Judges 11
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
ギレアデ人ヱフタはたけき勇士にして妓婦の子なりギレアデ、ヱフタをうましめしなり
2 And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drave out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of another woman.
ギレアデの妻子等をうみしが妻の子等成長におよびてヱフタをおひいだしてこれにいひけるは汝は他の婦の子なればわれらが父の家を嗣べきにあらずと
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.
ヱフタ其の兄弟の許より逃さりてトブの地に住けるに遊蕩者ヱフタのもとに集ひ來りて之とともに出ることをなせり
4 And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
程經てのちアンモンの子孫イスラエルとたたかふに至りしが
5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
アンモンの子孫のイスラエルとたたかへるときにギレアデの長老等ゆきてヱフタをトブの地より携來らんとし
6 and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
ヱフタにいひけるは汝來りて吾らの大將となれ我らアンモンの子孫とたたかはん
7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らは我を惡みてわが父の家より遂いだしたるにあらずやしかるに今汝らが艱める時に至りて何ぞ我に來るや
8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon, and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにこたへけるは其がために我ら今汝にかへる汝われらとともにゆきてアンモンの子孫とたたかはばすべて我等ギレアデにすめるものの首領となすべしと
9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らもし我をたづさへかへりてアンモンの子孫とたたかはしめんにヱホバ之を我に付したまはば我は汝らの首となるべし
10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.
ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにいひけるはヱホバ汝と我との間の證者たり我ら誓つて汝の言のごとくになすべし
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.
是に於てヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等とともに往くに民之を立ておのれの首領となし大將となせりヱフタ即ちミヅパにおいてヱホバのまへにこの言をことごとく陳たり
12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?
かくてヱフタ、アンモンの子孫の王に使者をつかはしていひけるは汝と我の間に何事ありてか汝われに攻めきたりてわが地に戰はんとする
13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
アンモンの子孫の王ヱフタの使者に答へけるはむかしイスラエル、エジプトより上りきたりし時にアルノンよりヤボクにいたりヨルダンに至るまで吾が土地を奪ひしが故なり然ば今穩便に之を復すべし
14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
ヱフタまた使者をアンモンの子孫の王に遣りて之にいはせけるは
15 and he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
ヱフタ斯いへりイスラエルはモアブの地を取ずまたアンモンの子孫の地をも取ざりしなり
16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
夫イスラエルはエジプトより上りきたれる時に曠野を經て紅海に到りカデシに來れり
17 then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
而してイスラエル使者をエドムの王に遣して言けるはねがはくは我をして汝の土地を經過しめよと然るにエドムの王之をうけがはずまたおなじく人をモアブの王に遣したれども是もうべなはざりしかばイスラエルはカデシに留まりしが
18 Then he walked through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they pitched on the other side of Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for Arnon was the border of Moab.
遂にイスラエル曠野を經てエドムの地およびモアブの地を繞りモアブの地の東の方に出てアルノンの彼方に陣を取り然どモアブの界には入らざりきアルノンはモアブの界なればなり
19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.
かくてイスラエル、ヘシボンに王たりしアモリ人の王シホンに使者を遣せりすなはちイスラエル之にいひけらくねがはくは我らをして汝の土地を經過てわがところにいたらしめよと
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
然るにシホン、イスラエルを信ぜずしてその界をとほらしめずかへつてそのすべての民を集めてヤハヅに陣しイスラエルとたたかひしが
21 And the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
イスラエルの神ヱホバ、シホンとそのすべての民をイスラエルの手に付したまひたればイスラエル之を撃敗りてその土地にすめるアモリ人の地を悉く手に入れ
22 And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
アルノンよりヤボクに至るまでまた曠野よりヨルダンに至るまですべてアモリ人の土地を手に入たり
23 So now the LORD, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them?
斯のごとくイスラエルの神ヱホバは其の民イスラエルのまへよりアモリ人を遂しりぞけたまひしに汝なほ之を取んとする乎
24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
汝は汝の神ケモシが汝に取しむるものを取ざらんやわれらは我らの神ヱホバが我らに取しむる物を取ん
25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
汝は誠にモアブの王チツポルの子バラクにまされる處ありとするかバラク曾てイスラエルとあらそひしことありや曾て之とたたかひしことありや
26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time?
イスラエルがヘシボンとその村里アロエルとその村里およびアルノンの岸に沿ひたるすべての邑々に住ること三百年なりしに汝などてかその間に之を回復さざりしや
27 I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
我は汝に罪を犯せしことなきに汝はわれとたたかひて我に害をくはへんとす願くは審判をなしたまふヱホバ今日イスラエルの子孫とアンモンの子孫との間を鞫きたまへと
28 Howbeit the king of the children Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
しかれどもアンモンの子孫の王はヱフタのいひつかはせる言を聴いれざりき
29 Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
ここにヱホバの靈ヱフタに臨みしかばヱフタすなはちギレアデおよびマナセを經過りギレアデのミヅパにいたりギレアデのミヅパよりすすみてアンモンの子孫に向ふ
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand,
ヱフタ、ヱホバに誓願を立ていひけるは汝誠にアンモンの子孫をわが手に付したまはば
31 then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the LORD’S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
我がアンモンの子孫の所より安然かに歸らんときに我家の戸より出きたりて我を迎ふるもの必ずヱホバの所有となるべし我之を燔祭となしてささげんと
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hand.
ヱフタすなはちアンモンの子孫の所に進みゆきて之と戰ひしにヱホバかれらをその手に付したまひしかば
33 And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto Abel-cheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
アロエルよりミンニテにまで至りこれが二十の邑を打敗りてアベルケラミムにいたり甚だ多の人をころせりかくアンモンの子孫はイスラエルの子孫に攻伏られたり
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
かくてヱフタ、ミヅパに來りておのが家にいたるに其女鼓を執り舞ひ踊りて之を出で迎ふ是彼が獨子にて其のほかには男子もなくまた女子も有ざりき
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
ヱフタ之を視てその衣を裂ていひけるはああ吾が女よ汝實に我を傷しむ汝は我を惱すものなり其は我ヱホバにむかひて口を開きしによりて改むることあたはざればなり
36 And she said unto him, My father, thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
女之にいひけるはわが父よ汝ヱホバにむかひて口をひらきたれば汝の口より言出せしごとく我になせよ其はヱホバ汝のために汝の敵なるアンモンの子孫に仇を復したまひたればなり
37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
女またその父にいひけるはねがはくは此事をわれに允せすなはち二月の間我をゆるし我をしてわが友等とともに往て山にくだりてわが處女たることを歎かしめよと
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
ヱフタすなはち往けといひて之を二月のあひだ出し遣ぬ女その友等とともに往き山の上にておのれの處女たるを歎きしが
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she had not known man. And it was a custom in Israel,
二月滿てその父に歸り來りたれば父その誓ひし誓願のごとくに之に行へり女は終に男を知ことなかりき
40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
是よりして年々にイスラエルの女子等往て年に四日ほどギレアデ人ヱフタの女のために哀哭ことをなす是イスラエルの規矩となれり
