サムエル記Ⅰ 30
1 さてダビデとその従者たちが三日目にチクラグにきた時、アマレクびとはすでにネゲブとチクラグを襲っていた。彼らはチクラグを撃ち、火をはなってこれを焼き、
And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that, the Amalekites, had made a raid into the South, and into Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 その中にいた女たちおよびすべての者を捕虜にし、小さい者をも大きい者をも、ひとりも殺さずに、引いて、その道に行った。
and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, from small even unto great, they had not put one to death, —but had driven them forth, and gone their way.
3 ダビデと従者たちはその町にきて、町が火で焼かれ、その妻とむすこ娘らは捕虜となったのを見た。
So, when David and his men came to the city, lo! it was burnt with fire, —and, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, had been taken captive.
4 ダビデおよび彼と共にいた民は声をあげて泣き、ついに泣く力もなくなった。
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice, and wept, —until they had no more strength to weep.
5 ダビデのふたりの妻すなわちエズレルの女アヒノアムと、カルメルびとナバルの妻であったアビガイルも捕虜になった。
And, the two wives of David, had been taken captive, —Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 その時、ダビデはひじょうに悩んだ。それは民がみなおのおのそのむすこ娘のために心を痛めたため、ダビデを石で撃とうと言ったからである。しかしダビデはその神、主によって自分を力づけた。
And David was in sore distress, for the people had spoken of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were embittered, every man for his own sons and for his own daughters, —but David emboldened himself in Yahweh his God.
7 ダビデはアヒメレクの子、祭司アビヤタルに、「エポデをわたしのところに持ってきなさい」と言ったので、アビヤタルは、エポデをダビデのところに持ってきた。
Then said David to Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, Do bring near me, I pray thee, the ephod. So Abiathar brought near the ephod, unto David.
8 ダビデは主に伺いをたてて言った、「わたしはこの軍隊のあとを追うべきですか。わたしはそれに追いつくことができましょうか」。主は彼に言われた、「追いなさい。あなたは必ず追いついて、確かに救い出すことができるであろう」。
And David enquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? shall I overtake it? And he said unto him: Pursue, for thou shalt, overtake, and thou shalt, rescue.
9 そこでダビデは、一緒にいた六百人の者と共に出立してベソル川へ行ったが、あとに残る者はそこにとどまった。
So David went, he, and the six hundred men, who were with him, and they came in as far as the ravine of Besor, —where, they who had to be left behind, stayed.
10 すなわちダビデは四百人と共に追撃をつづけたが、疲れてベソル川を渡れない者二百人はとどまった。
But David pursued, he. and four hundred men, —but the two hundred men stayed, because they were too wearied to cross over the ravine of Besor.
11 彼らは野で、ひとりのエジプトびとを見て、それをダビデのもとに引いてきて、パンを食べさせ、水を飲ませた。
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and took him unto David, —and gave him food, and he did eat, and they gave him water to drink;
12 また彼らはほしいちじくのかたまり一つと、ほしぶどう二ふさを彼に与えた。彼は食べて元気を回復した。彼は三日三夜、パンを食べず、水を飲んでいなかったからである。
and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two cakes of raisins, and, when he had eaten, his spirit came back unto him, —for he had neither eaten food, nor drunk water, three days and three nights.
13 ダビデは彼に言った、「あなたはだれのものか。どこからきたのか」。彼は言った、「わたしはエジプトの若者で、アマレクびとの奴隷です。三日前にわたしが病気になったので、主人はわたしを捨てて行きました。
Then David said to him—Whose art thou? and whence art thou? And he said, A young man of Egypt, am I, servant to an Amalekite, and my lord left me behind, because I fell sick, three days ago.
14 わたしどもは、ケレテびとのネゲブと、ユダに属する地と、カレブのネゲブを襲い、また火でチクラグを焼きはらいました」。
As for us, we invaded the South of the Cherithites, and against that which pertaineth unto Judah, and against the South of Caleb, —and, Ziklag, burned we with fire.
15 ダビデは彼に言った、「あなたはその軍隊のところへわたしを導き下ってくれるか」。彼は言った、「あなたはわたしを殺さないこと、またわたしを主人の手に渡さないことを、神をさしてわたしに誓ってください。そうすればあなたをその軍隊のところへ導き下りましょう」。
And David said unto him, Wilt thou bring me down unto this troop? And he said—Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt not put me to death, neither wilt thou surrender me into the hand of my lord, and I will bring thee down unto this troop.
16 彼はダビデを導き下ったが、見よ、彼らはペリシテびとの地とユダの地から奪い取ったさまざまの多くのぶんどり物のゆえに、食い飲み、かつ踊りながら、地のおもてにあまねく散りひろがっていた。
So he brought him down, and lo! they were left to themselves over the face of all the land, —eating, and drinking, and dancing around, for all the great spoil which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 ダビデは夕ぐれから翌日の夕方まで、彼らを撃ったので、らくだに乗って逃げた四百人の若者たちのほかには、ひとりものがれた者はなかった。
And David smote them, from the closing twilight even unto the evening of the next day, —and there escaped not of them a man, save four hundred young men who rode upon camels, and fled.
18 こうしてダビデはアマレクびとが奪い取ったものをみな取りもどした。またダビデはそのふたりの妻を救い出した。
And David rescued all whom the Amalekites had taken, —his two wives also, did David rescue;
19 そして彼らに属するものは、小さいものも大きいものも、むすこも娘もぶんどり物も、アマレクびとが奪い去った物は何をも失わないで、ダビデがみな取りもどした。
and there was nothing missing to them—whether small or great, whether spoil, or sons or daughters, or, any thing which they had taken unto themselves, —the whole, did David recover.
20 ダビデはまたすべての羊と牛を取った。人々はこれらの家畜を彼の前に追って行きながら、「これはダビデのぶんどり物だ」と言った。
And David took all the flocks and the herds, —they drave them before those other cattle, and they said, This, is David’s spoil.
21 そしてダビデが、あの疲れてダビデについて行くことができずに、ベソル川のほとりにとどまっていた二百人の者のところへきた時、彼らは出てきてダビデを迎え、またダビデと共にいる民を迎えた。ダビデは民に近づいてその安否を問うた。
And David came unto the two hundred men, who had been too wearied to follow David, and whom they had suffered to remain at the ravine of Besor, —and they came forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him, and when David came near unto the people, they enquired of his success.
22 そのときダビデと共に行った人々のうちで、悪く、かつよこしまな者どもはみな言った、「彼らはわれわれと共に行かなかったのだから、われわれはその人々にわれわれの取りもどしたぶんどり物を分け与えることはできない。ただおのおのにその妻子を与えて、連れて行かせましょう」。
Then responded every man who was bad and abandoned, from among the men who had been with David, and said—Because they went not with me there shall not be given them of the spoil that we have rescued, —save, to every man, his wife and his children, let them put them forth, then, and go.
23 しかしダビデは言った、「兄弟たちよ、主はわれわれを守って、攻めてきた軍隊をわれわれの手に渡された。その主が賜わったものを、あなたがたはそのようにしてはならない。
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, —with that which Yahweh hath given to us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
24 だれがこの事について、あなたがたに聞き従いますか。戦いに下って行った者の分け前と、荷物のかたわらにとどまっていた者の分け前を同様にしなければならない。彼らはひとしく分け前を受けるべきである」。
Who indeed, could hearken unto you, in this mutter? Surely, like the share of him that went down into the battle, even, so, shall be the share of him that remained by the stores—alike, shall they share.
25 この日以来、ダビデはこれをイスラエルの定めとし、おきてとして今日に及んでいる。
And so it came to pass, from that day forward, that he appointed it, for a statute and for a custom unto Israel, until this day.
26 ダビデはチクラグにきて、そのぶんどり物の一部をユダの長老である友人たちにおくって言った、「これは主の敵から取ったぶんどり物のうちからあなたがたにおくる贈り物である」。
And, when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil, unto the elders of Judah, unto his friends, saying, —Lo! for you, a blessing, out of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:
27 そのおくり先は、ベテルにいる人々、ネゲブのラモテにいる人々、ヤッテルにいる人々、
to them who were in Bethel, and to them who were in Ramoth of the South, and to them who were in Jattir,
28 アロエルにいる人々、シフモテにいる人々、エシテモアにいる人々、ラカルにいる人々、
and to them who were in Aroer, and to them who were in Siphmoth, and to them who were in Eshtemoa,
29 エラメルびとの町々にいる人々、ケニびとの町々にいる人々、
and to them who were in Racal, and to them who were in the cities of the Jerameelites, and to them who were in the cities of the Kenites,
30 ホルマにいる人々、ボラシャンにいる人々、アタクにいる人々、
and to them who were in Hormah, and to them who were in Cor-ashan, and to them who were in Athach,
31 ヘブロンにいる人々、およびダビデとその従者たちが、さまよい歩いたすべての所にいる人々であった。
and to them who were in Hebron, —and to all the places where David had been to and fro, he and his men.
