サムエル記Ⅱ 20

1 爰に一人の邪なる人あり其名をシバといビクリの子にしてベニヤミン人なり彼喇叭を吹ていひけるは我儕はダビデの中に分なし又ヱサイの子のうちに產業なしイスラエルよ各人其天幕に歸れよと

Now there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the horn, and said: 'We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel.'

2 是によりてイスラエルの人皆ダビデに随ふことを止てのぼりビクリの子シバにしたがへり然どユダの人々は其王に附てヨルダンよりエルサレムにいたれり

So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

3 ダビデ、エルサレムにある己の家にいたり王其遺して家を守らせたる妾なる十人の婦をとりてこれを一の室に守り置て養へりされどかれらの處には入ざりき斯かれらは死る日まで閉こめられて生涯嫠婦にてすごせり

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood, with their husband alive.

4 爰に王アマサにいひけるは我ために三日のうちにユダの人々を召きたれしかして爾此處にをれ

Then said the king to Amasa: 'Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.'

5 アマサ乃ちユダを召あつめんとて往たりしが彼ダビデが定めたる期よりも長く留れり

So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

6 是においてダビデ、アビシヤイにいひけるはビクリの子シバ今我儕にアブサロムよりもおほくの害をなさんとす爾の主の臣僕を率ゐて彼の後を追へ恐らくは彼堅固なる城邑を獲て我儕の目を逃れんと

And David said to Abishai: 'Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom; take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.'

7 是によりてヨアブの從者とケレテ人とペレテ人および都の勇士彼にしたがびて出たり即ち彼等エルサレムより出てビクリの子シバの後を追ふ

And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

8 彼等がギベオンにある大石の傍に居りし時アマサかれらにむかひ來れり時にヨアブ戎衣に帶を結て衣服となし其上に刀を鞘にをさめ腰に結びて帶び居たりしが其劍脱け堕ちたり

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

9 ヨアブ、アマサにわが兄弟よ爾は平康なるやといひて右の手をもてアマサの鬚を將て彼に接吻せんとせしが

And Joab said to Amasa: 'Is it well with thee, my brother?' And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

10 アマサはヨアブの手にある劍に意を留ざりければヨアブ其をもてアマサの腹を刺して其膓を地に流しいだし重ねて撃に及ばざらしめてこれをころせり かくてヨアブと其兄弟アビシヤイ、ビクリの子シバの後を追り

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand; so he smote him therewith in the groin, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

11 時にヨアブの少者の一人アマサの側にたちていふヨアブを助くる者とダビデに附從ものはヨアブの後に隨へと

And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said: 'He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David let him follow Joab.'

12 アマサは血に染て大路の中に轉び居たり斯人民の皆立どまるを見てアマサを大路より田に移したるが其側にいたれる者皆見て立ちとまりければ衣を其上にかけたり

And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

13 アマサ大路より移されければ人皆ヨアブにしたがひ進みてビクリの子シバの後を追ふ

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

14 彼イスラエルの凡の支派の中を行てアベルとベテマアカに至るに少年皆集りて亦かれにしたがひゆけり

And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maacah, and all the Berites; and they were gathered together, and went in also after him.

15 かくて彼等來りて彼をアベル、ベテマアカに圍み城邑にむかひて壘を築けり是は壕の中にたてりかくしてヨアブとともにある民皆石垣を崩さんとてこれを撃居りしが

And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood in the moat; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

16 一箇の哲き婦城邑より呼はりていふ爾ら聽よ爾ら聽よ請ふ爾らヨアブに此に近よれ我爾に言んと言へと

Then cried a wise woman out of the city: 'Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab: Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.'

17 かれ其婦にちかよるに婦いひけるは爾はヨアブなるやかれ然りといひければ婦彼にいふ婢の言を聽けかれ我聽くといふ

And he came near unto her; and the woman said: 'Art thou Joab?' And he answered: 'I am.' Then she said unto him: 'Hear the words of thy handmaid.' And he answered: 'I do hear.'

18 婦即ち語りていひけるは昔人々誠に語りて人必ずアベルにおいて索問べしといひて事を終ふ

Then she spoke, saying: 'They were wont to speak in old time, saying: They shall surely ask counsel at Abel; and so they ended the matter.

19 我はイスラエルの中の平和なる忠義なる者なりしかるに爾はイスラルの中にて母ともいふべき城邑を滅さんことを求む何ゆゑに爾ヱホバの產業を呑み盡さんとするや

We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?'

20 ヨアブ答へていひけるは決めてしからず決めてしからずわれ呑み盡し或は滅ぼさんとすることなし

And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

21 其事しからずエフライムの山地の人ビクリの子名はシバといふ者手を擧て王ダビデに敵せり爾ら只彼一人を付せ然らば我此邑をさらんと婦ヨアブにいひけるは視よ彼の首級は石垣の上より爾に投いだすべし

The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab: 'Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.'

22 かくて婦其智慧をもて凡の民の所にいたりければかれらビクリの子シバの首級を刎てヨアブの所に投出せり是においてヨアブ喇叭を吹ならしければ人々散て邑より退きておのおの其天幕に還りぬヨアブはエルサレムにかへりて王の處にいたれり

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

23 ヨアブはイスラエルの全軍の長なりヱホヤダの子ベナヤはケレテ人とペレテ人の長なり

Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

24 アドラムは徴募長なりアヒルデの子ヨシヤパテは史官なり

and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

25 シワは書記官なりザドクとアビヤタルは祭司なり

and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

26 亦ヤイル人イラはダビデの大臣なり

and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David.