サムエル記Ⅱ 4
1 サウルの子イシボセテは、アブネルがヘブロンで死んだことを聞いて、その力を失い、イスラエルは皆あわてた。
When Ishbosheth, son of Saul, heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he was very discouraged, and everyone in Israel was shocked.
2 サウルの子イシボセテにはふたりの略奪隊の隊長があった。ひとりの名はバアナ、他のひとりの名はレカブといって、ベニヤミンの子孫であるベロテびとリンモンの子たちであった。（それはベロテもまたベニヤミンのうちに数えられているからである。
Ishbosheth had two commanders of his raiding bands, brothers by the name of Baanah and Rechab. They were the sons of Rimmon of the tribe of Benjamin from the town of Beeroth. Beeroth is considered part of the territory of Benjamin,
3 ベロテびとはギッタイムに逃げていって、今日までその所に寄留している）。
because the people who had lived in Beeroth before ran away to Gittaim and lived there as foreigners right up to the present.
4 さてサウルの子ヨナタンに足のなえた子がひとりあった。エズレルからサウルとヨナタンの事の知らせがきた時、彼は五歳であった。うばが彼を抱いて逃げたが、急いで逃げる時、その子は落ちて足なえとなった。その名はメピボセテといった。
Jonathan, son of Saul, had a son lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about the deaths of Saul and Jonathan had come from Jezreel. His nurse had picked him up and ran away, but as she rushed to get away, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
5 ベロテびとリンモンの子たち、レカブとバアナとは出立して、日の暑いころイシボセテの家にきたが、イシボセテは昼寝をしていた。
Rechab and Baanah, sons of Rimmon from Beeroth, went to Ishbosheth's house, arriving in the heat of the day as the king was taking his midday rest.
6 家の門を守る女は麦をあおぎ分けていたが、眠くなって寝てしまった。そこでレカブとその兄弟バアナは、ひそかに中にはいった。
The woman doorkeeper had been cleaning wheat, but she had grown tired and fallen asleep, so Rechab and Baanah were able to slip inside.
7 彼らが家にはいった時、イシボセテは寝室で床の上に寝ていたので、彼らはそれを撃って殺し、その首をはね、その首を取って、よもすがらアラバの道を行き、
They had gone into the house while Ishbosheth was asleep on his bed in his bedroom. After stabbing and killing him, they cut off his head which they took with them, and they traveled all night by the Jordan Valley road.
8 イシボセテの首をヘブロンにいるダビデのもとに携えて行って王に言った、「あなたの命を求めたあなたの敵サウルの子イシボセテの首です。主はきょう、わが君、王のためにサウルとそのすえとに報復されました」。
They took the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron. They told the king, “Here is the head of Ishbosheth, son of Saul, your enemy who tried to kill you. Today the Lord has taken revenge on Saul and his family for my lord the king.”
9 ダビデはベロテびとリンモンの子レカブとその兄弟バアナに答えた、「わたしの命を、もろもろの苦難から救われた主は生きておられる。
But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon from Beeroth, “As the Lord lives, who has saved me from all my troubles,
10 わたしはかつて、人がわたしに告げて、『見よ、サウルは死んだ』と言って、みずから良いおとずれを伝える者と思っていた者を捕えてチクラグで殺し、そのおとずれに報いたのだ。
when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead’ and he thought he was bringing me good news, I grabbed him and had him put him to death at Ziklag. That was what he got for bringing me his news!
11 悪人が正しい人をその家の床の上で殺したときは、なおさらのことだ。今わたしが、彼の血を流した罪を報い、あなたがたを、この地から絶ち滅ぼさないでおくであろうか」。
Even more so then, when evil men kill a good man in his own house, and in his own bed, shouldn't I demand you pay for his life with your own lives, and exterminate you!”
12 そしてダビデは若者たちに命じたので、若者たちは彼らを殺し、その手足を切り離し、ヘブロンの池のほとりで木に掛けた。人々はイシボセテの首を持って行って、ヘブロンにあるアブネルの墓に葬った。
David gave the order to his men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They chopped off their hands and feet, and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron. Then they took Ishbosheth's head and buried it in Abner's grave in Hebron.
