1 Samuel 17
1 The Philistine armies gathered for battle at Socoh in Judah. They set up camp between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.
非利士人招聚他們的軍旅，要來爭戰；聚集在屬猶大的梭哥，安營在梭哥和亞西加中間的以弗‧大憫。
2 Saul and the Israelites gathered and camped in the Valley of Elah and took up their positions to engage in battle with the Philistines.
掃羅和以色列人也聚集，在以拉谷安營，擺列隊伍，要與非利士人打仗。
3 The Philistines were on one hill and the Israelites on another with the valley between them.
非利士人站在這邊山上，以色列人站在那邊山上，當中有谷。
4 Then a champion came out of the Philistine camp. His name was Goliath from Gath, and he was six cubits and a span tall.
從非利士營中出來一個討戰的人，名叫歌利亞，是迦特人，身高六肘零一虎口；
5 He had on his head a bronze helmet and he wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels.
頭戴銅盔，身穿鎧甲，甲重五千舍客勒；
6 On his legs he wore bronze armor, and he carried a javelin slung between his shoulders.
腿上有銅護膝，兩肩之中背負銅戟；
7 The shaft of his spear was as thick as weaver's beam, with an iron tip that weighed six hundred shekels. His shield-bearer walked ahead of him carrying his shield.
槍桿粗如織布的機軸，鐵槍頭重六百舍客勒。有一個拿盾牌的人在他前面走。
8 Goliath stood and shouted at the lines of Israelite soldiers, “Why have you come and lined for battle? I am the Philistine, and you're Saul's servants. Pick one of your men and have him come down and fight me.
歌利亞對着以色列的軍隊站立，呼叫說：「你們出來擺列隊伍做甚麼呢？我不是非利士人嗎？你們不是掃羅的僕人嗎？可以從你們中間揀選一人，使他下到我這裏來。
9 If he can fight me and kill me, then we will be your slaves. But if I beat him and kill him, then you'll be our slaves and work for us.”
他若能與我戰鬥，將我殺死，我們就作你們的僕人；我若勝了他，將他殺死，你們就作我們的僕人，服事我們。」
10 Then the Philistine said, “I mock the battle lines of Israel today! Give me a man so we can fight each other!”
那非利士人又說：「我今日向以色列人的軍隊罵陣。你們叫一個人出來，與我戰鬥。」
11 Saul and all the Israelite soldiers were shattered and absolutely terrified when they heard what the Philistine said.
掃羅和以色列眾人聽見非利士人的這些話，就驚惶，極其害怕。
12 David was the son of a man named Jesse. He was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. At the time Saul was king, Jesse was very old.
大衛是猶大伯利恆的以法他人耶西的兒子。耶西有八個兒子。當掃羅的時候，耶西已經老邁。
13 Jesse's three oldest sons had joined Saul's army war. These were Eliab (the firstborn), Abinadab (second), and Shammah (third).
耶西的三個大兒子跟隨掃羅出征。這出征的三個兒子：長子名叫以利押，次子名叫亞比拿達，三子名叫沙瑪。
14 David was the youngest. The three oldest were with Saul,
大衛是最小的；那三個大兒子跟隨掃羅。
15 while David went to Saul and then back again to look after his father's sheep.
大衛有時離開掃羅，回伯利恆放他父親的羊。
16 Every morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came out to take his stand.
那非利士人早晚都出來站着，如此四十日。
17 Jesse told his son David, “Please take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers. Take them quickly to your brothers' camp.
一日，耶西對他兒子大衛說：「你拿一伊法烘了的穗子和十個餅，速速地送到營裏去，交給你哥哥們；
18 Take these ten cheese pieces to their commander. Check carefully to see how your brothers are doing and bring back their news.”
再拿這十塊奶餅，送給他們的千夫長，且問你哥哥們好，向他們要一封信來。」
19 They were with Saul and the whole Israelite army in the Valley of Elah, fighting the Philistines.
掃羅與大衛的三個哥哥和以色列眾人，在以拉谷與非利士人打仗。
20 David got up early in the morning and left the flock with a shepherd. He took the supplies and set out as Jesse had told him to. He arrived at the camp just as the army was marching out to its battle line, shouting the war cry.
大衛早晨起來，將羊交託一個看守的人，照着他父親所吩咐的話，帶着食物去了。到了輜重營，軍兵剛出到戰場，吶喊要戰。
21 The Israelites took up their battle line and the Philistines took up their battle line on the opposite side.
以色列人和非利士人都擺列隊伍，彼此相對。
22 David left his supplies with the one responsible and ran to the battle line. When he got there he asked his brothers how they were.
大衛把他帶來的食物留在看守物件人的手下，跑到戰場，問他哥哥們安。
23 While he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, came up out of his lines and shouted his challenge as he had before, and David heard what he said.
與他們說話的時候，那討戰的，就是屬迦特的非利士人歌利亞，從非利士隊中出來，說從前所說的話；大衛都聽見了。
24 All the Israelite soldiers ran away when they saw him because they were terribly afraid.
以色列眾人看見那人，就逃跑，極其害怕。
25 “Have you seen this man who keeps on coming out to mock Israel?” they asked. “The king will make the man who kills him really rich. He will also give him his daughter in marriage, and his family will live tax-free in Israel.”
以色列人彼此說：「這上來的人你看見了嗎？他上來是要向以色列人罵陣。若有能殺他的，王必賞賜他大財，將自己的女兒給他為妻，並在以色列人中免他父家納糧當差。」
26 David asked the men who were standing beside him, “What will the man receive who kills this Philistine and removes this shame from Israel? Who does this heathen Philistine think he is, mocking the armies of the living God?”
大衛問站在旁邊的人說：「有人殺這非利士人，除掉以色列人的恥辱，怎樣待他呢？這未受割禮的非利士人是誰呢？竟敢向永生上帝的軍隊罵陣嗎？」
27 The soldiers repeated what they had said, telling him, “This is what the man who kills him will receive.”
百姓照先前的話回答他說：「有人能殺這非利士人，必如此如此待他。」
28 When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him talking with the men, he got angry with him. “What are you doing here?” he asked. “Who have you left those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know how proud and wicked you are! You've just come to watch the battle!”
大衛的長兄以利押聽見大衛與他們所說的話，就向他發怒，說：「你下來做甚麼呢？在曠野的那幾隻羊，你交託了誰呢？我知道你的驕傲和你心裏的惡意，你下來特為要看爭戰！」
29 “What have I done now?” David asked. “Can't I even ask a question?”
大衛說：「我做了甚麼呢？我來豈沒有緣故嗎？」
30 He went over to some others and asked the same question, and they gave the same answer as before.
大衛就離開他轉向別人，照先前的話而問；百姓仍照先前的話回答他。
31 Someone overheard what David said and reported it to Saul who sent for him.
有人聽見大衛所說的話，就告訴了掃羅；掃羅便打發人叫他來。
32 David told Saul, “No one should lose heart because of this Philistine. I, your servant, will go and fight him!”
大衛對掃羅說：「人都不必因那非利士人膽怯。你的僕人要去與那非利士人戰鬥。」
33 “You can't go out and fight this Philistine,” Saul replied. “You're just a boy, and he's a warrior trained from his youth.”
掃羅對大衛說：「你不能去與那非利士人戰鬥；因為你年紀太輕，他自幼就作戰士。」
34 David replied, “Your servant has been looking after his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,
大衛對掃羅說：「你僕人為父親放羊，有時來了獅子，有時來了熊，從群中啣一隻羊羔去。
35 I would chase after it, knock it down, and save the lamb from its mouth. If it turned to attack me, I would grab its hair, hit it, and kill it.
我就追趕牠，擊打牠，將羊羔從牠口中救出來。牠起來要害我，我就揪着牠的鬍子，將牠打死。
36 I have killed lions and bears, and this heathen Philistine will be just like one of them, for he has mocked the armies of the living God.”
你僕人曾打死獅子和熊，這未受割禮的非利士人向永生上帝的軍隊罵陣，也必像獅子和熊一般。」
37 David concluded, “The Lord who saved me from the claws of the lion and the bear will save me from this Philistine.” “Go, and may the Lord be with you,” Saul responded.
大衛又說：「耶和華救我脫離獅子和熊的爪，也必救我脫離這非利士人的手。」掃羅對大衛說：「你可以去吧！耶和華必與你同在。」
38 Saul gave David his own battle clothes to wear, placed a bronze helmet on his head, and put armor on him.
掃羅就把自己的戰衣給大衛穿上，將銅盔給他戴上，又給他穿上鎧甲。
39 David strapped his sword on over the armor but he couldn't walk because he wasn't used to it. “I can't walk in all this,” David told Saul. “I ‘m not used to it.” So David took all the armor off.
大衛把刀跨在戰衣外，試試能走不能走；因為素來沒有穿慣，就對掃羅說：「我穿戴這些不能走，因為素來沒有穿慣。」於是摘脫了。
40 He picked up his stick, chose five smooth stones from the stream, and put them in his shepherd's bag. Carrying his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.
他手中拿杖，又在溪中挑選了五塊光滑石子，放在袋裏，就是牧人帶的囊裏；手中拿着甩石的機弦，就去迎那非利士人。
41 The Philistine came towards David, closer and closer, with his shield-bearer in front of him.
非利士人也漸漸地迎着大衛來，拿盾牌的走在前頭。
42 When the Philistine looked closely he could see that David was just a red-faced handsome youth, and so he treated David with contempt.
非利士人觀看，見了大衛，就藐視他；因為他年輕，面色光紅，容貌俊美。
43 “Do you think I'm a dog, coming to fight me with a stick?” the Philistine asked David, and he cursed David by his gods.
非利士人對大衛說：「你拿杖到我這裏來，我豈是狗呢？」非利士人就指着自己的神咒詛大衛。
44 Then the Philistine shouted at David, “Come over here, and I'll feed your flesh to the birds and the wild animals.”
非利士人又對大衛說：「來吧！我將你的肉給空中的飛鳥、田野的走獸吃。」
45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to attack me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin. But I come to attack you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel—the one you have mocked.
大衛對非利士人說：「你來攻擊我，是靠着刀槍和銅戟；我來攻擊你，是靠着萬軍之耶和華的名，就是你所怒罵帶領以色列軍隊的上帝。
46 Today the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the dead bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and the wild animals. Then all the world will know that there is a God who acts for Israel.
今日耶和華必將你交在我手裏。我必殺你，斬你的頭，又將非利士軍兵的屍首給空中的飛鳥、地上的野獸吃，使普天下的人都知道以色列中有上帝；
47 Everyone gathered here will realize that the Lord saves, but not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will hand all of you over to us.”
又使這眾人知道耶和華使人得勝，不是用刀用槍，因為爭戰的勝敗全在乎耶和華。他必將你們交在我們手裏。」
48 As the Philistine moved forward to attack him, David raced toward the battle line to confront him.
非利士人起身，迎着大衛前來。大衛急忙迎着非利士人，往戰場跑去。
49 David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and fired it from his sling, hitting the Philistine on the forehead. The stone went into his forehead, and he collapsed facedown on the ground.
大衛用手從囊中掏出一塊石子來，用機弦甩去，打中非利士人的額，石子進入額內，他就仆倒，面伏於地。
50 This is how David defeated the Philistine with just a sling and a stone; with no sword in his hand David knocked the Philistine down and killed him.
這樣，大衛用機弦甩石，勝了那非利士人，打死他；大衛手中卻沒有刀。
51 David ran and stood over the Philistine. He took the Philistine's sword and pulled it out of its sheath. He killed him and then he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran away.
大衛跑去，站在非利士人身旁，將他的刀從鞘中拔出來，殺死他，割了他的頭。非利士眾人看見他們討戰的勇士死了，就都逃跑。
52 Then the men of Israel and Judah rushed forward shouting the war-cry and chased the Philistines all the way to Gath and to the gates of Ekron. Their bodies were scattered along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
以色列人和猶大人便起身吶喊，追趕非利士人，直到迦特和以革倫的城門。被殺的非利士人倒在沙拉音的路上，直到迦特和以革倫。
53 When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they plundered their camps.
以色列人追趕非利士人回來，就奪了他們的營盤。
54 David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put the Philistine's weapons in his own tent.
大衛將那非利士人的頭拿到耶路撒冷，卻將他軍裝放在自己的帳棚裏。
55 When Saul had watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he'd asked Abner the army commander, “Abner, whose son is that young man?” “On your life, Your Majesty, I do not know,” Abner replied.
掃羅看見大衛去攻擊非利士人，就問元帥押尼珥說：「押尼珥啊，那少年人是誰的兒子？」押尼珥說：「我敢在王面前起誓，我不知道。」
56 “Find out whose son this young man is,” the king ordered.
王說：「你可以問問那幼年人是誰的兒子。」
57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. David was still clutching the Philistine's head in his hand.
大衛打死非利士人回來，押尼珥領他到掃羅面前，他手中拿着非利士人的頭。
58 “Whose son are you, young man?” Saul asked. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
掃羅問他說：「少年人哪，你是誰的兒子？」大衛說：「我是你僕人伯利恆人耶西的兒子。」
