撒母耳記下 19

1 有人報告約阿布說：「看，君王在痛哭哀悼阿貝沙隆。」

It was told Joab, "Look, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."

2 那天的勝利為全軍竟變成了悲哀，因為他們那天聽說君王為自己的兒子悲傷。

The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son."

3 因此，那天軍人暗暗地進了城，好像由戰埸上受辱回來的軍隊。

So the people went quietly into the city that day, the way that people who are humiliated creep away when fleeing in battle.

4 此時君王正在掩面大聲哀哭說：「我兒阿貝沙隆! 我兒阿貝沙隆! 我兒! 」

The king covered his face, and he cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son."

5 約阿布進去對君王說：「你今天大傷你僕人們的臉面，他們救了你的性命，你兒女的性命，你妻妾的性命；

Then Joab went into the house to the king, and said, "Today you have humiliated the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and of your daughters and the lives of your wives and the lives of your secondary wives;

6 然而恨你的，你反而愛他；愛你的，你反恨他。今天你已明確表示：王侯和臣民為你不算什麼。也明明看出：阿貝沙隆今天若能活著，我們我們都死了，你才安心呢!

by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you. For you know that if Absalom were alive today, and all of us had died, then you would be pleased.

7 現今你快起來，出去，說幾句使你僕人們安心的話吧! 我指著上主起誓，如果你不出去，今夜再沒有一個人同你一起了。這禍患於你要超過你從小到大所遭遇的一切禍患」。

Now therefore get up, go out and speak kindly to your servants. For I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you this night, and that will be worse for you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

8 君王就起來，坐在大門口。遂有人向軍民傳報說：「君王已坐在門口! 」軍人都聚齊，來到君王前。以色列各自逃回自己的營幕。

So the king got up and sat at the gate. And all the people were informed, saying, "Look, the king is sitting at the gate." And all the people came before the king. Meanwhile, Israel had fled each man to his tent.

9 那時，以色列各支派的民眾紛紛議論說：「君王從仇人手中拯救了我們，現在，他竟為阿貝沙隆離開了本國。

All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land and from being over his kingdom.

10 我們給阿貝沙隆曾傅過油為管理我們，他已經戰死。現今你們等什麼，遇不把君王接回來﹖」

And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you not speak a word of bringing the king back?" And the talk of all Israel came to the king.

11 全以色列這提議傳到君王那裏。達味遂派人對司祭匝多克和厄貝雅塔爾說：「你們應向猶大長老說：為什麼你們等到最後才去迎接君王回宮呢﹖

So king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his palace?

12 你們是我的兄弟，我的骨肉，為什麼你們等到最後才去迎接君王呢﹖

You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

13 你們要向阿瑪撒說：你不是我的骨肉嗎﹖若我不叫你一生代替約阿布作元帥，願天主這樣罰我，且更加倍地罰我! 」

And say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? Now then, God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab. '"

14 那時，全猶大人都同心合意，一致派使者到君王說：「請你和你的臣僕回來吧!

Thus the heart of all the men of Judah was inclined as one man, so that they sent a message to the king, "Return, you and all your servants."

15 君王動身回來了，到了約旦河。這時迎接君王的猶大人來到了基耳加耳，協助君王渡約旦河。

So the king returned and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, having come down to meet the king, to bring the king across the Jordan.

16 那時，巴胡陵的本雅明人革辣的兒子史米，也趕快來同那些猶大人歡迎達味君王。

And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David,

17 同他來的，還有一千本雅明人。撒烏耳的家僕，漆巴和他十五個兒子同二十個僕人，也來到約旦河歡迎君王﹖

and a thousand men from Benjamin with him. But Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, waded through the Jordan ahead of the king,

18 他們都到渡口那邊，協助君王的家族過河。聽君王的調動；君王快要過約旦河時，革辣的兒子史米就俯伏在君王前，

and did the work of bringing the king across and to do whatever he wished. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he crossed the Jordan.

19 向他說：「我主；，請不要歸罪於我，求你不要懷念大王出離耶路撒冷時，你僕人所犯的罪；願大王不要把這事放在心上!

Then he said to the king, "May my lord not consider punishment. Do not remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king left Jerusalem, so that the king should call it to mind.

20 因為你的僕人自知犯了罪。看，如今我是若瑟全家族中，首先來歡迎我主大王的」。

For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, look, I have come today the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."

21 責雅的兒子阿瑟立即發言說：「史米辱罵了上主的受傅者，難道為了他這番話就不該死嗎﹖」

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah replied, "Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"

22 達味卻答說：「責魯雅的兒子們，我與你們有什麼關係﹖竟使你們今天與我作對! 今天還可以將一個以色列人處死嗎﹖難道不知道，我今天又作了以色列的君王﹖」

But David replied, "What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should become my adversaries today? Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? For do you not know that today I begin to rule over Israel?"

23 然後君王向史米說：「伓不會死! 」君王遂向起了誓。

Then the king said to Shimei, "You will not die." And the king gave him his oath.

24 撒烏耳的孫子默黎巴耳也下來歡迎君王；他自從君王出走的那日起，直到平安回來的這一天，沒有洗腳，沒有修鬚，也沒有人換洗自己的衣服。

Now Mippibaal son of Jonathan son of Saul came down to meet the king, and he had neither cared for his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back safely.

25 他由耶路撒冷來君王時，君王問他說：「默黎巴耳! 你為什麼不同我一起出走呢﹖」

And it happened when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mippibaal?"

26 他答說：「我主大王! 我的僕人哄騙了我，你僕人曾向他說：給我備一匹驢，我好騎著跟王一齊走，因為你僕腳跛。

So he answered, "My lord king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said to him, 'Saddle a donkey for me so that I may ride on it and go with the king,' for your servant is lame.

27 他又在我主大王前誹謗了你的僕人；但我主大王像天主的天使，你看怎樣好，就怎樣作吧!

And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king did that which was good in my eyes, like an angel of God.

28 因為我父全家對於我主大王，都是該死的人，你反而使你的僕人與你同桌共，食我那裏還有名分來向大王訴苦﹖」

For though all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, yet you placed your servant among those who eat at your table. From whom, then, could I have finer treatment?" But when he cried out to the king,

29 君王對他說：「你何必再說﹖我已決定，你該與巴平分產業」。

the king said, "Why do you multiply your words? I say: You and Ziba divide the property."

30 默黎巴耳回答君王說：「我主大王既然平安回朝，讓他全佔有吧! 」

And Mippibaal said to the king, "Yes, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home."

31 基肋阿得人巴爾齊從洛格林下來，陪伴君王過了約旦河，在約旦河岸與他辭別。

Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went with the king to conduct him from the Jordan.

32 巴爾齊來年紀很老，已八十歲。君王住在瑪哈納殷時，他供給了君王的吃用，他原很富有。

Now Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had provided for the king while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

33 君王向巴爾齊來說：「你同我一起去吧! 我願在耶路撒冷供養你的老年」。

And the king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will provide for your old age in Jerusalem with me."

34 巴爾齊來回答君王說：「既使我同大王上耶路撒冷去，我還能活幾年﹖

But Barzillai said to the king, "How many more days would I have there, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

35 我現年已八十，還能分辨美醜麼﹖你的僕人還能嚐出吃喝的味道來麼﹖還能細聽伶女和歌女的樂聲麼﹖你的為什麼還要拖累我主大王﹖

I am now eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of male and female singers? Why then should your servant be any further burden to my lord the king?

36 你的僕人陪著大王過約旦河，只是一點小意思，為什麼大王要給我一個這樣的報答﹖

Your servant will cross the Jordan with the king for a short distance. Why should the king compensate me in this way?

37 請讓你的僕人回去，叫我死在靠近我父母墳墓的故鄉! 看，你的僕人基默罕在這裏，他可跟我主大王同去，你看著怎樣好，就怎樣對待他吧! 」

Please let your servant return, so that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you."

38 達味答說：「那麼，讓默基罕跟我去好了，你看著怎樣好，我就怎樣待他；凡你向我所所要求的，我必為你做到」。

And the king answered, "Kimham will go over with me, and I will do for him whatever I consider appropriate, and whatever you require of me I will do for you."

39 眾人都過了約旦河，君王也過去了；然後與巴爾齊來親吻，祝福道別。巴爾齊來遂回了本鄉。

All the people crossed over the Jordan, but the king remained. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

40 君王繼續向基耳加耳前行，基默罕跟他同來。猶大全民眾和一半以色列人陪著君王前行。

So the king went over to Gilgal, and Kimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

41 眾以色列人來到君王前，向君王說：「為什麼我們的兄弟猶大人將君王劫了去，領君王和君王的眷屬過了約旦河。所有屬達味的人不都是他的百姓嗎﹖」

Look, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"

42 猶大人回答以色列人說：「因為君王是我們的親族，你們為什麼因此憤怒﹖我們豈是吃過君王的飯，或是領過他的俸祿﹖」

The men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's cost? Has he given us a gift? Or has he brought us a portion?"

43 以色列人回答猶大人說：「我們對君王有十倍權利，那麼，我們對達味的名分也多過你們，你們為什麼輕視我們﹖不是我們首先提議，要迎回我們的君王嗎﹖」然後猶大的答覆比以色列人所說的話，更為激烈。

Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten shares in the king, and we are the firstborn rather than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the comments of the men of Judah were more forceful than the comments of the men of Israel.