サムエル記Ⅰ 11
1 アンモニ人ナハシ、ギレアデのヤベシにのぼりて之を圍むヤベシの人々ナハシにいひけるは我らと約をなせ然らば汝につかへん
Then Nahash the Ammonite went and laid seige to Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”
2 アンモニ人ナハシこれに答へけるは我かくして汝らと約をなさん即ち我汝らの右の目を抉りてイスラエルの全地に恥辱をあたへん
Nahash the Ammonite replied, “On this condition will I make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all of your right eyes, and in this way bring disgrace on all Israel.”
3 ヤベシの長老これにいひけるは我らに七日の猶予をあたへて使をイスラエルの四方の境におくることを得さしめよ而して若し我らを救ふ者なくば我ら汝にくだらん
Then the elders of Jabesh replied to him, “Leave us alone for seven days, so that we may send messengers to all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”
4 斯て使サウルのギベアにいたり此事を民の耳に告しかば民皆聲をあげて哭きぬ
The messengers came to Gibeah, where Saul lived, and told the people what had happened. All the people wept loudly.
5 爰にサウル田より牛にしたがひて來るサウルいひけるは民何によりて哭くやと人々これにヤベシ人の事を告ぐ
Now Saul was following the oxen out of the field. Saul said, “What is wrong with the people that they are weeping?” They told Saul what the men of Jabesh had said.
6 サウル之を聞るとき神の霊これに臨みてその怒甚だしく燃えたち
When Saul heard what they said, the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he was very angry.
7 一軛の牛をころしてこれを切り割き使の手をもてこれをイスラエルの四方の境にあまねくおくりていはしめけるは誰にてもサウルとサムエルにしたがひて出ざる者は其牛かくのごとくせらるべしと民ヱホバを畏み一人のごとく均くいでたり
He took a yoke of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel with the messengers. He said, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, this is what will be done to his oxen.” Then the terror of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out together as one man.
8 サウル、ベゼクにてこれを數ふるにイスラエルの子孫三十萬ユダの人三萬ありき
When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
9 斯て人々來れる使にいひけるはギレアデのヤベシの人にかくいへ明日日の熱き時汝ら助を得んと使かへりてヤベシ人に告げければ皆よろこびぬ
They said to the messengers that came, “You will tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.'” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh, and they were glad.
10 是をもてヤベシの人云けるは明日汝らに降らん汝らの善と思ふところを爲せ
Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever seems good to you.”
11 明日サウル民を三隊にわかち暁更に敵の軍の中にいりて日の熱くなる時までアンモニ人をころしければ遺れる者は皆ちりぢりになりて二人倶にあるものなかりき
The next day Saul put the people in three groups. They came into the middle of the camp during the morning watch, and they attacked and defeated the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
12 民サムエルにいひけるはサウル豈我らの王となるべけんやと言しは誰ぞや其人を引き來れ我ら之をころさん
Then the people said to Samuel, “Who was it who said, 'Will Saul reign over us?' Bring the men, so we can put them to death.”
13 サウルいひけるは今日ヱホバ救をイスラエルに施したまひたれば今日は人をころすべからず
But Saul said, “No one must be put to death this day, because today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
14 茲にサムエル民にいひけるはいざギルガルに往て彼處にて王國を新にせんと
Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the monarchy there.”
15 民みなギルガルにゆきて彼處にてヱホバのまへにサウルを王となし彼處にて酬恩祭をヱホバのまへに献げサウルとイスラエルの人々皆かしこにて大に祝へり
So all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before Yahweh, and Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
