1 Samuel 23
1 David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
有人告訴達味說：「看，培肋舍特人在攻打刻依拉，搶劫禾場」。
2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” The LORD said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”
達味就求問上主說：「我是否該去攻打這些培肋舍特人﹖」上主回答達味說：「去攻打培肋舍特人，解救刻依拉! 」
3 David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
隨從達味的人對他說：「看，我們在猶大這裏，已惴惴不安；如果到刻依拉去攻打培肋舍特軍隊，更將如何﹖」
4 Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. The LORD answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
達味又求問了上主，上主回答他說：「動身下到刻依拉去，因為已將培肋舍特人交在你手中了! 」
5 David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
達味就和跟隨他的人到刻依拉，攻打培肋舍特人，奪得了他們的牲口，打得他們慘敗，營救了刻依拉的居民。
6 When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
那時阿希默肋客的兒子厄貝雅塔爾逃到達味那裏，也下到了刻依拉，手中拿著「厄弗得」
7 Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
有人報告撒烏耳說：「達味到了刻依拉」。撒烏耳便說：「天主真將他交在我手中了，因為他將自己封鎖在一座有門有閂的城裏」。
8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
撒烏耳就調集了人民出征，下到刻依拉，要包圍達味和他的部隊。
9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
達味一知道撒烏耳要陷害他，就給厄貝雅塔爾說：「拿「厄弗得」來! 」
10 Then David said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake.
然後達味說：「上主，以色列的天主! 你僕人聽說撒烏耳正在籌劃到刻依拉來，為了我的緣故，要毀滅這座城。
11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? LORD, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” The LORD said, “He will come down.”
刻依拉居民會將我交在他們手中嗎﹖撒烏耳是否會像你僕人所聽到的下來﹖請上主，以色列的天主，通知你的僕人! 」上主回答說：「他要下來! 」
12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” The LORD said, “They will deliver you up.”
達味又問說：「刻依拉的居民，會把我和隨從我的的人，交在撒烏耳手中嗎﹖」上主答說：「他們會把你們交出」。
13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
達味就動身率領士兵，約有六百人，離開了刻依拉，到處漂流。有人告訴撒烏耳說：「達味從刻依拉逃走了」。撒烏耳遂停止出動。
14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
達味住在曠野的深山裏，有時住在齊弗曠野的山中。撒烏耳每日找他，天主沒有將達味交在他手中。
15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
達味很是害怕，因為撒烏耳出來，不斷搜索他，當時達味住在齊弗曠野的曷勒士。
16 Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
撒烏耳的兒子約納堂動身，到了曷勒士，去見達味，他以天主的名鼓勵達味說：
17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”
「不必害怕! 我父撒烏耳的手決拿不住你! 你必要作以色列王，我要在你以下居第二位，連我父撒烏耳也知道這事」。
18 They both made a covenant before the LORD. Then David stayed in the woods and Jonathan went to his house.
他們二人在上主面前訂了盟約。以後達味仍留在曷勒士，約納堂回了家。
19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
有些齊弗人上了基貝亞見撒烏耳，說：「達味不是在我們當中，在曷勒士隱藏著嗎﹖
20 Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
大王! 現在你隨意下到我們這裏，我們必將他交在大王手中」。
21 Saul said, “You are blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
撒烏耳答說：「望上主祝福你們，因為你們同情了我。
22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
你們再去查看清楚，看他的腳步急速往哪裏去，因為有人給我說，他非常狡滑。
23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
所以你們去觀察清楚，他藏身的一切地方，確定後，回來見我，我必同一起去，只要他在這地方，我必在猶大各鄉村中搜捕他」。
24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
他們就在撒烏耳以先動身往齊弗去了；達味和他的人那時住在瑪紅曠野，即在曠野南方的荒野原中。
25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
撒烏耳率領士兵去尋找達味。有人將這事告訴了達味，他就下到轟立瑪紅曠野的山崖間；撒烏耳一聽說，便到瑪紅曠野去追趕達味。
26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
撒烏耳帶領士兵走在山這面，達味帶領他的士兵走在山那邊；達味正在急速逃避撒烏耳時，撒烏耳率領著他的士兵追蹤達味和他的士兵，幾乎要把他們捉住，
27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”
就在這時，有一個使者來見撒烏耳說：「快回去，因為培肋舍特已侵入邊境! 」
28 So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.
撒烏耳遂立即收兵，不再追趕達味，而去迎擊培肋舍特人；因此，人給那地方起名叫「隔離岩」。
29 David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
達味為那裏上去，住在恩革狄的山寨中。
