作者：神与人
Chapter 1
1 After the death of Saul, David returned from his defeat of the Amalekites and spent two days in Ziklag.
撒乌耳死后，达味击杀阿玛肋克人回来，在漆刻拉格住了两天。
2 On the third day a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. Going to David, he fell to the ground in homage.
第三天，有个人从撒乌耳营中跑来，衣服撕烂，满头灰尘，来到达味前，伏地叩拜。
3 David asked him,＂Where do you come from?＂ He replied,＂I have escaped from the Israelite camp.＂
达味问他说：＂你从那里来？＂他答说：＂我从以色列营中逃命而来。＂
4 ＂Tell me what happened,＂ David bade him. He answered that the soldiers had fled the battle and that many of them had fallen and were dead, among them Saul and his son Jonathan.
达味又问他说：＂战事怎样？请告诉我！＂他答说：＂军民从战场上逃跑了，许多人阵亡，撒乌耳和他的儿子约纳堂也死了。＂
5 Then David said to the youth who was reporting to him,＂How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?＂
达味问那报信的少年人说：＂你怎么知道撒乌耳和他儿子约纳堂死了呢？＂
6 The youthful informant replied:＂It was by chance that I found myself on Mount Gilboa and saw Saul leaning on his spear, with chariots and horsemen closing in on him.
那报信的少年人答说：＂我无意中来到基耳波亚山上，看见撒乌耳伏在自己的枪上，战车和骑兵都快要迫近他。
7 He turned around and, seeing me, called me to him. When I said, ‘Here I am,'
他转身见了我，就招呼我。我答说：我在这里。
8 he asked me,‘'Who are you?' and I replied, ‘An Amalekite.'
他问我说：你是谁？我答说：我是阿玛肋克人。
9 Then he said to me, ‘Stand up to me, please, and finish me off, for I am in great suffering, yet fully alive.'
他向我说：＂来我身边，杀了我罢！我现在虽还完全活着，但十分晕眩。
10 So I stood up to him and dispatched him, for I knew that he could not survive his wound. I removed the crown from his head and the armlet from his arm and brought them here to my lord.＂
我就来到他身边，明知他倒下后，决不能生存，便杀了他；取下他头上的王冠，腕上的手镯，带到这里来奉献给我主。＂
11 David seized his garments and rent them, and all the men who were with him did likewise.
达味就抓住自己的衣服撕破了；同他在一起的人也照样作了。
12 They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the soldiers of the LORD of the clans of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
大家为撒乌耳和他的儿子约纳堂，以及上主的百姓和以色列的家族，举哀痛哭，禁食直到晚上，哀悼他们丧身刀下。
13 Then David said to the young man who had brought him the information,＂Where are you from?＂ He replied,＂I am the son of an Amalekite immigrant.＂
达味又问那报信的少年说：＂你是那里的？＂他答说：＂我是阿玛肋克侨民的儿子。＂
14 David said to him,＂How is it that you were not afraid to put forth your hand to desecrate the LORD'S anointed?＂
达味向他说：＂怎么你不怕伸手杀害上主的受傅者？＂
15 David then called one of the attendants and said to him,＂Come, strike him down＂; and the youth struck him a mortal blow.
达味遂叫一个少年人来，向他说：＂前来，杀了他！＂少年把他一刀砍死了。
16 Meanwhile David said to him,＂You are responsible for your own death, for you testified against yourself when you said, ‘I dispatched the LORD'S anointed.'＂
同时达味对他说：＂你的血应归在你头上，因为你亲口作供说：我杀死了上主的受傅者。＂
17 Then David chanted this elegy for Saul and his son Jonathan,
事后，达味作了这首哀歌，追悼撒乌耳和他的儿子约纳堂，
18 which is recorded in the Book of Jashar to be taught to the Judahites. He sang:
命令犹大子弟学习这首哀歌，这歌载在＂壮士书＂上：＂
19 ＂Alas! the glory of Israel, Saul, slain upon your heights; how can the warriors have fallen!
以色列的荣华，倒在你的高冈上；英雄怎会阵亡？
20 ＂Tell it not in Gath, herald it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Lest the Philistine maidens rejoice, lest the daughters of the strangers exult!
不要在加特报告，不要在阿市刻隆街市宣扬，免得培肋舍特的女子欢乐，免得未受割损者的女郎雀跃！
21 1 Mountains of Gilboa, may there be neither dew nor rain upon you, nor upsurgings of the deeps! Upon you lie begrimed the warriors' shields, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
基耳波亚山，不祥的山野！在你那里露不再降，雨不再下！因为英雄的盾牌，受了亵渎，撒乌耳的盾牌，那傅油者的武器。
22 ＂From the blood of the slain, from the bodies of the valiant, The bow of Jonathan did not turn back, or the sword of Saul return unstained.
对伤者的血，英雄的脂油，约纳堂的弓总不后转，撒乌耳的剑决不空还。
23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and cherished, separated neither in life nor in death, swifter than eagles, stronger than lions!
撒乌耳与约纳堂，相亲相爱，生相聚，死不离，神速过鹰，勇猛胜狮。
24 Women of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and in finery, who decked your attire with ornaments of gold.
以色列女郎！应痛悼撒乌耳，他给你们披上了愉快的紫衣，在你们衣服上点缀了金饰。
25 ＂How can the warriors have fallen-- in the thick of the battle, slain upon your heights!
英雄怎会在战斗中阵亡！哎，约纳堂！对你的死，我极度哀痛！
26 ＂I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother! most dear have you been to me; More precious have I held love for you than love for women.
我的兄弟约纳堂，我为你万分悲伤！你爱我之情，何等甜蜜！你对我的爱，胜于妇女之爱。
27 ＂How can the warriors have fallen, the weapons of war have perished!＂
英雄怎会阵亡！战争的武器怎会丧亡！＂
Footnotes(注解)
1 [21] Upsurgings of the deeps: this reading attempts to recover from an unintelligible Hebrew phrase the poetic parallel to dew and rain. The sense would be a wish that the mountain should have neither moisture from above nor water from springs or wells.
Chapter 2
1 After this David inquired of the LORD, ＂Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?＂ The LORD replied to him, ＂Yes.＂ Then David asked, ＂Where shall I go?＂ He replied, ＂To Hebron.＂
这事以后，达味求问上主说：＂我是否可以上犹大的一座城中去？＂上主对他说：＂可以。＂达味又问说：＂我上何处去？＂答说：＂往赫贝龙去。
2 So David went up there accompanied by his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel. ＂
于是达味带着他两个妻子：依次勒耳人阿希诺罕和作过加尔默耳人纳巴耳妻子的阿彼盖耳，上那里去了。
3 David also brought up his men with their families, and they dwelt in the cities near Hebron.
凡跟随达味的人，他也叫他们各带家眷一起上去，住在赫贝龙城各区内。
4 Then the men of Judah came there and anointed David king of the Judahites.A report reached David that the men of Jabesh-gilead had buried Saul.
以后，犹大人来，在那里给达味傅油，立他作犹大家族的君王。有人告诉达味，基肋阿得雅贝士人埋葬了撒乌耳。
5 So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them: ＂May you be blessed by the LORD for having done this kindness to your lord Saul in burying him.
达味就派遣使者到基肋阿得雅贝士人那里，向他们说：＂愿上主祝福你们！因为你们对你们的主上撒乌耳行了这件善事，将他埋葬了。
6 And now may the LORD be kind and faithful to you. I, too, will be generous to you for having done this.
愿上主对你们显示他的慈爱和忠信！因为你们作了这事，我也要恩待你们。
7 Take courage, therefore, and prove yourselves valiant men, for though your lord Saul is dead, the Judahites have anointed me their king.＂
现在你们要加强自己的力量，作勇敢的人，因为你们的主上撒乌耳已经阵亡，但犹大家族已给我傅油，立我做了他们的君王。＂
8 Abner, son of Ner, Saul's general, took Ishbaal, son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim,
那时，撒乌耳的军长，乃尔的儿子阿贝乃尔，已带领撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳过河，到了玛哈纳殷，
9 where he made him king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and the rest of Israel.
立他为基肋阿得、革叔尔、依次勒耳、厄弗辣因、本雅明，全以色列的君王。
10 Ishbaal, son of Saul, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The Judahites alone followed David.
撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳为以色列王时，已四十岁，为王两年。此时随从达味的，只有犹大家族。
11 In all, David spent seven years and six months in Hebron as king of the Judahites.
达味在赫贝龙作犹大家族君王的年数，共七年零六个月。
12 Now Abner, son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbaal, Saul's son, left Mahanaim for Gibeon.
乃尔的儿子阿贝乃尔和撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳的臣仆，从玛哈纳殷来到基贝红。
13 Joab, son of Zeruiah, and David's servants also set out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, one group on one side of the pool and the other on the opposite side.
责鲁雅的儿子约阿布和达味的臣仆，也从赫贝龙出发，彼此在基贝红池旁相遇，双方就都停下，各立在水池一边。
14 Then Abner said to Joab, ＂Let the young men rise and perform for us.＂ Joab replied, ＂All right!＂
阿贝乃尔对约阿布说：＂让青年人出来，在我们面前比比武！＂约阿布答说：＂好，叫他们出来！＂
15 So they rose and were counted off: twelve of the Benjaminites of Ishbaal, son of Saul, and twelve of David's servants.
他们就出来，点了人数，十二个本雅明人在撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳一面，由达味仆从中，也出来十二个人。
16 1 Then each one grasped his opponent's head and thrust his sword into his opponent's side, and all fell down together. And so that place, which is in Gideon, was named the Field of the Sides.
每人抓住对方的头，用刀猛刺对方的腰，双方都同时倒下；因此那地方叫作匝得平原，离基贝红不远。
17 After a very fierce battle that day, Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by David's servants.
那天也发生了很激烈的战斗，阿贝乃尔和以色列人，竟为达味的臣仆打败。
18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there-Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel, who was as fleet of foot as a gazelle in the open field,
责鲁雅的三个儿子约阿布、阿彼瑟与阿撒耳，那时都在场，阿撒耳的腿快捷像野羚羊。
19 set out after Abner, turning neither right nor left in his pursuit.
阿撒耳便去追赶阿贝乃尔，不左不右，直追阿贝乃尔。
20 Abner turned around and said, ＂Is that you, Asahel?＂ He replied, ＂Yes.＂
阿贝乃尔转过身来问说：＂你是阿撒耳吗？＂他答说：＂我是。＂
21 Abner said to him, ＂Turn right or left; seize one of the young men and take what you can strip from him.＂ But Asahel would not desist from his pursuit.
阿贝乃尔对他说：＂你转左或转右，捉住一个青年，夺取他的装备罢！＂但阿撒耳却不肯放松他。
22 Once more Abner said to Asahel: ＂Stop pursuing me! Why must I strike you to the ground? How could I face your brother Joab?＂
阿贝乃尔就再对阿撒耳说：＂你不要再追赶我了，为什么逼我将你击倒在地，叫我日后怎有脸再见你的兄弟约阿布？
23 Still he refused to stop. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the heel of his javelin, and the weapon protruded from his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, came to a halt.
阿撒耳仍不肯罢休。阿贝乃尔就调过枪来，击中了他的腹部，枪由背后穿出，他就倒在那里，当下死了。凡来到阿撒耳倒毙的地方的人，都站住了。
24 Joab and Abishai, however, continued the pursuit of Abner. The sun had gone down when they came to the hill of Ammah which lies east of the valley toward the desert near Geba.
约阿布和阿彼瑟仍在追赶阿贝乃尔，当他们来到往革巴旷野去的路上，基亚前的阿玛山岗时，太阳就快要西落。
25 Here the Benjaminites rallied around Abner, forming a single group, and made a stand on the hilltop.
本雅明人集结成队，跟在阿贝乃尔后边，站在一座小山头上。
26 Then Abner called to Joab and said: ＂Must the sword destroy to the utmost? Do you not know that afterward there will be bitterness? How much longer will you refrain from ordering the people to stop the pursuit of their brothers?＂
阿贝乃尔向约阿布喊说：＂刀剑岂能永远击杀？你岂不知结局更为不幸？几时你才命众人转身，不再追赶自己的兄弟？＂
27 Joab replied, ＂As God lives, if you had not spoken, the soldiers would not have been withdrawn from the pursuit of their brothers until morning.＂
约阿布答说：＂上主永在！若你不发言，众人直到早晨，连一个也不会停止追赶自己的兄弟！＂
28 Joab then sounded the horn, and all the soldiers came to a halt, pursuing Israel no farther and fighting no more.
约阿布遂吹号，众人就停下，不再追赶以色列人，不再进攻。
29 Abner and his men marched all night long through the Arabah, crossed the Jordan, marched all through the morning, and came to Mahanaim.
阿贝乃尔同他的人，那一整夜走过了阿辣巴平原，过了约但河，以后，又走了一上午，终于到了玛哈纳殷。
30 Joab, after interrupting the pursuit of Abner, assembled all the men. Besides Asahel, nineteen other servants of David were missing.
约阿布追赶阿贝乃尔回来，召集了自己的人，达味仆人中，除阿撒耳外，少了十九人。
31 But David's servants had fatally wounded three hundred and sixty men of Benjamin, followers of Abner.
但阿贝乃尔所带的本雅明人中，有三百六十人，为达味的臣仆杀死。
32 They took up Asahel and buried him in his father's tomb in Bethlehem. Joab and his men made an all-night march, and dawn found them in Hebron.
人遂将阿撒耳的尸体带回，埋在白冷他父亲的坟墓内。约阿布同他的人走了一夜，天亮时已到赫贝龙。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [16] The nature of this gruesome game is not clear, and the place name is variously given in the older texts.
Chapter 3
1 There followed a long war between the house of Saul and that of David, in which David grew stronger, but the house of Saul weaker.
撒乌耳家与达味家间的战争相持很久；但达味家逐渐强盛，撒乌耳家却日趋衰弱。
2 Sons were born to David in Hebron: his first-born, Amnon, of Ahinoam from Jezreel;
达味在赫贝龙生的儿子：长子阿默农，是依次勒耳人阿希诺罕所生；
3 the second, Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third, Absalom, son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;
次子基肋阿布，是曾作加尔默耳人纳巴耳妻子的阿彼盖耳所生；
4 the fourth, Adonijah, son of Haggith; the fifth, Shephatiah, son of Abital;
四子阿多尼雅，是哈基特所生；五子舍法提雅，是阿彼塔耳所生；
5 and the sixth, Ithream, of David's wife Eglah. These were born to David in Hebron.
六子依特兰，是达味妻子厄革拉所生：以上是达味在赫贝龙所生的儿子。
6 During the war between the house of Saul and that of David, Abner was gaining power in the house of Saul.
撒乌耳家同达味家战争期间，阿贝乃尔获得操纵撒乌耳家的权柄。
7 Now Saul had had a concubine, Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbaal, son of Saul, said to Abner, ＂Why have you been intimate with my father's concubine?＂
撒乌耳有一妾名叫黎兹帕，是阿雅的女儿，阿贝乃尔娶了她；依市巴耳对阿贝乃尔说：＂你为什么亲近我父亲的妾？＂
8 Enraged at the words of Ishbaal, Abner said, ＂Am I a dog's head in Judah? At present I am doing a kindness to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers and his friends, by keeping you out of David's clutches; yet this day you charge me with a crime involving a woman!
为了依市巴耳这句话，阿贝乃尔勃然大怒说：＂莫非我是犹大的狗头？直到今天我怜恤你父亲撒乌耳，和他的兄弟以及他的朋友，没有使你落在达味手里；你今天竟为了一个女人挑我的错！
9 May God do thus and so to Abner if I do not carry out for David what the LORD swore to him—
若我今后不依照上主对达味所誓许的去行：
10 that is, take away the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah from Dan to Beersheba.＂
废除撒乌耳家的王位，建立达味的宝座，使他由丹直到贝尔舍巴，统治全以色列和犹大，愿天主如此，并加倍地惩罚我！＂
11 In his fear of Abner, Ishbaal was no longer able to say a word to him.
依市巴耳因为怕阿贝乃尔，连一句话也不敢回答。
12 Then Abner sent messengers to David in Telam, where he was at the moment, to say, ＂Make an agreement with me, and I will aid you by bringing all Israel over to you.＂
阿贝乃尔立即派使者到赫贝龙见达味说：＂这地是谁的？＂是说：＂只要你与我订立盟约，我必伸手援助你，使全以色列都归顺你。＂
13 He replied, ＂Very well, I will make an agreement with you. But one thing I require of you. You must not appear before me unless you bring back Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to present yourself to me.＂
达味答说：＂好！我愿与你订立盟约，但是，我要求你一个条件：就是你来见我时，若不把撒乌耳的女儿米加耳带来，你休想见我。＂
14 At the same time David sent messengers to Ishbaal, son of Saul, to say, ＂Give me my wife Michal, whom I espoused by paying a hundred Philistine foreskins.＂
随后，达味就派使者到撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳那里说：＂请把我的妻米加耳归还给我，她是我以一百培肋特舍人的包皮聘定的。＂
15 Ishbaal sent for her and took her away from her husband Paltiel, son of Laish,
依市巴耳就派人，从拉依士的儿子帕耳提耳，她丈夫那里把她带来。
16 who followed her weeping as far as Bahurim. But Abner said to him, ＂Go back!＂ And he turned back.
她的丈夫与她同行，一边走一边哭，送她到了巴胡凌。阿贝乃尔向他说：＂你回去罢！＂他就回去了。
17 Abner then said in discussion with the elders of Israel: ＂For a long time you have been seeking David as your king.
阿贝乃尔同以色列的长老商议说：＂你们早已渴望达味作你们的君王。
18 Now take action, for the LORD has said of David, ‘By my servant David I will save my people Israel from the grasp of the Philistines and from the grasp of all their enemies.'＂
现在你们就进行罢！因为上主曾论及达味说：我要藉我的仆人达味，从培肋舍特人及一切仇敌手中，拯救我的百姓以色列。＂
19 Abner also spoke personally to Benjamin, and then went to make his own report to David in Hebron concerning all that would be agreeable to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.
阿贝乃尔也游说了本雅明人；以后阿贝乃尔去赫贝龙见达味，向他报告以色列和本雅明全家共同赞成的事。
20 When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a feast for Abner and for the men who were with him.
阿贝乃尔遂率领二十人去赫贝龙见达味。达味设宴款待了阿贝乃尔和他的随员。
21 Then Abner said to David, ＂I will now go to assemble all Israel for my lord the king, that they may make an agreement with you; you will then be king over all whom you wish to rule.＂ So David bade Abner farewell, and he went away in peace.
阿贝乃尔向达味说：＂我要动身去号召全以色列，来拥护我主大王，使他们与你立约：这样你能依照你的心愿来统治一切。＂事后，达味放阿贝乃尔平安走了。
22 Just then David's servants and Joab were coming in from an expedition, bringing much plunder with them. Abner, having been dismissed by David, was no longer with him in Hebron but had gone his way in peace.
达味的臣仆和约阿布出征回来，带回了很多战利品。那时，阿贝乃尔已不在赫贝龙达味那里了，因为达味放他平安走了。
23 When Joab and the whole force he had with him arrived, he was informed, ＂Abner, son of Ner, came to David; he has been sent on his way in peace.＂
约阿布和他率领的军队一来到，就有人告诉他说：＂乃尔的儿子阿贝乃尔曾来到君王前，君王放他平安走了。＂
24 So Joab went to the king and said: ＂What have you done? Abner came to you. Why did you let him go peacefully on his way?
约阿布就去见君王说：＂你作的是什么事？阿贝乃尔到你这里来，你为什么放他平安走了？
25 Are you not aware that Abner came to deceive you and to learn the ins and outs of all that you are doing?＂
你岂不认识乃尔的儿子阿贝乃尔？他来是为欺骗你，愿探听你的出入，知道你的一切行动。＂
26 Joab then left David, and without David's knowledge sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the cistern of Sirah.
约阿布离开达味就打发差役去追赶阿贝乃尔。他们从息辣的旱井旁，把他带回来，。达味一点也不知道。
27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the city gate as though to speak with him privately. There he stabbed him in the abdomen, and he died in revenge for the killing of Joab's brother Asahel.
阿贝乃尔一回到赫贝龙，约阿布就领他到大门旁，彷佛要与他暗地交谈，就在那里一刀剌穿了他的肚腹，他立即死了；这样替他兄弟阿撒耳报了血仇。
28 Later David heard of it and said: ＂Before the LORD; I and my kingdom are forever innocent.
事后，达味一听说这事，就说：＂我和我的国家，对乃尔的儿子阿贝乃尔的血案，在上主面前，永远是无罪的！
29 May the full responsibility for the death of Abner, son of Ner, be laid to Joab and to all his family. May the men of Joab's family never be without one suffering from a discharge, or a leper, or one unmanly, one falling by the sword, or one in need of bread!＂
愿这罪归在约阿布的头上和他父的全家！愿约阿布家中不断有患淋症，长癞病，只会纺线，丧身刀下和缺粮的人！＂
30 (Joab and his brother Abishai had lain in wait for Abner because he killed their brother Asahel in battle at Gibeon.)
约阿布和他的兄弟阿彼瑟暗杀了阿贝乃尔，是因为他在基贝红打仗时，杀死了他们的兄弟阿撒耳。
31 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, ＂Rend your garments, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.＂ King David himself followed the bier.
达味向约阿布和同他在一起的民众说：＂要撕裂你们的衣服，穿上丧服，为阿贝乃尔举哀！＂达味王也跟在灵柩后送葬。
32 When they had buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at the grave of Abner, and the people also wept.
他们在赫贝龙埋葬了阿贝乃尔；君王在阿贝乃尔墓旁放声大哭，民众也都哭了。
33 And the king sang this elegy over Abner: ＂Would Abner have died like a fool?
君王作哀歌追吊阿贝乃尔说：＂阿贝乃尔岂应像傻瓜一样死去？
34 Your hands were not bound with chains, nor your feet placed in fetters; As men fall before the wicked, you fell.＂ And all the people continued to weep for him.
你的手并未束拷，你的脚也没带镣，怎么你毙命，竟如凶犯毙命一样！＂为此民众更加痛哭。
35 Then they went to console David with food while it was still day. But David swore, ＂May God do thus and so to me if I eat bread or anything else before sunset.＂
随后，众人前来劝君王进食，那时还是白天，达味却发誓说：＂若我在日落前进食，或尝什么东西，愿天主如此，并加倍地惩罚我！＂
36 All the people noted this with approval, just as they were pleased with everything that the king did.
众人见到此事，都心悦诚服，因为凡君王所行的，无不叫众人心悦诚服。
37 So on that day all the people and all Israel came to know that the king had no part in the killing of Abner, son of Ner.
如此，众人和全以色列当天都知道，杀乃尔的儿子阿贝乃尔，不是出于君王的命令。
38 The king then said to his servants: ＂You must recognize that a great general has fallen today in Israel.
达味向他的臣仆说：＂你们不知道今天在以色列丧失了一位将领和伟人吗？
39 Although I am the anointed king, I am weak this day, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too ruthless for me. May the LORD requite the evildoer in accordance with his evil deed.＂
我今天虽是傅油的君王，仍年幼无力，责鲁雅的儿子们又比我刚强；愿上主依照人所行的邪恶，来施行报复！＂
Chapter 4
1 When Ishbaal, son of Saul, heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he ceased to resist and all Israel was alarmed.
撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳，一听见阿贝乃尔死在赫贝龙，就慌了手脚，全以色列大惊。
2 Ishbaal, son of Saul, had two company leaders named Baanah and Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the tribe of Benjamin. (Beeroth, too, was ascribed to Benjamin:
撒乌耳的儿子依市巴耳有两个土匪头目：一个名叫巴阿纳，一个名叫勒加布，是本雅明子孙贝洛特人黎孟的儿子，──贝洛特被认为是本雅明族，
3 the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, where they have been resident aliens to this day.
因为贝洛特人逃到了基塔殷，侨居在那里，直到今日。
4 1 Jonathan, son of Saul, had a son named Meribbaal with crippled feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. But in their hasty flight, he fell and became lame.)
撒乌耳的儿子约纳堂有个儿子双足跛了，当撒乌耳与约纳堂的凶信由依次勒耳传来时，他只有五岁，他的乳母带他逃跑，在慌张逃跑中，他跌瘸了腿；他名叫默黎巴耳。
5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, came into the house of Ishbaal during the heat of the day, while he was taking his siesta.
贝洛特人黎孟的儿子勒加布和巴阿纳出去，正当中午炎热的时候，到了依市巴耳家里，他正在床上睡午觉。
6 The portress of the house had dozed off while sifting wheat, and was asleep. So Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped past
看门的女仆在筛麦子，也打盹睡着了。此时勒加布和他兄弟巴阿纳溜进去，
7 and entered the house while Ishbaal was lying asleep in his bedroom. They struck and killed him, and cut off his head. Then, taking the head, they traveled on the Arabah road all night long.
到了屋内，见依市巴耳正睡在卧室的床上，便将他打死，砍下他的头，带着头，在阿辣巴的大路上走了一夜。
8 They brought the head of Ishbaal to David in Hebron and said to the king: ＂This is the head of Ishbaal, son of your enemy Saul, who sought your life. Thus has the LORD this day avenged my lord the king on Saul and his posterity.＂
他们带着依市巴耳的头，到了赫贝龙见达味王说：＂大王的仇人撒乌耳常谋害你的性命；看，他儿子依市巴耳的头；上主今天为我主向撒乌耳和他的后代报了仇。＂
9 But David replied to Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite: ＂As the LORD lives, who rescued me from all difficulty,
但是，达味答复贝洛特人黎孟的儿子勒加布和他兄弟巴阿纳说：＂我指着那救我脱离了一切患难的永生上主起誓：
10 in Ziklag I seized and put to death the man who informed me of Saul's death, thinking himself the bearer of good news for which I ought to give him a reward.
那告诉我说：撒乌耳死了的，自以为是报喜信，我却拿住他，在漆刻拉格杀了，作为他报信的赏报；
11 How much more now, when wicked men have slain an innocent man in bed at home, must I hold you responsible for his death and destroy you from the earth!＂
那么，现在这些匪徒，偷进人屋，杀了睡在床上的义人，我岂不更该从你们手中追讨他的血债，将你们由地上铲除？＂
12 So at a command from David, the young men killed them and cut off their hands and feet, hanging them up near the pool in Hebron. But he took the head of Ishbaal and buried it in Abner's grave in Hebron.
达味遂命自己的僮仆，杀了他们，砍去他们的手足，挂在赫贝龙的池旁；至于依市巴耳的头，叫人拿去葬在赫贝龙，阿贝乃尔的坟墓内。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [4] Saul's grandson Meribbaal is the subject of 2 Sam 9. The text of this verse may owe its present place to the fact that pre-Christian copies of the Books of Samuel tended to confuse his name with that of his uncle Ishbaal, Saul's son and successor, a principal figure in 2 Sam 2;3;4.
Chapter 5
1 All the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said: ＂Here we are, your bone and your flesh.
以色列各支派聚集到赫贝龙，来见达味说：＂看，我们都是你的骨肉。
2 In days past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led the Israelites out and brought them back. And the LORD said to you, ‘You shall shepherd my people Israel and shall be commander of Israel.'＂
以前，连撒乌耳当我们的君王时，也是你率领以色列出入征讨；上主曾对你说过：你应牧养我的百姓以色列，作以色列的领袖。＂
3 When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron, King David made an agreement with them there before the LORD, and they anointed him king of Israel.
随后，以色列所有的长老都到赫贝龙来见君王，达味君王就在赫贝龙，当上主的面同他们立了盟约；他们便给达味傅油，立他为以色列王。
4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years:
达味登极时已三十岁，做王四十年；
5 seven years and six months in Hebron over Judah, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah.
在赫贝龙做犹大王，七年零六个月；在耶路撒冷做全以色列和犹大王三十三年。
6 1 Then the king and his men set out for Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the region. David was told, ＂You cannot enter here: the blind and the lame will drive you away!＂ which was their way of saying, ＂David cannot enter here.＂
以后，达味和他的人向耶路撒冷进发，攻打住在那地方的耶步斯人，有人告诉达味说：＂你决攻不进去，因为瞎眼瘸腿的也会把你赶走。＂这是说：＂达味决攻不进去。＂
7 But David did take the stronghold of Zion, which is the City of David.
但是达味却占领了熙雍山堡，即达味城。
8 On that day David said: ＂All who wish to attack the Jebusites must strike at them through the water shaft. The lame and the blind shall be the personal enemies of David.＂ That is why it is said, ＂The blind and the lame shall not enter the palace.＂
那日达味宣布说：＂凡攻打耶步斯人，从水道首先到达味所恼恨的那些瘸腿瞎眼的人那里的，他要升为军长和元帅。＂责鲁雅的儿子约阿布首先上去了，因而成了元帅。但为此有句俗语说：＂有瞎眼瘸腿的在此，人是进不去的！＂
9 David then dwelt in the stronghold, which was called the City of David; he built up the area from Millo to the palace.
达味住在那山堡内，称之为达味城。达味又从米罗往里，四周加建了城墙。
10 David grew steadily more powerful, for the LORD of hosts was with him.
达味日渐强盛，上主万军的天主与他同在。
11 Hiram, king of Tyre, sent ambassadors to David; he furnished cedar wood, as well as carpenters and masons, who built a palace for David.
提洛王希兰派使臣来见达味，给他送来了香柏木，派来了木匠石匠，为他建造宫室。
12 And David knew that the LORD had established him as king of Israel and had exalted his rule for the sake of his people Israel.
那时，达味知道上主已坚定他为以色列王，并为了自己的百姓以色列，提高了他的王位。
13 David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem after he had come from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him in Jerusalem.
达味从赫贝龙迁来以后，在耶路撒冷又娶了妻妾，生了一些子女。
14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
他在耶路撒冷所生儿子的名字如下：沙慕亚、芍巴布、纳堂、撒罗满、
15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
依贝哈尔、厄里叔亚、乃费格、雅非亚、
16 Elishama, Baaliada, and Eliphelet.
厄里沙玛、厄肋雅达和厄里培肋特。
17 2 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king of Israel, they all took the field in search of him. On hearing this, David went down to the refuge.
培肋舍特人听说：达味受傅作了以色列王，遂都上来向达味寻衅；达味一听说，便下到堡垒中。
18 3 The Philistines came and overran the valley of Rephaim.
培肋舍特人来到后，散布在勒法因平原内。
19 David inquired of the LORD, ＂Shall I attack the Philistines--will you deliver them into my grip?＂ The LORD replied to David, ＂Attack, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your grip.＂
那时达味求问上主说：＂我可以上去攻打培肋舍特人吗？你将他们交在我手中吗？＂上主回答达味说：＂你上去，我必将培肋舍特人交在你手中。＂
20 4 David then went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated them. He said, ＂The LORD has scattered my enemies before me like waters that have broken free.＂ That is why the place is called Baal-perazim.
达味于是来到巴耳培辣亲，在那里击败了他们。达味因此说：＂上主使我的敌人在我面前崩溃，如水破堤。＂为此，后人称这地方为巴耳培辣亲。
21 They abandoned their gods there, and David and his men carried them away.
培肋舍特人把自己的神像都遗弃在那里，达味和他的人便将这些神像都带走了。
22 But the Philistines came up again and overran the valley of Rephaim.
培肋舍特人又上来，散布在勒法因平原内。
23 So David inquired of the LORD, who replied: ＂You must not attack frontally, but circle their rear and meet them before the mastic trees.
达味又求问上主，上主说：＂不要上去，但要绕到他们后方，从桑林那边抄他们的后路。
24 5 When you hear a sound of marching in the tops of the mastic trees, act decisively, for the LORD will have gone forth before you to attack the camp of the Philistines.＂
当你听到桑树梢上有脚步声时，你就赶快行动，因为那时正是上主在你前面出击培肋舍特人的军队。＂
25 David obeyed the LORD'S command and routed the Philistines from Gibeon as far as Gezer.
达味就照上主所命的行了，击杀培肋舍特人，从基贝红直到革则尔。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [6-12] David's most important military exploit, the taking of Jerusalem, is here presented before his battles with the Philistines, 2 Sam 5:17-25, which were earlier in time. The sense of 2 Sam 5:6, 8 is in doubt.
2 [17] Refuge: probably near Adullam (1 Sam 22:1-5).
3 [18-25] The successive defeats of the Philistines in the valley of Rephaim southwest of Jerusalem had the effect of blocking their access to the mountain ridge near Gibeon, and confining them to their holdings on the coast and in the foothills beyond Gezer to the west and south.
4 [20] Baal-perazim: means approximately ＂the lord of scatterings.＂
5 [24] Sound of marching: the wind in the treetops suggestive of the Lord's footsteps.
Chapter 6
1 David again assembled all the picked men of Israel, thirty thousand in number.
达味又调集了以色列所有的精兵，共三万人。
2 Then David and all the people who were with him set out for Baala of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which bears the name of the LORD of hosts enthroned above the cherubim.
达味和他身边所有的人，起身到犹大巴阿拉去，要从那里将天主的约柜运上来。这约柜名叫＂坐于革鲁宾上的万军的上主。＂
3 The ark of God was placed on a new cart and taken away from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, guided the cart,
人遂将天主的约柜，从丘陵上的阿彼纳达布家里抬出，放在一辆新车上，阿彼纳达布的两个儿子，乌匝和阿希约驾驶新车。
4 with Ahio walking before it,
乌匝走在天主约柜的后面，阿希约走在前面。
5 while David and all the Israelites made merry before the LORD with all their strength, with singing and with citharas, harps, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals.
达味和以色列全家在上主面前兴高彩烈地舞蹈作乐，弹琴、击弦、敲鼓、摇铃、击钹。
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God and steadied it, for the oxen were making it tip.
当他们来到纳贡的禾场时，因为牛几乎使天主的约柜倾倒，乌匝便伸手扶住。
7 But the LORD was angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died there before God.
为了他一时的冒失，上主就向乌匝发怒，将他击杀，他更死在天主的约柜旁。
8 David was disturbed because the LORD had vented his anger on Uzzah. (The place has been called Perez-uzzah down to the present day.)
达味因为上主击杀了乌匝，很觉悲伤，于是那地方名叫培勒兹乌匝，直到今日。
9 David feared the LORD that day and said,＂How can the ark of the LORD come to me?＂
那天，达味对上主害了怕，心想：＂上主的约柜如何能进入我那里？＂
10 So David would not have the ark of the LORD brought to him in the City of David, but diverted it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
因此，达味不愿上主的约柜迁入达味城自己那里，却运往加特人敖贝得厄东家中。
11 The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and his whole house.
上主的约柜在加特人敖贝得厄东家中，存放了三个月，上主祝福了敖贝得厄东和他的全家。
12 When it was reported to King David that the LORD had blessed the family of Obed-edom and all that belonged to him, David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David amid festivities.
有人告诉达味，上主为了天主的约柜祝福了敖贝得厄东的家，和他所有的一切。达味就去将天主的约柜，由敖贝得厄东家兴高彩烈地抬上达味城来。
13 As soon as the bearers of the ark of the LORD had advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
每当抬上主约柜的人走六步，他就祭献一头牛和一只肥羊。
14 Then David, girt with a linen apron, came dancing before the LORD with abandon,
同时达味束着细麻的＂厄弗得，＂在上主面前尽力跳舞。
15 as he and all the Israelites were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts of joy and to the sound of the horn.
这样，达味与以色列全家大声欢呼，吹起号筒，将上主的约柜迎上来。
16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
当上主的约柜进入达味城时，撒乌耳的女儿米加耳，由窗内窥看，见达味王在上主面前跳跃舞蹈，心中就轻视他。
17 The ark of the LORD was brought in and set in its place within the tent David had pitched for it. Then David offered holocausts and peace offerings before the LORD.
他们将上主的约柜抬来，安置在预备好的地方，停在达味为约柜建立的帐幕中央；达味给上主奉献了全燔祭与和平祭。
18 When he finished making these offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
达味献完了全燔祭与和平祭后，以万军上主的名祝福了百姓。
19 He then distributed among all the people, to each man and each woman in the entire multitude of Israel, a loaf of bread, a cut of roast meat, and a raisin cake. With this, all the people left for their homes.
以后，分给所有百姓，全以色列民众，不论男女，每人一块饼，一块肉，一块葡萄干饼。然后百姓各自回了本家。
20 When David returned to bless his own family, Saul's daughter Michal came out to meet him and said,＂How the king of Israel has honored himself today, exposing himself to the view of the slave girls of his followers, as a commoner might do!＂
达味回来祝福本家时，撒乌耳的女儿米加耳出来迎接达味说：＂以色列的君王今天多么荣耀！他今天在臣仆的婢女前赤身露体，活像一个赤身露体的小丑。＂
21 But David replied to Michal:＂I was dancing before the LORD. As the LORD lives, who preferred me to your father and his whole family when he appointed me commander of the LORD'S people, Israel, not only will I make merry before the LORD,
达味回答米加耳说：＂在废弃你父和他全家，而选拔了我的上主面前，在派我为上主百姓以色列首领的上主面前，我甘愿舞蹈，
22 but I will demean myself even more. I will be lowly in your esteem, but in the esteem of the slave girls you spoke of I will be honored.＂
甘愿加倍卑贱我自己！我在你眼中被视为卑贱，但在你所说的婢女们前，我必受到尊敬。＂
23 And so Saul's daughter Michal was childless to the day of her death.
从此撒乌耳的女儿米加耳，到死再没有生育。
Chapter 7
1 When King David was settled in his palace, and the LORD had given him rest from his enemies on every side,
那时，君王住在宫殿里，上主赐他安享太平，不为四周仇敌所侵扰，
2 he said to Nathan the prophet, ＂Here I am living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God dwells in a tent!＂
君王遂对纳堂先知说：＂请看，我住在香柏木的宫殿里，而天主的约柜却在帐幕内。＂
3 Nathan answered the king, ＂Go, do whatever you have in mind, for the LORD is with you.＂
纳堂回答君王说：＂你心内打算的，你全可照办！因为上主与你同在。＂
4 But that night the LORD spoke to Nathan and said:
但是，当夜就有上主的话传于纳堂说：＂
5 ＂Go, tell my servant David,‘Thus says the LORD: Should you build me a house to dwell in?
你去告诉我的仆人达味，上主这样说：你要建筑一座殿宇给我居住吗？
6 I have not dwelt in a house from the day on which I led the Israelites out of Egypt to the present, but I have been going about in a tent under cloth.
我自从埃及领以色列子民上来那一天起，直到今日，从没有居住过殿宇，只随帐棚和会幕漂泊。
7 In all my wanderings everywhere among the Israelites, did I ever utter a word to any one of the judges whom I charged to tend my people Israel, to ask: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'
我与以色列子民同行时，我何尝向我立为牧养我民以色列的一个民长说过：你们为什么不为我建造一座香柏木的殿宇？
8 1 ＂Now then, speak thus to my servant David, ‘The LORD of hosts has this to say: It was I who took you from the pasture and from the care of the flock to be commander of my people Israel.
现在，你要对我的仆人达味说：万军的上主这样说：是我拣选你离开牧场，离开放羊的事，作我民以色列的领袖。
9 I have been with you wherever you went, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you. And I will make you famous like the great ones of the earth.
你不论到那里去，我总是偕同你，由你面前消灭你的一切仇敌；我要使你成名，像世上出名的大人物；
10 I will fix a place for my people Israel; I will plant them so that they may dwell in their place without further disturbance. Neither shall the wicked continue to afflict them as they did of old,
我要把我民以色列安置在一个地方，裁培他们，在那里久住，再也不受惊恐，再也不像先前受恶人的欺压，
11 since the time I first appointed judges over my people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD also reveals to you that he will establish a house for you.
有如自从我为我民以色列立了民长以来一样；我要赐他们安宁，不受仇敌的骚扰。上主也告诉你：他要为你建立家室。
12 And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I will make his kingdom firm.
当你的日子满期与你祖先长眠时，我必在你以后兴起一个后裔，即你所生的儿子；我必巩固他的王权。
13 It is he who shall build a house for my name. And I will make his royal throne firm forever.
是他要为我的名建立殿宇；我要巩固他的王位直到永远。
14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he does wrong, I will correct him with the rod of men and with human chastisements;
我要作他的父亲，他要作我的儿子；若是他犯了罪，我必用人用的鞭，世人用的棍，来惩戒他；
15 but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from your predecessor Saul, whom I removed from my presence.
但我决不由他收回我的恩情，就如在你以前由撒乌耳收回我的恩情一样。
16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever.'＂
你的家室和王权，在我面前永远存在，你的王位也永远坚定不移。＂
17 Nathan reported all these words and this entire vision to David.
纳堂便照这一切话，将整个启示告诉了达味。
18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, ＂Who am I, Lord GOD, and who are the members of my house, that you have brought me to this point?
达味王就进去，端坐在上主面前说：＂我主上主！我是谁？我的家族又算什么，你竟领我到了这个地步？
19 2 Yet even this you see as too little, Lord GOD; you have also spoken of the house of your servant for a long time to come: this too you have shown to man, Lord GOD!
我主上主！这在你眼中还以为太小，而你又说明了你仆人的家族未来的远景，并将此事显示给我这个人，我主上主！
20 What more can David say to you? You know your servant, Lord GOD!
达味还能对你说什么？我主上主！你认识你的仆人。
21 For your servant's sake and as you have had at heart, you have brought about this entire magnificent disclosure to your servant.
你为了你的预许，按照你的心意，成就了这些伟大的事，为叫你的仆人认识清楚。
22 And so—— ＂Great are you, Lord GOD! There is none like you and there is no God but you, just as we have heard it told.
我主上主！为此，你是伟大的，没有与你相似的；按照我耳所听的，除了你以外，没有别的神。
23 What other nation on earth is there like your people Israel, which God has led, redeeming it as his people; so that you have made yourself renowned by doing this magnificent deed, and by doing awe-inspiring things as you cleared nations and their gods out of the way of your people, which you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?
世上又那里有一个民族能比得上你的民族以色列？天主亲自去解救他们出来，作为自己的民族；为使他们成名，在你从埃及解救出来的人民前，行了大而可畏的奇事，驱除异民以及他们的神。
24 You have established for yourself your people Israel as yours forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.
你将你民以色列永远坚定为你的民族，你，上主做了他们的天主。
25 And now, LORD God, confirm for all time the prophecy you have made concerning your servant and his house, and do as you have promised.
我主上主！现在，求你永远坚持你论及你的仆人和他的家室所说的话，按照你所说的履行罢！
26 Your name will be forever great, when men say,‘The LORD of hosts is God of Israel,' and the house of your servant David stands firm before you.
愿你的名永远受尊崇！人要说：万军的上主是以色列的天主！愿你仆人达味的家室，永远坚定在你面前！
27 It is you, LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who said in a revelation to your servant, 'I will build a house for you.' Therefore your servant now finds the courage to make this prayer to you.
万军的上主，以色列的天主！因为你曾启示你的仆人说：我要建立你的家室，因此，你的仆人才敢在你面前向你如此祈祷。
28 And now, Lord GOD, you are God and your words are truth; you have made this generous promise to your servant.
我主上主，惟有你是天主！你的话是真理，是你向你仆人应许了这些恩惠。
29 Do, then, bless the house of your servant that it may be before you forever; for you, Lord GOD, have promised, and by your blessing the house of your servant shall be blessed forever.＂
求你如今就祝福你仆人的家室，使它永远你面前存立，因为是你，我主上主所预许的，因此，你仆人的家室，必因你的祝福永远获得祝福。＂
Footnotes(注解)
1 [8-16] The prophecy to David contained in these verses is cited again, in poetic form, in Psalm 89:20-38, and alluded to in Psalm 132. The promise regarding the people of Israel, 2 Sam 7:10-11, is a part of the promise to David at least as old as the composition of this chapter of Samuel, where it is anticipated in 2 Sam 7:6-7, and alluded to in David's thanksgiving, 2 Sam 7:23-24; it applies to the people an expression used of David in Psalm 89:23.The prophecy to David is the basis for Jewish expectation of a Messiah, son of David, which Jesus Christ fulfilled in a transcendent way; cf Acts 2:30; Hebrews 1:5.
2 [19] This too you have shown to man: the text as transmitted has, rather, ＂and this is instruction for (or: the law of) mankind.＂ The author of Chronicles (1 Chron 17:17) saw approximately the same phrase, which he endeavored to fit into the context in a quite different sense. The above is conjectural; cf Deut 5:24.
Chapter 8
1 1 After this David attacked the Philistines and conquered them, wresting. . . from the Philistines.
此后，达味攻打培肋舍特人，将他们克服，由他们手中夺得了京城的治权。
2 2 He also defeated Moab and then measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. He told off two lengths of line for execution, and a full length to be spared. Thus the Moabites became tributary to David.
他也打败了摩阿布人，叫他们躺在地上，用绳子来量，两绳子内的人处死，一绳内的人生存；如此，摩阿布人遂臣服达味，给他纳贡。
3 Next David defeated Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to reestablish his dominion at the Euphrates River.
当勒曷布的儿子，祚巴王哈达德则尔向幼发拉的河伸展自己的势力时，达味也打败了他，
4 David captured from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And he hamstrung all the chariot horses, preserving only enough for a hundred chariots.
掳获了他的马兵一千七百，步兵两万，割断了所有拉战车的马蹄筋，只留下了足以拉一百辆车的马。
5 When the Arameans of Damascus came to the aid of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand of them.
后有大马士革的阿兰人，来援助祚巴王哈达德则尔，达味击杀了二万二千阿兰人。
6 David then placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subjects, tributary to David. The LORD brought David victory in all his undertakings.
达味遂在大马士革阿兰屯兵驻守，阿兰也臣服于达味，给他进贡。达味无论往那里去，上主总是辅助他。
7 David also took away the golden shields used by Hadadezer's servants and brought them to Jerusalem. (These Shishak, king of Egypt, took away when he came to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam, son of Solomon.)
达味夺了哈达德则尔臣仆所带的金盾牌，送到耶路撒冷。( 这些金盾牌是从由埃及的国王在所罗门王的儿子罗波安统治时期从耶路撒冷时带走的.)
8 From Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David removed a very large quantity of bronze.
达味王又由贝塔和贝洛泰，哈达德则尔的两座城内，夺取了大量的铜。
9 When Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the forces of Hadadezer,
当哈玛特王托乌，听说达味打败了哈达德则尔，
10 he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and to congratulate him for his victory over Hadadezer in battle, because Toi had been in many battles with Hadadezer. Hadoram also brought with him articles of silver, gold, and bronze.
便派自己的儿子哈多兰到达味王那里，向他致敬，祝贺他攻打了哈达德则尔，并将他打败，因为哈达德则尔原是托乌的敌人。哈多兰带来了一些金器银器和铜器。
11 These, too, King David consecrated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold he had taken from every nation he had conquered:
达味也把这一切金银，和他从所征服的民族：
12 from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites, from the Philistines, from the Amalekites, and from the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
即阿兰、摩阿布、阿孟子民、培肋舍特人、阿玛肋克和祚尔王勒曷布之子哈达德则尔的战利品中所得，且已奉献了的金银，一同献给了上主。
13 3 On his return, David became famous for having slain eighteen thousand Edomites in the Salt Valley;
达味战胜阿兰人归来时，在盐谷又击杀了一万八千厄东人，他的声誉就更大了。
14 after which he placed garrisons in Edom. Thus all the Edomites became David's subjects, and the LORD brought David victory in all his undertakings.
他遂屯兵厄东，全厄东都臣服了达味；达味无论往那里去，上主总是辅助他。
15 David reigned over all Israel, judging and administering justice to all his people.
达味统治了全以色列，对自己所有的人民秉公行义。
16 Joab, son of Zeruiah, was in command of the army. Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was chancellor.
责鲁雅的儿子约阿布统领军队，阿希路得的儿子约沙法特为后卸史。
17 Zadok, son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech, son of Abiathar, were priests. Shawsha was scribe.
阿希突布的儿子匝多克及阿希默肋客的儿子厄贝雅塔尔作司祭，沙委沙作秘书，
18 Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was in command of the Cherethites and Pelethites. And David's sons were priests.
约雅达的儿子贝纳雅管理革勒提和培肋提人；达味的儿子也作司祭。
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Footnotes(注解)
1 [1] Wresting . . . : the Hebrew text here gives "the bridle of the cubit"; 1 Chron 18:1 understood "Gath and its dependent villages"; others implausibly read "dominion of the capital city."
2 [2] Two lengths . . . a full length: usually taken to mean that two-thirds of them were executed; but it could mean that two-thirds were spared, if the line was used full length in their case but doubled on itself to make "two lines" for those to be put to death.
3 [13] On his return: possibly to Jerusalem, after the revolt of Absalom, a circumstance which this catalogue of victories would avoid mentioning. 1 Chron 18:13 attributes the defeat of the Edomites to Abishai.
Chapter 9
1 David asked, ＂Is there any survivor of Saul's house to whom I may show kindness for the sake of Jonathan?＂
达味问说：＂撒乌耳家中还有剩下的人吗？为了约纳堂，我要对他表示慈爱。＂
2 Now there was a servant of the family of Saul named Ziba. He was summoned to David, and the king asked him, ＂Are you Ziba?＂ He replied, ＂Your servant.＂
撒乌耳家有一个仆人，名叫漆巴，有人把他带到达味前；君王又问他说：＂你是漆巴吗？＂他答说：＂你的仆人是。＂
3 Then the king inquired, ＂Is there any survivor of Saul's house to whom I may show God's kindness?＂ Ziba answered the king, ＂There is still Jonathan's son, whose feet are crippled.＂
君王又问他说：＂撒乌耳家中还有什么人在吗？我好对他表示天主的慈爱。＂漆巴回答君王说：＂还有约纳堂的一个双脚跛瘸的儿子。＂
4 The king said to him, ＂Where is he?＂ and Ziba answered, ＂He is in the house of Machir, son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.＂
君王向他说：＂他在那里？＂漆巴回答君王说：＂他在罗德巴尔，阿米耳的儿子玛基尔家里。＂
5 So King David sent for him and had him brought from the house of Machir, son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.
达味派人从罗德巴尔，阿米耳的儿子玛基尔家里把他接来。
6 When Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David, he fell prostrate in homage. David said, ＂Meribbaal,＂ and he answered, ＂Your servant.＂
撒乌耳的孙子、约纳堂的儿子，默黎巴耳来到达味前，就俯伏在地，叩拜君王。达味说：＂默黎巴耳！＂他答说：＂你的仆人在这里。＂
7 ＂Fear not,＂ David said to him, ＂I will surely be kind to you for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the lands of your grandfather Saul, and you shall always eat at my table.＂
达味向他说：＂你不要害怕，为了你的父亲约纳堂，我要恩待你，将你祖父撒乌耳所有的土地全归还给你；你以后要享用我桌上的食物。＂
8 Bowing low, he answered, ＂What is your servant that you should pay attention to a dead dog like me?＂
他伏首至地叩拜说：＂你的仆人算什么？你竟来眷顾像我这样的一个死狗。＂
9 The king then called Ziba, Saul's attendant, and said to him: ＂I am giving your lord's son all that belonged to Saul and to all his family.
君王把撒乌耳的仆人漆巴召来，向他说：＂撒乌耳和他全家所有的一切，我全给了你主人的儿子。
10 You and your sons and servants must till the land for him. You shall bring in the produce, which shall be food for your lord's family to eat. But Meribbaal, your lord's son, shall always eat at my table.＂ Ziba, who had fifteen sons and twenty servants,
所以，你和你的儿子以及你的仆役，应为他耕种田地，将收获供给你主人的家庭作食粮；但你主人的儿子默黎巴耳要常享用我桌上的食物。＂漆巴有十五个儿子，二十个仆役。
11 said to the king, ＂Your servant shall do just as my lord the king has commanded him.＂ And so Meribbaal ate at David's table like one of the king's sons.
漆巴回答君王说：＂凡我主大王吩咐你仆人的，你的仆人必全依照遵行。＂如此，默黎巴耳享用君王桌上的食物，就如君王的一个儿子。
12 Meribbaal had a young son whose name was Mica; and all the tenants of Ziba's family worked for Meribbaal.
默黎巴耳有个小儿，名叫米加。凡住在漆巴家里的人，无不服事默黎巴耳。
13 But Meribbaal lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king's table. He was lame in both feet.
默黎巴耳常住在耶路撒冷，因为他应常享用君王桌上的食物，只是他的双脚跛了。
Chapter 10
1 1 Some time later the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king.
此后，阿孟子民的君王死了，他的儿子哈农继位为王。
2 David thought,＂I will be kind to Hanun, son of Nahash, as his father was kind to me.＂ So David sent his servants with condolences to Hanun for the loss of his father. But when David's servants entered the country of the Ammonites,
达味心想：＂我要善待纳哈士的儿子哈农，像他父亲善待我一样。＂于是达味派自己的臣仆去慰问他，追悼他的父亲。当达味的臣仆来到阿孟子民国内时，
3 the Ammonite princes said to their lord Hanun:＂Do you think that David is honoring your father by sending men with condolences? Is it not rather to explore the city, to spy on it, and to overthrow it, that David has sent his messengers to you?＂
阿孟子民的公卿，对他们的主上哈农说：＂达味派人来慰问你，你想他是为尊敬你的父亲吗？达味派臣仆到你这里来，岂不是来调查、探听、破坏城池吗？＂
4 Hanun, therefore, seized David's servants and, after shaving off half their beards and cutting away the lower halves of their garments at the buttocks, sent them away.
哈农遂拿住达味的臣仆，将他们的胡须剃去一半，又将他们下半截衣服割去，直到臀部；然后放他们走了。
5 When he was told of it, King David sent out word to them, since the men were quite ashamed.＂Stay in Jericho until your beards grow,＂ he said,＂and then come back.＂
有人把这事告诉了达味，王遂打发人去迎接他们，因为这些人很觉羞耻；王便吩咐他们说：＂你们暂且留在耶里哥，等胡须长起后再回来。＂
6 2 In view of the offense they had given to David, the Ammonites sent for and hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and twelve thousand men from Tob.
阿孟子民见自己在达味跟前惹下仇恨，便遣人去，向贝特勒曷布和祚巴的阿兰人雇了两万步兵，向玛阿加君王雇了一千人，向托布人雇了一万二千人。
7 On learning this, David sent out Joab with the entire levy of trained soldiers.
达味听说这事，便派出约阿布和全队士兵和勇士。
8 The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah remained apart in the open country.
阿孟子民出来，在城门前摆了阵，祚巴和勒曷布的阿兰人和托布人与玛阿加人，分别在田野间摆了阵。
9 When Joab saw the battle lines drawn up against him, both front and rear, he made a selection from all the picked troops of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
约阿布见自己前后受敌，就由以色列劲旅中，选一队精兵摆阵进攻阿兰人，
10 He placed the rest of the soldiers under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
将其余的军队，交给自己的兄弟阿彼瑟指挥，叫他列阵进攻阿孟子民，
11 Joab said,＂If the Arameans are stronger than I, you shall help me. But if the Ammonites are stronger than you, I will come to help you.
并对他说：＂若我打不下阿兰人，你就来援助我；若你打不下阿孟子民，我就来援助你。
12 Be brave; let us prove our valor for the sake of our people and the cities of our God; the LORD will do what he judges best.＂
要勇敢奋斗，为了我们的民族，为了我们天主的城池，我们应奋斗！愿上主成就他认为好的事！＂
13 When Joab and the soldiers who were with him approached the Arameans for battle, they fled before him.
然后约阿布和跟随他的军队，向前进攻阿兰人，阿兰人就在他们前逃走了。
14 The Ammonites, seeing that the Arameans had fled, also fled from Abishai and withdrew into the city. Joab then ceased his attack on the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem.
阿孟子民见阿兰人逃走，他们也在阿彼瑟前逃走，退入城中。约阿布便不再进攻阿孟子民，回了耶路撒冷。
15 Then the Arameans responded to their defeat by Israel with a full mustering of troops;
阿兰人见自己为以色列打败，便再联合起来。
16 Hadadezer sent for and enlisted Arameans from beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach, general of Hadadezer's army, at their head.
哈达德则尔派人去，将大河那边的阿兰人也调来，都到了赫蓝，由哈达德则尔的元帅芍巴客率领。
17 On receiving this news, David assembled all Israel, crossed the Jordan, and went to Helam. The Arameans drew up in formation against David and fought with him.
达味一得了情报，就调集所有的以色列人，渡过约但河，来到赫蓝。阿兰人遂列阵进攻达味，与他交战。
18 But the Arameans gave way before Israel, and David's men killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand of the Aramean foot soldiers. Shobach, general of the army, was struck down and died on the field.
阿兰人在以色列面前溃退。达味击杀了阿兰人的七百匹拉车的马，和四万马兵；又攻击了他们的元帅芍巴客，他便死在那里。
19 All of Hadadezer's vassal kings, in view of their defeat by Israel, then made peace with the Israelites and became their subjects. And the Arameans were afraid to give further aid to the Ammonites.
所有臣属哈达德则尔的王子，一见自己败于以色列，便与以色列讲和，臣服于他们；从此阿兰人再不敢援助阿孟子民了。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [1] Some time later: early in the reign of David, since Hanun's father had been ruling in Ammon at the beginning of Saul's reign (1 Sam 11) and Solomon was as yet unborn (2 Sam 11:1; 12:24).
2 [6-9] A Hebrew text from Qumran (4Q Sam * ) comes closer in these verses to what is given in 1 Chron 19:6-9. The scene of the conflict is more likely Rabbath-Ammon, with Josephus (Ant.,vii,123), than Madeba, as in 1 Chron; compare ch. 11.
Chapter 11
1 1 At the turn of the year, when kings go out on campaign, David sent out Joab along with his officers and the army of Israel, and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. David, however, remained in Jerusalem.
年初，正当诸王出征的季节，达味派约阿布率领他的将官和以色列人出征；他们蹂躏了阿孟子民，就包围辣巴。当时达味住在耶路撒冷。
2 One evening David rose from his siesta and strolled about on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing, who was very beautiful.
一天傍晚，达味由床上起来，在宫殿的房屋顶上散步；从房顶上看见一个女人在沐浴，这女人容貌很美。
3 David had inquiries made about the woman and was told, ＂She is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, and wife of (Joab's armor-bearer) Uriah the Hittite.＂
达味遂派人打听这女人是谁；有人告诉他说：＂这不是厄里安的女儿，赫特人乌黎雅的妻子巴特舍巴吗？
4 Then David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he had relations with her, at a time when she was just purified after her monthly period. She then returned to her house.
达味便派人将她接来；她来到他那里，达味就与她同寝，那时她的月经刚洁净了。事后，她便回了家。
5 But the woman had conceived, and sent the information to David, ＂I am with child.＂
不久，那女人自觉怀孕，就打发人告诉达味说：＂我怀了孕。＂
6 David therefore sent a message to Joab, ＂Send me Uriah the Hittite.＂ So Joab sent Uriah to David.
达味派人给约阿布说：＂打发赫特人乌黎雅来见我。＂约阿布就打发乌黎雅去见达味。
7 When he came, David questioned him about Joab, the soldiers, and how the war was going, and Uriah answered that all was well.
乌黎雅一来到他跟前，达味就问：＂约阿布近来如何？士兵好吗？战事怎样？＂
8 David then said to Uriah, ＂Go down to your house and bathe your feet.＂ Uriah left the palace, and a portion was sent out after him from the king's table.
达味向乌黎雅说：＂你下到家中洗洗脚吧！＂乌黎雅刚离开皇宫，随后就送来了王的饮食。
9 But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace with the other officers of his lord, and did not go down to his own house.
乌黎雅却同他的主人的仆役一起睡在宫门旁，没有下到家里。
10 David was told that Uriah had not gone home. So he said to Uriah, ＂Have you not come from a journey? Why, then, did you not go down to your house?＂
有人报告达味说：＂乌黎雅并没有回到自己家里。＂达味便向乌黎雅说：＂你不是由远道回来的吗，为什么不下到你家里去呢？＂
11 Uriah answered David, ＂The ark and Israel and Judah are lodged in tents, and my lord Joab and your majesty's servants are encamped in the open field. Can I go home to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? As the LORD lives and as you live, I will do no such thing.＂
乌黎雅回答达味说：＂约柜，以色列和犹大人都住在帐幕里，我主约阿布和我主的仆人都在野外露宿，我岂能回家吃喝，和我妻子一起睡觉？上主永在，陛下万岁！我绝不做这样的事。＂
12 Then David said to Uriah, ＂Stay here today also, I shall dismiss you tomorrow.＂ So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the day following,
达味向乌黎雅说：＂今天你还留在这里，明天我要打发你回去。＂乌黎雅那天就留在耶路撒冷。第二天，
13 David summoned him, and he ate and drank with David, who made him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed among his lord's servants, and did not go down to his home.
达味召他来与自己一起饮宴，将他灌醉，傍晚，乌黎雅出去，仍与他主人的仆役睡在一起，并没有到家里去。
14 The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab which he sent by Uriah.
到了早晨，达味给约阿布写了一封信，要乌黎雅亲手带去。
15 In it he directed: ＂Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead.＂
他在信上写说：＂你应派乌黎雅到战事最激烈的前线，然后，在他后边撤退，让他受攻击阵亡。＂
16 So while Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the defenders were strong.
约阿布查看那城以后，知道那里有最强悍的敌人，就派乌黎雅到那里去了。
17 When the men of the city made a sortie against Joab, some officers of David's army fell, and among them Uriah the Hittite died.
城内的人出来，与约阿布交战，达味的仆役中，有些人阵亡了，赫特人乌黎雅也阵亡了。
18 Then Joab sent David a report of all the details of the battle,
约阿布派人去向达味报告这次战事的一切经过，
19 instructing the messenger, ＂When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,
他吩咐使者说：＂若你把战事的经过向君王报告完了以后，
20 the king may become angry and say to you: 'Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall above?
王若向你发怒说：为什么你们靠近城墙作战？你们不知道有人会由城墙上射击吗？
21 Who killed Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal? Was it not a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall above, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?' Then you in turn shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.'＂
谁击杀了耶鲁巴耳的儿子阿彼默肋客？不是一个女人从城墙上把一块磨石丢在他身上？他就死在特贝兹吗？为什么你们靠近城墙呢？你就答说：你的仆人赫特人乌黎雅也阵亡了。＂
22 2 The messenger set out, and on his arrival he relayed to David all the details as Joab had instructed him.
使者就前来见达味，把约阿布打发他报告的一切全向达味报告了。达味对约阿布大怒，向使者说：＂你们为什么靠近城墙作战？你们不知道有人会由城墙上射击吗？谁击杀了耶鲁巴耳的儿子阿彼默肋客？不是一个女人从城墙上把一块磨石丢在他身上，他就死在特贝兹吗？为什么你们靠近城墙呢？＂
23 He told David: ＂The men had us at a disadvantage and came out into the open against us, but we pushed them back to the entrance of the city gate.
报信的人向达味说：＂那些人向我们冲来，下到平原来攻打我们，我们就追击他们一直到城门边，
24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall above, and some of the king's servants died, among them your servant Uriah.＂
射手就从城墙上射击我们 君王的仆役大约死了十八人，你的仆人乌黎雅，那个赫特人也死了。
25 David said to the messenger: ＂This is what you shall convey to Joab:‘Do not be chagrined at this, for the sword devours now here and now there. Strengthen your attack on the city and destroy it.' Encourage him.＂
＂达味向报信的人说：＂你去告诉约阿布说：不必对这事过伤心，因为刀剑有时砍这人，也有时砍那人；你只管加紧攻城，将城毁灭。你要鼓励他。
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband had died, she mourned her lord.
＂乌黎雅的妻子听说他丈夫阵亡了，就为他丈夫举哀。
27 But once the mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her into his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. But the LORD was displeased with what David had done.
居丧期一满，达味就派人将他接到自己的宫中，成了他的妻子，给他生了一个儿子。达味这样行事，使上主大为不悦。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [1] At the turn of the year: in the spring.
2 [22] After this verse, the Greek text, which is here the older form, has David, angry with Joab, repeat exactly the questions Joab had foreseen in 2 Sam 11:20-21. In 2 Sam 11:24 of our oldest Greek text, the messenger specifies that about eighteen men were killed.
Chapter 12
1 1 The LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he came to him, he said:＂Judge this case for me! In a certain town there were two men, one rich, the other poor.
于是上主打发纳堂先知去见达味；他一来到他跟前，就对他说：＂在一座城里有两个人，一富一贫；
2 The rich man had flocks and herds in great numbers.
富的有很多牛羊；
3 But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He nourished her, and she grew up with him and his children. She shared the little food he had and drank from his cup and slept in his bosom. She was like a daughter to him.
贫的，除一只小母羊外，什么也没有。这只小母羊是他买来喂养的，在他和他儿女身边长大，吃他自己的食物，喝他自己杯中的饮料，睡在他的怀里，带它如同自己的女儿一样。
4 Now, the rich man received a visitor, but he would not take from his own flocks and herds to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him. Instead he took the poor man's ewe lamb and made a meal of it for his visitor.＂
有一个客人，来到富人那里，他舍不得拿自己的牛羊，款待那来到他这里的旅客，却取了那贫穷人的母羊，来款待那到他这里来的人。＂
5 David grew very angry with that man and said to Nathan:＂As the LORD lives, the man who has done this merits death!
达味对这人大发愤怒，向纳堂说：＂上主永在！做这事的人该死！
6 He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this and has had no pity.＂
并且，因为他这样行事，舍不得自己的牛羊，他应七倍偿还＂。
7 Then Nathan said to David:＂You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'I anointed you king of Israel. I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
约纳堂对达味说：＂这人就是你！以色列的天主上主这样说：是我给你傅油，立你作以色列的君王，是我由撒乌耳手中将你救出，
8 I gave you your lord's house and your lord's wives for your own. I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were not enough, I could count up for you still more.
是我将你主人的家室赐给你；我把你主人的妻妾放在你怀里，把以色列和犹大的家族也赐给了你；若还以为太少，我愿再给你这样那样的恩惠。
9 Why have you spurned the LORD and done evil in his sight? You have cut down Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you took his wife as your own, and him you killed with the sword of the Ammonites.
你为什么轻视上主，作出衪眼中视为邪恶的事，借刀杀了赫特人乌黎雅，为占取他的妻子，据为己有？你借阿孟子民的刀杀了乌黎雅。
10 Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah to be your wife.'
从此刀剑永不离开你家！因为你轻视了我，占取了赫特的妻子，据为己有。
11 Thus says the LORD: ‘I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.
上主这样说：看，我要由你自己的家里激起灾祸反对你，我要当你的眼前拿你的妻妾给与你的近人，他要在光天化日之下与你的妻妾同寝。
12 You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'＂
你在暗中行的事，我却要叫这事在众以色列前和太阳下进行＂。
13 Then David said to Nathan,＂I have sinned against the LORD.＂ Nathan answered David:＂The LORD on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die.
达味对约纳堂说：＂我得罪了上主！＂约纳堂对达味说：＂上主已赦免了你的罪恶，你不致于死；
14 But since you have utterly spurned the LORD by this deed, the child born to you must surely die.＂
但因你在这事上蔑视了上主，给你生是那个孩子，必要死去＂。
15 Then Nathan returned to his house. The LORD struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and it became desperately ill.
以后，约纳堂就回家去了。上主打击了乌黎雅给达味所生的孩子，使他患病甚重。
16 David besought God for the child. He kept a fast, retiring for the night to lie on the ground clothed in sackcloth.
达味就为孩子恳求天主，并且禁食，进入房内，穿著苦衣躺在地上过夜。
17 The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them.
皇室的长老到他前，要将他从地上扶起来，他却不愿意，也不与他们一起吃饭。
18 On the seventh day, the child died. David's servants, however, were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said:＂When the child was alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to what we said. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do some harm!＂
到了第七天，孩子竟然死了。达味的臣仆怕告诉他孩子死了，因为他们说：＂孩子活着的时候，我们劝他，他还不听我们的话；我们若告诉他孩子死了，岂不是更使他痛苦？＂
19 But David noticed his servants whispering among themselves and realized that the child was dead. He asked his servants,＂Is the child dead?＂ They replied,＂Yes, he is.＂
达味见自己的臣仆低声耳语，就晓得孩子死了，便问臣仆说：＂孩子死了吗？＂他们答说：＂死了！＂
20 Rising from the ground, David washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes. Then he went to the house of the LORD and worshiped. He returned to his own house, where at his request food was set before him, and he ate.
达味就由地上起来，沐浴、抹油、更衣，进了上主的庭院朝拜了；然后回到家里，叫人给他摆上饭来，他就吃了。
21 His servants said to him:＂What is this you are doing? While the child was living, you fasted and wept and kept vigil; now that the child is dead, you rise and take food.＂
他的臣仆对他说：＂你这作的什么事。孩子活着，你为他禁食哀哭；孩子死了你反而起来吃饭＂。
22 He replied:＂While the child was living, I fasted and wept, thinking,‘Perhaps the LORD will grant me the child's life.'
他答说：＂孩子活着，我禁食悲哭，因为我想：也许上主会可怜我，使孩子生存，有谁知道？
23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.＂
如今，他死了，我为什么还要禁食？难道我能叫他回来？是我要到他那里去，他不会回到我这里来了！＂
24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went and slept with her; and she conceived and bore him a son, who was named Solomon. The LORD loved him
事后，达味安慰了妻子巴特舍巴，再走近她，与她同寝；她又生了一个儿子，给他起名叫撒罗满；上主也喜爱他，
25 and sent the prophet Nathan to name him Jedidiah, on behalf of the LORD.
派了先知约纳堂去，代替上主给他起了个别号，叫耶狄狄雅。
26 Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured this royal city.
那时，约阿布正攻打阿孟子民的辣巴，占据了水城。
27 He sent messengers to David with the word:＂I have fought against Rabbah and have taken the water-city.
约阿布就派使者到达味那里说：＂攻打辣巴，已占了水城；
28 Therefore, assemble the rest of the soldiers, join the siege against the city and capture it, lest it be I that capture the city and it be credited to me.＂
如今你快调集其余的军队来围攻，占领这座城市，免得我攻下了，人拿我的名字作城名＂。
29 So David assembled the rest of the soldiers and went to Rabbah. When he had fought against it and captured it,
达味遂召集了所有的军队，开到辣巴，攻取了那城。
30 2 he took the crown from Milcom's head. It weighed a talent, of gold and precious stones; it was placed on David's head. He brought out immense booty from the city,
达味从米耳公神的头上，取下了他那重一＂塔冷通＂的金冠来，上面嵌有一块宝石，达味将这宝石戴在自己头上，并由城中运走了大批胜利品。
31 and also led away the inhabitants, whom he assigned to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, or put to work at the brickmold. This is what he did to all the Ammonite cities. David and all the soldiers then returned to Jerusalem.
至于城内的居民，达味将他们带走，叫他们拉锯、操斧、劈石、做砖；达味对待阿孟子民所有的城市都是如此。然后率领自己的军队回了耶路撒冷。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [1-4] This utterance of Nathan is in regular lines in Hebrew, resembling English blank verse.
2 [30] Weighed a talent: since this would be more than 75 pounds, some commentators picture the idol's crown as displaying a single precious stone of large size, which David took to wear; but the text does not say this.
Chapter 13
1 Some time later the following incident occurred. David's son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar, and David's son Amnon loved her.
此后，还发生了一件事：达味的儿子阿贝沙隆有个妹妹，名叫塔玛尔，很是美丽，达味的儿子阿默农很爱她。
2 He was in such straits over his sister Tamar that he became sick; since she was a virgin, Amnon thought it impossible to carry out his designs toward her.
阿默农为了他妹妹塔玛尔的缘故，竟忧愁闷成疾；因为她还是处女，所以在阿默农看来，对她行事几乎不可能。
3 Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, son of David's brother Shimeah, who was very clever.
阿默农有个朋友，名叫约纳达布，是达味的兄弟史默亚的儿子。约纳达布是一个很狡猾的人。
4 He asked him, ＂Prince, why are you so dejected morning after morning? Why not tell me?＂ So Amnon said to him, ＂I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.＂
他向阿默农说：＂太子，为什么你一天一天如此萎靡不振？你不肯告诉我吗？＂阿默农回答说：＂我爱上我兄弟阿贝沙隆的妹妹塔玛尔＂。
5 Then Jonadab replied, ＂Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to visit you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and encourage me to take food. If she prepares something appetizing in my presence, for me to see, I will eat it from her hand.'＂
约纳达布向他说：＂你在躺床装病，你父亲来看你时，你就对他说：我很希望我的妹妹塔玛尔来，给我准备食物，她要在我眼前准备，叫我看看着，并且由她手中取食。
6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came to visit him, Amnon said to the king, ＂Please let my sister Tamar come and prepare some fried cakes before my eyes, that I may take nourishment from her hand.＂
阿默农就卧床装病，君王来看他时，阿默农向君王说：＂求你叫我妹妹塔玛尔来，在我眼前做两块饼，好叫我从她手中取食＂。
7 David then sent home a message to Tamar, ＂Please go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some nourishment for him.＂
达味就派人到塔玛尔房中说：＂请妳到妳哥哥房里去，给他准备食物＂。
8 Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was in bed. Taking dough and kneading it, she twisted it into cakes before his eyes and fried the cakes.
塔玛尔到了她哥哥阿默农房里，他正躺在床上。她取了面，在他眼前和好，烤成饼。
9 Then she took the pan and set out the cakes before him. But Amnon would not eat; he said, ＂Have everyone leave me.＂ When they had all left him,
她就拿过锅来，在他面前将饼倒出，他却推辞不吃。阿默农说：＂妳叫众人都由我面前出去＂。众人就都由他面前出去了。
10 Amnon said to Tamar, ＂Bring the nourishment into the bedroom, that I may have it from your hand.＂ So Tamar picked up the cakes she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.
阿默农对塔玛尔说：＂妳给我把食物拿到内室来，好叫我由妳手中取食＂。塔玛尔拿着她做的饼，进了内室，送到她哥哥阿默农前。
11 But when she brought them to him to eat, he seized her and said to her, ＂Come! Lie with me, my sister!＂
她正递给他时，他就抓住她说：＂我的妹妹，来与我同寝！＂
12 But she answered him, ＂No my brother! Do not shame me! That is an intolerable crime in Israel. Do not commit this insensate deed.
她回答说：＂我的哥哥！不可这样，不要作贱我！在以色列不应作这样木事，不要作这愚蠢的事！
13 Where would I take my shame? And you would be a discredited man in Israel. So please, speak to the king; he will not keep me from you.＂
我带着这耻辱到哪里去呢？你在以色列也成了一个愚妄人。请你向君王说明，他决不会拒绝使我属于你的！＂
14 Not heeding her plea, he overpowered her; he shamed her and had relations with her.
他却不肯听她的话，又比她有力，就强奸了她。
15 Then Amnon conceived an intense hatred for her, which far surpassed the love he had had for her. ＂Get up and leave,＂ he said to her.
事后，阿默农立即十分憎恨她，并且他如今对她的憎恨，远超过以前对她的爱恋，就向她说：＂起来，走吧！＂
16 She replied, ＂No, brother, because to drive me out would be far worse than the first injury you have done me.＂ He would not listen to her,
她答说：＂我的哥哥，那不可以。你赶我走，比你对我所行的，更为无理！＂他却不愿听从她，
17 but called the youth who was his attendant and said, ＂Put her outside, away from me, and bar the door after her.＂
就叫服侍自己的仆人来，向他说：＂把这女人从我这里赶出去！她走后，随锁上门！＂
18 Now she had on a long tunic, for that is how maiden princesses dressed in olden days. When his attendant put her out and barred the door after her,
她那时穿著彩色长衣，因为君王的女儿，在未出嫁以前，昔日都是如此装束。他的仆人将她赶出去，随后锁上了门。
19 Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long tunic in which she was clothed. Then, putting her hands to her head, she went away crying loudly.
塔玛尔把灰撒在头上，撕破自己所穿的彩色长衣，双手抱着头，一路边哭边走。
20 Her brother Absalom said to her: ＂Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be still now, my sister; he is your brother. Do not take this affair to heart.＂ But Tamar remained grief-stricken and forlorn in the house of her brother Absalom.
她的哥哥阿贝沙隆问她说：＂莫非妳的哥哥阿默农与妳同寝了？妹妹，暂且不要出声，因为他是好的兄弟，不可把这事放在心上！＂塔玛尔从此就忧闷不乐，住在她哥哥阿贝沙隆家里。
21 King David, who got word of the whole affair, became very angry. He did not, however, spark the resentment of his son Amnon, whom he favored because he was his first-born.
达味听说了这一切事，十分生气；怛他不愿伤他儿子阿默农的心，因为他是长子，格外爱他。
22 Absalom, moreover, said nothing at all to Amnon, although he hated him for having shamed his sister Tamar.
至于，无论好话歹话，一句也不向阿默农说。他恼恨阿默农，因为他污辱了他妹妹塔玛尔。
23 After a period of two years, Absalom had shearers in Baalhazor near Ephraim, and he invited all the princes.
过了两年，当阿贝沙隆在厄弗辣因的巴耳哈祚尔剪羊毛的时节，阿贝沙隆邀请了君王所有的儿子。
24 Absalom went to the king and said: ＂Your servant is having shearers. Please, your majesty, come with all your retainers to your servant.＂
阿贝沙隆来到君王前说：＂看，你的仆人剪羊毛的时节，请君王带着臣仆都到你仆人那里去！＂
25 But the King said to Absalom, ＂No, my son, all of us should not go lest we be a burden to you.＂ And though Absalom urged him, he refused to go and began to bid him good-bye.
君王回答阿贝沙隆说：＂我儿，不必如此！我们不必都去麻烦你＂。他虽然恳求，君王仍不愿去，只祝福了他。
26 Absalom then said, ＂If you will not come yourself, please let my brother Amnon come to us.＂ The king asked him, ＂Why should he go to you?＂
阿贝沙隆便说：＂至少让我的兄弟阿默农同我们一起去！＂君王回答说：＂为什么要他同你一起去？＂
27 At Absalom's urging, however, he sent Amnon and all the other princes with him. Absalom prepared a banquet fit for royalty.
阿贝沙隆还是再三恳求，达味便派阿默农和君王所有的儿子，同他一起去了。阿贝沙隆摆设筳席，好象御筳。
28 But he had instructed his servants: ＂Now watch! When Amnon is merry with wine and I say to you, 'Kill Amnon,' put him to death. Do not be afraid, for it is I who order you to do it. Be resolute and act manfully.＂
阿贝沙隆吩咐仆人说：＂你们要注意！阿默农畅饮的时候，我向你们说：刺死阿默农！你们就打死他，不要害怕，是我吩咐了你们，要大胆勇敢＂。
29 When the servants did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded, all the other princes rose, mounted their mules, and fled.
阿贝沙隆的仆人，就照他所吩咐的，对阿默农做了。君王所有的儿子遂起身，各自骑上骡子逃跑了。
30 While they were still on the road, a report reached David that Absalom had killed all the princes and that not one of them had survived.
他们还在路上，消息已传到达味前说：＂阿贝沙隆杀了君王所有的儿子，没有一个幸免＂。
31 The king stood up, rent his garments, and then lay on the ground. All his servants standing by him also rent their garments.
君王便起来，撕裂了自己的衣服，俯伏在地；他身边的臣仆，也都撕裂了自己的衣服。
32 But Jonadab, son of David's brother Shimeah, spoke up: ＂Let not my lord think that all the young princes have been killed! Amnon alone is dead, for Absalom was determined on this ever since Amnon shamed his sister Tamar.
达味的兄弟史默亚的儿子约纳达布说道：＂我主不要想：所有的青年，君王所有儿子都被杀了；其实只有阿默农一人死了。自从阿默农污辱了他的妹妹塔玛尔那日起，阿贝沙隆就决定了这事。
33 So let not my lord the king put faith in the report that all the princes are dead. Amnon alone is dead.＂
我主君王，且不要将这事放在心上，以为君王所有的儿子都死了，因为只有阿默农一人死了＂。
34 Meanwhile, Absalom had taken flight. Then the servant on watch looked about and saw a large group coming down the slope from the direction of Bahurim. He came in and reported this, telling the king that he had seen some men coming down the mountainside from the direction of Bahurim.
阿贝沙隆逃走了。守卫的仆人举目一望，看见在往曷洛纳因山坡的路上，有一大群人下来。守卫的就去报告君王说：＂我看见一群人，从曷洛纳因山坡的路上下来了＂。
35 So Jonadab said to the king: ＂There! The princes have come. It is as your servant said.＂
约纳达布就向君王说：＂看，君王的儿子回来了，正如你仆人所说的，现在实现了＂。
36 No sooner had he finished speaking than the princes came in, weeping aloud. The king, too, and all his servants wept very bitterly.
他刚说完这话，君王的儿子都来到了，放声大哭；君王和他的众臣仆也都号咷痛哭。
37 But Absalom, who had taken flight, went to Talmai, son of Ammihud, king of Geshur,
同时，阿贝沙隆逃到革叔尔王阿米胡得的儿子塔取买那里去了。君王天天哀悼自己的儿子。
38 and stayed in Geshur for three years.
阿贝沙隆逃到革叔尔，在那里住了三年。
39 The king continued during all that time to mourn over his son; but his longing reached out for Absalom as he became reconciled to the death of Amnon.
此时，君王的心渐渐不再恼怒阿贝沙隆，对阿默农的死，也不再难过了。
Chapter 14
1 When Joab, son of Zeruiah, observed how the king felt toward Absalom,
责鲁雅的儿子约阿布看透了君王怀念阿贝沙隆的心，
2 he sent to Tekoa and brought from there a gifted woman, to whom he said: ＂Pretend to be in mourning. Put on mourning apparel and do not anoint yourself with oil, that you may appear to be a woman who has been long in mourning for a departed one.
就派人到特科亚去，从那里叫来一位明智的妇人，对她说：＂请妳装作一个居丧的妇人，穿上丧服，别抹油，像一个为死者居丧很久的妇人，
3 Then go to the king and speak to him in this manner.＂ And Joab instructed her what to say.
然后去见君王，对他这样这样说 ＂约阿布就把要说的话，口授给她。
4 So the woman of Tekoa went to the king and fell prostrate to the ground in homage, saying, ＂Help, your majesty!＂
科特亚的妇人一来到君王前，便俯伏在地，叩拜喊说：＂大王，救命！＂
5 The king said to her, ＂What do you want?＂ She replied: ＂Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
君王对她说：＂妳有什么事？＂她答说：＂哎！我是个寡妇，我的丈夫死了。
6 Your servant had two sons, who quarreled in the field. There being no one to part them, one of them struck his brother and killed him.
你的婢女有两个儿子，他们俩在田野里争斗，无人解劝，彼此对打，竟将一个打死了。
7 1 Then the whole clan confronted your servant and demanded: ‘Give up the one who killed his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has slain; we must extinguish the heir also.' Thus they will quench my remaining hope and leave my husband neither name nor posterity upon the earth.＂
全族的人都起来反对你的婢女说：将那打死自己兄弟的交出来，让我们杀了他，抵偿他所杀的兄弟的命，既便是后嗣，我们也要消灭。这样，他们连我所剩下的一星之火，也要熄灭，不让我的丈夫在世上留名，或者留后＂。
8 The king then said to the woman: ＂Go home. I will issue a command on your behalf.＂
君王对妇人说：＂妳回家去吧！我会为妳下令查办＂。
9 The woman of Tekoa answered him, ＂Let me and my family be to blame, my lord king; you and your throne are innocent.＂
特科亚的妇人立即对君王说：＂我主，大王！愿此罪归于我及我父家，与大王，与陛下无干＂。
10 Then the king said, ＂If anyone says a word to you, have him brought to me, and he shall not touch you again.＂
君王说：＂凡向妳再出言恐吓的，你把他带到我这里来，谁也不敢再麻烦妳了＂。
11 But she went on to say, ＂Please, your majesty, keep in mind the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood may not go too far in destruction and that my son may not be done away with.＂ He replied, ＂As the LORD lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.＂
她继续说：＂望大王提及上主你的天主名，不许报复血仇的人再从事破坏，不将我的儿子消灭＂。他答说：＂我指着永生的上主起誓：妳儿子的一根头发，也决不会落在地上＂。
12 The woman continued, ＂Please let your servant say still another word to my lord the king.＂ He replied, ＂Speak.＂
妇人接着说：＂望我主大王，许你的婢女再进一言！＂他答说：＂说吧！＂
13 So the woman said: ＂Why, then, do you think of this same kind of thing against the people of God? In pronouncing as he has, the king shows himself guilty, for not bringing back his own banished son.
妇人说：＂为什么大王想出这样的事来，反对天主的百姓。君王说出这话，若不将自己放逐的人召回来，就不免有罪了！
14 2 We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back life, he does take thought how not to banish anyone from him.
我们原来都该死，如同泼在地，上的水，不能再收回，天主也不再给人生命；所以大王要设法不使那放逐的人，成为一个永不能再回家的人。
15 And now, if I have presumed to speak of this matter to your majesty, it is because the people have given me cause to fear. And so your servant thought: 'Let me speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the petition of his maidservant.
我现今到这里来，向我主大王提及此事，是因为有些人恐吓我，为此你的婢女想：我得向君王说明，也许君王会实践他婢女的请求。
16 For the king must surely consent to free his servant from the grasp of one who would seek to destroy me and my son as well from God's inheritance.'＂
因为大王必会听从我，从那由天主产业中铲除我和我儿子之人的手中，救出自己的婢女来。
17 3 And the woman concluded: ＂Let the word of my lord the king provide a resting place; indeed, my lord the king is like an angel of God, evaluating good and bad. The LORD your God be with you.＂
所以你的婢女说：我主大王的话，实能安慰人心，因为我主大王对于分辨善恶，实如同天主的使者。望上主你的天主，与你同在！＂
18 The king answered the woman, ＂Now do not conceal from me anything I may ask you!＂ The woman said, ＂Let my lord the king speak.＂
君王回答妇人说：＂我有一事问妳，妳可不要对我隐瞒＂。妇人答说：＂我主大王，请说！＂
19 So the king asked, ＂Is Joab involved with you in all this?＂ And the woman answered: ＂As you live, my lord the king, it is just as your majesty has said, and not otherwise. It was your servant Joab who instructed me and told your servant all these things she was to say.
君王问说：＂在这一切事上，是不是约阿布的手在妳后面？＂妇人答说：＂我大王万岁！我主君王所说的，丝毫不差，正是你的仆人约阿布吩咐了我，是他将这一切话，口授给你的婢女。
20 Your servant Joab did this to come at the issue in a roundabout way. But my lord is as wise as an angel of God, so that he knows all things on earth.＂
使事实改变真相的，确是你的仆人约阿布所做的；但是我主贤明，贤明得如同天主的使者，晓得地上所有的事＂。
21 Then the king said to Joab: ＂I hereby grant this request. Go, therefore, and bring back young Absalom.＂
王便对约阿布说：＂好，现在我就履行此事，召回孩子阿贝沙隆来！＂
22 Falling prostrate to the ground in homage and blessing the king, Joab said, ＂This day I know that I am in good favor with you, my lord the king, since the king has granted the request of his servant.＂
约阿布就俯首至地，叩拜祝福君王，随后说：＂我主大王，今日你的仆人知道，我在你眼前获得了宠幸，因为大王实践了他仆人的请求＂。
23 Joab then went off to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
约阿布就起身，往革叔尔去，将阿贝沙隆领回耶路撒冷。
24 But the king said, ＂Let him go to his own house; he shall not appear before me.＂ So Absalom went off to his house and did not appear before the king.
君王说：＂叫他回自己家里去罢！不要让他来见我＂。于是阿贝沙隆回到自己家里，没有见君王的面。
25 In all Israel there was not a man who could so be praised for his beauty as Absalom, who was without blemish from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
在全以色列民中，没有一人像阿贝沙隆那样英俊，堪受赞美的，在他身上，自踵至顶，没有一点缺陷。
26 When he shaved his head--which he used to do at the end of every year, because his hair became too heavy for him--the hair weighed two hundred shekels according to the royal standard.
他剪发以后，──他每年年底剪发一次，因为头上积发太多，他必须剪去，──称了称剪的头发，依王家的衡制，重二百＂协刻耳＂。
27 Absalom had three sons born to him, besides a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
阿贝沙隆有三个儿子，一个女儿；女儿名叫塔玛尔，是个容貌很美丽的女子。
28 Absalom lived in Jerusalem for two years without appearing before the king.
阿贝沙隆在耶路撒冷住了两年，仍未得见君王的面。
29 Then he summoned Joab to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. Although he summoned him a second time, Joab refused to come.
阿贝沙隆遂派人到约阿布那里，求他引自己去见君王。但是，约阿布不愿到他那里去，他又派人去，他仍是不肯来。
30 He therefore instructed his servants: ＂You see Joab's field that borders mine, on which he has barley. Go, set it on fire.＂ And so Absalom's servants set the field on fire. Joab's farmhands came to him with torn garments and reported to him what had been done.
他于是对自己的仆人说：＂你们看，约阿布的庄田与我的相接，他在那里种了大麦，你们去放火烧田＂。阿贝沙隆的仆人于是放火烧了田。
31 At this, Joab went to Absalom in his house and asked him, ＂Why have your servants set my field on fire?＂
约阿布就起身来到阿贝沙隆的家里，对他说：＂你的仆人为什么烧了我的田？＂
32 Absalom answered Joab: ＂I was summoning you to come here, that I may send you to the king to say: 'Why did I come back from Geshur? I would be better off if I were still there!' Now, let me appear before the king. If I am guilty, let him put me to death.＂
阿贝沙隆回答约阿布说：＂看，我派人到你那里说：请你到我这里来，我愿派你去见君王，问他为什么叫我从革叔尔回来？假如我仍留在那里，为我岂不更好？！如今我愿见君王的面，我若有罪，他可杀我！＂
33 Joab went to the king and reported this. The king then called Absalom, who came to him and in homage fell on his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed him.
约阿布便去见君王，禀告了这些话。王遂召见阿贝沙隆；他来到君王前，俯首至地，叩拜君王；君王就吻了阿贝沙隆。
Footnotes(注解)
1 [7] Hope: literally, ＂glowing coal.＂ The image is similar to that of the lighted lamp, e.g., Psalm 89:17 to keep alive the ancestral name.
2 [14] How not to banish: a possible allusion to the religious institution of cities of refuge for involuntary murderers; see Numbers 35:9-15
3 [17] A resting place: cf Psalm 95:11; Hebrews 3:7-4, 11. The reference here is to a return home for Absalom to Israel.
Chapter 15
1 After this Absalom provided himself with chariots, horses, and fifty henchmen.
这事以后，阿贝沙隆准备了车辆和骏马，并叫五十个人为他开道。
2 Moreover, Absalom used to rise early and stand alongside the road leading to the gate. If someone had a lawsuit to be decided by the king, Absalom would call to him and say, ＂From what city are you?＂ And when he replied, ＂Your servant is of such and such a tribe of Israel,＂
阿贝沙隆常清早起来，站在进城门的大路旁；凡有争讼，要到君王前去要求裁判的人，阿贝沙隆就把他叫到自己跟前来问说：＂你是那一城里的人？＂他答说：＂你仆人是以色列某支派的人＂。
3 Absalom would say to him, ＂Your suit is good and just, but there is no one to hear you in the king's name.＂
阿贝沙隆就向他说：＂看你的案件是正直有理的，但是君王没有派人来听取你的案件＂。
4 And he would continue: ＂If only I could be appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a lawsuit to be decided might come to me and I would render him justice.＂
阿贝沙隆又接着说：＂唉！谁若立我作了国家的判官，凡是有诉讼和案件的，来到我这里，我必使他获得公正的裁判＂。
5 Whenever a man approached him to show homage, he would extend his hand, hold him, and kiss him.
若有人近前来叩拜他，他就伸手将他抱住，与他亲吻。
6 By behaving in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king for judgment, Absalom was stealing away the loyalties of the men of Israel.
凡是要到君王前去告状的以色列人，阿贝沙隆总是这样对待他们；如此他获得了以色列人的心。
7 After a period of four years, Absalom said to the king: ＂Allow me to go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.
四年以后，阿贝沙隆向君王说：＂我求大王让我去赫贝龙，向上主还我所许的愿，
8 For while living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made this vow: 'If the LORD ever brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship him in Hebron.'＂
因为你的仆人住在阿兰革叔尔时，曾许愿说：若上主领我再回耶路撒冷，我要在赫贝龙崇拜上主＂。
9 The king wished him a safe journey, and he went off to Hebron.
君王向他说：＂你平安去吧！＂他便起身，便往赫贝龙去了。
10 Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel to say, ＂When you hear the sound of the horn, declare Absalom king in Hebron.＂
阿贝沙隆打发特务到以色列各支派说：＂你们一听见号声，就喊说：阿贝沙隆在赫贝龙为王了！＂
11 Two hundred men had accompanied Absalom from Jerusalem. They had been invited and went in good faith, knowing nothing of the plan.
由耶路撒冷与阿贝沙隆同来的，还有二百人，他们因为被请，就好心好意的来了，对于事情的真相，却一点不知。
12 Absalom also sent to Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, an invitation to come from his town, Giloh, for the sacrifices he was about to offer. So the conspiracy gained strength, and the people with Absalom increased in numbers.
当阿贝沙隆祭献时，就派人将达味的参谋，基罗人阿希托费耳由他的本城基罗请来参与祭祀。这样，叛乱就更形扩大，随从阿贝沙隆的民众也逐渐加多。
13 An informant came to David with the report, ＂The Israelites have transferred their loyalty to Absalom.＂
有报信的人来到达味前说：＂以色列人的心都归向阿贝沙隆了＂。
14 At this, David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem: ＂Up! Let us take flight, or none of us will escape from Absalom. Leave quickly, lest he hurry and overtake us, then visit disaster upon us and put the city to the sword.＂
达味就对所有跟在耶路撒冷的臣仆说：＂我们赶快逃跑，不然，我们就来不及逃避阿贝沙隆了。你们赶快上路，免得他忽然赶到，残害我们，用刀屠杀全城的人＂。
15 The king's officers answered him, ＂Your servants are ready, whatever our lord the king chooses to do.＂
王的臣仆向君王说：＂凡我主大王所决定的，你的臣仆必都照办＂。
16 Then the king set out, accompanied by his entire household, except for ten concubines whom he left behind to take care of the palace.
君王带着全家徒步出走，只留下十个嫔妃看守王宫。
17 As the king left the city, with all his officers accompanying him, they halted opposite the ascent of the Mount of Olives, at a distance,
君王徒步前行，他的军民都跟着他；到了最后的住宅区，君王站住了。
18 while the whole army marched past him.As all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and the six hundred men of Gath who had accompanied him from that city, were passing in review before the king,
所有的军民都由他身边走过，所有的革勒提人和培肋提人，还有从加特跟随依泰来的六百人，也都由君王面前过去。
19 he said to Ittai the Gittite: ＂Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and you, too, are an exile from your own country.
君王逐向加特人依泰说：＂你为什麽也同我们一起出走？你回去协同新王罢！因为你是个离乡背井的，流徙在外的侨民。
20 You came only yesterday, and shall I have you wander about with us today, wherever I have to go? Return and take your brothers with you, and may the LORD be kind and faithful to you.＂
你昨天来了，今天我就要你同我们一起漂流吗？我还不知道我要往哪里去？你领着你的兄弟们一起回去罢！愿上主以仁慈忠诚对待你！＂
21 But Ittai answered the king, ＂As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, your servant shall be wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life.＂
依泰回答君王说：＂上主永在！我主大王万岁！在我主大王所在的地方，无论生死，你的仆人也必在那里！＂
22 So the king said to Ittai, ＂Go, then, march on.＂ And Ittai the Gittite, with all his men and all the dependents that were with him, marched on.
达味向依泰说：＂好，你过去吧！＂加特人依泰与他率领的人民，和他全家也都过去了。
23 Everyone in the countryside wept aloud as the last of the soldiers went by, and the king crossed the Kidron Valley with all the soldiers moving on ahead of him by way of the Mount of Olives, toward the desert.
人民过去时，遍地一片哭声；君王停在克德龙谷中，人民在他面前过去，向旷野的路上走去。
24 Zadok, too (with all the Levite bearers of the ark of the covenant of God), and Abiathar brought the ark of God to a halt until the soldiers had marched out of the city.
匝多克和所有的肋未人抬着天主的结约之柜来了，他们把天主的约柜放在厄贝雅塔尔面前，等由城中出来的人民全都走过。
25 Then the king said to Zadok: ＂Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor with the LORD, he will bring me back and permit me to see it and its lodging.
君王对匝多克说：＂你将天主的约柜抬回城去，放在原处！若我在上主眼中蒙恩，衪必会领我回来，再能见约柜和衪的圣所。
26 But if he should say,‘I am not pleased with you,' I am ready; let him do to me as he sees fit.＂
但若上主说：我不喜欢你，看，我在这里，衪看着怎样好，就怎样处置我罢！＂
27 The king also said to the priest Zadok: ＂See to it that you and Abiathar return to the city in peace, and both your sons with you, your own son Ahimaaz, and Abiathar's son Jonathan.
君王又向匝多克司祭说＂看，你和厄贝雅塔尔可以平安回城，你的儿子阿希玛兹和厄贝雅塔尔的儿子约纳堂，你们的两个儿子，也应随你们回去。
28 Remember, I shall be waiting at the fords near the desert until I receive information from you.＂
我愿在旷野中的渡口暂且住下，等你们来给我报告消息＂。
29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and remained there.
匝多克和厄贝, 雅塔尔抬着天主的约柜回了耶路撒冷，且住在那里。
30 As David went up the Mount of Olives, he wept without ceasing. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. All those who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went.
以后，达味上了橄榄山：一边上，一边哭，蒙着头，赤着脚；随着他的人民也都蒙着头，哭着上山。
31 When David was informed that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom, he said, ＂O LORD, turn the counsel of Ahithophel to folly!＂
忽有人报告达味说：＂阿希托费耳也跟随了阿贝沙隆，杂在叛党中＂。达味遂说：＂上主，我求你使阿希托费耳的计谋转为愚策＂。
32 When David reached the top, where men used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him, with rent garments and dirt upon his head.
达味一到了山顶，敬拜天主的地方，见他的朋友阿尔基人胡瑟穿著撕裂的衣服，头上顶灰，出来迎接他。
33 David said to him: ＂If you come with me, you will be a burden to me.
达味向他说：＂你若跟随我，为我反是负担；
34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'Let me be your servant, O king; I was formerly your father's servant, but now I will be yours,' you will undo for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
但你若回去，向阿贝沙隆说：大王，我愿作你的仆人，先前我是你父亲的仆人，如今我作你的仆人；这样你反能为我破坏阿希托费耳的计谋。
35 You will have the priests Zadok and Abiathar there with you. If you hear anything from the royal palace, you shall report it to the priests Zadok and Abiathar,
在那里同你一起的，还有司祭匝多克和厄贝雅塔尔凡你在王宫听到的一切，你就通知匝多克和厄贝雅塔尔司祭。
36 who have there with them both Zadok's son Ahimaaz and Abiathar's son Jonathan. Through them you shall send on to me whatever you hear.＂
与他们在一起的，还有他们的两个儿子，匝多克的儿子阿希玛兹和厄贝雅塔尔的儿子约纳堂，托他们把你们所听到的传报给我＂。
37 So David's friend Hushai went into the city of Jerusalem as Absalom was about to enter it.
达味的朋友胡瑟就回了城，同时阿贝沙隆也到了耶路撒冷。
Chapter 16
1 David had gone a little beyond the top when Ziba, the servant of Meribbaal, met him with saddled asses laden with two hundred loaves of bread, an ephah of cakes of pressed raisins, an ephah of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
达味刚走过山顶不远，看，默黎巴耳的仆人漆巴正牵着一对备好鞍子的驴，驮着两百个饼，一百串葡萄干，一百鲜果和一皮囊酒，前来迎接君王。
2 The king said to Ziba, ＂What do you plan to do with these?＂ Ziba replied: ＂The asses are for the king's household to ride on. The bread and summer fruits are for your servants to eat, and the wine for those to drink who are weary in the desert.＂
君王对漆巴说：＂你带这些东西来作什么？＂漆巴说：＂驴是为君王的家眷骑的，饼和水果是为僮仆吃的，酒是为在旷野里疲倦了的人喝的＂。
3 Then the king said, ＂And where is your lord's son?＂ Ziba answered the king, ＂He is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Now the Israelites will restore to me my father's kingdom.'＂
君王问说：＂你主人的儿子在哪里？＂漆巴回答君王说：＂他仍留在耶路撒冷，因为他说：今日以色列家会将我父亲的王位归还给我了！＂
4 The king therefore said to Ziba, ＂So! Everything Meribbaal had is yours.＂ Then Ziba said: ＂I pay you homage, my lord the king. May I find favor with you!＂
君王对漆巴说：＂看，凡属默黎巴耳的，都归你所有！＂漆巴答说：＂我屈膝叩拜我主大王！愿我在你眼中获得宠幸＂。
5 As David was approaching Bahurim, a man named Shimei, the son of Gera of the same clan as Saul's family, was coming out of the place, cursing as he came.
达味王来到巴胡陵时看，出来一个撒乌耳家族的人，是革辣的儿子，名叫史米的。他骂着走来，
6 He threw stones at David and at all the king's officers, even though all the soldiers, including the royal guard, were on David's right and on his left.
投石袭击达味和达味王的众臣仆，虽然百姓和勇士都围在王的左右，他毫不畏惧。
7 Shimei was saying as he cursed: ＂Away, away, you murderous and wicked man!
史米这样骂君王说：＂滚吧！滚吧！你这个杀人王！你这个败类！
8 1 The LORD has requited you for all the bloodshed in the family of Saul, in whose stead you became king, and the LORD has given over the kingdom to your son Absalom. And now you suffer ruin because you are a murderer.＂
上主将撒乌耳一家的血都归在你身上，你夺了他的王位，现在，上主将王权交在你儿子阿贝沙隆手里，使你陷入绝境，足见你是个杀人王＂。
9 Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king: ＂Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, please, and lop off his head.＂
责鲁雅的儿子阿彼瑟对君王说：＂为什么让这死狗辱骂我主大王？让我去砍下他的头来！＂
10 But the king replied: ＂What business is it of mine or of yours, sons of Zeruiah, that he curses? Suppose the LORD has told him to curse David; who then will dare to say, 'Why are you doing this?'＂
君王说：＂责鲁雅的儿子，我和我和你们有什么关系？让他骂吧！如果上主吩咐他说：你咒骂达味！谁还敢说：你为什么这样做？＂
11 Then the king said to Abishai and to all his servants: ＂If my own son, who came forth from my loins, is seeking my life, how much more might this Benjaminite do so! Let him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.
达味对阿彼瑟和他的众臣仆说：＂唉！我亲生的儿子，尚且谋害我的生命，这个本雅明人更将如何？让他骂吧！因为上主吩咐了他。
12 Perhaps the LORD will look upon my affliction and make it up to me with benefits for the curses he is uttering this day.＂
也许上主会怜视我的困苦，会将他今日的咒骂，变成我的幸福＂。
13 David and his men continued on the road, while Shimei kept abreast of them on the hillside, all the while cursing and throwing stones and dirt as he went.
达味与跟随自己的人沿路前行，史米也沿着山麓与他平排进行，边走边骂，向他拋石撒土。
14 The king and all the soldiers with him arrived at the Jordan tired out, and stopped there for a rest.
君王与跟随他的众人，来到约旦河岸，十分疲倦，就在那里暂且休息。
15 In the meantime Absalom, accompanied by Ahithophel, entered Jerusalem with all the Israelites.
阿贝沙隆与跟随他的众以色列人进了耶路撒冷，阿希托费耳也同他在一起，
16 When David's friend Hushai the Archite came to Absalom, he said to him: ＂Long live the king! Long live the king!＂
当达味的朋友阿尔基人胡瑟来见阿贝沙隆时，便对阿贝沙隆说：＂大王万岁！＂大王万岁！＂
17 But Absalom asked Hushai: ＂Is this your devotion to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?＂
阿贝沙隆对胡瑟说：＂这是你对你朋友的恩情吗？为什么没有去跟随你的朋友？＂
18 Hushai replied to Absalom: ＂On the contrary, I am his whom the LORD and all this people and all Israel have chosen, and with him I will stay.
胡瑟回答阿贝沙隆说：＂不，因为凡上主和这个民族以及全以色列人所拣选的，我就归顺他，与他住在一起。
19 Furthermore, as I was in attendance upon your father, so will I be before you. Whom should I serve, if not his son?＂
再者，我要事奉的是谁呢？不是他儿子吗？先前我怎样服事了你父亲，如今也愿怎样服事你＂。
20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, ＂Offer your counsel on what we should do.＂
阿贝沙隆对阿希托费耳说：＂你们商讨一下，我们该作什么？＂
21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom: ＂Have relations with your father's concubines, whom he left behind to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears how odious you have made yourself to your father, all your partisans will take courage.＂
阿希托费耳对阿贝沙隆说：＂你应去亲近你父亲留下看守宫殿的嫔妃，叫全以色列人知道你已惹下了你父亲的仇恨，那些支持你的人，就必更加坚强＂。
22 So a tent was pitched on the roof for Absalom, and he visited his father's concubines in view of all Israel.
于是人们在屋顶上，给阿贝沙隆支搭了一座帐棚；阿贝沙隆当着众以色列人的面，亲近了他父亲的嫔妃。
23 Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that time was as though one had sought divine revelation. Such was all his counsel both to David and to Absalom.
那时，阿希托费耳所出的主意，好象是询问天主得来的神谕。凡阿希托费耳所出的主意，无论对达味，或对阿贝沙隆，都是如此。
Footnotes（注解）
1 [8] Bloodshed . . . Saul: refers to the episode recounted in 2 Sam 21:1-14.
Chapter 17
1 Ahithophel went on to say to Absalom: ＂Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and be off in pursuit of David tonight.
阿希托费耳向说：＂让我选拔一万二千人，今夜起程去追赶达味。
2 If I come upon him when he is weary and discouraged, I shall cause him panic. When all the people with him flee, I shall strike down the king alone.
正当他困乏疲倦时，我忽然赶到，使他惊惶失措，随从他的人，必会逃散，我只把君王一人杀了，
3 Then I can bring back the rest of the people to you, as a bride returns to her husband. It is the death of only one man you are seeking; then all the people will be at peace.＂
然后人民来归顺你，像新娘回到新郎那里；你只须害一人的性命，全民众就都平安无事了＂。
4 This plan was agreeable to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.
阿贝沙隆和以色列的众长老，对这提议都很赞成。
5 Then Absalom said, ＂Now call Hushai the Archite also; let us hear what he too has to say.＂
阿贝沙隆说：＂请把阿尔基人胡瑟召来，我们也愿听听他说什么＂。
6 When Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him: ＂This is what Ahithophel proposed. Shall we follow his proposal? If not, speak up.＂
胡瑟来到阿贝沙隆前，阿贝沙隆向他说：＂阿希托费耳说出这样的话，我们应按他的建议去行吗？若不，请你提议吧！＂
7 Hushai replied to Absalom, ＂This time Ahithophel has not given good counsel.＂
胡瑟回答阿贝沙隆说：＂阿希托费耳这次所出的计谋却不妙＂。
8 And he went on to say: ＂You know that your father and his men are warriors, and that they are as fierce as a bear in the wild robbed of her cubs. Moreover, since your father is skilled in warfare, he will not spend the night with the people.
胡瑟接着说：＂你知道你父亲和随从他的人，都是勇将，现在心情恼怒，好象田野间丧子的母熊；何况，你父亲又是历经战阵的人，夜间决不会让军民安睡。
9 Even now he lies hidden in one of the caves or in some other place. And if some of our soldiers should fall at the first attack, whoever hears of it will say, 'Absalom's followers have been slaughtered.'
他现今必藏在一个山洞里，或另一个地方；若起初我们的人就有伤亡，人们听见必要说：跟随阿贝沙隆的人，惨遭失败；
10 Then even the brave man with the heart of a lion will lose courage. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.
那么，连性情凶猛如狮子的壮士，也要灰心丧胆，因为全以色列人都知道你父亲是个勇将，跟随他的人，也都是些骁勇的人。
11 ＂This is what I counsel: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba, who are as numerous as the sands by the sea, be called up for combat; and go with them yourself.
我的计划，是先把所有的以色列人集合在你身边，从丹直到贝尔舍巴，像海边沙粒那样多，然后由你亲自率领，前去征讨；
12 We can then attack him wherever we find him, settling down upon him as dew alights on the ground. None shall survive——neither he nor any of his followers.
他不论到那里，我们也突然到那里；像露降在地上一样袭击他，使他和随从他的人一个也不留下。
13 And if he retires into a city, all Israel shall bring ropes to that city and we can drag it into the gorge, so that not even a pebble of it can be found.＂
若他退入一座城内，全以色列就带着绳索去攻击那城，将那城拉到山谷里，连一块小石也不剩下＂。
14 Then Absalom and all the Israelites pronounced the counsel of Hushai the Archite better than that of Ahithophel. For the LORD had decided to undo Ahithophel's good counsel, in order thus to bring Absalom to ruin.
阿贝沙隆和全以色列人都说：＂阿尔基人胡瑟的计谋比阿希托费耳的更为可取＂。原是上主决定了要破坏阿希托费耳的好计谋，为给阿贝沙隆降下灾祸。
15 Then Hushai said to the priests Zadok and Abiathar: ＂This is the counsel Ahithophel gave Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I counseled.
随后，胡瑟报告匝多克和厄贝雅塔尔说：＂阿希托费耳给阿贝沙隆和以色列长老出了那样的计谋，我却出了这样的计谋。
16 So send a warning to David immediately, not to spend the night at the fords near the desert, but to cross over without fail. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be destroyed.＂
现在，快派人去报告达味说：今夜不可在旷野的渡口露宿，要赶快过河，免得君王和随从他的人民都遭歼灭＂。
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, since they could not risk being seen entering the city. A maidservant was to come with information for them, and they in turn were to go and report to King David.
那时，约纳堂和阿希玛兹已在洛革耳泉傍等候，因怕被人看见，不敢进城；有个使女出来给他们传信，他们就去报告达味君王。
18 But an attendant saw them and informed Absalom. They sped on their way and reached the house of a man in Bahurim who had a cistern in his courtyard. They let themselves down into this,
但有一个少年人看见了他们，便向阿贝沙隆报告了；他们二人就急速逃匿，来到巴胡陵的一个人家里，他院子里有一口井，他们便下到井里。
19 and the housewife took the cover and spread it over the cistern, strewing ground grain on the cover so that nothing could be noticed.
那家的妇人取了一个盖子盖在井口上，盖子上又撒上了些麦粒，免得有人注意。
20 When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, ＂Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?＂ The woman replied, ＂They went by a short while ago toward the water.＂ They searched, but found no one, and so returned to Jerusalem.
阿贝沙隆的差役来到那家的妇人前问说：＂阿希玛兹和约纳堂在哪里？那妇人答说：＂他们早过了蓄水池＂。差役就去搜索他们，却没有找着，便回了耶路撒冷。
21 As soon as they left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan came up out of the cistern and went on to inform King David. They said to him: ＂Leave! Cross the water at once, for Ahithophel has given the following counsel in regard to you.＂
差役走了以后，两人就从井里上来；去给达味君王报信，对达味说：＂起身，赶快过河，因为阿希托费耳为害你们出了这样的计谋＂。
22 So David and all his people moved on and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed.
达味和随从他的人就起身过了约旦河。到天亮时，没有一个没有过约旦河的。
23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not acted upon, he saddled his ass and departed, going to his home in his own city. Then, having left orders concerning his family, he hanged himself. And so he died and was buried in his father's tomb.
阿希托费耳见人不依从他的计谋，就备上驴，动身回家，回了本城，安排了自己的家务以后，就上吊死了。人将他埋在他父亲的坟墓里。
24 Now David had gone to Mahanaim when Absalom crossed the Jordan accompanied by all the Israelites.
阿贝沙隆率领众以色列人过约旦河时，达味已到了玛哈纳殷。
25 Absalom had put Amasa in command of the army in Joab's place. Amasa was the son of an Ishmaelite named Ithra, who had married Abigail, daughter of Jesse and sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah.
阿贝沙隆派阿玛撒代约阿布为统帅。阿玛撒是依市玛耳人依特辣的儿子。依特辣曾走近过叶瑟的女儿，约阿布的母亲，责鲁雅的姐妹阿彼盖耳。
26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the territory of Gilead.
以色列人同阿贝沙隆在基肋阿得一带扎了营。
27 When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi, son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir, son of Ammiel from Lodebar, and Barzillai, the Gileadite from Rogelim,
当达味来到玛哈纳殷时，纳哈士的儿子芍彼，由阿孟子民的辣巴城，阿米尔的儿子玛基尔由罗德巴尔城，基肋阿得人巴尔齐来由洛革林城，
28 brought couches, coverlets, basins and earthenware, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
带来了床、铺盖、杯盘、炊具、小麦、大麦、面粉、炒麦、豆子、扁豆、
29 honey, butter and cheese from the flocks and herds, for David and those who were with him to eat; for they said, ＂The people have been hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert.＂
蜂蜜、奶油、奶饼、牛肉和羊肉，供给达味和随从他的人吃用，因为他们想：这些人经过了旷野，必定感到饥渴和疲劳。
Chapter 18
1 After mustering the troops he had with him, David placed officers in command of groups of a thousand and groups of a hundred.
达味检阅了跟随他的人，给他们委派了千夫长和百夫长，
2 David then put a third part of the soldiers under Joab's command, a third under command of Abishai, son of Zeruiah and brother of Joab, and a third under command of Ittai the Gittite. The king then said to the soldiers, ＂I intend to go out with you myself.＂
将军人分为三队：一队由约阿布率领，一队由责鲁雅的儿子，约阿布的兄弟阿彼瑟率领，一队由加特人依泰率领；然后君王对军人说：＂我自己也要同你们一起出征＂。
3 But they replied: ＂You must not come out with us. For if we should flee, we shall not count; even if half of us should die, we shall not count. You are equal to ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that we have you to help us from the city.＂
军人回答说：＂你万不可去！因为若我们逃散，无人对我们介意，既使我们死了一半，也无人对我们介意；但是，你一个却抵我们一万，所以，现今你更好留在城内，设法援助我们＂。
4 So the king said to them, ＂I will do what you think best＂; and he stood by the gate as all the soldiers marched out in units of a hundred and of a thousand.
君王对他们说：＂你们看着怎样好，我就怎样做＂。君王站在门旁，军人整队出发，或百人一组，或千人一组？
5 But the king gave this command to Joab, Abishai and Ittai: ＂Be gentle with young Absalom for my sake.＂ All the soldiers heard the king instruct the various leaders with regard to Absalom.
君王命令约阿布、阿彼瑟和依泰说：＂对少年阿贝沙隆，你们应给我留情＂。军人都听见了君王关于阿贝沙隆，给众将领所出的命令。
6 David's army then took the field against Israel, and a battle was fought in the forest near Mahanaim.
军人出发，来到平原，攻打以色列；在厄弗辣因森林发生了战事。
7 The forces of Israel were defeated by David's servants, and the casualties there that day were heavy--twenty thousand men.
以色列人在那里为达味的臣仆打败，那天死伤惨重，阵亡的有二万人。
8 The battle spread out over that entire region, and the thickets consumed more combatants that day than did the sword.
战争蔓廷全境，树林内死的人，比刀剑所杀的人还多。
9 Absalom unexpectedly came up against David's servants. He was mounted on a mule, and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth, his hair caught fast in the tree. He hung between heaven and earth while the mule he had been riding ran off.
阿贝沙隆正遇上了达味的臣仆，他那时骑着一匹骡子，由大橡树的丛枝下经过，他的头发被橡树枝缠住，身悬在天地间，所骑的骡子已跑走。
10 Someone saw this and reported to Joab that he had seen Absalom hanging from a terebinth.
有一个人看见，就告诉约阿布说：＂我看见阿贝沙隆悬在橡树上＂。
11 Joab said to his informant: ＂If you saw him, why did you not strike him to the ground on the spot? Then it would have been my duty to give you fifty pieces of silver and a belt.＂
约阿布对那向他报信的人说：＂你看见了，为什么不在那里把他砍倒在地？那么我必赏你十＂协刻耳＂银子和一条腰带＂。
12 But the man replied to Joab: ＂Even if I already held a thousand pieces of silver in my two hands, I would not harm the king's son, for the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai in our hearing to protect the youth Absalom for his sake.
那人对约阿布说：＂即使人交在我手里一千＂协刻耳＂银子，我也不愿伸手加害君王的儿子，因为我们亲耳听见君王吩咐你、阿彼瑟和依泰说：你们应为了我，保全少年阿贝沙隆。
13 Had I been disloyal and killed him, the whole matter would have come to the attention of the king, and you would stand aloof.＂
并且，若我冒性命的危险，做错了事，也决不能瞒过君王，那时你也许不会保护我＂。
14 Joab replied, ＂I will not waste time with you in this way.＂ And taking three pikes in hand, he thrust for the heart of Absalom, still hanging from the tree alive.
约阿布说：＂不愿在你面前这样耽搁时间！＂他就手里拿了三根短箭，射在阿贝沙隆心中，那时，他在橡树上还活着。
15 Next, ten of Joab's young armor-bearers closed in on Absalom, and killed him with further blows.
约阿布的十个持戟少年围上前来，将阿贝沙隆击毙。
16 Joab then sounded the horn, and the soldiers turned back from the pursuit of the Israelites, because Joab called on them to halt.
约阿布遂吹起号角，军人便回来，不再追赶以色列人，因为约阿布愿顾惜人民。
17 Absalom was taken up and cast into a deep pit in the forest, and a very large mound of stones was erected over him. And all the Israelites fled to their own tents.
人们取下阿贝沙隆，将他丢在树林中的一个大坑内，在他上面堆上了一大堆石头。众以色列人各自逃回本家去了。
18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it for himself in the King's Valley, for he said, ＂I have no son to perpetuate my name.＂ The pillar which he named for himself is called Yadabshalom to the present day.
阿贝沙隆活着时，在君王山谷就曾为自己建立一石柱说：＂我没有儿子，来怀念我的名字；＂所以他给那石柱起了自己的名字。直至今日，人还称那石柱为阿贝沙隆纪念碑。
19 Then Ahimaaz, son of Zadok, said, ＂Let me run to take the good news to the king that the LORD has set him free from the grasp of his enemies.＂
匝多克的儿子阿希玛兹对约阿布说：＂让我跑去，将上主对王的仇敌替王伸冤的喜信，禀报给君王＂。
20 But Joab said to him: ＂You are not the man to bring the news today. On some other day you may take the good news, but today you would not be bringing good news, for in fact the king's son is dead.＂
约阿布却对他说：＂今日你不是报喜信的人，改天再去报吧！因为君王的儿子死了，今日你不可去报信＂。
21 Then Joab said to a Cushite, ＂Go, tell the king what you have seen.＂ The Cushite bowed to Joab and sped away.
约阿布遂对一个雇士人说：＂你去将所见的事报告君王＂。雇士人就拜别约阿布跑去报信。
22 But Ahimaaz, son of Zadok, said to Joab again, ＂Come what may, permit me also to run after the Cushite.＂ Joab replied: ＂Why do you want to run, my son? You will receive no reward.＂
匝多克的儿子阿希玛兹又对约阿布说：＂无论如何，我得跟着雇士人去！＂约阿布答说：＂为什么你要去？我儿，为这喜讯你得不到什么报酬！＂
23 But he insisted, ＂Come what may, I want to run.＂ Joab said to him, ＂Very well.＂ Ahimaaz sped off by way of the Jordan plain and outran the Cushite.
他说：＂我无论如何要去！＂他答说：＂去罢！＂阿希玛兹就沿着约旦平原的大路跑去，跑过了雇士人。
24 Now David was sitting between the two gates, and a lookout mounted to the roof of the gate above the city wall, where he looked about and saw a man running all alone.
那时达味正坐在两门中间，守卫士兵上了门楼顶。守卫兵举目一望，见一人独自跑来，
25 The lookout shouted to inform the king, who said, ＂If he is alone, he has good news to report.＂ As he kept coming nearer,
就大声喊叫．报告君王。王说：＂若是一人，必有喜讯传报＂。他越来越近了。
26 the lookout spied another runner. From his place atop the gate he cried out, ＂There is another man running by himself.＂ And the king responded, ＂He, too, is bringing good news.＂
守卫又看见一个人跑来，守卫兵立刻对看门的大声喊说：＂看，又有一人独自跑来＂。王说：＂这也是来报喜信的＂。
27 Then the lookout said, ＂I notice that the first one runs like Ahimaaz, son of Zadok.＂ The king replied, ＂He is a good man; he comes with good news.＂
守卫兵说：＂我看见前一个人的跑法，像匝多克的儿子阿希玛兹的跑法＂。王说：＂他是个好人，必是来报喜信的＂。
28 Then Ahimaaz called out and greeted the king. With face to the ground he paid homage to the king and said, ＂Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who rebelled against my lord the king.＂
阿希玛兹上前对君王说：＂安好！＂就俯首至地，叩拜君王，接着说：＂上主，你的天主是可赞美的，因为他消灭了举手反抗我主大王的人＂。
29 But the king asked, ＂Is the youth Absalom safe?＂ And Ahimaaz replied, ＂I saw a great disturbance when the king's servant Joab sent your servant on, but I do not know what it was.＂
王问说：＂少年阿贝沙隆是否无恙？＂阿希玛兹答说：＂当大王的臣仆约阿布打发你的仆人时，我见有大骚动，但不知是什么事？＂
30 The king said, ＂Step aside and remain in attendance here.＂ So he stepped aside and remained there.
王说：＂你退在一边，站在那里＂。他便退在一边，站在那里
31 When the Cushite came in, he said, ＂Let my lord the king receive the good news that this day the LORD has taken your part, freeing you from the grasp of all who rebelled against you.＂
雇士人也来到了，雇士人说：＂有喜信报告给我主大王！上主今日对一切起来反抗你的人为你伸了冤＂。
32 But the king asked the Cushite, ＂Is young Absalom safe?＂ The Cushite replied, ＂May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rebel against you with evil intent be as that young man!＂
王问雇士人说：＂少年阿贝沙隆是否无恙？＂雇士人答说：＂愿我主大王的仇敌，以及凡心怀恶意起来反抗你的人，都相似这个少年人！＂
Chapter 19
1 The king was shaken, and went up to the room over the city gate to weep. He said as he wept, ＂My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!＂
君王一听这话，不胜悲伤，就上了门楼痛哭；他哭着说：我儿阿贝沙隆！我儿；我儿阿贝沙隆，巴不得我替你死了，我儿阿贝沙隆！我儿！＂
2 Joab was told that the king was weeping and mourning for Absalom;
有人报告约阿布说：＂看，君王在痛哭哀悼阿贝沙隆。＂
3 and that day's victory was turned into mourning for the whole army when they heard that the king was grieving for his son.
那天的胜利为全军竟变成了悲哀，因为他们那天听说君王为自己的儿子悲伤。
4 The soldiers stole into the city that day like men shamed by flight in battle.
因此，那天军人暗暗地进了城，好象由战埸上受辱回来的军队。
5 Meanwhile the king covered his face and cried out in a loud voice, ＂My son Absalom! Absalom! My son, my son!＂
此时君王正在掩面大声哀哭说：＂我儿阿贝沙隆！我儿阿贝沙隆！我儿！＂
6 Then Joab went to his residence and said: ＂Though they saved your life and your sons' and daughters' lives, also the lives of your wives and those of your concubines, you have put all your servants to shame today
约阿布进去对君王说：＂你今天大伤你仆人们的脸面，他们救了你的性命，你儿女的性命，你妻妾的性命；
7 by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. For you have shown today that officers and servants mean nothing to you. Indeed I am now certain that if Absalom were alive today and all of us dead, you would think that more suitable.
然而恨你的，你反而爱他；爱你的，你反恨他。今天你已明确表示：王侯和臣民为你不算什么。我也明明看出：阿贝沙隆今天若能活着，我们都死了，你才安心呢！
8 Now then, get up! Go out and speak kindly to your servants. I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a single man will remain with you overnight, and this will be a far greater disaster for you than any that has afflicted you from your youth until now.＂
现今你快起来，出去，说几句使你仆人们安心的话罢！我指着上主起誓，如果你不出去，今夜再没有一个人同你一起了。这祸患于你要超过你从小至今所遭遇的一切祸患＂。
9 So the king stepped out and sat at the gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the gate, they came into his presence. Now the Israelites had fled to their separate tents,
君王就起来，坐在大门口。遂有人向军民传报说：＂君王已坐在门口！＂军人便都聚齐，来到君王前。
10 but throughout the tribes of Israel all the people were arguing among themselves, saying to one another: ＂The king delivered us from the clutches of our enemies, and it was he who rescued us from the grip of the Philistines. But now he has fled from the country before Absalom,
以色列各自逃回自己的营幕。那时，以色列各支派的民众纷纷议论说：＂君王从仇人手中解救了我们，又从培肋舍特人手中拯救了我们，现在，他竟为逃避阿贝沙隆离开了本国。
11 and Absalom, whom we anointed over us, died in battle. Why, then, should you remain silent about restoring the king to his palace?＂ When the talk of all Israel reached the king,
我们给阿贝沙隆曾傅过油为管理我们，他已经战死。现今你们等什么，还不把君王接回来？＂
12 David sent word to the priests Zadok and Abiathar: ＂Say to the elders of Judah: 'Why should you be last to restore the king to his palace?
全以色列这提议传到君王那里。达味王遂派人对司祭匝多克和厄贝雅塔尔说：＂你们应向犹大长老说：为什么你们等到最后才去迎接君王回宫呢？
13 You are my brothers, you are my bone and flesh. Why should you be last to restore the king?'
你们是我的兄弟，我的骨肉，为什么你们要等到最后才去迎接君王呢？
14 Also say to Amasa: 'Are you not my bone and flesh? May God do thus and so to me, if you do not become my general permanently in place of Joab.'＂
你们要向阿玛撒说：你不是我的骨肉吗？若我不叫你一生代替约阿布作元帅，愿天主这样罚我，且更加倍地罚我！＂
15 He won over all the Judahites as one man, and so they summoned the king to return, with all his servants.
那时，全犹大人都同心合意，一致派使者到君王那里说：＂请你和你的臣仆回来吧！
16 When the king, on his return, reached the Jordan, Judah had come to Gilgal to meet him and to escort him across the Jordan.
君王就动身回来，到了约旦河。这时迎接君王的犹大人来到了基耳加耳，协助君王渡约旦河。
17 Shimei, son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, hurried down with the Judahites to meet King David,
那时，巴胡陵的本雅明人革辣的儿子史米，也赶快来同那些犹大人欢迎达味君王。
18 accompanied by a thousand men from Benjamin. Ziba, too, the servant of the house of Saul, accompanied by his fifteen sons and twenty servants, hastened to the Jordan before the king.
同他来的，还有一千本雅明人。撒乌耳的家仆，漆巴和他十五个儿子同二十个仆人，也来到约旦河欢迎君王！
19 They crossed over the ford to bring the king's household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei, son of Gera, crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
他们都到渡口那边，协助君王的家族过河。听君王的调动；君王快要过约旦河时，革辣的儿子史米就俯伏在君王前，
20 and said to him: ＂May my lord not hold me guilty, and may he not remember and take to heart the wrong that your servant did the day my lord the king left Jerusalem.
向他说：＂我主；，请不要归罪于我，求你不要怀念大王出离耶路撒冷时，你仆人所犯的罪；愿大王不要把这事放在心上！
21 For your servant knows that he has done wrong. Yet realize that I have been the first of the whole house of Joseph to come down today to meet my lord the king.＂
因为你的仆人自知犯了罪。看，如今我是若瑟全家族中，首先来欢迎我主大王的＂。
22 But Abishai, son of Zeruiah, countered: ＂Shimei must be put to death for this. He cursed the LORD'S anointed.＂
责鲁雅的儿子阿彼瑟立即发言说：＂史米辱骂了上主的受傅者，难道为了他这番话就不该死吗？＂
23 David replied: ＂What has come between you and me, sons of Zeruiah, that you would create enmity for me this day? Should anyone die today in Israel? Am I not aware that today I am king of Israel?＂
达味却答说：＂责鲁雅的儿子们，我与你们有什么关系？竟使你们今天与我作对！今天还可以将一个以色列人处死吗？难道我不知道，我今天又作了以色列的君王？＂
24 Then the king said to Shimei, ＂You shall not die.＂ And the king gave him his oath.
然后君王向史米说：＂你不会死！＂君王遂向他起了誓。
25 Meribbaal, son of Saul, also went down to meet the king. He had not washed his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until he returned safely.
撒乌耳的孙子默黎巴耳也下来欢迎君王；他自从君王出走的那日起，直到他平安归来的这一天，没有洗脚，没有修须，也没有换洗自己的衣服。
26 When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, ＂Why did you not go with me, Meribbaal?＂
他由耶路撒冷来欢迎君王时，君王问他说：＂默黎巴耳！你为什么不同我一起出走呢？＂
27 He replied: ＂My lord the king, my servant betrayed me. For your servant, who is lame, said to him, 'Saddle the ass for me, that I may ride on it and go with the king.'
他答说：＂我主大王！我的仆人哄骗了我，你仆人曾向他说：给我备一匹驴，我好骑着跟王一齐去，因为你仆人脚跛。
28 But he slandered your servant before my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do what you judge best.
他又在我主大王前毁谤了你的仆人；但我主大王像天主的天使，你看怎样好，就怎样作罢！
29 For though my father's entire house deserved only death from my lord the king, yet you placed your servant among the guests at your table. What right do I still have to make further appeal to the king?＂
因为我父全家对于我主大王，都是该死的人，你反而使你的仆人与你同桌共食，我那里还有名分来向大王诉苦？＂
30 But the king said to him: ＂Why do you go on talking? I say, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the property.'＂
君王对他说：＂你何必再说？我已决定，你该和漆巴平分产业＂。
31 Meribbaal answered the king, ＂Indeed let him have it all, now that my lord the king has returned safely to his palace.＂
默黎巴耳回答君王说：＂我主大王既然平安回朝，让他全占有罢！＂
32 Barzillai the Gileadite also came down from Rogelim and escorted the king to the Jordan for his crossing, taking leave of him there.
基肋阿得人巴尔齐来从洛革林下来，陪伴君王过了约旦河，在约旦河岸与他辞别。
33 It was Barzillai, a very old man of eighty and very wealthy besides, who had provisioned the king during his stay in Mahanaim.
巴尔齐来年纪很老，已八十岁。君王住在玛哈纳殷时，他供给了君王的吃用，他原很富有。
34 The king said to Barzillai, ＂Cross over with me, and I will provide for your old age as my guest in Jerusalem.＂
君王向巴尔齐来说：＂你同我一起去吧！我愿在耶路撒冷供养你的老年＂。
35 But Barzillai answered the king: ＂How much longer have I to live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
巴尔齐来回答君王说：＂既使我同大王上耶路撒冷去，我还能活几年？
36 I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks, or still appreciate the voices of singers and songstresses? Why should your servant be any further burden to my lord the king?
我现年已八十，还能分辨美丑么？你的仆人还能尝出吃喝的味道来么？还能细听伶人和歌女的乐声么？你的仆人为什么还要拖累我主大王？
37 In escorting the king across the Jordan, your servant is doing little enough! Why should the king give me this reward?
你的仆人陪着大王过约旦河，只是一点小意思，为什么大王要给我一个这样的报答？
38 Please let your servant go back to die in his own city by the tomb of his father and mother. Here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever you will.＂
请让你的仆人回去，叫我死在靠近我父母坟墓的故乡！看，你的仆人基默罕在这里，他可跟我主大王同去，你看着怎样好，就怎样对待他罢！＂
39 Then the king said to him, ＂Chimham shall come over with me, and I will do for him as you would wish. And anything else you would like me to do for you, I will do.＂
达味答说：＂那么，让默基罕跟我去好了，你看着怎样好，我就怎样待他；凡你向我所要求的，我必为你做到＂。
40 Then all the people crossed over the Jordan but the king remained; he kissed Barzillai and bade him Godspeed as he returned to his own district.
众人都过了约旦河，君王也过去了；然后与巴尔齐来亲吻，祝福道别。巴尔齐来遂回了本乡。
41 Finally the king crossed over to Gilgal, accompanied by Chimham. All the people of Judah and half of the people of Israel had escorted the king across.
君王继续向基耳加耳前行，基默罕跟他同来。犹大全民众和一半以色列人陪着君王前行。
42 But all these Israelites began coming to the king and saying, ＂Why did our brothers the Judahites steal you away and escort the king and his household across the Jordan, along with all David's men?＂
众以色列人来到君王前，向君王说：＂为什么我们的兄弟犹大人将君王劫了去，领君王和君王的眷属过了约旦河。所有属达味的人不都是他的百姓吗？＂
43 All the Judahites replied to the men of Israel: ＂Because the king is our relative. Why are you angry over this affair? Have we had anything to eat at the king's expense? Or have portions from his table been given to us?＂
众犹大人回答以色列人说：＂因为君王是我们的亲族，你们为什么因此愤怒？我们岂是吃过君王的饭，或是领过他的俸禄？＂
44 The Israelites answered the Judahites: ＂We have ten shares in the king. Also, we are the first-born rather than you. Why do you slight us? Were we not first to speak of restoring the king?＂ Then the Judahites in turn spoke even more fiercely than the Israelites.
以色列人回复犹大人说：＂我们对君王有十倍权利，那么，我们对达味的名分也多过你们，你们为什么轻视我们？不是我们首先提议，要迎回我们的君王吗？＂然而犹大的答复比以色列人所说的话，更为激烈。
Chapter 20
1 Now a rebellious individual from Benjamin named Sheba, the son of Bichri, happened to be there. He sounded the horn and cried out,＂We have no portion in David, nor any share in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tent, O Israel!＂
当时，在那里有个败类，始名叫舍巴，是本雅明人彼革黎的儿子。他吹着号，喊说：＂我们和达味没有关系，对叶瑟儿子的产业没有分子。以色列人！各自回本家罢！
2 So all the Israelites left David for Sheba, son of Bichri. But from the Jordan to Jerusalem the Judahites remained loyal to their king.
因此，众以色列人离开达味，跟随了彼革黎的儿子舍巴；但犹大人仍然紧随他们的君王，由约旦河直到了耶路撒冷。
3 When King David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines whom he had left behind to take care of the palace and placed them in confinement. He provided for them, but had no further relations with them. And so they remained in confinement to the day of their death, lifelong widows.
达味王进了耶路撒冷的宫殿，就将他留下看守宫殿的十个个嫔妃，留在禁官里，养活她们，却不再亲近她们。她们被禁在冷官内，一直到死，终身守寡。
4 Then the king said to Amasa:＂Summon the Judahites for me within three days. Then present yourself here.＂
王对阿玛撒说：＂三天之内，你应给我召集犹大人，你亲自也该来到这里＂。
5 Accordingly Amasa set out to summon Judah, but delayed beyond the time set for him by David.
阿彼撒去召集犹大人，但他迟延耽搁，过了君王他所定的期限。
6 Then David said to Abishai:＂Sheba, son of Bichri, may now do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he find fortified cities and take shelter while we look on.＂
达味就对阿彼瑟说：＂现今彼革黎的儿子舍巴危害我们，恐怕甚于阿贝沙隆。你快领你主人的军队去追赶他，免得他占了设防的城，由我们眼前逃脱＂。
7 So Joab and the Cherethites and Pelethites and all the warriors marched out behind Abishai from Jerusalem to campaign in pursuit of Sheba, son of Bichri.
约阿布的部下，革肋提人和培肋提人，以及所有的勇士，都跟阿彼瑟去了。他们由耶路撒冷出发，追赶彼革黎的儿子舍巴。
8 1 They were at the great stone in Gibeon when Amasa met them. Now Joab had a belt over his tunic, from which was slung, in its sheath near his thigh, a sword that could be drawn with a downward movement.
当他们来到基贝红的大石旁时，阿玛撒也迎面而来。约阿布身穿战袍，束着腰带，腰间挂着一把带鞘的刀。约阿布的刀出鞘落地。
9 And Joab asked Amasa,＂How are you, my brother?＂ With his right hand Joab held Amasa's beard as if to kiss him.
约阿布对阿玛撒说：＂吾兄，你好？＂约阿布遂用右手抓住阿玛撒的胡须，与他亲吻。
10 And since Amasa was not on his guard against the sword in Joab's other hand, Joab stabbed him in the abdomen with it, so that his entrails burst forth to the ground, and he died without receiving a second thrust. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba, son of Bichri.
阿玛撒没有提防约阿布手中的刀；约阿布就用刀刺穿了他的肚腹，五脏倾流在地上，没有再刺第二下，他就死了。约阿布与自己的兄弟阿彼瑟，便往前追赶彼革黎的儿子舍巴。
11 One of Joab's attendants stood by Amasa and said,＂Let him who favors Joab and is for David follow Joab.＂
看守阿玛撒尸首的约阿布的一个兵士喊说：＂谁喜爱约阿布，谁属达味，就跟约阿布去！＂
12 Amasa lay covered with blood in the middle of the highroad, and the man noticed that all the soldiers were stopping. So he removed Amasa from the road to the field and placed a garment over him, because all who came up to him were stopping.
阿玛撒此时卧在路中血泊中，那人见众人停留不前，就将阿玛撒的尸首，由路上搬到田里，上面盖上一件衣服，因为他见军人到了那里，就停在尸首前。
13 When he had been removed from the road, everyone went on after Joab in pursuit of Sheba, son of Bichri.
尸首由路上搬走后，军人就都过去，跟随约阿布追赶彼革黎的儿子舍巴。
14 Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth-maacah. Then all the Bichrites assembled and they too entered the city after him.
舍巴走遍了以色列各支派，人都不理他。随后到了贝特玛阿加的阿贝耳，众彼革黎人却聚集起来，跟随了他。
15 So David's servants came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah. They threw up a mound against the city, and all the soldiers who were with Joab began battering the wall to throw it down.
约阿布大军前来，把他包围在贝特玛阿加的阿贝耳内，兴筑攻城壁垒。跟随约阿布的大军遂下手挖城墙，使墙倒塌。
16 Then a wise woman from the city stood on the outworks and called out,＂Listen, listen! Tell Joab to come here, that I may speak with him.＂
当时城中有个聪明的妇人，站在城墙上喊说：＂请听！请听！你们对约阿布说：来这里，我有话对你说＂。
17 When Joab had come near her, the woman said,＂Are you Joab?＂ And he replied,＂Yes.＂ She said to him,＂Listen to what your maidservant has to say.＂ He replied.＂I am listening.＂
约阿布来到她那里，妇人便问说：＂你是约阿布吗？＂他答说：＂我是＂。她便对他说：＂请你听你婢女一言！＂他答说：＂我听＂。
18 2 Then she went on to say:＂There is an ancient saying,‘Let them ask if they will in Abel
她说：＂从前有句话说：你去问问阿贝耳，事便可得解决。
19 or in Dan whether loyalty is finished or ended in Israel.' You are seeking to beat down a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you wish to destroy the inheritance of the LORD?＂
我在以色列算是一座和平忠厚的城，你却图谋消灭一座以色列的母城。为什么你要吞灭上主的产业？＂
20 Joab answered,＂Not at all, not at all! I do not wish to destroy or to ruin anything.
约阿布答说：＂决无此事，我决无意消灭或破坏。
21 That is not the case at all. A man named Sheba, son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim has rebelled against King David. Surrender him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.＂ Then the woman said to Joab,＂His head shall be thrown to you across the wall.＂
完全不是这么一回事；只因厄弗辣因山地的一人，即彼革黎的儿子名叫舍巴的，造反抗拒达味王；只要你们将他交出来，我即撤离这城＂。妇人对约阿布说：＂请看，他的头由城墙上拋给你＂。
22 She went to all the people with her advice, and they cut off the head of Sheba, son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He then sounded the horn, and they scattered from the city to their own tents, while Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
妇人就去凭自己的智慧劝说众百姓。他们便砍了彼革黎的儿子舍巴的头，拋给约阿布。约阿布遂吹起号角，撤兵离城，各自回了本家。约阿布也回了耶路撒冷君王那里。
23 Joab was in command of the whole army of Israel. Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was in command of the Cherethites and Pelethites.
约阿布统率以色列的众军队；约雅达的儿子贝纳雅管理革勒提人和培肋提人；
24 Adoram was in charge of the forced labor. Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was the chancellor.
阿多兰管理奴役；阿希路得的儿子约沙法特作御史；
25 Shawsha was the scribe. Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
史沙作书记；匝多克和厄贝雅塔尔作司祭；
26 Ira the Jairite was also David's priest.
此外，雅提尔人依辣也也作达味的司祭。
Footnotes（注解）
1 [8] The text of this verse is quite uncertain.
2 [18-19] The proverbial expression here has been poorly transmitted, and its sense is doubtful.
Chapter 21
1 During David's reign there was a famine for three successive years. David had recourse to the LORD, who said, ＂There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death.＂
达味在位时，饥荒接连三年，他求问了上主，上主答说：＂在撒乌耳和他家中尚有血债，因为他屠杀了基贝红人＂。
2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but survivors of the Amorites; and although the Israelites had given them their oath, Saul had attempted to kill them off in his zeal for the men of Israel and Judah.)
君王遂将基贝红人召来，询问他们。 基贝红人不属以色列人，他们原是阿摩黎人的遗民。以色列子民曾向他们起过誓，但撒乌耳为表示爱以色列和犹大的热情，曾设法屠杀过他们。
3 David said to the Gibeonites, ＂What must I do for you and how must I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?＂
达味向基贝红人说：「我该为你们作什么？该怎样赎罪，纔可以使你们祝福上主的产业？」
4 The Gibeonites answered him, ＂We have no claim against Saul and his house for silver or gold, nor is it our place to put any man to death in Israel.＂ Then he said, ＂I will do for you whatever you propose.＂
基贝红人回答他说：＂我们同撒乌耳和他家并不是金银的问题，也不愿在以色列杀一个人。＂达味说：＂你们无论要求什么，我必为你们作到。＂
5 They said to the king, ＂As for the man who was exterminating us and who intended to destroy us that we might have no place in all the territory of Israel,
他们向君王说：＂那破坏我们，设法消灭我们，使我们不能在以色列任何地方存在的人，
6 let seven men from among his descendants be given to us, that we may dismember them before the LORD in Gibeon, on the LORD'S mountain.＂ The king replied, ＂I will give them up.＂
要将他七个子孙交给我们，我们要在基贝红上主的山上，将他们悬挂在上主面前＂。君王答说：＂我必将他们交出来＂。
7 The king, however, spared Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that formed a bond between David and Saul's son Jonathan.
君王为了自己同撒乌耳的儿子约纳堂间对上主所起的誓约，饶恕了撒乌耳的孙子，约纳堂的儿子默黎巴耳，
8 But the king took Armoni and Meribbaal, the two sons that Aiah's daughter Rizpah had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merob that she had borne to Adriel, son of Barzillai the Meholathite,
只将阿雅的女儿黎兹帕给撒乌耳所生的两个儿子阿尔摩尼和默黎巴耳，以及撒乌耳的女儿默辣布给默曷拉人巴尔齐来的儿子阿德黎耳所生的五个儿子，
9 and surrendered them to the Gibeonites. They then dismembered them on the mountain before the LORD. The seven fell at the one time; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest--that is, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
交在基贝红人手里；基贝红人把他们在山上悬挂在上主面前；他们七人死在一处，死在收割初期，开始收割大麦的时候。
10 Then Rizpah, Aiah's daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until rain came down on them from the sky, fending off the birds of the sky from settling on them by day, and the wild animals by night.
阿雅的女儿黎兹帕取了了麻衣，铺在磐石上，自开始收割大麦，直到雨从天上落在尸首上，白天她不让飞鸟飞近，夜间不让野兽走近。
11 When David was informed of what Rizpah, Aiah's daughter, the concubine of Saul, had done,
有人把阿雅的女儿，撒乌耳的妾黎兹帕所行的事，报告给达味。
12 he went and obtained the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead, who had carried them off secretly from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them at the time they killed Saul on Gilboa.
君王就去把撒乌耳和他的儿子约纳堂的骨骸，从雅贝士基肋阿得的居民那里收殓起来；这骨骸是他们从贝特商广场上偷来的。原来培肋舍特人那天在基耳波亚杀了撒乌耳，将他们悬在广场上。
13 When he had brought up from there the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan, the bones of those who had been dismembered were also gathered up.
达味由那里将撒乌耳和他儿子约纳堂的遗骸，并那七个被悬挂的遗骸，一同运了回来，
14 Then the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan were buried in the tomb of his father Kish at Zela in the territory of Benjamin. After all that the king commanded had been carried out, God granted relief to the land.
与撒乌耳和他儿子约纳堂的遗骸，一同埋在本雅明地方的责拉，撒乌耳的父亲克士的坟墓内。人们全依照君王所吩咐的作了；此后，天主才怜恤了那地方。
15 There was another battle between the Philistines and Israel. David went down with his servants and fought the Philistines, but David grew tired.
培肋舍特人与以色列人之间又发生战事，达味带着他的军队下来，驻扎在哥布，攻打培肋舍特人。正当达味疲乏时，约阿士的儿子多多出来了，
16 Dadu, one of the Rephaim, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels, was about to take him captive. Dadu was girt with a new sword and planned to kill David,
他是辣法巨人的后裔，他所持的矛的铜有三百＂协刻耳＂重，腰间佩着一把新剑，扬言要击杀达味。
17 but Abishai, son of Zeruiah, came to his assistance and struck and killed the Philistine. Then David's men swore to him, ＂You must not go out to battle with us again, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.＂
责鲁雅的儿子阿彼瑟就来协助达味，打败了那培肋舍特人，将他杀死。那时，达味的臣仆向他起誓说：＂你不可再跟随我们出征作战，怕你熄灭了以色列的明灯＂。
18 After this there was another battle with the Philistines in Gob. On that occasion Sibbecai, from Husha, killed Saph, one of the Rephaim.
此后，又在哥布与培肋舍特人发生了战事，这次胡沙人息贝开击杀了撒夫，他也是辣法巨人的后裔。
19 There was another battle with the Philistines in Gob, in which Elhanan, son of Jair from Bethlehem, killed Goliath of Gath, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's heddle-bar.
以后，在哥布又与培肋舍特人交战，白冷人雅依尔的儿子厄耳哈难，杀了加特城人哥肋雅的兄弟拉赫米；这人的长矛粗如织布机的横轴。
20 There was another battle at Gath in which there was a man of large stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot--twenty-four in all. He too was one of the Rephaim.
此后，在加特又起了战事，在那里有一巨人，两手各有六指，两脚也各有六趾，共有二十四个，也是辣法巨人的后裔。
21 And when he insulted Israel, Jonathan, son of David's brother Shimei, killed him.
由于他辱骂了以色列，达味的兄弟史默亚的儿子约纳堂，便击杀了他：
22 These four were Rephaim in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his servants.
以上四人，都是加特城辣法巨人的后裔，都丧身在达味和他的臣仆手下。
Chapter 22
1 David sang the words of this song to the LORD when the LORD had rescued him from the grasp of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
当上主救达味脱离了仇敌和撒乌耳的毒手时，达味向上主唱了这首诗歌
2 This is what he sang: I ＂O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer,
说：＂上主，我的盘石，我的保障，我的避难所；
3 2 my God, my rock of refuge! My shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, my refuge, my savior, from violence you keep me safe.
我的天主是我所依靠的盘石，是我的盾牌，我的大能救主，我的堡垒，我的藏身处。我的救主，是你救我脱离了强暴。
4 ‘Praised be the LORD,' I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.
我一呼求应受颂扬的上主，我便获救，脱离了我的仇敌。
5 3 ＂The breakers of death surged round about me, the floods of perdition overwhelmed me;
死亡的波涛围绕我，凶险的急流惊吓我，
6 The cords of the nether world enmeshed me, the snares of death overtook me.
阴府的绳索缠住我，死亡的罗网绊着我；
7 4 In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried out to my God; From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry reached his ears.
在急难中我呼求上主，向我的天主呼号，衪由殿中听了我的声音，我的呼声达入衪的耳中。
8 5 ＂The earth swayed and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and shook when his wrath flared up.
因衪盛怒大作，大地震动战栗，上天的基础动荡摇撼，
9 Smoke rose from his nostrils, and a devouring fire from his mouth; he kindled coals into flame.
由衪的鼻孔涌出浓烟，由衪的口中喷出烈火，由衪的身上射出火炭，
10 He inclined the heavens and came down, with dark clouds under his feet.
使天低垂亲自降下，在衪的脚下浓云密布。
11 6 He mounted a cherub and flew, borne on the wings of the wind.
衪乘坐革鲁宾飞腾，借着风的翼羽翱翔。
12 He made darkness the shelter about him, with spattering rain and thickening clouds.
衪四周以黑暗做帷幔，以豪雨浓云为帐幕。
13 From the brightness of his presence coals were kindled to flame.
闪电在衪前闪烁，红炭发出了火光。
14 ＂The LORD thundered from heaven; the Most High gave forth his voice.
上主由高天兴雷，至高者发出了呼声。
15 He sent forth arrows to put them to flight; he flashed lightning and routed them.
衪射出羽箭，使敌人四散，发出闪电，使敌人惊乱。
16 Then the wellsprings of the sea appeared, the foundations of the earth were laid bare, At the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the wind of his wrath.
上主的呵斥一发，鼻孔的怒气一出，苍海的海底即出现，大地的地基也外露。
17 ＂He reached out from on high and grasped me; he drew me out of the deep waters.
衪由高处伸手将我拉住，由大水中将我提出。
18 He rescued me from my mighty enemy, from my foes, who were too powerful for me.
救我脱离了我的劲敌，摆脱了强于我的仇人。
19 They attacked me on my day of calamity, but the LORD came to my support.
他们在我困厄之日，袭击了我，然而上主却作了我的后盾；
20 He set me free in the open, and rescued me, because he loves me.
衪引我步坦途，因喜爱我而救了我。
21 ＂The LORD rewarded me according to my justice; according to the cleanness of my hands he requited me.
上主照我的正义酬报了我，按我双手的清白报答了我；
22 For I kept the ways of the LORD and was not disloyal to my God.
因我遵行了上主的正道，没有作恶离弃我的天主。
23 For his ordinances were all present to me, and his statutes I put not from me;
衪的一切法令常在我前，我未曾违犯过衪的诫命；
24 But I was wholehearted toward him, and I was on my guard against guilt.
我在他前常保成全，自知提防各种不义。
25 And the LORD requited me according to my justice, according to my innocence in his sight.
因此，上主照我的正义，照我在他眼前的纯洁，赏报了我。
26 7 ＂Toward the faithful you are faithful; toward the wholehearted you are wholehearted;
仁慈的人，你待他仁慈；正直的人，你待他正直；
27 Toward the sincere you are sincere; but toward the crooked you are astute.
纯朴的人，你待他纯朴；乖戾的人，你待他乖戾。
28 You save lowly people, though on the lofty your eyes look down.
卑微的人，你必拯救；傲慢的人，你必睥视。
29 8 You are my lamp, O LORD! O my God, you brighten the darkness about me.
上主，你是我的火炬，我的天主，照明我的黑暗。
30 For with your aid I run against an armed band, and by the help of my God I leap over a wall.
仗着你，我冲入了敌营；靠着我的天主，我跳过了墙垣。
31 God's way is unerring; the promise of the LORD is fire-tried; he is a shield to all who take refuge in him.＂
天主的道路是完善的；上主的言语是纯净的；凡投奔他的人，他必作他们的后盾。
32 ＂For who is God except the LORD? Who is a rock save our God?
上主以外，还有谁是天主？除我们的天主外，还有谁是盘石？
33 The God who girded me with strength and kept my way unerring;
是天主赐我毅力，使我一路顺利，
34 9 Who made my feet swift as those of hinds and set me on the heights;
使我的脚快如鹿蹄，使我屹立高地，
35 Who trained my hands for war till my arms could bend a bow of brass.
教导我手作战，使臂膊能开张铜弓。
36 ＂You have given me your saving shield, and your help has made me great.
你把你的救生盾赐给了我，你的长甲作了我的掩护。
37 You made room for my steps; unwavering was my stride.
你为我的脚步拓宽了路，我的脚从未颠簸。
38 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, nor did I turn again till I made an end of them.
我追赶仇敌，消灭他们；不灭绝他们，决不返回。
39 I smote them and they did not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
我将他们打得一蹶不振，尽都倒毙在我脚下
40 ＂You girded me with strength for war; you subdued my adversaries beneath me.
你赐我毅力奋勇作战，把我的对手屈伏我下，
41 My enemies you put to flight before me and those who hated me I destroyed.
使我的敌人在前转背而逃，使我歼灭了一切仇恨我的人。
42 They cried for help-but no one saved them; to the LORD——but he answered them not.
他们呼号，却无人施救；呼号上主，也不获应允。
43 I ground them fine as the dust of the earth; like the mud in the streets I trampled them down.
我捣碎他们象地上的灰尘，践踏他们像道上的泥土。
44 ＂You rescued me from the strife of my people; you made me head over nations. A people I had not known became my slaves;
你由百姓的叛乱中救拔了我，立我做了列国的首领；我不认识的人民竟给我服役；
45 as soon as they heard me, they obeyed.
外邦的子民谄媚奉承我，一听到是我，即刻服从我；
46 The foreigners fawned and cringed before me; they staggered forth from their fortresses.＂
外方的子民惊惶失色，战战兢兢走出自己的堡垒。
47 ＂The LORD live! And blessed be my Rock! Extolled be my God, rock of my salvation.
上主万岁！愿我的盘石受赞美，愿救我的天主受颂扬！
48 O God, who granted me vengeance, who made peoples subject to me
天主是你为我报了仇，使万民屈伏于我，
49 and helped me escape from my enemies, Above my adversaries you exalt me and from the violent man you rescue me.
是你救我脱离了我的仇敌，提拔我凌驾我的对手之上，救我脱免了强暴的人。
50 Therefore will I proclaim you, O LORD, among the nations, and I will sing praise to your name,
为此，上主！我要在异民中称谢你，歌颂你的圣名。
51 You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed, to David and his posterity forever.＂
因为衪使自己的君王大获胜利，对自己的受傅者达味和他的子孙，广施仁慈，直到永远＂。
Footnotes（注解）
1 [1-51] This song of thanksgiving is also given, with a few small variants, in Ps 18. In both places it is attributed to David. Two main sections can be distinguished. In the first part, after an introductory stanza of praise to God (2 Sam 22:2-4), David describes the peril he was in (2 Sam 22:5-7), and then poetically depicts, under the form of a theophany, God's intervention in his behalf (2 Sam 22:8-20), concluding with an acknowledgment of God's justice (2 Sam 22:21-31). In the second part, God is praised for having prepared the psalmist for war (2 Sam 22:32-35), given him victory over his enemies (2 Sam 22:36-39), whom he put to flight (2 Sam 22:40-43), and bestowed on him dominion over many peoples (2 Sam 22:44-46). The entire song ends with a paean of grateful praise (2 Sam 22:47-51).
2 [3] The horn of my salvation: my strong savior. The horn, the dreadful weapon of an enraged bull, was a symbol of strength; cf Luke 1:69.
3 [5-6] These verses are to be understood figuratively.
4 [7] His temple: his heavenly abode.
5 [8-10] God's intervention is graphically portrayed under the figures of an earthquake (2 Sam 22:8, 16) and a thunderstorm (2 Sam 22:9-15); cf Judges 5:4-5; Psalm 29; Psalm 97:2-6; Hebrews 3.
6 [11] He mounted a cherub: since God makes the winds his messengers, or ＂angels＂ (Psalm 104:4), he is spoken of poetically as riding on the clouds, or on the angelic creatures called ＂cherubim.＂ His earthly throne above the ark of the covenant was likewise associated with two winged cherubim; cf Exodus 37:7-9. In both senses the Lord is enthroned upon the cherubim; cf Psalm 79:2; 99:1.
7 [26-27] Men are treated by God in the same way they treat him and their fellow men.
8 [29] My lamp: a figure of life and happiness; cf 1 Kings 11:36.
9 [34] The heights: a natural stronghold safe from attack; cf Psalm 62:3; Hebrews 3:19.
Chapter 23
1 1 These are the last words of David: ＂The utterance of David, son of Jesse; the utterance of the man God raised up, Anointed of the God of Jacob, favorite of the Mighty One of Israel.
达味的最后遗言如下：叶瑟的儿子达味的神谕，至高者所举扬的人，雅各伯的天主的受傅者，以色列的善歌咏者的神谕：
2 The spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.
上主的神借着我说话，他的话语在我唇舌上。
3 The God of Israel spoke; of me the Rock of Israel said, 'He that rules over men in justice, that rules in the fear of God,
雅各伯的天主说过，以色列的盘石曾向我说：那以正义统治人的，那以敬畏天主之情统治人的，
4 Is like the morning light at sunrise on a cloudless morning, making the greensward sparkle after rain.'
有如日出时的晨光，无云的黎明，雨后射在绿草地上的光辉。
5 Is not my house firm before God? He has made an eternal covenant with me, set forth in detail and secured. Will he not bring to fruition all my salvation and my every desire?
的确，我的家必屹立在天主前，因为衪与我结了永久的盟约，妥善而有保证的盟约，衪岂能不给我产生救恩和喜乐？
6 But the wicked are all like thorns to be cast away; they cannot be taken up by hand.
但匪徒败类必像被拋弃的荆棘，谁也不敢去用手拿；
7 He who wishes to touch them must arm himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they must be consumed by fire.＂
谁若去触动，必先用刀或枪柄打伐，而后用火烧尽＂。
8 2 These are the names of David's warriors. Ishbaal, son of Hachamoni, was the first of the Three. It was he who brandished his battle-ax over eight hundred slain in a single encounter.
以下是达味勇将的名单：哈革摩尼人依市巴耳是三杰之首，他一次挥矛击杀了八百人。
9 Next to him, among the Three warriors, was Eleazar, son of Dodo the Ahohite. He was with David at Ephes-dammim when the Philistines assembled there for battle. The Israelites had retreated,
其次为阿曷亚人多多的儿子厄肋阿匝尔，也是三杰之一。有一次他同达味在帕斯达明，当培肋舍特人正在那里集合准备交战时，以色列人退却，
10 but he stood his ground and fought the Philistines until his hand grew tired and became cramped, holding fast to the sword. The LORD brought about a great victory on that day; the soldiers turned back after Eleazar, but only to strip the slain.
他却固守阵地，击杀培肋舍特人，直到他的手麻痹无力，贴在刀柄上。上主在那一天使他大获胜利，民众折回，在他身后专夺财物。
11 Next to him was Shammah, son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had assembled at Lehi, where there was a plot of land full of lentils. When the soldiers fled from the Philistines,
再其次是哈辣黎人厄拉的儿子沙玛。那时，培肋舍特人在肋希集合；在那里有一块长满扁豆的田地。当民众由培肋舍特人面前逃走时，
12 he took his stand in the middle of the plot and defended it. He slew the Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great victory. Such were the deeds of the Three warriors.
他独自立在田间，保护了那块田地，杀败了培肋舍特人：如此上主又使他大获胜利。
13 During the harvest three of the Thirty went down to David in the cave of Adullam, while a Philistine clan was encamped in the Vale of Rephaim.
在开始收割时，培肋舍特的军队在勒法因平原扎了营，三十勇士中，有三位下到阿杜蓝山岩，来见达味。
14 At that time David was in the refuge, and there was a garrison of Philistines in Bethlehem.
达味恰在山岩内，而培肋舍特人当时在白冷驻防。
15 Now David had a strong craving and said, ＂Oh, that someone would give me a drink of water from the cistern that is by the gate of Bethlehem!＂
达味渴望着说：＂谁能从白冷城门旁的井中，给我打一点水来喝？＂
16 So the Three warriors broke through the Philistine camp and drew water from the cistern that is by the gate of Bethlehem. But when they brought it to David he refused to drink it, and instead poured it out to the LORD,
那三位勇士就冲过培肋舍特人的营幕，从白冷城门旁的井里打了水，将水取来，带到达味前，但他不肯喝，反而将水奠于上主前，
17 saying: ＂The LORD forbid that I do this! Can I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives?＂ So he refused to drink it.
说：＂上主决不许我做这事；我岂能喝那些冒生命危险者的血？＂所以他不肯喝。这是这三位勇士所做的事。
18 Abishai, brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, was at the head of the Thirty. It was he who brandished his spear over three hundred slain. He was listed among the Thirty
责鲁雅儿子，约阿布的兄弟，阿彼瑟是三十勇士的领袖，他挥舞长矛击杀了三百人，因此，在三十勇士中出了名。
19 and commanded greater respect than the Thirty, becoming their leader. However, he did not attain to the Three.
他是三十勇士中最出名的，所以做了他们的领袖，但尚不及前三杰。
20 Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, a stalwart from Kabzeel, was a man of great achievements. It was he who slew the two lions in Moab. He also went down and killed the lion in the cistern at the time of the snow.
约雅达的儿子贝纳雅原是卡贝责耳人，是一位英勇，大有作为的人。他击杀了摩阿布人阿黎耳的两个儿子，又在下雪天，下到旱井里打死一只狮子。
21 It was he, too, who slew an Egyptian of large stature. Although the Egyptian was armed with a spear, he went against him with a club and wrested the spear from the Egyptian's hand, then killed him with his own spear.
他也曾打死了一个埃及大汉。这埃及人手中拿着长矛，他只拿着一根棍子，就下去与他对抗，从那埃及人手里把长矛夺过来，用那长矛将他杀死。
22 Such were the deeds performed by Benaiah, son of Jehoiada. He was listed among the Thirty warriors
这是约雅达的儿子贝纳雅做的事，因此，他在三十勇士中也出了名。
23 and commanded greater respect than the Thirty. However, he did not attain to the Three. David put him in command of his bodyguard.
他比三十勇士更有名望，但尚不及前三杰。达味派他作侍卫长。
24 3 Asahel, brother of Joab. . . .Among the Thirty were: Elhanan, son of Dodo, from Bethlehem;
约阿布的兄弟阿撒耳也是三十勇士中的一位，还有白冷人多多的儿子厄耳哈难，
25 Shammah from En-harod; Elika from En-harod;
哈洛得人沙玛，哈洛得人厄里卡，
26 Helez from Beth-pelet; Ira, son of Ikkesh, from Tekoa;
帕耳提人赫肋兹，特科亚人依刻士的儿子依辣，
27 Abiezer from Anathoth; Sibbecai from Hushah;
阿纳托特人阿彼厄则尔，胡沙人息贝开，
28 Zalmon from Ahoh; Maharai from Netophah;
阿曷亚人匝耳孟，乃托法人玛哈赖，
29 Heled, son of Baanah, from Netophah; Ittai, son of Ribai, from Gibeah of the Benjaminites;
乃托法人巴阿纳的儿子赫肋得，本雅明族基贝亚人黎拜的儿子依泰，
30 Benaiah from Pirathon; Hiddai from Nahale-gaash;
丕辣通人贝纳雅，加阿士溪人希待，
31 Abibaal from Beth-arabah; Azmaveth from Bahurim;
贝特阿辣巴人阿彼巴耳，巴胡陵人阿次玛委特，
32 Eliahba from Shaalbon; Jashen the Gunite; Jonathan,
沙阿耳宾人厄里雅巴，基宗人雅笙，
33 son of Shammah the Hararite; Ahiam, son of Sharar the Hararite;
哈辣黎人沙玛的儿子约纳堂，哈辣黎人沙辣尔的儿子阿希扬，
34 Eliphelet, son of Ahasbai, from Beth-maacah; Eliam, son of Ahithophel, from Gilo;
贝特玛阿加人阿哈斯拜的儿子厄里培肋特，基罗人阿希托费耳的儿子厄里安，
35 Hezrai from Carmel; Paarai the Arbite;
加尔默耳人赫兹赖，阿辣布人帕阿赖，
36 Igal, son of Nathan, from Zobah; Bani the Gadite;
祚巴人约堂的儿子依加耳，加得人巴尼，
37 Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai from Beeroth, armor-bearer of Joab, son of Zeruiah;
阿孟人责肋克，贝厄洛特人纳赫赖，他是责鲁雅的儿子约阿布的持戟者；
38 Ira from Jattir; Gareb from Jattir;
雅提尔人依辣，雅提尔人加勒布，
39 Uriah the Hittite-thirty-seven in all.
赫特人乌黎雅：共计三十七人。
Footnotes（注解）
1 [1-7] The text of this short composition in the spirit of the wisdom writers (Proverb 30:1-6) is difficult in places; it views David's career in retrospect.
2 [8-10] There are thirty-seven warriors in all mentioned in this list. First there are the Three warriors most noted for single-handed exploits (2 Sam 23:8-12). Then comes the story of a daring adventure by three unnamed members of the larger group (2 Sam 23:13-17). Next come the commanders of the king's bodyguard, Abishai (2 Sam 23:18-19) and Benaiah (2 Sam 23:20-23), with whom must be counted Asahel (2 Sam 23:24) and Joab (2 Sam 23:18, 24, 37), and finally the group of the Thirty (2 Sam 23:24-39).
3 [24] A more complete notice about Asahel, who died early in his career (2 Sam 2:16-23), is to be presumed lost at this point. Elhanan is the first of the Thirty.
Chapter 24
1 1 The LORD'S anger against Israel flared again, and he incited David against the Israelites by prompting him to number Israel and Judah.
上主对以色列又大发愤怒，遂激动达味去难为他们，并向他说：＂你去统计以色列和犹大人口＂。
2 Accordingly the king said to Joab and the leaders of the army who were with him, ＂Tour all the tribes in Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the people, that I may know their number.＂
王遂对在自己身边的约阿布和其余的军长说：＂你们应走遍以色列各支派，由丹直到具尔舍巴，统计人民，我好知道人民的数目＂。
3 But Joab said to the king: ＂May the LORD your God increase the number of people a hundredfold for your royal majesty to see it with his own eyes. But why does it please my lord the king to order a thing of this kind?＂
约阿布对君王说：＂愿上主你的天主将目前的百姓增加百倍，愿我主大王亲眼见到！但我主大王，为什么要行此事？＂
4 The king, however, overruled Joab and the leaders of the army, so they left the king's presence in order to register the people of Israel.
可是君王坚持向约阿布和众军长所出的命令，约阿布和众军长便离开君王，去统计以色列百姓。
5 Crossing the Jordan, they began near Aroer, south of the city in the wadi, and went in the direction of Gad toward Jazer.
他们过了约旦河，由阿洛厄尔及山谷间的城市开始，经过加得直到雅则尔，
6 They continued on to Gilead and to the district below Mount Hermon. Then they proceeded to Dan; from there they turned toward Sidon,
而后来到基肋阿得及赫特人地方的刻德士，再由此到丹，转到漆冬。
7 going to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and ending up at Beer-sheba in the Negeb of Judah.
以后来到提洛的堡垒，希威人和客纳罕人的各城，然后经过犹大南部，来到了贝尔舍巴。
8 Thus they toured the whole country, reaching Jerusalem again after nine months and twenty days.
他们走遍了全国，经过九个月零二十天，回到了耶路撒冷。
9 Joab then reported to the king the number of people registered: in Israel, eight hundred thousand men fit for military service; in Judah, five hundred thousand.
约阿布将统计人民的数目，呈报给君王：以色列能执刀的士兵有八十万人，犹大有五十万人。
10 2 Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered the people, and said to the LORD: ＂I have sinned grievously in what I have done. But now, LORD, forgive the guilt of your servant, for I have been very foolish.＂
达味统计人民以后，心中感到不安，遂向上主说：＂我做这事，实在犯了重罪。上主，现在我求你，赦免你仆人的罪，因为我所行的实在昏愚＂。
11 When David rose in the morning, the LORD had spoken to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying:
达味清早一起来，上主有话向先知加得──达味的先见者说：
12 ＂Go and say to David, 'This is what the LORD says: I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you.'＂
＂你去告诉达味：上主这样说：我给你提出三件事，任你选择一件，我好向你实行＂。
13 Gad then went to David to inform him. He asked: ＂Do you want a three years' famine to come upon your land, or to flee from your enemy three months while he pursues you, or to have a three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must reply to him who sent me.＂
加得来到达味前，告诉他说：＂你要在国内三年饥荒呢？或是要三个月逃避赶你的敌人呢？或是要在国内发生三天瘟疫呢？现在请你考虑一下，决定我应向那派我来者回复什么＂。
14 David answered Gad: ＂I am in very serious difficulty. Let us fall by the hand of God, for he is most merciful; but let me not fall by the hand of man.＂
达味对加得说：＂我很作难！我们宁愿落在上主的手中，因为衪富于仁慈，而不愿落在人的手中＂。
15 Thus David chose the pestilence. Now it was the time of the wheat harvest when the plague broke out among the people. (The LORD then sent a pestilence over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba died.)
达味就拣选了瘟疫；正当收割麦子时，上主遂使瘟疫降于以色列，从早晨直到规定的时期，由丹直到贝尔舍巴，民间死了七万人。
16 But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD regretted the calamity and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people, ＂Enough now! Stay your hand.＂ The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
当时，上主派一位使者往耶路撒冷去，要毁灭那城。上主后悔降灾，遂吩咐那毁灭人民的使者说：＂够了，现今收回你的手！＂那时，上主的使者正站在耶步斯人敖尔难的打禾场上。
17 3 When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the LORD: ＂It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have done wrong. But these are sheep; what have they done? Punish me and my kindred.＂
达味看见那打击人民的使者，遂向上主说：＂是我犯了罪，行了不义，然而这些羊作了什么？请你伸手打击我和我的父家＂。
18 On the same day Gad went to David and said to him, ＂Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.＂
那一天，加得来到达味前，对他说：＂你上去，在耶步斯敖尔难的打禾场上，为上主建立一座祭坛＂。
19 Following Gad's bidding, David went up as the LORD had commanded.
达味便照加得奉上主所吩咐的话上去了。
20 Now Araunah looked down and noticed the king and his servants coming toward him while he was threshing wheat. So he went out and paid homage to the king, with face to the ground.
敖尔难望见君王和他的臣仆向他走来，敖尔难就上前去，俯首至地叩拜君王
21 Then Araunah asked, ＂Why does my lord the king come to his servant?＂ David replied, ＂To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be checked among the people.＂
说：＂我主大王，为什么到他仆人这里来？达味回答他说：愿向你买这禾场，给上主建立一座祭坛，为平息民间的灾祸＂。
22 But Araunah said to David: ＂Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever he may wish. Here are oxen for holocausts, and threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
敖尔难对达味说：＂我主大王看着好的，就拿去祭献罢！看，这里有牛可作全燔祭，有打禾具和牛轭可作木柴。
23 All this does Araunah give to the king.＂ Araunah then said to the king, ＂May the LORD your God accept your offering.＂
大王，敖尔难愿将这一切献于大王！＂继而又对君王说：＂愿上主你的天主悦纳你的祭献！＂
24 The king, however, replied to Araunah, ＂No, I must pay you for it, for I cannot offer to the LORD my God holocausts that cost nothing.＂ So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty silver shekels.
君王对敖尔难说：＂不成，我非用钱向你买不可，我不愿用不化钱的全燔祭，献给上主我的天主＂。于是达味以五十＂协刻耳＂银子，买了那块打禾场和牛。
25 Then David built an altar there to the LORD, and offered holocausts and peace offerings. The LORD granted relief to the country, and the plague was checked in Israel.
达味在那里为上主建立了一座祭坛，奉献了全燔祭与和平祭。这样上主才怜恤了那地，以色列间的灾祸遂告平息。
Footnotes（注解）
1 [1-3] This story was probably joined at one time to 2 Sam 21:1-14.
2 [10] The narrative supposes that since the people belonged to the Lord rather than to the king, only the Lord should know their exact number.
3 [17] Before this verse a Qumran manuscript (4Q Sam[a]) gives the fuller text of 1 Chron 21:16 an alternative to the words When David saw the angel who was striking the people.
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