列王記Ⅰ 18
1 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
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
2 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
And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
3 茲にアハブ家宰なるオバデヤを召たり
And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
4 (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)
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
5 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
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: possibly we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6 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
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
7 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
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Are you that my lord Elijah?
8 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
And he answered him, I am: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
9 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
And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
10 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
As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found you not.
11 汝今言ふ往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よと
And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
12 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
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I your servant fear the LORD from my youth.
13 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
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14 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
And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
15 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
And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.
16 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
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17 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
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Are you he that troubles Israel?
18 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
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that all of you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and you have followed Baalim.
19 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
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
20 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
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
21 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
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt all of you between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
22 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
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23 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
Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
24 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
And call all of you on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
25 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
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for all of you are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
26 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
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
27 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
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or possibly he sleeps, and must be awaked.
28 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
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
29 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
And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
30 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
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
31 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)
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be your name:
32 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
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
33 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
And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34 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
And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35 水に壇の周廻に流るまた溝にも水をみたしたり
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
36 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
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
37 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
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that you are the LORD God, and that you have turned their heart back again.
38 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
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 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
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
40 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
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
41 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
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
42 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
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
43 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
And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
44 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
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare your chariot, and get you down that the rain stop you not.
45 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
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
46 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
And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
