士師記 20
1 是に於てイスラエルの子孫ダンよりベエルシバにいたりギレアデの地にいたるまで皆出きたり其會衆一人のごとくにしてミヅパに於てヱホバの前に集り
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.
2 衆民の長たる者すなはちイスラエルの諸の支派の長等みづから神の民の集會に出づ劍をぬくところの歩兵四十萬人ありき
The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
3 ベニヤミンの子孫はイスラエルの子孫がミヅパにのぼれることを聞り斯てイスラエルの子孫此惡事の樣を語れと言ければ
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”
4 彼殺されし婦の夫なるレビの人こたへていふ我わが妾とともにベニヤミンのギベアに宿らんとて往たるに
The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
5 ギベアの人起りたちて我をせめ夜の間に我がをる家をとりかこみて我を殺さんと企て遂にわが妾を辱しめてこれを死しめたれば
The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
6 我わが妾をとらへてこれをたちわり是をイスラエルの產業なる全地に遣れり是は彼らイスラエルにおいて淫事をなし愚なる事をなしたればなり
I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
7 汝等は皆イスラエルの子孫なり今汝らの意見と思考をのべよ
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
8 民みな一人のごとくに起ていひけるは我らは誰もおのれの天幕にゆかずまた誰もおのれの家におもむかじ
All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
9 我らがギベアになさんところの事は是なりすなはち鬮にしたがひて之を攻ん
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
10 我らイスラエルの諸の支派の中に於て百人より十人千人より百人萬人より千人を取りて民の糧食を執せ之をしてベニヤミンのギベアにいたり彼らがイスラエルにおこなひたるその愚なる事にしたがひて事をなさしむべしと
and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
11 斯イスラエルの人々皆あつまりて此邑を攻んとせしが其相結べること一人のごとくなりき
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
12 イスラエルの諸の支派遍く人をベニヤミンの支派の中に遣して言しめけるは汝らの中に此惡事のおこなはれしは何事ぞや
The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened amongst you?
13 然ばギベアにをるかの邪なる人々をわたせ我らこれを誅して惡をイスラエルに絶べしと然るにベニヤミンの子孫はその兄弟なるイスラエルの子孫の言を聽いれざりき
Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.” But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
14 却てベニヤミンの子孫は邑々よりギベアにあつまりて出てイスラエルの子孫と戰はんとす
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
15 その時邑々より出たるベニヤミンの子孫を數ふるに劍をぬく所の人二萬六千あり外にまたギベアの居民ありて之をかぞふるに精兵七百人ありき
The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men.
16 この諸の民の中に左手利の精兵七百人あり皆能く投石器をもて石を投るに毫末もたがふことなし
Amongst all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
17 イスラエルの人を數ふるにベニヤミンを除きて劍をぬくところの者四十萬人ありき是みな軍人なり
The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.
18 爰にイスラエルの子孫起あがりてベテルにのぼり神に問て我等の中孰か最初にのぼりてベニヤミンの子孫と戰ふべきやと言ふにヱホバ、ユダ最初にと言たまふ
The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” The LORD said, “Judah first.”
19 イスラエルの子孫すなはち朝おきてギベアにむかひて陣をとりけるが
The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
20 イスラエルの人々ベニヤミンと戰はんとて出でゆきイスラエルの人々行伍をたててギベアにて彼らと戰はんとしければ
The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
21 ベニヤミンの子孫ギベアより進みいで其日イスラエル人二萬二千を地に撃仆せり
The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
22 然るにイスラエルの民の人々みづから奮ひその初の日に行伍をたてし所にまた行伍をたてたり
The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
23 而してイスラエルの子孫上りゆきてヱホバの前に夕暮まで哭きヱホバに問て言ふ我復進みよりて吾兄弟なるベニヤミンの子孫とたたかふべきやとヱホバ彼に攻のぼれと言たまへり
The children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening; and they asked of the LORD, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” The LORD said, “Go up against him.”
24 是に於てイスラエルの子孫次の日またベニヤミンの子孫の所に攻よするに
The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
25 ベニヤミンまた次の日ギベアより進みて之にいであい再びイスラエルの子孫一萬八千人を地に撃仆せり是みな劍をぬくところの者なりき
Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.
26 斯在しかばイスラエルの子孫と民みな上りてベテルにいたりて哭き其處にてヱホバの前に坐りその日の夕暮まで食を斷ち燔祭と酬恩祭をヱホバの前に獻げ
Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
27 而してイスラエルの子孫ヱホバにとへり（その頃は神の契約の櫃彼處にありて
The children of Israel asked the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
28 アロンの子エレアザルの子なるピネハス當時これに事へたり）即ち言けるは我またも出てわが兄弟なるベニヤミンの子孫とたたかふべきや或は息べきやヱホバ言たまふ上れよ明日はわれ汝の手にかれらを付すべしと
and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” The LORD said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
29 イスラエル是に於てギベアの周圍に伏兵を置き
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
30 而してイスラエルの子孫三日目にまたベニヤミンの子孫の所に攻のぼり前のごとくにギベアにむかひて行伍をたてたれば
The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
31 ベニヤミンの子孫民に出あひしが遂に邑より誘出されたり彼等始は民を撃ち大路にて前のごとくイスラエルの人三十人許を殺せりその大路は一筋はベテルにいたり一筋は野のギベアに至る
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
32 ベニヤミンの子孫すなはち言ふ彼らは初のごとく我らに撃破らると然るにイスラエルの人は云ふ我等逃て彼らを邑より大路に誘き出さんと
The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”
33 イスラエルの人々みなその所を起て去りバアルタマルに行伍をたてたり而して伏兵その處より即ちギベアの野原より起れり
All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
34 イスラエルの全軍の中より選拔たる兵一萬來りてギベアを襲ひ其戰鬪はげしかりしがベニヤミン人は葘害の己にのぞむを知ざりき
Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.
35 ヱホバ、イスラエルのまへにベニヤミンを撃敗りたまひしかばイスラエルの子孫その日ベニヤミン人二萬五千一百人を殺せり是みな劍をぬくところの者なり
The LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand and one hundred men. All these drew the sword.
36 ベニヤミンの子孫すなはち己の撃敗らるるを見たり偖イスラエルの人々そのギベアにむかひて設たる所の伏兵を恃てベニヤミン人を避て退きけるが
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
37 伏兵急ぎてギベアに突いり伏兵進みて刃をもて邑を盡く撃り
The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
38 イスラエルの人々とその伏兵との間に定めたる合圖は邑より大なる黑烟をあげんとの事なりき
Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
39 イスラエルの人々戰陣より引き退ぞくベニヤミン初が程はイスラエルの人々を撃ちて三千人許を殺し乃ち言ふ彼等はまことに最初の戰のごとく我等に撃やぶらると
The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”
40 然るに火焔烟の柱なして邑より上りはじめしかばベニヤミン人後を見かへりしに邑は皆烟となりて空にのぼる
But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.
41 時にイスラエルの人々ふりかへりしかばベニヤミンの人々葘害のおのれに迫るを見て狼狽へ
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
42 イスラエルの人々の前より身をめぐらして野の途におもむきけるが戰鬪これに追せまりて遂にその邑々よりいでたる者どもその中に戰死す
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.
43 イスラエルの人すなはちベニヤミン人をとりまきて之を追うち容易くこれを踏たふして東の方ギベアの對面にまでおよべり
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah towards the sunrise.
44 ベニヤミンの仆るる者一萬八千人是みな勇士なり
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valour.
45 茲に彼等身をめぐらして野の方ににげリンモンの磐にいたれりイスラエルの人大路にて彼等五千人を伐とり尚もこれを追うちてギドムにいたりその二千人を殺せり
They turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.
46 是をもて其日ベニヤミンの仆れし者は劍をぬくところの人あはせて二萬五千なりき是みな勇士なり
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valour.
47 但六百人の者身をめぐらして野の方にのがれリンモンの磐にいたりて四月があひだリンモンの磐にをる
But six hundred men turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
48 是に於てイスラエルの人々また身をかへしてベニヤミンの子孫をせめ刃をもて邑の人より畜にいたるまで凡て目にあたる者を撃ち亦その至るところの邑々に火をかけたり
The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.
