< 2 Samuel 17 >

1 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David tonight,
阿希托費耳向說:「讓我選拔一萬二千人,今夜起程去追趕達味。
2 and come on him, and he [will be] weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people who [are] with him have fled, and I have struck the king by himself,
正當他困乏疲倦時,我忽然趕到,使他驚惶失措,隨從他的人,必會逃散,我只把君王一人殺了,
3 and I bring back all the people to you—as the turning back of the whole [except] the man whom you are seeking—[then] all the people are [at] peace.”
然後人民來歸順你,像新娘回到新郎那裏;你只須害一人的性命,全民眾就都和平無事了」。
4 And the word is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all [the] elderly of Israel.
阿貝沙隆和以色列的眾長老,對這提議都很贊成。
5 And Absalom says, “Now call for Hushai the Archite also, and we hear what [is] in his mouth—even he.”
阿貝沙隆說:「讓把阿爾基人胡瑟召來,我們也願聽聽他說什麼」。
6 And Hushai comes to Absalom, and Absalom speaks to him, saying, “According to this word Ahithophel has spoken; do we do his word? If not, you—speak.”
胡瑟來到阿貝沙隆前,阿貝沙隆向他說:「阿希托費耳說出這樣的話,我們應按他的主意去行嗎﹖請你提議吧! 」
7 And Hushai says to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has counseled [is] not good at this time.”
胡瑟回答阿貝沙隆說:「阿希托費耳這次所出的計謀卻是不妙」。
8 And Hushai says, “You have known your father and his men, that they [are] heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and your father [is] a man of war, and does not lodge with the people;
胡瑟接著說:「你知道你父親和隨從他的人,都是勇將,現在心情惱怒,好像田野間喪子的母熊;何況,你父親又是歷戰陣的人,夜間決不會讓軍民安睡。
9 behold, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it has been at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer has heard and said, There has been a slaughter among the people who [are] after Absalom;
他現在必藏在一個山洞裏,或另一個地方;若起初我們的人就有傷亡,人們聽見必要說:跟隨阿貝沙隆的人,慘遭失敗;
10 and he also, the son of valor, whose heart [is] as the heart of the lion, utterly melts, for all Israel knows that your father is a hero, and those with him [are] sons of valor.
那麼,連性情兇猛如獅子的壯士,也要灰心喪膽,因為全以色列人都知道你父親是個勇將,跟隨他的人,也都是驍勇的人。
11 So that I have counseled: let all Israel be diligently gathered to you, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, and you yourself are going in the midst;
我的計劃,是先把所有的以色列人集合在你身邊,從丹直到貝爾舍巴,像海邊沙粒那樣多,然後由你親自率領,前去征討;
12 and we have come to him in one of the places where he is found, and we [are] on him as the dew falls on the ground, and there has not been left of him and of all the men who [are] with him even one.
他不論到那裏,我們也突然到那裏;像露一樣襲擊他,使他和跟隨他的人一個也不留下。
13 And if he is gathered to a city, then they have caused all Israel to carry ropes to that city, and we have drawn it to the brook until there has not even been found a stone there.”
若他退入一座城內,全以色列就帶著繩索去攻擊那城,將那城拉到山谷裏,連一塊小石也不剩下」。
14 And Absalom says—and all the men of Israel, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel”; and YHWH willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of YHWH’s bringing the calamity to Absalom.
阿貝沙隆和全以色列人都說:「阿爾基人胡瑟的計謀比阿希托費耳的更為可取」。原是上主決定了要破壞阿希托費耳是好計謀,為給阿彼瑟降下災禍。
15 And Hushai says to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Thus and thus Ahithophel has counseled Absalom and the elderly of Israel, and thus and thus I have counseled;
隨後,胡瑟報告匝多克和厄貝雅塔爾說:「阿希托費耳給阿貝沙隆和以色列長老出了那樣的計謀,我卻出了這樣的計謀。
16 and now, send quickly, and declare [it] to David, saying, Do not lodge in the plains of the wilderness tonight, and also, certainly pass over, lest there is a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.”
現在,快派人去報告達味說:今夜不可在曠野的渡口露宿,要趕快過河,免得君王和隨從他的人民都遭殲滅」。
17 And Jonathan and Ahimaaz are standing at En-Rogel, and the maidservant has gone and declared [it] to them—and they go and have declared [it] to King David—for they are not able to be seen to go into the city.
那時,約納堂和阿希瑪茲已在洛革泉傍等候,因怕被人看見,不敢進城;有個使女出來給他們傳信,他們就去報告達味君王。
18 And a youth sees them, and declares [it] to Absalom; and both of them go on quickly, and come to the house of a man in Bahurim, and he has a well in his court, and they go down there,
但有一個少年人看見了他們,便向阿貝沙隆報告了;他們二人就急速逃匿,來到巴胡陵的一個人家裏,他院子裏有一口井,他們便下到井裏。
19 and the woman takes and spreads the covering over the face of the well, and spreads the ground grain on it, and the thing has not been known.
那家的婦女取了一個蓋子蓋在井口上,蓋子上又撒了些麥粒,免得有人注意。
20 And the servants of Absalom come to the woman at the house, and say, “Where [are] Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman says to them, “They passed over the brook of water”; and they seek, and have not found, and return to Jerusalem.
阿貝沙隆的差役來到那家的婦女前問說:「阿希瑪茲和約納堂在哪裏﹖那婦女答說:「他們早過了蓄水池」。差役就去搜索他們,卻沒有找著,便回了耶路撒冷。
21 And it comes to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare [it] to King David, and say to David, “Rise, and pass over the waters quickly, for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
差役走了以後,兩人就為井裏上來;去給達味君王報信,對達味說:「起身,趕快過河,因為阿希托費耳為害你們出了這樣的計謀」。
22 And David rises, and all the people who [are] with him, and they pass over the Jordan, until the morning light, until not one has been lacking who has not passed over the Jordan.
達味和隨從他的人就起身過了約旦河。到天亮時,沒有一個沒有過約旦河的。
23 And Ahithophel has seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddles the donkey, and rises and goes to his house, to his city, and gives charge to his household, and strangles himself, and dies, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
阿希托費耳看見人不依從他的計謀,就備上驢,動身回家,回了本城,安排了自己的家務以後,就上吊死了。人將他埋在他父親的墳墓裏。
24 And David came to Mahanaim, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him;
阿貝沙隆率領以色列人過約旦河時,達味已到了瑪哈納因。
25 and Absalom has set Amasa over the host instead of Joab, and Amasa [is] a man’s son whose name is Ithra the Israeli who has gone in to Abigail, daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab;
阿貝沙隆派阿瑪撒代約阿布為統帥。阿瑪撒是依市瑪耳人依特辣的兒子。依特辣曾走近過葉瑟的女兒,約阿布的母親,責魯雅的姐妹阿彼蓋耳。
26 and Israel encamps with Absalom [in] the land of Gilead.
以色列人同阿貝沙隆在基肋阿得一帶紮了營。
27 And it comes to pass at the coming in of David to Mahanaim, that Shobi son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and Machir son of Ammiel, from Behold-Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim,
當達味來到瑪哈納因時,納哈士的兒子芍彼,由阿孟人民的辣巴城,阿米爾的兒子瑪基爾由羅德巴爾城,基肋阿得人巴爾齊來由洛革林城,
28 [have brought] bed, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted [grain], and beans, and lentiles, and roasted [pulse],
帶來了床、鋪蓋、杯盤、炊具、小麥、麵粉、炒麥、豆子、扁豆、
29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows; they have brought [these] near for David, and for the people who [are] with him to eat, for they said, “Your people [are] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.”
蜂蜜、奶油、奶餅、牛肉和羊肉,供給達味和他的的人吃用,因為他們想:這些人經過了曠野,必定感到飢餓和疲勞。

< 2 Samuel 17 >