Judges 11
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
ギレアデ人ヱフタはたけき勇士にして妓婦の子なりギレアデ、ヱフタをうましめしなり
2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
ギレアデの妻子等をうみしが妻の子等成長におよびてヱフタをおひいだしてこれにいひけるは汝は他の婦の子なればわれらが父の家を嗣べきにあらずと
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
ヱフタ其の兄弟の許より逃さりてトブの地に住けるに遊蕩者ヱフタのもとに集ひ來りて之とともに出ることをなせり
4 After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
程經てのちアンモンの子孫イスラエルとたたかふに至りしが
5 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
アンモンの子孫のイスラエルとたたかへるときにギレアデの長老等ゆきてヱフタをトブの地より携來らんとし
6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
ヱフタにいひけるは汝來りて吾らの大將となれ我らアンモンの子孫とたたかはん
7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らは我を惡みてわが父の家より遂いだしたるにあらずやしかるに今汝らが艱める時に至りて何ぞ我に來るや
8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにこたへけるは其がために我ら今汝にかへる汝われらとともにゆきてアンモンの子孫とたたかはばすべて我等ギレアデにすめるものの首領となすべしと
9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, will I be your head?”
ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らもし我をたづさへかへりてアンモンの子孫とたたかはしめんにヱホバ之を我に付したまはば我は汝らの首となるべし
10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにいひけるはヱホバ汝と我との間の證者たり我ら誓つて汝の言のごとくになすべし
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.
是に於てヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等とともに往くに民之を立ておのれの首領となし大將となせりヱフタ即ちミヅパにおいてヱホバのまへにこの言をことごとく陳たり
12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
かくてヱフタ、アンモンの子孫の王に使者をつかはしていひけるは汝と我の間に何事ありてか汝われに攻めきたりてわが地に戰はんとする
13 The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
アンモンの子孫の王ヱフタの使者に答へけるはむかしイスラエル、エジプトより上りきたりし時にアルノンよりヤボクにいたりヨルダンに至るまで吾が土地を奪ひしが故なり然ば今穩便に之を復すべし
14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
ヱフタまた使者をアンモンの子孫の王に遣りて之にいはせけるは
15 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
ヱフタ斯いへりイスラエルはモアブの地を取ずまたアンモンの子孫の地をも取ざりしなり
16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
夫イスラエルはエジプトより上りきたれる時に曠野を經て紅海に到りカデシに來れり
17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.
而してイスラエル使者をエドムの王に遣して言けるはねがはくは我をして汝の土地を經過しめよと然るにエドムの王之をうけがはずまたおなじく人をモアブの王に遣したれども是もうべなはざりしかばイスラエルはカデシに留まりしが
18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
遂にイスラエル曠野を經てエドムの地およびモアブの地を繞りモアブの地の東の方に出てアルノンの彼方に陣を取り然どモアブの界には入らざりきアルノンはモアブの界なればなり
19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
かくてイスラエル、ヘシボンに王たりしアモリ人の王シホンに使者を遣せりすなはちイスラエル之にいひけらくねがはくは我らをして汝の土地を經過てわがところにいたらしめよと
20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
然るにシホン、イスラエルを信ぜずしてその界をとほらしめずかへつてそのすべての民を集めてヤハヅに陣しイスラエルとたたかひしが
21 The LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
イスラエルの神ヱホバ、シホンとそのすべての民をイスラエルの手に付したまひたればイスラエル之を撃敗りてその土地にすめるアモリ人の地を悉く手に入れ
22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
アルノンよりヤボクに至るまでまた曠野よりヨルダンに至るまですべてアモリ人の土地を手に入たり
23 So now the LORD, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
斯のごとくイスラエルの神ヱホバは其の民イスラエルのまへよりアモリ人を遂しりぞけたまひしに汝なほ之を取んとする乎
24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
汝は汝の神ケモシが汝に取しむるものを取ざらんやわれらは我らの神ヱホバが我らに取しむる物を取ん
25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
汝は誠にモアブの王チツポルの子バラクにまされる處ありとするかバラク曾てイスラエルとあらそひしことありや曾て之とたたかひしことありや
26 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
イスラエルがヘシボンとその村里アロエルとその村里およびアルノンの岸に沿ひたるすべての邑々に住ること三百年なりしに汝などてかその間に之を回復さざりしや
27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May the LORD the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
我は汝に罪を犯せしことなきに汝はわれとたたかひて我に害をくはへんとす願くは審判をなしたまふヱホバ今日イスラエルの子孫とアンモンの子孫との間を鞫きたまへと
28 However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
しかれどもアンモンの子孫の王はヱフタのいひつかはせる言を聴いれざりき
29 Then the LORD’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
ここにヱホバの靈ヱフタに臨みしかばヱフタすなはちギレアデおよびマナセを經過りギレアデのミヅパにいたりギレアデのミヅパよりすすみてアンモンの子孫に向ふ
30 Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
ヱフタ、ヱホバに誓願を立ていひけるは汝誠にアンモンの子孫をわが手に付したまはば
31 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”
我がアンモンの子孫の所より安然かに歸らんときに我家の戸より出きたりて我を迎ふるもの必ずヱホバの所有となるべし我之を燔祭となしてささげんと
32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hand.
ヱフタすなはちアンモンの子孫の所に進みゆきて之と戰ひしにヱホバかれらをその手に付したまひしかば
33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
アロエルよりミンニテにまで至りこれが二十の邑を打敗りてアベルケラミムにいたり甚だ多の人をころせりかくアンモンの子孫はイスラエルの子孫に攻伏られたり
34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
かくてヱフタ、ミヅパに來りておのが家にいたるに其女鼓を執り舞ひ踊りて之を出で迎ふ是彼が獨子にて其のほかには男子もなくまた女子も有ざりき
35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I can’t go back.”
ヱフタ之を視てその衣を裂ていひけるはああ吾が女よ汝實に我を傷しむ汝は我を惱すものなり其は我ヱホバにむかひて口を開きしによりて改むることあたはざればなり
36 She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”
女之にいひけるはわが父よ汝ヱホバにむかひて口をひらきたれば汝の口より言出せしごとく我になせよ其はヱホバ汝のために汝の敵なるアンモンの子孫に仇を復したまひたればなり
37 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
女またその父にいひけるはねがはくは此事をわれに允せすなはち二月の間我をゆるし我をしてわが友等とともに往て山にくだりてわが處女たることを歎かしめよと
38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
ヱフタすなはち往けといひて之を二月のあひだ出し遣ぬ女その友等とともに往き山の上にておのれの處女たるを歎きしが
39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
二月滿てその父に歸り來りたれば父その誓ひし誓願のごとくに之に行へり女は終に男を知ことなかりき
40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
是よりして年々にイスラエルの女子等往て年に四日ほどギレアデ人ヱフタの女のために哀哭ことをなす是イスラエルの規矩となれり
