撒母耳記上 22

1 達味離開，逃到了阿杜藍山洞；他的兄弟和父親全家聽說這事，都來到他那裡。

David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

2 凡受迫害、負債。心中憂苦的人，都投奔到他，他便成了他們的首領；此時隨從他的約有四百人。

Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

3 達味從那裏來到摩阿布的米茲帕，對摩阿布王說：「求你讓我父母來你這裏，直到我明白天主對我有什麼計劃為止」。

David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother stay with you, until I know what God will do for me."

4 達味把他們留在王那裏：達味在山裏住了多久，他們也住了多久。

He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

5 加得先知對達味說：「你不要在這山塞裏，你要到猶大地方去! 」達味就去了，來到赫勒達樹林。

The prophet Gad said to David, "Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

6 一日，撒烏耳正坐在基貝亞高處的一棵檉柳下，手裏著槍，他的臣僕都侍立左右，聽說達味和跟隨他的人已聯合起來，

Saul heard that David had been discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree at the high place, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

7 遂對侍立他左右的人說：「本雅明的子孫，你們聽：難道若瑟的兒子也要賜給你們每人莊田和葡萄園，或把你們者立為千夫長或百夫長，

And he said to them, "Hear now, you Benjamites. Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

8 好使你們都同謀來陷害我﹖我的兒子和葉的兒子結盟，誰也沒有告訴我；我的兒子煽動我的臣僕來反對我，仇視我，像今日一像，你們中沒有一個人憐恤 ，來通知我! 」

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

9 作撒烏耳臣僕之長的厄東厄格就答說：「我看見葉瑟的兒子到過諾布，去阿希突布的兒子阿希默肋客。

Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

10 他為達味求問了上主，給了他食物，也把尸人哥肋雅的刀給了他」。

He inquired of God for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

11 君王遂派人去叫阿希突布的兒子，大司祭阿希默肋客和父親全家，即諾布所有的司祭；他們來到君王面前，

Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the cohen, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the cohanim who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

12 撒烏耳說：「阿希突布是兒子，你聽! 」他答說：「是，我主! 」

Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

13 撒烏耳對他說：「你為什麼和葉瑟的兒子同謀陷害我，給他食物和刀劍，為他求問天主，使他起來反對我，仇視我，像今一樣﹖」

Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

14 阿希默肋客答覆君王說：「在你的臣僕中，有誰如達味那樣忠實可靠呢﹖他是大王的女婿，又是護衛長，在你朝庭中是最受重視的人。

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and a commander over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

15 難道我是今天才開始為他求問天主嗎﹖決不是! 請大王不要加害自己的僕人和我父全家，因為你僕人一點也王知道這事。

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me. Do not let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

16 王說：「阿希默肋客，你和你父親全家都得死!」

The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

17 王遂吩咐立在他左右的侍衛說：「你們過去，殺死上主的司祭! 因為他們與達味攜手，知道他逃跑，卻不來告訴我」。但是君王的臣僕不敢下手殺上主的司祭。

The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the cohanim of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the cohanim of the LORD.

18 王遂對多厄格說：「你過去殺死司祭! 」厄東人多厄格就過去殺死了司祭。那一天他殺死了八十五位身穿細麻「厄弗得」的人。

The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the cohanim." Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the cohanim, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

19 至於那座諾布司祭城，無論男女、幼童或乳兒，甚至連的牛、驢、羊都用利劍殺盡。

He struck Nob, the city of the cohanim, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep.

20 阿希突布之子阿希默肋客的一個兒子，名叫厄貝雅塔爾的，脫險跑到了達味那裏。

One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

21 厄貝雅塔爾告訴達味，撒烏耳殺了上主的司祭。

Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the LORD's cohanim.

22 達味對厄貝雅塔爾說：「那一天我已知道，因為厄東人多厄格在那裏，他必要向撒烏耳報告；你父全家的性命，我全負責。

David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for all the lives of your father's house.

23 你住在我這裏，不要害怕；誰想謀害你，就是謀害我；你同我一起必得安全」。

Stay with me, do not be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard."