1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
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，
2I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him shall flee. I will strike 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 to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. 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。”
4The 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 Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says.”
5押沙龍說：“把亞基人戶篩召來，我們也聽聽他怎麼說。”
6When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”
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！”
7Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
7戶篩回答押沙龍：“亞希多弗這次計劃的謀略不好。”
8Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your 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 now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who 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！’
10Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are 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。
11But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your 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 on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave 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 gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t 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。”
14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on 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 Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
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, ‘Don’t lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who 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 were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
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。
18But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
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。
19The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was 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。
20Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” 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。
21It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has 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 who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the 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。
23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb 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. Absalom passed over the 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。
25Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who 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。
26Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
26以色列人和押沙龍都在基列地安營。
27It happened, when David had 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, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,
28帶來寢具、碗盤、瓦器、小麥、大麥、麵粉、炒麥、豆子、紅豆、炒豆、
29honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, “The people are 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。”