サムエル記Ⅱ 19
1 時にヨアブに告る者ありていふ視よ王はアブサロムの爲に哭き悲しむと
Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”
2 其日の勝利は凡の民の悲哀となれり其は民其日王は其子のために憂ふと言ふを聞たればなり
And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”
3 其日民は戰爭に逃て羞たる民の竊て去がごとく竊て城邑にいりぬ
So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
4 王は其面を掩へり王大聲に叫てわが子アブサロムよアブサロムわが子よわが子よといふ
But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
5 ここにヨアブ家にいり王の許にいたりていひけるは汝今日汝の生命と汝の男子汝の女子の生命および汝の妻等の生命と汝の妾等の生命を救ひたる汝の凡の臣僕の顔を羞させたり
Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
6 是は汝おのれを惡む者を愛しおのれを愛する者を惡むなり汝今日汝が諸侯伯をも諸僕をも顧みざるを示せり今日我さとる若しアブサロム生をりて我儕皆死たらば汝の目に適ひしならん
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
7 されど今立て出で汝の諸僕を慰めてかたるべし我ヱホバを指て誓ふ汝若し出ずば今夜一人も汝とともに止るものなかるべし是は汝が若き時より今にいたるまでに蒙りたる諸の災禍よりも汝に惡かるべし
Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
8 是に於て王たちて門に坐す人々凡の民に告て視よ王は門に坐し居るといひければ民皆王のまへにいたる然どイスラエルはおのむの其天幕に逃かへれり
So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.
9 イスラエルの諸の支派の中に民皆爭ひていひけるは王は我儕を敵の手より救ひいだしまた我儕をペリシテ人の手より助けいだせりされど今はアブサロムのために國を逃いでたり
And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
10 また我儕が膏そそぎて我儕の上にかきしアブサロムは戰爭に死ねりされば爾ら何ぞ王を導きかへらんことと言ざるや
But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”
11 ダビデ王祭司ザドクとアビヤタルに言つかはしけるはユダの長老等に告て言ヘイスラエルの全家の言語王の家に達せしに爾ら何ぞ王を其家に導きかへる最後となるや
Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
12 爾等はわが兄弟爾らはわが骨肉なりしかるになんぞ爾等王を導き歸る最後となるやと
You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
13 又アマサに言べし爾はわが骨肉にあらずや爾ヨアブにかはりて常にわがまへにて軍長たるべし若しからずば神我に斯なし又重ねてかくなしたまへと
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
14 かくダビデ、ユダの凡の人をして其心を傾けて一人のごとくにならしめければかれら王にねがはくは爾および爾の諸の臣僕歸りたまへといひおくれり
So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
15 是において王歸りてヨルダンにいたるにユダの人々王を迎へんとて來りてギルガルにいたり王を送りてヨルダンを濟らんとす
So the king returned, and when he arrived at the Jordan, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and escort him across the Jordan.
16 時にバホリムのベニヤミン人ゲラの子シメイ急ぎてユダの人々とともに下りダビデ王を迓ふ
Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
17 一千のベニヤミン人彼とともにあり亦サウルの家の僕ヂバも其十五人の男子と二十人の僕をしたがへて偕に居たりしが皆王のまへにむかひてヨルダンをこぎ渡れり
along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
18 時に王の家族を濟しまた王の目に善と見ゆるところを爲んとて濟舟を濟せり爰にゲラの子シメイ、ヨルダンを濟れる時王のまへに伏して
and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
19 王にいひけるはわが主よねがはくは罪を我に歸するなかれまた王わが主のエルサレムより出たまへる日に僕が爲たる惡き事を記憶えたまふなかれねがはくは王これを心に置たまふなかれ
and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
20 其は僕我罪を犯したるを知ればなり故に視よ我今日ヨセフの全家の最初に下り來りて王わが主を迓ふと
For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
21 然にゼルヤの子アビシヤイ答へていひけるはシメイはヱホバの膏そそぎし者を詛たるに因て其がために誅さるべきにあらずやと
But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
22 ダビデいひけるは爾らゼルヤの子よ爾らのあづかるところにあらず爾等今日我に敵となる今日豈イスラエルの中にて人を誅すべけんや我豈わが今日イスラエルの王となりたるをしらざらんやと
And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
23 是をもて王はシメイに爾は誅されじといひて王かれに誓へり
So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.
24 爰にサウルの子メピボセテ下りて王をむかふ彼は王の去し日より安かに歸れる日まで其足を飾らず其鬚を飾らず又其衣を濯ざりき
Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
26 彼エルサレムよりきたりて王を迓ふる時王かれにいひけるはメビボセテ爾なんぞ我とともに往ざりしや 彼こたへけるはわが主王よわが僕我を欺けり僕はわれ驢馬に鞍おきて其に乗て王の處にゆかんといへり僕跛者なればなり
“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
27 しかるに彼僕を王わが主に讒言せり然ども王わが主は神の使のごとし故に爾の目に善と見るところを爲たまへ
and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
28 わが父の全家は王わが主のまへには死人なるのみなるに爾僕を爾の席にて食ふ者の中に置たまへりされば我何の理ありてか重ねて王に哀訴ることをえん
For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
29 王かれにいひけるは爾なんぞ重ねて爾の事を言や我いふ爾とヂバ其地を分つべし
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
30 メピボセテ王にいひけるは王わが主安然に其家に歸りたまひたればかれに之を悉くとらしめたまへと
And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
31 爰にギレアデ人バルジライ、ロゲリムより下り王を送りてヨルダンを渡らんとて王とともにヨルダンを濟れり
Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
32 バルジライは甚だ老たる人にて八十歳なりきかれは甚だ大なる人なれば王のマハナイムに留れる間王を養へり
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
33 王バルジライにいひけるは爾我とともに濟り來れ我エルサレムにて爾を我とともに養はん
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
34 バルジライ王にいひけるはわが生命の年の日尚幾何ありてか我王とともにエルサレムに上らんや
But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
35 我は今日八十歳なり善きと惡きとを辨へるをえんや僕其食ふところと飮ところを味ふをえんや我再び謳歌之男と謳歌之女の聲を聽えんや僕なんぞ尚王わが主の累となるべけんや
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
36 僕は王とともにヨルダンを濟りて只少しくゆかん王なんぞこの報賞を我に報ゆるに及ばんや
Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
37 請ふ僕を歸らしめよ我自己の邑にてわが父母の墓の側に死ん但し僕キムハムを視たまへかれを王わが主とともに濟り往しめたまへ又爾の目に善と見る所を彼になしたまへ
Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
38 王いひけるはキムハム我とともに濟り往くべし我爾の目に善と見ゆる所をかれに爲ん又爾が望みて我に求むる所は皆我爾のために爲すべしと
The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
39 民皆ヨルダンを濟れり王渡りし時王バルジライに接吻してこれを祝す彼遂に己の所に歸れり
So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
40 かくて王ギルガルに進むにキムハムかれとともに進めりユダの民皆王を送れりイスラエルの民の半も亦しかり
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
41 是にイスラエルの人々皆王の所にいたりて王にいひけるは我儕の兄弟なるユダの人々何故に爾を竊みさり王と其家族およびダビデとともなる其凡の從者を送りてヨルダンを濟りしやと
Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
42 ユダの人々皆イスラエルの人々に對へていふ王は我に近きが故なり爾なんぞ此事について怒るや我儕王の物を食ひしことあるや王我儕に賜物を與へたることあるや
And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
43 イスラエルの人ユダの人に對ていひけるは我は王のうちに十の分を有ち亦ダビデのうちにも我は爾よりも多を有つなりしかるに爾なんぞ我らを軽じたるやわが王を導きかへらんと言しは我最初なるにあらずやとされどユダの人々の言はイスラエルの人々の言よりも厲しかりき
“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.
