, and all the people of Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

19 この逾越節はヨシアの治世の十八年に行ひしなり

This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

20 是のごとくヨシア殿をととのへし後エジプトの王ネコ、ユフラテの邊なるカルケミシを攻撃んとて上り來りけるにヨシアこれを禦がんとて出往り

After all this, after Josiah had set the temple in order, Necho, king of Egypt, went up to fight against Carchemish at the Euphrates River, and Josiah went to fight against him.

21 是においてネコ使者をかれに遣はして言ふユダの王よ是あに汝の與る所ならんや今日は汝を攻んとには非ず我敵の家を攻んとするなり神われに命じて急がしむ神われとともにあり汝神に逆ふことを罷よ恐らくは彼なんぢを滅ぼしたまはんと

But Necho sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am making war. God has commanded me to hurry, so refrain from interfering with God, who is with me, or he might destroy you.”

22 然るにヨシア面を轉して去ことを肯はず却てこれと戰はんとて服装を變へ神の口より出しネコの言を聽いれずしてメギドンの谷に到りて戰ひけるが

However, Josiah refused to turn away from him. He disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Necho that had come from the mouth of God; so he went to fight in the Valley of Megiddo.

23 射手の者等ヨシア王に射中たれば王その臣僕にむかひて我を扶け出せ我太痍を負ふと言り

Archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”

24 是においてその臣僕等かれをその車より扶けおろし其引せたる次の車に乗てヱルサレムにつれゆきけるが遂に死たればその先祖の墓にこれを葬りぬユダとヱルサレムみなヨシアのために哀しめり

So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in his extra chariot. They took him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

25 時にヱレミヤ、ヨシアのために哀歌を作れり謳歌男謳歌女今日にいたるまでその哀歌の中にヨシアの事を述べイスラエルの中に之を例となせりその詞は哀歌の中に書さる

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; all the male and female singers lament about Josiah to this day. These songs became customary in Israel; behold, they are written in the songs of lament.

26 ヨシアのその餘の行爲そのヱホバの律法に録されたる所にしたがひて爲し徳行

As for the other matters concerning Josiah, and his good deeds done in obedience to what is written in the law of Yahweh—

27 およびその始終の行爲などはイスラエルとユダの列王の書に記さる

and his deeds, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.