¹约押设计安排押沙龙回来

¹And Joab son of Zeruial knoweth that the heart of the king [is] on Absalom,

²就派人到提哥亚去，从那里带了一位聪明的妇人来，对她说：“你要假装居丧的，穿上丧服，不要用油膏抹身体。要装成一个为死者居丧很久的妇人。

²and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

³然后进去见王，对他这样这样说。”于是约押把要说的话教了她。

³and thou hast gone unto the king, and spoken unto him, according to this word;` and Joab putteth the words into her mouth.

⁴提哥亚妇人进去见王，俯伏在地，叩拜他，说：“王啊！求你帮助我。”

⁴And the woman of Tekoah speaketh unto the king, and falleth on her face to the earth, and doth obeisance, and saith, `Save, O king.`

⁵王问她：“你有什么事呢？”她回答：“我实在是个寡妇，我的丈夫死了。

⁵And the king saith to her, `What — to thee?` and she saith, `Truly a widow woman [am] I, and my husband dieth,

⁶婢女有两个儿子；有一天，他们两人在田里打架，当时没有人劝开他们，这个就击打那个，竟把他打死了。

⁶and thy maid-servant hath two sons; and they strive both of them in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and the one smiteth the other, and putteth him to death;

⁷看哪！现在全家族的人都起来攻击婢女，说：‘你要把那击杀他兄弟的凶手交出来，好让我们把他处死，以偿他兄弟的命，也可以灭绝那继承产业的。’这样他们要使我所剩下的炭火也都熄灭了，不让我丈夫在这世上留下名字，或留下后代。”

⁷and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left — so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.`

⁸王对那妇人说：“你回家去吧！我必为你下令办这件事。”

⁸And the king saith unto the woman, `Go to thine house, and I give charge concerning thee.`

⁹提哥亚妇人又对王说：“我主我王，愿这罪归于我和我父的家；愿王和王的王位与这罪无关。”

⁹And the woman of Tekoah saith unto the king, `On me, my lord, O king, [is] the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne [are] innocent.`

¹⁰王说：“对你说这事的，你就把他带到我这里来，他必不会再打扰你了。”

¹⁰And the king saith, `He who speaketh [aught] unto thee, and thou hast brought him unto me, then he doth not add any more to come against thee.`

¹¹妇人说：“愿王记念耶和华你的　神，不许报血仇的人多行杀戮，免得他们灭绝我的儿子。”王说：“我指着永活的耶和华起誓，你的儿子连一根头发也不会落在地上。”

¹¹And she saith, `Let, I pray thee, the king remember by Jehovah thy God, that the redeemer of blood add not to destroy, and they destroy not my son;` and he saith, `Jehovah liveth; if there doth fall of the hair of thy son to the earth.`

¹²那妇人又说：“请允许婢女对我主我王再说一句话。”王说：“你说吧。”

¹²And the woman saith, `Let, I pray thee, thy maid-servant speak unto my lord the king a word;` and he saith, `Speak.`

¹³妇人说：“你为什么想出这样的事来陷害　神的子民呢？王说了这话，如果不让自己逃亡的人回来，就是个有罪的人了。

¹³And the woman saith, `And why hast thou thought thus concerning the people of God? yea, the king is speaking this thing as a guilty one, in that the king hath not brought back his outcast;

¹⁴我们都是必死的，像水泼在地上不能收回来一样；但　神并不取去人的命，反而设法使逃亡的人不致永远离开他逃亡。

¹⁴for we do surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

¹⁵现在我来对我主我王说这话，是因为众民使我害怕，所以婢女想：‘现在我要对王说，也许王会成全婢女所求的。’

¹⁵`And now that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, [it is] because the people made me afraid, and thy maid-servant saith, Let me speak, I pray thee, unto the king; it may be the king doth do the word of his handmaid,

¹⁶人要把我和我的儿子从　神的产业上一同消灭，也许王会垂听，会把婢女从那人的手下救出来。

¹⁶for the king doth hearken to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man [seeking] to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God,

¹⁷婢女又想：‘我主我王的话必能使我得安慰，因为我主我王像　神的使者一样，能分辨是非。愿耶和华你的　神与你同在。’”

¹⁷and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so [is] my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.`

¹⁸王对那妇人说：“我要问你一句话，请你不要瞒我。”妇人回答：“我主我王，请说！”

¹⁸And the king answereth and saith unto the woman, `Do not, I pray thee, hide from me the thing that I am asking thee;` and the woman saith, `Let, I pray thee, my lord the king speak.`

¹⁹王问：“这一切都是约押一手安排的吗？”妇人回答：“我指着我主我王起誓，王所说的丝毫不差。这正是王的仆人约押吩咐我的，这一切话也都是他教婢女说的。

¹⁹And the king saith, `Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this?` And the woman answereth and saith, `Thy soul liveth, my lord, O king, none [doth turn] to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab he commanded me, and he put in the mouth of thy maid-servant all these words;

²⁰王的仆人约押这样作，为要挽回这件事。我主有智慧，像　神使者的智慧一样，能知道世上的一切事。”

²⁰in order to bring round the appearance of the thing hath thy servant Joab done this thing, and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that [is] in the land.`

²¹王对约押说：“看哪！这事我已经同意了。你去把那年轻人押沙龙带回来吧！”

²¹And the king saith unto Joab, `Lo, I pray thee, thou hast done this thing; and go, bring back the young man Absalom.`

²²约押就面伏于地，叩拜王，为王祝福；又说：“今天你仆人知道在我主我王眼前蒙了恩宠，因为王成全了你仆人所求的。”

²²And Joab falleth on his face to the earth, and doth obeisance, and blesseth the king, and Joab saith, `To-day hath thy servant known that I have found grace in thine eyes, my lord, O king, in that the king hath done the word of his servant.`

²³于是约押起来，往基述去，把押沙龙带回耶路撒冷。

²³And Joab riseth and goeth to Geshur, and bringeth in Absalom to Jerusalem,

²⁴王说：“让他回自己的家里去，不要见王的面。”押沙龙就转回自己的家里去，没有见王的面。

²⁴and the king saith, `Let him turn round unto his house, and my face he doth not see.` And Absalom turneth round unto his house, and the face of the king he hath not seen.

²⁵押沙龙的仪表及其子女在全以色列中，没有一个人像押沙龙那样英俊，得人称赞，从脚底到头顶，都没有一点缺陷。

²⁵And like Absalom there was no man [so] fair in all Israel, to praise greatly; from the sole of his foot even unto his crown there was no blemish in him;

²⁶他每年年底剪发一次，因为他头上的头发太厚，所以把它剪下来；他把头发剪下来以后，总是把头发称一称；按照王的法码重约两公斤。

²⁶and in his polling his head — and it hath been at the end of year by year that he polleth [it], for it [is] heavy on him, and he hath polled it — he hath even weighed out the hair of his head — two hundred shekels by the king`s weight.

²⁷押沙龙生了三个儿子，一个女儿。女儿名叫他玛，是个容貌美丽的女子。

²⁷And there are born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter, and her name [is] Tamar; she was a woman of a fair appearance.

²⁸大卫召见押沙龙和好如初押沙龙在耶路撒冷住了两年，都没有见王的面。

²⁸And Absalom dwelleth in Jerusalem two years of days, and the face of the king he hath not seen;

²⁹押沙龙派人去叫约押来，要托他去见王，约押却不肯来见他。他第二次再派人去叫他，他还是不肯来。

²⁹and Absalom sendeth unto Joab, to send him unto the king, and he hath not been willing to come unto him; and he sendeth again a second time, and he hath not been willing to come.

³⁰于是押沙龙对仆人说：“你们看，约押的一块田和我相邻，田里有大麦。你们去放火烧田！”押沙龙的仆人就放火把那块田烧了。

³⁰And he saith unto his servants, `See, the portion of Joab [is] by the side of mine, and he hath barley there; go, and burn it with fire;` and the servants of Absalom burn the portion with fire.

³¹于是约押起来，到了押沙龙的家，问他：“你的仆人为什么放火烧了我那块田呢？”

³¹And Joab riseth and cometh unto Absalom in the house, and saith unto him, `Why have thy servants burned the portion that I have with fire?`

³²押沙龙回答约押：“看哪，我派人去见你，说：‘请你到这里来，我要托你去见王，替我说：“我为什么从基述回来呢？我若是还留在那边，会觉得更好。”’现在，我要见王的面，如果我有罪，任由他把我杀死好了。”

³²And Absalom saith unto Joab, `Lo, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, and I send thee unto the king to say, Why have I come in from Geshur? — good for me while I [am] there — and now, let me see the king`s face, and if there is in me iniquity then thou hast put me to death.`

³³于是约押进去见王，把这事告诉了他，王就召见押沙龙。押沙龙进去见王，在王面前脸伏在地拜他，王就与押沙龙亲嘴。

³³And Joab cometh unto the king, and declareth [it] to him, and he calleth unto Absalom, and he cometh unto the king, and boweth himself to him, on his face, to the earth, before the king, and the king giveth a kiss to Absalom.