1Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
1戶篩破壞亞希多弗的計謀亞希多弗又對押沙龍說：“求你准我挑選一萬二千人，今晚我要動身去追趕大衛，
2And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
2趁他疲乏手軟的時候，忽然追上他，使他驚惶失措，與他在一起的人就必逃跑；我只要單單擊殺王一人，
3And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
3使眾人都來歸你。你所尋索的那個人一死，眾人就都歸你了，眾人也可以平安無事。”
4And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
4押沙龍和以色列的眾長老都看這事為美。
5Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
5押沙龍說：“把亞基人戶篩召來，我們也聽聽他怎麼說。”
6And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
6於是戶篩來見押沙龍，押沙龍問他說：“亞希多弗說了這樣的話，我們可以照著他的話去行嗎？如果不可以，請你提議吧！”
7And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
7戶篩回答押沙龍：“亞希多弗這次計劃的謀略不好。”
8For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
8戶篩又說：“你知道你父親和那些跟隨他的人都是勇士；他們兇惡威猛，好像野地裡喪子的母熊一樣；並且你父親是個戰士，必不會與眾人在一起住宿。
9Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
9現在他或躺在一個坑中，或在另一個地方，如果他首先攻擊你的手下，聽見的人就必說：‘跟從押沙龍的人被殺了！’
10And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
10那時，縱使有人像獅子一般勇敢，心裡也必驚慌，因為全以色列都知道你父親是個勇士，跟隨他的人都是英勇的人。
11Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
11因此，我建議把以色列眾人，從但到別是巴，都聚集到你這裡來，好像海邊的沙那樣多，然後你親自率領他們上戰場。
12So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
12無論我們在哪一個地方找到大衛，就攻擊他；我們臨到他，像露水降在地上一樣。這樣，他和跟隨他的人，就一個也不會留下。
13Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
13如果他退入城裡去，以色列眾人就要帶繩子到那城去，我們要把那城拉到河裡去，使那裡連一塊小石頭也找不到。”
14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
14押沙龍和以色列眾人都說：“亞基人戶篩的謀略比亞希多弗的好。”因為耶和華定意要破壞亞希多弗的好計謀，為要降災禍給押沙龍。
15Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled.
15大衛接獲報告渡河而逃於是戶篩對撒督祭司和亞比亞他說：“亞希多弗為押沙龍和以色列的眾長老所策定的謀略是這樣這樣的，我所策定的謀略又是這樣這樣的。
16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
16現在你們要趕快派人去告訴大衛：‘今天晚上你不可在曠野的渡口住宿，務要過河，免得王和跟隨他的眾人都被吞滅。’”
17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
17那時，約拿單和亞希瑪斯停留在隱．羅結，他們不敢進城，怕被人看見。有一個婢女經常出來，把話告訴他們，然後他們再去告訴大衛王。
18Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
18但有一個僕人看見他們，就去告訴押沙龍。因此，他們兩人急忙離開那裡，來到巴戶琳某人的家裡；那人的院子裡有一口井，他們就下到井裡。
19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
19那家的主婦拿了一塊大布，蓋在井口上，又在上面鋪了一些麥子，所以沒有人知道這件事。
20And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
20押沙龍的臣僕到這家來見那婦人，問她：“亞希瑪斯和約拿單在哪裡？”那婦人回答他們說：“他們已經過了河了。”於是臣僕搜索他們，卻沒有找著，就都回耶路撒冷去了。
21And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counseled against you.
21亞希多弗自殺他們走了以後，兩人從井裡上來，去告訴大衛王，對大衛說：“你們要起來，趕快過河，因為亞希多弗已經定了這樣這樣的謀略攻擊你們。”
22Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
22於是大衛和跟隨他的眾人都起來，渡過約旦河；到了天亮，沒有一人還沒有渡過約旦河的。
23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
23亞希多弗見自己的謀略不被採納，就預備了驢子，起程往本城自己的家去。他安排好了家裡的事，就上吊死了，埋葬在他父親的墳墓裡。
24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
24押沙龍追殺大衛大衛到了瑪哈念，押沙龍和跟隨他的以色列眾人也都過了約旦河。
25And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
25押沙龍派亞瑪撒統率軍隊，作軍隊的元帥，取代約押。亞瑪撒是以實瑪利人以特拉的兒子。以特拉曾經與拿轄的女兒亞比該親近過；亞比該和約押的母親洗魯雅是姊妹。
26So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
26以色列人和押沙龍都在基列地安營。
27And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
27大衛到了瑪哈念的時候，亞捫族的拉巴人拿轄的兒子朔比、羅．底巴人亞米利的兒子瑪吉、基列的羅基琳人巴西萊，
28Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,
28帶來寢具、碗盤、瓦器、小麥、大麥、麵粉、炒麥、豆子、紅豆、炒豆、
29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
29蜂蜜、奶油、綿羊和乳酪送給大衛和跟隨他的人吃，因為他們說：“這些人在曠野一定又飢餓，又疲倦，又口渴了。”