撒母耳記下 17
1 阿希托費耳向說：「讓我選拔一萬二千人，今夜起程去追趕達味。
And he said Ahithophel to Absalom let me choose please two [plus] ten thousand man and I will arise and I will pursue after David this night.
2 正當他困乏疲倦時，我忽然趕到，使他驚惶失措，隨從他的人，必會逃散，我只把君王一人殺了，
So I may come on him and he [will be] weary and slack of hands and I will terrify him and will flee all the people which [is] with him and I will strike down the king to only him.
3 然後人民來歸順你，像新娘回到新郎那裏；你只須害一人的性命，全民眾就都和平無事了」。
And I will bring back all the people to you as returns everything the man whom you [are] seeking all the people it will be peace.
4 阿貝沙隆和以色列的眾長老，對這提議都很贊成。
And it was pleasing the word in [the] eyes of Absalom and in [the] eyes of all [the] elders of Israel.
5 阿貝沙隆說：「讓把阿爾基人胡瑟召來，我們也願聽聽他說什麼」。
And he said Absalom summon please also Hushai the Arkite so let us hear what? [is] in mouth his also he.
6 胡瑟來到阿貝沙隆前，阿貝沙隆向他說：「阿希托費耳說出這樣的話，我們應按他的主意去行嗎﹖請你提議吧! 」
And he came Hushai to Absalom and he said Absalom to him saying according to the word this he has spoken Ahithophel ¿ will we do word his if not you speak.
7 胡瑟回答阿貝沙隆說：「阿希托費耳這次所出的計謀卻是不妙」。
And he said Hushai to Absalom not [is] good the counsel which he has counseled Ahithophel at the time this.
8 胡瑟接著說：「你知道你父親和隨從他的人，都是勇將，現在心情惱怒，好像田野間喪子的母熊；何況，你父親又是歷戰陣的人，夜間決不會讓軍民安睡。
And he said Hushai you you know father your and men his that [are] warriors they and [are] bitter of soul they like a bear robbed of cubs in the field and father your [is] a man of war and not he will pass [the] night with the people.
9 他現在必藏在一個山洞裏，或另一個地方；若起初我們的人就有傷亡，人們聽見必要說：跟隨阿貝沙隆的人，慘遭失敗；
There! now he [has] hidden himself in one of the ravines or in one of the places and it will be when falls among them at the first and he will hear the [one who] hears and he will say it has been a slaughter among the people which [is] after Absalom.
10 那麼，連性情兇猛如獅子的壯士，也要灰心喪膽，因為全以色列人都知道你父親是個勇將，跟隨他的人，也都是驍勇的人。
And he also a son of strength whom heart his [is] like [the] heart of lion surely he will melt for [is] knowing all Israel that [is] a warrior father your and [are] sons of strength who [are] with him.
11 我的計劃，是先把所有的以色列人集合在你身邊，從丹直到貝爾舍巴，像海邊沙粒那樣多，然後由你親自率領，前去征討；
For I counsel certainly let it be gathered to you all Israel from Dan and to Beer Sheba like the sand which [is] at the sea for multitude and face your [will be] going in the battle.
12 他不論到那裏，我們也突然到那裏；像露一樣襲擊他，使他和跟隨他的人一個也不留下。
And we will come against him (in one of *Q(k)*) the places where he is found there and we will set on him when it will fall the dew on the ground and not we will leave among him and among all the men who [are] with him also one.
13 若他退入一座城內，全以色列就帶著繩索去攻擊那城，將那城拉到山谷裏，連一塊小石也不剩下」。
And if into a city he will be gathered and they will cause to bring all Israel to the city that ropes and we will drag him to the wadi until that not it has been found there also a pebble.
14 阿貝沙隆和全以色列人都說：「阿爾基人胡瑟的計謀比阿希托費耳的更為可取」。原是上主決定了要破壞阿希托費耳是好計謀，為給阿彼瑟降下災禍。
And he said Absalom and every man of Israel [is] good [the] counsel of Hushai the Arkite more than [the] counsel of Ahithophel and Yahweh he had commanded to frustrate [the] counsel of Ahithophel good in order to bring Yahweh to Absalom calamity.
15 隨後，胡瑟報告匝多克和厄貝雅塔爾說：「阿希托費耳給阿貝沙隆和以色列長老出了那樣的計謀，我卻出了這樣的計謀。
And he said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests like this and like this he has counseled Ahithophel Absalom and [the] elders of Israel and like this and like this I have counseled I.
16 現在，快派人去報告達味說：今夜不可在曠野的渡口露宿，要趕快過河，免得君王和隨從他的人民都遭殲滅」。
And therefore send quickly and tell to David saying may not you pass [the] night this night at [the] desert plains of the wilderness and also certainly you will pass over lest it should be swallowed up to the king and to all the people which [is] with him.
17 那時，約納堂和阿希瑪茲已在洛革泉傍等候，因怕被人看見，不敢進城；有個使女出來給他們傳信，他們就去報告達味君王。
And Jonathan and Ahimaaz [were] staying at En Rogel and she went the maidservant and she told to them and they they went and they told to the king David for not they were able to be seen to go the city towards.
18 但有一個少年人看見了他們，便向阿貝沙隆報告了；他們二人就急速逃匿，來到巴胡陵的一個人家裏，他院子裏有一口井，他們便下到井裏。
And he saw them a young man and he told to Absalom and they went [the] two of them quickly and they came - to [the] house of a man in Bahurim and [belonged] to him a well in courtyard his and they went down there.
19 那家的婦女取了一個蓋子蓋在井口上，蓋子上又撒了些麥粒，免得有人注意。
And she took the woman and she spread out the covering on [the] face of the well and she spread on it the grain[s] and not it was known anything.
20 阿貝沙隆的差役來到那家的婦女前問說：「阿希瑪茲和約納堂在哪裏﹖那婦女答說：「他們早過了蓄水池」。差役就去搜索他們，卻沒有找著，便回了耶路撒冷。
And they came [the] servants of Absalom to the woman the house towards and they said where? [are] Ahimaaz and Jonathan and she said to them the woman they have passed over [the] brook of water and they sought [them] and not they found [them] and they returned Jerusalem.
21 差役走了以後，兩人就為井裏上來；去給達味君王報信，對達味說：「起身，趕快過河，因為阿希托費耳為害你們出了這樣的計謀」。
And it was - after had gone they and they came up from the well and they went and they told to the king David and they said to David arise and pass over quickly the water for thus he has counseled on you Ahithophel.
22 達味和隨從他的人就起身過了約旦河。到天亮時，沒有一個沒有過約旦河的。
And he arose David and all the people which [was] with him and they passed over the Jordan until [the] light of the morning up to one [person] not [was] missing who not he had passed over the Jordan.
23 阿希托費耳看見人不依從他的計謀，就備上驢，動身回家，回了本城，安排了自己的家務以後，就上吊死了。人將他埋在他父親的墳墓裏。
And Ahithophel he saw that not it was done counsel his and he saddled the donkey and he arose and he went to house his to city his and he commanded concerning household his and he hanged himself and he died and he was buried in [the] tomb of father his.
24 阿貝沙隆率領以色列人過約旦河時，達味已到了瑪哈納因。
And David he had gone Mahanaim towards and Absalom he had passed over the Jordan he and every man of Israel with him.
25 阿貝沙隆派阿瑪撒代約阿布為統帥。阿瑪撒是依市瑪耳人依特辣的兒子。依特辣曾走近過葉瑟的女兒，約阿布的母親，責魯雅的姐妹阿彼蓋耳。
And Amasa he had appointed Absalom in place of Joab over the army and Amasa [was] a son of a man and name his [was] Jether the Israelite who he had gone into Abigail [the] daughter of Nahash [the] sister of Zeruiah [the] mother of Joab.
26 以色列人同阿貝沙隆在基肋阿得一帶紮了營。
And it encamped Israel and Absalom [the] land of Gilead.
27 當達味來到瑪哈納因時，納哈士的兒子芍彼，由阿孟人民的辣巴城，阿米爾的兒子瑪基爾由羅德巴爾城，基肋阿得人巴爾齊來由洛革林城，
And it was when came David Mahanaim towards and Shobi [the] son of Nahash from Rabbah of [the] people of Ammon and Makir [the] son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
28 帶來了床、鋪蓋、杯盤、炊具、小麥、麵粉、炒麥、豆子、扁豆、
Bed[s] and basins and a vessel of a potter and wheat and barley and flour and roasted grain and bean[s] and lentils and roasted grain.
29 蜂蜜、奶油、奶餅、牛肉和羊肉，供給達味和他的的人吃用，因為他們想：這些人經過了曠野，必定感到飢餓和疲勞。
And honey and curd and sheep and cheese of [the] herd they brought for David and for the people which [was] with him to eat for they said the people [is] hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.
