Joshua 9
1 All the kings west of the Jordan heard what had happened. These included the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who lived in the hill country, the lowlands, and along the coast as far as Lebanon.
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 So they gathered to fight together as a united army against Joshua and the Israelites.
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 But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and 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 they decided on a cunning plan. They sent messengers to Joshua, their donkeys wearing worn-out saddles and carrying old wineskins that were torn and patched.
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 They put on worn sandals that had been mended and wore old clothes. All their bread was dry and moldy.
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 They went to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and told him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a land far away, so please make a treaty 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 But the Israelites said to the Hivites, “Maybe you live close by. If you do, we cannot make a treaty with you.”
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 “We are your servants,” they replied. “But who are you? Where do you come from?” Joshua asked.
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 “Your servants have come from a land far away,” they replied. “For we have heard of the reputation of the Lord your God, and reports of 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 what he did to the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan—to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who ruled in 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 So our leaders and everyone who lives in our land told us: Take what you need with you for the journey. Go and meet with them, and tell them, ‘We are your servants. Please make a treaty 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 Look at this bread. It was warm when we took it from our houses on the day we set out to come here. But now it's dry and moldy, as you can see.
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 These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look at them now—they're split and damaged. These clothes of ours and our sandals are all worn out because the journey took so long.”
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 The Israelites tried some of the food. However, they did not consult the Lord.
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 Then Joshua made a treaty with them, promising to spare their lives, and the leaders of the assembly swore an oath to guarantee it.
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 Three days after they had made the treaty, the Israelites learned that the Gibeonites lived nearby, right among them!
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 The Israelites left to go to the Gibeonite towns, and arrived there on the third day. The towns were Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath 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 But the Israelites did not attack them because of the treaty sworn by the leaders of the assembly in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. At this all the Israelites protested against the leaders.
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 But the leaders replied to the people, “We swore to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, so we cannot lay a hand on them now.
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 So this is what we're going to do to them. We'll let them live, so that we won't be punished for breaking the oath that we swore to 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 The leaders concluded, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water-carriers in service to the entire assembly, as the Israelite leaders had ordered.
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 Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and asked them, “Why did you trick us? You told us, ‘We live a long way from you,’ but you live right next door to us!
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 Consequently you are under a curse. From now on you shall forever be servants, woodcutters and water-carriers 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 They answered Joshua, “We your servants were told very clearly that the Lord your God had ordered Moses to give you all this land, and that all its inhabitants were to be wiped out before you. So we really feared for our lives because of you. That's why we did what we did.
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 Now we're in your hands. Do to us what you think is right and just.”
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 Joshua did as he had said. He saved them from the Israelites, so that they did not kill 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 That day Joshua made them woodcutters and water-carriers in service to the entire assembly and for the altar of the Lord wherever the Lord should choose. That is what they do right up to this very day.
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
