撒母耳記上 17
1 非利士人招聚他們的軍旅，要來爭戰；聚集在屬猶大的梭哥，安營在梭哥和亞西加中間的以弗‧大憫。
And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which [is] to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;
2 掃羅和以色列人也聚集，在以拉谷安營，擺列隊伍，要與非利士人打仗。
and Saul and the men of Israel have been gathered, and encamp by the Valley of Elah, and set in array [for] battle to meet the Philistines.
3 非利士人站在這邊山上，以色列人站在那邊山上，當中有谷。
And the Philistines are standing on the mountain on this [side], and Israel is standing on the mountain on that [side], and the valley [is] between them.
4 從非利士營中出來一個討戰的人，名叫歌利亞，是迦特人，身高六肘零一虎口；
And a man goes out, the champion from the camps of the Philistines, his name [is] Goliath, from Gath; his height [is] six cubits and a span [[or four cubits and a span]],
5 頭戴銅盔，身穿鎧甲，甲重五千舍客勒；
and a helmet of bronze [is] on his head, and he is clothed [with] a scaled coat of mail, and the weight of the coat of mail [is] five thousand shekels of bronze,
6 腿上有銅護膝，兩肩之中背負銅戟；
and a frontlet of bronze [is] on his feet, and a javelin of bronze between his shoulders,
7 槍桿粗如織布的機軸，鐵槍頭重六百舍客勒。有一個拿盾牌的人在他前面走。
and the wood of his spear [is] like a weavers’ beam, and the flame of his spear [is] six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the buckler is going before him.
8 歌利亞對着以色列的軍隊站立，呼叫說：「你們出來擺列隊伍做甚麼呢？我不是非利士人嗎？你們不是掃羅的僕人嗎？可以從你們中間揀選一人，使他下到我這裏來。
And he stands and calls to the ranks of Israel, and says to them, “Why do you come out to set in array for battle? [Am] I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me;
9 他若能與我戰鬥，將我殺死，我們就作你們的僕人；我若勝了他，將他殺死，你們就作我們的僕人，服事我們。」
if he is able to fight with me, and has struck me, then we have been for servants to you; and if I prevail against him, and have struck him, then you have been for servants to us, and have served us.”
10 那非利士人又說：「我今日向以色列人的軍隊罵陣。你們叫一個人出來，與我戰鬥。」
And the Philistine says, “I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give a man to me and we fight together!”
11 掃羅和以色列眾人聽見非利士人的這些話，就驚惶，極其害怕。
And Saul hears—and all Israel—these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid.
12 大衛是猶大伯利恆的以法他人耶西的兒子。耶西有八個兒子。當掃羅的時候，耶西已經老邁。
And David [is] son of this Ephraimite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name [is] Jesse, and he has eight sons, and the man has become aged among men in the days of Saul;
13 耶西的三個大兒子跟隨掃羅出征。這出征的三個兒子：長子名叫以利押，次子名叫亞比拿達，三子名叫沙瑪。
and the three eldest sons of Jesse go, they have gone after Saul to battle; and the name of his three sons who have gone into battle [are] Eliab the firstborn, and his second Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14 大衛是最小的；那三個大兒子跟隨掃羅。
And David is the youngest, and the three eldest have gone after Saul,
15 大衛有時離開掃羅，回伯利恆放他父親的羊。
and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
16 那非利士人早晚都出來站着，如此四十日。
And the Philistine draws near, morning and evening, and stations himself [for] forty days.
17 一日，耶西對他兒子大衛說：「你拿一伊法烘了的穗子和十個餅，速速地送到營裏去，交給你哥哥們；
And Jesse says to his son David, “Now take an ephah of this roasted [grain] and these ten loaves for your brothers, and run to the camp to your brothers;
18 再拿這十塊奶餅，送給他們的千夫長，且問你哥哥們好，向他們要一封信來。」
and take these ten cuttings of the cheese to the head of the one thousand, and inspect your brothers for welfare, and receive their pledge.”
19 掃羅與大衛的三個哥哥和以色列眾人，在以拉谷與非利士人打仗。
And Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [are] in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20 大衛早晨起來，將羊交託一個看守的人，照着他父親所吩咐的話，帶着食物去了。到了輜重營，軍兵剛出到戰場，吶喊要戰。
And David rises early in the morning, and leaves the flock to a keeper, and lifts up, and goes, as Jesse commanded him, and he comes to the path, and to the force which is going out to the rank, and they have shouted for battle;
21 以色列人和非利士人都擺列隊伍，彼此相對。
and Israel and the Philistines set in array rank to meet rank.
22 大衛把他帶來的食物留在看守物件人的手下，跑到戰場，問他哥哥們安。
And David lets down the goods from off him on the hand of a keeper of the goods, and runs into the rank, and comes and asks of his brothers of [their] welfare.
23 與他們說話的時候，那討戰的，就是屬迦特的非利士人歌利亞，從非利士隊中出來，說從前所說的話；大衛都聽見了。
And he is speaking with them, and behold, a man, the champion, is coming up, his name [is] Goliath the Philistine, from Gath, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and he speaks according to those words, and David hears;
24 以色列眾人看見那人，就逃跑，極其害怕。
and all the men of Israel, when they see the man, flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.
25 以色列人彼此說：「這上來的人你看見了嗎？他上來是要向以色列人罵陣。若有能殺他的，王必賞賜他大財，將自己的女兒給他為妻，並在以色列人中免他父家納糧當差。」
And the men of Israel say, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? For he is coming up to reproach Israel, and it has been—the man who strikes him, the king enriches him with great riches, and he gives his daughter to him, and makes his father’s house free in Israel.”
26 大衛問站在旁邊的人說：「有人殺這非利士人，除掉以色列人的恥辱，怎樣待他呢？這未受割禮的非利士人是誰呢？竟敢向永生上帝的軍隊罵陣嗎？」
And David speaks to the men who are standing by him, saying, “What is done to the man who strikes this Philistine, and has turned aside reproach from Israel? For who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine that he has reproached the ranks of the living God?”
27 百姓照先前的話回答他說：「有人能殺這非利士人，必如此如此待他。」
And the people speak to him according to this word, saying, “Thus it is done to the man who strikes him.”
28 大衛的長兄以利押聽見大衛與他們所說的話，就向他發怒，說：「你下來做甚麼呢？在曠野的那幾隻羊，你交託了誰呢？我知道你的驕傲和你心裏的惡意，你下來特為要看爭戰！」
And Eliab, his eldest brother, hears when he speaks to the men, and the anger of Eliab burns against David, and he says, “Why [is] this—[that] you have come down? And to whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known your pride, and the evil of your heart—for you have come down to see the battle.”
29 大衛說：「我做了甚麼呢？我來豈沒有緣故嗎？」
And David says, “What have I done now? Is it not a word?”
30 大衛就離開他轉向別人，照先前的話而問；百姓仍照先前的話回答他。
And he turns around from him to another, and says according to this word, and the people return him word as the first word.
31 有人聽見大衛所說的話，就告訴了掃羅；掃羅便打發人叫他來。
And the words which David has spoken are heard, and they declare [them] before Saul, and he receives him;
32 大衛對掃羅說：「人都不必因那非利士人膽怯。你的僕人要去與那非利士人戰鬥。」
and David says to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fall because of him, your servant goes, and has fought with this Philistine.”
33 掃羅對大衛說：「你不能去與那非利士人戰鬥；因為你年紀太輕，他自幼就作戰士。」
And Saul says to David, “You are not able to go to this Philistine, to fight with him, for you [are] a youth, and he [has been] a man of war from his youth.”
34 大衛對掃羅說：「你僕人為父親放羊，有時來了獅子，有時來了熊，從群中啣一隻羊羔去。
And David says to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd among the sheep for his father, and the lion has come—and the bear—and has taken away a sheep out of the drove,
35 我就追趕牠，擊打牠，將羊羔從牠口中救出來。牠起來要害我，我就揪着牠的鬍子，將牠打死。
and I have gone out after him, and struck him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth, and he rises against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and struck him, and put him to death.
36 你僕人曾打死獅子和熊，這未受割禮的非利士人向永生上帝的軍隊罵陣，也必像獅子和熊一般。」
Your servant has struck both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine has been as one of them, for he has reproached the ranks of the living God.”
37 大衛又說：「耶和華救我脫離獅子和熊的爪，也必救我脫離這非利士人的手。」掃羅對大衛說：「你可以去吧！耶和華必與你同在。」
And David says, “YHWH, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He delivers me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul says to David, “Go, and YHWH is with you.”
38 掃羅就把自己的戰衣給大衛穿上，將銅盔給他戴上，又給他穿上鎧甲。
And Saul clothes David with his long robe, and has put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothes him with a coat of mail.
39 大衛把刀跨在戰衣外，試試能走不能走；因為素來沒有穿慣，就對掃羅說：「我穿戴這些不能走，因為素來沒有穿慣。」於是摘脫了。
And David girded his sword above his long robe, and begins to go, for he has not tried [it]; and David says to Saul, “I am not able to go with these, for I had not tried”; and David turns them aside from off him.
40 他手中拿杖，又在溪中挑選了五塊光滑石子，放在袋裏，就是牧人帶的囊裏；手中拿着甩石的機弦，就去迎那非利士人。
And he takes his staff in his hand, and chooses five smooth stones for himself from the brook, and puts them in the shepherds’ vessel that he has, even in the leather pouch, and his sling [is] in his hand, and he draws near to the Philistine.
41 非利士人也漸漸地迎着大衛來，拿盾牌的走在前頭。
And the Philistine goes on, going and drawing near to David, and the man carrying the buckler [is] before him,
42 非利士人觀看，見了大衛，就藐視他；因為他年輕，面色光紅，容貌俊美。
and the Philistine looks attentively, and sees David, and despises him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance.
43 非利士人對大衛說：「你拿杖到我這裏來，我豈是狗呢？」非利士人就指着自己的神咒詛大衛。
And the Philistine says to David, “Am I a dog that you are coming to me with sticks?” And the Philistine reviles David by his gods,
44 非利士人又對大衛說：「來吧！我將你的肉給空中的飛鳥、田野的走獸吃。」
and the Philistine says to David, “Come to me, and I give your flesh to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the field.”
45 大衛對非利士人說：「你來攻擊我，是靠着刀槍和銅戟；我來攻擊你，是靠着萬軍之耶和華的名，就是你所怒罵帶領以色列軍隊的上帝。
And David says to the Philistine, “You are coming to me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming to you in the Name of YHWH of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which you have reproached!
46 今日耶和華必將你交在我手裏。我必殺你，斬你的頭，又將非利士軍兵的屍首給空中的飛鳥、地上的野獸吃，使普天下的人都知道以色列中有上帝；
This day YHWH shuts you up into my hand—and I have struck you, and turned aside your head from off you, and given the carcass of the camp of the Philistines this day to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth knows that God is for Israel!
47 又使這眾人知道耶和華使人得勝，不是用刀用槍，因為爭戰的勝敗全在乎耶和華。他必將你們交在我們手裏。」
And all this assembly knows that YHWH does not save by sword and by spear, for the battle [is] YHWH’s, and He has given you into our hand.”
48 非利士人起身，迎着大衛前來。大衛急忙迎着非利士人，往戰場跑去。
And it has come to pass, that the Philistine has risen, and goes, and draws near to meet David, and David hurries and runs to the rank to meet the Philistine,
49 大衛用手從囊中掏出一塊石子來，用機弦甩去，打中非利士人的額，石子進入額內，他就仆倒，面伏於地。
and David puts forth his hand into the vessel, and takes a stone from there, and slings, and strikes the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sinks into his forehead, and he falls on his face to the earth.
50 這樣，大衛用機弦甩石，勝了那非利士人，打死他；大衛手中卻沒有刀。
And David is stronger than the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and strikes the Philistine, and puts him to death, and there is no sword in the hand of David,
51 大衛跑去，站在非利士人身旁，將他的刀從鞘中拔出來，殺死他，割了他的頭。非利士眾人看見他們討戰的勇士死了，就都逃跑。
and David runs and stands over the Philistine, and takes his sword, and draws it out of its sheath, and puts him to death, and cuts off his head with it; and the Philistines see that their hero [is] dead, and flee.
52 以色列人和猶大人便起身吶喊，追趕非利士人，直到迦特和以革倫的城門。被殺的非利士人倒在沙拉音的路上，直到迦特和以革倫。
And the men of Israel rise—also Judah—and shout, and pursue the Philistines until you enter the valley, and to the gates of Ekron, and the wounded of the Philistines fall in the way of Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron,
53 以色列人追趕非利士人回來，就奪了他們的營盤。
and the sons of Israel return from burning after the Philistines, and spoil their camps.
54 大衛將那非利士人的頭拿到耶路撒冷，卻將他軍裝放在自己的帳棚裏。
And David takes the head of the Philistine, and brings it to Jerusalem, and he has put his weapons in his own tent.
55 掃羅看見大衛去攻擊非利士人，就問元帥押尼珥說：「押尼珥啊，那少年人是誰的兒子？」押尼珥說：「我敢在王面前起誓，我不知道。」
And when Saul sees David going out to meet the Philistine, he has said to Abner, head of the host, “Whose son [is] this—the youth, Abner?” And Abner says, “Your soul lives, O king, I have not known.”
56 王說：「你可以問問那幼年人是誰的兒子。」
And the king says, “Ask whose son this [is]—the young man.”
57 大衛打死非利士人回來，押尼珥領他到掃羅面前，他手中拿着非利士人的頭。
And when David turns back from striking the Philistine, then Abner takes him and brings him in before Saul, and the head of the Philistine [is] in his hand;
58 掃羅問他說：「少年人哪，你是誰的兒子？」大衛說：「我是你僕人伯利恆人耶西的兒子。」
and Saul says to him, “Whose son [are] you, O youth?” And David says, “Son of your servant Jesse, the Beth-Lehemite.”
