¹When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

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。

²Saul’s son had two men who were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin:

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。

³and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).

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）。

⁴Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

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。

⁵The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

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。

⁶They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

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。

⁷Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

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、

⁸They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.”

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」。

⁹David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

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。

¹⁰when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

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。

¹¹How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?”

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」。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。

¹²David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

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。