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.
サウルの子イシボセテは、アブネルがヘブロンで死んだことを聞いて、その力を失い、イスラエルは皆あわてた。
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,
サウルの子イシボセテにはふたりの略奪隊の隊長があった。ひとりの名はバアナ、他のひとりの名はレカブといって、ベニヤミンの子孫であるベロテびとリンモンの子たちであった。（それはベロテもまたベニヤミンのうちに数えられているからである。
3 because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
ベロテびとはギッタイムに逃げていって、今日までその所に寄留している）。
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.
さてサウルの子ヨナタンに足のなえた子がひとりあった。エズレルからサウルとヨナタンの事の知らせがきた時、彼は五歳であった。うばが彼を抱いて逃げたが、急いで逃げる時、その子は落ちて足なえとなった。その名はメピボセテといった。
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.
ベロテびとリンモンの子たち、レカブとバアナとは出立して、日の暑いころイシボセテの家にきたが、イシボセテは昼寝をしていた。
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.
家の門を守る女は麦をあおぎ分けていたが、眠くなって寝てしまった。そこでレカブとその兄弟バアナは、ひそかに中にはいった。
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.
彼らが家にはいった時、イシボセテは寝室で床の上に寝ていたので、彼らはそれを撃って殺し、その首をはね、その首を取って、よもすがらアラバの道を行き、
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.”
イシボセテの首をヘブロンにいるダビデのもとに携えて行って王に言った、「あなたの命を求めたあなたの敵サウルの子イシボセテの首です。主はきょう、わが君、王のためにサウルとそのすえとに報復されました」。
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,
ダビデはベロテびとリンモンの子レカブとその兄弟バアナに答えた、「わたしの命を、もろもろの苦難から救われた主は生きておられる。
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!
わたしはかつて、人がわたしに告げて、『見よ、サウルは死んだ』と言って、みずから良いおとずれを伝える者と思っていた者を捕えてチクラグで殺し、そのおとずれに報いたのだ。
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!”
悪人が正しい人をその家の床の上で殺したときは、なおさらのことだ。今わたしが、彼の血を流した罪を報い、あなたがたを、この地から絶ち滅ぼさないでおくであろうか」。
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.
そしてダビデは若者たちに命じたので、若者たちは彼らを殺し、その手足を切り離し、ヘブロンの池のほとりで木に掛けた。人々はイシボセテの首を持って行って、ヘブロンにあるアブネルの墓に葬った。
