2 Kings 6
1 One day a group of prophets said to Elisha, “Look, this place where we meet together with you is very small.
茲に預言者の徒エリシヤに言けるは視よ我儕が汝とともに住ふ所はわれらのために隘し
2 Allow us to go to the Jordan [River and cut down some trees to make] logs to build a new meeting place.” So Elisha said, “Okay, go.”
請ふ我儕をしてヨルダンに往しめよ我儕おのおの彼處より一の材木を取て其處に我儕の住べき處を設けんエリシヤ往よと言ふ
3 One of them said to Elisha, “Please come with us.” So Elisha replied, “Okay, I will go with you.”
時にその一人希はくは汝も僕等と共に往けと言ければエリシヤ答へて我ゆかんと言ふ
4 So they went together. When they reached the Jordan [River], they cut down some trees.
エリシヤかく彼等とともに往り彼等すなはちヨルダンにいたりて樹を砍りたふしけるが
5 But while one of them was cutting down a tree, suddenly the axe head [separated from the handle and] fell into the water. He cried out to Elisha, “O, Master, what shall I do? [The axe is not mine]; I borrowed it!”
一人の材木を砍りたふすに方りてその斧水におちいりしかば叫びて嗚呼主よ是は乞得たる者なりと言ふ
6 Elisha replied, “Where did it fall into the water?” After the man showed him the place, Elisha cut off a stick, and threw it into the water, and caused the iron axe head to float [on top of the water].
神の人其は何處におちいりしやと言ふにその處をしらせしかば則ち枝を切おとして其處に投いれてその斧を浮ましめ
7 Elisha said, “Take it out of the water.” So the man reached his hand down and picked up the axe head.
汝これを取れと言ければその人手を伸てこれを取り
8 Whenever the king of Syria [prepared to send his army to] fight against Israel, he first consulted his officers, and then told them where they should set up their tents.
茲にスリアの王イスラエルと戰ひをりその臣僕と評議して斯々の處に我陣を張んと言たれば
9 But each time, Elisha would send a message to warn the king of Israel, [telling him where the army of Syria was planning to attack them, ] saying, “Be sure that your army does not go near that place, because the army of Syria has set up their tents there.”
神の人イスラエルの王に言おくりけるは汝愼んで某の處を過るなかれ其はスリア人其處に下ればなりと
10 So the king of Israel would send [messengers] to warn [the people who lived in] that place, and the people would remain on guard. That happened several times.
イスラエルの王是において神の人が己に告げ己に敎たる處に人を遣して其處に自防しこと一二回に止まらざりき
11 The king of Syria was very upset/disturbed/angry about that. So he summoned his army officers and said to them, “[Obviously] one of you is (betraying us/revealing our plans) to the king of Israel. Which one of you is doing it?”
是をもてスリアの王是事のために心をなやましその臣僕を召て我儕の中誰がイスラエルの王と通じをるかを我に告ざるやと言ふに
12 One of his officers answered, “Your Majesty, it is not one of us. Elisha the prophet [knows what we plan to do, and he] tells the king of Israel everything. He even knows what you say in your own bedroom!”
その臣僕の一人言ふ王わが主よ然るにあらず但イスラエルの預言者エリシヤ汝が寝室にて語る所の言語をもイスラエルの王に告るなり
13 The king of Syria replied, “Go and find out where he is, and I will send [some men there] to capture him.” Someone told him, “People say that he is in Dothan [town north of Samaria].”
王いひけるは往て彼が安に居かを見よ我人をやりてこれを執へんと茲に彼はドタンに居ると王に告ていふ者ありければ
14 So the king sent a large group of soldiers [to Dothan] with horses and chariots. They arrived at night and surrounded the town.
王そこに馬と車および大軍をつかはせり彼等すなはち夜の中に來りてその邑を取かこみけるが
15 Early the next morning, Elisha’s servant got up and went outside the house. He saw the soldiers of Syria with their horses and chariots surrounding the town. So he went inside [the house and reported it to Elisha] and exclaimed, “O, sir! What are we going to do?”
神の人の從屬夙に興て出て見に軍勢馬と車をもて邑を取かこみ居ればその少者エリシヤに言けるは嗚呼わが主よ我儕如何にすべきや
16 Elisha replied, “Do not be afraid! Those who will be helping us will be more than those who will be helping them!”
エリシヤ答へけるは懼るなかれ我儕とともにある者は彼等とともにある者よりも多しと
17 Then he prayed, “Yahweh, I request that you open my servant’s eyes in order that he can see [what is out there]!” So Yahweh enabled the servant to look out and see that surrounding the hill on which the town [was built] was a huge number of horses, and chariots made of fire!
ヱリシヤ祈りて願くはヱホバかれの目を開きて見させたまへと言ければヱホバその少者の眼を開きたまへり彼すなはち見るに火の馬と火の車山に盈てエリシヤの四面に在り
18 When the army of Syria prepared to attack Elisha, he prayed again, saying, “Yahweh, cause all these soldiers to become blind!” Yahweh answered his prayer and caused them to be unable to see clearly.
スリア人エリシヤの所に下りいたれる時エリシヤ、ヱホバに祈りて言ふ願くは此人々をして目昏しめたまへと即ちエリシヤの言のごとくにその目を昏しめたまへり
19 Then Elisha went to them and said, “You are not on the right road; this is not the city that you are searching for. I will take you to the man whom you are searching for.” But he led them to Samaria, [the capital of Israel]!
是においてエリシヤ彼らに言けるは是はその途にあらず是はその城にもあらず我に從ひて來れ我汝らを汝らが尋ぬる人の所に携ゆかんとて彼等をサマリヤにひき至れり
20 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha prayed again, saying, “Yahweh, now enable these soldiers to see correctly again!” So Yahweh enabled them to see correctly, and they were surprised to see that they were inside Samaria [city].
彼等がサマリヤに至りし時エリシヤ言けるはヱホバよ此人々の目をひらきて見させたまへと即ちヱホバかれらの目を開きたまひたれば彼等見るにその身はサマリヤの中にあり
21 When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “Sir, shall I [tell my soldiers to] kill them? Shall we kill all of them?”
イスラエルの王かれらを見てエリシヤに言けるはわが父よ我撃殺すべきや撃殺すべきや
22 Elisha replied, “No, you must not kill them. If your army captured many of your enemies in a battle, you would certainly not [RHQ] kill them. Give these men something to eat and drink, and then allow them to return to their king.”
エリシヤ答けるは撃殺すべからず汝劍と弓をもて擄にせる者等を撃殺すことを爲んやパンと水と彼らの前にそなへて食飮せしめてその主君に往しむべきなり
23 So the king of Israel did that. He told his servants to provide a big feast for them. And when they had eaten and drunk plenty, he sent them away. They returned to the king of Syria [and told him what had happened]. So for a while after that, soldiers from Syria stopped raiding/attacking towns in Israel.
王すなはちかれらの爲に大なる饗宴をまうけ其食飮ををはるに及びてこれを去しめたればすなはち其主君に歸れり是をもてスリアの兵ふたたびイスラエルの地に入ざりき
24 But some time later, Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, assembled his entire army, and they went to Samaria and surrounded the city [for a long time].
此後スリアの王ベネハダデその全軍を集めて上りきたりてサマリヤを攻圍みければ
25 Because of that, after a while there was hardly any food left inside the city, with the result that eventually a donkey’s head, [which was usually worthless, ] cost eighty pieces of silver, and (one cup/0.3 liter) of dove’s dung cost five pieces of silver.
サマリヤ大に糧食に乏しくなれり即ちかれら之を攻かこみたれば遂に驢馬の頭一箇は銀八十枚にいたり鳩の糞一カブの四分の一は銀五枚にいたる
26 One day when the king of Israel was walking on top of the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Your Majesty, help me!”
茲にイスラエルの王石垣の上を通りをる時一人の婦人かれに呼はりて我主王よ助けたまへと言ければ
27 He replied, “If Yahweh will not help you, I certainly cannot [RHQ] help you. I certainly [RHQ] do not have any wheat or wine!
彼言ふヱホバもし汝を助けたまはずば我何をもてか汝を助くることを得ん禾場の物をもてせんか酒榨の中の物をもてせんか
28 What is your problem?” She replied, “Several days ago, that woman [over there] said to me, ‘[Because we have nothing left to eat, ] let’s kill your son today, in order that we can eat his flesh. Then tomorrow we can [kill] my son [and] eat his flesh.’
王すなはち婦に何事なるやと言ば答へて言ふ此婦人我にむかひ汝の子を與へよ我儕今日これを食ひて明日わが子を食ふべしと言り
29 So we [killed my son and cut his body up and] boiled his flesh and ate it. The next day, I said to her, ‘Now give your son to me, in order that we can [kill him and cook his flesh and] eat it.’ But she has hidden her son!”
斯われら吾子を煮てこれを食ひけるが我次の日にいたりて彼にむかひ汝の子を與へよ我儕これを食はんと言しに彼その子を隱したり
30 When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his robe [to show that he was very distressed]. The people who were standing close to the wall were able to see that the king was wearing rough cloth underneath his robe [because he was very distressed].
王その婦人の言を聞て衣を裂き而して石垣の上を通りをりしが民これを見るにその膚に麻布を著居たり
31 The king exclaimed, “I wish/hope that God will strike me dead if I do not cut off the head of Elisha today, [because he is the one who has caused these terrible things to happen to us]!”
王言けるは今日シヤパテの子エリシヤの首その身の上にすわりをらば神われに斯なしまた重ねてかく成たまへ
32 So the king sent an officer to get Elisha. Before the officer arrived, Elisha was sitting in his house with some Israeli elders who were talking with him. Elisha said to them, “That murderer, [the king of Israel, ] is sending someone here to kill me. Listen: When he arrives, shut the door and do not allow him to come in. And the king will be coming right behind that officer!”
時にエリシヤはその家に坐しをり長老等これと共に坐し居る王すなはち己の所より人を遣しけるがエリシヤはその使者の未だ己にいたらざる前に長老等に言ふ汝等この人を殺す者の子が我の首をとらんとて人を遣はすを見るや汝等觀てその使者至らば戸を閉てこれを戸の内にいるるなかれ彼の主君の足音その後にするにあらずやと
33 And while he was still speaking, the king and the officer arrived. The king said, “It is Yahweh who has caused us to have all this trouble/suffering. (Why should I wait any longer [RHQ] for him to do something [to help us]?/It is useless for me to wait any longer for him [to help us]!)”
斯彼等と語をる間にその使者かれの許に來りしが王もつづいて來り言けるは此災はヱホバより出たるなり我なんぞ此上ヱホバを待べけんや
