Judges 8
1 And the men of Ephraim say to him, “What [is] this thing you have done to us—not to call for us when you went to fight with Midian?” And they strive with him severely;
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 and he says to them, “What have I now done like you? Are the gleanings of Ephraim not better than the harvest of Abi-Ezer?
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 has given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, into your hand; and what have I been able to do like you?” Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.
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 comes to the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who [are] with him—wearied, yet pursuing—
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 says to the men of Succoth, “Please give cakes of bread to the people who [are] at my feet, for they [are] wearied, and I am pursuing 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 heads of Succoth say, “Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we give bread to your host?”
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 And Gideon says, “Therefore—in YHWH’s giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand—I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.”
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 goes up there [to] Penuel, and speaks to them thus; and the men of Penuel answer 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 also speaks to the men of Penuel, saying, “In my turning back in peace, I break down this tower.”
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 And Zebah and Zalmunna [are] in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who are left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those falling [are] one hundred and twenty thousand men, drawing sword.
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 goes up the way of those who dwell in tents, on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and strikes the camp, and the camp was confident;
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 Zebab and Zalmunna flee, and he pursues after them, and captures the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he has caused all the camp to tremble.
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 And Gideon son of Joash turns back from the battle, at the going up of the sun,
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 captures a young man of the men of Succoth, and asks him, and he describes to him the heads of Succoth, and its elderly—seventy-seven 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 comes to the men of Succoth and says, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom you reproached me, saying, Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand that we give bread to your men who [are] wearied?”
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 And he takes the elderly of the city, and [the] thorns of the wilderness, and the threshing instruments, and teaches the men of Succoth by 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 and he has broken down the Tower of Penuel, and slays the men of the city.
またペヌヘルの城樓を毀ちて邑の人を殺せり
18 And he says to Zebah and to Zalmunna, “What manner of men [were they] whom you slew in Tabor?” And they say, “As you—so they, [each] one as the form of the king’s sons.”
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 says, “They [were] my brothers—sons of my mother; YHWH lives, if you had kept them alive—I would not kill 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 And he says to his firstborn Jether, “Rise, slay them”; and the young man has not drawn his sword, for he has been afraid, for he [is] yet a youth.
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 And Zebah and Zalmunna say, “Rise and fall on us; for as the man—his might”; and Gideon rises, and slays Zebah and Zalmunna, and takes the crescents which [are] on the necks of their camels.
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 And the men of Israel say to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son’s son, for you have saved us from 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 says to them, “I do not rule over you, nor does my son rule over you; YHWH rules over 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 And Gideon says to them, “Let me ask a petition of you, and each give to me the ring of his prey, for they have rings of gold, for they [are] Ishmaelites.”
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 say, “We certainly give”; and they spread out the garment, and each casts the ring of his prey there;
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 rings of gold which he asked for is one thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, apart from the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple garments, which [are] on the kings of Midian, and apart from the chains which [are] on the necks of their camels,
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 makes it into an ephod, and sets it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go whoring after it there, and it is for a snare to Gideon and to 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 And Midian is humbled before the sons of Israel, and have not added to lift up their head; and the land rests [for] forty years in the days 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 And Jerubba‘al son of Joash goes and dwells in his own house,
ヨアシの子ヱルバアル往ておのれの家に住り
30 and there have been seventy sons of Gideon, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;
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, who [is] in Shechem, has borne to him—even she—a son, and he appoints his name 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 And Gideon son of Joash dies, in a good old age, and is buried in the burying-place of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrite.
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 And it comes to pass, when Gideon [is] dead, that the sons of Israel turn back and go whoring after the Ba‘alim, and set Ba‘al-Berith over them for a 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 sons of Israel have not remembered their God YHWH, who is delivering them out of the hand of all their surrounding enemies,
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 have they done kindness with the house of Jerubba‘al—Gideon—according to all the good which he did with 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
