2 Samuel 14
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
1洗魯雅 的兒子 約押 ，知道王心裏想念 押沙龍 ，
2So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
2就打發人往 提哥亞 去，從那裏叫了一個聰明的婦人來，對她說：「請你假裝居喪的，穿上孝衣，不要用膏抹身，要裝作為死者許久悲哀的婦人；
3Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
3進去見王，對王如此如此說。」於是 約押 將當說的話教導了婦人。
4When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
4提哥亞 婦人到王面前，伏地叩拜，說：「王啊，求你拯救！」
5“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
5王問她說：「你有甚麼事呢？」回答說：「婢女實在是寡婦，我丈夫死了。
6And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
6我有兩個兒子，一日在田間爭鬥，沒有人解勸，這個就打死那個。
7Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
7現在全家的人都起來攻擊婢女，說：『你將那打死兄弟的交出來，我們好治死他，償他打死兄弟的命，滅絕那承受家業的。』這樣，他們要將我剩下的炭火滅盡，不與我丈夫留名留後在世上。」
8“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
8王對婦人說：「你回家去吧！我必為你下令。」
9But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
9提哥亞 婦人又對王說：「我主我王，願這罪歸我和我父家，與王和王的位無干。」
10“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
10王說：「凡難為你的，你就帶他到我這裏來，他必不再攪擾你。」
11“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
11婦人說：「願王記念耶和華－你的上帝，不許報血仇的人施行滅絕，恐怕他們滅絕我的兒子。」王說：「我指着永生的耶和華起誓：你的兒子連一根頭髮也不致落在地上。」
12Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
12婦人說：「求我主我王容婢女再說一句話。」王說：「你說吧！」
13The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
13婦人說：「王為何也起意要害上帝的民呢？王不使那逃亡的人回來，王的這話就是自證己錯了！
14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
14我們都是必死的，如同水潑在地上，不能收回。上帝並不奪取人的性命，乃設法使逃亡的人不致成為趕出、回不來的。
15Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
15我來將這話告訴我主我王，是因百姓使我懼怕。婢女想，不如將這話告訴王，或者王成就婢女所求的。
16For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
16人要將我和我兒子從上帝的地業上一同除滅，王必應允救我脫離他的手。
17And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
17婢女又想，我主我王的話必安慰我；因為我主我王能辨別是非，如同上帝的使者一樣。惟願耶和華－你的上帝與你同在！」
18Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
18王對婦人說：「我要問你一句話，你一點不要瞞我。」婦人說：「願我主我王說。」
19So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
19王說：「你這些話莫非是 約押 的主意嗎？」婦人說：「我敢在我主我王面前起誓：王的話正對，不偏左右，是王的僕人 約押 吩咐我的，這些話是他教導我的。
20Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
20王的僕人 約押 如此行，為要挽回這事。我主的智慧卻如上帝使者的智慧，能知世上一切事。」
21Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
21王對 約押 說：「我應允你這事。你可以去，把那少年人 押沙龍 帶回來。」
22Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
22約押 就面伏於地叩拜，祝謝於王，又說：「王既應允僕人所求的，僕人今日知道在我主我王眼前蒙恩了。」
23So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
23於是 約押 起身往 基述 去，將 押沙龍 帶回 耶路撒冷 。
24But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the king.
24王說：「使他回自己家裏去，不要見我的面。」 押沙龍 就回自己家裏去，沒有見王的面。
25Now there was not a man in all Israel as handsome and highly praised as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.
25以色列 全地之中，無人像 押沙龍 那樣俊美，得人的稱讚，從腳底到頭頂毫無瑕疵。
26And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
26他的頭髮甚重，每到年底剪髮一次；所剪下來的，按王的平稱一稱，重二百舍客勒。
27Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
27押沙龍 生了三個兒子，一個女兒。女兒名叫 她瑪 ，是個容貌俊美的女子。
28Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
28押沙龍 住在 耶路撒冷 足有二年，沒有見王的面。
29Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
29押沙龍 打發人去叫 約押 來，要託他去見王， 約押 卻不肯來。第二次打發人去叫他，他仍不肯來。
30Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
30所以 押沙龍 對僕人說：「你們看， 約押 有一塊田，與我的田相近，其中有大麥，你們去放火燒了。」 押沙龍 的僕人就去放火燒了那田。
31Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
31於是 約押 起來，到了 押沙龍 家裏，問他說：「你的僕人為何放火燒了我的田呢？」
32“Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
32押沙龍 回答 約押 說：「我打發人去請你來，好託你去見王，替我說：『我為何從 基述 回來呢？不如仍在那裏。』現在要許我見王的面；我若有罪，任憑王殺我就是了。」
33So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
33於是 約押 去見王，將這話奏告王，王便叫 押沙龍 來。 押沙龍 來見王，在王面前俯伏於地，王就與 押沙龍 親嘴。
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