列王記Ⅱ 11
Japanese Living Bible
アタルヤと祭司エホヤダ
11 ユダの王アハズヤの母アタルヤは、息子が死ぬと、王の子どもをことごとく殺そうとしました。 2-3 しかし、アハズヤの子で一歳のヨアシュだけは、叔母のエホシェバに助け出されて無事でした。エホシェバはアハズヤの父ヨラム王の娘でした。彼女は、殺される運命にある王子たちの中からヨアシュを連れ出して、乳母とともに神殿の物置に隠し、二人はそこで六年間過ごしました。その間、アタルヤが女王としてユダを治めました。
4 アタルヤの第七年に、祭司エホヤダは、宮殿の近衛兵の百人隊長と女王の側近を神殿に呼び集め、秘密を守ると誓わせたうえでヨアシュ王子を見せ、 5 次のように指示しました。「安息日には、三分の一の者を宮殿の護衛に当たらせ、 6-8 残る三分の二は、神殿の警護に当たらせよ。めいめい武器を持って、王の回りを囲むのだ。囲みを破ろうとする者がいたら、殺さなければならない。片時も王のそばを離れてはならない。」
9 百人隊長たちは指示どおり、安息日の勤務をしない者と勤務につく者とを、エホヤダのところに連れて来ました。 10 エホヤダは彼らを、神殿にあったダビデ王の槍や盾で武装させました。 11 すでに武器を手にしていた宮殿の近衛兵たちは、神殿の正面に向かって立ち、ヨアシュの隠れ場所に近い、祭壇の回りを囲みました。 12 それから、エホヤダは幼い王子を連れ出し、頭に王冠をかぶらせ、十戒の写しを渡し、油を注いで王としたのです。彼らは拍手かっさいして、「王様、ばんざい」と叫びました。
13-14 女王アタルヤはこの騒ぎを聞くと、神殿へ急ぎました。見ると、即位の時の習わしに従って、新しい王が柱のそばに立ち、回りを女王の側近や吹奏隊が取り囲んでいました。民はみな大喜びで、ラッパを吹き鳴らしているのです。それを見た女王は、「謀反だ！ 反逆だ！」と絶叫して、衣服を引き裂きました。 15 エホヤダは百人隊長たちに命じました。「この女を連れ出せ。神殿の中で殺してはいけない。この女につく者があれば、殺してかまわない。」
16 彼らは女王を引きずり出して宮殿の馬屋へ連れて行き、そこで彼女を殺しました。
17 エホヤダは、主と王と民との間で、主の民となるという契約を結び、王と民との間でも契約を結びました。 18 人々はバアルの神殿を取り壊し、祭壇と像を砕き、祭壇の前でバアルの祭司マタンを殺しました。祭司エホヤダは神殿に警護を置き、 19 隊長、近衛兵、人々とともにヨアシュを神殿から連れ出して、衛兵所を通って宮殿に入り、彼を王座につけました。 20 それで、人々は喜びにあふれ、アタルヤの死後、ようやくエルサレムの町は平穏を取り戻しました。 21 ヨアシュが王となったのは七歳の時でした。
2 Kings 11
King James Version
11 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king's son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.
8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the Lord.
11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.
14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.
16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people; between the king also and the people.
18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.
19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
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