1 Samuel 30
1 When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burnt it with fire,
さてダビデとその従者たちが三日目にチクラグにきた時、アマレクびとはすでにネゲブとチクラグを襲っていた。彼らはチクラグを撃ち、火をはなってこれを焼き、
2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way.
その中にいた女たちおよびすべての者を捕虜にし、小さい者をも大きい者をも、ひとりも殺さずに、引いて、その道に行った。
3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
ダビデと従者たちはその町にきて、町が火で焼かれ、その妻とむすこ娘らは捕虜となったのを見た。
4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
ダビデおよび彼と共にいた民は声をあげて泣き、ついに泣く力もなくなった。
5 David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
ダビデのふたりの妻すなわちエズレルの女アヒノアムと、カルメルびとナバルの妻であったアビガイルも捕虜になった。
6 David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.
その時、ダビデはひじょうに悩んだ。それは民がみなおのおのそのむすこ娘のために心を痛めたため、ダビデを石で撃とうと言ったからである。しかしダビデはその神、主によって自分を力づけた。
7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
ダビデはアヒメレクの子、祭司アビヤタルに、「エポデをわたしのところに持ってきなさい」と言ったので、アビヤタルは、エポデをダビデのところに持ってきた。
8 David enquired of the LORD, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
ダビデは主に伺いをたてて言った、「わたしはこの軍隊のあとを追うべきですか。わたしはそれに追いつくことができましょうか」。主は彼に言われた、「追いなさい。あなたは必ず追いついて、確かに救い出すことができるであろう」。
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
そこでダビデは、一緒にいた六百人の者と共に出立してベソル川へ行ったが、あとに残る者はそこにとどまった。
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.
すなわちダビデは四百人と共に追撃をつづけたが、疲れてベソル川を渡れない者二百人はとどまった。
11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
彼らは野で、ひとりのエジプトびとを見て、それをダビデのもとに引いてきて、パンを食べさせ、水を飲ませた。
12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.
また彼らはほしいちじくのかたまり一つと、ほしぶどう二ふさを彼に与えた。彼は食べて元気を回復した。彼は三日三夜、パンを食べず、水を飲んでいなかったからである。
13 David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
ダビデは彼に言った、「あなたはだれのものか。どこからきたのか」。彼は言った、「わたしはエジプトの若者で、アマレクびとの奴隷です。三日前にわたしが病気になったので、主人はわたしを捨てて行きました。
14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burnt Ziklag with fire.”
わたしどもは、ケレテびとのネゲブと、ユダに属する地と、カレブのネゲブを襲い、また火でチクラグを焼きはらいました」。
15 David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”
ダビデは彼に言った、「あなたはその軍隊のところへわたしを導き下ってくれるか」。彼は言った、「あなたはわたしを殺さないこと、またわたしを主人の手に渡さないことを、神をさしてわたしに誓ってください。そうすればあなたをその軍隊のところへ導き下りましょう」。
16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
彼はダビデを導き下ったが、見よ、彼らはペリシテびとの地とユダの地から奪い取ったさまざまの多くのぶんどり物のゆえに、食い飲み、かつ踊りながら、地のおもてにあまねく散りひろがっていた。
17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
ダビデは夕ぐれから翌日の夕方まで、彼らを撃ったので、らくだに乗って逃げた四百人の若者たちのほかには、ひとりものがれた者はなかった。
18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
こうしてダビデはアマレクびとが奪い取ったものをみな取りもどした。またダビデはそのふたりの妻を救い出した。
19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back.
そして彼らに属するものは、小さいものも大きいものも、むすこも娘もぶんどり物も、アマレクびとが奪い去った物は何をも失わないで、ダビデがみな取りもどした。
20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
ダビデはまたすべての羊と牛を取った。人々はこれらの家畜を彼の前に追って行きながら、「これはダビデのぶんどり物だ」と言った。
21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
そしてダビデが、あの疲れてダビデについて行くことができずに、ベソル川のほとりにとどまっていた二百人の者のところへきた時、彼らは出てきてダビデを迎え、またダビデと共にいる民を迎えた。ダビデは民に近づいてその安否を問うた。
22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart.”
そのときダビデと共に行った人々のうちで、悪く、かつよこしまな者どもはみな言った、「彼らはわれわれと共に行かなかったのだから、われわれはその人々にわれわれの取りもどしたぶんどり物を分け与えることはできない。ただおのおのにその妻子を与えて、連れて行かせましょう」。
23 Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which the LORD has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
しかしダビデは言った、「兄弟たちよ、主はわれわれを守って、攻めてきた軍隊をわれわれの手に渡された。その主が賜わったものを、あなたがたはそのようにしてはならない。
24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”
だれがこの事について、あなたがたに聞き従いますか。戦いに下って行った者の分け前と、荷物のかたわらにとどまっていた者の分け前を同様にしなければならない。彼らはひとしく分け前を受けるべきである」。
25 It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
この日以来、ダビデはこれをイスラエルの定めとし、おきてとして今日に及んでいる。
26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”
ダビデはチクラグにきて、そのぶんどり物の一部をユダの長老である友人たちにおくって言った、「これは主の敵から取ったぶんどり物のうちからあなたがたにおくる贈り物である」。
27 He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,
そのおくり先は、ベテルにいる人々、ネゲブのラモテにいる人々、ヤッテルにいる人々、
28 to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,
アロエルにいる人々、シフモテにいる人々、エシテモアにいる人々、ラカルにいる人々、
29 to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
エラメルびとの町々にいる人々、ケニびとの町々にいる人々、
30 to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,
ホルマにいる人々、ボラシャンにいる人々、アタクにいる人々、
31 to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.
ヘブロンにいる人々、およびダビデとその従者たちが、さまよい歩いたすべての所にいる人々であった。
