2 Samuel 19
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1Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
1有人告訴 約押 說：「王為 押沙龍 哭泣悲哀。」
2The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people, for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for 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。
3The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
3那日眾民暗暗地進城，就如敗陣逃跑、慚愧的民一般。
4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, 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！」
5Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives 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，
6in that you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived and we had all died today, then it would have pleased you well.
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 arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to 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！」
8Then the king arose and sat in the gate. The people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
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。
9All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from 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。
10Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”
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？」
11King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house?
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. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back 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？』
13Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead 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！』」
14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man, so that they sent to the king, saying, “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 came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over 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 。
16Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came 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。
17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of 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。
18A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had come over the Jordan.
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，
19He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his 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. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go 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 the son of Zeruiah answered, “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？」
22David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”
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？」
23The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.
23於是王對 示每 說：「你必不死。」王就向他起誓。
24Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
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。
25When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
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？」
26He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.
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，
27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore 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 my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should appeal any more 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 said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba 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。」
30Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”
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。」
31Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king to conduct him over the Jordan.
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 。
32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
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, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me 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。」
34Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
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 eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a 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 will just go over the Jordan with the king. 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 turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
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 answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”
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。」
39All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
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。
40So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
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。
41Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
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 ？」
42All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”
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？」
43The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of 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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