サムエル記講話(上卷)

18章
「主が共にいたダビデ」
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新共同 Tサム18:1-30

18:1 ダビデがサウルと話し終えたとき、ヨナタンの魂はダビデの魂に結びつき、ヨナタンは自分自身のようにダビデを愛した。

18:2 サウルはその日、ダビデを召し抱え、父の家に帰ることを許さなかった。

18:3 ヨナタンはダビデを自分自身のように愛し、彼と契約を結び、

18:4 着ていた上着を脱いで与え、また自分の装束を剣、弓、帯に至るまで与えた。

18:5 ダビデは、サウルが派遣するたびに出陣して勝利を収めた。サウルは彼を戦士の長に任命した。このことは、すべての兵士にも、サウルの家臣にも喜ばれた。

18:6 皆が戻り、あのペリシテ人を討ったダビデも帰って来ると、イスラエルのあらゆる町から女たちが出て来て、太鼓を打ち、喜びの声をあげ、三絃琴を奏で、歌い踊りながらサウル王を迎えた。

18:7 女たちは楽を奏し、歌い交わした。「サウルは千を討ち/ダビデは万を討った。」

18:8 サウルはこれを聞いて激怒し、悔しがって言った。「ダビデには万、わたしには千。あとは、王位を与えるだけか。」

18:9 この日以来、サウルはダビデをねたみの目で見るようになった。

18:10 次の日、神からの悪霊が激しくサウルに降り、家の中で彼をものに取りつかれた状態に陥れた。ダビデは傍らでいつものように竪琴を奏でていた。サウルは、槍を手にしていたが、

18:11 ダビデを壁に突き刺そうとして、その槍を振りかざした。ダビデは二度とも、身をかわした。

18:12 主はダビデと共におられ、サウルを離れ去られたので、サウルはダビデを恐れ、

18:13 ダビデを遠ざけ、千人隊の長に任命した。ダビデは兵士の先頭に立って出陣し、また帰還した。

18:14 主は彼と共におられ、彼はどの戦いにおいても勝利を収めた。

18:15 サウルは、ダビデが勝利を収めるのを見て、彼を恐れた。

18:16 イスラエルもユダも、すべての人がダビデを愛した。彼が出陣するにも帰還するにも彼らの先頭に立ったからである。

18:17 サウルはダビデに言った。「わたしの長女メラブを、お前の妻として与えよう。わたしの戦士となり、主の戦いをたたかってくれ。」サウルは自分でダビデに手を下すことなく、ペリシテ人の手で殺そうと考えていた。

18:18 ダビデはサウルに言った。「わたしなど何者でしょう。わたしの一族、わたしの父の一族などイスラエルで何者でしょう。わたしが王の婿になるとは。」

18:19 ところが、サウルの娘メラブはダビデに嫁ぐべきときに、メホラ人アドリエルに嫁がせられた。

18:20 サウルの娘ミカルはダビデを愛していた。それをサウルに告げる者があり、サウルは好都合だと思った。

18:21 サウルは、「彼女を与えてダビデを罠にかけ、ペリシテ人の手にかけよう」と考え、ダビデに言った。「二番目の娘を嫁にし、その日わたしの婿になりなさい。」

18:22 サウルは家臣に命じた。「ダビデにひそかにこう言え。『王はあなたが気に入っておられるし、家臣たちも皆、あなたを愛しているのだから、王の婿になってください。』」

18:23 サウルの家臣はこれらの言葉をダビデの耳に入れた。ダビデは言った。「王の婿になることが、あなたたちの目には容易なことと見えるのですか。わたしは貧しく、身分も低い者です。」

18:24 サウルの家臣は、ダビデの言ったことをサウルに報告した。

18:25 サウルは言った。「では、ダビデにこう言ってくれ。『王は結納金など望んではおられない。王の望みは王の敵への報復のしるし、ペリシテ人の陽皮百枚なのだ』と。」サウルはペリシテ人の手でダビデを倒そうと考えていた。

18:26 家臣はダビデにこのことを告げた。ダビデはこうして王の婿になることは良いことだと思い、何日もたたないうちに、

18:27 自分の兵を従えて出立し、二百人のペリシテ人を討ち取り、その陽皮を持ち帰った。王に対し、婿となる条件である陽皮の数が確かめられたので、サウルは娘のミカルを彼に妻として与えなければならなかった。

18:28 サウルは、主がダビデと共におられること、娘ミカルがダビデを愛していることを思い知らされて、

18:29 ダビデをいっそう恐れ、生涯ダビデに対して敵意を抱いた。

18:30 ペリシテの将軍たちが出撃して来ると、ダビデはそのたびにサウルの家臣のだれよりも武勲を立て、名声を得た。


TEV Tサム18:1-30

18:1 Saul and David finished their conversation. After that, Saul's son Jonathan was deeply attracted to David and came to love him as much as he loved himself.

18:2 Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him go back home.

18:3 Jonathan swore eternal friendship with David because of his deep affection for him.

18:4 He took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, together with his armor and also his sword, bow, and belt.

18:5 David was successful in all the missions on which Saul sent him, and so Saul made him an officer in his army. This pleased all of Saul's officers and men.

18:6 As David was returning after killing Goliath and as the soldiers were coming back home, women from every town in Israel came out to meet King Saul. They were singing joyful songs, dancing, and playing tambourines and lyres.

18:7 In their celebration the women sang, "Saul has killed thousands, but David tens of thousands."

18:8 Saul did not like this, and he became very angry. He said, "For David they claim tens of thousands, but only thousands for me. They will be making him king next!"

18:9 And so he was jealous and suspicious of David from that day on.

18:10 The next day an evil spirit from God suddenly took control of Saul, and he raved in his house like a madman. David was playing the harp, as he did every day, and Saul was holding a spear.

18:11 "I'll pin him to the wall," Saul said to himself, and he threw the spear at him twice; but David dodged each time.

18:12 Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with David but had abandoned him.

18:13 So Saul sent him away and put him in command of a thousand men. David led his men in battle

18:14 and was successful in all he did, because the Lord was with him.

18:15 Saul noticed David's success and became even more afraid of him.

18:16 But everyone in Israel and Judah loved David because he was such a successful leader.

18:17 Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife on condition that you serve me as a brave and loyal soldier, and fight the Lord's battles." (Saul was thinking that in this way the Philistines would kill David, and he would not have to do it himself.)

18:18 David answered, "Who am I and what is my family that I should become the king's son-in-law?"

18:19 But when the time came for Merab to be given to David, she was given instead to a man named Adriel from Meholah.

18:20 Saul's daughter Michal, however, fell in love with David, and when Saul heard of this, he was pleased.

18:21 He said to himself, "I'll give Michal to David; I will use her to trap him, and he will be killed by the Philistines." So for the second time Saul said to David, "You will be my son-in-law."

18:22 He ordered his officials to speak privately with David and tell him, "The king is pleased with you and all his officials like you; now is a good time for you to marry his daughter."

18:23 So they told this to David, and he answered, "It's a great honor to become the king's son-in-law, too great for someone poor and insignificant like me."

18:24 The officials told Saul what David had said,

18:25 and Saul ordered them to tell David: "All the king wants from you as payment for the bride are the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies." (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.)

18:26 Saul's officials reported to David what Saul had said, and David was delighted with the thought of becoming the king's son-in-law. Before the day set for the wedding,

18:27 David and his men went and killed two hundred Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him, so that he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.

18:28 Saul realized clearly that the Lord was with David and also that his daughter Michal loved him.

18:29 So he became even more afraid of David and was his enemy as long as he lived.

18:30 The Philistine armies would come and fight, but in every battle David was more successful than any of Saul's other officers. As a result David became very famous.