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¹And Samuel dieth, and all Israel are gathered, and mourn for him, and bury him in his house, in Ramah; and David riseth and goeth down unto the wilderness of Paran.

²大卫遣仆求拿八馈赠在玛云有一个人，他的产业在迦密。他是一个很富有的人，有绵羊三千只，山羊一千只，那时他正在迦密剪羊毛。

²And [there is] a man in Maon, and his work [is] in Carmel; and the man [is] very great, and he hath three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he is shearing his flock in Carmel.

³那人名叫拿八，他的妻子名叫亚比该。这女人既聪明，又美丽。但那男人为人粗暴，又行事凶恶。他是个迦密族的人。

³And the name of the man [is] Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and the woman [is] of good understanding, and of fair form, and the man [is] hard and evil [in] doings; and he [is] a Calebite.

⁴大卫在旷野听说拿八正在剪羊毛，

⁴And David heareth in the wilderness that Nabal is shearing his flock,

⁵就差派十个仆人，对他们说：“你们上迦密去见拿八，以我的名义向他问安。

⁵and David sendeth ten young men, and David saith to the young men, `Go ye up to Carmel, and ye have come in unto Nabal, and asked of him in my name of welfare,

⁶你们要这样说：‘愿你长寿！愿你平安！愿你的家平安！愿你所有的一切都平安！

⁶and said thus: To life! and thou, peace; and thy house, peace; and all that thou hast — peace!

⁷现在我听说有人为你剪羊毛。你的牧人与我们在一起的时候，我们都没有侮辱他们；他们在迦密的日子，也从没有遗失过什么。

⁷and, now, I have heard that thou hast shearers; now, the shepherds whom thou hast have been with us, we have not put them to shame, nor hath anything been looked after by them, all the days of their being in Carmel.

⁸你可以问问你的仆人，他们必会告诉你。愿我派来的这些仆人在你眼前蒙恩，因为我们是在好日子来的，请你把手中所有的，随便赏赐一点给你的仆人和你的儿子大卫。’”

⁸`Ask thy young men, and they declare to thee, and the young men find grace in thine eyes, for on a good day we have come; give, I pray thee, that which thy hand findeth, to thy servants, and to thy son, to David.`

⁹大卫的仆人到了，就以大卫的名义，把这些话都对拿八说了，然后等候答复。

⁹And the young men of David come in, and speak unto Nabal according to all these words, in the name of David — and rest.

¹⁰拿八辱骂仆人拿八回答大卫的仆人说：“大卫是谁？耶西的儿子是谁？现在离开主人逃走的仆人太多了。

¹⁰And Nabal answereth the servants of David and saith, `Who [is] David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master;

¹¹我怎能把我的饼、我的水，和我为剪羊毛的人宰杀的肉，给那些我不知道从哪里来的人呢？”

¹¹and I have taken my bread, and my water, and my flesh, which I slaughtered for my shearers, and have given [it] to men whom I have not known whence they [are]!`

¹²于是大卫的仆人转回原路，回去了。他们到了以后，就把这一切话都告诉大卫。

¹²And the young men of David turn on their way, and turn back, and come in, and declare to him according to all these words.

¹³大卫对跟随他的人说：“你们各人都佩上刀。”他们各人就佩上自己的刀，大卫也佩上自己的刀。跟随大卫上去的约有四百人，有二百人留下来看守器具。

¹³And David saith to his men, `Gird ye on each his sword;` and they gird on each his sword, and David also girdeth on his sword, and there go up after David about four hundred men, and two hundred have remained by the vessels.

¹⁴拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻子亚比该说：“大卫从旷野派遣使者来向我们的主人问候，主人却辱骂了他们。

¹⁴And to Abigail wife of Nabal hath one young man of the youths declared, saying, `Lo, David hath sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our lord, and he flieth upon them;

¹⁵但是，那些人对我们很好。我们在田野与他们往来的时候，他们都没有侮辱我们，我们也从没有遗失过什么。

¹⁵and the men [are] very good to us, and have not put us to shame, and we have not looked after anything all the days we have gone up and down with them, in our being in the field;

¹⁶我们与他们在一起牧羊的日子，他们日夜都作保护我们的墙。

¹⁶a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.

¹⁷现在，你要想一想，看看你该怎么办，因为灾祸必定临到我们的主人和他的全家。他是一个性情凶恶的人，没有人敢对他说话。”

¹⁷`And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he [is] too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.`

¹⁸亚比该急忙拿了两百个饼、两皮袋酒、五只预备好了的羊、十七公斤烘好了的穗子、一百个葡萄饼、两百个无花果饼，都驮在驴背上，

¹⁸And Abigail hasteth, and taketh two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep, prepared, and five measures of roasted corn, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred bunches of figs, and setteth [them] on the asses.

¹⁹然后对她的仆人说：“你们先去，我随着你们来。”这事她却没有告诉她的丈夫拿八。

¹⁹And she saith to her young men, `Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;` and to her husband Nabal she hath not declared [it];

²⁰亚比该骑着驴，正从山坡下来，忽见大卫和跟随他的人也正从对面迎着她走下来，亚比该就与他相遇了。

²⁰and it hath come to pass, she is riding on the ass and is coming down in the secret part of the hill-country, and lo, David and his men are coming down to meet her, and she meeteth them.

²¹大卫曾经说过：“我在旷野看守这人一切所有的，使他一切所有的一样也没有失落，实在是白费心机了。他竟然对我以恶报善。

²¹And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this [one] hath in the wilderness, and nothing hath been looked after of all that he hath, and he turneth back to me evil for good;

²²如果我让这人一切所有的，就是一个男丁，留到明天早晨，　神怎样惩罚大卫的仇敌，愿他也怎样加倍惩罚我。”

²²thus doth God do to the enemies of David, and thus He doth add, if I leave of all that he hath till the light of the morning — of those sitting on the wall.`

²³亚比该求大卫饶恕亚比该见了大卫，就急忙从驴背下来，俯伏在大卫面前，脸伏于地，向他叩拜。

²³And Abigail seeth David, and hasteth and cometh down from off the ass, and falleth before David on her face, and boweth herself to the earth,

²⁴她又俯伏在大卫的脚前，说：“我王啊，愿这罪孽归我。求你容婢女向你讲话，求你听婢女所说的话。

²⁴and falleth at his feet and saith, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray thee, thy handmaid speak in thine ear, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

²⁵请我主不要把这个性情凶恶的人拿八放在心上。因为他的名字怎样，他的为人也怎样。他名叫拿八，他也真是愚笨。我主派来的仆人，你的婢女并没有看见。

²⁵`Let not, I pray thee, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name [is] so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him; and I, thine handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom thou didst send;

²⁶我主啊，现在我指着永活的耶和华，又在你面前起誓，耶和华既然阻止了你流人的血，又阻止了你亲手报仇，愿你的仇敌和那些谋害我主的人，都像拿八一样。

²⁶and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee — now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord.

²⁷现在，请把你婢女给我主带来的这礼物，赐给跟随我主的仆人。

²⁷`And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord — it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord.

²⁸求你饶恕你婢女的过犯。耶和华必为我主建立一个坚固的家，因为我主为耶和华争战；在你一生的日子里，在你身上也找不到什么过错。

²⁸`Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee [all] thy days.

²⁹虽然有人起来追赶你，寻索你的命，我主的性命必得保全在耶和华你的　神生命的囊中。至于你仇敌的命，耶和华却要甩去，像从甩石机甩出去一样。

²⁹And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

³⁰将来耶和华照着他应许的一切善待了你，立了你作以色列的领袖的时候，

³⁰`And it hath been, when Jehovah doth to my lord according to all the good which He hath spoken concerning thee, and appointed thee for leader over Israel,

³¹我主就不致因为无缘无故流人的血或亲自报仇而良心不安，心里有愧了。耶和华恩待了我主以后，求你记念你的婢女。”

³¹that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord — either to shed blood for nought, or my lord`s restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.`

³²大卫息怒大卫对亚比该说：“耶和华以色列的　神是应当称颂的！他今天差派你来迎接我。

³²And David saith to Abigail, `Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me,

³³你的智慧和你的为人也是应当称赞的，因为你今天阻止了我流人的血，又阻止了我亲手报仇。

³³and blessed [is] thy discretion, and blessed [art] thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

³⁴我指着那拦阻了我加害你的永活的耶和华以色列的　神起誓，如果你不及时来迎见我，到明天早晨，拿八所有的男丁必不留一个。”

³⁴And yet, Jehovah liveth, God of Israel, who hath kept me back from doing evil with thee, for unless thou hadst hasted, and dost come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.`

³⁵大卫从亚比该手中接受了她带来给他的东西，就对她说：“你平平安安回家去吧！你看，我已经听了你的话，也答应了你的请求。”

³⁵And David receiveth from her hand that which she hath brought to him, and to her he hath said, `Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and accept thy face.`

³⁶拿八之死亚比该到了拿八那里，他正在家中摆设筵席，好像帝王的筵席一样。拿八心里畅快，喝得烂醉如泥，所以无论大事小事亚比该都没有告诉他，直到第二天早晨。

³⁶And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

³⁷到了早晨，拿八酒醒了，他的妻子才把这些事告诉他，他就吓得魂不附体，立刻中风瘫痪了。

³⁷And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone.

³⁸大约过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。

³⁸And it cometh to pass, [in] about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

³⁹大卫娶亚比该为妻大卫听见拿八死了，就说：“耶和华是应当称颂的，因为他为我伸了拿八羞辱我的冤，又阻止了仆人行恶，也使拿八的恶归到他自己的头上。”于是大卫派人去对亚比该说要娶她作他的妻子。

³⁹and David heareth that Nabal [is] dead, and saith, `Blessed [is] Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;` and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

⁴⁰大卫的仆人到了迦密去见亚比该，对她说：“大卫差派我们到你这里来，要娶你作他的妻子。”

⁴⁰And the servants of David come in unto Abigail at Carmel, and speak unto her, saying, `David hath sent us unto thee to take thee to him for a wife.`

⁴¹亚比该就起来，面伏于地叩拜，说：“婢女愿意作女仆，洗我主人的脚！”

⁴¹And she riseth and boweth herself — face to the earth — and saith, `Lo, thy handmaid [is] for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.`

⁴²亚比该急忙起来，骑上驴，带着五个跟随她的女仆，跟从大卫的使者去了，就作了大卫的妻子。

⁴²And Abigail hasteth and riseth, and rideth on the ass; and five of her young women who are going at her feet; and she goeth after the messengers of David, and is to him for a wife.

⁴³大卫先娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人都作了他的妻子。

⁴³And Ahinoam hath David taken from Jezreel, and they are — even both of them — to him for wives;

⁴⁴扫罗已经把他的女儿米甲，就是大卫的妻子，赐给了迦琳人拉亿的儿子帕提作妻子。

⁴⁴and Saul gave Michal his daughter, wife to David, to Phalti son of Laish, who [is] of Gallim.