サムエル記Ⅱ 18
1 爰にダビデ己とともにある民を核べて其上に千夫の長百夫の長を立たり
And David mustered the people who were with him, and appointed commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds over them.
2 しかしてダビデ民を三に分ちて其一をヨアブの手に託け一をゼルヤの子ヨアブの兄弟アビシヤイの手に託け一をガテ人イツタイの手に託けたりかくして王民にいひけるは我もまた必ず汝らとともに出んと
David divided the army into three, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."
3 されど民いふ汝は出べからず我儕如何に逃るとも彼等は我儕に心をとめじ又我儕半死とも我儕に心をとめざるべしされど汝は我儕の一萬に等し故に汝は城邑の中より我儕を助けなば善し
But they said, "You must not go out, for if we retreat, no one will care about us. If half of us die, no one will care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. So it is better for you to be in the city to help."
4 王かれらにいひけるは汝等の目に善と見ゆるところを爲すべしとかくて王門の傍に立ち民皆或は百人或は千人となりて出づ
The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
5 王ヨアブ、アビシヤイおよびイツタイに命じてわがために少年アブサロムを寛に待へよといふ王のアブサロムの事について諸の將官に命を下せる時民皆聞り
The king gave this order to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Be gentle for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people were listening when the king gave orders to all the commanders concerning Absalom.
6 爰に民イスラエルにむかひて野に出でエフライムの叢林に戰ひしが
So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
7 イスラエルの民其處にてダビデの臣僕のまへに敗る其日彼處の戰死大にして二萬にいたれり
And the people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and a great slaughter took place that day of twenty thousand men.
8 しかして戰徧く其地の表に廣がりぬ是日叢林の滅ぼせる者は刀劒の滅ぼせる者よりも多かりき
For the battle spread over the entire region, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9 爰にアブサロム、ダビデの臣僕に行き遭り時にアブサロム騾馬に乗居たりしが騾馬大なる橡樹の繁き枝の下を過ければアブサロムの頭其橡に繋りて彼天地のあひだにあがれり騾馬はかれの下より行過たり
And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. And he was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head got caught in the oak, and he was left suspended in midair, while the mule that was under him kept going.
10 一箇の人見てヨアブに告ていひけるは我アブサロムが橡樹に懸りをるを見たりと
And someone saw it and told Joab, and said, "Look, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak."
11 ヨアブ其告たる人にいひけるはさらば爾見て何故に彼を其處にて地に撃落さざりしや我爾に銀十枚と一本の帶を與へんものを
Then Joab said to the man who reported it, "Look, you saw this. So why didn't you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a belt."
12 其人ヨアブにいひけるは假令わが手に銀千枚を受べきも我は手をいだして王の子に敵せじ其は王我儕の聞るまへにて爾とアビシヤイとイツタイに命じて爾ら各少年アブサロムを害するなかれといひたまひたればなり
But the man said to Joab, "Even if I could feel in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn't lay a hand on the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Be gentle for my sake with the young man Absalom.'
13 我若し反いてかれの生命を戕賊はば何事も王に隱るる所なければ爾自ら立て我を責んと
Otherwise, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have dissociated yourself from me."
14 時にヨアブ我かく爾とともに滞るべからずといひて手に三本の槍を携へゆきて彼の橡樹の中に尚生をるアブサロムの胸に之を衝通せり
Then Joab said, "I'm not going to waste time with you." So he took three sharp sticks in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the midst of the oak.
15 ヨアブの武器を執る十人の少者繞きてアブサロムを撃ち之を死しめたり
Then ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded and struck Absalom and killed him.
16 かくてヨアブ喇叭を吹ければ民イスラエルの後を追ふことを息てかへれりヨアブ民を止めたればなり
Then Joab blew the trumpet and the people turned back from pursuing Israel, for Joab had called for the people to halt.
17 衆アブサロムを將て叢林の中なる大なる穴に投げいれ其上に甚だ大きく石を疊あげたり是においてイスラエル皆おのおの其天幕に逃かへれり
And they took Absalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest, and heaped up over him a huge pile of stones. Then all Israel fled, each one to his tent.
18 アブサロム我はわが名を傳ふべき子なしと言て其生る間に己のために一の表柱を建たり王の谷にあり彼おのれの名を其表柱に與たり其表柱今日にいたるまでアブサロムの碑と稱らる
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the King's Valley; for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.
19 爰にザドクの子アヒマアズいひけるは請ふ我をして趨りて王にヱホバの王をまもりて其敵の手を免かれしめたまひし音信を傳へしめよと
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run, let me carry the king news how that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies."
20 ヨアブかれにいひけるは汝は今日音信を傳ふるものとなるべからず他日に音信を傳ふべし今日は王の子死たれば汝音信を傳ふべからず
But Joab said, "You are not to bring the news today, but you may bring news another day. But today you are to bring no news." For it was because the king's son was dead.
21 ヨアブ、クシ人にいひけるは往て爾が見たる所を王に告よクシ人ヨアブに禮をなして走れり
Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." So the Cushite bowed before Joab and departed.
22 ザドクの子アヒマアズ再びヨアブにいひけるは請ふ何にもあれ我をも亦クシ人の後より走ゆかしめよヨアブいひけるは我子よ爾は充分の音信を持ざるに何故に走りゆかんとするや
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, "Whatever happens, please let me go after the Cushite." But Joab said, "Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?"
23 かれいふ何れにもあれ我をして走りゆかしめよとヨアブかれにいふ走るべし是においてアヒマアズ低地の路をはしりてクシ人を走越たり
But he said, "But whatever happens, I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.
24 時にダビデは二の門の間に坐しゐたり爰に守望者門の蓋上にのぼり石墻にのぼりて其目を擧て見るに視よ獨一人にて走きたる者あり
Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall and raised his eyes and looked, and there was a man running alone towards him.
25 守望者呼はりて王に告ければ王いふ若し獨ならば口に音信を持つならんと其人進み來りて近づけり
Then the watchman shouted and informed the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, there is good news in his mouth." And he kept coming nearer.
26 守望者復一人の走りきたるを見しかば守望者守門者に呼はりて言ふ獨一人にて走きたる者あり王いふ其人もまた音信を持ものなり
Then the watchman saw another man running. And the watchman above the gate called out, and said, "Look, another man running alone." And the king said, "He also brings good news."
27 守望者言ふ我先者の走を見るにザドクの子アヒマアズの走るが如しと王いひけるは彼は善人なり善き音信を持來るならん
Then the watchman said, "I think the first runner is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." And the king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good news."
28 アヒマアズ呼はりて王にいひけるはねがはくは平安なれとかくて王のまへに地に伏していふ爾の神ヱホバは讃べきかなヱホバかの手をあげて王わが主に敵したる人々を付したまへり
And Ahimaaz came near and said to the king, "All is well." Then he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground, and said, "Blessed is the LORD your God, who has defeated the men who opposed my lord the king."
29 王いひけるは少年アブサロムは平安なるやアヒマアズこたへけるは王の僕ヨアブ僕を遣はせし時我大なる噪を見たれども何をも知らざるなり
And the king asked, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab, the king's servant, sent your servant off, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was."
30 王いひけるは側にいたりて其處に立よと乃ち側にいたりて立つ
Then the king said, "Step aside and stand here." So he stepped aside and waited.
31 時に視よクシ人來れりクシ人いひけるはねがはくは王音信を受たまへヱホバ今日爾をまもりて凡て爾にたち逆ふ者の手を免かれしめたまへり
Then look, the Cushite arrived, and he said, "Good news for my lord the king, for the LORD has delivered you today from all those who rose up against you."
32 王クシ人にいひけるは少年アブサロムは平安なるやクシ人いひけるはねがはくは王わが主の敵および凡て汝に起ち逆ひて害をなさんとする者は彼少年のごとくなれと
Then the king asked the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite replied, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you with evil intent be like that young man."
33 王大に感み門の樓にのぼりて哭り彼行ながらかくいへりわが子アブサロムよわが子わが子アブサロムよ鳴呼われ汝に代りて死たらん者をアブサロムわが子よわが子よ
And the king was shaken, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. And as he wept he said, "My son Absalom. My son, my son Absalom. If only I had died in your place, Absalom, my son, my son."
