< Kings II 21 >

1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, [There is] guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gabaonites.
達味在位時,飢荒接連三年,他求問了上主,上主答說:「在撒烏耳和他家中尚有血債,因為他殺了基貝紅人」。
2 And King David called the Gabaonites, and said to them; —(now the Gabaonites are not the children of Israel, but [are] of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them: but Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Juda.)
君王遂將基貝紅人召來,詣問 。 ──基貝紅不屬以色列人,他們原是阿摩黎人的遺民。以色列子民曾向起過誓,但撒烏耳為表示愛以色列和猶大的熱情,曾設法屠殺他們。
3 And David said to the Gabaonites, What shall I do to you? and wherewithal shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
達味向基貝紅人說:「我該為你們作什麼﹖該怎樣贖罪才可以使你們祝福上主的遺產﹖」
4 And the Gabaonites said to him, We have no [question about] silver or gold with Saul and with his house; and there is no man for us to put to death in Israel.
基貝紅人回答他說:「我們和撒烏耳和他家不是金銀的問題,也不願在以色列殺一個人。」達味說:「你們論什麼,我必為你們作到。」
5 And he said, What say ye? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.
他們向君王說:「破壞我們,設法消滅我們,我們不在以色列任何中存在的人,
6 Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give [them].
要將他七個子孫交給我們,我們要在基貝紅的山上,將他們懸掛在上主面前」。君王答說:「我必將他們交出來」。
7 But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
君王為了自己同撒烏耳的兒子約納堂間向上主所起的誓約,饒恕了撒烏耳的孫子,約納堂的兒子默黎巴耳,
8 And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moulathite.
只將阿雅的女兒黎茲帕給撒烏耳所生的兩個兒子阿爾摩尼和默黎巴耳,以及撒烏耳的女兒默辣布給默曷拉人巴爾齊來的兒子阿德黎耳所生的五個兒子,
9 And he gave them into the hand of the Gabaonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the lord: and they fell, even the seven together: moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of barley-harvest.
交給基貝紅人手裏;基貝紅人把他們在山上懸掛在上主面前; 他們七人死在一處,死在收割初期。
10 And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
阿雅的女兒了麻衣,舖在石上,開始收割大麥,直到雨從天上落到屍首上,白天她不讓飛鳥飛近,夜間不讓野獸起近。
11 And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, [and they were faint, and Dan, the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.]
有人把阿雅的女身兒,撒烏耳的妾黎茲帕所行的事,報告給達味。
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabis Galaad, who stole them from the street of Baethsan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines smote Saul in Gelbue.
君王就去把撒烏耳和他的兒子約納堂的遺骸,從雅貝士基肋阿得的居民那裏收殮起來;這骨骸是他們從貝特商偷來的。原來培肋舍特人那天在基耳波殺了撒烏耳,將他們懸在廣場上。
13 And he carried up thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and gathered the bones of them that had been hanged.
達味那裏將撒烏耳和他的兒子的遺骸,那七個被懸掛的遺骸,一同運了回來,
14 And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulchre of Cis his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God hearkened to [the prayers of] the land.
與撒烏耳和他兒子約納堂的遺骸,一同埋在本雅明地方的責拉,撒烏耳的父親克的墳墓內。人門全依照君王所吩咐的作了;以後,天主才憐憫了那地方。
15 And there was yet war between the Philistines and Israel: and David went down and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David went.
培肋舍特人與以色列人之間又發生戰事,達味帶著他的軍隊下來,駐紮在哥布,攻打培肋舍特人。正當達味疲乏時,約阿士的兒子多多出來了,
16 And Jesbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear [was] three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girt with a club, even he thought to smite David.
他是辣法巨人的後裔,他所持的矛的銅有三百「協刻耳」重,腰間佩著一把新劍,揚言要擊殺達味。
17 And Abessa the son of Saruia helped him and smote the Philistine, and slew him. Then the men of David swore, saying, Thou shalt not any longer go out with us to battle, and thou shalt not quench the lamp of Israel.
責魯雅的兒子阿彼瑟就來協助達味,打敗了那培肋舍特人,將他殺死。那時,達味的臣僕向他起誓說:「你可可跟隨我們出征打戰,怕你熄滅了以色列的明燈」。
18 And after this there was a battle again with the Philistines in Geth: then Sebocha the Astatothite slew Seph of the progeny of Rapha.
此後,又在哥布和發生了戰事,這次胡沙人息貝開擊殺了撒夫,他也是辣法巨人的後裔。
19 And there was a battle in Rom with the Philistines; and Eleanan son of Ariorgim the Bethleemite slew Goliath the Gittite; and the staff of his spear [was] as a weaver's beam.
以後,在哥布又與培肋舍特人交戰,白冷人雅依爾的兒子厄耳哈,殺了加特城人哥肋雅的兄弟拉赫米;這人的長矛粗如織布機的橫軸。
20 And there was yet a battle in Geth: and there was a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet [were] six on each, four and twenty in number: and he also was born to Rapha.
此後,在加特又了戰事,在那裏有一巨人,兩手各有六指,兩腳也各有六趾,共有二十四個,也是辣法巨人的。
21 And he defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Semei brother of David, smote him.
由於他辱罵了以色列,達味的兄弟史默亞的兒子約納堂,便擊殺了他:
22 These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
以上四人,都是加特城辣法巨的後裔,都喪身在達味和他的臣僕的手下。

< Kings II 21 >