サムエル記第一 30
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Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1三日目に、ダビデとその人々がツィクラグに来た時、アマレク人は南とツィクラグに襲撃をかけていた。彼らはツィクラグを打ち、火で燃やし、
1And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2その中にいた女たちと、小さい者から大きい者まで、すべての人を捕虜にしていた。彼らは一人も殺さず、人々を連れ去って自分たちの道を行っていた。
2and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great; they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.
3ダビデとその人々が町に来ると、見よ、町は火で燃やされ、彼らの妻、息子、娘たちは捕虜となっていた。
3And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
4そこでダビデと彼とともにいた民は、もはや泣く力がなくなるまで声を上げて泣いた。
4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5ダビデの二人の妻、エズレル人アヒノアムと、カルメル人ナバルの妻であったアビガイルも捕虜となっていた。
5And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6民が皆、それぞれ自分の息子と娘のことで悲しみに苦しみ、ダビデを石で打とうと言ったため、ダビデは非常に苦しんだ。しかしダビデは、彼の神、主にあって自らを強めた。
6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.
7ダビデはアヒメレクの子である祭司アビアタルに言った。「どうか、エポデをわたしのところに持って来てください。」アビアタルはエポデをダビデのところに持って来た。
7And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech: 'I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod.' And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8ダビデは主に尋ねて言った。「わたしはこの略奪隊を追撃すべきでしょうか。彼らに追いつけるでしょうか。」 主は彼に答えられた。「追撃せよ。あなたは必ず彼らに追いつき、間違いなくすべてを取り戻す。」
8And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them?' And He answered him: 'Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake them, and shalt without fail recover all.'
9そこでダビデは、彼とともにいた六百人とともに出発し、ベソル川に来た。疲れて後に残った者たちは、そこにとどまった。
9So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
10しかしダビデは、彼と四百人で追撃を続けた。二百人は、疲れ果ててベソル川を渡ることができず、後に留まったからである。
10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
11彼らは野で一人のエジプト人を見つけ、彼をダビデのところに連れて来た。彼らがパンを与えると、彼は食べ、彼らは彼に水を飲ませた。
11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink;
12また、いちじくの菓子の一切れと、干しぶどう二房を与えた。彼がそれを食べると、彼は元気を取り戻した。彼は三日三晩、パンも食べず、水も飲んでいなかったからである。
12and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins; and when he had eaten, his spirit came back to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
13ダビデは彼に言った。「あなたはだれのものか。どこから来たのか。」 彼は言った。「わたしはエジプト人の若者で、アマレク人の奴隷です。三日前に病気になったため、主人はわたしを置き去りにしました。
13And David said unto him: 'To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou?' And he said: 'I am a young Egyptian, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
14私たちはケレテ人の南と、ユダに属する地と、カレブの南に襲撃をかけ、ツィクラグを火で燃やしました。」
14We made a raid upon the South of the Cherethites, and upon that which belongeth to Judah, and upon the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.'
15ダビデは彼に言った。「わたしをその略奪隊のところへ連れて下ってくれるか。」 彼は言った。「わたしを殺さず、また主人の手に引き渡さないと、神にかけてわたしに誓ってください。そうすれば、あなたをこの略奪隊のところへ連れて下りましょう。」
15And David said to him: 'Wilt thou bring me down to this troop?' And he said: 'Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.'
16彼がダビデを連れて下ると、見よ、彼らは地一面に広がって、飲み食いし、踊っていた。ペリシテ人の地とユダの地から奪い取った非常に多くの分捕り品のためであった。
16And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17ダビデは夕暮れから翌日の夕方まで彼らを打った。彼らのうち、らくだに乗って逃げた四百人の若者たちのほかには、一人も逃れなかった。
17And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled.
18ダビデはアマレク人が奪い去ったすべてのものを取り戻した。ダビデは二人の妻も救い出した。
18And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
19小さい者から大きい者まで、息子も娘も、分捕り品も、彼らが奪い去ったものも、何一つ欠けるものはなかった。ダビデはすべてを取り戻した。
19And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them; David brought back all.
20ダビデはすべての羊と牛を取った。人々はそれらの家畜をほかの家畜の前で追い立て、「これはダビデの分捕り品だ」と言った。
20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said: 'This is David's spoil.'
21ダビデは、疲れ果ててダビデについて行くことができず、ベソル川に留まらせておいた二百人のところに来た。彼らはダビデを迎え、また彼とともにいる民を迎えるために出て来た。ダビデが彼らに近づくと、彼らに挨拶した。
21And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him; and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
22すると、ダビデとともに行った者たちのうちの悪意あるならず者たちが答えた。「彼らは私たちとともに行かなかったのだから、私たちが取り戻した分捕り品は彼らに与えない。ただ、それぞれが自分の妻と子どもたちを連れて去るのはよい。」
22Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said: 'Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.'
23しかしダビデは言った。「わたしの兄弟たちよ、主が私たちに与えてくださったものについて、あなたがたはそのようにしてはならない。主は私たちを守り、私たちに向かって来た略奪隊を私たちの手に渡されたのだ。
23Then said David: 'Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
24この事について、だれがあなたがたの言うことに聞き従うだろうか。戦いに下って行った者の分は、荷物のそばに留まった者の分と同じである。彼らは同じように分け合わなければならない。」
24And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as is the share of him that goeth down to the battle, so shall be the share of him that tarrieth by the baggage; they shall share alike.'
25その日以来、ダビデはそれをイスラエルのための掟と定めとしたので、今日に至るまでそうなっている。
25And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
26ダビデはツィクラグに来ると、分捕り品の一部を彼の友人であるユダの長老たちに送って言った。「見よ、主の敵からの分捕り品の一部を、あなたがたへの贈り物とします。」
26And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying: 'Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD';
27それは、ベテルにいる人々、南のラモテにいる人々、ヤティルにいる人々、
27to them that were in Beth-el, and to them that were in Ramoth of the South, and to them that were in Jattir;
28アロエルにいる人々、シフモテにいる人々、エシュテモアにいる人々、
28and to them that were in Aroer, and to them that were in Siphmoth, and to them that were in Eshtemoa;
29ラカルにいる人々、エラフメル人の町々にいる人々、ケニ人の町々にいる人々、
29and to them that were in Racal, and to them that were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them that were in the cities of the Kenites;
30ホルマにいる人々、ボラシャンにいる人々、アタクにいる人々、
30and to them that were in Hormah, and to them that were in Bor-ashan, and to them that were in Athach;
31ヘブロンにいる人々、そしてダビデとその人々がかつて留まっていたすべての場所にいる人々に送られた。
31and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
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