52:1 ゼデキヤは二十一歳で王となり、十一年間エルサレムで王位にあった。その母は名をハムタルといい、リブナ出身のイルメヤの娘であった。 52:2 彼はヨヤキムが行ったように、主の目に悪とされることをことごとく行った。 52:3 エルサレムとユダは主の怒りによってこのような事態になり、ついにその御前から投げ捨てられることになった。ゼデキヤはバビロンの王に反旗を翻した。 52:4 ゼデキヤの治世、第九年十月十日に、バビロンの王ネブカドレツァルは全軍を率いてエルサレムに到着し、陣を敷き、周りに堡塁を築いた。 52:5 都は包囲され、ゼデキヤ王の第十一年に至った。 52:6 四月九日に、都の中で飢えが厳しくなり、国の民の食糧が尽き、 52:7 都の一角が破られた。戦士たちは皆逃げ出した。彼らは夜中に、カルデア人が都を取り巻いていたが、王の園に近い二つの城壁の間にある門を通って都を出、アラバへ向かって行った。 52:8 カルデア軍は王の後を追い、エリコの荒れ地でゼデキヤに追いついた。王の軍隊はすべて王を離れ去ってちりぢりになった。 52:9 王は捕らえられ、ハマト地方のリブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに連れて行かれ、裁きを受けた。 52:10 バビロンの王は、ゼデキヤの目の前で彼の王子たちを殺し、また、ユダの将軍たちもすべてリブラで殺した。 52:11 その上で、バビロンの王はゼデキヤの両眼をつぶし、青銅の足枷をはめ、彼をバビロンに連れて行き、死ぬまで牢獄に閉じ込めておいた。 52:12 五月十日、バビロンの王ネブカドレツァルの第十九年のこと、バビロンの王の側近である親衛隊の長ネブザルアダンがエルサレムに来て、 52:13 主の神殿、王宮、エルサレムの家屋をすべて焼き払った。大いなる家屋もすべて、火を放って焼き払った。 52:14 また、親衛隊の長と共に来たカルデア人は、軍をあげてエルサレムの周囲の城壁をすべて取り壊した。 52:15 貧しい民の一部、民のうち都に残っていたほかの者、バビロンの王に投降した者、ほかの技師たちは親衛隊の長ネブザルアダンによって、捕囚とされ、連れ去られた。 52:16 この地の貧しい民の一部は、親衛隊の長ネブザルアダンによってぶどう畑と耕地にそのまま残された。 52:17 カルデア人は主の神殿の青銅の柱、台車、主の神殿にあった青銅の「海」を砕いて、その青銅をことごとくバビロンへ運び去り、 52:18 壺、十能、芯切り鋏、鉢、柄杓など、祭儀用の青銅の器をことごとく奪い取った。 52:19 また親衛隊の長は、小鉢、火皿、鉢、壺、燭台、柄杓、水差しなど、金製品も銀製品もすべて奪い取った。 52:20 ソロモンが主の神殿のために造らせた二本の柱、一つの「海」、それを支える青銅の牛十二頭および台車についていえば、これらすべてのものの青銅の重量は量りきれなかった。 52:21 柱についていえば、一本の柱の高さは十八アンマ、周囲は十二アンマ、空洞で厚みは指四本分であった。 52:22 その上に青銅の柱頭があり、一方の柱頭の高さは五アンマ、柱頭の周りには格子模様の浮き彫りとざくろがあって、このすべてが青銅であった。もう一本の柱も同様に出来ていて、ざくろもそうであった。 52:23 九十六個のざくろがぶら下がっており、格子模様の浮き彫りの周囲にあるざくろは全部で百個であった。 52:24 親衛隊の長は祭司長セラヤ、次席祭司ツェファンヤ、入り口を守る者三人を捕らえた。 52:25 また、彼は戦士の監督をする宦官一人、都にいた王の側近七人、国の民の徴兵を担当する将軍の書記官、および都にいた国の民六十人を都から連れ去った。 52:26 親衛隊の長ネブザルアダンは彼らを捕らえて、リブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに連れて行った。 52:27 バビロンの王はハマト地方のリブラで彼らを打ち殺した。こうしてユダは自分の土地を追われて捕囚となった。 52:28 ネブカドレツァルが捕囚として連れ去った民の数をここに記すと、第七年に連れ去ったユダの人々が三千二十三人、 52:29 ネブカドレツァルの第十八年にエルサレムから連れ去った者が八百三十二人であった。 52:30 ネブカドレツァルの第二十三年には、親衛隊の長ネブザルアダンがユダの人々七百四十五人を捕囚として連れ去った。総数は四千六百人である。
52:31 ユダの王ヨヤキンが捕囚となって三十七年目の十二月二十五日に、バビロンの王エビル・メロダクは、その即位の年にユダの王ヨヤキンに情けをかけ、彼を出獄させた。 52:32 バビロンの王は彼を手厚くもてなし、バビロンで共にいた王たちの中で彼に最も高い位を与えた。 52:33 ヨヤキンは獄中の衣を脱ぎ、生きている間、毎日欠かさず王と食事を共にすることとなった。 52:34 彼は生きている間、死ぬ日まで毎日、日々の糧を常にバビロンの王から支給された。
52:1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 52:2 He also did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 52:3 For because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 52:4 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. 52:5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 52:6 By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 52:7 Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were near the city all around. And they went by way of the plain. 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. 52:9 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him. 52:10 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 52:11 He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 52:12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 52:13 He burned the house of the Lord and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. 52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers. 52:17 The bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon. 52:18 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered. 52:19 The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain of the guard took away. 52:20 The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord-the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. 52:21 Now concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow. 52:22 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. The second pillar, with pomegranates was the same. 52:23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, were one hundred. 52:24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. 52:25 He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 52:26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 52:27 Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land. 52:28 These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews; 52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; 52:30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons. All the persons were four thousand six hundred. 52:31 Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 52:32 And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life. 52:34 And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
2:11 実に、すべての人々に救いをもたらす神の恵みが現れました。 2:12 その恵みは、わたしたちが不信心と現世的な欲望を捨てて、この世で、思慮深く、正しく、信心深く生活するように教え、 2:13 また、祝福に満ちた希望、すなわち偉大なる神であり、わたしたちの救い主であるイエス・キリストの栄光の現れを待ち望むように教えています。 2:14 キリストがわたしたちのために御自身を献げられたのは、わたしたちをあらゆる不法から贖い出し、良い行いに熱心な民を御自分のものとして清めるためだったのです。 2:15 十分な権威をもってこれらのことを語り、勧め、戒めなさい。だれにも侮られてはなりません。
2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 2:12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 2:14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 2:15 Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.