2 Chronicles 5 – NIV & JCB

New International Version

2 Chronicles 5:1-14

1When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.

The Ark Brought to the Temple

2Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. 3And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.

4When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, 5and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up; 6and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

7The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. 9These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

11The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. 12All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:

“He is good;

his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, 14and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.

Japanese Contemporary Bible

歴代誌Ⅱ 5:1-14

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神殿の完成と契約の箱の安置

1こうして、ついに神殿が完成しました。そこでソロモン王は、父ダビデが主にささげたものを神殿の宝物倉に納めました。

2王はイスラエルの部族と氏族の長を全員エルサレムに召集し、契約の箱を、シオンと呼ばれるダビデの町の幕屋から新しい神殿に移しました。 3契約の箱の移動は、恒例の十月の仮庵の祭り(収穫を祝う祭り。ユダヤ人の三大祭の一つ)の日に行われました。 4-5イスラエルの指導者たちが見守る中で、レビ人が箱をかつぎ上げ、そのほかのきよい器具とともに運び出したのです。 6王をはじめ人々は、箱の前で羊や牛をいけにえにささげましたが、その数はあまりに多く、数えることができませんでした。

7-8それから祭司たちは、箱を神殿の奥の至聖所に運び入れ、ケルビムの翼の下に置きました。翼は、箱とかつぎ棒を覆うような形で広がっていました。 9そのかつぎ棒は長かったので、先端が前の部屋からは見えましたが、外からは見えませんでした。契約の箱は、この書が書かれている今日も、なおそこにあります。 10箱の中には、二枚の石板のほかは何もありませんでした。その石板は、主がエジプトを出たイスラエルの民と契約を結ばれた時、モーセがホレブ山(シナイ山)で箱に納めたものです。

11-12祭司たちはきよめの儀式をすませ、ふだんの務めとは関係なく、全員が式に参加しました。レビ人たちは、祭司たちが至聖所から出て来ると、すばらしい声で主を賛美しました。歌い手はアサフ、ヘマン、エドトンはじめ、その子らと兄弟たちで、全員が純白の美しい亜麻布をまとい、祭壇の東側に立っていました。合唱隊には、ラッパを吹く百二十人の祭司のほか、シンバルや琴や竪琴の演奏者が加わりました。 13-14合唱隊と演奏隊は一つとなって、「主はなんとすばらしい方! そのいつくしみはとこしえまで!」と主を賛美し、感謝をささげました。すると、主の栄光がまぶしく光る雲となって神殿を包んだので、祭司たちはその務めを果たすことができなくなりました。