1 Kings 3
1 Solomon went to see the king of Egypt. Solomon [made an agreement with him to] marry his daughter. They also made an alliance/agreement [that their armies would not attack each other]. Then Solomon brought the king’s daughter to live in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. [She lived there] until Solomon’s workers had finished building his house and the temple of Yahweh and the wall around Jerusalem.
ソロモン王はエジプトの王パロと縁を結び、パロの娘をめとってダビデの町に連れてきて、自分の家と、主の宮と、エルサレムの周囲の城壁を建て終るまでそこにおらせた。
2 [At that time] the temple of Yahweh had not yet been built, so the Israeli people were still offering sacrifices at many other places of worship.
そのころまで主の名のために建てた宮がなかったので、民は高き所で犠牲をささげていた。
3 Solomon loved Yahweh, and he obeyed all the instructions that his father David had given him. But he also offered sacrifices and burned incense at various altars.
ソロモンは主を愛し、父ダビデの定めに歩んだが、ただ彼は高き所で犠牲をささげ、香をたいた。
4 One day the king went to Gibeon [city] to offer a sacrifice there, because that was where the most famous/important altar was. In previous years he had offered hundreds of sacrifices on that altar.
ある日、王はギベオンへ行って、そこで犠牲をささげようとした。それが主要な高き所であったからである。ソロモンは一千の燔祭をその祭壇にささげた。
5 That night, Yahweh appeared to him in a dream. He asked Solomon, “What would you like me to give to you?”
ギベオンで主は夜の夢にソロモンに現れて言われた、「あなたに何を与えようか、求めなさい」。
6 Solomon replied, “You always greatly and faithfully loved my father David, who served you [well]. You did that because he (was faithful to/faithfully obeyed) you and acted righteously and honestly toward you. And you have showed how greatly and faithfully you loved him by giving to him me, his son, and now I am ruling [MTY] as he did [before he died].
ソロモンは言った、「あなたのしもべであるわたしの父ダビデがあなたに対して誠実と公義と真心とをもって、あなたの前に歩んだので、あなたは大いなるいつくしみを彼に示されました。またあなたは彼のために、この大いなるいつくしみをたくわえて、今日、彼の位に座する子を授けられました。
7 “Now, Yahweh my God, you have appointed me to be the king like my father was. But I am [very young, like] a little child [MET]. I do not know how to lead/rule my people at all [IDM].
わが神、主よ、あなたはこのしもべを、わたしの父ダビデに代って王とならせられました。しかし、わたしは小さい子供であって、出入りすることを知りません。
8 I am here among the people whom you have chosen. They are a very large group of people; there are very, very many of them, with the result that no one can count them [DOU].
かつ、しもべはあなたが選ばれた、あなたの民、すなわちその数が多くて、数えることも、調べることもできないほどのおびただしい民の中におります。
9 So please enable me to think clearly, in order that I may rule your people [well]. Enable me to know what is good and what is evil. [If you do not do that, ] I will never [RHQ] be able to rule this great group of people who belong to you.”
それゆえ、聞きわける心をしもべに与えて、あなたの民をさばかせ、わたしに善悪をわきまえることを得させてください。だれが、あなたのこの大いなる民をさばくことができましょう」。
10 Yahweh was very pleased that Solomon had requested that.
ソロモンはこの事を求めたので、そのことが主のみこころにかなった。
11 God said to him, “You did not request that you live for many years or that you become very rich or that you be able to kill all your enemies. Instead, you have requested that I enable you to be wise, in order that you will be able to know [and to do] what is right [while you govern these people].
そこで神は彼に言われた、「あなたはこの事を求めて、自分のために長命を求めず、また自分のために富を求めず、また自分の敵の命をも求めず、ただ訴えをききわける知恵を求めたゆえに、
12 So, I will certainly do what you requested. I will enable you to be very wise [DOU]. The result will be that no one who has lived before you or who will live after you will be as [wise as] you are.
見よ、わたしはあなたの言葉にしたがって、賢い、英明な心を与える。あなたの先にはあなたに並ぶ者がなく、あなたの後にもあなたに並ぶ者は起らないであろう。
13 I will also give you things that you did not request: I will enable you to become very rich and honored, as long as you live. You will be richer and more honored than any other king.
わたしはまたあなたの求めないもの、すなわち富と誉をもあなたに与える。あなたの生きているかぎり、王たちのうちにあなたに並ぶ者はないであろう。
14 If you conduct your life [IDM] as I want you to, and if you obey all my laws and commandments, as your father David did, I will enable you to live for many years.”
もしあなたが、あなたの父ダビデの歩んだように、わたしの道に歩んで、わたしの定めと命令とを守るならば、わたしはあなたの日を長くするであろう」。
15 Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that [God had spoken to him in] a dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of [the Sacred Tent where] the Sacred Chest [was], and he offered many sacrifices that were completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then he made a feast for all his officials.
ソロモンが目をさましてみると、それは夢であった。そこで彼はエルサレムへ行き、主の契約の箱の前に立って燔祭と酬恩祭をささげ、すべての家来のために祝宴を設けた。
16 One day two prostitutes came and stood in front of King Solomon.
さて、ふたりの遊女が王のところにきて、王の前に立った。
17 One of them said, “Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was there in the house.
ひとりの女は言った、「ああ、わが主よ、この女とわたしとはひとつの家に住んでいますが、わたしはこの女と一緒に家にいる時、子を産みました。
18 Three days after my baby was born, this woman also gave birth to a baby. Only the two of us were in the house; there was no one else there.
ところがわたしの産んだ後、三日目にこの女もまた子を産みました。そしてわたしたちは一緒にいましたが、家にはほかにだれもわたしたちと共にいた者はなく、ただわたしたちふたりだけでした。
19 “But one night this woman’s baby died because she [accidentally] rolled on top of her baby [while sleeping and smothered it].
ところがこの女は自分の子の上に伏したので、夜のうちにその子は死にました。
20 So she got up at midnight and took my baby boy who was lying beside me while I was sleeping. She carried him to her bed and brought her dead baby and put it in my bed.
彼女は夜中に起きて、はしための眠っている間に、わたしの子をわたしのかたわらから取って、自分のふところに寝かせ、自分の死んだ子をわたしのふところに寝かせました。
21 When I awoke the next morning and was ready to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. But when I looked at it closely in the morning light, I saw that it was not my baby!”
わたしは朝、子に乳を飲ませようとして起きて見ると死んでいました。しかし朝になってよく見ると、それはわたしが産んだ子ではありませんでした」。
22 But the other woman said, “That is not true! The baby that is alive is mine, and the baby that is dead is yours!” Then the first woman said, “No, the dead baby is yours, and the one that is alive is mine!” And they continued to argue in front of the king.
ほかの女は言った、「いいえ、生きているのがわたしの子です。死んだのはあなたの子です」。初めの女は言った、「いいえ、死んだのがあなたの子です。生きているのはわたしの子です」。彼らはこのように王の前に言い合った。
23 Then the king said, “Both of you are saying, ‘My baby is the one that is alive and the one that is dead is yours.’”
この時、王は言った、「ひとりは『この生きているのがわたしの子で、死んだのがあなたの子だ』と言い、またひとりは『いいえ、死んだのがあなたの子で、生きているのはわたしの子だ』と言う」。
24 So he said to one of his servants, “Bring me a sword.” So the servant brought a sword to the king.
そこで王は「刀を持ってきなさい」と言ったので、刀を王の前に持ってきた。
25 Then the king said to the servant, “Cut the baby that is alive into two parts. Give one part to each of the women.”
王は言った、「生きている子を二つに分けて、半分をこちらに、半分をあちらに与えよ」。
26 But the woman whose baby was alive loved her baby very much, so she said to the king, “No, Your Majesty! Do not allow him to kill the baby! Give her the child that is alive!” But the other woman said to the king, “No, cut it in half. Then it will not be her baby or my baby.”
すると生きている子の母である女は、その子のために心がやけるようになって、王に言った、「ああ、わが主よ、生きている子を彼女に与えてください。決してそれを殺さないでください」。しかしほかのひとりは言った、「それをわたしのものにも、あなたのものにもしないで、分けてください」。
27 Then the king said to the servant, “Do not kill the baby. Give the baby to the woman who said ‘Do not cut the baby in half,’ because she is truly the baby’s mother.”
すると王は答えて言った、「生きている子を初めの女に与えよ。決して殺してはならない。彼女はその母なのだ」。
28 All the Israeli people heard about what the king had decided, and they revered him. They realized that God had truly enabled him to be very wise, to judge people’s matters fairly.
イスラエルは皆王が与えた判決を聞いて王を恐れた。神の知恵が彼のうちにあって、さばきをするのを見たからである。
