サムエル記Ⅱ 4
Japanese Living Bible
イシュ・ボシェテ暗殺
4 サウルの子イシュ・ボシェテは、アブネルがヘブロンで殺されたと聞くと、恐れのあまり気力を失い、彼の兵士もみな動揺しました。 2-3 これに乗じてイスラエル軍の指揮をとったのは略奪隊を率いていたバアナとレカブの兄弟で、二人はベニヤミンのベエロテ出身のリモンの子でした。ベエロテの人々は、以前ギタイムに逃げて今もそこに住んでいますが、なおベニヤミン人とみなされていたのです。
4 さて、亡きサウル王には、メフィボシェテという孫がいました。ヨナタンの息子で、足の不自由な子でした。サウルとヨナタンがイズレエルの戦いで倒れた時、彼は五歳でした。悲報が都にもたらされた際、乳母が彼を抱いて、あわてて逃げるうちにつまずいて倒れ、その子を落としてしまい、そのために彼は足が不自由になったのです。
5 レカブとバアナはある昼下がり、イシュ・ボシェテの家を訪れました。王はちょうど昼寝の最中でした。 6-7 二人は小麦の袋を取りに行くふりをして台所に近づき、こっそり王の寝室に忍び込んで、そこで王を殺し、首をはねました。彼らはその首をかかえて、一晩中、荒野をひた走りに走って、 8 ついにヘブロンにたどり着き、ダビデに差し出したのです。「よくごらんください。あなたのおいのちをねらっていた敵、サウルの子イシュ・ボシェテの首です。今日、主はわが王のために、サウルとその全家族に復讐してくださったのです。」
9 しかし、ダビデは答えました。「私をあらゆる敵から救い出してくださった神に誓って言う。 10 前にも、私が喜ぶに違いないと思って、『サウルが死んだ』と告げに来た者がいたが、私はその者を手討ちにした。それが、その者の言う『吉報』とやらに報いる答えだった。 11 まして、あの何の罪もない人を、家の中で、しかも寝床で殺すような不届き者を放ってはおけない。二人とも無事に帰れるとでも思っているのか。」
12 ダビデは側近の若者たちに、二人を殺すよう命じました。その死体は手足を切り離され、ヘブロンの池のほとりで木につるされました。しかしイシュ・ボシェテの首は、ヘブロンにあるアブネルの墓に運ばれ、埋葬されました。
2 Samuel 4
English Standard Version Anglicised
Ish-bosheth Murdered
4 When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, (A)his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed. 2 Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth ((B)for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin; 3 (C)the Beerothites fled (D)to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).
4 (E)Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan (F)came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest. 6 And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him (G)in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.[a] 7 When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of (H)the Arabah all night, 8 and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, (I)who sought your life. The Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.” 9 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, (J)“As the Lord lives, (K)who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, 10 (L)when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead’, and thought he was bringing good news, (M)I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now (N)require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?” 12 And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it (O)in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 4:6 Septuagint And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept. So Rechab and Baanah his brother slipped in
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