¹Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

¹非利士人集結在亞弗非利士人把他們所有的軍隊都聚集在亞弗，以色列人卻在耶斯列的泉旁安營。

²The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

²非利士人的首領各率領百人或千人前進；大衛和跟隨他的人也跟在亞吉的後面前進。

³Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?”

³非利士人的領袖說：“這些希伯來人在這裡作甚麼？”亞吉對非利士人的領袖說：“這人不是以色列王掃羅的臣僕大衛嗎？他已經在我這裡有好些年日了。自從他降服我的一天，直到今日，我未曾發現他有甚麼過錯。”

⁴But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

⁴眾首領疑忌大衛非利士人的領袖向亞吉發怒，對他說：“你叫這人回去，好讓他回到你為他安排的地方去。他不可與我們一同下戰場，免得他在戰場上成為我們的對頭。這人可用甚麼去得他主人的歡心呢？豈不是用我們這些人的頭嗎？

⁵Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?’”

⁵這人不就是大衛嗎？從前以色列的婦女向他歌唱跳舞說：‘掃羅殺死千千，大衛殺死萬萬！’”

⁶Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

⁶亞吉命大衛回去亞吉把大衛叫來，對他說：“我指著永活的耶和華說，你是正直的人，你與我在軍中出入，我感到很滿意，因為自從你到我這裡來的那一天，直到今日，我未曾在你身上找到甚麼過失；只是各首領不喜歡你。

⁷Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”

⁷現在，你可以回去，平平安安走吧！不要行非利士人的首領看為惡的事。”

⁸David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

⁸大衛對亞吉說：“我作了甚麼呢？自從我來到你面前的那一天，直到今日，你在僕人身上找到甚麼，使我不能與我主我王的仇敵爭戰呢？”

⁹Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

⁹亞吉回答大衛，說：“我知道你在我眼中是個好人，像　神的使者一樣；只是非利士人的領袖曾經說過：‘他不可與我們一同上戰場。’

¹⁰Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.”

¹⁰所以明天早晨，你和跟你來的人，就是你主人的僕人都要清早起來。你們明天早晨都要早起，天一亮你們就要離開。”

¹¹So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.

¹¹於是大衛和跟隨他的人清早起來，一早就離開，回到非利士人的地去。非利士人也上耶斯列去了。