2 Samuel 17

1 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, 'Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,

時にアヒトペル、アブサロムにいひけるは請ふ我に一萬二千の人を擇み出さしめよ我起て今夜ダビデの後を追ひ

2 and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who [are] with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,

彼が憊れて手弱なりし所を襲ふて彼をおびえしめん而して彼とともにをる民の逃ん時に我王一人を撃とり

3 and I bring back all the people unto thee — as the turning back of the whole [is] the man whom thou art seeking — all the people are peace.

總の民を爾に歸せしむべし夫衆の歸するは爾が求むる此人に依なれば民みな平穩になるべし

4 And the thing is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

此言アブサロムの目とイスラエルの總の長老の目に的當と見えたり

5 And Absalom saith, 'Call, I pray thee, also for Hushai the Archite, and we hear what [is] in his mouth — even he.'

アブサロムいひけるはアルキ人ホシヤイをも召きたれ我等彼が言ふ所をも聞んと

6 And Hushai cometh in unto Absalom, and Absalom speaketh unto him, saying, 'According to this word hath Ahithophel spoken; do we do his word? if not, thou — speak thou.'

ホシヤイ乃ちアブサロムに至るにアブサロムかれにかたりていひけるはアヒトペル是のごとく言り我等其言を爲べきか若し可ずば爾言ふべし

7 And Hushai saith unto Absalom, 'Not good [is] the counsel that Ahithophel hath counselled at this time.'

ホシヤイ、アブサロムにいひけるは此時にあたりてアヒトペルが授けし計略は善らず

8 And Hushai saith, 'Thou hast known thy father and his men, that they [are] heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and thy father [is] a man of war, and doth not lodge with the people;

ホシヤイまたいひけるは爾の知るごとく爾の父と其從者は勇士なり且彼等は野にて其子を奪れたる熊の如く其氣激怒をれり又爾の父は戰士なれば民と共に宿らざるべし

9 lo, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it hath been, at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer hath heard, and said, There hath been a slaughter among the people who [are] after Absalom;

彼は今何の穴にか何の處にか匿れをる若し數人の者手始に仆なば其を聞く者は皆アブサロムに從ふ者の中に敗ありと言はん

10 and he also, the son of valour, whose heart [is] as the heart of the lion, doth utterly melt, for all Israel doth know that thy father is a hero, and sons of valour [are] those with him.

しからば獅子の心のごとき心ある勇猛き夫といふとも全く挫碎ん其はイスラエル皆爾の父の勇士にして彼とともにある者の勇猛き人なるをしればなり

11 'So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst;

我は計議るイスラエルをダンよりベエルシバにいたるまで海濱の沙の多きが如くに悉く爾の處につどへ集めて爾親ら戰陣に臨むべし

12 and we have come in unto him in one of the places where he is found, and we [are] upon him as the dew falleth on the ground, and there hath not been left of him and of all the men who [are] with him even one.

我等彼の見出さるる處にて彼を襲ひ露の地に下るがごとく彼のうへに降らんしかして彼および彼とともにあるすべての人々を一人も遺さざるべし

13 And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.'

若し彼何かの城邑に集らばイスラエル皆繩を其城邑にかけ我等これを河に曳きたふして其處に一の小石も見えざらしむべしと

14 And Absalom saith — and all the men of Israel — 'Better [is] the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah's bringing unto Absalom the evil.

アブサロムとイスラエルの人々皆アルキ人ホシヤイの謀計はアヒトペルの謀計よりも善しといふ其はヱホバ、アブサロムに禍を降さんとてヱホバ、アヒトペルの善き謀計を破ることを定めたまひたればなり

15 And Hushai saith unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, 'Thus and thus hath Ahithophel counselled Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and thus I have counselled;

爰にホシヤイ祭司ザドクとアビヤタルにいひけるはアヒトペル、アブサロムとイスラエルの長老等のために斯々に謀れりきた我は斯々に謀れり

16 and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.'

されば爾ら速に人を遣してダビデに告て今夜野の渡場に宿ることなく速に渡りゆけといへおそらくは王および倶にある民皆呑つくされん

17 And Jonathan and Ahimaaz are standing at En-Rogel, and the maid-servant hath gone and declared to them — and they go and have declared [it] to king David — for they are not able to be seen to go in to the city.

時にヨナタンとアヒマアズはエンロゲルに俟居たり是は城邑にいるを見られざらんとてなり爰に一人の仕女ゆきて彼等に告げければ彼らダビデ王に告んとて往く

18 And a youth seeth them, and declareth to Absalom; and they go on both of them hastily, and come in unto the house of a man in Bahurim, and he hath a well in his court, and they go down there,

しかるに一人の少者かれらを見てアブザロムにつげたりされど彼等二人は急ぎさりてバホリムの或人の家にいたる其人の庭に井ありてかれら其處にくだりければ

19 and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known.

婦蓋をとりて井の口のうへに掩け其上に擣たる麥をひろげたり故に事知れざりき

20 And the servants of Absalom come in unto the woman to the house, and say, 'Where [are] Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' and the woman saith to them, 'They passed over the brook of water;' and they seek, and have not found, and turn back to Jerusalem.

時にアブサロムの僕等其婦の家に來りていひけるはアヒマアズとヨナタンは何處にをるや婦かれらに彼人々は小川を濟れりといふかれら尋ねたれども見當ざればエルサレムに歸れり

21 And it cometh to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare to king David, and say unto David, 'Rise ye, and pass over hastily the waters, for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.'

彼等が去し時かの二人は井よりのぼりて往てダビデ王に告げたり即ちダビデに言けるは起て速かに水を濟れ其はアヒトベル斯爾等について謀計を爲したればなりと

22 And David riseth, and all the people who [are] with him, and they pass over the Jordan, till the light of the morning, till one hath not been lacking who hath not passed over the Jordan.

ダビデ起て己とともにある凡ての民とともにヨルダンを濟れり曙には一人もヨルダンを濟らざる者はなかりき

23 And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

アヒトベルは其謀計の行れざるを見て其驢馬に鞍おき起て其邑に往て其家にいたり家の人に遺言して自ら縊れ死て其父の墓に葬らる

24 And David came to Mahanaim, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him;

爰にダビデ、マナハイムに至る又アブサロムは己とともにあるイスラエルの凡の人々とともにヨルダンを濟れり

25 and Amasa hath Absalom set instead of Joab over the host, and Amasa [is] a man's son whose name is Ithra the Israelite who hath gone in unto Abigail, daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab;

アブサロム、アマサをヨアブの代りに軍の長と爲りアマサは夫のナハシの女にてヨアブの母ゼルヤの妹なるアビガルに通じたるイシマエル人名はヱテルといふ人の子なり

26 and Israel encampeth with Absalom [in] the land of Gilead.

かくてイスラエルとアブサロムはギレアデの地に陣どれり

27 And it cometh to pass at the coming in of David to Mahanaim, that Shobi, son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and Machir son of Ammiel, from Lo-Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim,

ダビデ、マハナイムにいたれる時アンモンの子孫の中なるラバのナハシの子シヨビとロデバルのアンミエルの子マキルおよびロゲリムのギレアデ人バルジライ

28 couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and roasted [pulse],

臥床と鍋釜と陶器と小麥と大麥と粉と烘麥と豆と小豆の烘たる者と

29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, have brought nigh for David, and for the people who [are] with him to eat, for they said, 'Thy people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

蜜と牛酪と羊と犢をダビデおよび倶にある民の食ふために持來れり其は彼等民は野にて饑憊れ渇くならんと謂たればなり