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Jeremiah 52

第52章

1 ゼデキヤは王となったとき二十一歳であったが、エルサレムで十一年世を治めた。母の名はハムタルといい、リブナのエレミヤの娘である。2 ゼデキヤはエホヤキムがすべて行ったように、主の目の前に悪事を行った。3 たしかに、主の怒りによって、エルサレムとユダとは、そのみ前から捨て去られるようなことになった。そしてゼデキヤはバビロンの王にそむいた。4 そこで彼の治世の九年十月十日に、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルはその軍勢を率い、エルサレムにきて、これを包囲し、周囲に塁を築いてこれを攻めた。5 こうしてこの町は攻め囲まれて、ゼデキヤ王の十一年にまで及んだが、6 その四月九日になって、町の中の食糧は、はなはだしく欠乏し、その地の民は食物を得ることができなくなった。7 そして町の城壁はついに打ち破られたので、兵士たちはみな逃げ、夜のうちに、王の園の近くの、二つの城壁の間の門から町をのがれ出て、カルデヤびとが、町を攻め囲んでいるうちに、アラバの方へ落ちて行った。8 しかしカルデヤびとの軍勢は王を追って行って、エリコの平地でゼデキヤに追いついたが、彼の軍勢がみな散って彼のそばを離れたので、9 カルデヤびとは王を捕え、ハマテの地のリブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに引いていったので、王は彼の罪を定めた。10 すなわちバビロンの王はゼデキヤの子たちをその目の前で殺させ、ユダのつかさたちをことごとくリブラで殺させ、11 またゼデキヤの目をつぶさせた。そしてバビロンの王は彼を鎖につないでバビロンへ連れて行き、その死ぬ日まで獄屋に入れて置いた。12 五月十日に、-それはバビロンの王ネブカデレザルの世の十九年であった-バビロンの王に仕える侍衛の長ネブザラダンはエルサレムに、はいって、13 主の宮と王の宮殿を焼き、エルサレムのすべての家を焼いた。彼は大きな家をみな焼きはらった。14 また侍衛の長と共にいたカルデヤびとの軍勢は、エルサレムの周囲の城壁をみな取りこわした。15 そして侍衛の長ネブザラダンは民のうちの最も貧しい者若干、そのほか町のうちに残った者、およびバビロンの王にくだった人、その他工匠たちを捕え移した。16 しかし侍衛の長ネブザラダンはその地の最も貧しい者若干を残して、ぶどうを作る者とし、農夫とした。17 カルデヤびとはまた主の宮の青銅の柱と、洗盤の台と、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、18 また、つぼと、十能と、心切りばさみと、鉢と、香を盛る皿および宮の勤めに用いる青銅の器をことごとく取って行った。19 また彼らは小鉢と、心取り皿と、鉢と、つぼと、燭台と、香を盛る皿と、灌祭の鉢を取った。金で作った物は金として、銀で作った物は銀として、侍衛の長は運び去った。20 ソロモン王が主の宮に造った二本の柱と、一つの海と、海の下の十二の青銅の牛と、台など、このすべての物の青銅の重さは量ることもできなかった。21 この一本の柱の高さは十八キュビト、周囲は十二キュビトで、指四本の厚さがあり、中は、うつろであった。22 その上に青銅の柱頭があり、柱頭の高さは五キュビト、柱頭の周囲は網細工と、ざくろとで飾り、これらもみな青銅であった。他の柱もそのざくろも、これと同じであった。23 その四方に九十六個のざくろがあり、周囲の網細工の上にあるざくろの数は百個であった。24 侍衛の長は祭司長セラヤと次席の祭司ゼパニヤと三人の門を守る者を捕え、25 また兵士をつかさどるひとりの役人と、町にいた王の側近の者七人と、その地の民を募る軍勢の長の書記官と、町の中にいた六十人の者を町から捕え去った。26 侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、これらの人を捕えて、リブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに連れて行った。27 バビロンの王は、ハマテの地のリブラで彼らを撃ち殺した。こうして、ユダは自分の地から捕え移された。28 ネブカデレザルが捕え移した民の数は次のとおりである。第七年にはユダヤ人三千二十三人。29 またネブカデレザルはその第十八年にエルサレムから八百三十二人を捕え移した。30 ネブカデレザルの二十三年に侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、ユダヤ人七百四十五人を捕え移した。この総数は四千六百人であった。31 ユダの王エホヤキンが捕え移されて後三十七年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、ユダの王エホヤキンを獄屋から出し、そのこうべを挙げさせ、32 親切に彼を慰め、その位を、バビロンで共にいる王たちの位よりも高くした。33 こうしてエホヤキンは獄屋の服を脱いだ。そして生きている間は毎日王の食卓で食事し、34 彼の給与としては、その死ぬ日まで一生の間、たえず日々の必要にしたがって、バビロンの王から給与を賜わった。

Jeremiah 52

The Fall of Jerusalem

1 s Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalems for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutalt daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

2 He did what displeased the Lordt just as Jehoiakim had done.
3 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger when he drove them out of his sight.t Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it.t They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah.s5 The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.6 By the ninth day of the fourth months the famine in the city was so severe the residentst had no food.7 They broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.s (The Babylonians had the city surrounded.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.s8 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho,s and his entire army deserted him.9 They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblahs in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there.10 The king of Babylon had Zedekiah’s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. He also had all the nobles of Judah put to death there at Riblah.

11 He had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains.t Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.
12 On the tentht day of the fifth month,s in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guardt who servedt the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.13 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.14 The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.15 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor,t the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen.

16 But het left behind some of the poort and gave them fields and vineyards.
17 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the “The Sea.”s They took all the bronze to Babylon.18 They also took the pots, shovels,s trimming shears,s basins, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests.t19 The captain of the royal guard took the gold and silver bowls, censers,s basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and vessels.s20 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple (including the two pillars, the large bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” and the movable standss) was too heavy to be weighed.21 Each of the pillars was about 27 feett high, about 18 feett in circumference, three inchest thick, and hollow.22 The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feett high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it.

23 There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.
24 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.s25 From the city he took an official who was in charge of the soldiers, seven of the king’s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizenst for military service, and sixty citizens who were discovered in the middle of the city.26 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executedt at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.
So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.28 Here is the official record of the number of peoplet Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year,s 3,023 Jews;29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,s 832 people from Jerusalem;

30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year,s Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.

Jehoiachin in Exile

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifths day of the twelfth month,s Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardonedt King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position thant the other kings who were with him in Babylon.33 Jehoiachint took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.