列王記Ⅰ 3
1 ソロモン、エジプトの王パロと縁を結びパロの女を娶て之を携來り自己の家とヱホバの家とエルサレムの周圍の石垣を建築ことを終るまでダビデの城に置り
And Solomon contracted an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, —and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem, round about.
2 當時までヱホバの名のために建たる家なかりければ民は崇邱にて祭を爲り
Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places, —because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days,
3 ソロモン、ヱホバを愛し其父ダビデの法憲に歩めり但し彼は崇邱にて祭を爲し香を焚り
Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father, —save only, that, in the high places, he himself, was sacrificing and offering incense.
4 爰に王ギベオンに往て其處に祭を爲んとせり其は彼處は大なる崇邱なればなり即ちソロモン一千の燔祭を其壇に献たり
So then the king went to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for, that, was the great high place, —a thousand ascending-sacrifices, did Solomon offer up on that altar.
5 ギベオンにてヱホバ夜の夢にソロモンに顯れたまへり神いひたまひけるは我何を汝に與ふべきか汝求めよ
In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared unto Solomon, in a dream by night, —and God said, Ask, what I shall give thee.
6 ソロモンいひけるは汝は汝の僕わが父ダビデが誠實と公義と正心を以て汝と共に汝の前に歩みしに囚て大なる恩惠を彼に示したまへり又汝彼のために此大なる恩惠を存て今日のごとくかれの位に坐する子を彼に賜へり
Then said Solomon—Thou, didst deal, with thy servant David my father, in great lovingkindness, according as he walked before thee, in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart, with thee, —and thou hast kept, for him, this great lovingkindness, that thou hast given unto him a son, to sit upon his throne, as it is this day.
7 わが神ヱホバ汝は僕をして我父ダビデに代て王とならしめたまへり而るに我は小き子にして出入することを知ず
Now, therefore, O Yahweh my God, thou, hast made thy servant king, instead of David my father, —and, I, am but a little child, I know not how to go out and come in.
8 且僕は汝の選みたまひし汝の民の中にあり即ち大なる民にて其數衆くして數ふることも書すことも能はざる者なり
And, thy servant, is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, —a numerous people, that cannot be numbered or summed up, for multitude.
9 是故に聽き別る心を僕に與へて汝の民を鞫しめ我をして善惡を辨別ることを得さしめたまへ誰か汝の此夥多き民を鞫くことを得んと
Wilt thou, then, give unto thy servant, a heart that hearkeneth, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad, —for who is able to judge this thine honoured people?
10 ソロモン此事を求めければ其言主の心にかなへり
And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, —that Solomon had asked this thing;
11 是において神かれにいひたまひけるは汝此事を求めて己の爲に長壽を求めず又己のために富有をも求めず又己の敵の生命をも求めずして惟訟を聽き別る才智を求めたるに因て
And God said unto him—Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself many days, nor asked for thyself riches, nor asked the lives of thine enemies, —but hast asked for thyself discernment, in hearing a cause,
12 視よ我汝の言に循ひて爲り我汝に賢明く聡慧き心を與ふれば汝の先には汝の如き者なく汝の後にも汝の如き者興らざるべし
lo! I have done according to thy word, —lo! I have given unto thee a wise and discerning heart, so that, like thee, hath been none, before thee, and, after thee, shall rise up none, like thee.
13 我亦汝の求めざる者即ち富と貴とをも汝に與ふれば汝の生の涯王等の中に汝の如き者あらざるべし
Moreover also, what thou hast not asked, have I given unto thee, both riches and honour, —so that there hath been none, like thee, among the kings, all thy days.
14 又汝若汝の父ダビデの歩し如く吾道に歩みてわが法憲と命令を守らば我汝の日を長うせんと
And, if thou wilt walk in my ways, by keeping my statutes, and my commandments, as, David thy father, walked, then will I lengthen out thy days.
15 ソロモン目寤て視るに夢なりき斯てソロモン、エルサレムに至りヱホバの契約の櫃の前に立ち燔祭を献げ酬恩祭を爲して其諸の臣僕に饗宴を爲り
And Solomon awoke, and lo! it was a dream. So he entered into Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and caused to go up ascending-sacrifices and offered peace-offerings, and made a banquet for all his servants.
16 爰に娼妓なる二人の婦王の所に來りて其前に立ちしが
Then, came there in two unchaste women, unto the king, —and stood before him.
17 一人の婦いひけるはわが主よ我と此婦は一の家に住む我此婦と偕に家にありて子を生り
And the one woman said—Pardon, my lord! I and this woman, dwell in one house, —and I gave birth to a child near her, in the house.
18 しかるにわが生し後第三日に此婦もまた生りしかして我儕偕にありき家には他人の我らと偕に居りし者なし家には只我儕二人のみ
And it came to pass, the third day after I bare, that, this woman also, gave birth to a child, —we two, being together, there was no stranger with us in the house, none but we two in the house.
19 然るに此婦其子の上に臥たるによりて夜の中に其子死たれば
And this woman’s son died in the night, —because she overlaid it.
20 中夜に起て婢の眠れる間にわが子をわれの側より取りて之を己の懐に臥しめ己の死たる子をわが懐に臥しめたり
Then arose she, in the middle of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid was sleeping, and laid it in her own besom, —but, her dead son, laid she in, my, bosom.
21 朝に及びて我わが子に乳を飮せんとて興て見るに死ゐたり我朝にいたりて其を熟く視たるに其はわが生るわが子にはあらざりしと
And, when I arose in the morning, to give suck unto my child, lo! it was dead! but, when I looked at it narrowly in the morning, lo! it was not, my son that I had borne.
22 今一人の婦いふ否活るはわが子死るは汝の子なりと此婦いふ否死るは汝の子活るはわが子なりと彼等斯王のまへに論り
Then said the other woman—Nay! but, my son, is the, living, and, thy son, the, dead. But, this, one kept on saying—Nay, verily! but, thy son, is the, dead, and, my son, the, living. Thus spake they before the king.
23 時に王いひけるは一人は此活るはわが子死るは汝の子なりと言ひ又一人は否死るは汝の子活るはわが子なりといふと
Then said the king, The one woman, is saying, This, is, my son, the one that liveth, and, thy son, is, the one that is dead, —and, the other, is saying, Nay! but, thy son, is, the dead one, and, my son, the, living.
24 王乃ち劍を我に持來れといひければ劍を王の前に持來れり
And the king said—Bring me a sword! So they brought a sword before the king.
25 王いひけるは活る子を二に分て其半を此に半を彼に與へよと
Then said the king, Divide the living child, in twain, —and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26 時に其活子の母なる婦人心其子のために焚がごとくなりて王に言していひけるは請ふわが主よ活る子を彼に與へたまへ必ず殺したまふなかれと然ども他の一人は是を我のにも汝のにもならしめず判たせよと言り
Then spake the woman, whose was the living child, unto the king—for tender became her compassions over her son—so she said—Pardon, my lord! Give, her, the living child, and do not, kill, it. But the other kept on saying—Neither mine, nor thine, shall it be, divide it.
27 王答ていひけるは活子を彼に與へよ必ず殺すなかれ彼は其母なるなりと
Then responded the king, and said—Give, her, the living child, ye shall not, kill, it, —she, is its mother.
28 イスラエル皆王の審理し所の判決を聞て王を畏れたり其は神の智慧の彼の中にありて審理を爲しむるを見たればなり
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had delivered, and they stood in awe before the king, —for they saw, that, the wisdom of God, was in him, to execute justice.
