撒母耳记上 20
1 大卫从拉玛的拿约逃跑，来到约拿单那里，对他说：“我做了什么？有什么罪孽呢？在你父亲面前犯了什么罪，他竟寻索我的性命呢？”
Then David fled from the dwellings at Ramah, and came before Jonathan and said, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
2 约拿单回答说：“断然不是！你必不致死。我父做事，无论大小，没有不叫我知道的。怎么独有这事隐瞒我呢？决不如此。”
He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Look, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."
3 大卫又起誓说：“你父亲准知我在你眼前蒙恩。他心里说，不如不叫约拿单知道，恐怕他愁烦。我指着永生的耶和华，又敢在你面前起誓，我离死不过一步。”
And David answered and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
4 约拿单对大卫说：“你心里所求的，我必为你成就。”
Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will do for you."
5 大卫对约拿单说：“明日是初一，我当与王同席，求你容我去藏在田野，直到第三日晚上。
So David said to Jonathan, "Look, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. Instead, let me go so that I may hide myself in the field until evening.
6 你父亲若见我不在席上，你就说：‘大卫切求我许他回本城伯利恒去，因为他全家在那里献年祭。’
If your father missed me at all, then say, 'David urgently requested of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city, for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
7 你父亲若说好，仆人就平安了；他若发怒，你就知道他决意要害我。
If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
8 求你施恩与仆人，因你在耶和华面前曾与仆人结盟。我若有罪，不如你自己杀我，何必将我交给你父亲呢？”
Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you: but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"
9 约拿单说：“断无此事！我若知道我父亲决意害你，我岂不告诉你呢？”
Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?"
10 大卫对约拿单说：“你父亲若用厉言回答你，谁来告诉我呢？”
Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?"
11 约拿单对大卫说：“你我且往田野去。”二人就往田野去了。
Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field.
12 约拿单对大卫说：“愿耶和华—以色列的 神为证。明日约在这时候，或第三日，我探我父亲的意思，若向你有好意，我岂不打发人告诉你吗？
Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, is witness. When I have studied my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, look, if there is good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?
13 我父亲若有意害你，我不告诉你使你平平安安地走，愿耶和华重重地降罚与我。愿耶和华与你同在，如同从前与我父亲同在一样。
But should it please my father to do you harm, God do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not let you know and send you away, that you may go in safety. And may the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.
14 你要照耶和华的慈爱恩待我，不但我活着的时候免我死亡，
And if I am still alive, deal loyally with me. But if I die,
15 就是我死后，耶和华从地上剪除你仇敌的时候，你也永不可向我家绝了恩惠。”
do not cut off your loyalty from my house forever. And when the LORD cuts off the enemies of David, each one from the face of the earth,
16 于是约拿单与大卫家结盟，说：“愿耶和华借大卫的仇敌追讨背约的罪。”
if the name of Jonathan be cut off from the house of David, then may the LORD require it at the hand of the enemies of David."
17 约拿单因爱大卫如同爱自己的性命，就使他再起誓。
And Jonathan swore to David again, because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
18 约拿单对他说：“明日是初一，你的座位空设，人必理会你不在那里。
Then Jonathan said, "Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
19 你等三日，就要速速下去，到你从前遇事所藏的地方，在以色磐石那里等候。
On the third day you should go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and stay by that mound.
20 我要向磐石旁边射三箭，如同射箭靶一样。
And as for me, on the third day I will shoot arrows to its side, aiming it toward a target.
21 我要打发童子，说：‘去把箭找来。’我若对童子说：‘箭在后头，把箭拿来’，你就可以回来；我指着永生的耶和华起誓，你必平安无事。
Look, I will send the boy, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I tell the boy, 'Look, the arrow is on this side of you. Take it;' then come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as the LORD lives.
22 我若对童子说：‘箭在前头’，你就要去，因为是耶和华打发你去的。
But if I say this to the boy, 'Look, the arrow is beyond you;' then go your way; for the LORD has sent you away.
23 至于你我今日所说的话，有耶和华在你我中间为证，直到永远。”
Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, look, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever."
24 大卫就去藏在田野。到了初一日，王坐席要吃饭。
So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon had come, the king sat at the table to eat.
25 王照常坐在靠墙的位上，约拿单侍立，押尼珥坐在扫罗旁边，大卫的座位空设。
The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.
26 然而这日扫罗没有说什么，他想大卫遇事，偶染不洁，他必定是不洁。
Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day: for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean."
27 初二日大卫的座位还空设。扫罗问他儿子约拿单说：“耶西的儿子为何昨日、今日没有来吃饭呢？”
It happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David's place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why hasn't the son of Jesse come to the table, either yesterday or today?"
28 约拿单回答扫罗说：“大卫切求我容他往伯利恒去。
Jonathan answered Saul, and said, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.
29 他说：‘求你容我去，因为我家在城里有献祭的事；我长兄吩咐我去。如今我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你容我去见我的弟兄’；所以大卫没有赴王的席。”
He said, 'Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. And as for me, my brothers have ordered me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the king's table."
30 扫罗向约拿单发怒，对他说：“你这顽梗背逆之妇人所生的，我岂不知道你喜悦耶西的儿子，自取羞辱，以致你母亲露体蒙羞吗？
Then Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a rebellious slave girl, don't I know that you are the companion of the son of Jesse, to your own disgrace, and to the disgrace of your mother's nakedness?
31 耶西的儿子若在世间活着，你和你的国位必站立不住。现在你要打发人去，将他捉拿交给我；他是该死的。”
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, your kingdom will not be established. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die."
32 约拿单对父亲扫罗说：“他为什么该死呢？他做了什么呢？”
But Jonathan answered Saul, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
33 扫罗向约拿单抡枪要刺他，约拿单就知道他父亲决意要杀大卫。
Then Saul raised his spear at him to strike him, and Jonathan realized that this evil from his father to kill David was determined.
34 于是约拿单气忿忿地从席上起来，在这初二日没有吃饭。他因见父亲羞辱大卫，就为大卫愁烦。
So Jonathan sprang up from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had dishonored him.
35 次日早晨，约拿单按着与大卫约会的时候出到田野，有一个童子跟随。
It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
36 约拿单对童子说：“你跑去，把我所射的箭找来。”童子跑去，约拿单就把箭射在童子前头。
He said to the boy, "Run, find now the arrows which I shoot." And as the boy ran, he shot an arrow, causing it to pass beyond, toward the city.
37 童子到了约拿单落箭之地，约拿单呼叫童子说：“箭不是在你前头吗？”
When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the youth, and said, "Isn't the arrow beyond you?"
38 约拿单又呼叫童子说：“速速地去，不要迟延！”童子就拾起箭来，回到主人那里。
Jonathan cried after the boy, "Go fast. Hurry. Do not delay." Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39 童子却不知道这是什么意思，只有约拿单和大卫知道。
But the boy did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40 约拿单将弓箭交给童子，吩咐说：“你拿到城里去。”
Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, "Go, carry them to the city."
41 童子一去，大卫就从磐石的南边出来，俯伏在地，拜了三拜；二人亲嘴，彼此哭泣，大卫哭得更恸。
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose from beside the mound, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.
42 约拿单对大卫说：“我们二人曾指着耶和华的名起誓说：‘愿耶和华在你我中间，并你我后裔中间为证，直到永远。’如今你平平安安地去吧！”大卫就起身走了；约拿单也回城里去了。
Then Jonathan said, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, 'The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants, forever.'" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.
