歴代誌Ⅱ 29

1 ヒゼキヤは王となった時二十五歳で、二十九年の間エルサレムで世を治めた。その母はアビヤと言って、ゼカリヤの娘である。

Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 ヒゼキヤは父ダビデがすべてなしたように主の良しと見られることをした。

He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

3 彼はその治世の第一年の一月に主の宮の戸を開き、かつこれを繕った。

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them.

4 彼は祭司とレビびとを連れていって、東の広場に集め、

He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,

5 彼らに言った、「レビびとよ、聞きなさい。あなたがたは今、身を清めて、あなたがたの先祖の神、主の宮を清め、聖所から汚れを除き去りなさい。

and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.

6 われわれの先祖は罪を犯し、われわれの神、主の悪と見られることを行って、主を捨て、主のすまいに顔をそむけ、うしろを向けた。

For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the LORD our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

7 また廊の戸を閉じ、ともしびを消し、聖所でイスラエルの神に香をたかず、燔祭をささげなかった。

Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

8 それゆえ、主の怒りはユダとエルサレムに臨み、あなたがたが目に見るように、主は彼らを恐れと驚きと物笑いにされた。

Therefore the LORD’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

9 見よ、われわれの父たちはつるぎにたおれ、われわれのむすこたち、むすめたち、妻たちはこれがために捕虜となった。

For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

10 今わたしは、イスラエルの神、主と契約を結ぶ志をもっている。そうすればその激しい怒りは、われわれを離れるであろう。

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

11 わが子らよ、今は怠ってはならない。主はあなたがたを選んで、主の前に立って仕えさせ、ご自分に仕える者となし、また香をたく者とされたからである」。

My sons, don’t be negligent now; for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers and burn incense.”

12 そこでレビびとは立ち上がった。すなわちコハテびとの子孫のうちでは、アマサイの子マハテおよびアザリヤの子ヨエル。メラリの子孫では、アブデの子キシおよびエハレレルの子アザリヤ。ゲルションびとのうちでは、ジンマの子ヨアおよびヨアの子エデン。

Then the Levites arose: Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

13 エリザパンの子孫のうちでは、シムリとエイエル。アサフの子孫のうちでは、ゼカリヤとマッタニヤ。

and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

14 ヘマンの子孫のうちでは、エヒエルとシメイ。エドトンの子孫のうちでは、シマヤとウジエルである。

and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

15 彼らはその兄弟たちを集めて身を清め、主の言葉による王の命令に従って、主の宮を清めるためにはいって来た。

They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the LORD’s words, to cleanse the LORD’s house.

16 祭司たちが主の宮の奥にはいってこれを清め、主の宮にあった汚れた物をことごとく主の宮の庭に運び出すと、レビびとはそれを受けて外に出し、キデロン川に持って行った。

The priests went into the inner part of the LORD’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the LORD’s temple into the court of the LORD’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

17 彼らは正月の元日に清めることを始めて、その月の八日に主の宮の廊に達した。それから主の宮を清めるのに八日を費し、正月の十六日にこれを終った。

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the LORD’s porch. They sanctified the LORD’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

18 そこで彼らはヒゼキヤ王の所へ行って言った、「われわれは主の宮をことごとく清め、また燔祭の壇とそのすべての器物、および供えのパンの机とそのすべての器物とを清めました。

Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace and said, “We have cleansed all the LORD’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.

19 またアハズ王がその治世に罪を犯して捨てたすべての器物をも整えて清めました。それらは主の祭壇の前にあります」。

Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which King Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before the LORD’s altar.”

20 そこでヒゼキヤ王は朝早く起きいで、町のつかさたちを集めて、主の宮に上って行き、

Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the LORD’s house.

21 雄牛七頭、雄羊七頭、小羊七頭、雄やぎ七頭を引いてこさせ、国と聖所とユダのためにこれを罪祭とし、アロンの子孫である祭司たちに命じてこれを主の祭壇の上にささげさせた。

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the LORD’s altar.

22 すなわち、雄牛をほふると、祭司たちはその血を受けて祭壇にふりかけ、また雄羊をほふると、その血を祭壇にふりかけ、また小羊をほふると、その血を祭壇にふりかけた。

So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

23 そして罪祭の雄やぎを王と会衆の前に引いて来たので、彼らはその上に手を置いた。

They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them.

24 そして祭司たちはこれをほふり、その血を罪祭として祭壇の上にささげてイスラエル全国のためにあがないをした。これは王がイスラエル全国のために燔祭および罪祭をささげることを命じたためである。

Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

25 王はまたレビびとを主の宮に置き、ダビデおよび王の先見者ガドと預言者ナタンの命令に従って、これにシンバル、立琴および琴をとらせた。これは主がその預言者によって命じられたところである。

He set the Levites in the LORD’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the LORD by his prophets.

26 こうしてレビびとはダビデの楽器をとり、祭司はラッパをとって立った。

The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.

27 そこでヒゼキヤは燔祭を祭壇の上にささげることを命じた。燔祭をささげ始めた時、主の歌をうたい、ラッパを吹き、イスラエルの王ダビデの楽器をならし始めた。

Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the LORD’s song also began, along with the trumpets and instruments of David king of Israel.

28 そして会衆は皆礼拝し、歌うたう者は歌をうたい、ラッパ手はラッパを吹き鳴らし、燔祭が終るまですべてこのようであったが、

All the assembly worshipped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

29 ささげる事が終ると、王および彼と共にいた者はみな身をかがめて礼拝した。

When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped.

30 またヒゼキヤ王およびつかさたちはレビびとに命じて、ダビデと先見者アサフの言葉をもって主をさんびさせた。彼らは喜んでさんびし、頭をさげて礼拝した。

Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

31 その時、ヒゼキヤは言った、「あなたがたはすでに主に仕えるために身を清めたのであるから、進みよって、主の宮に犠牲と感謝の供え物を携えて来なさい」と。そこで会衆は犠牲と感謝の供え物を携えて来た。また志ある者は皆燔祭を携えて来た。

Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the LORD’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

32 会衆の携えて来た燔祭の数は雄牛七十頭、雄羊百頭、小羊二百頭、これらは皆主に燔祭としてささげるものであった。

The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

33 また奉納物は牛六百頭、小羊三千頭であった。

The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.

34 ところが祭司が少なくてその燔祭の物の皮を、はぎつくすことができなかったので、その兄弟であるレビびとがこれを助けて、そのわざをなし終え、その間に他の祭司たちは身を清めた。これはレビびとが祭司たちよりも、身を清めることに、きちょうめんであったからである。

But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

35 このほかおびただしい燔祭があり、また、酬恩祭の脂肪および燔祭の灌祭もあった。こうして、主の宮の勤めは回復された。

Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the LORD’s house was set in order.

36 この事は、にわかになされたけれども、神がこのように民のために備えをされたので、ヒゼキヤおよびすべての民は喜んだ。

Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.