¹And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.

¹この事がすべて終った時、そこにいたイスラエルびとは皆、ユダの町々に出て行って、石柱を砕き、アシラ像を切り倒し、ユダとベニヤミンの全地、およびエフライムとマナセにある高き所と祭壇とを取りこわし、ついにこれをことごとく破壊した。そしてイスラエルの人々はおのおのその町々、その所領に帰った。

²And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests, and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, as well the priests as the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to serve and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the courts of Jehovah.

²ヒゼキヤは祭司およびレビびとの班を定め、班ごとにおのおのその勤めに従って、祭司とレビびとに燔祭と酬恩祭をささげさせ、主の営の門で勤めをし、感謝をし、さんびをさせた。

³And [he ordered] that the king's portion [should be taken] from his substance for the burnt-offerings: for the morning and evening burnt-offerings, for the burnt-offerings of the sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Jehovah.

³また燔祭のために自分の財産のうちから王の分を出した。すなわち朝夕の燔祭および安息日、新月、定めの祭などの燔祭のために出して、主の律法にしるされているとおりにした。

⁴And he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of Jehovah.

⁴またエルサレムに住む民に、祭司とレビびとにその分を与えることを命じた。これは彼らをして主の律法に身をゆだねさせるためである。

⁵And as soon as the commandment was published, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, new wine and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all [things].

⁵その命令が伝わるやいなや、イスラエルの人々は穀物、酒、油、蜜ならびに畑のもろもろの産物の初物を多くささげ、またすべての物の十分の一をおびただしく携えて来た。

⁶And the children of Israel and of Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.

⁶ユダの町々に住んでいたイスラエルとユダの人々もまた牛、羊の十分の一ならびにその神、主にささげられた奉納物を携えて来て、これを積み重ねた。

⁷In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

⁷三月にこれを積み重ねることを始め、七月にこれを終った。

⁸And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.

⁸ヒゼキヤおよびつかさたちは来て、その積み重ねた物を見、主とその民イスラエルを祝福した。

⁹And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

⁹そしてヒゼキヤがその積み重ねた物について祭司およびレビびとに問い尋ねた時、

¹⁰And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.

¹⁰ザドクの家から出た祭司の長アザリヤは彼に答えて言った、「民が主の宮に供え物を携えて来ることを始めてからこのかた、われわれは飽きるほど食べたが、たくさん残りました。主がその民を恵まれたからです。それでわれわれは、このように多くの残った物をもっているのです」。

¹¹And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared [them],

¹¹そこでヒゼキヤは主の宮のうちに室を設けることを命じたので、彼らはこれを設け、

¹²and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.

¹²その供え物の十分の一および奉納物を忠実に携え入れた。これをつかさどる者のかしらはレビびとコナニヤで、その兄弟シメイは彼に次ぐ者となり、

¹³And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the command of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

¹³エヒエル、アザジヤ、ナハテ、アサヘル、エレモテ、ヨザバデ、エリエル、イスマキヤ、マハテ、ベナヤらは、ヒゼキヤ王および神の宮のつかさアザリヤの任命によって、コナニヤおよびその兄弟シメイを助けて、その監督者となった。

¹⁴And Kore the son of Jimnah the Levite, the doorkeeper toward the east, was over the voluntary-offerings of God, to distribute the heave-offerings of Jehovah, and the most holy things.

¹⁴東の門を守る者レビびとイムナの子コレは、神にささげる自発のささげ物をつかさどり、主の供え物および最も聖なる物を分配した。

¹⁵And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set trust, to make distributions to their brethren by [their] divisions, to the great as to the small,

¹⁵彼を助ける者はエデン、ミニヤミン、エシュア、シマヤ、アマリヤおよびシカニヤで、皆祭司の町々でその兄弟たちに、班によって、老若ひとしく忠実に分配した。

¹⁶besides those from three years old and upward who as males were entered in the genealogical register, -- all that came into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their charges, according to their divisions,

¹⁶ただしすべて登録された三歳以上の男子で主の宮に入り、その班に従って日々の職分をつくし、その受持の勤めをなす者は除かれた。

¹⁷-- both to the priests enregistered according to their fathers' houses, and to the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their divisions;

¹⁷祭司の登録はその氏族によってなされ、二十歳以上のレビびとの登録はその班により、その受持にしたがってなされた。

¹⁸and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy.

¹⁸また祭司はその幼な子、その妻、そのむすこ、その娘、全会衆と共に登録した。彼らは忠実に身を聖なる事にささげたからである。

¹⁹And for the sons of Aaron the priests who were in the country, in the suburbs of their cities, there were, in every several city, men expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all the Levites that were entered in the register.

¹⁹また町々の放牧地におるアロンの子孫である祭司たちのためには、町ごとに人を名ざし選んで、祭司のうちのすべての男およびレビびとのうちの登録されたすべての者に、その分を与えさせた。

²⁰And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what was good and right and true before Jehovah his God.

²⁰ヒゼキヤはユダ全国にこのようにし、良い事、正しい事、忠実な事をその神、主の前に行った。彼がその神を求めるために神の宮の務につき、律法につき、戒めについて始めたわざは、ことごとく心をつくして行い、これをなし遂げた。

²¹And in every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.

²¹彼がその神を求めるために神の宮の務につき、律法につき、戒めについて始めたわざは、ことごとく心をつくして行い、これをなし遂げた。