撒母耳記上 29
1 非利士人將他們的軍旅聚到亞弗；以色列人在耶斯列的泉旁安營。
And the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and Israel encamped by the spring that is in Jizreel.
2 非利士人的首領各率軍隊，或百或千，挨次前進；大衛和跟隨他的人同着亞吉跟在後邊。
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
3 非利士人的首領說：「這些希伯來人在這裏做甚麼呢？」亞吉對他們說：「這不是以色列王掃羅的臣子大衛嗎？他在我這裏有些年日了。自從他投降我直到今日，我未曾見他有過錯。」
And the princes of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews? And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years, and I have found nothing in him since the day of his falling away [to me] to this day?
4 非利士人的首領向亞吉發怒，對他說：「你要叫這人回你所安置他的地方，不可叫他同我們出戰，恐怕他在陣上反為我們的敵人。他用甚麼與他主人復和呢？豈不是用我們這些人的首級嗎？
But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
5 從前以色列的婦女跳舞唱和說：『掃羅殺死千千，大衛殺死萬萬』，所說的不是這個大衛嗎？」
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul smote his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
6 亞吉叫大衛來，對他說：「我指着永生的耶和華起誓，你是正直人。你隨我在軍中出入，我看你甚好。自從你投奔我到如今，我未曾見你有甚麼過失；只是眾首領不喜悅你。
And Achish called David, and said to him, [As] Jehovah liveth, thou art upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the camp is acceptable to me; for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming to me to this day; but thou art not acceptable to the lords.
7 現在你可以平平安安地回去，免得非利士人的首領不歡喜你。」
And now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
8 大衛對亞吉說：「我做了甚麼呢？自從僕人到你面前，直到今日，你查出我有甚麼過錯，使我不去攻擊主－我王的仇敵呢？」
And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee to this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
9 亞吉說：「我知道你在我眼前是好人，如同上帝的使者一般；只是非利士人的首領說：『這人不可同我們出戰。』
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art acceptable to me, as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
10 故此你和跟隨你的人，就是你本主的僕人，要明日早晨起來，等到天亮回去吧！」
And now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee; and rise ye early in the morning, and when ye have daylight, depart.
11 於是大衛和跟隨他的人早晨起來，回往非利士地去。非利士人也上耶斯列去了。
And David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jizreel.
