サムエル記Ⅱ 17

1 時にアヒトペル、アブサロムにいひけるは請ふ我に一萬二千の人を擇み出さしめよ我起て今夜ダビデの後を追ひ

Moreouer Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me chuse out now twelue thousand men, and I will vp and follow after Dauid this night,

2 彼が憊れて手弱なりし所を襲ふて彼をおびえしめん而して彼とともにをる民の逃ん時に我王一人を撃とり

And I will come vpon him: for he is wearie, and weake handed: so I will feare him, and all the people that are with him, shall flee, and I will smite the King onely,

3 總の民を爾に歸せしむべし夫衆の歸するは爾が求むる此人に依なれば民みな平穩になるべし

And I will bring againe all the people vnto thee, and when all shall returne, (the man whome thou seekest being slaine) all the people shalbe in peace.

4 此言アブサロムの目とイスラエルの總の長老の目に的當と見えたり

And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.

5 アブサロムいひけるはアルキ人ホシヤイをも召きたれ我等彼が言ふ所をも聞んと

Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let vs heare likewise what he sayth.

6 ホシヤイ乃ちアブサロムに至るにアブサロムかれにかたりていひけるはアヒトペル是のごとく言り我等其言を爲べきか若し可ずば爾言ふべし

So when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom spake vnto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken thus: shall we doe after his saying, or no? tell thou.

7 ホシヤイ、アブサロムにいひけるは此時にあたりてアヒトペルが授けし計略は善らず

Hushai then answered vnto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath giuen, is not good at this time.

8 ホシヤイまたいひけるは爾の知るごとく爾の父と其從者は勇士なり且彼等は野にて其子を奪れたる熊の如く其氣激怒をれり又爾の父は戰士なれば民と共に宿らざるべし

For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father, and his men, that they be strong men, and are chafed in minde as a beare robbed of her whelps in the fielde: also thy father is a valiant warrier, and will not lodge with the people.

9 彼は今何の穴にか何の處にか匿れをる若し數人の者手始に仆なば其を聞く者は皆アブサロムに從ふ者の中に敗ありと言はん

Behold, he is hid now in some caue, or in some place: and though some of them be ouerthrowen at the first, yet the people shall heare, and say, The people that follow Absalom, be ouerthrowen.

10 しからば獅子の心のごとき心ある勇猛き夫といふとも全く挫碎ん其はイスラエル皆爾の父の勇士にして彼とともにある者の勇猛き人なるをしればなり

Then he also that is valiant whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall shrinke and faint: for all Israel knoweth, that thy father is valiant, and they which be with him, stout men.

11 我は計議るイスラエルをダンよりベエルシバにいたるまで海濱の沙の多きが如くに悉く爾の處につどへ集めて爾親ら戰陣に臨むべし

Therefore my counsell is, that all Israel be gathered vnto thee, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba as the sand of the sea in nomber, and that thou goe to battell in thine owne person.

12 我等彼の見出さるる處にて彼を襲ひ露の地に下るがごとく彼のうへに降らんしかして彼および彼とともにあるすべての人々を一人も遺さざるべし

So shall we come vpon him in some place, where we shall finde him, and we will vpon him as the dewe falleth on the ground: and of all the men that are with him, wee will not leaue him one.

13 若し彼何かの城邑に集らばイスラエル皆繩を其城邑にかけ我等これを河に曳きたふして其處に一の小石も見えざらしむべしと

Moreouer if he be gotten into a citie, then shall all the men of Israel bring ropes to that citie, and we will draw it into the riuer, vntill there be not one small stone founde there.

14 アブサロムとイスラエルの人々皆アルキ人ホシヤイの謀計はアヒトペルの謀計よりも善しといふ其はヱホバ、アブサロムに禍を降さんとてヱホバ、アヒトペルの善き謀計を破ることを定めたまひたればなり

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel sayde, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better, then the counsell of Ahithophel: for the Lord had determined to destroy the good counsell of Ahithophel, that the Lord might bring euill vpon Absalom.

15 爰にホシヤイ祭司ザドクとアビヤタルにいひけるはアヒトペル、アブサロムとイスラエルの長老等のために斯々に謀れりきた我は斯々に謀れり

Then said Hushai vnto Zadok and to Abiathar the Priests, Of this and that maner did Ahithophel and the Elders of Israel counsell Absalom: and thus and thus haue I counseled.

16 されば爾ら速に人を遣してダビデに告て今夜野の渡場に宿ることなく速に渡りゆけといへおそらくは王および倶にある民皆呑つくされん

Now therefore sende quickely, and shewe Dauid, saying, Tarie not this night in the fieldes of the wildernesse, but rather get thee ouer, lest the King be deuoured and all the people that are with him.

17 時にヨナタンとアヒマアズはエンロゲルに俟居たり是は城邑にいるを見られざらんとてなり爰に一人の仕女ゆきて彼等に告げければ彼らダビデ王に告んとて往く

Now Ionathan and Ahimaaz abode by En-rogel: (for they might not be seene to come into the citie) and a maid went, and tolde them, and they went and shewed King Dauid.

18 しかるに一人の少者かれらを見てアブザロムにつげたりされど彼等二人は急ぎさりてバホリムの或人の家にいたる其人の庭に井ありてかれら其處にくだりければ

Neuerthelesse a yong man sawe them, and tolde it to Absalom. therefore they both departed quickely, and came to a mans house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, into the which they went downe.

19 婦蓋をとりて井の口のうへに掩け其上に擣たる麥をひろげたり故に事知れざりき

And the wife tooke and spred a couering ouer the welles mouth, and spred ground corne thereon, that the thing should not be knowen.

20 時にアブサロムの僕等其婦の家に來りていひけるはアヒマアズとヨナタンは何處にをるや婦かれらに彼人々は小川を濟れりといふかれら尋ねたれども見當ざればエルサレムに歸れり

And when Absaloms seruants came to the wife into the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Ionathan? And the woman answered them, They be gone ouer the brooke of water. And when they had sought them, and could not finde them, they returned to Ierusalem.

21 彼等が去し時かの二人は井よりのぼりて往てダビデ王に告げたり即ちダビデに言けるは起て速かに水を濟れ其はアヒトベル斯爾等について謀計を爲したればなりと

And assoone as they were departed, the other came out of the well, and went and tolde King Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Vp, and get you quickely ouer the water: for such counsell hath Ahithophel giuen against you.

22 ダビデ起て己とともにある凡ての民とともにヨルダンを濟れり曙には一人もヨルダンを濟らざる者はなかりき

Then Dauid arose, and all the people that were with him, and they went ouer Iorden vntil the dawning of the day, so that there lacked not one of them, that was not come ouer Iorden.

23 アヒトベルは其謀計の行れざるを見て其驢馬に鞍おき起て其邑に往て其家にいたり家の人に遺言して自ら縊れ死て其父の墓に葬らる

Nowe when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and he went home vnto his citie, and put his houshold in order, and hanged him selfe, and dyed, and was buryed in his fathers graue.

24 爰にダビデ、マナハイムに至る又アブサロムは己とともにあるイスラエルの凡の人々とともにヨルダンを濟れり

Then Dauid came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed ouer Iorden, he, and all the men of Israel with him.

25 アブサロム、アマサをヨアブの代りに軍の長と爲りアマサは夫のナハシの女にてヨアブの母ゼルヤの妹なるアビガルに通じたるイシマエル人名はヱテルといふ人の子なり

And Absalom made Amasa captaine of the hoste in the stead of Ioab: which Amasa was a mans sonne named Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Ioabs mother.

26 かくてイスラエルとアブサロムはギレアデの地に陣どれり

So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

27 ダビデ、マハナイムにいたれる時アンモンの子孫の中なるラバのナハシの子シヨビとロデバルのアンミエルの子マキルおよびロゲリムのギレアデ人バルジライ

And when Dauid was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the sonne of Nahash out of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the sonne of Ammiel out of Lo-debar, and Barzelai the Gileadite out of Rogel

28 臥床と鍋釜と陶器と小麥と大麥と粉と烘麥と豆と小豆の烘たる者と

Brought beds, and basens, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and floure, and parched corne, and beanes, and lentiles, and parched corne.

29 蜜と牛酪と羊と犢をダビデおよび倶にある民の食ふために持來れり其は彼等民は野にて饑憊れ渇くならんと謂たればなり

And they brought hony, and butter, and sheepe, and cheese of kine for Dauid and for the people that were with him, to eate: for they said, The people is hungry, and wearie, and thirstie in the wildernesse.