Kings I 25
1 And Samuel died, and all Israel assembled, and bewailed him, and they bury him in his house in Armathaim: and David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Maon.
撒烏耳死後，全以色列人集會，舉喪哀悼他，把他埋葬在他的故鄉辣瑪。以後，達味起身，下到瑪紅曠野。
2 And there was a man in Maon, and his flocks were in Carmel, and [he was] a very great man; and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand she-goats: and he happened to be shearing his flock in Carmel.
在瑪紅有個人，他的產業都在加爾默耳，是個很富的人，有綿羊三千，山羊一千。那時他正在爾默耳剪羊毛。
3 And the man's name [was] Nabal, and his wife's name [was] Abigaia: and his wife [was] of good understanding and very beautiful in person: but the man [was] harsh, and evil in his doings, and the man [was] churlish.
這人名叫納巴耳，他的妻子名叫阿彼蓋耳；妻子聰慧美麗，丈夫卻是粗暴，行為惡劣，是加肋布族人。
4 And David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal the Carmelite was shearing his sheep.
達味在曠野裏聽說納巴耳正在剪羊毛，
5 And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is.
就打發十五個少年人去，向他們說：「你們上加爾默耳去，去見納巴耳，代我向他請安，
6 And thus shall you say, May you and your house seasonably prosper, and all your be in prosperity.
對他這樣說：你好! 望你平安，望你全家平安，也望你所有的一切平安!
7 And now, behold, I have heard that your shepherds who were with is in the wilderness are shearing your sheep, and we hindered them not, neither did we demand any thing from them all the time they were in Carmel.
現今我聽說你正剪羊毛；你的牧童和我們在一起時，我們沒有難為過他們，他們住在加爾默耳的時候，從來沒有失落過什麼。
8 Ask your servants, and they will tell you. Let then your servants find grace in your eyes, for we are come on a good day; give we pray you, whatever your hand may find, to your son David.
你可問你的僕人，他們入會告訴你。為此，希望這些子年人在你眼蒙恩，因為我們正逢節日來到你這裏，請你把手中能給的東西，賜給你的僕人和你兒子達味」。
9 So the servants come and speak these words to Nabal, according to all these words in the name of David.
達味的少年人就到了納巴耳那裏，代達味把上述的話都給納巴耳說了，等待答覆。
10 And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jessae? Now-a-days there is abundance of servants who depart every one from his master.
納巴耳卻回答達味的少年人說：「達味是誰﹖葉瑟的兒子是什麼人﹖今天逃避主人的奴隸太多了!
11 And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?
難道要我把我的餅和水，為剪毛的人所預備的肉，拿來給那些我不知道是從哪裏來的人嗎﹖」
12 So the servants of David turned back, and returned, and came and reported to David according to these words.
達味的少年人就原路回去，把這些話都給達味回報了。
13 And David said to his men, Gird on every man his sword. And they went up after David, about four hundred men: and two hundred abode with the stuff.
達味就吩咐他的人說：「每人佩上刀! 」各人就佩上刀；約有四百人，跟達味上去，留下二百人看守輜重。
14 And one of the servants reported to Abigaia the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our lord; but he turned away from them.
有個納巴耳的僕人告訴納巴耳的妻子阿彼蓋耳說：「達味從曠野派來了使者向我們主人請安，他竟侮辱他們。
15 And the men were very good to us; they did not hinder us, neither did they demand from us any thing all the days that we were with them.
那些人原來待我們很好，總沒有騷擾過我們；當我們在田野間同他們在一起時，總沒有失落過什麼。
16 And when we were in the field, they were as a wall round about us, both by night and by day, all the days that we were with them feeding the flock.
我們同他們一起放羊的時期內，不分畫夜，他們常作我們的護衛。
17 And now do you consider, and see what you will do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he [is] a vile character, and one can’t speak to him.
現今，請妳恩量一下，看妳應作什麼，因為達味已決定要加害我們的主人和他的全家，而主人又脾氣暴燥，無法同他交談」。
18 And Abigaia hasted, and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five ephahs of fine flour, and one homer of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them upon asses.
阿彼蓋耳急忙拿了二百個餅，兩皮囊酒，五隻宰好的羊，五「色阿」炒過的麥子，一百串乾葡萄，二百無無花果糕餅，放在幾匹驢上，
19 And she said to her servants, Go on before me, and behold I come after you: but she told not her husband.
對僕人說：「你們走在我前面，跟著你們去」。她並沒有將這事告訴她丈夫納巴耳。
20 And it came to pass when she had mounted her ass and was going down by the covert of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down to meet her, and she met them.
她騎著驢，由山嶺後面上來，同時達味帶著他的人也向著她走來，與她相遇。
21 And David said, Perhaps I have kept all his possessions in the wilderness that he should wrong me, and we did not order the taking anything of all his goods; yet he has rewarded me evil for good.
達味正思量說：「我白白地在曠野中保護了這些人的一切，使他所有的一點也未受損失，他竟對我以惡報德。
22 So God do to David and more also, if I leave one male of all that belong to Nabal until the morning.
若我把這人的一切和所有的男人還存留到天亮，就望上主這樣懲罰我達味! 」
23 And Abigaia saw David, and she hasted and alighted from her ass; and she felt before David on her face, and did obeisance to him, [bowing] to the ground
阿彼蓋耳一看見達味，急速由驢上跳下，俯伏在達味前，屈膝下拜，
24 [even] to his feet, and said, On me, my lord, be my wrong: let, I pray you, your servant speak in your ears, and hear you the words of your servant.
跪在達味足前說：「我主! 這過錯全歸於我，讓你的婢女向你進一言，請你垂聽你婢女的話。
25 Let not my lord, I pray you, take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I your handmaid saw not the servants of my lord whom you did send.
請我主別將這人的事放在心上! 他脾氣急燥，是個糊塗人，他名叫「納巴耳」，真名實相符，他的確昏愚。至於我，你婢女卻沒有見我主派來的少年。
26 And now, my lord, [as] the Lord lives, and your soul lives, as the Lord has kept you from coming against innocent blood, and from executing vengeance for yourself, now therefore let your enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.
我主，我現今指著永生的上主和你起誓：是上主防止了你，不使你流人的血，也不使你親手報仇。從此，願你的仇敵和想加害我主人的人，都像納巴耳一樣!
27 And now accept this token of goodwill, which your servant has brought to my lord, and you shall give it to the servants that wait on my lord.
現今，請你把你婢女給我主帶來的禮物，賞給隨從我主的僕人。
28 Remove, I pray you, the trespass of your servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in you.
請你原諒你婢女的過錯! 的確，上主要給我主建立一堅固的王朝，因為我主打是上主的仗，並且，你一生也沒有什麼過錯。
29 And [if] a man shall rise up persecuting you and seeking your life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and you shall whirl the life of your enemies [as] in the midst of a sling.
縱然有人起來迫害你的性命，但我主的生命是保存在上主，你的天主的錦囊中；至於你敵人的性命，上主卻用投石器將他們拋掉。
30 And it shall be when the Lord shall have wrought for my lord all the good things he has spoken concerning you, and shall appoint you to be ruler over Israel;
當上主對我主作了衪所說的一切好事，立你作以色列的元首時，
31 then this shall not be an abomination and offence to my lord, to have shed innocent blood without cause, and for my lord to have avenged himself: and so may the Lord do good to my lord, and you shall remember your handmaid to do her good.
我主不將不會流了無辜者的向，或因親手雪恨，而感到心中不安，良心有愧。當上主恩待我主時，望你不要忘了你的婢女」。
32 And David said to Abigaia, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this very day to meet me:
達味向阿彼蓋耳說：「上主，以色列的天主，是可讚頌的! 感謝衪今天派妳來迎接我。
33 and blessed [be] your conduct, and blessed [be] you, who have hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself.
妳的聰慧是可讚美的，妳也是可讚美的，因為妳阻止了我傾流人血，親手復仇。
34 But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing you harm, if you had not hasted and come to meet me, then I said, There shall [surely] not be left to Nabal till the morning one male.
我指著那阻止我加害妳的上主，以色列的永生天主起誓：假使妳沒有急速來迎接我，明天天亮，一個男子也不會給納巴耳留下」。
35 And David took of her hand all that she brought to him, and said to her, Go in peace to your house: see, I have listened to your voice, and accepted your petition.
達味從她手中接過她所帶來一切，向她說：「現在，妳可平安回到妳家裏去。看，我聽從了妳的勸告，顧全了妳的面子」。
36 And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in this house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal [was] merry within him, and he [was] very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light.
阿彼蓋耳回到納巴耳那裏，他正在家中設了像君王的盛宴。納巴耳心中非常快活，吃得大醉，直到早晨天亮，阿彼蓋耳一點也沒有將這事告訴他。
37 And it came to pass in the morning, when Nabal recovered from his wine, his wife told him these words; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
第二天早晨，納巴耳酒醒了，他的妻子便將發生的事告訴了他；他一聽這話，嚇得魂不附體，呆如頑石。
38 And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
大約過了十天，上主攻擊了納巴耳，他就死了。
39 And David heard it and said, Blessed [be] the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigaia, to take her to himself for a wife.
達味聽說納巴耳死了，就說道：「上主應受讚美，因為衪給我伸了冤，洗淨了我由納巴耳所受淩辱，防止了衪的僕人行惡；上主把納巴耳的罪惡歸在他自己頭上」。以後，達味派人對阿彼蓋耳說要娶她為妻。
40 So the servants of David came to Abigaia to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to himself for a wife.
達味的僕人到了加爾默耳，來見阿彼蓋耳，對她說：「達味派我們到妳這裏來，為迎娶妳做他的妻子」。
41 And she arose, and did reverence with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, your servant [is] for an handmaid to wash the feet of your servants.
她就起來，俯伏在地，下拜說：「你的婢女情願作奴隸，給我主人的僕人洗腳」。
42 And Abigaia arose, and mounted her ass, and five damsels followed her: and she went after the servants of David, and became his wife.
阿彼蓋耳遂急速起來，騎上驢，帶了她的五個婢女作陪，跟隨達味的使者去，作了他的妻子。
43 And David took Achinaam out of Jezrael, and they were both his wives.
那時達味已娶了依次勒耳人阿希諾罕為妻；她們二戈同作達味的妻子。
44 And Saul gave Melchol his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Amis who was of Romma.
那時，撒烏耳已把他的女身兒，達味的妻子米加耳，嫁給了加林人拉依士的兒子帕耳提。
