2 Chronicles 8

1 Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.

ソロモン二十年を經てヱホバの家と己の家を建をはりけるが

2 Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.

ヒラム邑幾何をソロモンに歸しければソロモンまた之を建なほしイスラエルの子孫をしてその中に住しむ

3 Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.

ソロモンまたハマテゾバに往て之に勝り

4 His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.

彼また曠野のタデモルを建てハマテの諸の府庫邑を建つ

5 They rebuilt Upper Beth-Horon [town] and Lower Beth-Horon [city], and built walls around them with gates [in the walls] and bars [to fasten the gates].

また上ベテホロンおよび下ベテホロンを建つ是は堅固の邑にして石垣あり門あり關木あり

6 They also rebuilt Baalath [town] and all the cities where supplies were kept and the cities where Solomon’s chariots and horses were kept. Solomon’s [workers] built whatever he wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area that he ruled.

ソロモンまたバアラテとおのが有る府庫の邑々と戰車の諸の邑々と騎兵の邑々ならびにそのエルサレム、レバノンおよび己が治むるところの全地に建んと望みし者を盡く建つ

7 Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelis to work for him like slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups.

凡てイスラエルの子孫にあらざるヘテ人アモリ人ペリジ人ヒビ人ヱブス人の遺れる者

8 They were descendants of groups whom the Israelis had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his slaves, and they are still slaves.

その地にありて彼らの後に遺れるその子孫即ちイスラエルの子孫の滅ぼし盡さざりし民はソロモンこれを使役して今日にいたる

9 But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.

然れどもイスラエルの子孫をばソロモン一人も奴隸となして其工事に使ふことをせざりき彼らは軍人となり軍旅の長となり戰車と騎兵の長となれり

10 They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.

ソロモン王の有司の首は二百五十人ありて民を統ぶ

11 Solomon moved his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, from [the place outside Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’ to the place that his workers had built for her. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that [my father] King David’s workers built, because the Sacred Chest [was in that palace for a while], and any place where the Sacred Chest has been is holy.”

ソロモン、パロの女をダビデの邑より携へのぼりて曩にこれがために建おきたる家にいたる彼すなはち言り我妻はイスラエルの王ダビデの家に居べからずヱホバの契約の櫃のいたれる處は皆聖ければなりと

12 On the altar that Solomon’s [workers] had built in front of the entrance [to the temple], Solomon sacrificed many offerings that were to be completely burned.

茲にソロモン曩に廊の前に築きおきたるヱホバの壇の上にてヱホバに燔祭を献ぐることをせり

13 He did that to obey the rules about what sacrifices Moses had declared should be made. These included sacrifices for every day and for the Sabbath days and to celebrate each day on which there was a new moon and for the three other festivals that were celebrated each year. Those festivals were the Festival of Eating Unleavened Bread, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters.

即ちモーセの命令にしたがひて毎日例のごとくに之を献げ安息日月朔および年に三次の節會すなはち酵いれぬパンの節と七週の節と結茅節とに之を献ぐ

14 Obeying what his father David had commanded, he appointed the groups of priests for their work, and he appointed the descendants of Levi to lead the people while they sang to praise Yahweh and while they assisted the priests in their daily work. He also appointed groups of them to guard all the gates, because that was also what David, the man who pleased God [very well], had commanded.

ソロモンその父ダビデの定めたる所にしたがひて祭司の班列を定めてその職に任じ又レビ人をその勤務に任じて日々例のごとく祭司の前にて頌讃をなし奉事をなさしめ又門を守る者をしてその班列にしたがひて諸門を守らしむ神の人ダビデの命ぜしところ是の如くなりければなり

15 The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.

祭司とレビ人は諸の事につきまた府庫の事につきて王に命ぜられたる所に違ざりき

16 They did all the work [of building the temple] that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. So they finishing building the temple.

ソロモンはヱホバの家の基を置る日までにその工事の準備をことごとく爲しおきて遂に之を成をへたればヱホバの家は全備せり

17 Then some of Solomon’s men went to Ezion-Geber and Elath [cities] on the coast of the Red Sea, an area that belonged to the Edom people-group.

茲にソロモン、ヱドムの地の海邊にあるエジオンゲベルおよびエロテに往り

18 King Hiram sent to Solomon from [Tyre city] some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon’s men to [the] Ophir [region] and brought back about 17 tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

時にヒラムその僕等の手に託て船を彼に遣りまた海の事を知る僕等を遣りけるが彼等すなはちソロモンの僕とともにオフルに往て彼處より金四百五十タラントを取てソロモン王の許に携へ來れり