サムエル記Ⅱ 17
1 時にアヒトペル、アブサロムにいひけるは請ふ我に一萬二千の人を擇み出さしめよ我起て今夜ダビデの後を追ひ
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
2 彼が憊れて手弱なりし所を襲ふて彼をおびえしめん而して彼とともにをる民の逃ん時に我王一人を撃とり
I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
3 總の民を爾に歸せしむべし夫衆の歸するは爾が求むる此人に依なれば民みな平穩になるべし
and bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”
4 此言アブサロムの目とイスラエルの總の長老の目に的當と見えたり
This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
5 アブサロムいひけるはアルキ人ホシヤイをも召きたれ我等彼が言ふ所をも聞んと
Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”
6 ホシヤイ乃ちアブサロムに至るにアブサロムかれにかたりていひけるはアヒトペル是のごとく言り我等其言を爲べきか若し可ずば爾言ふべし
So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
7 ホシヤイ、アブサロムにいひけるは此時にあたりてアヒトペルが授けし計略は善らず
Hushai replied, “This time the advice of Ahithophel is not sound.”
8 ホシヤイまたいひけるは爾の知るごとく爾の父と其從者は勇士なり且彼等は野にて其子を奪れたる熊の如く其氣激怒をれり又爾の父は戰士なれば民と共に宿らざるべし
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
9 彼は今何の穴にか何の處にか匿れをる若し數人の者手始に仆なば其を聞く者は皆アブサロムに從ふ者の中に敗ありと言はん
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
10 しからば獅子の心のごとき心ある勇猛き夫といふとも全く挫碎ん其はイスラエル皆爾の父の勇士にして彼とともにある者の勇猛き人なるをしればなり
Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
11 我は計議るイスラエルをダンよりベエルシバにいたるまで海濱の沙の多きが如くに悉く爾の處につどへ集めて爾親ら戰陣に臨むべし
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
12 我等彼の見出さるる處にて彼を襲ひ露の地に下るがごとく彼のうへに降らんしかして彼および彼とともにあるすべての人々を一人も遺さざるべし
Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.
13 若し彼何かの城邑に集らばイスラエル皆繩を其城邑にかけ我等これを河に曳きたふして其處に一の小石も見えざらしむべしと
If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found.”
14 アブサロムとイスラエルの人々皆アルキ人ホシヤイの謀計はアヒトペルの謀計よりも善しといふ其はヱホバ、アブサロムに禍を降さんとてヱホバ、アヒトペルの善き謀計を破ることを定めたまひたればなり
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
15 爰にホシヤイ祭司ザドクとアビヤタルにいひけるはアヒトペル、アブサロムとイスラエルの長老等のために斯々に謀れりきた我は斯々に謀れり
So Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “This is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I have advised.
16 されば爾ら速に人を遣してダビデに告て今夜野の渡場に宿ることなく速に渡りゆけといへおそらくは王および倶にある民皆呑つくされん
Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”
17 時にヨナタンとアヒマアズはエンロゲルに俟居たり是は城邑にいるを見られざらんとてなり爰に一人の仕女ゆきて彼等に告げければ彼らダビデ王に告んとて往く
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.
18 しかるに一人の少者かれらを見てアブザロムにつげたりされど彼等二人は急ぎさりてバホリムの或人の家にいたる其人の庭に井ありてかれら其處にくだりければ
But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
19 婦蓋をとりて井の口のうへに掩け其上に擣たる麥をひろげたり故に事知れざりき
Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
20 時にアブサロムの僕等其婦の家に來りていひけるはアヒマアズとヨナタンは何處にをるや婦かれらに彼人々は小川を濟れりといふかれら尋ねたれども見當ざればエルサレムに歸れり
When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
21 彼等が去し時かの二人は井よりのぼりて往てダビデ王に告げたり即ちダビデに言けるは起て速かに水を濟れ其はアヒトベル斯爾等について謀計を爲したればなりと
After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
22 ダビデ起て己とともにある凡ての民とともにヨルダンを濟れり曙には一人もヨルダンを濟らざる者はなかりき
So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.
23 アヒトベルは其謀計の行れざるを見て其驢馬に鞍おき起て其邑に往て其家にいたり家の人に遺言して自ら縊れ死て其父の墓に葬らる
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
24 爰にダビデ、マナハイムに至る又アブサロムは己とともにあるイスラエルの凡の人々とともにヨルダンを濟れり
Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
25 アブサロム、アマサをヨアブの代りに軍の長と爲りアマサは夫のナハシの女にてヨアブの母ゼルヤの妹なるアビガルに通じたるイシマエル人名はヱテルといふ人の子なり
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
26 かくてイスラエルとアブサロムはギレアデの地に陣どれり
So the Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.
27 ダビデ、マハナイムにいたれる時アンモンの子孫の中なるラバのナハシの子シヨビとロデバルのアンミエルの子マキルおよびロゲリムのギレアデ人バルジライ
When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
28 臥床と鍋釜と陶器と小麥と大麥と粉と烘麥と豆と小豆の烘たる者と
They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
29 蜜と牛酪と羊と犢をダビデおよび倶にある民の食ふために持來れり其は彼等民は野にて饑憊れ渇くならんと謂たればなり
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
