撒母耳記下 14
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1洗魯雅 的兒子 約押 ，知道王心裏想念 押沙龍 ，
1And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king’s heart was turned to Absalom,
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；
2Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead.
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。
3And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.
4提哥亞 婦人到王面前，伏地叩拜，說：「王啊，求你拯救！」
4And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.
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。
5And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.
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。
6And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each other in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck the other, and slew him.
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。」
7And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith: Deliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir: and they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my husband no name, nor remainder upon the earth.
8王對婦人說：「你回家去吧！我必為你下令。」
8And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
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。」
9And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord, be the iniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his throne be guiltless.
10王說：「凡難為你的，你就帶他到我這裏來，他必不再攪擾你。」
10And the king said: If any one shall say ought against thee, bring him to me, and be shall not touch thee any more.
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。」
11And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
12婦人說：「求我主我王容婢女再說一句話。」王說：「你說吧！」
12Then the woman said: Let thy handmaid speak one word to my lord the king. And he said: Speak.
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！
13And the woman said: Why hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God, and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin, and not bring home again his own exile?
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。
14We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.
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。
15Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
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。
16And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of all that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
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！」
17Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.
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。」
18And the king answering, said to the woman: Hide not from me the thing that I ask thee. And the woman said to him: Speak, my lord the king.
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。
19And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.
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。」
20That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant Joab, commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the wisdom of ail angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.
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。」
21And the king said to Joab: Behold I am appeased and have granted thy request: Go therefore and fetch back the boy Absalom.
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。」
22And Joab falling down to the ground upon his face, adored, and blessed the king: and Joab said: This day thy servant hath understood, that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king: for thou hast fulfilled the request of thy servant.
23於是 約押 起身往 基述 去，將 押沙龍 帶回 耶路撒冷 。
23Then Joab arose and went to Gessur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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。
24But the king said: Let him return into his house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned into his house, and saw not the king’s face.
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。
25But in all Israel there was not a man so comely, and so exceedingly beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of the foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
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。
26And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year, because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.
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。
27And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter, whose, name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful.
28押沙龍 住在 耶路撒冷 足有二年，沒有見王的面。
28And Absalom dwelt two years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king’s face.
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。
29He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to the king: but he would not come to him. And when he had sent the second time, and he would not come to him,
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。
30He said to his servants: You know the field of Joab near my field, that hath a crop of barley: go now and set it on fire. So the servants of Absalom set the corn on fire. And Joab’s servants coming with their garments rent, said: The servants of Absalom have set part of the 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？」
31Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why have thy servants set my corn on fire?
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。」
32And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to come to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him: Wherefore am I come from Gessur? it had been better for me to be there: I beseech thee therefore that I may see the face of the king: and if he be mindful of my iniquity, let him kill me.
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。
33So Joab going in to the king, told him all: and Absalom was called for, and he went in to the king: and prostrated himself on the ground before him: and the king kissed Absalom.
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