1月14日

旧約 ネヘミヤ記4章

4:1 サンバラトとトビヤ、それにアラブ人、アンモン人、アシュドドの市民は、エルサレムの城壁の再建が進み、破損の修復が始まったと聞いて、大いに怒った。 4:2 彼らは皆で共謀してエルサレムに攻め上り、混乱に陥れようとした。 4:3 わたしたちはわたしたちの神に祈り、昼夜彼らに対し、彼らから身を守るために警戒した。 4:4 しかし、ユダもこう言うのだった。「もっこを担ぐ力は弱り/土くれの山はまだ大きい。城壁の再建など/わたしたちにはできません。」 4:5 わたしたちの敵はこう言っていた。「気づかれず、見つからないように侵入し、彼らを打ち殺して、工事をやめさせよう。」 4:6 彼らの近くに住むユダの人々がやって来て、十度もわたしたちに、「あなたたちが戻ると、あらゆるところからわたしたちは攻められます」と言った。 4:7 そこでわたしは城壁外の低い所、むき出しになった所に、各家族の戦闘員を、剣と槍と弓を持たせて配置した。 4:8 わたしは見回して立ち、貴族や役人やその他の戦闘員に言った。「敵を恐れるな。偉大にして畏るべき主の御名を唱えて、兄弟のため、息子のため、娘のため、妻のため、家のために戦え。」 4:9 わたしたちが気づき、神がその計略を破られたことを敵が知ったので、わたしたちは皆、城壁に戻り、それぞれ自分の作業に就いた。 4:10 その日からわたしの部下たちは、半分が作業に従事し、他の半分が槍と盾、弓と鎧を身に着け、将校たちがユダの家全体の背後に控えた。 4:11 城壁を築く者、もっこを担いで運ぶ者は、一方の手で作業をし、もう一方の手には投げ槍を取った。 4:12 建築作業をする者は、各自腰に剣を帯びて作業した。わたしはそばに角笛を吹く者をつけた。 4:13 わたしは貴族と役人と他の戦闘員に言った。「仕事が多く、範囲は広い。わたしたちは互いに遠く離れて城壁の上に散らばっている。 4:14 角笛の音を聞いたら、わたしたちのもとに集まれ。わたしたちの神はわたしたちのために戦ってくださる。」 4:15 夜が明けてから星が現れるころまでわたしたちは作業に就き、部下の半分は槍を手にしていた。 4:16 このころわたしは戦闘員に言った。「各自、自分の部下と共にエルサレムの城壁内で夜を過ごしなさい。夜は警備に当たり、昼に仕事をしよう。」 4:17 わたしも、兄弟も、部下の者も、わたしに従う警備の者も、わたしたちはだれも、服を脱がずにいて、各自投げ槍を右の手にしていた。

[ 4 ] 4:1 But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews. 4:2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish-stones that are burned?" 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, "Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall." 4:4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity! 4:5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders. 4:6 So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. 4:7 Now it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being restored and the gaps were beginning to be closed, that they became very angry, 4:8 and all of them conspired together to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion. 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night. 4:10 Then Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall." 4:11 And our adversaries said, "They will neither know nor see anything, till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease." 4:12 So it was, when the Jews who dwelt near them came, that they told us ten times, "From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us." 4:13 Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 4:14 And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." 4:15 And it happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had brought their plot to nothing, that all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work. 4:16 So it was, from that time on, that half of my servants worked at construction, while the other half held the spears, the shields, the bows, and wore armor; and the leaders were behind all the house of Judah. 4:17 Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. 4:18 Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me. 4:19 Then I said to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people, "The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. 4:20 "Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us." 4:21 So we labored in the work, and half of the men held the spears from daybreak until the stars appeared. 4:22 At the same time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant stay at night in Jerusalem, that they may be our guard by night and a working party by day." 4:23 So neither I, my brethren, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me took off our clothes, except that everyone took them off for washing.

新約 使徒言行録7:1-16

◆ステファノの説教

7:1 大祭司が、「訴えのとおりか」と尋ねた。 7:2 そこで、ステファノは言った。「兄弟であり父である皆さん、聞いてください。わたしたちの父アブラハムがメソポタミアにいて、まだハランに住んでいなかったとき、栄光の神が現れ、 7:3 『あなたの土地と親族を離れ、わたしが示す土地に行け』と言われました。 7:4 それで、アブラハムはカルデア人の土地を出て、ハランに住みました。神はアブラハムを、彼の父が死んだ後、ハランから今あなたがたの住んでいる土地にお移しになりましたが、 7:5 そこでは財産を何もお与えになりませんでした、一歩の幅の土地さえも。しかし、そのとき、まだ子供のいなかったアブラハムに対して、『いつかその土地を所有地として与え、死後には子孫たちに相続させる』と約束なさったのです。 7:6 神はこう言われました。『彼の子孫は、外国に移住し、四百年の間、奴隷にされて虐げられる。』 7:7 更に、神は言われました。『彼らを奴隷にする国民は、わたしが裁く。その後、彼らはその国から脱出し、この場所でわたしを礼拝する。』 7:8 そして、神はアブラハムと割礼による契約を結ばれました。こうして、アブラハムはイサクをもうけて八日目に割礼を施し、イサクはヤコブを、ヤコブは十二人の族長をもうけて、それぞれ割礼を施したのです。 7:9 この族長たちはヨセフをねたんで、エジプトへ売ってしまいました。しかし、神はヨセフを離れず、 7:10 あらゆる苦難から助け出して、エジプト王ファラオのもとで恵みと知恵をお授けになりました。そしてファラオは、彼をエジプトと王の家全体とをつかさどる大臣に任命したのです。 7:11 ところが、エジプトとカナンの全土に飢饉が起こり、大きな苦難が襲い、わたしたちの先祖は食糧を手に入れることができなくなりました。 7:12 ヤコブはエジプトに穀物があると聞いて、まずわたしたちの先祖をそこへ行かせました。 7:13 二度目のとき、ヨセフは兄弟たちに自分の身の上を明かし、ファラオもヨセフの一族のことを知りました。 7:14 そこで、ヨセフは人を遣わして、父ヤコブと七十五人の親族一同を呼び寄せました。 7:15 ヤコブはエジプトに下って行き、やがて彼もわたしたちの先祖も死んで、 7:16 シケムに移され、かつてアブラハムがシケムでハモルの子らから、幾らかの金で買っておいた墓に葬られました。

[ 7 ] 7:1 Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?" 7:2 And he said, "Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, 7:3 "and said to him, 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.' 7:4 "Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell. 7:5 "And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him. 7:6 "But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years. 7:7 'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.' 7:8 "Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs. 7:9 "And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him 7:10 "and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 7:11 "Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance. 7:12 "But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. 7:13 "And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh. 7:14 "Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people. 7:15 "So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers. 7:16 "And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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