撒母耳記上 29

1 非利士人將他們的軍旅聚到亞弗；以色列人在耶斯列的泉旁安營。

Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek, and the Israelites encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.

2 非利士人的首領各率軍隊，或百或千，挨次前進；大衛和跟隨他的人同着亞吉跟在後邊。

And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands, and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

3 非利士人的首領說：「這些希伯來人在這裏做甚麼呢？」亞吉對他們說：「這不是以色列王掃羅的臣子大衛嗎？他在我這裏有些年日了。自從他投降我直到今日，我未曾見他有過錯。」

Then the rulers of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews? And Achish said to the rulers of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to me to this day?

4 非利士人的首領向亞吉發怒，對他說：「你要叫這人回你所安置他的地方，不可叫他同我們出戰，恐怕他在陣上反為我們的敵人。他用甚麼與他主人復和呢？豈不是用我們這些人的首級嗎？

But the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him. And the rulers of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what does this man reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of these men?

5 從前以色列的婦女跳舞唱和說：『掃羅殺死千千，大衛殺死萬萬』，所說的不是這個大衛嗎？」

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands?

6 亞吉叫大衛來，對他說：「我指着永生的耶和華起誓，你是正直人。你隨我在軍中出入，我看你甚好。自從你投奔我到如今，我未曾見你有甚麼過失；只是眾首領不喜悅你。

Then Achish called David, and said to him, As Jehovah lives, thou have been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the army is good in my sight, for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming to me to this day. Nevertheless the lords do not favor thee.

7 現在你可以平平安安地回去，免得非利士人的首領不歡喜你。」

Therefore now return, and go in peace, that thou not displease the lords of the Philistines.

8 大衛對亞吉說：「我做了甚麼呢？自從僕人到你面前，直到今日，你查出我有甚麼過錯，使我不去攻擊主－我王的仇敵呢？」

And David said to Achish, But what have I done? And what have thou found in thy servant so long as I have been before thee to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

9 亞吉說：「我知道你在我眼前是好人，如同上帝的使者一般；只是非利士人的首領說：『這人不可同我們出戰。』

And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou are good in my sight, as an agent of God, notwithstanding the rulers of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

10 故此你和跟隨你的人，就是你本主的僕人，要明日早晨起來，等到天亮回去吧！」

Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of thy lord who have come with thee, and as soon as ye are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

11 於是大衛和跟隨他的人早晨起來，回往非利士地去。非利士人也上耶斯列去了。

So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.