¹さてペリシテびとはイスラエルと戦った。イスラエルの人々はペリシテびとの前から逃げ、多くの者は傷ついてギルボア山にたおれた。

¹Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

²ペリシテびとはサウルとその子らに攻め寄り、そしてペリシテびとはサウルの子ヨナタン、アビナダブ、およびマルキシュアを殺した。

²The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

³戦いは激しくサウルに迫り、弓を射る者どもがサウルを見つけて、彼を射たので、サウルは射る者たちにひどい傷を負わされた。

³The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

⁴そこでサウルはその武器を執る者に言った、「つるぎを抜き、それをもってわたしを刺せ。さもないと、これらの無割礼の者どもがきて、わたしを刺し、わたしをなぶり殺しにするであろう」。しかしその武器を執る者は、ひじょうに恐れて、それに応じなかったので、サウルは、つるぎを執って、その上に伏した。

⁴Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

⁵武器を執る者はサウルが死んだのを見て、自分もまたつるぎの上に伏して、彼と共に死んだ。

⁵When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

⁶こうしてサウルとその三人の子たち、およびサウルの武器を執る者、ならびにその従者たちは皆、この日共に死んだ。

⁶So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

⁷イスラエルの人々で、谷の向こう側、およびヨルダンの向こう側にいる者が、イスラエルの人々の逃げるのを見、またサウルとその子たちの死んだのを見て町々を捨てて逃げたので、ペリシテびとはきてその中に住んだ。

⁷When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

⁸あくる日、ペリシテびとは殺された者から、はぎ取るためにきたが、サウルとその三人の子たちがギルボア山にたおれているのを見つけた。

⁸It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

⁹彼らはサウルの首を切り、そのよろいをはぎ取り、ペリシテびとの全地に人をつかわして、この良い知らせを、その偶像と民とに伝えさせた。

⁹They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.

¹⁰また彼らは、そのよろいをアシタロテの神殿に置き、彼のからだをベテシャンの城壁にくぎづけにした。

¹⁰They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

¹¹ヤベシ・ギレアデの住民たちは、ペリシテびとがサウルにした事を聞いて、

¹¹When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,

¹²勇士たちはみな立ち、夜もすがら行って、サウルのからだと、その子たちのからだをベテシャンの城壁から取りおろし、ヤベシにきて、これをそこで焼き、その骨を取って、ヤベシのぎょりゅうの木の下に葬り、七日の間、断食した。

¹²all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

¹³その骨を取って、ヤベシのぎょりゅうの木の下に葬り、七日の間、断食した。

¹³They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.