士師記 7
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1そのとき、エルバアルすなわちギデオンと、彼と一緒にいたすべての民は朝早く起き、ハロデの泉のそばに陣を敷いた。ミディアンの陣営は彼らの北側、谷にあるモレの丘のそばにあった。
1Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2主はギデオンに言われた。「あなたとともにいる民は多すぎる。わたしはミディアン人を彼らの手に渡さない。イスラエルがわたしに向かって、『自分の手で自分を救った』と誇らないためである。
2The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
3それゆえ今、民の耳に宣言して、『恐れおののいている者は皆、帰ってギルアデ山から去りなさい』と言いなさい。」そこで民のうち二万二千人が帰り、一万人が残った。
3Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4主はギデオンに言われた。「民はまだ多すぎる。彼らを水辺へ連れ下れ。そこでわたしがあなたのために彼らをより分ける。わたしが『この者はあなたと行く』と言う者は行き、『この者はあなたと行かない』と言う者は行かない。」
4The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
5そこで彼は民を水辺に連れて下った。主はギデオンに言われた。「犬がなめるように、舌で水をなめる者は皆、別にしておきなさい。ひざまずいて水を飲む者も皆、同様にせよ。」
5So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
6手を口に当てて水をなめた者の数は三百人であった。しかし、民の残りの者は皆、ひざまずいて水を飲んだ。
6The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7主はギデオンに言われた。「わたしは、水をなめた三百人によってあなたがたを救い、ミディアン人をあなたの手に渡す。残りの民は皆、それぞれ自分の所に帰らせなさい。」
7The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
8民は食料と角笛を手に取った。ギデオンはイスラエルの他の者をそれぞれ自分の天幕へ帰らせ、三百人だけを引き留めた。ミディアンの陣営は、彼より低い谷にあった。
8So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9その夜、主は彼に言われた。「立って陣営へ下れ。わたしはそれをあなたの手に渡した。
9That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
10しかし、もし下って行くのを恐れるなら、あなたのしもべプラと一緒に陣営へ下って行きなさい。
10But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
11彼らの話を聞けば、その後あなたの手は強められ、陣営へ下ることができる。」そこでギデオンはしもべプラとともに、陣営の外縁にいた武装兵のところまで下った。
11You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12ミディアン人、アマレク人、すべての東の人々は、いなごのような大群となって谷を埋めていた。らくだも、海辺の砂のように数えきれなかった。
12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
13ギデオンが着くと、ちょうど一人の男が仲間に夢を語っていた。「夢を見た。大麦のパン一個がミディアンの陣営へ転がって来て、天幕にぶつかった。天幕は倒れ、ひっくり返って平らになった。」
13When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
14仲間は答えた。「それは、イスラエル人ヨアシュの子ギデオンの剣にほかならない。神はミディアンとその全軍を彼の手に渡されたのだ。」
14His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
15ギデオンはその夢の話とその解き明かしを聞いたとき、ひれ伏して礼拝した。それから彼はイスラエルの陣営に戻って言った。「立ち上がりなさい。主はミディアンの陣営をあなたがたの手に渡された。」
15It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16彼は三百人を三つの部隊に分け、彼ら全員の手に角笛と空の壺、そして壺の中にたいまつを持たせた。
16He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17彼は言った。「私をよく見て、同じようにしなさい。私が陣営の外縁に着いたら、私がすることを、あなたがたもしなさい。
17He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
18私と、私とともにいる者たちが角笛を吹いたら、あなたがたも陣営の全周で角笛を吹き、『主のため、ギデオンのため』と叫びなさい。」
18When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
19ギデオンと、彼と一緒にいた百人の者たちは、真夜中の見張りの初めに陣営の最も外側の場所に来た。彼らがちょうど見張りを交替した時であった。彼らは角笛を吹き鳴らし、手に持っていた壺を打ち砕いた。
19So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20三つの部隊は角笛を吹き鳴らして壺を打ち砕き、左手にたいまつを、右手に吹き鳴らす角笛を持って、「主の剣、ギデオンの剣」と叫んだ。
20The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”
21彼らは陣営を囲んで、それぞれ自分の持ち場に立った。すると全軍は走り出し、叫びながら逃げた。
21They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22三百人が角笛を吹くと、主は全陣営で、互いに剣を向け合わせられた。軍勢はツェレラに向かうベテ・シタまで、またタバテの近くのアベル・メホラの境まで逃げた。
22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23イスラエルの人々は、ナフタリ、アシェル、および全マナセから呼び集められ、ミディアンを追撃した。
23The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
24ギデオンはエフライムの山地全体に使者を遣わして言った。「下って来てミディアン人を迎え撃ち、ベテ・バラに至るまでの水場とヨルダン川を彼らより先に押さえなさい。」そこでエフライムのすべての人々が呼び集められ、ベテ・バラに至るまでの水場とヨルダン川を押さえた。
24Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
25彼らはミディアンの二人の君主、オレブとゼエブを捕らえた。そしてオレブをオレブの岩で殺し、ゼエブをゼエブの酒ぶねで殺した。彼らはミディアンを追撃し、ヨルダン川の向こうにいるギデオンのところにオレブとゼエブの首を持って来た。
25They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
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