¹In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.

¹レマリヤの子ペカの第十七年にユダの王ヨタムの子アハズが王となった。

²Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not what was right in the sight of Jehovah his God, like David his father,

²アハズは王となった時二十歳で、エルサレムで十六年の間、世を治めたが、その神、主の目にかなう事を先祖ダビデのようには行わなかった。

³but walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.

³彼はイスラエルの王たちの道に歩み、また主がイスラエルの人々の前から追い払われた異邦人の憎むべきおこないにしたがって、自分の子を火に焼いてささげ物とした。

⁴And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

⁴かつ彼は高き所、また丘の上、すべての青木の下で犠牲をささげ、香をたいた。

⁵Then Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to battle; and they besieged Ahaz, but were unable to conquer him.

⁵そのころ、スリヤの王レヂンおよびレマリヤの子であるイスラエルの王ペカがエルサレムに攻め上って、アハズを囲んだが、勝つことができなかった。

⁶At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there to this day.

⁶その時エドムの王はエラテを回復してエドムの所領とし、ユダの人々をエラテから追い出した。そしてエドムびとがエラテにきて、そこに住み、今日に至っている。

⁷And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up against me.

⁷そこでアハズは使者をアッスリヤの王テグラテピレセルにつかわして言わせた、「わたしはあなたのしもべ、あなたの子です。スリヤの王とイスラエルの王がわたしを攻め囲んでいます。どうぞ上ってきて、彼らの手からわたしを救い出してください」。

⁸And Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it [as] a present to the king of Assyria.

⁸そしてアハズは主の宮と王の家の倉にある金と銀をとり、これを贈り物としてアッスリヤの王におくったので、

⁹And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

⁹アッスリヤの王は彼の願いを聞きいれた。すなわちアッスリヤの王はダマスコに攻め上って、これを取り、その民をキルに捕え移し、またレヂンを殺した。

¹⁰And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria; and he saw the altar that was at Damascus, and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the form of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all its workmanship.

¹⁰アハズ王はアッスリヤの王テグラテピレセルに会おうとダマスコへ行ったが、ダマスコにある祭壇を見たので、アハズ王はその祭壇の作りにしたがって、その詳しい図面と、ひな型とを作って、祭司ウリヤに送った。

¹¹And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Urijah the priest made [it], against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

¹¹そこで祭司ウリヤはアハズ王がダマスコから送ったものにしたがって祭壇を建てた。すなわち祭司ウリヤはアハズ王がダマスコから帰るまでにそのとおりに作った。

¹²And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it.

¹²王はダマスコから帰ってきて、その祭壇を見、祭壇に近づいてその上に登り、

¹³And he burned his burnt-offering and his oblation, and poured out his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offering upon the altar.

¹³燔祭と素祭を焼き、灌祭を注ぎ、酬恩祭の血を祭壇にそそぎかけた。

¹⁴And the brazen altar which was before Jehovah, he brought forward from the forefront of the house, from between [his] altar and the house of Jehovah, and put it by the side of [his] altar on the north.

¹⁴彼はまた主の前にあった青銅の祭壇を宮の前から移した。すなわちそれを新しい祭壇と主の宮の間から移して、新しい祭壇の北の方にすえた。

¹⁵And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening oblation, and the king's burnt-offering, and his oblation, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their oblation, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offerings, and all the blood of the sacrifices; and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire [by].

¹⁵そしてアハズ王は祭司ウリヤに命じて言った、「朝の燔祭と夕の素祭および王の燔祭とその素祭、ならびに国中の民の燔祭とその素祭および灌祭は、この大きな祭壇の上で焼きなさい。また燔祭の血と犠牲の血はすべてこれにそそぎかけなさい。あの青銅の祭壇をわたしは伺いを立てるのに用いよう」。

¹⁶And Urijah the priest did according to all that king Ahaz had commanded.

¹⁶祭司ウリヤはアハズ王がすべて命じたとおりにおこなった。

¹⁷And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the lavers from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a stone pavement.

¹⁷またアハズ王は台の鏡板を切り取って、洗盤をその上から移し、また海をその下にある青銅の牛の上からおろして、石の座の上にすえ、

¹⁸And the covered way of the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, he turned from the house of Jehovah on account of the king of Assyria.

¹⁸また宮のうちに造られていた安息日用のおおいのある道、および王の用いる外の入口をアッスリヤの王のために主の宮から除いた。

¹⁹And the rest of the acts of Ahaz, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¹⁹アハズのその他の事績は、ユダの王の歴代志の書にしるされているではないか。アハズは先祖たちと共に眠って、ダビデの町にその先祖たちと共に葬られ、その子ヒゼキヤが代って王となった。

²⁰And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

²⁰アハズは先祖たちと共に眠って、ダビデの町にその先祖たちと共に葬られ、その子ヒゼキヤが代って王となった。