歴代誌Ⅱ 27

1 ヨタムは王となった時二十五歳で、十六年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。その母はザドクの娘で名をエルシャといった。

Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 ヨタムはその父ウジヤがしたように主の良しと見られることをした。しかし主の宮には、はいらなかった。民はなお悪を行った。

And he did that which was right in the sight of Yhwh, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Yhwh. And the people did yet corruptly.

3 彼は主の宮の上の門を建て、オペルの石がきを多く築き増し、

He built the high gate of the house of Yhwh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4 またユダの山地に数個の町を建て、林の間に城とやぐらを築いた。

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

5 彼はアンモンびとの王と戦ってこれに勝った。その年アンモンの人々は銀百タラント、小麦一万コル、大麦一万コルを彼に贈った。アンモンの人々は第二年にも第三年にも同じように彼に納めた。

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

6 ヨタムはその神、主の前にその行いを堅くしたので力ある者となった。

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before Yhwh his God.

7 ヨタムのその他の行為、そのすべての戦いおよびその行いなどは、イスラエルとユダの列王の書にしるされている。

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

8 彼は王となった時、二十五歳で、十六年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

9 ヨタムはその先祖と共に眠ったので、ダビデの町に葬られ、その子アハズが彼に代って王となった。

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.