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1 那時培肋舍特人調集軍隊要進攻以色列人,阿基士對達味說:「你該知道你和你的人應協助我作戰」。
Nowe at that time the Philistims assembled their bandes and armie to fight with Israel: therfore Achish said to Dauid, Be sure, thou shalt go out with me to the battel, thou, and thy men.
2 達味回答阿基士說:「好! 你就要知道你的僕人要作什麼」。阿基士對達味說:「那麼,我就立你常作我的護衛」。
And Dauid said to Achish, Surely thou shalt knowe, what thy seruant can doe. And Achish sayde to Dauid, Surely I will make thee keeper of mine head for euer.
3 那時撒慕已死,全以色列人舉喪哀悼他.把他葬在他的故鄉辣瑪。撒烏耳也早已將招魂的和行巫術的人驅逐出境。
(Samuel was then dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah his owne citie: and Saul had put away the sorcerers, and the soothsayers out of the land)
4 培肋舍特人調齊以後,來到叔能紮營。
Then the Philistims assembled themselues, and came, and pitched in Shunem: and Saul assembled all Israel, and they pitched in Gilboa.
5 撒烏耳看見培肋舍特人的軍營就害怕起來,心中非常恐慌,
And when Saul saw the hoste of the Philistims, he was afraid, and his heart was sore astonied.
6 遂去求問上主,但上主沒有藉夢境,也沒有藉「烏陵」,也沒有藉先知答覆他。
Therefore Saul asked counsel of the Lord, and the Lord answered him not, neither by dreames, nor by Vrim, nor yet by Prophets.
7 撒烏耳便對臣僕說:「你們給我找個召魂的女巫,我頊到她那裏去求問」。他的臣僕回答他說:「現今在恩多爾有個招魂的女巫」。
Then saide Saul vnto his seruants, Seeke me a woman that hath a familiar spirite, that I may goe to her, and aske of her. And his seruants said to him, Beholde, there is a woman at En-dor that hath a familiar spirit.
8 撒烏耳就改裝易服,帶了兩個人作伴,夜間來見那女人,對她說:「求妳用招魂的法術給我占卜,將向妳指出的人給我招上來」。
Then Saul changed him selfe, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he saide, I pray thee, coniecture vnto me by the familiar spirite, and bring me him vp whome I shall name vnto thee.
9 那女人回答說:「啊! 你知道撒慕爾作了什麼,他已經將國內招魂和行巫術的人剷除,為什麼你來陷陷阱害我的性命,叫我死呢﹖。
And the woman saide vnto him, Beholde, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath destroyed the sorcerers, and the southsayers out of the land: wherefore then seekest thou to take me in a snare to cause me to die?
10 撒烏耳就指著上主對她發誓說:「上主永在! 為這事妳決不會受害」。
And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord liueth, no harme shall come to thee for this thing.
11 那女人問說:「要我給你招誰上來﹖」他答說:「妳給我招撒烏耳上來」。
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring vp vnto thee? And he answered, Bring me vp Samuel.
12 那女人一看見撒慕爾就大喊一聲,對撒烏耳說:「你為什麼哄騙我﹖你就是撒烏耳! 」
And when the woman sawe Samuel, she cryed with a loude voyce, and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceiued me? for thou art Saul.
13 王對她說:「不要怕! 妳究竟看見了什麼﹖」那女人回答撒烏耳說:「我看見神由地中上來」。
And the King said vnto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said vnto Saul, I saw gods ascending vp out of the earth.
14 撒烏耳問說:「什麼形狀﹖」她答說:「上來了一位老人,身披外氅」。撒烏耳便知道這是撒慕爾,遂俯首至地下拜。
Then he said vnto her, What facion is hee of? And she answered, An olde man commeth vp lapped in a mantel: and Saul knewe that it was Samuel, and he enclined his face to the grounde, and bowed him selfe.
15 撒慕爾對撒烏耳說:「為什麼你擾亂我,叫我上來﹖」撒烏耳答說:「我很是苦痛。培肋舍特人攻擊我,上主已遠離我,又不藉先知,也不藉夢境答覆我,所以我招你上來,指教我該作什麼」。
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me vp? Then Saul answered, I am in great distresse: for the Philistims make warre against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by Prophetes, neither by dreames: therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayest tell me, what I shall doe.
16 撒慕爾說:「上主既已離開了你,你為什麼還來問我﹖
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then doest thou aske of me, seeing the Lord is gone from thee, and is thine enemie?
17 上主對你實踐了衪藉我所說的話:上主已由你手中奪去王權,賜給了你的近人達味;
Euen the Lord hath done to him, as hee spake by mine hande: for the Lord will rent the kingdome out of thine hande, and giue it thy neighbour Dauid.
18 因為你沒有聽從上主的話,沒有執行衪對阿瑪肋克所懷的盛怒,為此,上主今天這樣對待了你。
Because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lord, nor executedst his fierce wrath vpon the Amalekites, therefore hath the Lord done this vnto thee this day.
19 上主還要把以色列和你一起交在培肋舍特人手中;明日你和你的兒子要同我在一起;並且上主也要把以色列軍隊交在培肋舍特人手中」。
Moreouer the Lord wil deliuer Israel with thee into the handes of the Philistims: and to morowe shalt thou and thy sonnes be with me, and the Lord shall giue the hoste of Israel into the handes of the Philistims.
20 撒烏耳一聽撒慕爾的話,非常恐懼,忽然跌倒在地;又因他一日一夜沒有吃喝,一點力氣也沒有了。
Then Saul fell streight way all along on the earth, and was sore afraide because of the wordes of Samuel, so that there was no strength in him: for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night.
21 那女人就走到撒烏耳跟前,看見他很是驚慌,就對他說:「看,你的婢女聽了你的話,不顧性命,聽從了你給我說的話。
Then the woman came vnto Saul, and sawe that he was sore troubled, and said vnto him, See, thine handmaide hath obeyed thy voyce, and I haue put my soule in mine hande, and haue obeyed thy wordes which thou saydest vnto me.
22 現今你也該聽從你婢女的話:我給你拿點食物來,你吃了,好有力氣走路」。
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearke thou also vnto ye voyce of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsell of bread before thee, that thou mayest eat and get thee strength, and go on thy iourney.
23 他卻拒絕說:「我不吃」。但是他的臣僕和那女人都勉強他,他才聽從了他們的話,從地上起來,坐在床上。
But he refused, and said, I will not eate: but his seruants and the woman together compelled him, and he obeyed their voyce: so he arose from the earth, and sate on the bed.
24 那女人在家裏有頭肥牛,急忙宰了,又把麵調好,烤成無酵餅,
Nowe the woman had a fat calfe in the house, and she hasted, and killed it, and tooke floure and kneaded it, and baked of it vnleauened bread.
25 擺在撒烏耳和他臣僕面前;他們吃了以後,當夜就起身走了。
Then she brought them before Saul, and before his seruants: and when they had eaten, they stoode, and went away the same night.

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