< 撒母耳記下 23 >
1 以下是大衛末了的話。耶西的兒子大衛得居高位,是雅各上帝所膏的,作以色列的美歌者,說:
Now these are the last words of David: David the son of Jesse saith, And the man who was raised up on high, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel saith,
The Spirit of Jehovah spoke by me, And his word was on my tongue.
3 以色列的上帝、 以色列的磐石曉諭我說: 那以公義治理人民的, 敬畏上帝執掌權柄,
The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, The ruler among men shall be just, Ruling in the fear of God;
4 他必像日出的晨光, 如無雲的清晨, 雨後的晴光, 使地發生嫩草。
And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [like] the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; [When] from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.
5 我家在上帝面前並非如此; 上帝卻與我立永遠的約。 這約凡事堅穩, 關乎我的一切救恩和我一切所想望的, 他豈不為我成就嗎?
Although my house be not so before God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.
But [the sons] of Belial [are] all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;
And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.
8 大衛勇士的名字記在下面:他革捫人約設‧巴設,又稱伊斯尼人亞底挪,他是軍長的統領,一時擊殺了八百人。
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Joseb-Bassebeth, Tachkemonite the chief of the captains: he was Adino the Eznite; he [fought] against eight hundred, slain [by him] at one time.
9 其次是亞合人朵多的兒子以利亞撒。從前非利士人聚集要打仗,以色列人迎着上去,有跟隨大衛的三個勇士向非利士人罵陣,其中有以利亞撒。
And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite: he was one of the three mighty men with David, when they had defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone up.
10 他起來擊殺非利士人,直到手臂疲乏,手黏住刀把。那日耶和華使以色列人大獲全勝;眾民在以利亞撒後頭專奪財物。
He arose and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to the sword; and Jehovah wrought a great deliverance that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
11 其次是哈拉人亞基的兒子沙瑪。一日,非利士人聚集成群,在一塊長滿紅豆的田裏,眾民就在非利士人面前逃跑。
And after him, Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite: the Philistines were gathered into a troop, and there was there a plot of ground full of lentils, and the people had fled before the Philistines;
12 沙瑪卻站在那田間擊殺非利士人,救護了那田。耶和華使以色列人大獲全勝。
and he stood in the midst of the plot and delivered it, and smote the Philistines, and Jehovah wrought a great deliverance.
13 收割的時候,有三十個勇士中的三個人下到亞杜蘭洞見大衛。非利士的軍兵在利乏音谷安營。
And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, when the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
And David was then in the stronghold; and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.
15 大衛渴想,說:「甚願有人將伯利恆城門旁、井裏的水打來給我喝。」
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate!
16 這三個勇士就闖過非利士人的營盤,從伯利恆城門旁的井裏打水,拿來奉給大衛。他卻不肯喝,將水奠在耶和華面前,
And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; however he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.
17 說:「耶和華啊,這三個人冒死去打水;這水好像他們的血一般,我斷不敢喝。」如此,大衛不肯喝。這是三個勇士所做的事。
And he said, Be it far from me, Jehovah, that I should do this thing! is it not the blood of the men that went at the risk of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
18 洗魯雅的兒子、約押的兄弟亞比篩是這三個勇士的首領;他舉槍殺了三百人,就在三個勇士裏得了名。
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was the chief of three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred and slew them; and he had a name among the three.
19 他在這三個勇士裏是最尊貴的,所以作他們的首領,只是不及前三個勇士。
Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the [first] three.
20 有甲薛勇士耶何耶大的兒子比拿雅行過大能的事;他殺了摩押人亞利伊勒的兩個兒子,又在下雪的時候下坑裏去,殺了一個獅子,
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lions of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
21 又殺了一個強壯的埃及人;埃及人手裏拿着槍,比拿雅只拿着棍子下去,從埃及人手裏奪過槍來,用那槍將他殺死。
He also smote the Egyptian, an imposing man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
22 這是耶何耶大的兒子比拿雅所行的事,就在三個勇士裏得了名。
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he had a name among the three mighty men.
23 他比那三十個勇士都尊貴,只是不及前三個勇士。大衛立他作護衛長。
He was honoured above the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him in his council.
24 三十個勇士裏有約押的兄弟亞撒黑,伯利恆人朵多的兒子伊勒哈難,
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
29 尼陀法人巴拿的兒子希立,便雅憫族、基比亞人利拜的兒子以太,
Heleb the son of Baanah, the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
Shammah the Ararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
34 瑪迦人亞哈拜的兒子以利法列,基羅人亞希多弗的兒子以連,
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
37 亞捫人洗勒,比錄人拿哈萊(是給洗魯雅的兒子約押拿兵器的),
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armour-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.