1约拿单暗助大卫
1And David fleeth from Naioth in Ramah, and cometh, and saith before Jonathan, `What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what my sin before thy father, that he is seeking my life?`
2约拿单对他说：“绝对没有这事，你必不会死。我父亲作事，无论大小，没有不让我知道的，为什么这事他偏要隐瞒我呢？不会这样的。”
2And he saith to him, `Far be it! thou dost not die; lo, my father doth not do anything great or small and doth not uncover mine ear; and wherefore doth my father hide from me this thing? this [thing] is not.`
3大卫再起誓说：“你父亲一定知道我在你眼中蒙恩，就心里想：‘不要让约拿单知道这事，免得他伤心。’可是，我指着永活的耶和华，又指着你的性命起誓，我离死只差一步。”
3And David sweareth again, and saith, `Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but — as a step between me and death.`
4约拿单对大卫说：“你心里想要什么，我必为你作成。”
4And Jonathan saith to David, `What doth thy soul say? — and I do it for thee.`
5大卫就对约拿单说：“你看，明天是初一，我本该与王一同坐席。但是，求你容我去藏在田里，直到后天晚上。
5And David saith unto Jonathan, `Lo, the new moon [is] to-morrow; and I do certainly sit with the king to eat; and thou hast sent me away, and I have been hidden in a field till the third evening;
6如果你父亲不见我在座，你就说：‘大卫恳求我让他赶回他的本城伯利恒去，因为他全家在那里有献年祭的事。’
6if thy father at all look after me, and thou hast said, David asked earnestly of me to run to Beth-Lehem his city, for a sacrifice of the days [is] there for all the family.
7如果你父亲这样说：‘好！’那么仆人就平安无事了；如果他大大发怒，你就知道，他决意要害我了。
7If thus he say: Good; peace [is] for thy servant; and if it be very displeasing to him — know that the evil hath been determined by him;
8求你以慈爱待仆人，因为你曾与仆人在耶和华面前立盟约。如果我有罪孽，你就亲手把我杀死，为什么要把我交给你父亲呢？”
8and thou hast done kindness, to thy servant, for into a covenant of Jehovah thou hast brought thy servant with thee; — and if there is in me iniquity, put thou me to death; and unto thy father, why is this — thou dost bring me in?`
9约拿单说：“绝对没有这事，如果我知道我父亲决意要害你，我会不告诉你吗？”
9And Jonathan saith, `Far be it from thee! for I certainly do not know that the evil hath been determined by my father to come upon thee, and I do not declare it to thee.`
10大卫对约拿单说：“如果你父亲严厉地回答你，谁来告诉我呢？”
10And David saith unto Jonathan, `Who doth declare to me? or what [if] thy father doth answer thee sharply?`
11约拿单对大卫说：“你来，我们出到田里去吧！”他们二人就出到田里去了。
11And Jonathan saith unto David, `Come, and we go out into the field;` and they go out both of them into the field.
12约拿单对大卫说：“愿耶和华以色列的 神作证，明天或后天约在这个时候，我探出了我父亲的意思，如果他对你有好感，那时我会不派人来告诉你吗？
12And Jonathan saith unto David, `Jehovah, God of Israel — when I search my father, about [this] time to-morrow [or] the third [day], and lo, good [is] towards David, and I do not then send unto thee, and have uncovered thine ear —
13假如我父亲有意要害你，我若是不告诉你，不让你走，不使你平平安安地离去，愿耶和华加倍惩罚我。愿耶和华与你同在，好像从前与我父亲同在一样。
13thus doth Jehovah do to Jonathan, and thus doth He add; when the evil concerning thee is good to my father, then I have uncovered thine ear, and sent thee away, and thou hast gone in peace, and Jehovah is with thee, as he was with my father;
14我活着的时候，求你以耶和华的慈爱待我，使我不致于死。
14and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,
15我死了以后，耶和华从地上一一剪除大卫的仇敌的时候，你也不可向我的家永远断绝你的慈爱。”
15but thou dost not cut off thy kindness from my house unto the age, nor in Jehovah`s cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.`
16于是约拿单与大卫家立盟约，说：“愿耶和华借大卫仇敌的手追讨违背盟约的罪。”
16And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought [it] from the hand of the enemies of David;
17约拿单由于爱大卫，就使大卫再起誓；他爱大卫如同爱自己的命。
17and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.
18约拿单对大卫说：“明天是初一，因为你的座位空着，人必注意到你不在。
18And Jonathan saith to him, `To-morrow [is] new moon, and thou hast been looked after, for thy seat is looked after;
19到后天，你要赶快下去，到你以前出事那天藏身的地方，在以色磐石旁边等候。
19and on the third day thou dost certainly come down, and hast come in unto the place where thou wast hidden in the day of the work, and hast remained near the stone Ezel.
20我要向磐石旁边射三支箭，好像射箭靶一样。
20`And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out for myself at a mark;
21然后，我要派一个仆人去，说：‘你去把箭找回来。’如果我对那仆人说：‘看哪！箭在你的后面，把箭拿回来。’你就可以回来，因为我指着永活的耶和华起誓，你必平安无事。
21and lo, I send the youth: Go, find the arrows. If I at all say to the youth, Lo, the arrows [are] on this side of thee — take them, — then come thou, for peace [is] for thee, and there is nothing; Jehovah liveth.
22如果我对仆人说：‘看哪！箭在你的前面。’你就要离去，因为是耶和华打发你去的。
22And if thus I say to the young man, Lo, the arrows [are] beyond thee, — go, for Jehovah hath sent thee away;
23至于你我之间所说的这事，有耶和华永远在你我之间作证。”
23as to the thing which we have spoken, I and thou, lo, Jehovah [is] between me and thee — unto the age.`
24扫罗怒责约拿单于是大卫在田里藏起来。到了初一，王坐席吃饭。
24And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,
25王照常坐在他的座位上，就是靠墙的座位，约拿单坐在对面，押尼珥坐在扫罗旁边，大卫的座位却空着。
25and the king sitteth on his seat, as time by time, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan riseth, and Abner sitteth at the side of Saul, and David`s place is looked after.
26那天扫罗没有说什么，因为他心里想：“这是恰巧的事，或许大卫沾染了不洁，还没有得到洁净。”
26And Saul hath not spoken anything on that day, for he said, `It [is] an accident; he is not clean — surely not clean.`
27次日，就是初二，大卫的座位仍是空着。于是扫罗问他的儿子约拿单：“为什么耶西的儿子昨天今天都没有来吃饭呢？”
27And it cometh to pass on the second morrow of the new moon, that David`s place is looked after, and Saul saith unto Jonathan his son, `Wherefore hath the son of Jesse not come in, either yesterday or to-day, unto the food?`
28约拿单回答扫罗：“大卫恳切地求我让他回伯利恒去。
28And Jonathan answereth Saul, `David hath been earnestly asked of me unto Beth-Lehem,
29他说：‘求你让我去，因为我们的家在城里有献祭的事，我哥哥吩咐我去。所以，我若是在你眼前蒙恩，求你让我离开，看看我的哥哥们。’因此，大卫没有来赴王的筵席。”
29and he saith, Send me away, I pray thee, for a family sacrifice we have in the city, and my brother himself hath given command to me, and now, if I have found grace in thine eyes, let me go away, I pray thee, and see my brethren; therefore he hath not come unto the table of the king.`
30于是扫罗向约拿单发怒，对他说：“你这邪僻悖逆妇人所生的，我岂不知道你喜悦耶西的儿子，自取羞辱，也羞辱生你的母亲吗？
30And the anger of Saul burneth against Jonathan, and he saith to him, `Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that thou art fixing on the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of thy mother?
31因为只要耶西的儿子还活在这世上，你和你的国就不能稳固。现在，你要派人去把他抓到我这里来，因为他是该死的。”
31for all the days that the son of Jesse liveth on the ground thou art not established, thou and thy kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he [is] a son of death.`
32约拿单回答他父亲扫罗说：“为什么要把他处死呢？他作了什么事呢？”
32And Jonathan answereth Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Why is he put to death? what hath he done?`
33扫罗向着约拿单把枪掷过去，要刺杀他。约拿单就知道，他父亲已经决意要杀死大卫。
33And Saul casteth the javelin at him to smite him, and Jonathan knoweth that it hath been determined by his father to put David to death.
34约拿单怒气冲冲地从席间退去，初二这天，他没有吃饭；因为他父亲羞辱了大卫，他就为大卫担忧。
34And Jonathan riseth from the table in the heat of anger, and hath not eaten food on the second day of the new moon, for he hath been grieved for David, for his father put him to shame.
35大卫与约拿单泣别到了早晨，约拿单照着与大卫约定的时候，出到田里去，有一个小童与他在一起。
35And it cometh to pass in the morning, that Jonathan goeth out into the field for the appointment with David, and a little youth [is] with him.
36他对那童仆说：“你跑去，把我所射的箭找回来。”那童仆跑去的时候，约拿单就把箭射到他前面。
36And he saith to his youth, `Run, find, I pray thee, the arrows which I am shooting;` the youth is running, and he hath shot the arrow, causing [it] to pass over him.
37那童仆到了约拿单的箭射到的地方，约拿单就在那童仆的背后喊叫：“箭不是在你的前面吗？”
37And the youth cometh unto the place of the arrow which Jonathan hath shot, and Jonathan calleth after the youth, and saith, `Is not the arrow beyond thee?`
38约拿单又在那童仆的背后喊叫：“赶快跑去！不要停留！”那童仆就把箭拾起来，回到他主人那里去。
38and Jonathan calleth after the youth, `Speed, haste, stand not;` and Jonathan`s youth gathereth the arrows, and cometh unto his lord.
39那童仆一点也不知道这是什么意思，只有约拿单和大卫知道。
39And the youth hath not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word.
40约拿单把自己的武器交给他的童仆，对他说：“你带回城里去吧！”
40And Jonathan giveth his weapons unto the youth whom he hath, and saith to him, `Go, carry into the city.`
41那童仆一离去，大卫就从石堆的南边起来，脸伏于地，叩拜了三次。二人互相亲嘴，相对哭泣，大卫哭得更悲痛。
41The youth hath gone, and David hath risen from Ezel, at the south, and falleth on his face to the earth, and boweth himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep one with another, till David exerted himself;
42约拿单对大卫说：“你平平安安走吧！我们二人曾指着耶和华的名起誓说：‘愿耶和华在你我之间，也在我的后裔和你的后裔之间作证，直到永远。’”大卫就起身离开，约拿单也回城里去了（“大卫就起身离开，约拿单也回城里去了。”在《马索拉抄本》为21:1）。
42and Jonathan saith to David, `Go in peace, in that we have sworn — we two — in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah is between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed — unto the age;` and he riseth and goeth; and Jonathan hath gone in to the city.