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。
Now the Philistines gathered together all their army at Aphek; the Israelites camped by the spring that is in Jezreel.
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。
The princes of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; David and his men passed on in the rear guard 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。」
Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” Achish said to the other princes of the Philistines, “Is not this David, the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault with him since he came 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 angry with him and said, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place you assigned him. He will not go down with us into battle, for he will turn against us during the fighting. For how else could he make himself acceptable to his master than by taking the heads of our own 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 this not David of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain 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。
Then Achish called David and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been good, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my view; for I have found nothing wrong with you since the day of your coming to me to this very day. Nevertheless, the princes are not favorable to you.
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。」
So now return and go in peace, so that you do not displease the princes 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？」
David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant as long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my master 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。』
Achish answered and said to David, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless, the princes of the Philistines have said, 'He must 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！」
So now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your master who have come with you; as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, go away.”
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。
So David rose up early, he and his men, to leave in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
