Judges 8

1 Then the men of Ephraim sayde vnto him, Why hast thou serued vs thus that thou calledst vs not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? and they chode with him sharply.

エフライムの人々ギデオンにむかひ汝ミデアン人と戰はんとて往る時われらを召ざりしが斯ることを我らになすは何故ぞといひていたく之を詰りたり

2 To whom he said, What haue I now done in comparison of you? is not the gleaning of grapes of Ephraim better, then the vintage of Abiezer?

ギデオン之にいひけるは今吾が成るところは汝らのなせる所に比ぶべけんやエフライムの拾ひ得し遺餘の葡萄はアビエゼルの收穫し葡萄にも勝れるならずや

3 God hath deliuered into your handes the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? and when he had thus spoken, then their spirits abated toward him.

神はミデアンの群伯オレブとゼエブを汝等の手に付したまへりわが成えたるところは汝らの成る所に比ぶべけんやとギデオン此の語をのべしかば彼らの憤解たり

4 And Gideon came to Iorden to passe ouer, hee, and the three hundreth men that were with him, weary, yet pursuing them.

ギデオン自己に從がへる三百人とともにヨルダンに至りて之を濟り疲れながらも仍追撃しけるが

5 And he said vnto the men of Succoth, Giue, I pray you, morsels of bread vnto the people that follow me (for they be wearie) that I may follow after Zebah, and Zalmunna Kings of Midian.

遂にスコテの人々に言けるは願くは我にしたがへる民に食を與へよ彼等疲れをるに我ミデアンの王ゼバとザルムンナを追行なりと

6 And the princes of Succoth sayde, Are the handes of Zebah and Zalmunna nowe in thine hads, that we should giue bread vnto thine army?

スコテの群伯等いひけるはゼバとザルムンナの手すでに汝の手のうちに在るや我らなんぞ汝の軍勢に食を與ふべけんや

7 Gideon then sayde, Therefore when the Lord hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, I will teare your flesh with thornes of the wildernes and with breers.

ギデオンいひけるは然らばヱホバの吾が手にゼバをザルムンナを付したまふときに我野の荊と棘とをもて汝の肉を打つべしと

8 And he went vp thence to Penuel, and spake vnto them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth answered.

かくて其所よりペヌエルにのぼりおなじことを彼らにのべたるにペヌエルの人もスコテの人の答へしごとくに答へしかば

9 And he sayd also vnto the men of Penuel, When I come againe in peace, I will breake downe this towre.

またペヌエルの人につげていひけるは我平康に歸るときに此の城樓を毀つべしと

10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hostes with them, about fifteene thousande, all that were left of all the hostes of them of the East: for there was slaine an hundreth and twentie thousand men, that drew swordes.

偖ゼバとザルムンナはその軍勢おほよそ一萬五千人をひきゐてカルコルに居る是皆東方の人の全軍の中の生殘れるものなり戰死せし者は劍を拔ところのもの十二萬人ありき

11 And Gideon went through them that dwelt in Tabernacles on the East side of Nobah and Iogbehah, and smote the hoste: for the hoste was carelesse.

ギデオンすなはちノバとヨグベバの東にて天幕にすめるものの路より上りて敵軍の慮りなく居るを撃り

12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, hee followed after them, and tooke the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the hoste.

ここにおいてゼバとザルムンナにげ走りたればギデオン之を追撃ちミデアンの二人の王ゼバとザルムンナを生捕て悉くその軍勢を敗れり

13 So Gideon the sonne of Ioash returned from battel, the sunne being yet hie,

斯てヨアシの子ギデオン、ヘレシの阪よりして戰陣よりかへり

14 And tooke a seruant of the me of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he wrote to him the princes of Succoth and the Elders thereof, euen seuentie and seuen men.

スコテの人の少壯者一人を執へて之に尋ねたれば即ちスコテの群伯およびその長老等七十七人をこれがために書き録せり

15 And he came vnto the men of Succoth, and sayd, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, by whome ye vpbrayded me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in thine hands, that we should giue bread vnto thy weary men?

ギデオン、スコテの人の所に詣りていひけるは汝らが曾て我を罵りゼバとザルムンナの手すでに汝の手のうちにあるや我ら何ぞ汝の疲れたる人に食をあたふべけんやと言たりしそのゼバとザルムンナを見よと

16 Then he tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes and breers, and did teare the men of Succoth with them.

すなはちその邑の長老等を執へ野の荊と棘を取り之をもちてスコテの人を懲し

17 Also he brake downe the towre of Penuel, and slew the men of the citie.

またペヌヘルの城樓を毀ちて邑の人を殺せり

18 Then saide he vnto Zebah and Zalmunna, What maner of men were they, whom ye slew at Tabor? and they answered, As thou art, so were they: euery one was like the children of a King.

かくてギデオン、ゼバとザルムンナにいひけるは汝らがタボルにて殺せしものは如何なるものなりしや答へていふ彼らは汝に似てみな王子の如くに見えたり

19 And he said, They were my brethren, euen my mothers children: as the Lord liueth, if ye had saued their liues, I would not slay you.

ギデオンいひけるは彼らは我が兄弟我が母の子なりヱホバは活く汝らもし彼らを生し置たらば我汝らを殺すまじきをと

20 Then he sayde vnto Iether his first borne sonne, Vp, and slay them: but the boy drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet yong.

すなはちその長子ヱテルに起て彼らを殺せといひたりしが彼の少者は年尚わかかりしかば懼れて劍を拔ざりき

21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna sayd, Rise thou, and fall vpon vs: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and tooke away the ornamentes, that were on their camels neckes.

ここにおいてゼバとザルムンナいひけるは汝みづから起て我らを撃よ人の如何によりてその力量異る者なりとギデオンすなはち起てゼバとザルムンナを殺しその駱駝の頸にかけたる半月の飾を取り

22 Then the men of Israel sayd vnto Gideon, Reigne thou ouer vs, both thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne: for thou hast deliuered vs out of the hand of Midian.

茲にイスラエルの衆ギデオンにいひけるは汝ミデアンの手より我らを救ひたれば汝と汝の子及び汝の孫我らを治めよ

23 And Gideon sayde vnto them, I will not reigne ouer you, neither shall my childe reigne ouer you, but the Lord shall reigne ouer you.

ギデオン之にいひけるは我汝らを治むることをせじまた我が子も汝らを治むべからずヱホバ汝らを治めたまふべし

24 Againe Gideon sayd vnto them, I would desire a request of you, that you would giue mee euery man the earings of his pray (for they had golden earings because they were Ismaelites)

ギデオンまた之にいひけるは我汝らにひとつの願ふべきことあり汝らおのおの掠取の環を我にあたへよと是は彼らイシマエル人なるをもて金の環を着けたるに由る

25 And they answered, Wee will giue them. And they spred a garment, and did cast therein euery man the earings of his pray.

衆答へけるは我ら悦んで之を與へんとて衣を布きおのおの掠取の環を其うちに投げいれたり

26 And the weight of the golden earings that he required, was a thousande and seuen hundreth shekels of golde, beside collers and iewels, and purple rayment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the cheynes that were about their camels neckes.

ギデオンが求め得たる金の環の重量は金一千七百シケルなり外に半月の飾および耳環とミデアンの王たちの着たる紫のころもおよび駱駝の頸にかけたる鏈などもありき

27 And Gideon made an Ephod thereof, and put it in Ophrah his citie: and all Israel went a whoring there after it, which was the destruction of Gideon and his house.

ギデオン之をもて一箇のエポデを造り之をおのれの郷里オフラに藏むイスラエルみなこれを慕ひてこれと淫をおこなふこの物ギデオンと其家を陷るる罟となりぬ

28 Thus was Midian brought lowe before the children of Israel, so that they lift vp their heads no more: and the countrey was in quietnes fourtie yeeres in the dayes of Gideon.

ミデアン人は是の如くイスラエルの子孫に攻ふせられてふたたびその頭を擡ることを得ざりきかくて國はギデオンの世にある中四十年の間平穩にてありき

29 Then Ierubbaal the sonne of Ioash went, and dwelt in his owne house.

ヨアシの子ヱルバアル往ておのれの家に住り

30 And Gideon had seuentie sonnes begotten of his body: for he had many wiues.

ギデオンは妻を多く有ちたれば其身より出たる子七十人ありき

31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, bare him a sonne also, whose name he called Abimelech.

シケムに居しその妾またひとりの子を產たれば之をアビメレクと名けたり

32 So Gideon the sonne of Ioash dyed in a good age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Ioash his father in Ophrah, of the father of ye Ezrites.

ヨアシの子ギデオン妙齡に邁みて死にアビエゼル人のオフラに在るその父ヨアシの墓に葬られたり

33 But when Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned away and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their God.

ギデオンの死るに及びてイスラエルの子孫復ひるがへりてバアルを慕ひて之と淫をおこなひバアルベリテをおのれの神と爲り

34 And the children of Israel remembred not the Lord their God, which had deliuered the out of the hands of all their enemies on euery side.

イスラエルの子孫その四周のもろもろの敵の手よりおのれを救ひ出したまひし神ヱホバを記憶えず

35 Neither shewed they mercy on the house of Ierubbaal, or Gideon, according to al the goodnesse which he had shewed vnto Israel.

またヱルバアルといふギデオンがイスラエルになせし諸の善行にしたがひて彼の家を厚く待ふことをせざりき