2 Samuel 18
1 And David inspects the people who [are] with him, and sets over them heads of thousands and heads of hundreds,
爰にダビデ己とともにある民を核べて其上に千夫の長百夫の長を立たり
2 and David sends the third of the people by the hand of Joab, and the third by the hand of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, and the third by the hand of Ittai the Gittite, and the king says to the people, “I certainly go out—I also—with you.”
しかしてダビデ民を三に分ちて其一をヨアブの手に託け一をゼルヤの子ヨアブの兄弟アビシヤイの手に託け一をガテ人イツタイの手に託けたりかくして王民にいひけるは我もまた必ず汝らとともに出んと
3 And the people say, “You do not go out, for if we utterly flee, they do not set [their] heart on us; and if half of us die, they do not set [their] heart to us—for [you are] now like ten thousand of us; and now, [it is] better that you are for a helper to us from the city.”
されど民いふ汝は出べからず我儕如何に逃るとも彼等は我儕に心をとめじ又我儕半死とも我儕に心をとめざるべしされど汝は我儕の一萬に等し故に汝は城邑の中より我儕を助けなば善し
4 And the king says to them, “That which is good in your eyes I do”; and the king stands at the side of the gate, and all the people have gone out by hundreds and by thousands,
王かれらにいひけるは汝等の目に善と見ゆるところを爲すべしとかくて王門の傍に立ち民皆或は百人或は千人となりて出づ
5 and the king charges Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, “[Deal] gently—for me, for the youth, for Absalom”; and all the people heard in the king’s charging all the heads concerning Absalom.
王ヨアブ、アビシヤイおよびイツタイに命じてわがために少年アブサロムを寛に待へよといふ王のアブサロムの事について諸の將官に命を下せる時民皆聞り
6 And the people go out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;
爰に民イスラエルにむかひて野に出でエフライムの叢林に戰ひしが
7 and the people of Israel are struck there before the servants of David, and the striking there is great on that day—twenty thousand;
イスラエルの民其處にてダビデの臣僕のまへに敗る其日彼處の戰死大にして二萬にいたれり
8 and the battle there is scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplies to devour among the people more than those whom the sword has devoured in that day.
しかして戰徧く其地の表に廣がりぬ是日叢林の滅ぼせる者は刀劒の滅ぼせる者よりも多かりき
9 And Absalom meets before the servants of David, and Absalom is riding on the mule, and the mule comes in under an entangled bough of the great oak, and his head takes hold on the oak, and he is placed between the heavens and the earth, and the mule that [is] under him has passed on.
爰にアブサロム、ダビデの臣僕に行き遭り時にアブサロム騾馬に乗居たりしが騾馬大なる橡樹の繁き枝の下を過ければアブサロムの頭其橡に繋りて彼天地のあひだにあがれり騾馬はかれの下より行過たり
10 And one man sees, and declares [it] to Joab, and says, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
一箇の人見てヨアブに告ていひけるは我アブサロムが橡樹に懸りをるを見たりと
11 And Joab says to the man who is declaring [it] to him, “And behold, you have seen—and why did you not strike him there to the earth—and [it would be] on me to give to you ten pieces of silver and one girdle?”
ヨアブ其告たる人にいひけるはさらば爾見て何故に彼を其處にて地に撃落さざりしや我爾に銀十枚と一本の帶を與へんものを
12 And the man says to Joab, “Indeed, though I am weighing on my hand one thousand pieces of silver, I do not put forth my hand to the son of the king; for in our ears the king has charged you, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Observe who [is] against the youth—against Absalom;
其人ヨアブにいひけるは假令わが手に銀千枚を受べきも我は手をいだして王の子に敵せじ其は王我儕の聞るまへにて爾とアビシヤイとイツタイに命じて爾ら各少年アブサロムを害するなかれといひたまひたればなり
13 or I had done a vain thing against my soul, and no matter is hid from the king, and you would station yourself opposite from [me].”
我若し反いてかれの生命を戕賊はば何事も王に隱るる所なければ爾自ら立て我を責んと
14 And Joab says, “[It is] not right [that] I linger before you”; and he takes three darts in his hand, and strikes them into the heart of Absalom, while he [is] alive, in the midst of the oak.
時にヨアブ我かく爾とともに滞るべからずといひて手に三本の槍を携へゆきて彼の橡樹の中に尚生をるアブサロムの胸に之を衝通せり
15 And they go around—ten youths carrying weapons of Joab—and strike Absalom, and put him to death.
ヨアブの武器を執る十人の少者繞きてアブサロムを撃ち之を死しめたり
16 And Joab blows with a horn, and the people turn back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab has kept back the people;
かくてヨアブ喇叭を吹ければ民イスラエルの後を追ふことを息てかへれりヨアブ民を止めたればなり
17 and they take Absalom and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and set up a very great heap of stones over him, and all Israel has fled—each to his tent.
衆アブサロムを將て叢林の中なる大なる穴に投げいれ其上に甚だ大きく石を疊あげたり是においてイスラエル皆おのおの其天幕に逃かへれり
18 And Absalom has taken, and sets up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that [is] in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to cause my name to be remembered”; and he calls the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called “The Monument of Absalom” to this day.
アブサロム我はわが名を傳ふべき子なしと言て其生る間に己のために一の表柱を建たり王の谷にあり彼おのれの名を其表柱に與たり其表柱今日にいたるまでアブサロムの碑と稱らる
19 And Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run, and I bear the king tidings, for YHWH has delivered him out of the hand of his enemies”;
爰にザドクの子アヒマアズいひけるは請ふ我をして趨りて王にヱホバの王をまもりて其敵の手を免かれしめたまひし音信を傳へしめよと
20 and Joab says to him, “You are not a man of tidings this day, but you have borne tidings on another day, and this day you do not bear tidings, because the king’s son [is] dead.”
ヨアブかれにいひけるは汝は今日音信を傳ふるものとなるべからず他日に音信を傳ふべし今日は王の子死たれば汝音信を傳ふべからず
21 And Joab says to Cushi, “Go, declare to the king that which you have seen”; and Cushi bows himself to Joab, and runs.
ヨアブ、クシ人にいひけるは往て爾が見たる所を王に告よクシ人ヨアブに禮をなして走れり
22 And Ahimaaz son of Zadok adds again and says to Joab, “And whatever it is, please let me run, I also, after the Cushite.” And Joab says, “Why [is] this—you are running, my son, and [there are] no tidings found from you?”
ザドクの子アヒマアズ再びヨアブにいひけるは請ふ何にもあれ我をも亦クシ人の後より走ゆかしめよヨアブいひけるは我子よ爾は充分の音信を持ざるに何故に走りゆかんとするや
23 “And whatever happens,” he said, “let me run.” And he says to him, “Run”; and Ahimaaz runs the way of the circuit, and passes by the Cushite.
かれいふ何れにもあれ我をして走りゆかしめよとヨアブかれにいふ走るべし是においてアヒマアズ低地の路をはしりてクシ人を走越たり
24 And David is sitting between the two gates, and the watchman goes to the roof of the gate, to the wall, and lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a man running by himself.
時にダビデは二の門の間に坐しゐたり爰に守望者門の蓋上にのぼり石墻にのぼりて其目を擧て見るに視よ獨一人にて走きたる者あり
25 And the watchman calls, and declares [it] to the king, and the king says, “If [he is] by himself, tidings [are] in his mouth”; and he comes, coming on and drawing near.
守望者呼はりて王に告ければ王いふ若し獨ならば口に音信を持つならんと其人進み來りて近づけり
26 And the watchman sees another man running, and the watchman calls to the gatekeeper, and says, “Behold, a man running by himself”; and the king says, “This one is also bearing tidings.”
守望者復一人の走りきたるを見しかば守望者守門者に呼はりて言ふ獨一人にて走きたる者あり王いふ其人もまた音信を持ものなり
27 And the watchman says, “I see the running of the first as the running of Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” And the king says, “This [is] a good man, and he comes with good tidings.”
守望者言ふ我先者の走を見るにザドクの子アヒマアズの走るが如しと王いひけるは彼は善人なり善き音信を持來るならん
28 And Ahimaaz calls and says to the king, “Peace”; and he bows himself to the king, on his face, to the earth, and says, “Blessed [is] your God YHWH who has shut up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.”
アヒマアズ呼はりて王にいひけるはねがはくは平安なれとかくて王のまへに地に伏していふ爾の神ヱホバは讃べきかなヱホバかの手をあげて王わが主に敵したる人々を付したまへり
29 And the king says, “Peace to the youth—for Absalom?” And Ahimaaz says, “I saw the great multitude, at the sending away of the servant of the king, even your servant [by] Joab, and I have not known what [it is].”
王いひけるは少年アブサロムは平安なるやアヒマアズこたへけるは王の僕ヨアブ僕を遣はせし時我大なる噪を見たれども何をも知らざるなり
30 And the king says, “Turn around, station yourself here”; and he turns around and stands still.
王いひけるは側にいたりて其處に立よと乃ち側にいたりて立つ
31 And behold, the Cushite has come, and the Cushite says, “Let tidings be proclaimed, my lord, O king; for today YHWH has delivered you out of the hand of all those rising up against you.”
時に視よクシ人來れりクシ人いひけるはねがはくは王音信を受たまへヱホバ今日爾をまもりて凡て爾にたち逆ふ者の手を免かれしめたまへり
32 And the king says to the Cushite, “Peace to the youth—for Absalom?” And the Cushite says, “Let them be—as the youth—the enemies of my lord the king, and all who have risen up against you for evil.”
王クシ人にいひけるは少年アブサロムは平安なるやクシ人いひけるはねがはくは王わが主の敵および凡て汝に起ち逆ひて害をなさんとする者は彼少年のごとくなれと
33 And the king trembles, and goes up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weeps, and thus he has said in his going, “My son Absalom! My son! My son Absalom! Oh that I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
王大に感み門の樓にのぼりて哭り彼行ながらかくいへりわが子アブサロムよわが子わが子アブサロムよ鳴呼われ汝に代りて死たらん者をアブサロムわが子よわが子よ
