1 Samuel 20

1 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”

1 大卫从拉玛的拿约逃出来去见约拿单，问他：“我做了什么？犯了什么罪？我什么地方对不起你父亲，他竟追杀我？”

2 “Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”

2 约拿单答道：“绝无此事，你不会死的！我父亲事无大小都会告诉我的，他不会瞒着我这件事，不会的。”

3 But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

3 大卫发誓说：“你父亲深知你恩待我，他为了不使你伤心，才瞒着你。但我凭永活的耶和华和你的性命起誓，我离死亡仅一步之遥！”

4 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”

4 约拿单说：“你有什么需要？我一定相助。”

5 So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.

5 大卫答道：“明天是初一，我本该跟王一起用餐，请让我躲到田间，直到第三天晚上。

6 If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’

6 如果你父亲问起我，你就说我恳求你允许我回到故乡伯利恒，因为我全家正在那里献年祭。

7 If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.

7 如果你父亲说‘好吧’，仆人就平安无事了。如果他发怒，就表示他决意要杀我。

8 Therefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”

8 请你善待仆人，因你与我在耶和华面前立了盟约。如果我有罪，就请你亲手杀了我，何必把我交给你父亲呢？”

9 “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”

9 约拿单答道：“我决不会这样做。我如果知道父亲决意要杀你，怎能不通知你呢？”

10 Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

10 大卫说：“你父亲如果向你发怒，谁来告诉我呢？”

11 “Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,

11 约拿单说：“我们一起到田野去吧。”于是，二人一起去了田野。

12 and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?

12 约拿单对大卫说：“愿以色列的上帝耶和华作证，明天或后天这个时侯我就会打探到我父亲的意思，如果他善意待你，我会派人通知你。

13 But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.

13 如果他有意杀你，而我却不告诉你让你安然逃走，愿耶和华重重地惩罚我。愿耶和华与你同在，像从前与我父亲同在一样。

14 And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,

14 在我有生之年，请你照耶和华的慈爱恩待我，免我一死。

15 and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

15 在我死后，即使耶和华把你所有的仇敌都毁灭了，请你仍旧恩待我的后人。”

16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”

16 于是，约拿单与大卫家立下盟约，说：“如果大卫不守盟约，愿耶和华借着仇敌惩罚他。”

17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.

17 约拿单因为像爱自己一样爱大卫，便叫他再次起誓。

18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

18 约拿单说：“明天是初一，人们会注意到你缺席。

19 When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

19 到了后天，你要赶快去上次出事时躲藏的以色磐石那里。

20 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.

20 我会朝磐石的旁边射三箭，好像射靶子。

21 Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.

21 然后，我会叫一个少年把箭拾回来。如果你听到我对他说，‘箭就在你旁边，把箭拾回来。’那就表示你可以回来了，我凭永活的耶和华起誓，你必平安无事。

22 But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.

22 但如果我对少年说，‘箭就在你前面。’你就要离开，因为是耶和华要你离开。

23 And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”

23 至于我们之间所立的约，耶和华永远为我们作证。”

24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

24 于是，大卫就躲到田野。初一到了，扫罗王入席吃饭，

25 He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

25 他照常坐在靠墙的位置，约拿单坐在对面，押尼珥坐在王的身边，大卫的位子空着。

26 Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

26 那一天，扫罗并没有说什么，他以为大卫可能遇到了使自己不洁净的事，不能赴宴。

27 But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

27 可是到了第二天，就是初二，大卫的座位还是空的，扫罗就问儿子约拿单：“耶西的儿子为什么这两天都不来赴宴呢？”

28 Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,

28 约拿单答道：“大卫恳求我让他回到伯利恒，

29 saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”

29 因为他家要在城中献祭，他的哥哥要他去。他求我恩准他去见他的哥哥们。所以，他没有来参加王的宴席。”

30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

30 扫罗向约拿单发怒，对他说：“你这邪逆妇人养的！难道我不知道你是站在耶西的儿子那边吗？你这样做不但自取其辱，也使你母亲蒙羞。

31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”

31 只要耶西的儿子活在世上，你和你的王位就不得安稳。你派人把他抓到我这里，他非死不可。”

32 “Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”

32 约拿单问：“为什么要杀他？他做了什么？”

33 Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

33 扫罗气得把矛掷向约拿单，想要杀他。约拿单知道父亲决意要杀大卫。

34 Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.

34 他怒气冲冲地离席，整天不肯进食，因为他看见父亲如此卑劣地对待大卫，心里非常难过。

35 In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.

35 第二天早晨，约拿单按照和大卫的约定带着一个少年来到田野。

36 He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.

36 约拿单对少年说：“你跑去把我射的箭拾回来。”少年就向前跑去，约拿单把箭射在他前面。

37 When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”

37 少年跑到落箭之处的时候，约拿单就大声叫道：“箭不是在你前面吗？

38 Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

38 快快去，不要耽延。”少年连忙把箭拾起来，回到主人那里。

39 But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.

39 他不知道主人的用意，只有约拿单和大卫知道。

40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”

40 约拿单把弓箭交给那少年，吩咐他带回城中。

41 When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

41 少年离开以后，大卫就从磐石南面出来，伏地拜了三拜。二人彼此亲吻，抱头痛哭，大卫更是泣不成声。

42 And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.

42 约拿单说：“我们已凭耶和华的名起誓，有耶和华在你我和你我的子孙之间永远为我们的盟约作证，你就安心去吧。”大卫便起身离开，约拿单也回城去了。