2 Samuel 19
1 Joab was told, “Look, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”
有人報告約阿布說：「看，君王在痛哭哀悼阿貝沙隆。」
2 So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the army, for the army heard it said that day, “The king is mourning for his son.”
那天的勝利為全軍竟變成了悲哀，因為他們那天聽說君王為自己的兒子悲傷。
3 The soldiers had to sneak quietly into the city that day, like people who are ashamed sneak away when they run from battle.
因此，那天軍人暗暗地進了城，好像由戰埸上受辱回來的軍隊。
4 The king covered his face and cried in a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”
此時君王正在掩面大聲哀哭說：「我兒阿貝沙隆! 我兒阿貝沙隆! 我兒! 」
5 Then Joab entered into the house to the king and said to him, “You have shamed the faces of all your soldiers today, who have saved your life today, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your slave wives,
約阿布進去對君王說：「你今天大傷你僕人們的臉面，他們救了你的性命，你兒女的性命，你妻妾的性命；
6 because you love those who hate you, and you hate those who love you. For today you have shown that commanders and soldiers are nothing to you. Today I believe that if Absalom had lived, and we all had died, then that would have pleased you.
然而恨你的，你反而愛他；愛你的，你反恨他。今天你已明確表示：王侯和臣民為你不算什麼。也明明看出：阿貝沙隆今天若能活著，我們我們都死了，你才安心呢!
7 Now therefore get up and go out and speak kindly to your soldiers, for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go, not one man will remain with you tonight. That would be worse for you than all the disasters that have ever happened to you from your youth until now.”
現今你快起來，出去，說幾句使你僕人們安心的話吧! 我指著上主起誓，如果你不出去，今夜再沒有一個人同你一起了。這禍患於你要超過你從小到大所遭遇的一切禍患」。
8 So the king got up and sat in the city gate, and all the people were told, “Look, the king is sitting in the gate,” and all the people came before the king. So Israel fled, every man to his home.
君王就起來，坐在大門口。遂有人向軍民傳報說：「君王已坐在門口! 」軍人都聚齊，來到君王前。以色列各自逃回自己的營幕。
9 All the people were arguing with each other throughout all the tribes of Israel saying, “The king rescued us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines, but now he has run out of the land because of Absalom.
那時，以色列各支派的民眾紛紛議論說：「君王從仇人手中拯救了我們，現在，他竟為阿貝沙隆離開了本國。
10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”
我們給阿貝沙隆曾傅過油為管理我們，他已經戰死。現今你們等什麼，遇不把君王接回來﹖」
11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his palace, since the talk of all Israel favors the king, to bring him back to his palace?
全以色列這提議傳到君王那裏。達味遂派人對司祭匝多克和厄貝雅塔爾說：「你們應向猶大長老說：為什麼你們等到最後才去迎接君王回宮呢﹖
12 You are my brothers, my flesh and bone. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'
你們是我的兄弟，我的骨肉，為什麼你們等到最後才去迎接君王呢﹖
13 Then say to Amasa, 'Are you not my flesh and my bone? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not captain of my army from now on in the place of Joab.'”
你們要向阿瑪撒說：你不是我的骨肉嗎﹖若我不叫你一生代替約阿布作元帥，願天主這樣罰我，且更加倍地罰我! 」
14 So he won the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man. They sent to the king saying, “Return, you and all your men.”
那時，全猶大人都同心合意，一致派使者到君王說：「請你和你的臣僕回來吧!
15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan. Now the men of Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the king and then to bring the king across the Jordan.
君王動身回來了，到了約旦河。這時迎接君王的猶大人來到了基耳加耳，協助君王渡約旦河。
16 Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
那時，巴胡陵的本雅明人革辣的兒子史米，也趕快來同那些猶大人歡迎達味君王。
17 There were one thousand men from Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants with him. They crossed through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
同他來的，還有一千本雅明人。撒烏耳的家僕，漆巴和他十五個兒子同二十個僕人，也來到約旦河歡迎君王﹖
18 They crossed to bring over the king's family and to do whatever he thought good. Shimei son of Gera bowed down before the king just before he began to cross the Jordan.
他們都到渡口那邊，協助君王的家族過河。聽君王的調動；君王快要過約旦河時，革辣的兒子史米就俯伏在君王前，
19 Shimei said to the king, “Do not, my master, find me guilty or call to mind the wrong your servant did the day my master the king left Jerusalem. Please, may the king not take it to heart.
向他說：「我主；，請不要歸罪於我，求你不要懷念大王出離耶路撒冷時，你僕人所犯的罪；願大王不要把這事放在心上!
20 For your servant knows that I have sinned. See, that is why I have come today as the first from all the family of Joseph to come down to meet my master the king.”
因為你的僕人自知犯了罪。看，如今我是若瑟全家族中，首先來歡迎我主大王的」。
21 But Abishai son of Zeruiah answered and said, “Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?”
責雅的兒子阿瑟立即發言說：「史米辱罵了上主的受傅者，難道為了他這番話就不該死嗎﹖」
22 Then David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should today be adversaries to me? Will any man be put to death today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?”
達味卻答說：「責魯雅的兒子們，我與你們有什麼關係﹖竟使你們今天與我作對! 今天還可以將一個以色列人處死嗎﹖難道不知道，我今天又作了以色列的君王﹖」
23 So the king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” So the king promised him with an oath.
然後君王向史米說：「伓不會死! 」君王遂向起了誓。
24 Then Mephibosheth son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had not dressed his feet, or trimmed his beard, or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came home in peace.
撒烏耳的孫子默黎巴耳也下來歡迎君王；他自從君王出走的那日起，直到平安回來的這一天，沒有洗腳，沒有修鬚，也沒有人換洗自己的衣服。
25 So when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”
他由耶路撒冷來君王時，君王問他說：「默黎巴耳! 你為什麼不同我一起出走呢﹖」
26 He answered, “My master the king, my servant deceived me, for I said, 'I will saddle a donkey so I may ride on it and go with the king, because your servant is lame.'
他答說：「我主大王! 我的僕人哄騙了我，你僕人曾向他說：給我備一匹驢，我好騎著跟王一齊走，因為你僕腳跛。
27 My servant Ziba has slandered me, your servant, to my master the king. But my master the king is like an angel of God. Therefore, do what is good in your eyes.
他又在我主大王前誹謗了你的僕人；但我主大王像天主的天使，你看怎樣好，就怎樣作吧!
28 For all my father's house were dead men before my master the king, but you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I that I should still cry any more to the king?”
因為我父全家對於我主大王，都是該死的人，你反而使你的僕人與你同桌共，食我那裏還有名分來向大王訴苦﹖」
29 Then the king said to him, “Why explain anything further? I have decided that you and Ziba will divide the fields.”
君王對他說：「你何必再說﹖我已決定，你該與巴平分產業」。
30 So Mephibosheth replied to the king, “Yes, let him take it all, since my master the king has come safely to his own home.”
默黎巴耳回答君王說：「我主大王既然平安回朝，讓他全佔有吧! 」
31 Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim to cross over the Jordan with the king, and he accompanied the king over the Jordan.
基肋阿得人巴爾齊從洛格林下來，陪伴君王過了約旦河，在約旦河岸與他辭別。
32 Now Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old. He had furnished the king with provisions while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
巴爾齊來年紀很老，已八十歲。君王住在瑪哈納殷時，他供給了君王的吃用，他原很富有。
33 The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you to stay with me in Jerusalem.”
君王向巴爾齊來說：「你同我一起去吧! 我願在耶路撒冷供養你的老年」。
34 Barzillai replied to the king, “How many days are left in the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
巴爾齊來回答君王說：「既使我同大王上耶路撒冷去，我還能活幾年﹖
35 I am eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a burden to my master the king?
我現年已八十，還能分辨美醜麼﹖你的僕人還能嚐出吃喝的味道來麼﹖還能細聽伶女和歌女的樂聲麼﹖你的為什麼還要拖累我主大王﹖
36 Your servant would like to just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
你的僕人陪著大王過約旦河，只是一點小意思，為什麼大王要給我一個這樣的報答﹖
37 Please let your servant return back home, so I may die in my own city by the grave of my father and my mother. But see, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my master the king, and do for him what seems good to you.”
請讓你的僕人回去，叫我死在靠近我父母墳墓的故鄉! 看，你的僕人基默罕在這裏，他可跟我主大王同去，你看著怎樣好，就怎樣對待他吧! 」
38 The king answered, “Kimham will go over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you, and whatever you desire from me, I do that for you.”
達味答說：「那麼，讓默基罕跟我去好了，你看著怎樣好，我就怎樣待他；凡你向我所所要求的，我必為你做到」。
39 Then all the people crossed the Jordan, and the king crossed over, and the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him. Then Barzillai returned to his own home.
眾人都過了約旦河，君王也過去了；然後與巴爾齊來親吻，祝福道別。巴爾齊來遂回了本鄉。
40 So the king crossed over to Gilgal, and Kimham crossed over with him. All the army of Judah brought the king over, and also half the army of Israel.
君王繼續向基耳加耳前行，基默罕跟他同來。猶大全民眾和一半以色列人陪著君王前行。
41 Soon all the men of Israel began to come to the king and say to the king, “Why have our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king and his family over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?”
眾以色列人來到君王前，向君王說：「為什麼我們的兄弟猶大人將君王劫了去，領君王和君王的眷屬過了約旦河。所有屬達味的人不都是他的百姓嗎﹖」
42 So the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “It is because the king is more closely related to us. Why then are you angry about this? Have we eaten anything that the king had to pay for? Has he given us any gifts?”
猶大人回答以色列人說：「因為君王是我們的親族，你們為什麼因此憤怒﹖我們豈是吃過君王的飯，或是領過他的俸祿﹖」
43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten tribes related to the king, so we have even more right to David than you. Why then did you despise us? Was not our proposal to bring back our king the first to be heard?” But the words of the men of Judah were even more harsh than the words of the men of Israel.
以色列人回答猶大人說：「我們對君王有十倍權利，那麼，我們對達味的名分也多過你們，你們為什麼輕視我們﹖不是我們首先提議，要迎回我們的君王嗎﹖」然後猶大的答覆比以色列人所說的話，更為激烈。
