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

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

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

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

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 back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be 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

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 Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”

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

When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”

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 said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

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

Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, 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 now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’

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

Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant 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

But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own 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 we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.

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

Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found 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

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on 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 Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

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 send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who 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 Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report to them, and they went and told King David; for they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city.

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

But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

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

The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.

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

Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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

After they had departed, they came up out of the well and went and told King David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled 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 David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

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

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

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 David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, 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

Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s 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

Israel and Absalom encamped 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

When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

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, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

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

honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”