1 Samuel 30
1 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;
第三日，大卫和跟随他的人到了洗革拉。亚玛力人已经侵夺南地，攻破洗革拉，用火焚烧，
2 And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.
掳了城内的妇女和其中的大小人口，却没有杀一个，都带着走了。
3 And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.
大卫和跟随他的人到了那城，不料，城已烧毁，他们的妻子儿女都被掳去了。
4 Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.
大卫和跟随他的人就放声大哭，直哭得没有气力。
5 And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.
大卫的两个妻—耶斯列人亚希暖和作过拿八妻的迦密人亚比该，也被掳去了。
6 And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.
大卫甚是焦急，因众人为自己的儿女苦恼，说：“要用石头打死他。”大卫却倚靠耶和华—他的 神，心里坚固。
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David.
大卫对亚希米勒的儿子祭司亚比亚他说：“请你将以弗得拿过来。”亚比亚他就将以弗得拿到大卫面前。
8 Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.
大卫求问耶和华说：“我追赶敌军，追得上追不上呢？”耶和华说：“你可以追，必追得上，都救得回来。”
9 So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.
于是，大卫和跟随他的六百人来到比梭溪；有不能前去的就留在那里。
10 And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.
大卫却带着四百人往前追赶，有二百人疲乏，不能过比梭溪，所以留在那里。
11 And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;
这四百人在田野遇见一个埃及人，就带他到大卫面前，给他饼吃，给他水喝，
12 And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.
又给他一块无花果饼，两个葡萄饼。他吃了，就精神复原；因为他三日三夜没有吃饼，没有喝水。
13 And David said to him, Whose man are you and where do you come from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master went on without me because three days back I became ill.
大卫问他说：“你是属谁的？你是哪里的人？”他回答说：“我是埃及的少年人，是亚玛力人的奴仆；因我三日前患病，我主人就把我撇弃了。
14 We made an attack on the south part of the country of the Cherethites, and on the land which is Judah's, and on the south of Caleb; and we put Ziklag on fire.
我们侵夺了基利提的南方和属犹大的地，并迦勒地的南方，又用火烧了洗革拉。”
15 And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.
大卫问他说：“你肯领我们到敌军那里不肯？”他回答说：“你要向我指着 神起誓，不杀我，也不将我交在我主人手里，我就领你下到敌军那里。”
16 And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
那人领大卫下去，见他们散在地上，吃喝跳舞，因为从非利士地和犹大地所掳来的财物甚多。
17 And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.
大卫从黎明直到次日晚上，击杀他们，除了四百骑骆驼的少年人之外，没有一个逃脱的。
18 And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.
亚玛力人所掳去的财物，大卫全都夺回，并救回他的两个妻来。
19 There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.
凡亚玛力人所掳去的，无论大小、儿女、财物，大卫都夺回来，没有失落一个。
20 And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.
大卫所夺来的牛群羊群，跟随他的人赶在原有的群畜前边，说：“这是大卫的掠物。”
21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?
大卫到了那疲乏不能跟随、留在比梭溪的二百人那里。他们出来迎接大卫并跟随的人。大卫前来问他们安。
22 Then the bad and good-for-nothing men among those who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the goods which we have got back, but only to every man his wife and children, so that he may take them and go.
跟随大卫人中的恶人和匪类说：“这些人既然没有和我们同去，我们所夺的财物就不分给他们，只将他们各人的妻子儿女给他们，使他们带去就是了。”
23 Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.
大卫说：“弟兄们，耶和华所赐给我们的，不可不分给他们；因为他保佑我们，将那攻击我们的敌军交在我们手里。
24 Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.
这事谁肯依从你们呢？上阵的得多少，看守器具的也得多少；应当大家平分。”
25 And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.
大卫定此为以色列的律例典章，从那日直到今日。
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;
大卫到了洗革拉，从掠物中取些送给他朋友犹大的长老，说：“这是从耶和华仇敌那里夺来的，送你们为礼物。”
27 He sent to those who were in Beth-el, and in Ramah of the South, and in Jattir;
他送礼物给住伯特利的，南地拉末的，雅提珥的；
28 And to those in Arara and Eshtemoa
住亚罗珥的，息末的，以实提莫的；
29 and Carmel and in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, and in the towns of the Kenites;
住拉哈勒的，耶拉篾各城的，基尼各城的；
30 And to those who were in Hormah and in Bor-ashan and in Athach;
住何珥玛的，歌拉珊的，亚挞的；
31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.
住希伯 的，并大卫和跟随他的人素来所到之处的人。
