歴代誌Ⅱ 24

1 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。

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.

2 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。

And Joash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

3 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。

And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.

4 この後ヨアシは主の宮を修繕しようと志して、

And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to renew the house of Jehovah.

5 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。

And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah and collect of all Israel money for the repair of the house of your God from year to year, and ye shall hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened it not.

6 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」。

And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tribute of Moses the servant of Jehovah [laid upon] the congregation of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?

7 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。

For the wicked Athaliah [and] her sons had devastated the house of God; and also all the hallowed things of the house of Jehovah had they employed for the Baals.

8 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、

And the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of Jehovah without,

9 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。

and they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring to Jehovah the tribute of Moses the servant of God [laid upon] Israel in the wilderness.

10 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。

And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in and cast into the chest, until they had finished.

11 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。

And it came to pass at the time the chest was brought for the king's control by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and high priest's officer came, and they emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

12 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。

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 renew the house of Jehovah, and also such as wrought in iron and bronze, to repair the house of Jehovah.

13 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。

So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

14 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。

And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; and they made of it vessels for the house of Jehovah, utensils to minister, and with which to offer up, and cups, and utensils of gold and silver. And they offered up burnt-offerings in the house of Jehovah continually all the days of Jehoiada.

15 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。

And Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; he was a hundred and thirty years old when he died.

16 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。

And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward his house.

17 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。

And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and made obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.

18 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。

And they forsook the house of Jehovah the God of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

19 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。

And he sent prophets among them to bring them again to Jehovah, and they testified against them; but they would not give ear.

20 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』」。

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.

21 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。

And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.

22 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。

And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah see and require [it]!

23 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。

And it came to pass at the end of the year [that] the army of Syria came up against him; and they entered into Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king at Damascus.

24 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。

Truly with a small company of men came the army of the Syrians, but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers; and they executed judgment upon Joash.

25 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。

And when they had departed from him (for they left him in great diseases), 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 did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.

26 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。

And these are they that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

27 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。

And as to his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the building of the house of God, behold, they are written in the treatise of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.