¹约押劝谏大卫

¹And it is declared to Joab, `Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;`

²那一天，众人胜利的欢乐变成了悲哀，因为他们听说王为他的儿子伤痛。

²and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, `The king hath been grieved for his son.`

³那一天，众人偷偷进城，就像军人从战场上逃跑，羞愧地偷偷回来一样。

³And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;

⁴王蒙着脸，大声哀哭，说：“我儿押沙龙啊！押沙龙，我儿，我儿啊！”

⁴and the king hath covered his face, yea, the king crieth — a loud voice — `My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.`

⁵约押进了屋子去见王，说：“你所有的臣仆今天救了你的性命，和你儿女妻室的性命，你今天却使他们满面羞愧；

⁵And Joab cometh in unto the king to the house, and saith, `Thou hast put to shame to-day the faces of all thy servants, those delivering thy life to-day, and the life of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the life of thy wives, and the life of thy concubines,

⁶你爱那些恨你的，恨那些爱你的。因为你今天表明了你不重视将帅和臣仆；我今天才明白，如果押沙龙活着，我们大家都死去，你就欢喜了。

⁶to love thine enemies, and to hate those loving thee, for thou hast declared to-day that thou hast no princes and servants, for I have known to-day that if Absalom [were] alive, and all of us to-day dead, that then it were right in thine eyes.

⁷现在请你起来，出去，说些安慰你仆人们的话。我指着耶和华起誓，如果你不出去，今夜就必没有一人留下来与你在一起。这祸患就比你从幼年到现在所遭受的一切祸患更厉害了。”

⁷`And now, rise, go out and speak unto the heart of thy servants, for by Jehovah I have sworn, that — thou art not going out — there doth not lodge a man with thee to-night; and this [is] worse for thee than all the evil that hath come upon thee from thy youth till now.`

⁸于是王起来，坐在城门口。有人告诉众民说：“看哪！王坐在城门口。”于是众人都来到王的面前。以色列人已经逃跑，各回自己的家去了。

⁸And the king riseth, and sitteth in the gate, and to all the people they have declared, saying, `Lo, the king is sitting in the gate;` and all the people come in before the king, and Israel hath fled, each to his tents.

⁹以色列众支派的人都纷纷议论，说：“王曾经拯救我们脱离仇敌的手，又救了我们脱离非利士人的手，现在他却躲避押沙龙，离开这地逃走了。

⁹And it cometh to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, `The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he hath fled out of the land because of Absalom,

¹⁰我们所膏立统治我们的押沙龙，已经在战场上死了。现在你们为什么不出声请王回来呢？”

¹⁰and Absalom whom we anointed over us [is] dead in battle, and now, why are ye silent — to bring back the king?`

¹¹大卫回耶路撒冷京城大卫王派人去见撒督祭司和亚比亚他，说：“你们要对犹大的众长老说：‘你们为什么在请王回宫的事上落在人后头呢？全以色列请王回宫的话已经传到王和王宫那里去了。

¹¹And king David sent unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, saying, `Speak ye unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye last to bring back the king unto his house? (and the word of all Israel hath come unto the king, unto his house;)

¹²你们是我的兄弟，我的骨肉至亲，为什么在请王回来的事上，倒落在人后头呢？’

¹²my brethren ye [are], my bone and my flesh ye [are], and why are ye last to bring back the king?

¹³你们又要对亚玛撒说：‘你不是我的骨肉至亲吗？我若不立你代替约押，在我面前作军队的元帅，愿　神重重地惩罚我，并且加倍严厉地惩罚我。’”

¹³And to Amasa say ye, Art not thou my bone and my flesh? Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add, if thou art not head of the host before me all the days instead of Joab.`

¹⁴这样，大卫挽回了犹大众人的心，好像一人的心。于是他们差派人去见王，说：“请你和你的众臣仆都回来！”

¹⁴And he inclineth the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they send unto the king, `Turn back, thou, and all thy servants.`

¹⁵王就回来，到了约旦河。犹大人也来到吉甲，要去迎接王，接王过约旦河。

¹⁵And the king turneth back, and cometh in unto the Jordan, and Judah hath come to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan,

¹⁶示每与洗巴出迎巴户琳的便雅悯人，基拉的儿子示每，急忙与犹大人一同下去迎接大卫王。

¹⁶and Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite, who [is] from Bahurim, hasteth, and cometh down with the men of Judah, to meet king David,

¹⁷与示每同来的有一千便雅悯人，还有扫罗家的仆人洗巴，和他的十五个儿子，以及二十个仆人。他们都冲过约旦河去迎接王。

¹⁷and a thousand men [are] with him from Benjamin, and Ziba servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, and they have gone prosperously over the Jordan before the king.

¹⁸有人渡过渡口，把王的家眷接过去，并且照着王的心意去作。大卫过约旦河的时候，基拉的儿子示每俯伏在王面前，

¹⁸And passed over hath the ferry-boat to carry over the household of the king, and to do that which [is] good in his eyes, and Shimei son of Gera hath fallen before the king in his passing over into Jordan,

¹⁹对王说：“我主我王从耶路撒冷出来的那一天，你仆人所犯的错，现在求我主不要归罪于我，求你不要记念，求王也不要放在心上。

¹⁹and saith unto the king, `Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, — for the king to set [it] unto his heart;

²⁰因为你的仆人知道自己犯了罪，所以你看，在约瑟全家之中，今天我是第一个下来迎接我主我王的。”

²⁰for thy servant hath known that I have sinned; and lo, I have come to-day, first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.`

²¹洗鲁雅的儿子亚比筛回答说：“示每咒骂了耶和华的受膏者，岂不该因此把他处死吗？”

²¹And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death — because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?`

²²大卫说：“洗鲁雅的儿子们啊，我与你们有什么关系呢？今天你们竟与我作对！今天在以色列中，岂可有人被处死呢？难道我不知道今天我作以色列的王吗？”

²²And David saith, `What — to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I [am] king over Israel?`

²³于是王对示每说：“你一定不会被处死！”王又向他起誓。

²³And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou dost not die;` and the king sweareth to him.

²⁴米非波设向大卫辩白扫罗的孙子米非波设也下去迎接王。他自从王出走那天，直到王平平安安回来的日子，都没有修脚，没有刮胡子，也没有洗衣服。

²⁴And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king — and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace —

²⁵他从耶路撒冷来迎接王的时候，王问他：“米非波设啊，你为什么没有与我一同离开呢？”

²⁵and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, `Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?`

²⁶他回答：“我主我王，你仆人是瘸腿的；那天，我心里想我要预备驴子，可以骑上，与王一同离开，但是我的仆人却欺骗了我，

²⁶And he saith, `My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for thy servant said, I saddle for me the ass, and ride on it, and go with the king, for thy servant [is] lame;

²⁷又在我主我王面前毁谤你仆人。但我主我王像　神的使者一样，现在，你看怎样好，就怎样行吧！

²⁷and he uttereth slander against thy servant unto my lord the king, and my lord the king [is] as a messenger of God; and do thou that which is good in thine eyes,

²⁸因为我祖父全家的人，在我主我王面前都算不得什么，都不过是该死的人；你却使仆人在你席上与你一同吃饭。我还有什么权利再向王哀求什么呢？”

²⁸for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and thou dost set thy servant among those eating at thy table, and what right have I any more — even to cry any more unto the king?`

²⁹王就对他说：“你为什么再提你的事呢？我已经决定，你与洗巴要均分那地。”

²⁹And the king saith to him, `Why dost thou speak any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba — share ye the field.`

³⁰米非波设对王说：“我主我王既然已平平安安回宫，所有的一切就都任凭洗巴拿去好了。”

³⁰And Mephibosheth saith unto the king, `Yea, the whole let him take, after that my lord the king hath come in peace unto his house.`

³¹巴西莱给大卫送行基列人巴西莱也从罗基琳下来，与王一同过约旦河，要在约旦河边给王送行。

³¹And Barzillai the Gileadite hath gone down from Rogelim, and passeth over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan;

³²巴西莱年纪非常老迈，已经八十岁。王住在巴户琳的时候，是他供养王的，因为他是一个很富有的人。

³²and Barzillai [is] very aged, a son of eighty years, and he hath sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he [is] a very great man;

³³王对巴西莱说：“你与我一同过河去，在耶路撒冷与我同住，我要供养你。”

³³and the king saith unto Barzillai, `Pass thou over with me, and I have sustained thee with me in Jerusalem.`

³⁴巴西莱对王说：“我活着的年日还能有多少，可使我与王一同上耶路撒冷呢？

³⁴And Barzillai saith unto the king, `How many [are] the days of the years of my life, that I go up with the king to Jerusalem?

³⁵我现在已经八十岁了，还能分别美丑吗？你仆人还能尝出吃喝的味道吗？我还能细听男女歌手的声音吗？你仆人为什么要负累我主我王呢？

³⁵A son of eighty years I [am] to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?

³⁶你仆人只不过与王一同过约旦河，王为什么要这样赏赐我呢？

³⁶As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense?

³⁷请让你仆人回去，好死在我自己的城里，埋葬在我父母的坟墓旁。看哪，你仆人金罕在这里，请让他与我主我王一同过河；你看怎么好，就怎么待他吧！”

³⁷Let, I pray thee, thy servant turn back again, and I die in mine own city, near the burying-place of my father and of my mother, — and lo, thy servant Chimham, let him pass over with my lord the king, and do thou to him that which [is] good in thine eyes.`

³⁸王说：“金罕可以与我一同过河。你看怎么好，我就怎么待他。你向我所要求的，我都必为你成全。”

³⁸And the king saith, `With me doth Chimham go over, and I do to him that which [is] good in thine eyes, yea, all that thou dost fix on me I do to thee.`

³⁹于是众人都渡过约旦河，王也渡过了。王与巴西莱亲嘴，为他祝福，巴西莱就回自己的地方去了。

³⁹And all the people pass over the Jordan, and the king hath passed over, and the king giveth a kiss to Barzillai, and blesseth him, and he turneth back to his place.

⁴⁰犹大人和以色列人的争论王过了河，到了吉甲，金罕也与王一同渡河。所有的犹大人和半数以色列人，也都与王一同渡河。

⁴⁰And the king passeth over to Gilgal, and Chimham hath passed over with him, and all the people of Judah, and they bring over the king, and also the half of the people of Israel.

⁴¹以色列众人都来见王，问王说：“我们的兄弟犹大人为什么把你偷去了，把王和王的家眷接过约旦河呢？属大卫的人不都一样是他的人民吗？”

⁴¹And, lo, all the men of Israel are coming unto the king, and they say unto the king, `Wherefore have they stolen thee — our brethren, the men of Judah?` (and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him).

⁴²犹大众人回答以色列人说：“因为王与我们的关系亲密。你们为什么因这事而生气呢？我们从王那里得到什么吃的呢？或是他给了我们什么礼物呢？”

⁴²And all the men of Judah answer against the men of Israel, `Because the king [is] near unto us, and why [is] this — ye are displeased about this matter? have we at all eaten of the king`s [substance?] a gift hath he lifted up to us?`

⁴³以色列人回答犹大人说：“在王的事上，我们有十分的投入。在大卫身上，我们也与大卫比你们更有情分。你们为什么轻视我们呢？先说要请我们的王回来的，不是我们吗？”但是犹大人的话比以色列人的话更强硬。

⁴³And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?` And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.