列王記Ⅰ 18
1 衆多の日を經たるのち第三年にヱホバの言エリヤに臨みて曰く往て爾の身をアハブに示せ我雨を地の面に降さんと
After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
2 エリヤ其身をアハブに示さんとて往り時に饑饉サマリアに甚しかりき
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
3 茲にアハブ家宰なるオバデヤを召たり
and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,
4 (オバデヤは大にヱホバを畏みたる者にてイゼベルがヱホバの預言者を絶たる時にオバデヤ百人の預言者を取て之を五十人づつ洞穴に匿しパンと水をもて之を養へり)
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
5 アハブ、オバデヤにいひけるは國中の水の諸の源と諸の川に往け馬と騾を生活むる草を得ることあらん然ば我儕牲畜を盡くは失なふに至らじと
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
6 彼等巡るべき地を二人に分ちアハブは獨にて此途に往きオバデヤは獨にて彼途に往けり
So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.
7 オバデヤ途にありし時觀よエリヤ彼に遭り彼エリヤを識て伏て言けるは我主エリヤ汝は此に居たまふや
Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
8 エリヤ彼に言けるは然り往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よ
“It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’”
9 彼言けるは我何の罪を犯したれば汝僕をアハブの手に付して我を殺さしめんとする
But Obadiah replied, “How have I sinned, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to put me to death?
10 汝の神ヱホバは生くわが主の人を遣はして汝を尋ねざる民はなく國はなし若しエリヤは在ずといふ時は其國其民をして汝を見ずといふ誓を爲しめたり
As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
11 汝今言ふ往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よと
And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that Elijah is here!’
12 然ど我汝をはなれて往ときヱホバの霊我しらざる處に汝を携へゆかん我至りてアハブに告て彼汝を尋獲ざる時は彼我を殺さん然ながら僕はわが幼少よりヱホバを畏むなり
I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
13 イゼベルがヱホバの預言者を殺したる時に吾なしたる事即ち我がヱホバの預言者の中百人を五十人づつ洞穴に匿してパンと水を以て之を養ひし事は吾主に聞えざりしや
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
14 しかるに今汝言ふ往て汝の主にエリヤは此にありと告よと然らば彼我を殺すならん
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”
15 エリヤいひけるは我が事ふる萬軍のヱホバは活く我は必ず今日わが身を彼に示すべしと
Then Elijah said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today.”
16 オバデヤ乃ち往てアハブに會ひ之に告ければアハブはエリヤに會んとて往きけるが
So Obadiah went to inform Ahab, who went to meet Elijah.
17 アハブ、エリヤを見し時アハブ、エリヤに言けるは汝イスラエルを惱ます者此にをるか
When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”
18 彼答へけるは我はイスラエルを惱さず但汝と汝の父の家之を惱すなり即ち汝等はヱホバの命令を棄て且汝はバアルに從ひたり
“I have not troubled Israel,” Elijah replied, “but you and your father’s house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.
19 されば人を遣てイスラエルの諸の人およびバアルの預言者四百五十人並にアシラ像の預言者四百人イゼベルの席に食ふ者をカルメル山に集めて我に詣しめよと
Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
20 是においてアハブ、イスラエルの都の子孫の中に人を遣り預言者をカルメル山に集めたり
So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.
21 時にエリヤ總の民に近づきて言けるは汝等何時まで二の物の間にまよふやヱホバ若し神ならば之に從へされどバアル若し神ならば之に從へと民は一言も彼に答ざりき
Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.
22 エリヤ民に言けるは惟我一人存りてヱホバの預言者たり然どバアルの預言者は四百五十人あり
Then Elijah said to the people, “I am the only remaining prophet of the LORD, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
23 然ば二の犢を我儕に與へよ彼等は其一の犢を選みて之を截り剖き薪の上に載せて火を縦たずに置べし我も其一の犢を調理へ薪の上に載せて火を縦ずに置べし
Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.
24 斯して汝等は汝等の神の名を龥べ我はヱホバの名を龥ん而して火をもて應る神を神と爲べしと民皆答て斯言は善と言り
Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God.” And all the people answered, “What you say is good.”
25 エリヤ、バアルの預言者に言けるは汝等は多ければ一の犢を選みて最初に調理へ汝等の神の名を呼ぶべし但し火を縦なかれと
Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”
26 彼等乃ち其與られたる犢を取て調理へ朝より午にいたるまでバアルの名を龥てバアルよ我儕に應へたまへと言り然ど何の聲もなく又何の應る者もなかりければ彼等は其造りたる壇のまはりに踊れり
And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.
27 日中におよびてエリヤ彼等を嘲りていひけるは大聲をあげて呼べ彼は神なればなり彼は默想をるか他處に行しか又は旅にあるか或は假寐て醒さるべきかと
At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
28 是において彼等は大聲に呼はり其例に循ひて刀劍と槍を以て其身を傷つけ血を其身に流すに至れり
So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
29 斯して午時すぐるに至りしが彼等なほ預言を言ひて晩の祭物を献ぐる時にまで及べり然ども何の聲もなく又何の應ふる者も无く又何の顧る者もなかりき
Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.
30 時にエリヤ都の民にむかひて我に近よれと言ければ民皆彼に近よれり彼乃ち破壞たるヱホバの壇を修理ヘり
Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
31 エリヤ、ヤコブの子等の支派の數に循ひて十二の石を取れり(ヱホバの言昔ヤコブに臨みてイスラエルを汝の名とすべしと言り)
And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”
32 彼其石にてヱホバの名を以て壇を築き壇の周圍に種子二セヤを容べき溝を作れり
And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
33 又薪を陳列べ犢を截剖て薪の上に載せて言けるは四の桶に水を滿て燔祭と薪の上に沃げ
Next, he arranged the wood, cut up the bull, placed it on the wood,
34 又いひけるは再び之を爲せと再びこれをなせしかば又言ふ三次これを爲せと三次これをなせり
and said, “Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood.” “Do it a second time,” he said, and they did it a second time. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.
35 水に壇の周廻に流るまた溝にも水をみたしたり
So the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 晩の祭物を献ぐる時に及て預言者エリヤ近よりて言けるはアブラハム、イサク、イスラエルの神ヱホバよ汝のイスラエルにおいて神なることおよび我が汝の僕にして汝の言に循ひて是等の諸の事を爲せることを今日知しめたまへ
At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.
37 ヱホバよ我に應へたまへ我に應へたまへ此民をして汝ヱホバは神なることおよび汝は彼等の心を翻へしたまふといふことを知しめたまへと
Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”
38 時にヱホバの火降りて燔祭と薪と石と塵とを焚つくせり亦溝の水を餂涸せり
Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.
39 民皆見て伏ていひけるはヱホバは神なりヱホバは神なり
When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!”
40 エリヤ彼等に言けるはバアルの預言者を執へよ其一人をも逃遁しむる勿れと即ち之を執へたればエリヤ之をキシヨン川に曳下りて彼處に之を殺せり
Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
41 斯てエリヤ、アハブにいひけるは大雨の聲あれば汝上りて食飮すべしと
And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”
42 アハブ乃ち食飮せんとて上れり然どエリヤはカルメルの嶺に登り地に伏て其面を膝の間に容ゐたりしが
So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
43 其少者にいひけるは請ふ上りて海の方を望めと彼上り望みて何もなしといひければ再び往けといひて遂に七次に及べり
“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
44 第七次に及びて彼いひけるは視よ海より人の手のごとく微の雲起るとエリヤいふ上りてアハブに雨に阻められざるやう車を備へて下りたまへと言ふべしと
On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
45 驟に雲と風おこり霄漢黑くなりて大雨ありきアハブはヱズレルに乗り往り
Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
46 ヱホバの能力エリヤに臨みて彼其腰を束帶びヱズレルの入口までアハブの前に趨りゆけり
And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
