2 Samuel 19
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”
1有人告訴 約押 說：「王為 押沙龍 哭泣悲哀。」
2And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”
2眾民聽說王為他兒子憂愁，他們得勝的歡樂卻變成悲哀。
3So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
3那日眾民暗暗地進城，就如敗陣逃跑、慚愧的民一般。
4But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
4王蒙着臉，大聲哭號說：「我兒 押沙龍 啊！ 押沙龍 ，我兒，我兒啊！」
5Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
5約押 進去見王，說：「你今日使你一切僕人臉面慚愧了！他們今日救了你的性命和你兒女妻妾的性命，
6You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
6你卻愛那恨你的人，恨那愛你的人。你今日明明地不以將帥、僕人為念。我今日看明，若 押沙龍 活着，我們都死亡，你就喜悅了。
7Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
7現在你當出去，安慰你僕人的心。我指着耶和華起誓：你若不出去，今夜必無一人與你同在一處；這禍患就比你從幼年到如今所遭的更甚！」
8So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.
8於是王起來，坐在城門口。眾民聽說王坐在城門口，就都到王面前。 以色列 人已經逃跑，各回各家去了。
9And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
9以色列 眾支派的人紛紛議論說：「王曾救我們脫離仇敵的手，又救我們脫離 非利士 人的手，現在他躲避 押沙龍 逃走了。
10But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”
10我們膏 押沙龍 治理我們，他已經陣亡。現在為甚麼不出一言請王回來呢？」
11Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
11大衛 王差人去見祭司 撒督 和 亞比亞他 ，說：「你們當向 猶大 長老說：『 以色列 眾人已經有話請王回宮，你們為甚麼落在他們後頭呢？
12You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
12你們是我的弟兄，是我的骨肉，為甚麼在人後頭請王回來呢？』
13And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
13也要對 亞瑪撒 說：『你不是我的骨肉嗎？我若不立你替 約押 常作元帥，願上帝重重地降罰與我！』」
14So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
14如此就挽回 猶大 眾人的心，如同一人的心。他們便打發人去見王，說：「請王和王的一切臣僕回來。」
15So the king returned, and when he arrived at the Jordan, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and escort him across the Jordan.
15王就回來，到了 約旦河 。 猶大 人來到 吉甲 ，要去迎接王，請他過 約旦河 。
16Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
16巴戶琳 的 便雅憫 人、 基拉 的兒子 示每 急忙與 猶大 人一同下去迎接 大衛 王。
17along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
17跟從 示每 的有一千 便雅憫 人，還有 掃羅 家的僕人 洗巴 和他十五個兒子，二十個僕人；他們都詵過 約旦河 迎接王。
18and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
18有擺渡船過去，渡王的家眷，任王使用。 王要過 約旦河 的時候， 基拉 的兒子 示每 就俯伏在王面前，
19and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
19對王說：「我主我王出 耶路撒冷 的時候，僕人行悖逆的事，現在求我主不要因此加罪與僕人，不要記念，也不要放在心上。
20For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
20僕人明知自己有罪，所以 約瑟 全家之中，今日我首先下來迎接我主我王。」
21But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
21洗魯雅 的兒子 亞比篩 說：「 示每 既咒罵耶和華的受膏者，不應當治死他嗎？」
22And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
22大衛 說：「 洗魯雅 的兒子，我與你們有何關涉，使你們今日與我反對呢？今日在 以色列 中豈可治死人呢？我豈不知今日我作 以色列 的王嗎？」
23So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.
23於是王對 示每 說：「你必不死。」王就向他起誓。
24Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
24掃羅 的孫子 米非波設 也下去迎接王。他自從王去的日子，直到王平平安安地回來，沒有修腳，沒有剃鬍鬚，也沒有洗衣服。
25And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
25他來到 耶路撒冷 迎接王的時候，王問他說：「 米非波設 ，你為甚麼沒有與我同去呢？」
26“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
26他回答說：「我主我王，僕人是瘸腿的。那日我想要備驢騎上，與王同去，無奈我的僕人欺哄了我，
27and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
27又在我主我王面前讒毀我。然而我主我王如同上帝的使者一般，你看怎樣好，就怎樣行吧！
28For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
28因為我祖全家的人，在我主我王面前都算為死人，王卻使僕人在王的席上同人吃飯，我現在向王還能辨理訴冤嗎？」
29The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
29王對他說：「你何必再提你的事呢？我說，你與 洗巴 均分地土。」
30And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
30米非波設 對王說：「我主我王既平平安安地回宮，就任憑 洗巴 都取了也可以。」
31Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
31基列 人 巴西萊 從 羅基琳 下來，要送王過 約旦河 ，就與王一同過了 約旦河 。
32Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
32巴西萊 年紀老邁，已經八十歲了。王住在 瑪哈念 的時候，他就拿食物來供給王；他原是大富戶。
33The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
33王對 巴西萊 說：「你與我同去，我要在 耶路撒冷 那裏養你的老。」
34But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
34巴西萊 對王說：「我在世的年日還能有多少，使我與王同上 耶路撒冷 呢？
35I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
35僕人現在八十歲了，還能嘗出飲食的滋味、辨別美惡嗎？還能聽男女歌唱的聲音嗎？僕人何必累贅我主我王呢？
36Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
36僕人只要送王過 約旦河 ，王何必賜我這樣的恩典呢？
37Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
37求你准我回去，好死在我本城， 葬在 我父母的墓旁。這裏有王的僕人 金罕 ，讓他同我主我王過去，可以隨意待他。」
38The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
38王說：「 金罕 可以與我同去，我必照你的心願待他。你向我求甚麼，我都必為你成就。」
39So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
39於是眾民過 約旦河 ，王也過去。王與 巴西萊 親嘴，為他祝福， 巴西萊 就回本地去了。
40Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
40王過去，到了 吉甲 ， 金罕 也跟他過去。 猶大 眾民和 以色列 民的一半也都送王過去。
41Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
41以色列 眾人來見王，對他說：「我們弟兄 猶大 人為甚麼暗暗送王和王的家眷，並跟隨王的人過 約旦河 ？」
42And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
42猶大 眾人回答 以色列 人說：「因為王與我們是親屬，你們為何因這事發怒呢？我們吃了王的甚麼呢？王賞賜了我們甚麼呢？」
43“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.
43以色列 人回答 猶大 人說：「按支派，我們與王有十分的情分；在 大衛 身上，我們也比你們更有情分。你們為何藐視我們，請王回來不先與我們商量呢？」 但 猶大 人的話比 以色列 人的話更硬。
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