1 Kings 2
1 Now the days of David had drawn near, so that he would die, and he instructed his son Solomon, saying:
[達味王的遺囑]達味死的日子已經近了，便囑咐自己的兒子撒羅滿說：「
2 “I am entering the way of all the earth. Be strengthened and be a good man.
我現在要走世人應走的路，你要作英勇有為的大丈夫，
3 And observe the care of the Lord your God, so that you walk in his ways, so that you care for his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies, just as it is written in the law of Moses. So may you understand everything that you do, in any direction that you may turn yourself.
恪守上主你天主的典章，履行他的道路，遵守他的規律、誡命、法令和制度，如梅瑟法律上所記載的：這樣無論你做什麼，無論你往何處去，必然順利；
4 So may the Lord confirm his words, which he has spoken about me, saying: ‘If your sons will guard their ways, and if they will walk before me in truth, with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
上主也必履行他關於我所說的話，說：如果你的子孫固守他們的道路，真能全心全意在我面前行走，那麼，你的後代就決不缺坐上以色列寶座的人。
5 Also, you know what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, has done to me, what he did to the two leaders of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether. He killed them, and so he shed the blood of war in peace time, and he set the bloodshed of battle on his belt, which was around his waist, and in his shoes, which were on his feet.
此外，你也知道責魯雅的兒子約阿布對我所做的事，對以色列軍隊的兩個統帥，乃爾的兒子阿貝乃爾和耶特爾的兒子阿瑪撒所做的事；他在昇平時，殺了他們，像在戰爭時殺人，使我腰間的帶子和腳上的鞋染了無辜的血。
6 Therefore, act according to your wisdom. And you shall not allow his gray head to be led away to death in peace. (Sheol h7585)
你要憑你的明智行事，不要讓他平安無事，白頭下入陰府。 (Sheol h7585)
7 Then, too, repay grace to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite. And you shall allow them to eat at your table. For they met me when I fled from the face of Absalom, your brother.
至於基肋阿得人巴爾齊來人的子孫，你卻應該厚待他們，使他們列入你席上的食客，因為當我逃避你哥哥阿貝沙隆時，他們是怎樣的照顧了我。
8 Also, you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera, the son of Benjamin, from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went away to the camp. And he descended to meet me when I crossed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death by the sword,’
看，在你身旁還有巴胡陵地的本雅明人革辣的兒子史米，在我去瑪哈納殷那一天，他惡毒地咒罵了我；但是，後來他又下到約旦河來迎接我，當時我指著上主對他起誓說：我決不用刀處決你。
9 yet do not choose to treat him as if he were innocent. Since you are a wise man, you will know what to do with him. And you shall lead away his grey hair to death with blood.” (Sheol h7585)
現在，你可不要把他看作無罪的人，你既然明智，就該知道怎樣對付他，使他白髮染血，下入陰府。」達味逝世撒羅滿即位 (Sheol h7585)
10 And so, David slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.
達味與自己的列祖同眠，葬在達味城。
11 Now the days during which David reigned over Israel are forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron, thirty-three in Jerusalem.
達味作以色列王四十年：在赫貝龍作王七年，在耶路撒冷作王三十三年。
12 Then Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was strengthened exceedingly.
撒羅滿於是坐上了他父親達味的寶座，他的王國恨是鞏固。阿多尼雅自招殺身之禍
13 And Adonijah, the son of Haggith, entered to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said to him, “Is your entrance peaceful?” He responded, “It is peaceful.”
哈基特的兒子阿多尼雅來見撒羅滿的母親巴特舍巴，她問說：「你來這裏平安嗎﹖」阿多尼雅回答說：「平安。」
14 And he added, “My word is for you.” She said to him, “Speak.” And he said:
繼而又說：「我有句話對你說。」巴特舍巴說：「請說罷!」
15 “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all of Israel had preferred me for themselves as king. But the kingdom was transferred, and has become my brother’s. For it was appointed to him by the Lord.
他說：「你知道王國原該歸於我，全以色列都期待我為王。無奈王國反而歸於我的弟弟；當然，歸他是由於上主。
16 Now therefore, I beg of you one petition. May you not confound my face.” And she said to him, “Speak.”
現在，我要求你一件事，請你不要拒絕我! 」巴特舍巴對他說：「說罷! 」
17 And he said: “I beg that you may speak to king Solomon, for he is not able to refuse anything to you, so that he may give Abishag the Shunammite to me as wife.”
阿多尼雅說：「我求你向撒羅滿說：將叔能的女子阿彼沙格給我為妻，因為他決不會拒絕你的請求。」
18 And Bathsheba said: “It is well. I will speak to the king on your behalf.”
巴特舍巴說：「好! 我要為你請求君王。」
19 Then Bathsheba went to king Solomon, so that she might speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and he reverenced her, and he sat down upon his throne. And a throne was stationed for the mother of the king, and she sat at his right hand.
巴特舍巴於是去見撒羅滿王，為阿多尼雅請求。君王遂起身迎接她，向她俯首致敬，然後坐在寶座上；又叫人為君王的母親另預備了一個座位，她便坐在君王的右邊。
20 And she said to him: “I petition one small request from you. May you not confound my face.” And the king said to her: “Ask, my mother. For it is not right that I turn away your face.”
巴特舍巴說：「我要求你一件小事，請你不要拒絕我! 」君王對她說：「母親! 你求罷! 我決不拒絕。」
21 And she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah, your brother, as wife.”
巴特舍巴說：「請你將叔能的女子給你哥哥阿多尼雅為妻。」
22 And king Solomon responded, and he said to his mother: “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Why not request the kingdom for him! For he is my older brother, and he has Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah.”
撒羅滿回答母親說：「你為什麼為阿多尼雅要求叔能的女子阿彼沙格呢﹖你為他要求王國罷! 因為他是我的哥哥，何況厄貝雅塔爾司祭和責魯雅的兒子約阿布又都擁護他。」
23 And so king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: “May God do these things to me, and may he add these other things! For Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life.
撒羅滿王便指著上主起誓說：「如果阿多尼雅說了這話，而不喪失性命，願上主嚴厲懲罰我，並加倍地懲罰我!
24 And now, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and placed me upon the throne of my father David, and who, just as he said, has made a house for me: Adonijah shall be put to death this day.”
上主支持我，使我坐上了我父親達味的寶座，照他所應許的，給我建立了王室，現在，我指著永生的上主起誓：阿多尼雅今天必該處死! 」
25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who put him to death, and so he died.
撒羅滿王便派約雅達的兒子貝納雅去殺了阿多尼雅；阿多尼雅便死了。厄貝雅塔爾被革職
26 Also, the king said to Abiathar, the priest: “Go into Anathoth, to your own land, for you are a man worthy of death. But I will not put you to death this day, since you carried the ark of the Lord God before David, my father, and since you have endured hardship in all the things, for which my father labored.”
此後，君王對於厄貝雅塔爾司祭說：「你回阿納托特，往你的莊田去罷! 你原是該死的人，但今天我不殺你，因為你曾在我父親達味面前，抬過吾主上主的約櫃，與我父親同受過一切艱苦。」
27 Therefore, Solomon cast out Abiathar, so that he would not be the priest of the Lord, so that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke over the house of Eli at Shiloh.
這樣，撒羅滿罷免了厄貝雅塔爾作上主的司祭，應驗了上主昔日在史羅指著厄里家族所說的話。約阿布被處決
28 And the news came to Joab, for Joab had turned aside after Adonijah, and he had not turned aside after Solomon. And so, Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and he took hold of the horn of the altar.
約阿布既然支持阿多尼雅，而沒有支持撒羅滿，他聽到了這消息，便跑到上主的會幕裏，抱住祭壇的角。
29 And it was reported to king Solomon that Joab had fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and that he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, put him to death.”
有人報告撒羅滿王說：「約阿布逃到上主的會幕裏，站在祭壇旁。」撒羅滿就吩咐約雅達的兒子貝納雅說：「你去，將他殺死! 」
30 And Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the Lord, and he said to him: “The king says this: ‘Come out.’” But he said: “I will not come out. Instead, I will die here.” Benaiah sent word back to the king, saying, “Joab said this, and he responded to me in this way.”
貝納雅便到上主的會幕內，對約阿布說：「君王這樣吩咐：你出來罷! 」他回答說：「我不出去，我寧願死在這裏。」貝納雅回來向君王覆命說：「約阿布這樣說了，這樣回答了我。」
31 And the king said to him, “Do just as he has said. And put him to death, and bury him. And so shall you take away the innocent blood, which was shed by Joab, from me and from my father’s house.
君王對他說：「你就照他所說的去做：將他殺死埋掉，今天你即應從我身上，由我父家除去約阿布所流的無辜之血。
32 And the Lord shall repay his blood upon his own head. For he killed two men, just and better than himself, and he killed them with the sword, while my father, David, did not know it: Abner, the son of Ner, leader of the military of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, leader of the army of Judah.
上主必要使他所流的血歸到他頭上，因為他曾殺死了兩個比他更正義，更慈善的人。他用刀殺死了乃爾的兒子，以色列軍隊的統帥阿貝乃爾，和耶特爾的兒子，猶大軍隊的統帥阿瑪撒，這事我父親一點都不知道。
33 And their blood shall be turned back upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his offspring forever. But as for David, and his offspring and house, and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord, even unto eternity.”
他們的血要永歸在約阿布和他子孫的頭上；至於達味，他的後裔，他的家族，他的王位，必永遠享受遺上主而來的平安! 」
34 And so Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up and, attacking him, put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the desert.
約雅達的兒子貝納雅就上去，殺了他，把他葬在他曠野中的家園。
35 And the king appointed Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army. And he appointed Zadok, the priest, in place of Abiathar.
君王遂委任約雅達的兒子貝納雅，代替約阿布統率軍隊，又委任匝多克司祭，代替厄貝雅塔爾。史米違命處死
36 Also, the king sent for and summoned Shimei, and he said to him: “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem, and live there. And do not depart from that place to here or to there.
君王派人將史米召來，對他說：「你要在耶路撒冷為你建築一座房屋，住在那裏，不可從那裏出來，到任何地方去。
37 For on whatever day you will have departed and crossed the torrent Kidron, know that you shall be put to death. Your blood will be upon your own head.”
你應當知道：你那一天出來，渡過克德龍溪，你那一天就一定要死；你的血必歸在你頭上。」
38 And Shimei said to the king: “The word is good. Just as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” And so Shimei lived in Jerusalem for many days.
史米對君王說：「這話很好! 我主大王怎樣說，你的僕人就怎樣做。」史米於是常住在耶路撒冷。
39 But it happened that, after three years, the servants of Shimei fled to Achish, the son of Maacah, the king of Gath. And it was reported to Shimei that his servants had gone away to Gath.
三年以後，史米的兩個僕人逃到瑪敖客的兒子，加特的君王阿基士那裏去了。有人告訴史米說：「你的僕人在加特。」
40 And Shimei rose up, and he saddled his donkey. And went away to Achish in Gath, in order to seek his servants. And he led them away from Gath.
史米便起來，備好自己的驢，往加特阿基士那裏，找他的僕人。史米去了，從加特帶回了自己的僕人。
41 And it was reported to Solomon that Shimei had gone away from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.
有人告訴撒羅滿說：「史米從耶路撒冷去了加特，意回來了。」
42 And sending, he summoned him, and he said to him: “Did I not testify to you by the Lord, and warn you in advance, ‘On whatever day, having departed, you go forth to here or to there, know that you shall die?’ And you responded to me, ‘The word that I have heard is good.’
君王便派人將史米召來，對他說：「難道我沒有叫你指著上主起誓，預先警告你說：你應當知道：你那一天出去，不論到任何地方，你那一天就一定要死麼﹖你不是也對我說過：這話很好，我聽見了麼﹖
43 Then why have you not kept the oath to the Lord, and the commandment which I instructed to you?”
為什麼你沒有遵守對上主的誓言和我吩咐你的命令﹖」
44 And the king said to Shimei: “You know all the evil, of which your heart is conscious, which you did to David, my father. The Lord has repaid your wickedness upon your own head.”
君王又對史米說：「你心裏明白你對我父親達味所做的一切惡事，所以上主要將你的邪惡都歸在你頭上。
45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord, even forever.
而撒羅滿王卻要蒙受祝福，達味的王權要在上主面前，永遠堅定不移! 」
46 And so the king commanded Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And going out, he struck him down, and he died.
於是君王命令約雅達的兒子貝納雅出去，擊殺了史米，史米就死了。於是王國在撒羅滿治下纔算鞏固了。
