2 Samuel 14
1 And Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
ゼルヤの子ヨアブ王の心のアブサロムに趣くを知れり
2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments, I pray, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead;
ヨアブ乃ちテコアに人を遣りて彼處より一人の哲婦を呼きたらしめて其婦にいひけるは請ふ汝喪にある眞似して喪の服を着油む身にぬらず死者のために久しく哀しめる婦のごとく爲りて
3 and come to the king, and speak after this manner to him. And Joab put the words into her mouth.
王の所にいたり是のごとくかれに語るべしとヨアブ其語言をかれの口に授けたり
4 And the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, Save, O king!
テコアの婦王にいたり地に伏て拝し王にいひけるは王よ助けたまへ
5 And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
王婦にひけるは何事なるや婦いひけるは我は實に嫠婦にしてわが夫は死り
6 And thy bondmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other and slew him.
仕女に二人の子あり倶に野に爭ひしが誰もかれらを排解ものなきにより此遂に彼を撃て殺せり
7 And behold, the whole family is risen against thy bondmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also: so they will quench my coal which is left, and will not leave to my husband a name or remnant on the earth.
是において視よ全家仕女に逼りていふ其兄弟を撃殺したる者を付せ我らかれをその殺したる兄弟の生命のために殺さんと斯く嗣子をも滅ぼし存れるわが炭火を熄てわが夫の名をも遺存をも地の面に無らしめんとす
8 And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
王婦にいひけるは汝の家に往け我汝の事につきて命令を下さん
9 And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, Upon me, my lord, O king, be the iniquity, and upon my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
テコアの婦王にいひけるは王わが主よねがはくは其罪は我とわが父の家に歸して王と王の位には罪あらざれ
10 And the king said, Whoever speaks to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
王いひけるは誰にても爾に語る者をば我に將來れしかせば彼かさねて爾に觸ること无るべし
11 Then she said, I pray thee, let the king remember Jehovah thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they cut off my son. And he said, [As] Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
婦いひけるは願くは王爾の神ヱホバを憶えてかの仇を報ゆる者をして重て滅すことを爲しめず我子を斷ことなからしめたまへと王いひけるはヱホバは生く爾の子の髮毛一すぢも地に隕ることなかるべし
12 And the woman said, Let thy bondmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak.
婦いひけるは請ふ仕女をして一言わが主王に言しめたまヘダビデいひけるは言ふべし
13 And the woman said, Why then hast thou thought such a thing against God's people? and the king in saying this thing, is as one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.
婦いひけるは爾なんぞ斯る事を神の民にむかひて思ひたるや王此言を言ふにより王は罪ある者のごとし其は王その放れたる者を歸らしめざればなり
14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
抑我儕は死ざるべからず我儕は地に潟れたる水の再び聚る能はざるがごとし神は生命を取りたまはず方法を設けて其放れたる者をして己の所より放たれをることなからしむ
15 And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
我此事を王我主に言んとて來れるは民我を恐れしめたればなり故に仕女謂らく王に言ん王婢の言を行ひたまふならんと
16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
其は王聞て我とわが子を共に滅して神の產業に離れしめんとする人の手より婢を救ひいだしたまふべければなり
17 And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.
仕女また思り王わが主の言は慰となるべしと其は神の使のごとく王わが主は善も惡も聽たまへばなりねがはくは爾の神ヱホバ爾と共に在せと
18 And the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
王こたへて婦にいひけるは請ふわが爾に問んところの事を我に隱すなかれ婦いふ請ふ王わが主言たまへ
19 And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord, O king, there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king has spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy bondmaid:
王いひけるは比すべての事においてはヨアブの手爾とともにあるや婦答へていひけるは爾の霊魂は活く王わが主よ凡て王わが主の言たまひしところは右にも左にもまがらず皆に爾の僕ヨアブ我に命じ是等の言を悉く仕女の口に授けたり
20 in order to turn the appearance of the thing has thy servant Joab done this thing; but my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is in the earth.
其事の見ゆるとこるを變んとて爾の僕ヨアブ此事をなしたるなり然どわが主は神の使の智慧のごとく智慧ありて地にある事を悉く知たまふと
21 And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: so go, bring back the young man Absalom.
是において王ヨアブにいひけるは視よ我此事を爲すされば往て少年アブサロムを携歸るべし
22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself, and blessed the king; and Joab said, To-day thy servant knows that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant.
ヨアブ地に伏し拝し王を祝せりしかしてヨアブいひけるは王わが主よ王僕の言を行ひたまへば今日僕わが爾に惠るるを知ると
23 And Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
ヨアブ乃ち起てゲシユルに往きアブサロムをエルサレムに携きたれり
24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. And Absalom withdrew to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
王いひけるは彼は其家に退くべしわが面を見るべからずと故にアブサロム己の家に退きて王の面を觀ざりき
25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
偖イスラエルの中にアブサロムのごとく其美貌のために讃られたる人はなかりき其足の跖より頭の頂にいたるまで彼には瑕疵あることなし
26 And when he shaved his head (for it was at every year's end that he shaved it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
アブサロム其頭を剪る時其頭の髮を衡るに王の權衡の二百シケルあり毎年の終にアブサロム其頭を剪り是は己の重によりて剪たるなり
27 And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful countenance.
アブサロムに三人の男子と一人のタマルといふ女子生れたりタマルは美女なり
28 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and did not see the king's face.
アブサロム二年のあひだエルサレムにをりたれども王の顔を見ざりき
29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him; and he sent again the second time, but he would not come.
是によりてアブサロム王に遣さんとてヨアブを呼に遣はしけるが彼來ることを肯ぜず再び遣せしかども來ることを肯ぜざりき
30 Then he said to his servants, See, Joab's allotment is near mine and he has barley there: go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the allotment on fire.
アブサロム其僕にいひけるは視よヨアブの田地は我の近くにありて其處に大麥あり往て其に火を放てとアブサロムの僕等田地に火を放てり
31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to [his] house, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my allotment on fire?
ヨアブ起てアブサロムの家に來りてこれにいひけるは何故に爾の僕等田地に火を放たるや
32 And Absalom said to Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it would have been better for me to be there still. And now let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him slay me.
アブサロム、ヨアブにいひけるは我人を爾に遣はして此に來れ我爾を王につかはさんと言り即ち爾をして王に我何のためにゲシユルよりきたりしや彼處に尚あらば我ためには反て善しと言しめんとせり然ば我今王の面を見ん若し我に罪あらば王我を殺すべし
33 And Joab came to the king, and told him. And he called Absalom, and he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
ヨアブ王にいたりてこれに告たれば王アブサロムを召す彼王にいたりて王のまへに地に伏て拝せり王アブサロムに接吻す
