1 Samuel 20
1 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
大衛從拉瑪的拿約逃跑，來到約拿單那裏，對他說：「我做了甚麼？有甚麼罪孽呢？在你父親面前犯了甚麼罪，他竟尋索我的性命呢？」
2 “Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
約拿單回答說：「斷然不是！你必不致死。我父做事，無論大小，沒有不叫我知道的。怎麼獨有這事隱瞞我呢？決不如此。」
3 But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
大衛又起誓說：「你父親準知我在你眼前蒙恩。他心裏說，不如不叫約拿單知道，恐怕他愁煩。我指着永生的耶和華，又敢在你面前起誓，我離死不過一步。」
4 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
約拿單對大衛說：「你心裏所求的，我必為你成就。」
5 So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
大衛對約拿單說：「明日是初一，我當與王同席，求你容我去藏在田野，直到第三日晚上。
6 If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
你父親若見我不在席上，你就說：『大衛切求我許他回本城伯利恆去，因為他全家在那裏獻年祭。』
7 If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
你父親若說好，僕人就平安了；他若發怒，你就知道他決意要害我。
8 Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
求你施恩與僕人，因你在耶和華面前曾與僕人結盟。我若有罪，不如你自己殺我，何必將我交給你父親呢？」
9 “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
約拿單說：「斷無此事！我若知道我父親決意害你，我豈不告訴你呢？」
10 Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
大衛對約拿單說：「你父親若用厲言回答你，誰來告訴我呢？」
11 “Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,
約拿單對大衛說：「你我且往田野去。」二人就往田野去了。
12 and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
約拿單對大衛說：「願耶和華－以色列的上帝為證。明日約在這時候，或第三日，我探我父親的意思，若向你有好意，我豈不打發人告訴你嗎？
13 But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
我父親若有意害你，我不告訴你使你平平安安地走，願耶和華重重地降罰與我。願耶和華與你同在，如同從前與我父親同在一樣。
14 And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
你要照耶和華的慈愛恩待我，不但我活着的時候免我死亡，
15 and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
就是我死後，耶和華從地上剪除你仇敵的時候，你也永不可向我家絕了恩惠。」
16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”
於是約拿單與大衛家結盟，說：「願耶和華藉大衛的仇敵追討背約的罪。」
17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
約拿單因愛大衛如同愛自己的性命，就使他再起誓。
18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.
約拿單對他說：「明日是初一，你的座位空設，人必理會你不在那裏。
19 When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
你等三日，就要速速下去，到你從前遇事所藏的地方，在以色磐石那裏等候。
20 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
我要向磐石旁邊射三箭，如同射箭靶一樣。
21 Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
我要打發童子，說：『去把箭找來。』我若對童子說：『箭在後頭，把箭拿來』，你就可以回來；我指着永生的耶和華起誓，你必平安無事。
22 But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
我若對童子說：『箭在前頭』，你就要去，因為是耶和華打發你去的。
23 And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”
至於你我今日所說的話，有耶和華在你我中間為證，直到永遠。」
24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
大衛就去藏在田野。到了初一日，王坐席要吃飯。
25 He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
王照常坐在靠牆的位上，約拿單侍立，押尼珥坐在掃羅旁邊，大衛的座位空設。
26 Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
然而這日掃羅沒有說甚麼，他想大衛遇事，偶染不潔，他必定是不潔。
27 But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
初二日大衛的座位還空設。掃羅問他兒子約拿單說：「耶西的兒子為何昨日、今日沒有來吃飯呢？」
28 Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
約拿單回答掃羅說：「大衛切求我容他往伯利恆去。
29 saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
他說：『求你容我去，因為我家在城裏有獻祭的事；我長兄吩咐我去。如今我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你容我去見我的弟兄』；所以大衛沒有赴王的席。」
30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
掃羅向約拿單發怒，對他說：「你這頑梗背逆之婦人所生的，我豈不知道你喜悅耶西的兒子，自取羞辱，以致你母親露體蒙羞嗎？
31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
耶西的兒子若在世間活着，你和你的國位必站立不住。現在你要打發人去，將他捉拿交給我；他是該死的。」
32 “Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
約拿單對父親掃羅說：「他為甚麼該死呢？他做了甚麼呢？」
33 Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
掃羅向約拿單掄槍要刺他，約拿單就知道他父親決意要殺大衛。
34 Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
於是約拿單氣忿忿地從席上起來，在這初二日沒有吃飯。他因見父親羞辱大衛，就為大衛愁煩。
35 In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.
次日早晨，約拿單按着與大衛約會的時候出到田野，有一個童子跟隨。
36 He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
約拿單對童子說：「你跑去，把我所射的箭找來。」童子跑去，約拿單就把箭射在童子前頭。
37 When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
童子到了約拿單落箭之地，約拿單呼叫童子說：「箭不是在你前頭嗎？」
38 Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
約拿單又呼叫童子說：「速速地去，不要遲延！」童子就拾起箭來，回到主人那裏。
39 But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
童子卻不知道這是甚麼意思，只有約拿單和大衛知道。
40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
約拿單將弓箭交給童子，吩咐說：「你拿到城裏去。」
41 When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
童子一去，大衛就從磐石的南邊出來，俯伏在地，拜了三拜；二人親嘴，彼此哭泣，大衛哭得更慟。
42 And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
約拿單對大衛說：「我們二人曾指着耶和華的名起誓說：『願耶和華在你我中間，並你我後裔中間為證，直到永遠。』如今你平平安安地去吧！」大衛就起身走了；約拿單也回城裏去了。
