Judges 18

1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

當時イスラエルには王なかりしがダン人の支派其頃住むべき地を求めたり是は彼らイスラエルの支派の中にありて其日まで未だ産業の地を得ざりしが故なり

2 So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.

ダンの子孫すなはちゾラとエシタオルよりして自己の族の勇者五人を遣はしその境を出て土地を窺ひ探らしむ即ち彼等に言ふ往て土地を探れと彼等エフライムの山にいたりミカの家につきて其處に宿れり

3 When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

かれらミカの家の傍にある時レビ人なる少者の聲を聞認たれば身をめぐらして其處にいりて之に言ふ誰が汝を此に携きたりしや汝此處にて何をなすや此に何の用あるや

4 And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.

其人かれらに言けるはミカ斯々我を待ひ我を雇ひて我その祭司となれりと

5 Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

彼等これに言ふ請ふ神に問ひ我等が往くところの途に利逹あるや否を我等にしらしめよ

6 And the priest said to them, Go in peace: your way is guided by the Lord.

その祭司かれらに言けるは安んじて往よ汝らが往ところの途はヱホバの前にあるなりと

7 Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

是に於て五人の者往てライシに至り其處に住る人民を視るに顧慮なく住ひをり其安穩にして安固なることシドン人のごとし此國には政權を握りて人を煩はす者絶てあらず其シドン人と隔たること遠くまた他の人民と交ることなし

8 So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?

斯て彼等ゾラとエシタオルに返りてその兄弟等にいたるに兄弟等如何なりしやと彼等に問ければ

9 And they said, Up! and let us go against Laish; for we have seen the land, and it is very good: why are you doing nothing? Do not be slow to go in and take the land for your heritage.

答て言ふ起よ彼等の所に攻のぼらん我等その地を見るに甚だ善し汝等は安んじをるなり進みいたりてその地を取ることを怠るなかれ

10 When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

汝等往ば安固なる人民の所に至らんその地は堅横ともに廣し神これを汝らの手に與へたまふなり此處には世にある物一箇も缺ることあらず

11 So six hundred men of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol went out armed with instruments of war.

是に於てダン人の族の者六百人武器を帶てゾラとエシタオルより出ゆき

12 And they went up and put up their tents in Kiriath-jearim in Judah: so that place is named Mahaneh-dan to this day. It is to the west of Kiriath-jearim.

上りてユダのキリヤテヤリムに陣を張り是をもてその處をマハネダンと名けしがその名今日に存る是はキリヤテヤリムの後にあり

13 From there they went on to the hill-country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

彼等其處よりエフライム山に進みミカの家に至りけるに

14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

夫のライシの國を窺ひに往たりし五人の者その兄弟等に告て言けるは是等の家にはエポデ、テラピムおよび雕める像と鑄たる像あるを汝等知や然ば汝ら今その爲べきことを考へよと

15 And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?

乃ち其方に身をめぐらして夫のレビ人の少者の家なるミカの家に至りてその安否を問けるが

16 And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.

武器を帶たる六百人のダンの子孫は門の入口に立り

17 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.

夫の土地を窺ひに往たりし五人の者上りて其處にいりその雕める像とエポデとテラピムおよび鑄たる像を取けるが祭司は武器を帶たる六百人の者とともに門の入口に立ゐたり

18 And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?

此人々ミカの家にいりて其雕める像とエポデとテラピムと鑄たる像とを取しかば祭司かれらに汝ら何をなすやと言ふに

19 And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

彼等これに言けるは汝默せよ汝手を口にあてて我らとともに來り我らの父とも祭司ともなれよかし一人の家の祭司たるとイスラエルの一の支派一の族の祭司たるとは何か好や

20 Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.

祭司すなはち心に悦びてエポデとテラピムと雕める像とを取て民の中に入る

21 So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.

斯てかれら身をめぐらしその子女と家畜と財寳を前にたてて進みしが

22 When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,

ミカの家を遙かに離れし時ミカの家に近きところの家の人々呼はり集てダンの子孫に追ひつき

23 Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

ダンの子孫を呼たれば彼等回顧てミカに言ふ汝何事ありて集りしや

24 And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

かれら言けるは汝らはわが造れる神々および祭司を奪ひさりたれば我尚何かあらん然るに汝等何ぞ我にむかひて何事ぞやと言や

25 And the children of Dan said to him, Say no more, or men of bitter spirit may make an attack on you, causing loss of your life and the lives of your people.

ダンの子孫かれに言けるは汝の聲を我らの中に聞えしむるなかれ恐くは心の荒き人々汝に撃かかるありて汝おのれの生命と家族の生命とを失ふにいたらんと

26 Then the children of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he went back to his house.

而してダンの子孫進みゆきけるがミカは彼らが己よりも強きを見て身をめぐらして家に返れり

27 And they took that which Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a people living quietly and without thought of danger, and they put them to the sword without mercy, burning down their town.

彼等ミカが造りし者とその有し祭司をとりてライシにおもむき平穩にして安樂なる民の所にいたり刃をもて之を撃ち火をもてその邑を燬たりしが

28 And they had no saviour, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with Aram; and it was in the valley which is the property of Beth-rehob. And building up the town again they took it for their living-place.

其シドンと隔たること遠きが上に他の人民と交際ざりしによりて之を救ふ者なかりきその邑はベテレホブの邊の谷にあり彼ら邑を建なほして其處に住み

29 And they gave the town the name of Dan, after Dan their father, who was the son of Israel: though the town had been named Laish at first.

イスラエルの生たるその先祖ダンの名にしたがひて其邑の名をダンと名けたりその邑の名は本はライシなりき

30 (And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)

斯てダンの子孫その雕める像を安置りモーセの子なるゲルシヨムの子ヨナタンとその子孫ダンの支派の祭司となりて國の奪はるる時にまでおよべり

31 And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

神の家のシロにありし間恒に彼等はミカが造りしかの雕める像を安置おきぬ