< 2 Samuel 4 >

1 And the son of Saul hears that Abner [is] dead in Hebron, and his hands are feeble, and all of Israel has been 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 And two men, heads of troops, have been [to] the son of Saul, the name of the first [is] Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin, for Beeroth is also reckoned to 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 flee to Gittaim, and are sojourners there to this day.
因為貝洛特人逃到了基塔殷,僑居在那裏,直到今日。
4 And to Jonathan son of Saul [is] a son—lame; he was a son of five years at the coming in of the rumor of [the death of] Saul and Jonathan, out of Jezreel, and his nurse lifts him up, and flees, and it comes to pass in her hastening to flee, that he falls, and becomes lame, and his name [is] 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 the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down—the lying down of noon;
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 and they have come there, to the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they strike him to the fifth [rib], and Rechab and his brother Baanah have escaped;
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 indeed, they come into the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they strike him, and put him to death, and turn his head aside, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all 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 bring in the head of Ish-Bosheth to David in Hebron, and say to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; and YHWH gives vengeance to my lord the king this day, of Saul and of his seed.”
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 And David answers Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and says to them, “YHWH lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
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 when one is declaring to me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of tidings in his own eyes, then I take hold on him, and slay him in Ziklag, instead of my giving to him [for] the tidings.
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 Also—when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do I not require his blood from your hand, and have taken 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 David commands the young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang [them] over the pool in Hebron, and they have taken the head of Ish-Bosheth, and bury [it] in the burying-place of Abner in 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 >