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1 年初,正當諸王出征的季節,達味派約阿布率領他的將官和以色列人出征;他們蹂躪了阿孟子民,就包圍辣巴。當時達味住在耶路撒冷。
And when the yeere was expired in the time when Kinges goe forth to battell, Dauid sent Ioab, and his seruantes with him, and all Israel, who destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but Dauid remayned in Ierusalem.
2 一天傍晚,達味由床上起來,在宮殿的房屋頂上散步;從房頂上看見一個女人在沐浴,這女人容貌很美。
And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.
3 達味遂派人打聽這女人是誰;有人告訴他說:「這不是厄里安的女兒,赫特人烏黎雅的妻子巴特舍巴嗎﹖
And Dauid sent and inquired what woman it was: and one sayde, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to Vriah the Hittite?
4 達味便派人將他接來;她來到他那裡,達味就與她同寢,那時她的月經剛潔淨了。事後,她便回了家。
Then Dauid sent messengers, and tooke her away: and she came vnto him and he lay with her: (now she was purified from her vncleannes) and she returned vnto her house.
5 不久,那女人自覺懷孕,就打發人告訴達味說:「我懷了孕。」
And the woman conceiued: therefore shee sent and tolde Dauid, and sayd, I am with childe.
6 達味派人給約阿布說:「打發赫特人烏黎雅來見我。」約阿布就打發烏黎雅去見達味。
Then Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Vriah the Hittite. And Ioab sent Vriah to Dauid.
7 烏黎雅一來到他跟前,達味就問:「約阿布近來如何﹖士兵好嗎﹖戰事怎樣﹖」
And when Vriah came vnto him, Dauid demanded him how Ioab did, and howe the people fared, and how the warre prospered.
8 達味向烏黎雅說:「你下到家中洗洗腳吧! 」烏黎雅剛離開皇宮,隨後就送來了王的飲食。
Afterward Dauid said to Vriah, Go downe to thine house, and wash thy feete. So Vriah departed out of the Kings palace, and the king sent a present after him.
9 烏黎雅卻同他的主人的僕役一起睡在宮門旁,沒有下到家裡。
But Vriah slept at the doore of the Kings palace with all the seruants of his lord, and went not downe to his house.
10 有人報告達味說:「烏黎雅並沒有回到自己家裡。」達味便向烏黎雅說:「你不是由遠道回來的嗎,為什麼不下到你家裡去呢﹖」
Then they tolde Dauid, saying, Vriah went not downe to his house: and Dauid saide vnto Vriah, Commest thou not from thy iourney? why didst thou not go downe to thine house?
11 烏黎雅回答達味說:「約櫃,以色列和猶大人都住在帳幕裡,我主約阿布和我主的僕人都在野外露宿,我豈能回家吃喝,和我妻子一起睡覺﹖上主永在,陛下萬歲! 我絕不做這樣的事。」
Then Vriah answered Dauid, The Arke and Israel, and Iudah dwell in tents: and my lord Ioab and the seruants of my lord abide in the open fields: shall I then go into mine house to eate and drinke, and lie with my wife? by thy life, and by the life of thy soule, I will not do this thing.
12 達味向烏黎雅說:「今天你還留在這裡,明天我要打發你回去。」烏黎雅那天就留在耶路撒冷。第二天,
Then Dauid sayd vnto Vriah, Tary yet this day, and to morow I will send thee away. So Vriah abode in Ierusalem that day, and the morowe.
13 達味召他來與自己一起飲宴,將他灌醉,傍晚,烏黎雅出去,仍與他主人的僕役睡在一起,並沒有到家裡去。
Then Dauid called him, and hee did eate and drinke before him, and he made him drunke: and at euen he went out to lie on his couch with the seruants of his Lord, but went not downe to his house.
14 到了早晨,達味給約阿布寫了一封信,要烏黎雅親手帶去。
And on the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.
15 他在信上寫說:「你應派烏黎雅到戰事最激烈的前線,然後,在他後邊撤退,讓他受攻擊陣亡。」
And he wrote thus in the letter, Put ye Vriah in the forefront of the strength of the battell, and recule ye backe from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16 約阿布察看那城以後,知道那裡有最強悍的敵人,就派烏黎雅到那裡去了。
So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Vriah vnto a place, where he knewe that strong men were.
17 城內的人出來,與約阿布交戰,達味的僕役中,有些人陣亡了,赫特人烏黎雅也陣亡了。
And the men of the citie came out, and fought with Ioab: and there fell of the people of the seruants of Dauid, and Vriah the Hittite also dyed.
18 約阿布派人去向達味報告這次戰事的一切經過,
Then Ioab sent and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre,
19 他吩咐使者說:「若你把戰事的經過向君王報告完了以後,
And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling all the matters of the warre vnto the King,
20 王若向你發怒說:為什麼你們靠近城牆作戰﹖你們不知道有人會由城牆上射擊嗎﹖
And if the kings anger arise, so that he say vnto thee, Wherefore approched ye vnto the citie to fight? knewe ye not that they would hurle from the wall?
21 誰擊殺了耶魯巴耳的兒子阿彼默肋客﹖不是一個女人從城牆上把一塊磨石丟在他身上﹖他就死在特貝茲嗎﹖為什麼你們靠近城牆呢﹖你就答說:你的僕人赫特人烏黎雅也陣亡了。」
Who smote Abimelech sonne of Ierubesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon him from the wall, and he died in Thebez? why went you nie the wall? Then say thou, Thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.
22 使者就前來見達味,把約阿布打發他報告的一切全向達味報告了。達味對約阿布大怒,向使者說:「你們為什麼靠近城牆作戰﹖你們不知道有人會由城牆上射擊嗎﹖誰射擊了耶魯巴耳的兒子阿彼默肋客﹖不是一個女人從城牆上把一塊磨石丟在他身上,他就死在特貝茲嗎﹖為什麼你們靠近城牆呢﹖」
So the messenger went, and came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for.
23 報信的人向達味說:「那些人向我們衝來,下到平原來攻打我們,我們就追擊他們到城門邊,
And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Certainely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, but we pursued them vnto the entring of the gate.
24 射手就從城牆上射擊我們. 君王的僕役大約死了十八人,你的僕人烏黎雅,那個赫特人也死了。
But the shooters shot from ye wall against thy seruants, and some of the Kings seruants be dead: and thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.
25 「達味向報信的人說:「你去告訴約阿布說:不必對這事過傷心,因為刀劍有時砍這人,也有時砍那人;你只管加緊攻城,將城毀滅。你要鼓勵他。
Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing trouble thee: for the sworde deuoureth one as well as another: make thy battell more strong against the citie and destroy it, and encourage thou him.
26 「烏黎雅的妻子聽說他丈夫陣亡了,就為他丈夫舉哀。
And when the wife of Vriah heard that her husband Vriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 居喪期一滿,達味就派人將他接到自己的宮中,成了他的妻子,給他生了一個兒子。達味這樣行事,使上主大為不悅。
So when the mourning was past, Dauid sent and tooke her into his house, and shee became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but ye thing that Dauid had done, displeased the Lord.

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