撒母耳記上 30
1 當達味和他的人第三天來到漆刻拉格時，阿瑪肋克人已侵入乃革布和漆刻拉格，將漆刻拉格洗劫，放火燒了，
And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that, the Amalekites, had made a raid into the South, and into Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 將城中的婦女，以及所有的老幼，都擄了去；但沒有殺人，只將他們擄走，回返原路。
and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, from small even unto great, they had not put one to death, —but had driven them forth, and gone their way.
3 達味和他的人來到城旁，見城已被火燒毀，他們的妻子兒女盡被據去，
So, when David and his men came to the city, lo! it was burnt with fire, —and, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, had been taken captive.
4 遂放聲大哭，直哭得聲嘶力竭。
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice, and wept, —until they had no more strength to weep.
5 達味的兩個妻子：依次勒耳人阿希諾罕和曾作加爾默耳人納巴耳妻子的阿彼蓋耳也被據去了。
And, the two wives of David, had been taken captive, —Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 達味陷入窘境，因為人民各為自己的兒女非常痛心，都說要用石頭打死他；但是達味更加堅固倚靠上主，他的天主。
And David was in sore distress, for the people had spoken of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were embittered, every man for his own sons and for his own daughters, —but David emboldened himself in Yahweh his God.
7 達味對阿希默肋客的兒子厄貝雅塔爾司祭說：「請你將「厄弗得」給我拿來! 」厄貝雅塔爾就將厄弗得」給達味拿了來。
Then said David to Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, Do bring near me, I pray thee, the ephod. So Abiathar brought near the ephod, unto David.
8 達味求問上主說：「我該追趕這些土匪嗎﹖我追得上嗎﹖」上主答說：「你去追趕，必能追上，能救回一切」。
And David enquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? shall I overtake it? And he said unto him: Pursue, for thou shalt, overtake, and thou shalt, rescue.
9 達味和隨從他的六百人於是立即出發，到了貝索爾河。
So David went, he, and the six hundred men, who were with him, and they came in as far as the ravine of Besor, —where, they who had to be left behind, stayed.
10 艮帶著四百人仍向追趕，其餘二百人因為過於疲倦，不能過貝索爾河，就住下了。
But David pursued, he. and four hundred men, —but the two hundred men stayed, because they were too wearied to cross over the ravine of Besor.
11 有人在田間遇見了一個埃及人，把他領到達味前，給他飯吃，給他水喝，
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and took him unto David, —and gave him food, and he did eat, and they gave him water to drink;
12 又給他一個無花果餅，兩串乾葡萄；他吃了後，精神就恢復了，因為他已三天三夜沒有吃飯喝水了。
and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two cakes of raisins, and, when he had eaten, his spirit came back unto him, —for he had neither eaten food, nor drunk water, three days and three nights.
13 達味問他說：「你是誰的人，你是哪裏的﹖」他答說：「我是個埃及少年，為一個阿瑪肋克人做奴隸，因為我害病，我主人拋棄我已三天了。
Then David said to him—Whose art thou? and whence art thou? And he said, A young man of Egypt, am I, servant to an Amalekite, and my lord left me behind, because I fell sick, three days ago.
14 我們侵擊了革肋提人的南部，猶太的南部和加肋布的南部，放火燒了漆刻拉格」。
As for us, we invaded the South of the Cherithites, and against that which pertaineth unto Judah, and against the South of Caleb, —and, Ziklag, burned we with fire.
15 達味問他說：「你能領我下到這群土匪那裏去嗎﹖」他答說：「你要指著天主給我起誓：不殺我，也不將我交在我主人手裏，那麼我就領你下到這群土那裏去」。艮對他起了誓，
And David said unto him, Wilt thou bring me down unto this troop? And he said—Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt not put me to death, neither wilt thou surrender me into the hand of my lord, and I will bring thee down unto this troop.
16 他便領他下去了。看，土匪都散在各處，正在吃喝，慶祝他們從培肋舍特和猶大地方搶來的大批勝利品。
So he brought him down, and lo! they were left to themselves over the face of all the land, —eating, and drinking, and dancing around, for all the great spoil which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 達味從天亮直到晚上，擊殺他們，消滅他們，除四百駱馲騎逃走的兵士外，一個也沒有逃脫。
And David smote them, from the closing twilight even unto the evening of the next day, —and there escaped not of them a man, save four hundred young men who rode upon camels, and fled.
18 凡阿瑪肋克人所據去的，達味都救了回來，也救回了他的兩個妻子。
And David rescued all whom the Amalekites had taken, —his two wives also, did David rescue;
19 凡被據去的，不論老幼，不論子女，不論什麼財物，一個也不缺，達味全都奪了回來。
and there was nothing missing to them—whether small or great, whether spoil, or sons or daughters, or, any thing which they had taken unto themselves, —the whole, did David recover.
20 他們奪回了所有牛羊，牽到達味前說：「這的達味的戰利品」。
And David took all the flocks and the herds, —they drave them before those other cattle, and they said, This, is David’s spoil.
21 達味回到那二百人那裏，他們因為走路疲乏，不能跟著去，達味就叫他們留在貝索爾河旁，──這些人就前來歡迎跟隨他的軍人也上去向廿請安。
And David came unto the two hundred men, who had been too wearied to follow David, and whom they had suffered to remain at the ravine of Besor, —and they came forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him, and when David came near unto the people, they enquired of his success.
22 達味前去的人中，有些不良份子無賴之徒高聲嚷說：「他們既然沒有與我們同去，我們所救回來的財物，什麼也不要分給他們，只他們各自帶自己的妻子和兒女4 回去。
Then responded every man who was bad and abandoned, from among the men who had been with David, and said—Because they went not with me there shall not be given them of the spoil that we have rescued, —save, to every man, his wife and his children, let them put them forth, then, and go.
23 達味就說：「兄弟們，上主既然這樣恩待我們，保護我們，把這群前來攻擊我們的土匪，父在我們手裏，你們決不能這樣做。
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, —with that which Yahweh hath given to us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
24 在這件事上，誰能依從你們呢﹖那下去打仗的得多少；大家應當平分! 」
Who indeed, could hearken unto you, in this mutter? Surely, like the share of him that went down into the battle, even, so, shall be the share of him that remained by the stores—alike, shall they share.
25 從那天起，達味給以色列立定了這項至今有效的規律和法律。
And so it came to pass, from that day forward, that he appointed it, for a statute and for a custom unto Israel, until this day.
26 達味回到漆刻拉格，照猶大所有的城邑，從勝利品中拿了些給他們的長說：「請看! 這是由上主敵人的財物中，給你們分送的禮物」。
And, when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil, unto the elders of Judah, unto his friends, saying, —Lo! for you, a blessing, out of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:
27 就是給了那些在貝突耳的，在辣瑪南方的，在雅提爾的，
to them who were in Bethel, and to them who were in Ramoth of the South, and to them who were in Jattir,
28 在阿辣辣的，在息弗摩特的，在厄市特摩的，
and to them who were in Aroer, and to them who were in Siphmoth, and to them who were in Eshtemoa,
29 在加爾默耳的，在耶辣默耳人城中的，在刻尼人城中的，
and to them who were in Racal, and to them who were in the cities of the Jerameelites, and to them who were in the cities of the Kenites,
30 在曷爾瑪的，在波爾阿商的，在阿塔客的，
and to them who were in Hormah, and to them who were in Cor-ashan, and to them who were in Athach,
31 在赫貝龍的長老，也給了在達味和其他人民曾經漂流過的地方的人。
and to them who were in Hebron, —and to all the places where David had been to and fro, he and his men.
