2 Samuel 19

1 Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

1 有人告诉约押，说：“王在为押沙龙哀伤痛哭。”

2 And 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 士兵们听说王为押沙龙哀痛，胜利的欢腾顿时变为一片哀愁。

3 So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.

3 那一天，众人都静悄悄地回城去，好像败兵一样羞愧。

4 But 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 王仍掩面痛哭：“我儿押沙龙啊！押沙龙！我儿！我儿啊！”

5 Then 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 约押就进到屋里，对王说：“你的仆人们救了你和你妻妾儿女的性命，你今天却使他们感到羞愧。

6 You 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 仇视你的人，你倒去爱他；那些爱你的人，你反憎恶他们。这表明我王的心中根本没有我们这些将领和部下。如今我明白了，要是死去的不是押沙龙而是我们，你就高兴了。

7 Now 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 你现在应该出去安抚士兵们。我凭耶和华起誓，如果你不这样做，今晚必无一人再追随你。那将是你一生所遭遇的最大灾难！”

8 So 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 于是王出去坐在城门口，众人听说后，都来到他面前。这时，跟随押沙龙的以色列人都各自逃回家去了。

9 And 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 以色列各支派的人都在纷纷议论：“王曾把我们从众仇敌和非利士人手中救出来。如今他为了躲避押沙龙而逃离本国。

10 But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”

10 我们膏立为王的押沙龙已经死了，为什么无人说请王回来呢？”

11 Then 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 大卫王派人去对祭司撒督和亚比亚他说：“你们去问犹大的长老，‘全以色列已经准备迎接王回宫，你们为什么迟迟没有反应？

12 You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

12 你们是王的弟兄，是王的骨肉，为什么迟迟没有迎接王回宫？’

13 And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

13 你们也要对亚玛撒说，‘你是我的骨肉，要是我不立你为元帅取代约押，愿上帝重重地处罚我。’”

14 So 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 王的这番话打动了所有犹大人的心，他们派人去请王和王的臣仆回来。

15 So 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 王便启程回宫。他来到约旦河时，犹大人都到吉甲来迎接他，要护送他过河。

16 Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,

16 来自巴户琳的便雅悯人基拉的儿子示每也急忙跟着犹大人赶来迎接大卫王，

17 along 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 有一千便雅悯人跟示每一起去迎接大卫王。扫罗的仆人洗巴带着十五个儿子和二十个仆人也赶到约旦河。

18 and 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 他们渡到河对面帮助王的家眷过河，为王效劳。王正要过河的时候，基拉的儿子示每就俯伏在他面前，

19 and 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 说：“求我主饶恕仆人的罪过！仆人在我主我王离开耶路撒冷时所犯的罪，求我王不要记在心上。

20 For 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 仆人自知有罪，所以今天我是整个约瑟家族中第一个迎接我主我王的人。”

21 But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”

21 洗鲁雅的儿子亚比筛说：“示每曾经咒骂耶和华所膏立的君王，难道不应该处死他吗？”

22 And 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 大卫说：“洗鲁雅的儿子，不要管我的事。你今天是在跟我作对。今天在以色列怎么可以处死人呢？难道我不知道今天我是以色列的王吗？”

23 So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.

23 于是大卫起誓不杀示每。

24 Then 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 扫罗的孙子米非波设也来迎接王。从王离开那天，直到大卫平安回来之日，他没有修过脚，没有剃过胡子，也没有洗过衣服。

25 And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”

25 他到耶路撒冷来迎接王，王问他：“米非波设，当时你为什么不跟我一起走呢？”

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 米非波设答道：“我主我王，我是瘸腿的，我本想预备一头驴骑着与我王同去，是我的仆人洗巴欺骗了我。

27 and 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 他在我主我王面前毁谤我。我主我王就像上帝的天使，请王定夺。

28 For 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 我父全家在我主我王面前都是该死的，但王却让我与王同席吃饭，我还能向王要求什么呢？”

29 The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

29 王对他说：“不要再提这事了，我决定让你和洗巴平分土地。”

30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”

30 米非波设说：“把土地都给他吧，我主我王平安地回来就好了。”

31 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.

31 基列人巴西莱也从罗基琳下来护送王过约旦河，然后送王上路。

32 Barzillai 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 那时，巴西莱已经是八十高龄了。王留在玛哈念的时候，他曾供应王食物，因为他非常富有。

33 The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”

33 王对巴西莱说：“你跟我一同回耶路撒冷，我会照顾你。”

34 But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

34 巴西莱说：“我何必跟王一同去耶路撒冷呢？我还能活多久呢？

35 I 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 我已经八十岁了，美丑难分，食不知味，乐不辨音，何必为我主我王添麻烦呢？

36 Your servant will go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?

36 仆人只不过是陪王过约旦河，王何必给我这么大的赏赐呢？

37 Please 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 请准我回去，我好死在故乡，葬在父母的墓旁。这里有王的仆人金罕，让他跟我主我王一起去。你看怎么好，就怎么对待他吧。”

38 The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”

38 王说：“金罕可以跟我去，我会照你的心愿待他。无论你有什么要求，我都会答应你。”

39 So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.

39 王和众人过了约旦河以后，就亲吻巴西莱，为他祝福。巴西莱返回了家乡。

40 Then the king crossed over to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.

40 王过河后，来到吉甲，金罕跟随着他。护送王的有犹大的士兵和半数的以色列士兵。

41 Soon 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 后来，所有的以色列人来见王，说：“为什么我们的弟兄犹大人偷偷地送王、王的家眷和王的部下渡河？”

42 And 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 犹大人答道：“我们这样做是因为王是我们的亲族。你们为什么生气呢？难道我们吃了王的供应，得了什么礼物吗？”

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 spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.

43 以色列人说：“但我们和王有十份的情分，我们在大卫身上比你们更有份。你们为什么轻视我们？难道不是我们首先提出要请王回来的吗？” 但犹大人的态度比以色列人还要强硬。