Judges 8
1 The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you did not call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
エフライムの人々ギデオンにむかひ汝ミデアン人と戰はんとて往る時われらを召ざりしが斯ることを我らになすは何故ぞといひていたく之を詰りたり
2 He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
ギデオン之にいひけるは今吾が成るところは汝らのなせる所に比ぶべけんやエフライムの拾ひ得し遺餘の葡萄はアビエゼルの收穫し葡萄にも勝れるならずや
3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
神はミデアンの群伯オレブとゼエブを汝等の手に付したまへりわが成えたるところは汝らの成る所に比ぶべけんやとギデオン此の語をのべしかば彼らの憤解たり
4 Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
ギデオン自己に從がへる三百人とともにヨルダンに至りて之を濟り疲れながらも仍追撃しけるが
5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
遂にスコテの人々に言けるは願くは我にしたがへる民に食を與へよ彼等疲れをるに我ミデアンの王ゼバとザルムンナを追行なりと
6 The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
スコテの群伯等いひけるはゼバとザルムンナの手すでに汝の手のうちに在るや我らなんぞ汝の軍勢に食を與ふべけんや
7 Gideon said, “Therefore when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
ギデオンいひけるは然らばヱホバの吾が手にゼバをザルムンナを付したまふときに我野の荊と棘とをもて汝の肉を打つべしと
8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
かくて其所よりペヌエルにのぼりおなじことを彼らにのべたるにペヌエルの人もスコテの人の答へしごとくに答へしかば
9 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
またペヌエルの人につげていひけるは我平康に歸るときに此の城樓を毀つべしと
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
偖ゼバとザルムンナはその軍勢おほよそ一萬五千人をひきゐてカルコルに居る是皆東方の人の全軍の中の生殘れるものなり戰死せし者は劍を拔ところのもの十二萬人ありき
11 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
ギデオンすなはちノバとヨグベバの東にて天幕にすめるものの路より上りて敵軍の慮りなく居るを撃り
12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
ここにおいてゼバとザルムンナにげ走りたればギデオン之を追撃ちミデアンの二人の王ゼバとザルムンナを生捕て悉くその軍勢を敗れり
13 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
斯てヨアシの子ギデオン、ヘレシの阪よりして戰陣よりかへり
14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
スコテの人の少壯者一人を執へて之に尋ねたれば即ちスコテの群伯およびその長老等七十七人をこれがために書き録せり
15 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”
ギデオン、スコテの人の所に詣りていひけるは汝らが曾て我を罵りゼバとザルムンナの手すでに汝の手のうちにあるや我ら何ぞ汝の疲れたる人に食をあたふべけんやと言たりしそのゼバとザルムンナを見よと
16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
すなはちその邑の長老等を執へ野の荊と棘を取り之をもちてスコテの人を懲し
17 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
またペヌヘルの城樓を毀ちて邑の人を殺せり
18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
かくてギデオン、ゼバとザルムンナにいひけるは汝らがタボルにて殺せしものは如何なるものなりしや答へていふ彼らは汝に似てみな王子の如くに見えたり
19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
ギデオンいひけるは彼らは我が兄弟我が母の子なりヱホバは活く汝らもし彼らを生し置たらば我汝らを殺すまじきをと
20 He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth did not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
すなはちその長子ヱテルに起て彼らを殺せといひたりしが彼の少者は年尚わかかりしかば懼れて劍を拔ざりき
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.
ここにおいてゼバとザルムンナいひけるは汝みづから起て我らを撃よ人の如何によりてその力量異る者なりとギデオンすなはち起てゼバとザルムンナを殺しその駱駝の頸にかけたる半月の飾を取り
22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
茲にイスラエルの衆ギデオンにいひけるは汝ミデアンの手より我らを救ひたれば汝と汝の子及び汝の孫我らを治めよ
23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The LORD shall rule over you.”
ギデオン之にいひけるは我汝らを治むることをせじまた我が子も汝らを治むべからずヱホバ汝らを治めたまふべし
24 Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
ギデオンまた之にいひけるは我汝らにひとつの願ふべきことあり汝らおのおの掠取の環を我にあたへよと是は彼らイシマエル人なるをもて金の環を着けたるに由る
25 They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
衆答へけるは我ら悦んで之を與へんとて衣を布きおのおの掠取の環を其うちに投げいれたり
26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
ギデオンが求め得たる金の環の重量は金一千七百シケルなり外に半月の飾および耳環とミデアンの王たちの着たる紫のころもおよび駱駝の頸にかけたる鏈などもありき
27 Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
ギデオン之をもて一箇のエポデを造り之をおのれの郷里オフラに藏むイスラエルみなこれを慕ひてこれと淫をおこなふこの物ギデオンと其家を陷るる罟となりぬ
28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
ミデアン人は是の如くイスラエルの子孫に攻ふせられてふたたびその頭を擡ることを得ざりきかくて國はギデオンの世にある中四十年の間平穩にてありき
29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
ヨアシの子ヱルバアル往ておのれの家に住り
30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
ギデオンは妻を多く有ちたれば其身より出たる子七十人ありき
31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
シケムに居しその妾またひとりの子を產たれば之をアビメレクと名けたり
32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
ヨアシの子ギデオン妙齡に邁みて死にアビエゼル人のオフラに在るその父ヨアシの墓に葬られたり
33 As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
ギデオンの死るに及びてイスラエルの子孫復ひるがへりてバアルを慕ひて之と淫をおこなひバアルベリテをおのれの神と爲り
34 The children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
イスラエルの子孫その四周のもろもろの敵の手よりおのれを救ひ出したまひし神ヱホバを記憶えず
35 neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
またヱルバアルといふギデオンがイスラエルになせし諸の善行にしたがひて彼の家を厚く待ふことをせざりき
