サムエル記Ⅱ 14

1 ゼルヤの子ヨアブ王の心のアブサロムに趣くを知れり

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

2 ヨアブ乃ちテコアに人を遣りて彼處より一人の哲婦を呼きたらしめて其婦にいひけるは請ふ汝喪にある眞似して喪の服を着油む身にぬらず死者のために久しく哀しめる婦のごとく爲りて

And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and do not anoint thyself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead.

3 王の所にいたり是のごとくかれに語るべしとヨアブ其語言をかれの口に授けたり

And go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 テコアの婦王にいたり地に伏て拝し王にいひけるは王よ助けたまへ

And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

5 王婦にひけるは何事なるや婦いひけるは我は實に嫠婦にしてわが夫は死り

And the king said to her, What troubles thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

6 仕女に二人の子あり倶に野に爭ひしが誰もかれらを排解ものなきにより此遂に彼を撃て殺せり

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.

7 是において視よ全家仕女に逼りていふ其兄弟を撃殺したる者を付せ我らかれをその殺したる兄弟の生命のために殺さんと斯く嗣子をも滅ぼし存れるわが炭火を熄てわが夫の名をも遺存をも地の面に無らしめんとす

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who smote his brother that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus they will quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

8 王婦にいひけるは汝の家に往け我汝の事につきて命令を下さん

And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

9 テコアの婦王にいひけるは王わが主よねがはくは其罪は我とわが父の家に歸して王と王の位には罪あらざれ

And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house, and the king and his throne be guiltless.

10 王いひけるは誰にても爾に語る者をば我に將來れしかせば彼かさねて爾に觸ること无るべし

And the king said, Whoever says anything to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

11 婦いひけるは願くは王爾の神ヱホバを憶えてかの仇を報ゆる者をして重て滅すことを爲しめず我子を斷ことなからしめたまへと王いひけるはヱホバは生く爾の子の髮毛一すぢも地に隕ることなかるべし

Then she said, I pray thee, let the king remember Jehovah thy God, that the avenger of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As Jehovah lives, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

12 婦いひけるは請ふ仕女をして一言わが主王に言しめたまヘダビデいひけるは言ふべし

Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

13 婦いひけるは爾なんぞ斯る事を神の民にむかひて思ひたるや王此言を言ふにより王は罪ある者のごとし其は王その放れたる者を歸らしめざればなり

And the woman said, Why then have thou devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as he who is guilty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished one.

14 抑我儕は死ざるべからず我儕は地に潟れたる水の再び聚る能はざるがごとし神は生命を取りたまはず方法を設けて其放れたる者をして己の所より放たれをることなからしむ

For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.

15 我此事を王我主に言んとて來れるは民我を恐れしめたればなり故に仕女謂らく王に言ん王婢の言を行ひたまふならんと

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaid said, I will now speak to the king. It may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

16 其は王聞て我とわが子を共に滅して神の產業に離れしめんとする人の手より婢を救ひいだしたまふべければなり

For the king will hear to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

17 仕女また思り王わが主の言は慰となるべしと其は神の使のごとく王わが主は善も惡も聽たまへばなりねがはくは爾の神ヱホバ爾と共に在せと

Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be gracious, for as an agent of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. And Jehovah thy God be with thee.

18 王こたへて婦にいひけるは請ふわが爾に問んところの事を我に隱すなかれ婦いふ請ふ王わが主言たまへ

Then the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, anything that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

19 王いひけるは比すべての事においてはヨアブの手爾とともにあるや婦答へていひけるは爾の霊魂は活く王わが主よ凡て王わが主の言たまひしところは右にも左にもまがらず皆に爾の僕ヨアブ我に命じ是等の言を悉く仕女の口に授けたり

And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken, for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid.

20 其事の見ゆるとこるを變んとて爾の僕ヨアブ此事をなしたるなり然どわが主は神の使の智慧のごとく智慧ありて地にある事を悉く知たまふと

Thy servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. And my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an agent of God, to know all things that are on the earth.

21 是において王ヨアブにいひけるは視よ我此事を爲すされば往て少年アブサロムを携歸るべし

And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

22 ヨアブ地に伏し拝し王を祝せりしかしてヨアブいひけるは王わが主よ王僕の言を行ひたまへば今日僕わが爾に惠るるを知ると

And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king. And Joab said, Today thy servant knows that I have found favor in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.

23 ヨアブ乃ち起てゲシユルに往きアブサロムをエルサレムに携きたれり

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

24 王いひけるは彼は其家に退くべしわが面を見るべからずと故にアブサロム己の家に退きて王の面を觀ざりき

And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and did not see the king's face.

25 偖イスラエルの中にアブサロムのごとく其美貌のために讃られたる人はなかりき其足の跖より頭の頂にいたるまで彼には瑕疵あることなし

Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

26 アブサロム其頭を剪る時其頭の髮を衡るに王の權衡の二百シケルあり毎年の終にアブサロム其頭を剪り是は己の重によりて剪たるなり

And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

27 アブサロムに三人の男子と一人のタマルといふ女子生れたりタマルは美女なり

And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of a fair countenance.

28 アブサロム二年のあひだエルサレムにをりたれども王の顔を見ざりき

And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and he did not see the king's face.

29 是によりてアブサロム王に遣さんとてヨアブを呼に遣はしけるが彼來ることを肯ぜず再び遣せしかども來ることを肯ぜざりき

Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. And he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

30 アブサロム其僕にいひけるは視よヨアブの田地は我の近くにありて其處に大麥あり往て其に火を放てとアブサロムの僕等田地に火を放てり

Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

31 ヨアブ起てアブサロムの家に來りてこれにいひけるは何故に爾の僕等田地に火を放たるや

Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my field on fire?

32 アブサロム、ヨアブにいひけるは我人を爾に遣はして此に來れ我爾を王につかはさんと言り即ち爾をして王に我何のためにゲシユルよりきたりしや彼處に尚あらば我ためには反て善しと言しめんとせり然ば我今王の面を見ん若し我に罪あらば王我を殺すべし

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come here, that I may send thee to the king to say, Why have I come from Geshur? It were better for me to still be there. Now therefore let me see the king's face, and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

33 ヨアブ王にいたりてこれに告たれば王アブサロムを召す彼王にいたりて王のまへに地に伏て拝せり王アブサロムに接吻す

So Joab came to the king, and told him. And when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.