2 Samuel 11
1 And it comes to pass, at the revolution of the year—at the time of the going out of the messengers—that David sends Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the sons of Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah, but David is dwelling in Jerusalem.
年初，正當諸王出征的季節，達味派約阿布率領他的將官和以色列人出征；他們蹂躪了阿孟子民，就包圍辣巴。當時達味住在耶路撒冷。
2 And it comes to pass, at evening-time, that David rises from off his bed, and walks up and down on the roof of the king’s house, and sees a woman bathing from the roof, and the woman [is] of very good appearance,
一天傍晚，達味由床上起來，在宮殿的房屋頂上散步；從房頂上看見一個女人在沐浴，這女人容貌很美。
3 and David sends and inquires about the woman, and [someone] says, “Is this not Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
達味遂派人打聽這女人是誰；有人告訴他說：「這不是厄里安的女兒，赫特人烏黎雅的妻子巴特舍巴嗎﹖
4 And David sends messengers, and takes her, and she comes to him, and he lies with her—and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness—and she turns back to her house;
達味便派人將他接來；她來到他那裡，達味就與她同寢，那時她的月經剛潔淨了。事後，她便回了家。
5 and the woman conceives, and sends, and declares [it] to David, and says, “I [am] conceiving.”
不久，那女人自覺懷孕，就打發人告訴達味說：「我懷了孕。」
6 And David sends to Joab, [saying], “Send Uriah the Hittite to me,” and Joab sends Uriah to David;
達味派人給約阿布說：「打發赫特人烏黎雅來見我。」約阿布就打發烏黎雅去見達味。
7 and Uriah comes to him, and David asks of the prosperity of Joab, and of the prosperity of the people, and of the prosperity of the war.
烏黎雅一來到他跟前，達味就問：「約阿布近來如何﹖士兵好嗎﹖戰事怎樣﹖」
8 And David says to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet”; and Uriah goes out of the king’s house, and there goes out a gift from the king after him,
達味向烏黎雅說：「你下到家中洗洗腳吧! 」烏黎雅剛離開皇宮，隨後就送來了王的飲食。
9 and Uriah lies down at the opening of the king’s house, with all the servants of his lord, and has not gone down to his house.
烏黎雅卻同他的主人的僕役一起睡在宮門旁，沒有下到家裡。
10 And they declare [it] to David, saying, “Uriah has not gone down to his house”; and David says to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why have you not gone down to your house?”
有人報告達味說：「烏黎雅並沒有回到自己家裡。」達味便向烏黎雅說：「你不是由遠道回來的嗎，為什麼不下到你家裡去呢﹖」
11 And Uriah says to David, “The ark, and Israel, and Judah, are abiding in shelters, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamping on the face of the field; and should I go to my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [By] your life and the life of your soul—if I do this thing.”
烏黎雅回答達味說：「約櫃，以色列和猶大人都住在帳幕裡，我主約阿布和我主的僕人都在野外露宿，我豈能回家吃喝，和我妻子一起睡覺﹖上主永在，陛下萬歲! 我絕不做這樣的事。」
12 And David says to Uriah, “Also abide in this [place] today, and tomorrow I send you away”; and Uriah abides in Jerusalem on that day and on the next day,
達味向烏黎雅說：「今天你還留在這裡，明天我要打發你回去。」烏黎雅那天就留在耶路撒冷。第二天，
13 and David calls for him, and he eats before him, and drinks, and he causes him to drink, and he goes out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, and he has not gone down to his house.
達味召他來與自己一起飲宴，將他灌醉，傍晚，烏黎雅出去，仍與他主人的僕役睡在一起，並沒有到家裡去。
14 And it comes to pass in the morning that David writes a letter to Joab and sends [it] by the hand of Uriah;
到了早晨，達味給約阿布寫了一封信，要烏黎雅親手帶去。
15 and he writes in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in front of the face of the most severe battle, and you have turned back from after him, and he has been struck, and has died.”
他在信上寫說：「你應派烏黎雅到戰事最激烈的前線，然後，在他後邊撤退，讓他受攻擊陣亡。」
16 And it comes to pass in Joab’s watching of the city, that he appoints Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men [were];
約阿布察看那城以後，知道那裡有最強悍的敵人，就派烏黎雅到那裡去了。
17 and the men of the city go out and fight with Joab, and [some] of the people, from the servants of David, fall; and Uriah the Hittite also dies.
城內的人出來，與約阿布交戰，達味的僕役中，有些人陣亡了，赫特人烏黎雅也陣亡了。
18 And Joab sends and declares to David all the matters of the war,
約阿布派人去向達味報告這次戰事的一切經過，
19 and commands the messenger, saying, “At your finishing all the matters of the war to speak to the king,
他吩咐使者說：「若你把戰事的經過向君王報告完了以後，
20 then, it has been, if the king’s fury ascends, and he has said to you, Why did you draw near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they shoot from off the wall?
王若向你發怒說：為什麼你們靠近城牆作戰﹖你們不知道有人會由城牆上射擊嗎﹖
21 Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did a woman not cast a piece of a rider from the wall on him, and he dies in Thebez? Why did you draw near to the wall? That you have said, Also—your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
誰擊殺了耶魯巴耳的兒子阿彼默肋客﹖不是一個女人從城牆上把一塊磨石丟在他身上﹖他就死在特貝茲嗎﹖為什麼你們靠近城牆呢﹖你就答說：你的僕人赫特人烏黎雅也陣亡了。」
22 And the messenger goes, and comes in, and declares to David all that with which Joab sent him,
使者就前來見達味，把約阿布打發他報告的一切全向達味報告了。達味對約阿布大怒，向使者說：「你們為什麼靠近城牆作戰﹖你們不知道有人會由城牆上射擊嗎﹖誰射擊了耶魯巴耳的兒子阿彼默肋客﹖不是一個女人從城牆上把一塊磨石丟在他身上，他就死在特貝茲嗎﹖為什麼你們靠近城牆呢﹖」
23 and the messenger says to David, “Surely the men have been mighty against us, and come out to us into the field, and we are on them to the opening of the gate,
報信的人向達味說：「那些人向我們衝來，下到平原來攻打我們，我們就追擊他們到城門邊，
24 and those shooting shoot at your servants from off the wall, and [some] of the servants of the king are dead, and also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
射手就從城牆上射擊我們. 君王的僕役大約死了十八人，你的僕人烏黎雅，那個赫特人也死了。
25 And David says to the messenger, “Thus you say to Joab, Do not let this thing be evil in your eyes; for thus and thus the sword devours; strengthen your warfare against the city, and throw it down; so you strengthen him.”
「達味向報信的人說：「你去告訴約阿布說：不必對這事過傷心，因為刀劍有時砍這人，也有時砍那人；你只管加緊攻城，將城毀滅。你要鼓勵他。
26 And the wife of Uriah hears that her husband Uriah [is] dead, and laments for her lord;
「烏黎雅的妻子聽說他丈夫陣亡了，就為他丈夫舉哀。
27 and the mourning passes by, and David sends and gathers her to his house, and she is to him for a wife, and bears a son to him; and the thing which David has done is evil in the eyes of YHWH.
居喪期一滿，達味就派人將他接到自己的宮中，成了他的妻子，給他生了一個兒子。達味這樣行事，使上主大為不悅。
