23:1 そこで王は人を遣わして、ユダとエルサレムのすべての長老を自分のもとに集めた。 23:2 王は、ユダのすべての人々、エルサレムのすべての住民、祭司と預言者、下の者から上の者まで、すべての民と共に主の神殿に上り、主の神殿で見つかった契約の書のすべての言葉を彼らに読み聞かせた。 23:3 それから王は柱の傍らに立って、主の御前で契約を結び、主に従って歩み、心を尽くし、魂を尽くして主の戒めと定めと掟を守り、この書に記されているこの契約の言葉を実行することを誓った。民も皆、この契約に加わった。 23:4 王は大祭司ヒルキヤと次席祭司たち、入り口を守る者たちに命じて、主の神殿からバアルやアシェラや天の万象のために造られた祭具類をすべて運び出させた。彼はそれをエルサレムの外、キドロンの野で焼き払わせ、その灰をベテルに持って行かせた。 23:5 王はユダの諸王が立てて、ユダの町々やエルサレム周辺の聖なる高台で香をたかせてきた神官たち、またバアルや太陽、月、星座、天の万象に香をたく者たちを廃止した。 23:6 彼はアシェラ像を主の神殿からエルサレムの外のキドロンの谷に運び出し、キドロンの谷で焼き、砕いて灰にし、その灰を民の共同墓地に振りまいた。 23:7 彼は主の神殿の中にあった神殿男娼の家を取り壊した。そこは女たちがアシェラ像のために布を織っていたところでもあった。 23:8 王はユダの町々から祭司をすべて呼び寄せ、ゲバからベエル・シェバに至るまでの祭司たちが香をたいていた聖なる高台を汚し、城門にあった聖なる高台をも取り壊した。これは町の長ヨシュアの門の入り口にあり、町の門を入る人の左側にあった。 23:9 聖なる高台の祭司たちは、エルサレムの主の祭壇に上ることはなかったが、その兄弟たちにまじって酵母を入れないパンを食べた。 23:10 王はベン・ヒノムの谷にあるトフェトを汚し、だれもモレクのために自分の息子、娘に火の中を通らせることのないようにした。 23:11 彼はユダの王たちが太陽にささげて、主の神殿の入り口、前庭の宦官ネタン・メレクの部屋の傍らに置いた馬を除き去り、太陽の戦車を火で焼いた。 23:12 王はユダの王たちがアハズの階上の部屋の上に造った祭壇と、マナセが主の神殿の二つの庭に造った祭壇を取り壊し、そこで打ち砕いて、その灰をキドロンの谷に投げ捨てた。 23:13 王はエルサレムの東、つまり滅びの山の南にあった聖なる高台を汚した。これはイスラエルの王ソロモンが、シドン人の憎むべき神アシュトレトのため、モアブ人の憎むべき神ケモシュのため、アンモン人の忌むべき神ミルコムのために築いたものであった。 23:14 彼は石柱を砕き、アシェラ像を切り倒し、人の骨でその場所を満たした。 23:15 彼はまたベテルにあった祭壇と、イスラエルに罪を犯させたネバトの子ヤロブアムが造った聖なる高台、すなわちその祭壇と聖なる高台を取り壊し、更に聖なる高台を焼いて粉々に砕き、アシェラ像を焼き捨てた。 23:16 ヨシヤは振り向いて、山に墓があるのを見、その墓の骨を取りにやり、その骨を祭壇の上で焼いて祭壇を汚した。かつて神の人がこのことを告げたが、その神の人の告げた主の言葉のとおりになった。 23:17 ヨシヤは、「あそこに見える石碑は何か」と言った。町の人々は、「神の人の墓です。この人はユダから来て、あなたがベテルの祭壇になさったことを予告しました」と答えたので、 23:18 彼は、「そのままにしておくがよい。だれもその骨に触れるな」と言った。こうして人々は、サマリアから来た預言者の骨とともに彼の骨をそのままにしておいた。 23:19 ヨシヤはまたサマリアの町々にあった聖なる高台の神殿をすべて取り除いた。これらはイスラエルの王たちが造って主の怒りを招いたものであった。彼はベテルで行ったのと全く同じようにこれらに対しても行った。 23:20 彼はそこにいた聖なる高台の祭司たちを一人残らずその祭壇の上で殺し、人の骨をそこで焼き、エルサレムに帰った。 23:21 王はすべての民に命じて言った。「この契約の書に記されているとおり、あなたたちの神、主の過越祭を祝え。」 23:22 士師たちがイスラエルを治めていた時代からこの方、イスラエルの王、ユダの王の時代を通じて、このような過越祭が祝われることはなかった。 23:23 ヨシヤ王の治世第十八年に、エルサレムでこの主の過越祭が祝われた。 23:24 ヨシヤはまた口寄せ、霊媒、テラフィム、偶像、ユダの地とエルサレムに見られる憎むべきものを一掃した。こうして彼は祭司ヒルキヤが主の神殿で見つけた書に記されている律法の言葉を実行した。 23:25 彼のように全くモーセの律法に従って、心を尽くし、魂を尽くし、力を尽くして主に立ち帰った王は、彼の前にはなかった。彼の後にも、彼のような王が立つことはなかった。 23:26 しかし、マナセの引き起こした主のすべての憤りのために、主はユダに向かって燃え上がった激しい怒りの炎を収めようとなさらなかった。 23:27 主は言われた。「わたしはイスラエルを退けたようにユダもわたしの前から退け、わたしが選んだこの都エルサレムも、わたしの名を置くと言ったこの神殿もわたしは忌み嫌う。」 23:28 ヨシヤの他の事績、彼の行ったすべての事は、『ユダの王の歴代誌』に記されている。 23:29 彼の治世に、エジプトの王ファラオ・ネコが、アッシリアの王に向かってユーフラテス川を目指して上って来た。ヨシヤ王はこれを迎え撃とうとして出て行ったが、ネコは彼に出会うと、メギドで彼を殺した。 23:30 ヨシヤの家臣たちは戦死した王を戦車に乗せ、メギドからエルサレムに運び、彼の墓に葬った。国の民はヨシヤの子ヨアハズを選んで、油を注ぎ、父の代わりに王とした。
23:31 ヨアハズは二十三歳で王となり、三か月間エルサレムで王位にあった。その母は名をハムタルといい、リブナ出身のイルメヤの娘であった。 23:32 彼は先祖たちが行ったように、主の目に悪とされることをことごとく行った。 23:33 ファラオ・ネコは、エルサレムで王位にあった彼をハマトの地のリブラに幽閉し、その国には科料として銀百キカル、金一キカルを課した。 23:34 ファラオ・ネコはヨシヤの子エルヤキムを父ヨシヤの代わりに王とし、名をヨヤキムと改めさせた。一方、ヨアハズはエジプトに連れて行かれ、そこで死んだ。 23:35 ヨヤキムはファラオに銀と金を差し出したが、ファラオの要求に従って銀を差し出すためには、国に税を課さなければならなかった。彼はファラオ・ネコに差し出すために、それぞれの割り当てに従って国の民に銀と金を要求した。
23:36 ヨヤキムは二十五歳で王となり、十一年間エルサレムで王位にあった。その母は名をゼブダといい、ルマ出身のペダヤの娘であった。 23:37 彼は先祖たちが行ったように、主の目に悪とされることをことごとく行った。
23:1 Now the king sent them to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him. 23:2 The king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem-the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord. 23:3 Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant. 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 23:5 Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. 23:6 And he brought out the wooden image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people. 23:7 Then he tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image. 23:8 And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; also he broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were to the left of the city gate. 23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech. 23:11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 23:12 The altars that were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron. 23:13 Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon. 23:14 And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men. 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image. 23:16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 23:17 Then he said, "What gravestone is this that I see?" So the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel." 23:18 And he said, "Let him alone; let no one move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. 23:19 Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel. 23:20 He executed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem. 23:21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." 23:22 Such a Passover surely had never been held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the Lord in Jerusalem. 23:24 Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. 23:25 Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise like him. 23:26 Nevertheless the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. 23:27 And the Lord said, "I will also remove Judah from My sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there.' " 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 23:29 In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the River Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo when he confronted him. 23:30 Then his servants moved his body in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his father's place. 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 23:32 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. 23:33 Now Pharaoh Necho put him in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 23:34 Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he died there. 23:35 So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give money according to the command of Pharaoh; he exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necho. 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 23:37 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
20:19 その日、すなわち週の初めの日の夕方、弟子たちはユダヤ人を恐れて、自分たちのいる家の戸に鍵をかけていた。そこへ、イエスが来て真ん中に立ち、「あなたがたに平和があるように」と言われた。 20:20 そう言って、手とわき腹とをお見せになった。弟子たちは、主を見て喜んだ。 20:21 イエスは重ねて言われた。「あなたがたに平和があるように。父がわたしをお遣わしになったように、わたしもあなたがたを遣わす。」 20:22 そう言ってから、彼らに息を吹きかけて言われた。「聖霊を受けなさい。 20:23 だれの罪でも、あなたがたが赦せば、その罪は赦される。だれの罪でも、あなたがたが赦さなければ、赦されないまま残る。」
20:24 十二人の一人でディディモと呼ばれるトマスは、イエスが来られたとき、彼らと一緒にいなかった。 20:25 そこで、ほかの弟子たちが、「わたしたちは主を見た」と言うと、トマスは言った。「あの方の手に釘の跡を見、この指を釘跡に入れてみなければ、また、この手をそのわき腹に入れてみなければ、わたしは決して信じない。」 20:26 さて八日の後、弟子たちはまた家の中におり、トマスも一緒にいた。戸にはみな鍵がかけてあったのに、イエスが来て真ん中に立ち、「あなたがたに平和があるように」と言われた。 20:27 それから、トマスに言われた。「あなたの指をここに当てて、わたしの手を見なさい。また、あなたの手を伸ばし、わたしのわき腹に入れなさい。信じない者ではなく、信じる者になりなさい。」 20:28 トマスは答えて、「わたしの主、わたしの神よ」と言った。 20:29 イエスはトマスに言われた。「わたしを見たから信じたのか。見ないのに信じる人は、幸いである。」
20:30 このほかにも、イエスは弟子たちの前で、多くのしるしをなさったが、それはこの書物に書かれていない。 20:31 これらのことが書かれたのは、あなたがたが、イエスは神の子メシアであると信じるためであり、また、信じてイエスの名により命を受けるためである。
20:19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you." 20:20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 20:23 "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 20:24 Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 20:25 The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe." 20:26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!" 20:27 Then He said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing." 20:28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" 20:29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." 20:30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 20:31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.