サムエル記Ⅰ 4

1 イスラエル人ペリシテ人にいであひて戰はんとしエベネゼルの邊に陣をとりペリシテ人はアベクに陣をとる

And what Samuel had said happened to all Israel. And Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

2 ペリシテ人イスラエル人にむかひて陣列をなせり戰ふにおよびてイスラエル人ペリシテ人のまへにやぶるペリシテ人戰場において其軍四千人ばかりを殺せり

And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel; and the battle spread, and Israel was routed before the Philistines; and they slew in battle array in the field about four thousand men.

3 民陣營にいたるにイスラエルの長老曰けるはヱホバ何故に今日我等をペリシテ人のまへにやぶりたまひしやヱホバの契約の櫃をシロより此にたづさへ來らん其櫃われらのうちに來らば我らを敵の手よりすくひいだすことあらんと

And the people came into the camp; and the elders of Israel said, Why has Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch ourselves the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

4 かくて民人をシロにつかはしてケルビムの上に坐したまふ萬軍のヱホバの契約の櫃を其處よりたづさへきたらしむ時にエリの二人の子ホフニとピネハス神の契約のはことともに彼處にありき

So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sitteth between the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there by the ark of the covenant of God.

5 ヱホバの契約の櫃陣營にいたりしときイスラエル人皆大によばはりさけびければ地なりひびけり

And it came to pass when the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came into the camp, that all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth shook.

6 ペリシテ人喊呼の聲を聞ていひけるはヘブル人の陣營に起れる此大なるさけびの聲は何ぞやと遂にヱホバの櫃の其陣營にいたれるを知る

And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and said, What is the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of Jehovah had come into the camp.

7 ペリシテ人おそれていひけるは神陣營にいたる又いひけるは鳴呼われら禍なるかな今にいたるまで斯ることなかりき

And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.

8 ああ我等禍なるかな誰かわれらを是らの強き神の手よりすくひいださんや此等の神は昔し諸の災を以てエジプト人を曠野に撃し者なり

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

9 ペリシテ人よ強くなり豪傑のごとく爲せヘブル人がかつて汝らに事へしごとく汝らこれに事ふるなかれ豪傑のごとく爲して戰へよ

Shew yourselves valiant and be men, ye Philistines, that ye may not have to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been servants to you: be men, and fight.

10 かくてペリシテ人戰ひしかばイスラエル人やぶれて各々其天幕に逃かへる戰死はなはだ多くイスラエルの歩兵の仆れし者三萬人なりき

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was routed, and they fled every man to his tent; and there was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

11 又神の櫃は奪はれエリの二人の子ホフニとピネハス殺さる

And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

12 是日ベニヤミンの一人軍中より走來り其衣を裂き土をかむりてシロにいたる

And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the battle, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.

13 其いたれる時エリ道の傍に壇に坐して觀望居たり其心に神の櫃のことを思ひ煩らひたればなり其人いたり邑にて人々に告ければ邑こぞりてさけびたり

And when he came, behold, Eli was sitting upon the seat by the way-side watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

14 エリ此呼號の聲をききていひけるは是喧嘩の聲は何なるやと其人いそぎきたりてエリにつぐ

And Eli heard the noise of the crying, and said, What is the noise of this tumult? And the man came hastily, and told Eli.

15 時にエリ九十八歳にして其目かたまりて見ることあたはず

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.

16 其人エリにいひけるは我は軍中より來れるもの我今日軍中より逃れたりエリいひけるは吾子よ事いかん

And the man said to Eli, I am he that came out of the battle, and I have fled to-day out of the battle. And he said, What has taken place, my son?

17 使人答へていひけるはイスラエル人ペリシテ人の前に逃げ且民の中に大なる戰死ありまた汝の二人の子ホフニとピネハスは殺され神の櫃は奪はれたり

And the messenger answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

18 神の櫃のことを演しときエリ其壇より仰けに門の傍におち頸をれて死ねり是はかれ老て身重かりければなり其イスラエルを鞫しは四十年なりき

And it came to pass, when he mentioned the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died; for the man was old, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

19 エリの媳ピネハスの妻孕みて子產ん時ちかかりしが神の櫃の奪はれしと舅と夫の死にしとの傳言を聞しかば其痛みおこりきたり身をかがめて子を產り

And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered; and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

20 其死なんとする時傍にたてる婦人これにいひけるは懼るるなかれ汝男子を生りと然ども答へず又かへりみず

And as she was dying, the women that stood by her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not answer, neither did she take it to heart.

21 只榮光イスラエルをさりぬといひて其子をイカボデ(榮なし)と名く是は神の櫃奪はれしによりまた舅と夫の故に因るなり

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

22 またいひけるは榮光イスラエルをさりぬ神の櫃うばはれたればなり

And she said, The glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.