撒母耳記上 18
1 達味同撒烏耳說完了話，約納堂的心和達味的心很相契；約納堂愛他如愛自己一樣。
And when he had made an ende of speaking vnto Saul, the soule of Ionathan was knit with the soule of Dauid, and Ionathan loued him, as his owne soule.
2 那天，撒烏耳把達味留下，不讓他回父家去。
And Saul tooke him that day, and woulde not let him returne to his fathers house.
3 約納堂同達味結為盟友，愛他如愛自己一樣。
Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenant: for he loued him as his owne soule.
4 約納堂脫下自己穿的外氅，連軍裝，帶刀劍，甚至弓和腰帶，都給了達味。
And Ionathan put off the robe that was vpon him, and gaue it Dauid, and his garments, euen to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5 撒烏耳派達味出去無論作什麼事，沒有不成功的；故此撒烏耳派他作軍隊的將領；軍民和撒烏耳的臣僕都非常喜愛他。
And Dauid went out whithersoeuer Saul sent him, and behaued himselfe wisely: so that Saul set him ouer the men of warre, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Sauls seruants.
6 當達味殺死那培肋舍特人後，班師回來時，婦女們從城中出來，唱歌跳舞，打鼓彈琴，興高采烈地前來歡迎撒烏耳君王。
When they came againe, and Dauid returned from the slaughter of the Philistim, the women came out of all cities of Israel singing and dauncing to meete king Saul, with timbrels, with instruments of ioy, and with rebeckes.
7 婦女們邊唱邊跳說：「撒烏耳殺了一千，達味殺了一萬」。
And the women sang by course in their play, and sayd, Saul hath slayne his thousand, and Dauid his ten thousand.
8 撒烏耳因此很是憤怒，這話使他很不高興，遂說：「給了根一萬，只給我一千；他所少的只有王位了!」
Therefore Saul was exceeding wroth, and the saying displeased him, and he sayde, They haue ascribed vnto Dauid ten thousand, and to me they haue ascribed but a thousand, and what can he haue more saue the kingdome?
9 從那一天起，撒烏耳常嫉視達味。
Wherefore Saul had an eye on Dauid from that day forward.
10 第二天，惡神由天主那裏降到撒烏耳身上；使他在屋中發狂。達味一如往日手中彈著琴，撒烏耳手中卻拿著一根長槍，
And on the morowe, the euill spirite of God came vpon Saul, and he prophecied in the middes of the house: and Dauid played with his hand like as at other times, and there was a speare in Sauls hand.
11 撒烏耳舉起槍來，想把達味釘在牆上；達味已由他面前逃脫了兩次。
And Saul tooke the speare, and sayd, I will smite Dauid through to the wall. But Dauid auoyded twise out of his presence.
12 撒烏耳害怕達味，因為上主與達味同在，而離開了撒烏耳。
And Saul was afrayd of Dauid, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
13 因此，撒烏耳叫他離開自己，派他作千夫長，達味便在軍民前往來出入。
Therefore Saul put him from him, and made him a captaine ouer a thousand, and he went out and in before the people.
14 達味在所行的一切事上，無不順利，因為天主與他同在。
And Dauid behaued himselfe wisely in all his wayes: for the Lord was with him.
15 撒烏耳見他辦事順利，就更疑懼他。
Wherefore when Saul saw that he was very wise, he was afrayde of him.
16 但全以色列和猶大人卻愛達味，因為他在他們前往來出入。
For all Israel and Iudah loued Dauid, because he went out and in before them.
17 撒烏耳對達味說：「看；我要把我的長女默辣布嫁給你為妻，只要你為我勇敢服務，為上主作戰」。──撒烏耳心中想：我不親手害他，讓培肋舍特人加害他。
Then Saul sayd to Dauid, Beholde mine eldest daughter Merab, her I will giue thee to wife: onely be a valiant sonne vnto me, and fight the Lordes battels: for Saul thought, Mine hand shall not be vpon him, but the hand of the Philistims shalbe vpon him.
18 達味回答撒烏耳說：「我是誰，我父在以色列又算得什麼，我怎配作君王的女婿﹖」
And Dauid answered Saul, What am I? and what is my life, or the family of my father in Israel, that I should be sonne in law to the King?
19 但是撒烏耳的女兒默辣布正要嫁給達味的時候，卻嫁給了默曷拉人阿德黎耳為妻。
Howbeit when Merab Sauls daughter should haue bene giuen to Dauid, she was giuen vnto Adriel a Meholathite to wife.
20 當時撒烏耳的女兒米加耳很愛達味；有人告訴了撒烏耳，他看這事好，
Then Michal Sauls daughter loued Dauid: and they shewed Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21 心想：「我把她嫁給達味，叫她成為他的羅網，藉培肋舍特人害他」。所以撒烏耳再次對達味說：「今天你要作我的女婿了! 」
Therefore Saul said, I wil giue him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistims may bee against him. Wherefore Saul sayde to Dauid, Thou shalt this day be my sonne in law in the one of the twayne.
22 撒烏耳吩咐他的臣僕說：「你們暗暗地告訴達味說：看，君王多麼喜愛你，如今你要作君王的女婿了! 」
And Saul commanded his seruants, Speake with Dauid secretly, and say, Behold, ye King hath a fauour to thee, and all his seruants loue thee: be now therefore the Kings sonne in law.
23 撒烏耳的臣僕將這些話告訴了達味；達味反答說：「你們以為作君王的女婿軟碟件小事嗎﹖我不過是個貧窮賤卑賤的人」。
And Sauls seruantes spake these wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid sayd, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a Kings sonne in lawe, seeing that I am a poore man and of small reputation?
24 撒烏耳的臣僕回報王說：「達味如此如此說了」。
And then Sauls seruats brought him word againe, saying, Such wordes spake Dauid.
25 撒烏耳答說：「你們要這樣對達味說：君王不要什麼聘禮，只要一百培培肋舍特人的包皮，為報復君王的仇敵」。撒烏耳有意使達味落在培肋舍特人手中。
And Saul sayd, This wise shall ye say to Dauid, The King desireth no dowrie, but an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistims, to bee auenged of the Kings enemies: for Saul thought to make Dauid fall into the handes of the Philistims.
26 他的臣僕將這些話轉告給達味，達味看這事為作君王的女婿也對，所限的日期尚未過去，
And when his seruantes tolde Dauid these wordes, it pleased Dauid well, to be the Kings sonne in law: and the dayes were not expired.
27 達味就和他的人起身去殺死了一百培肋舍特人，將他們的包皮帶回，足數交給君王，為作君王的女婿；撒烏耳就將女兒米加耳嫁給他為妻。
Afterwarde Dauid arose with his men, and went and slewe of the Philistims two hundreth men: and Dauid brought their foreskinnes, and they gaue them wholly to the King that hee might be the Kings sonne in lawe: therefore Saul gaue him Michal his daughter to wife.
28 撒烏耳看出了上主與達味同在，全以色列也都愛他，
Then Saul sawe, and vnderstoode that the Lord was with Dauid, and that Michal the daughter of Saul loued him.
29 從此更疑懼達味，終身與他為敵。
Then Saul was more and more afrayde of Dauid, and Saul became alway Dauids enemie.
30 培肋舍特人的首領仍不斷出征；但每遇他們出征，達味所行的常比撒烏耳所有的臣僕成就更大，為此他更受人景仰。
And when the Princes of the Philistims went forth, at their going forth Dauid behaued himselfe more wisely then all the seruants of Saul, so that his name was much set by.
