¹户筛破坏亚希多弗的计谋

¹And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, `Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,

²趁他疲乏手软的时候，忽然追上他，使他惊惶失措，与他在一起的人就必逃跑；我只要单单击杀王一人，

²and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who [are] with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,

³使众人都来归你。你所寻索的那个人一死，众人就都归你了，众人也可以平安无事。”

³and I bring back all the people unto thee — as the turning back of the whole [is] the man whom thou art seeking — all the people are peace.

⁴押沙龙和以色列的众长老都看这事为美。

⁴And the thing is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

⁵押沙龙说：“把亚基人户筛召来，我们也听听他怎么说。”

⁵And Absalom saith, `Call, I pray thee, also for Hushai the Archite, and we hear what [is] in his mouth — even he.`

⁶于是户筛来见押沙龙，押沙龙问他说：“亚希多弗说了这样的话，我们可以照着他的话去行吗？如果不可以，请你提议吧！”

⁶And Hushai cometh in unto Absalom, and Absalom speaketh unto him, saying, `According to this word hath Ahithophel spoken; do we do his word? if not, thou — speak thou.`

⁷户筛回答押沙龙：“亚希多弗这次计划的谋略不好。”

⁷And Hushai saith unto Absalom, `Not good [is] the counsel that Ahithophel hath counselled at this time.`

⁸户筛又说：“你知道你父亲和那些跟随他的人都是勇士；他们凶恶威猛，好像野地里丧子的母熊一样；并且你父亲是个战士，必不会与众人在一起住宿。

⁸And Hushai saith, `Thou hast known thy father and his men, that they [are] heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and thy father [is] a man of war, and doth not lodge with the people;

⁹现在他或躺在一个坑中，或在另一个地方，如果他首先攻击你的手下，听见的人就必说：‘跟从押沙龙的人被杀了！’

⁹lo, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it hath been, at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer hath heard, and said, There hath been a slaughter among the people who [are] after Absalom;

¹⁰那时，纵使有人像狮子一般勇敢，心里也必惊慌，因为全以色列都知道你父亲是个勇士，跟随他的人都是英勇的人。

¹⁰and he also, the son of valour, whose heart [is] as the heart of the lion, doth utterly melt, for all Israel doth know that thy father is a hero, and sons of valour [are] those with him.

¹¹因此，我建议把以色列众人，从但到别是巴，都聚集到你这里来，好像海边的沙那样多，然后你亲自率领他们上战场。

¹¹`So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst;

¹²无论我们在哪一个地方找到大卫，就攻击他；我们临到他，像露水降在地上一样。这样，他和跟随他的人，就一个也不会留下。

¹²and we have come in unto him in one of the places where he is found, and we [are] upon him as the dew falleth on the ground, and there hath not been left of him and of all the men who [are] with him even one.

¹³如果他退入城里去，以色列众人就要带绳子到那城去，我们要把那城拉到河里去，使那里连一块小石头也找不到。”

¹³And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.`

¹⁴押沙龙和以色列众人都说：“亚基人户筛的谋略比亚希多弗的好。”因为耶和华定意要破坏亚希多弗的好计谋，为要降灾祸给押沙龙。

¹⁴And Absalom saith — and all the men of Israel — `Better [is] the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;` and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah`s bringing unto Absalom the evil.

¹⁵大卫接获报告渡河而逃于是户筛对撒督祭司和亚比亚他说：“亚希多弗为押沙龙和以色列的众长老所策定的谋略是这样这样的，我所策定的谋略又是这样这样的。

¹⁵And Hushai saith unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, `Thus and thus hath Ahithophel counselled Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and thus I have counselled;

¹⁶现在你们要赶快派人去告诉大卫：‘今天晚上你不可在旷野的渡口住宿，务要过河，免得王和跟随他的众人都被吞灭。’”

¹⁶and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.`

¹⁷那时，约拿单和亚希玛斯停留在隐．罗结，他们不敢进城，怕被人看见。有一个婢女经常出来，把话告诉他们，然后他们再去告诉大卫王。

¹⁷And Jonathan and Ahimaaz are standing at En-Rogel, and the maid-servant hath gone and declared to them — and they go and have declared [it] to king David — for they are not able to be seen to go in to the city.

¹⁸但有一个仆人看见他们，就去告诉押沙龙。因此，他们两人急忙离开那里，来到巴户琳某人的家里；那人的院子里有一口井，他们就下到井里。

¹⁸And a youth seeth them, and declareth to Absalom; and they go on both of them hastily, and come in unto the house of a man in Bahurim, and he hath a well in his court, and they go down there,

¹⁹那家的主妇拿了一块大布，盖在井口上，又在上面铺了一些麦子，所以没有人知道这件事。

¹⁹and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known.

²⁰押沙龙的臣仆到这家来见那妇人，问她：“亚希玛斯和约拿单在哪里？”那妇人回答他们说：“他们已经过了河了。”于是臣仆搜索他们，却没有找着，就都回耶路撒冷去了。

²⁰And the servants of Absalom come in unto the woman to the house, and say, `Where [are] Ahimaaz and Jonathan?` and the woman saith to them, `They passed over the brook of water;` and they seek, and have not found, and turn back to Jerusalem.

²¹亚希多弗自杀他们走了以后，两人从井里上来，去告诉大卫王，对大卫说：“你们要起来，赶快过河，因为亚希多弗已经定了这样这样的谋略攻击你们。”

²¹And it cometh to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare to king David, and say unto David, `Rise ye, and pass over hastily the waters, for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.`

²²于是大卫和跟随他的众人都起来，渡过约旦河；到了天亮，没有一人还没有渡过约旦河的。

²²And David riseth, and all the people who [are] with him, and they pass over the Jordan, till the light of the morning, till one hath not been lacking who hath not passed over the Jordan.

²³亚希多弗见自己的谋略不被采纳，就预备了驴子，起程往本城自己的家去。他安排好了家里的事，就上吊死了，埋葬在他父亲的坟墓里。

²³And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

²⁴押沙龙追杀大卫大卫到了玛哈念，押沙龙和跟随他的以色列众人也都过了约旦河。

²⁴And David came to Mahanaim, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him;

²⁵押沙龙派亚玛撒统率军队，作军队的元帅，取代约押。亚玛撒是以实玛利人以特拉的儿子。以特拉曾经与拿辖的女儿亚比该亲近过；亚比该和约押的母亲洗鲁雅是姊妹。

²⁵and Amasa hath Absalom set instead of Joab over the host, and Amasa [is] a man`s son whose name is Ithra the Israelite who hath gone in unto Abigail, daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab;

²⁶以色列人和押沙龙都在基列地安营。

²⁶and Israel encampeth with Absalom [in] the land of Gilead.

²⁷大卫到了玛哈念的时候，亚扪族的拉巴人拿辖的儿子朔比、罗．底巴人亚米利的儿子玛吉、基列的罗基琳人巴西莱，

²⁷And it cometh to pass at the coming in of David to Mahanaim, that Shobi, son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and Machir son of Ammiel, from Lo-Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim,

²⁸带来寝具、碗盘、瓦器、小麦、大麦、面粉、炒麦、豆子、红豆、炒豆、

²⁸couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and roasted [pulse],

²⁹蜂蜜、奶油、绵羊和乳酪送给大卫和跟随他的人吃，因为他们说：“这些人在旷野一定又饥饿，又疲倦，又口渴了。”

²⁹and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, have brought nigh for David, and for the people who [are] with him to eat, for they said, `Thy people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.`