士師記 20
1 是に於てイスラエルの子孫ダンよりベエルシバにいたりギレアデの地にいたるまで皆出きたり其會衆一人のごとくにしてミヅパに於てヱホバの前に集り
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
2 衆民の長たる者すなはちイスラエルの諸の支派の長等みづから神の民の集會に出づ劍をぬくところの歩兵四十萬人ありき
And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
3 ベニヤミンの子孫はイスラエルの子孫がミヅパにのぼれることを聞り斯てイスラエルの子孫此惡事の樣を語れと言ければ
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
4 彼殺されし婦の夫なるレビの人こたへていふ我わが妾とともにベニヤミンのギベアに宿らんとて往たるに
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
5 ギベアの人起りたちて我をせめ夜の間に我がをる家をとりかこみて我を殺さんと企て遂にわが妾を辱しめてこれを死しめたれば
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
6 我わが妾をとらへてこれをたちわり是をイスラエルの產業なる全地に遣れり是は彼らイスラエルにおいて淫事をなし愚なる事をなしたればなり
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
7 汝等は皆イスラエルの子孫なり今汝らの意見と思考をのべよ
Behold, all of you are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
8 民みな一人のごとくに起ていひけるは我らは誰もおのれの天幕にゆかずまた誰もおのれの家におもむかじ
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
9 我らがギベアになさんところの事は是なりすなはち鬮にしたがひて之を攻ん
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
10 我らイスラエルの諸の支派の中に於て百人より十人千人より百人萬人より千人を取りて民の糧食を執せ之をしてベニヤミンのギベアにいたり彼らがイスラエルにおこなひたるその愚なる事にしたがひて事をなさしむべしと
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
11 斯イスラエルの人々皆あつまりて此邑を攻んとせしが其相結べること一人のごとくなりき
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
12 イスラエルの諸の支派遍く人をベニヤミンの支派の中に遣して言しめけるは汝らの中に此惡事のおこなはれしは何事ぞや
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
13 然ばギベアにをるかの邪なる人々をわたせ我らこれを誅して惡をイスラエルに絶べしと然るにベニヤミンの子孫はその兄弟なるイスラエルの子孫の言を聽いれざりき
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
14 却てベニヤミンの子孫は邑々よりギベアにあつまりて出てイスラエルの子孫と戰はんとす
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
15 その時邑々より出たるベニヤミンの子孫を數ふるに劍をぬく所の人二萬六千あり外にまたギベアの居民ありて之をかぞふるに精兵七百人ありき
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
16 この諸の民の中に左手利の精兵七百人あり皆能く投石器をもて石を投るに毫末もたがふことなし
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
17 イスラエルの人を數ふるにベニヤミンを除きて劍をぬくところの者四十萬人ありき是みな軍人なり
And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
18 爰にイスラエルの子孫起あがりてベテルにのぼり神に問て我等の中孰か最初にのぼりてベニヤミンの子孫と戰ふべきやと言ふにヱホバ、ユダ最初にと言たまふ
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
19 イスラエルの子孫すなはち朝おきてギベアにむかひて陣をとりけるが
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
20 イスラエルの人々ベニヤミンと戰はんとて出でゆきイスラエルの人々行伍をたててギベアにて彼らと戰はんとしければ
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
21 ベニヤミンの子孫ギベアより進みいで其日イスラエル人二萬二千を地に撃仆せり
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
22 然るにイスラエルの民の人々みづから奮ひその初の日に行伍をたてし所にまた行伍をたてたり
And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
23 而してイスラエルの子孫上りゆきてヱホバの前に夕暮まで哭きヱホバに問て言ふ我復進みよりて吾兄弟なるベニヤミンの子孫とたたかふべきやとヱホバ彼に攻のぼれと言たまへり
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
24 是に於てイスラエルの子孫次の日またベニヤミンの子孫の所に攻よするに
And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
25 ベニヤミンまた次の日ギベアより進みて之にいであい再びイスラエルの子孫一萬八千人を地に撃仆せり是みな劍をぬくところの者なりき
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
26 斯在しかばイスラエルの子孫と民みな上りてベテルにいたりて哭き其處にてヱホバの前に坐りその日の夕暮まで食を斷ち燔祭と酬恩祭をヱホバの前に獻げ
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
27 而してイスラエルの子孫ヱホバにとへり（その頃は神の契約の櫃彼處にありて
And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
28 アロンの子エレアザルの子なるピネハス當時これに事へたり）即ち言けるは我またも出てわが兄弟なるベニヤミンの子孫とたたかふべきや或は息べきやヱホバ言たまふ上れよ明日はわれ汝の手にかれらを付すべしと
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days, ) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; in order to morrow I will deliver them into your hand.
29 イスラエル是に於てギベアの周圍に伏兵を置き
And Israel set hidden attackers in wait round about Gibeah.
30 而してイスラエルの子孫三日目にまたベニヤミンの子孫の所に攻のぼり前のごとくにギベアにむかひて行伍をたてたれば
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
31 ベニヤミンの子孫民に出あひしが遂に邑より誘出されたり彼等始は民を撃ち大路にて前のごとくイスラエルの人三十人許を殺せりその大路は一筋はベテルにいたり一筋は野のギベアに至る
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
32 ベニヤミンの子孫すなはち言ふ彼らは初のごとく我らに撃破らると然るにイスラエルの人は云ふ我等逃て彼らを邑より大路に誘き出さんと
And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
33 イスラエルの人々みなその所を起て去りバアルタマルに行伍をたてたり而して伏兵その處より即ちギベアの野原より起れり
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the hidden attackers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
34 イスラエルの全軍の中より選拔たる兵一萬來りてギベアを襲ひ其戰鬪はげしかりしがベニヤミン人は葘害の己にのぞむを知ざりき
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
35 ヱホバ、イスラエルのまへにベニヤミンを撃敗りたまひしかばイスラエルの子孫その日ベニヤミン人二萬五千一百人を殺せり是みな劍をぬくところの者なり
And the LORD stroke Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
36 ベニヤミンの子孫すなはち己の撃敗らるるを見たり偖イスラエルの人々そのギベアにむかひて設たる所の伏兵を恃てベニヤミン人を避て退きけるが
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the hidden attackers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
37 伏兵急ぎてギベアに突いり伏兵進みて刃をもて邑を盡く撃り
And the hidden attackers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the hidden attackers in wait drew themselves along, and stroke all the city with the edge of the sword.
38 イスラエルの人々とその伏兵との間に定めたる合圖は邑より大なる黑烟をあげんとの事なりき
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the hidden attackers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
39 イスラエルの人々戰陣より引き退ぞくベニヤミン初が程はイスラエルの人々を撃ちて三千人許を殺し乃ち言ふ彼等はまことに最初の戰のごとく我等に撃やぶらると
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
40 然るに火焔烟の柱なして邑より上りはじめしかばベニヤミン人後を見かへりしに邑は皆烟となりて空にのぼる
But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
41 時にイスラエルの人々ふりかへりしかばベニヤミンの人々葘害のおのれに迫るを見て狼狽へ
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
42 イスラエルの人々の前より身をめぐらして野の途におもむきけるが戰鬪これに追せまりて遂にその邑々よりいでたる者どもその中に戰死す
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
43 イスラエルの人すなはちベニヤミン人をとりまきて之を追うち容易くこれを踏たふして東の方ギベアの對面にまでおよべり
Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease opposite to Gibeah toward the sunrising.
44 ベニヤミンの仆るる者一萬八千人是みな勇士なり
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
45 茲に彼等身をめぐらして野の方ににげリンモンの磐にいたれりイスラエルの人大路にて彼等五千人を伐とり尚もこれを追うちてギドムにいたりその二千人を殺せり
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
46 是をもて其日ベニヤミンの仆れし者は劍をぬくところの人あはせて二萬五千なりき是みな勇士なり
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
47 但六百人の者身をめぐらして野の方にのがれリンモンの磐にいたりて四月があひだリンモンの磐にをる
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
48 是に於てイスラエルの人々また身をかへしてベニヤミンの子孫をせめ刃をもて邑の人より畜にいたるまで凡て目にあたる者を撃ち亦その至るところの邑々に火をかけたり
And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and stroke them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
