Joshua 9
1 And it came to pass when all the kings who were on this side the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and along all the coast of the great sea as far as opposite to Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [of it],
茲にヨルダンの彼旁において山地平地レバノンに對へる大海の濱邊に居る諸の王すなはちヘテ人アモリ人カナン人ペリジ人ヒビ人ヱブス人たる者どもこれな聞て
2 that they assembled together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
心を同うし相集まりてヨシユアおよびイスラエルと戰はんとす
3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
然るにギベオンの民ヨシユアがヱリコとアイとに爲たりし事を聞しかば
4 then they also acted with craft, and they went prepared as on a journey, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-flasks, old and rent and tied up;
己も詭計をめぐらして使者の状にいでたち古き袋および古び破れたるを結びとめたる酒の革嚢を驢馬に負せ
5 and old and patched sandals upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy.
補ひたる古履を足にはき古衣を身にまとひ來れり其糧のパンは凡て乾きかつ黴てありき
6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, From a far country are we come; and now make a covenant with us.
彼等ギルガルの陣營に來りてヨシユアの許にいたり彼とイスラエルの人々に言ふ我らは遠き國より來れり然ば今われらと契約を結べと
7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivite, Perhaps thou dwellest in the midst of us, and how should I make a covenant with thee?
イスラエルの人々ヒビ人に言けるは汝らは我等の中に住をるならんも計られねば我ら爭か汝らと契約を結ぶことを得んと
8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
彼ら又ヨシユアにむかひて我らは汝の僕なりと言ければヨシユアかれらに汝らは何人にして何處より來りしやと問しに
9 And they said to him, From a very far country are thy servants come, because of the name of Jehovah thy God; for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
彼らヨシユアに言けるは僕等は汝の神ヱホバの名の故によりて遥に遠き國より來れり其は我ら彼の聲譽および彼がエジプトにて行ひたりし一切の事を聞き
10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og the king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
また彼がヨルダンの彼旁にをりしアモリ人の二箇の王すなはちヘシボンの王シホンおよびアシタロテにをりしバシヤンの王オグに爲たりし一切の事を聞たればなり
11 And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take victuals in your hand for the way, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants, and now make a covenant with us.
是をもて我らの長老および我らの國に住をるものみなわれらに告て言り汝ら旅路の糧を手に携さへ往てかれらを迎へて彼らに言へ我らは汝らの僕なり請ふ我らと契約を結べと
12 This our bread we took warm for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; and now, behold, it is dry, and is become mouldy.
我らの此パンは汝らの所に來らんとて出たちし日に我ら家々より其なほ温煖なるをとり備へしなるが視よ今は已に乾きて黴たり
13 And these flasks of wine which we filled new, behold, they are rent; and these our garments and our sandals are become old by reason of the very long journey.
また酒をみたせるこれらの革嚢も新しかりしが破るるに至り我らのこの衣服も履も旅路の甚だ長きによりて古びぬと
14 And the men took of their victuals, but they did not inquire at the mouth of Jehovah.
然るに人々は彼らの糧を取りヱホバの口を問ことをせざりき
15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the assembly swore unto them.
ヨシユアすなはち彼らと好を爲し彼らを生しおかんといふ契約を結び會中の長等かれらに誓ひたりしが
16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt in their midst.
その彼らと契約を結びてより三日を經て後かれらは己に近き人にして己の中に住をる者なりと聞り
17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day; and their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
イスラエルの子孫やがて進みて第三日に彼らの邑々に至れり其邑はギベオン、ケピラ、ベエロテおよびキリアテヤリムなり
18 And the children of Israel did not smite them, because the princes of the assembly had sworn unto them by Jehovah the God of Israel. Then all the assembly murmured against the princes.
然れども會中の長等イスラエルの神ヱホバを指て彼らに誓ひたりしをもてイスラエルの子孫これを攻撃ざりき是をもて會衆みな長等にむかひて呟けり
19 And all the princes said to all the assembly, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.
然ど長等は凡て全會衆に言ふ我らイスラエルの神ヱホバを指て彼らに誓へり然ば今彼らに觸べからず
20 This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath come upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.
我ら斯かれらに爲て彼らを生しおかん然すれば彼らに誓ひし誓によりて震怒の我らに及ぶことあらじと
21 And the princes said to them, Let them live. And they were hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly; as the princes had said to them.
長等また人衆にむかひて彼らを生しおくべしと言ければ彼らは遂に全會衆のために薪を斬り水を汲ことをする者となれり長等の彼等に言たるが如し
22 And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have ye deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; whereas ye dwell in our midst?
ヨシユアすなはち彼らを召よせて彼らに語りて言けるは汝らは我らの中に住をりながら何とて我らは汝らに甚だ遠しと言て我らを誑かししや
23 And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.
然ば汝らは詛はる汝らは永く奴隸となり皆わが神の室のために薪を斬り水を汲ことをする者となるべしと
24 And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.
彼らヨシユアに應へて言けるは僕等はなんぢの神ヱホバその僕モーセに此地をことごとく汝らに與へ此地の民をことごとく汝らの前より滅ぼし去ことを命ぜしと明白に傳へ聞たれば汝らのために生命の危からんことを太く懼れて斯は爲けるなり
25 And now behold, we are in thy hand: as it is good and right in thine eyes to do to us, do.
視よ我らは今汝の手の中にあり汝の我らに爲を善とし正當とする所を爲たまへと
26 And he did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.
ヨシユアすなはち其ごとく彼らに爲し彼らをイスラエルの子孫の手より救ひて殺さしめざりき
27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly, and for the altar of Jehovah, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
ヨシユアその日かれらをして會衆のためおよびヱホバの壇の爲に其えらびたまふ處において薪を斬り水を汲ことをする者とならしめたりしが今日まで然り
