サムエル記Ⅰ 23

1 人々ダビデにつげていひけるは視よペリシテ人ケイラを攻め穀場を掠むと

Then told they David, saying, —Lo! the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing-floors.

2 ダビデ、ヱホバに問ていひけるは我ゆきて是のペリシテ人を撃つべきかとヱホバ、ダビデにいひたまひけるは往てペリシテ人をうちてケイラを救ヘ

So David enquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And Yahweh said unto David—Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

3 ダビデの從者かれにいひけるは視よわれら此にユダにあるすら尚ほおそる况やケイラにゆきてペリシテ人の軍にあたるをやと

But the men of David said unto him, Lo! we, here, in Judah, are afraid, —how much more, then, if we go to Keilah, against the ranks of the Philistines?

4 ダビデふたたびヱホバに問ひけるにヱホバ答ていひたまひけるは起てケイラにくだれ我ペリシテ人を汝の手にわたすべし

So David yet again enquired if Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him, —and said—Arise, go down to Keilah, for I am about to deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

5 ダビデとその從者ケイラにゆきてペリシテ人とたたかひ彼らの家畜を奪ひとり大にかれらをうちころせりかくダビデ、ケイラの居民をすくふ

David therefore went, with his men, to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and drave forth their cattle, and smote them, with a great smiting, so David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

6 アヒメレクの子アビヤタル、ケイラにのがれてダビデにいたれる時其手にエポデを執てくだれり

Now it came to pass, when Abiathar, son of Ahimelech, fled unto David to Keilah, that he came down with, an ephod, in his hand.

7 爰にダビデのケイラに至れる事サウルに聞えければサウルいふ神かれを我手にわたしたまへり其はかれ門あり關ある邑にいりたれば閉こめらるればなり

And, when it was told Saul that David had entered Keilah, Saul said—God hath given him over into my hand, for he hath shut himself in by entering into a city with folding doors and bar.

8 サウルすなはち民をことごとく軍によびあつめてケイラにくだりてダビデと其從者を圍んとす

So Saul summoned all the people to war, —to go down to Keilah, to besiege David, and his men.

9 ダビデはサウルのおのれを害せんと謀るを知りて祭司アビヤタルにいひけるはエポデを持ちきたれと

And David ascertained that, against him, Saul was contriving mischief, —so he said unto Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

10 しかしてダビデいひけるはイスラエルの神ヱホバよ僕たしかにサウルがケイラにきたりてわがために此邑をほろぼさんと求むるを聞り

Then said David: O Yahweh, God of Israel, thy servant, hath heard, that Saul is seeking to come unto Keilah, —to destroy the city, for my sake:

11 ケイラの人々我をかれの手にわたすならんか僕のきけるごとくサウル下るならんかイスラエルの神ヱホバよ請ふ僕につげたまへとヱホバいひたまひけるは彼下るべしと

Will the owners of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Yahweh, God of Israel, I pray thee, tell thy servant. And Yahweh said—He will come down.

12 ダビデいひけるはケイラの人々われとわが從者をサウルの手にわたすならんかヱホバいひたまひけるは彼らわたすべし

Then said David, Will the owners of Keilah surrender me and my men, into the hand of Saul? And Yahweh said—They will surrender.

13 是においてダビデと其六百人ばかりの從者起てケイラをいで其ゆきうる所にゆけりダビデのケイラをにげはなれしことサウルに聞えければサウルいづることを止たり

Then arose David and his men, about six hundred, and went forth out of Keilah, and went to and fro, whithersoever they could, —and, unto Saul, it was told that David had escaped out of Keilah, so he forbare to go forth.

14 ダビデは曠野にをり要害の地にをりまたジフの野にある山に居るサウル恒にかれを尋ねたれども神かれを其手にわたしたまはざりき

Then David abode in the wilderness, in the fortresses, and he abode in the hill country, in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him continually, but God delivered him not into his hand.

15 ダビデ、サウルがおのれの生命を求めんために出たるを見る時にダビデはジフの野の叢林にをりしが

Then David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, David, being in the wilderness of Ziph, in the thicket.

16 サウルの子ヨナタンたちて叢林にいりてダビデにいたり神によりて其力を強うせしめたり

So Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went unto David in the thicket, —and strengthened his hand in God;

17 即ちヨナタンかれにいひけるに懼るるなかれわが父サウルの手汝にとどくことあらじ汝はイスラエルの王とならん我は汝の次なるべし此事はわが父サウルもしれりと

and said unto him, —Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee, but, thou, shalt become king over Israel, and, I, shall be, next, unto thee, yea and, Saul my father, knoweth this.

18 かくて彼ら二人ヱホバのまへに契約をむすびダビデは叢林にとどまりヨナタンは其家にかへれり

And they two solemnised a covenant before Yahweh, —and David remained in the thicket, but, Jonathan, departed to his own house.

19 時にジフ人ギベアにのぼりサウルの許にいたりていひけるはダビデは曠野の南にあるハキラの山の叢林の中なる要害に隱れて我らとともにをるにあらずや

Then came up the Ziphites unto Saul in Gibeah, saying, —Is not David hiding himself with us, in the strongholds in the thicket, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the right of Jeshimon?

20 今王汝のくだらんとする望のごとく下りたまへ我らはかれを王の手にわたさんと

Now, therefore, according to all the desire of thy soul O king, to come down, come! and, ours, [will it be] to surrender him into the hand of the king.

21 サウルいひけるは汝ら我をあはれめば願くは汝等ヱホバより福祉をえよ

Then said Saul, Blessed, be ye, of Yahweh, —because ye have taken pity upon me.

22 請ふゆきて尚ほ心を用ひ彼の踪跡ある處と誰がかれを見たるかを見きはめよ其は人我にかれが甚だ機巧く事を爲すを告たれば也

Go, I pray you, make ready yet further, and get to know and see his place, where may be his track, who hath seen him there, —for it hath been said unto me, Cunning indeed, is, he!

23 されば汝ら彼が隱るる逃躱處を皆たしかに見きはめて再び我にきたれ我汝らとともにゆかん彼もし其地にあらば我ユダの郡中をあまねく尋ねて彼を獲んと

See, then, and get to know—of all the hiding places, where he hideth himself, and return unto me, for certainty, then will I go with you, —and it shall be, if he is in the land, that I will search him out, through all the thousands of Judah.

24 かれらたちてサウルに先てジフにゆけりダビデと其從者は曠野の南のアラバにあるマオンの野にをる

So they arose and departed to Ziph, before Saul, —but, David and his men, were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah, to the right of Jeshimon.

25 斯てサウルと其從者ゆきて彼を尋ぬ人々これをダビデに告ければダビデ巌を下てマオンの野にをるサウル之を聞てマオンの野に至てダビデを追ふ

Then Saul and his men departed, to seek [him]; but it had been told David, and he had gone down the cliff, and taken up his abode in the wilderness of Maon, —and when Saul had, heard it, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

26 サウルは山の此旁に行ダビデと其從者は山の彼旁に行ダビデは周章てサウルの前を避んとしサウルと其從者はダビデと其從者を圍んで之を取んとす

And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and, David and his men, on that side of the mountain, —wherefore David became hurried, to get away from the presence of Saul, but, Saul and his men, were surrounding David and his men, to capture then:

27 時に使者サウルに來て言けるはペリシテ人國ををかす急ぎきたりたまへと

when, a messenger, came unto Saul, saying, —Haste thee and come! for the Philistines have spread over the land.

28 故にサウル、ダビデを追ことを止てかへり往てペリシテ人にあたるここをもて人々その處をセラマレコテ(逃岩)となづく

Then returned Saul from pursuing David, and departed to meet the Philistines, —for which cause, they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth ["the Cliff of Separation"].

29 ダビデ其處よりのぼりてエンゲデの要害にをる

And David went up from thence, —and abode in the strongholds of En-gedi.