サムエル記Ⅱ 24
1 ヱホバ復イスラエルにむかひて怒を發しダビデを感動して彼等に敵對しめ往てイスラエルとユダを數へよと言しめたまふ
Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
2 王乃ちヨアブおよびヨアブとともにある軍長等にいひけるは請ふイスラエルの諸の支派の中をダンよりベエルシバに至るまで行めぐりて民を核べ我をして民の數を知しめよ
So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
3 ヨアブ王にいひけるは幾何あるともねがはくは汝の神ヱホバ民を百倍に増たまへ而して王わが主の目それを視るにいたれ然りといへども王わが主の此事を悦びたまふは何故ぞやと
But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
4 されど王の言ヨアブと軍長等に勝ければヨアブと軍長等王の前を退きてイスラエルの民を核べに往り
Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to count the troops of Israel.
5 かれらヨルダンを濟りアロエルより即ち河の中の邑より始めてガドにいたりヤゼルにいたり
They crossed the Jordan and camped near Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.
6 ギレアデにいたりタテムホデシの地にいたり又ダニヤンにいたりてシドンに旋り
Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.
7 またツロの城にいたりヒビ人とカナン人の諸の邑にいたりユダの南に出てベエルシバにいたれり
They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.
8 彼等國を徧く行めぐり九月と廿日を經てルサレムに至りぬ
At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.
9 ヨアブ人口の數を王に告たり即ちイスラエルに劍を抜く壯士八十萬ありき又ユダの人は五十萬ありき
And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
10 ダビデ民の數を書し後其心自ら責む是においてダビデ、ヱホバにいふ我これを爲して大に罪を犯したりねがはくはヱホバよ僕の罪を除きたまへ我甚だ愚なる事を爲りと
After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
11 ダビデ朝興し時ヱホバの言ダビデの先見者なる預言者ガデに臨みて曰く
When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
12 往てダビデに言へヱホバ斯いふ我汝に三を示す汝其一を擇べ我其を汝に爲んと
“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
13 ガデ、ダビデの許にいたりこれに告てこれにいひけるは汝の地に七年の饑饉いたらんか或は汝敵に追れて三月其前に遁んか或は爾の地に三日の疫病あらんか爾考へてわが如何なる答を我を遣はせし者に爲べきかを決めよ
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
14 ダビデ、ガデにいひけるは我大に苦しむ請ふ我儕をしてヱホバの手に陷らしめよ其憐憫大なればなり我をして人の手に陷らしむるなかれ
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
15 是においてヱホバ朝より集會の時まで疫病をイスラエルに降したまふダンよりベエルシバまでに民の死る者七萬人なり
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
16 天の使其手をエルサレムに伸てこれを滅さんとしたりしがヱホバ此害惡を悔て民を滅す天使にいひたまひけるは足り今汝の手を住めよと時にヱホバの使はヱブス人アラウナの禾場の傍にあり
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 ダビデ民を撃つ天使を見し時ヱホバに申していひけるは嗚呼我は罪を犯したり我は惡き事を爲たり然ども是等の羊群は何を爲たるや請ふ爾の手を我とわが父の家に對たまへと
When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
18 此日ガデ、ダビデの所にいたりてかれにいひけるは上りてヱブス人アラウナの禾場にてヱホバに壇を建よ
And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
19 ダビデ、ガデの言に隨ひヱホバの命じたまひしごとくのぼれり
So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
20 アラウナ觀望て王と其臣僕の己の方に進み來るを見アラウナ出て王のまへに地に伏て拝せり
When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
21 かくてアラウナいひけるは何に因てか王わが主僕の所にきませるやダビデひけるは汝より禾場を買ひとりヱホバに壇を築きて民に降る災をとどめんとてなり
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
22 アラウナ、ダビデにいひけるはねがはくは王わが主其目に善と見ゆるものを取て献げたまへ燔祭には牛あり薪には打禾車と牛の器ありと
Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
23 アラリナこれを悉く王に奉呈ぐアラウナ又王にねがはくは爾の神ヱホバ爾を受納たまはんことをといふ
O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
24 王アラウナにいひけるは斯すべからず我必ず値をはらひて爾より買とらん我費なしに燔祭をわが神ヱホバに献ぐることをせじとダビデ銀五十シケルにて禾場と牛を買とれり
“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 ダビデ其處にてヱホバに壇を築き燔祭と酬恩祭を献げたり是においてヱホバ其地のために祈祷を聽たまひて災のイスラエルに降ること止りぬ
And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
