< 2 Samuel 4 >

1 Then Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, heard that Abner had fallen in Hebron. And his hands were weakened, and all of Israel was troubled.
撒烏耳的兒子依市巴耳,一聽見阿貝乃爾死在赫貝龍,就慌了手腳,全以色列大驚。
2 Now the son of Saul had two men, leaders among robbers. The name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other was Rechab, sons of Rimmon, a Beerothite from the sons of Benjamin. For indeed, Beeroth, too, was reputed with Benjamin.
撒烏耳的兒子依市巴耳有兩個土匪頭目:一個名叫巴阿納,一個名叫勒加布,是本雅明子孫貝洛特人黎孟的兒子,──貝洛特被認為是本雅明族,
3 And the Beerothites had fled into Gittaim. And they were strangers there, until that time.
因為貝洛特人逃到了基塔殷,僑居在那裏,直到今日。
4 Now Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son with disabled feet. For he was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. And so, his nurse, taking him up, fled. And while she was hurrying, so that she might flee, he fell and was made lame. And he was called Mephibosheth.
撒烏耳的兒子約納堂有個兒子雙足跛了,當撒烏耳與約納堂的凶信由依次勒耳傳來時,他只有五歲,他的乳母帶他逃跑,在慌張逃跑中,他跌瘸了腿;他名叫默黎巴耳。
5 And so, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, arrived and entered the house of Ishbosheth, in the heat of the day. And he was sleeping on his bed at midday. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was cleaning the wheat, fell fast asleep.
貝洛特人黎孟的兒子勒加布和巴阿納出去,正當中午炎熱的時候,到了依市巴耳家裏,他正在床上睡午覺。
6 Then they entered the house secretly, taking the ears of grain. And Rechab and his brother Baanah stabbed him in the groin, and they fled away.
看門的女僕在篩麥子,也打盹睡著了。此時勒加布和他兄弟巴阿納溜進去,
7 For when they had entered the house, he was sleeping on his bed in a closed room. And striking him, they killed him. And taking his head, they departed by the way of the desert, walking throughout the night.
到了屋內,見依市巴耳正睡在臥室的床上,便將他打死,砍下他的頭,帶著頭,在阿辣巴的大路上走了一夜。
8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron. And they said to the king: “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who was seeking your life. And so, the Lord has avenged my lord the king, this day, from Saul and from his offspring.”
他們帶著依市巴耳的頭,到了赫貝龍見達味王說:「大王的仇人撒烏耳常謀害你的性命;看,他兒子依市巴耳的頭;上主今天為我主向撒烏耳和他的後代報了仇。」
9 But David, responding to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, said to them: “As the Lord lives who has rescued my soul from all distress,
但是,達味答覆貝洛特人黎孟的兒子勒加布和他兄弟巴阿納說:「我指著那救我脫離了一切患難的永生上主起誓:
10 the one who reported to me and said, ‘Saul is dead,’ who was thinking that he announced good news, I apprehended. And at Ziklag I killed him who ought to have been given a reward for the news.
那告訴我說:撒烏耳死了的,自以為是報喜信,我卻拿住他,在漆刻拉格殺了,作為他報信的賞報;
11 How much more so now, when impious men have put to death an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand, and take you away from the earth?”
那麼,現在這些匪徒,偷進人屋,殺了睡在床上的義人,我豈不更該從你們手中追討他的血債,將你們由地上剷除﹖」
12 And so, David commanded his servants, and they put them to death. And cutting off their hands and feet, they suspended them up over the pool in Hebron. But the head of Ishbosheth they took and buried in the sepulcher of Abner at Hebron.
達味遂命自己的僮僕,殺了他們,砍去他們的手足,掛在赫貝龍的池旁;至於依市巴耳的頭,叫人拿去葬在赫貝龍,阿貝乃爾的墳墓內。

< 2 Samuel 4 >