2 Samuel 4
1 Now when Ish-bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel was dismayed.
サウルの子はアブネルのヘブロンにて死たるを聞きしかば其手弱くなりてイスラエルみな憂へたり
2 Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,
サウルの子隊長二人を有てり其一人をバアナといひ一人をレカブといふベニヤミンの支派なるベロテ人リンモンの子等なり其はベロテも亦ベニヤミンの中に數らるればなり
3 because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
昔にペロテ人ギツタイムに逃遁れて今日にいたるまで彼處に旅人となりて止まる
4 And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
サウルの子ヨナタンに跛足の子一人ありヱズレルよりサウルとヨナタンの事の報いたりし時には五歳なりき其乳媼かれを抱きて逃れたりしが急ぎ逃る時其子堕て跛者となれり其名をメピボセテといふ
5 Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.
ベロテ人リンモンの子レカブとバアナゆきて日の熱き頃イシボセテの家にいたるにイシボセテ午睡し居たり
6 They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.
かれら麥を取らんといひて家の中にいりきたりかれの腹を刺りしかしてレカブと其兄弟バアナ逃げさりぬ
7 They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.
彼等が家にいりしときイシボセテは其寝室にありて床の上に寝たりかれら即ちこれをうちころしこれを馘りて其首級をとり終夜アラバの道をゆきて
8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
イシボセテの首級をヘブロンにダビデの許に携へいたりて王にいひけるは汝の生命を求めたる汝の敵サウルの子イシボセテの首を視よヱホバ今日我主なる王の仇をサウルと其裔に報いたまへりと
9 But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
ダビデ、ベロテ人リンモンの子レカブと其兄弟バアナに答へていひけるはわが生命を諸の艱難の中に救ひたまひしヱホバは生く
10 when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
我は嘗て人の我に告て視よサウルは死りと言ひて自ら我に善き事を傳ふる者と思ひをりしを執てこれをチクラグに殺し其消息に報いたり
11 How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
况や惡人の義人を其家の床の上に殺したるをやされば我彼の血をながせる罪を汝らに報い汝らをこの地より絶ざるべけんやと
12 So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
ダビデ少者に命じければ少者かれらを殺して其手足を切離しヘブロンの池の上に懸たり又イシボセテの首を取りてヘブロンにあるアブネルの墓に葬れり
