2 Samuel 12
1 And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.
耶和华差遣拿单去见大卫。拿单到了大卫那里，对他说：“在一座城里有两个人：一个是富户，一个是穷人。
2 The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;
富户有许多牛群羊群；
3 But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
穷人除了所买来养活的一只小母羊羔之外，别无所有。羊羔在他家里和他儿女一同长大，吃他所吃的，喝他所喝的，睡在他怀中，在他看来如同女儿一样。
4 Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.
有一客人来到这富户家里；富户舍不得从自己的牛群羊群中取一只预备给客人吃，却取了那穷人的羊羔，预备给客人吃。”
5 And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:
大卫就甚恼怒那人，对拿单说：“我指着永生的耶和华起誓，行这事的人该死！
6 And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.
他必偿还羊羔四倍；因为他行这事，没有怜恤的心。”
7 And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;
拿单对大卫说：“你就是那人！耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：‘我膏你作以色列的王，救你脱离扫罗的手。
8 I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.
我将你主人的家业赐给你，将你主人的妻交在你怀里，又将以色列和犹大家赐给你；你若还以为不足，我早就加倍地赐给你。
9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
你为什么藐视耶和华的命令，行他眼中看为恶的事呢？你借亚扪人的刀杀害赫人乌利亚，又娶了他的妻为妻。
10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
你既藐视我，娶了赫人乌利亚的妻为妻，所以刀剑必永不离开你的家。’
11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
耶和华如此说：‘我必从你家中兴起祸患攻击你；我必在你眼前把你的妃嫔赐给别人，他在日光之下就与她们同寝。
12 You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
你在暗中行这事，我却要在以色列众人面前，日光之下，报应你。’”
13 And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
大卫对拿单说：“我得罪耶和华了！”拿单说：“耶和华已经除掉你的罪，你必不至于死。
14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
只是你行这事，叫耶和华的仇敌大得亵渎的机会，故此，你所得的孩子必定要死。”
15 Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.
拿单就回家去了。 耶和华击打乌利亚妻给大卫所生的孩子，使他得重病。
16 So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.
所以大卫为这孩子恳求 神，而且禁食，进入内室，终夜躺在地上。
17 And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.
他家中的老臣来到他旁边，要把他从地上扶起来，他却不肯起来，也不同他们吃饭。
18 And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?
到第七日，孩子死了。大卫的臣仆不敢告诉他孩子死了，因他们说：“孩子还活着的时候，我们劝他，他尚且不肯听我们的话，若告诉他孩子死了，岂不更加忧伤吗？”
19 But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.
大卫见臣仆彼此低声说话，就知道孩子死了，问臣仆说：“孩子死了吗？”他们说：“死了。”
20 Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.
大卫就从地上起来，沐浴，抹膏，换了衣裳，进耶和华的殿敬拜；然后回宫，吩咐人摆饭，他便吃了。
21 Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.
臣仆问他说：“你所行的是什么意思？孩子活着的时候，你禁食哭泣；孩子死了，你倒起来吃饭。”
22 And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?
大卫说：“孩子还活着，我禁食哭泣；因为我想，或者耶和华怜恤我，使孩子不死也未可知。
23 But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.
孩子死了，我何必禁食，我岂能使他返回呢？我必往他那里去，他却不能回我这里来。”
24 And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.
大卫安慰他的妻拔示巴，与她同寝，她就生了儿子，给他起名叫所罗门。耶和华也喜爱他，
25 And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.
就借先知拿单赐他一个名字，叫耶底底亚，因为耶和华爱他。
26 Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.
约押攻取亚扪人的京城拉巴。
27 And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.
约押打发使者去见大卫，说：“我攻打拉巴，取其水城。
28 So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.
现在你要聚集其余的军兵来，安营围攻这城，恐怕我取了这城，人就以我的名叫这城。”
29 Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.
于是大卫聚集众军，往拉巴去攻城，就取了这城，
30 And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.
夺了亚扪人之王所戴的金冠冕，其上的金子重一他连得，又嵌着宝石。人将这冠冕戴在大卫头上。大卫从城里夺了许多财物，
31 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
将城里的人拉出来，放在锯下，或铁耙下，或铁斧下，或叫他经过砖窑；大卫待亚扪各城的居民都是如此。其后，大卫和众军都回耶路撒冷去了。
