1 Kings 18
1 After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
衆多の日を經たるのち第三年にヱホバの言エリヤに臨みて曰く往て爾の身をアハブに示せ我雨を地の面に降さんと
2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
エリヤ其身をアハブに示さんとて往り時に饑饉サマリアに甚しかりき
3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;
茲にアハブ家宰なるオバデヤを召たり
4 for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
(オバデヤは大にヱホバを畏みたる者にてイゼベルがヱホバの預言者を絶たる時にオバデヤ百人の預言者を取て之を五十人づつ洞穴に匿しパンと水をもて之を養へり)
5 Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”
アハブ、オバデヤにいひけるは國中の水の諸の源と諸の川に往け馬と騾を生活むる草を得ることあらん然ば我儕牲畜を盡くは失なふに至らじと
6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
彼等巡るべき地を二人に分ちアハブは獨にて此途に往きオバデヤは獨にて彼途に往けり
7 As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
オバデヤ途にありし時觀よエリヤ彼に遭り彼エリヤを識て伏て言けるは我主エリヤ汝は此に居たまふや
8 He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”
エリヤ彼に言けるは然り往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よ
9 He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
彼言けるは我何の罪を犯したれば汝僕をアハブの手に付して我を殺さしめんとする
10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
汝の神ヱホバは生くわが主の人を遣はして汝を尋ねざる民はなく國はなし若しエリヤは在ずといふ時は其國其民をして汝を見ずといふ誓を爲しめたり
11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
汝今言ふ往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よと
12 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
然ど我汝をはなれて往ときヱホバの霊我しらざる處に汝を携へゆかん我至りてアハブに告て彼汝を尋獲ざる時は彼我を殺さん然ながら僕はわが幼少よりヱホバを畏むなり
13 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
イゼベルがヱホバの預言者を殺したる時に吾なしたる事即ち我がヱホバの預言者の中百人を五十人づつ洞穴に匿してパンと水を以て之を養ひし事は吾主に聞えざりしや
14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”
しかるに今汝言ふ往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よと然らば彼我を殺すならん
15 Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
エリヤいひけるは我が事ふる萬軍のヱホバは活く我は必ず今日わが身を彼に示すべしと
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
オバデヤ乃ち往てアハブに會ひ之に告ければアハブはエリヤに會んとて往きけるが
17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
アハブ、エリヤを見し時アハブ、エリヤに言けるは汝イスラエルを惱ます者此にをるか
18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments and you have followed the Baals.
彼答へけるは我はイスラエルを惱さず但汝と汝の父の家之を惱すなり即ち汝等はヱホバの命令を棄て且汝はバアルに從ひたり
19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
されば人を遣てイスラエルの諸の人およびバアルの預言者四百五十人並にアシラ像の預言者四百人イゼベルの席に食ふ者をカルメル山に集めて我に詣しめよと
20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
是においてアハブ、イスラエルの都の子孫の中に人を遣り預言者をカルメル山に集めたり
21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
時にエリヤ總の民に近づきて言けるは汝等何時まで二の物の間にまよふやヱホバ若し神ならば之に從へされどバアル若し神ならば之に從へと民は一言も彼に答ざりき
22 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.
エリヤ民に言けるは惟我一人存りてヱホバの預言者たり然どバアルの預言者は四百五十人あり
23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
然ば二の犢を我儕に與へよ彼等は其一の犢を選みて之を截り剖き薪の上に載せて火を縦たずに置べし我も其一の犢を調理へ薪の上に載せて火を縦ずに置べし
24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
斯して汝等は汝等の神の名を龥べ我はヱホバの名を龥ん而して火をもて應る神を神と爲べしと民皆答て斯言は善と言り
25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”
エリヤ、バアルの預言者に言けるは汝等は多ければ一の犢を選みて最初に調理へ汝等の神の名を呼ぶべし但し火を縦なかれと
26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
彼等乃ち其與られたる犢を取て調理へ朝より午にいたるまでバアルの名を龥てバアルよ我儕に應へたまへと言り然ど何の聲もなく又何の應る者もなかりければ彼等は其造りたる壇のまはりに踊れり
27 At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
日中におよびてエリヤ彼等を嘲りていひけるは大聲をあげて呼べ彼は神なればなり彼は默想をるか他處に行しか又は旅にあるか或は假寐て醒さるべきかと
28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
是において彼等は大聲に呼はり其例に循ひて刀劍と槍を以て其身を傷つけ血を其身に流すに至れり
29 When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.
斯して午時すぐるに至りしが彼等なほ預言を言ひて晩の祭物を献ぐる時にまで及べり然ども何の聲もなく又何の應ふる者も无く又何の顧る者もなかりき
30 Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.
時にエリヤ都の民にむかひて我に近よれと言ければ民皆彼に近よれり彼乃ち破壞たるヱホバの壇を修理ヘり
31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
エリヤ、ヤコブの子等の支派の數に循ひて十二の石を取れり(ヱホバの言昔ヤコブに臨みてイスラエルを汝の名とすべしと言り)
32 With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs of seed.
彼其石にてヱホバの名を以て壇を築き壇の周圍に種子二セヤを容べき溝を作れり
33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”
又薪を陳列べ犢を截剖て薪の上に載せて言けるは四の桶に水を滿て燔祭と薪の上に沃げ
34 He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.
又いひけるは再び之を爲せと再びこれをなせしかば又言ふ三次これを爲せと三次これをなせり
35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.
水に壇の周廻に流るまた溝にも水をみたしたり
36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
晩の祭物を献ぐる時に及て預言者エリヤ近よりて言けるはアブラハム、イサク、イスラエルの神ヱホバよ汝のイスラエルにおいて神なることおよび我が汝の僕にして汝の言に循ひて是等の諸の事を爲せることを今日知しめたまへ
37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”
ヱホバよ我に應へたまへ我に應へたまへ此民をして汝ヱホバは神なることおよび汝は彼等の心を翻へしたまふといふことを知しめたまへと
38 Then Yahweh’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust; and it licked up the water that was in the trench.
時にヱホバの火降りて燔祭と薪と石と塵とを焚つくせり亦溝の水を餂涸せり
39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
民皆見て伏ていひけるはヱホバは神なりヱホバは神なり
40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
エリヤ彼等に言けるはバアルの預言者を執へよ其一人をも逃遁しむる勿れと即ち之を執へたればエリヤ之をキシヨン川に曳下りて彼處に之を殺せり
41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
斯てエリヤ、アハブにいひけるは大雨の聲あれば汝上りて食飮すべしと
42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
アハブ乃ち食飮せんとて上れり然どエリヤはカルメルの嶺に登り地に伏て其面を膝の間に容ゐたりしが
43 He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.
其少者にいひけるは請ふ上りて海の方を望めと彼上り望みて何もなしといひければ再び往けといひて遂に七次に及べり
44 On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
第七次に及びて彼いひけるは視よ海より人の手のごとく微の雲起るとエリヤいふ上りてアハブに雨に阻められざるやう車を備へて下りたまへと言ふべしと
45 In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
驟に雲と風おこり霄漢黑くなりて大雨ありきアハブはヱズレルに乗り往り
46 Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
ヱホバの能力エリヤに臨みて彼其腰を束帶びヱズレルの入口までアハブの前に趨りゆけり
