撒母耳记上 25
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
大卫与亚比该
25 撒母耳死了，以色列人都聚在一起哀悼他，把他安葬在拉玛他自己的坟地里。之后，大卫到了巴兰的旷野。 2 玛云有个富翁拥有三千只绵羊和一千只山羊，他的产业在迦密。当时他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 他名叫拿八，是迦勒族人，妻子名叫亚比该，既聪慧又漂亮。拿八粗暴凶恶。 4 大卫在旷野得知拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就派十个部下到迦密去见拿八，吩咐他们以他的名义向拿八问安， 6 对拿八说：“愿你和你全家平安，愿你一切顺利！ 7 我听说你正在剪羊毛。你的牧人与我们在迦密的时候，我们没有欺负过他们，他们没有丢过任何东西。 8 你问问你的仆人就知道了。请你恩待我的部下，因为今天是好日子，求你随手赏一点东西给晚辈我和我的部下。”
9 大卫的部下就去把大卫的话告诉拿八，等候他的答复。 10 拿八说：“大卫是谁？耶西的儿子是谁？这些日子有很多仆人逃离主人， 11 我怎能把饼、水和为剪羊毛者预备的肉分给一群来历不明的人呢？” 12 大卫的部下回去把拿八的话禀告大卫。 13 大卫听了，就吩咐众人备刀，他自己也带了刀去拿八那里。大卫带了四百人去，留下二百人看守营地。
14 拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻子亚比该说：“大卫从旷野派人来向我们主人问安，主人却辱骂他们。 15 大卫的仆人对我们很好，从来不欺负我们。我们跟他们一起在田野的时候，从来没有丢过任何东西。 16 我们在他们附近牧羊的时候，他们昼夜不断地保护我们。 17 所以，请你赶快想个法子，不然主人和他全家恐怕都会大难临头。主人是个凶暴的人，没有人敢跟他说话。”
18 亚比该连忙用驴驮上二百块饼、两皮袋酒、五只宰好了的羊、三十七升烤麦、一百块葡萄饼和二百块无花果饼， 19 又吩咐仆人说：“你们先去吧！我随后就来。”她没有把这事告诉丈夫拿八。 20 她骑着驴下山的时候，就看见大卫和他的部下迎面而来。 21 大卫曾说：“我在旷野保护这人的羊群，使它们不致丢失，真是枉费功夫。他竟以怨报德。 22 如果我让他家里一个男子活到明早，愿上帝重重地惩罚我！”
23 亚比该看见大卫，连忙下驴俯伏下拜。 24 她俯伏在大卫脚前说：“我主啊，我愿意承担一切的罪过，请听婢女说。 25 请不要理会拿八那个恶徒，他人如其名[a]，是个名符其实的蠢人。当时婢女没有见到你派来的使者。 26 我主啊，既然耶和华阻止你亲手杀人报仇，我就凭永活的耶和华和你的性命起誓，愿你的仇敌和伤害你的人都像拿八一样没有好下场。 27 现在，请把婢女带来的礼物分给你的部下吧。 28 请饶恕婢女的罪过，耶和华必使你的子孙世代做王，因为你是在为耶和华而战，愿你一生没有过错。 29 你就是被人追杀，也会在你的上帝耶和华的保护下安然无恙。你敌人的性命却要像石头一样被耶和华用投石器抛出去。 30-31 如果你现在没有杀人报仇，伤害无辜，到了耶和华照应许赐福给你、立你做以色列王的时候，你就不会心里不安了。我主啊，耶和华赐福给你的时候，求你不要忘了婢女。”
32 大卫对亚比该说：“以色列的上帝耶和华当受称颂！祂今天派你来见我。 33 你很有见识，你今天拦阻我亲手杀人复仇，值得称赞。 34 我凭阻止我杀你的以色列的上帝——永活的耶和华起誓，若不是你赶来迎接我，拿八家中不会有一个男子活到明天早上。” 35 大卫接受了亚比该的礼物，对她说：“安心回家吧，我答应你的请求。”
36 她回到家时，拿八正在大摆宴席，排场如御宴。她见拿八心情愉快，喝得酩酊大醉，就什么也没告诉他，等第二天早上再说。 37 次日清晨，拿八酒醒以后，他妻子把发生的一切告诉他，他吓得昏死过去，身体僵硬如石。 38 过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。
39 大卫听见拿八的死讯，就说：“赞美耶和华！拿八羞辱我，祂为我申了冤，又阻止仆人行恶。祂使拿八得到了报应。”后来，大卫差遣使者去向亚比该求婚。 40 他的使者就启程到迦密去向亚比该传达大卫的心意。 41 亚比该听了，立刻俯伏在地上说：“婢女愿意效劳，为我主的仆人洗脚。” 42 她连忙骑上驴，带了五个侍女，跟随大卫的使者前去，做了大卫的妻子。 43 大卫已经娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人就同做大卫的妻子。 44 扫罗已经把自己的女儿——大卫的妻子米甲嫁给了迦琳人拉亿的儿子帕提。
Footnotes
- 25:25 “拿八”意思是“愚蠢”。
撒母耳記上 25
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
大衛與亞比該
25 撒母耳死了，以色列人都聚在一起哀悼他，把他安葬在拉瑪他自己的墳地裡。之後，大衛到了巴蘭的曠野。 2 瑪雲有個富翁擁有三千隻綿羊和一千隻山羊，他的產業在迦密。當時他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 他名叫拿八，是迦勒族人，妻子名叫亞比該，既聰慧又漂亮。拿八粗暴兇惡。 4 大衛在曠野得知拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就派十個部下到迦密去見拿八，吩咐他們以他的名義向拿八問安， 6 對拿八說：「願你和你全家平安，願你一切順利！ 7 我聽說你正在剪羊毛。你的牧人與我們在迦密的時候，我們沒有欺負過他們，他們沒有丟過任何東西。 8 你問問你的僕人就知道了。請你恩待我的部下，因為今天是好日子，求你隨手賞一點東西給晚輩我和我的部下。」
9 大衛的部下就去把大衛的話告訴拿八，等候他的答覆。 10 拿八說：「大衛是誰？耶西的兒子是誰？這些日子有很多僕人逃離主人， 11 我怎能把餅、水和為剪羊毛者預備的肉分給一群來歷不明的人呢？」 12 大衛的部下回去把拿八的話稟告大衛。 13 大衛聽了，就吩咐眾人備刀，他自己也帶了刀去拿八那裡。大衛帶了四百人去，留下二百人看守營地。
14 拿八的一個僕人告訴拿八的妻子亞比該說：「大衛從曠野派人來向我們主人問安，主人卻辱罵他們。 15 大衛的僕人對我們很好，從來不欺負我們。我們跟他們一起在田野的時候，從來沒有丟過任何東西。 16 我們在他們附近牧羊的時候，他們晝夜不斷地保護我們。 17 所以，請你趕快想個法子，不然主人和他全家恐怕都會大難臨頭。主人是個兇暴的人，沒有人敢跟他說話。」
18 亞比該連忙用驢馱上二百塊餅、兩皮袋酒、五隻宰好了的羊、三十七升烤麥、一百塊葡萄餅和二百塊無花果餅， 19 又吩咐僕人說：「你們先去吧！我隨後就來。」她沒有把這事告訴丈夫拿八。 20 她騎著驢下山的時候，就看見大衛和他的部下迎面而來。 21 大衛曾說：「我在曠野保護這人的羊群，使牠們不致丟失，真是枉費功夫。他竟以怨報德。 22 如果我讓他家裡一個男子活到明早，願上帝重重地懲罰我！」
23 亞比該看見大衛，連忙下驢俯伏下拜。 24 她俯伏在大衛腳前說：「我主啊，我願意承擔一切的罪過，請聽婢女說。 25 請不要理會拿八那個惡徒，他人如其名[a]，是個名符其實的蠢人。當時婢女沒有見到你派來的使者。 26 我主啊，既然耶和華阻止你親手殺人報仇，我就憑永活的耶和華和你的性命起誓，願你的仇敵和傷害你的人都像拿八一樣沒有好下場。 27 現在，請把婢女帶來的禮物分給你的部下吧。 28 請饒恕婢女的罪過，耶和華必使你的子孫世代做王，因為你是在為耶和華而戰，願你一生沒有過錯。 29 你就是被人追殺，也會在你的上帝耶和華的保護下安然無恙。你敵人的性命卻要像石頭一樣被耶和華用投石器拋出去。 30-31 如果你現在沒有殺人報仇，傷害無辜，到了耶和華照應許賜福給你、立你做以色列王的時候，你就不會心裡不安了。我主啊，耶和華賜福給你的時候，求你不要忘了婢女。」
32 大衛對亞比該說：「以色列的上帝耶和華當受稱頌！祂今天派你來見我。 33 你很有見識，你今天攔阻我親手殺人復仇，值得稱讚。 34 我憑阻止我殺你的以色列的上帝——永活的耶和華起誓，若不是你趕來迎接我，拿八家中不會有一個男子活到明天早上。」 35 大衛接受了亞比該的禮物，對她說：「安心回家吧，我答應你的請求。」
36 她回到家時，拿八正在大擺宴席，排場如御宴。她見拿八心情愉快，喝得酩酊大醉，就什麼也沒告訴他，等第二天早上再說。 37 次日清晨，拿八酒醒以後，他妻子把發生的一切告訴他，他嚇得昏死過去，身體僵硬如石。 38 過了十天，耶和華擊打拿八，他就死了。
39 大衛聽見拿八的死訊，就說：「讚美耶和華！拿八羞辱我，祂為我申了冤，又阻止僕人行惡。祂使拿八得到了報應。」後來，大衛差遣使者去向亞比該求婚。 40 他的使者就啟程到迦密去向亞比該傳達大衛的心意。 41 亞比該聽了，立刻俯伏在地上說：「婢女願意效勞，為我主的僕人洗腳。」 42 她連忙騎上驢，帶了五個侍女，跟隨大衛的使者前去，做了大衛的妻子。 43 大衛已經娶了耶斯列人亞希暖，她們二人就同做大衛的妻子。 44 掃羅已經把自己的女兒——大衛的妻子米甲嫁給了迦琳人拉億的兒子帕提。
Footnotes
- 25·25 「拿八」意思是「愚蠢」。
1 Samuel 25
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
25 And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.
2 Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman, but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.
4 And when David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
5 He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.
6 And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast.
7 I heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel.
8 Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son David.
9 And when David's servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these words in David's name: and then held their peace.
10 But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now a days who flee from their masters.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?
12 So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said.
13 Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men: and two hundred remained with the baggage.
14 But one of the servants told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them.
15 These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert.
16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses:
19 And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold I will follow after you: but she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.
21 And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this man in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
22 May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.
24 And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears: and hear the words of thy servant.
25 Let not my lord the king, I pray, regard this naughty man Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
26 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord.
27 Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord.
28 Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.
29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.
30 And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel,
31 This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:
33 And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day, from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.
34 Otherwise as the Lord liveth the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil: if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
35 And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and have honoured thy face.
36 And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was merry: for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.
37 But early in the morning when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38 And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with Abigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife.
40 And David's servants came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife.
41 And she arose and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43 Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives.
44 But Saul gave Michol his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was of Gallium.
撒母耳记上 25
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
大卫与亚比该
25 撒母耳死了，以色列人都聚在一起哀悼他，把他安葬在拉玛他自己的坟地里。之后，大卫到了巴兰的旷野。 2 玛云有个富翁拥有三千只绵羊和一千只山羊，他的产业在迦密。当时他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 他名叫拿八，是迦勒族人，妻子名叫亚比该，既聪慧又漂亮。拿八粗暴凶恶。 4 大卫在旷野得知拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就派十个部下到迦密去见拿八，吩咐他们以他的名义向拿八问安， 6 对拿八说：“愿你和你全家平安，愿你一切顺利！ 7 我听说你正在剪羊毛。你的牧人与我们在迦密的时候，我们没有欺负过他们，他们没有丢过任何东西。 8 你问问你的仆人就知道了。请你恩待我的部下，因为今天是好日子，求你随手赏一点东西给晚辈我和我的部下。”
9 大卫的部下就去把大卫的话告诉拿八，等候他的答复。 10 拿八说：“大卫是谁？耶西的儿子是谁？这些日子有很多仆人逃离主人， 11 我怎能把饼、水和为剪羊毛者预备的肉分给一群来历不明的人呢？” 12 大卫的部下回去把拿八的话禀告大卫。 13 大卫听了，就吩咐众人备刀，他自己也带了刀去拿八那里。大卫带了四百人去，留下二百人看守营地。
14 拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻子亚比该说：“大卫从旷野派人来向我们主人问安，主人却辱骂他们。 15 大卫的仆人对我们很好，从来不欺负我们。我们跟他们一起在田野的时候，从来没有丢过任何东西。 16 我们在他们附近牧羊的时候，他们昼夜不断地保护我们。 17 所以，请你赶快想个法子，不然主人和他全家恐怕都会大难临头。主人是个凶暴的人，没有人敢跟他说话。”
18 亚比该连忙用驴驮上二百块饼、两皮袋酒、五只宰好了的羊、三十七升烤麦、一百块葡萄饼和二百块无花果饼， 19 又吩咐仆人说：“你们先去吧！我随后就来。”她没有把这事告诉丈夫拿八。 20 她骑着驴下山的时候，就看见大卫和他的部下迎面而来。 21 大卫曾说：“我在旷野保护这人的羊群，使它们不致丢失，真是枉费功夫。他竟以怨报德。 22 如果我让他家里一个男子活到明早，愿上帝重重地惩罚我！”
23 亚比该看见大卫，连忙下驴俯伏下拜。 24 她俯伏在大卫脚前说：“我主啊，我愿意承担一切的罪过，请听婢女说。 25 请不要理会拿八那个恶徒，他人如其名[a]，是个名符其实的蠢人。当时婢女没有见到你派来的使者。 26 我主啊，既然耶和华阻止你亲手杀人报仇，我就凭永活的耶和华和你的性命起誓，愿你的仇敌和伤害你的人都像拿八一样没有好下场。 27 现在，请把婢女带来的礼物分给你的部下吧。 28 请饶恕婢女的罪过，耶和华必使你的子孙世代做王，因为你是在为耶和华而战，愿你一生没有过错。 29 你就是被人追杀，也会在你的上帝耶和华的保护下安然无恙。你敌人的性命却要像石头一样被耶和华用投石器抛出去。 30-31 如果你现在没有杀人报仇，伤害无辜，到了耶和华照应许赐福给你、立你做以色列王的时候，你就不会心里不安了。我主啊，耶和华赐福给你的时候，求你不要忘了婢女。”
32 大卫对亚比该说：“以色列的上帝耶和华当受称颂！祂今天派你来见我。 33 你很有见识，你今天拦阻我亲手杀人复仇，值得称赞。 34 我凭阻止我杀你的以色列的上帝——永活的耶和华起誓，若不是你赶来迎接我，拿八家中不会有一个男子活到明天早上。” 35 大卫接受了亚比该的礼物，对她说：“安心回家吧，我答应你的请求。”
36 她回到家时，拿八正在大摆宴席，排场如御宴。她见拿八心情愉快，喝得酩酊大醉，就什么也没告诉他，等第二天早上再说。 37 次日清晨，拿八酒醒以后，他妻子把发生的一切告诉他，他吓得昏死过去，身体僵硬如石。 38 过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。
39 大卫听见拿八的死讯，就说：“赞美耶和华！拿八羞辱我，祂为我申了冤，又阻止仆人行恶。祂使拿八得到了报应。”后来，大卫差遣使者去向亚比该求婚。 40 他的使者就启程到迦密去向亚比该传达大卫的心意。 41 亚比该听了，立刻俯伏在地上说：“婢女愿意效劳，为我主的仆人洗脚。” 42 她连忙骑上驴，带了五个侍女，跟随大卫的使者前去，做了大卫的妻子。 43 大卫已经娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人就同做大卫的妻子。 44 扫罗已经把自己的女儿——大卫的妻子米甲嫁给了迦琳人拉亿的儿子帕提。
Footnotes
- 25:25 “拿八”意思是“愚蠢”。
撒母耳記上 25
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
大衛與亞比該
25 撒母耳死了，以色列人都聚在一起哀悼他，把他安葬在拉瑪他自己的墳地裡。之後，大衛到了巴蘭的曠野。 2 瑪雲有個富翁擁有三千隻綿羊和一千隻山羊，他的產業在迦密。當時他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 他名叫拿八，是迦勒族人，妻子名叫亞比該，既聰慧又漂亮。拿八粗暴兇惡。 4 大衛在曠野得知拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就派十個部下到迦密去見拿八，吩咐他們以他的名義向拿八問安， 6 對拿八說：「願你和你全家平安，願你一切順利！ 7 我聽說你正在剪羊毛。你的牧人與我們在迦密的時候，我們沒有欺負過他們，他們沒有丟過任何東西。 8 你問問你的僕人就知道了。請你恩待我的部下，因為今天是好日子，求你隨手賞一點東西給晚輩我和我的部下。」
9 大衛的部下就去把大衛的話告訴拿八，等候他的答覆。 10 拿八說：「大衛是誰？耶西的兒子是誰？這些日子有很多僕人逃離主人， 11 我怎能把餅、水和為剪羊毛者預備的肉分給一群來歷不明的人呢？」 12 大衛的部下回去把拿八的話稟告大衛。 13 大衛聽了，就吩咐眾人備刀，他自己也帶了刀去拿八那裡。大衛帶了四百人去，留下二百人看守營地。
14 拿八的一個僕人告訴拿八的妻子亞比該說：「大衛從曠野派人來向我們主人問安，主人卻辱罵他們。 15 大衛的僕人對我們很好，從來不欺負我們。我們跟他們一起在田野的時候，從來沒有丟過任何東西。 16 我們在他們附近牧羊的時候，他們晝夜不斷地保護我們。 17 所以，請你趕快想個法子，不然主人和他全家恐怕都會大難臨頭。主人是個兇暴的人，沒有人敢跟他說話。」
18 亞比該連忙用驢馱上二百塊餅、兩皮袋酒、五隻宰好了的羊、三十七升烤麥、一百塊葡萄餅和二百塊無花果餅， 19 又吩咐僕人說：「你們先去吧！我隨後就來。」她沒有把這事告訴丈夫拿八。 20 她騎著驢下山的時候，就看見大衛和他的部下迎面而來。 21 大衛曾說：「我在曠野保護這人的羊群，使牠們不致丟失，真是枉費功夫。他竟以怨報德。 22 如果我讓他家裡一個男子活到明早，願上帝重重地懲罰我！」
23 亞比該看見大衛，連忙下驢俯伏下拜。 24 她俯伏在大衛腳前說：「我主啊，我願意承擔一切的罪過，請聽婢女說。 25 請不要理會拿八那個惡徒，他人如其名[a]，是個名符其實的蠢人。當時婢女沒有見到你派來的使者。 26 我主啊，既然耶和華阻止你親手殺人報仇，我就憑永活的耶和華和你的性命起誓，願你的仇敵和傷害你的人都像拿八一樣沒有好下場。 27 現在，請把婢女帶來的禮物分給你的部下吧。 28 請饒恕婢女的罪過，耶和華必使你的子孫世代做王，因為你是在為耶和華而戰，願你一生沒有過錯。 29 你就是被人追殺，也會在你的上帝耶和華的保護下安然無恙。你敵人的性命卻要像石頭一樣被耶和華用投石器拋出去。 30-31 如果你現在沒有殺人報仇，傷害無辜，到了耶和華照應許賜福給你、立你做以色列王的時候，你就不會心裡不安了。我主啊，耶和華賜福給你的時候，求你不要忘了婢女。」
32 大衛對亞比該說：「以色列的上帝耶和華當受稱頌！祂今天派你來見我。 33 你很有見識，你今天攔阻我親手殺人復仇，值得稱讚。 34 我憑阻止我殺你的以色列的上帝——永活的耶和華起誓，若不是你趕來迎接我，拿八家中不會有一個男子活到明天早上。」 35 大衛接受了亞比該的禮物，對她說：「安心回家吧，我答應你的請求。」
36 她回到家時，拿八正在大擺宴席，排場如御宴。她見拿八心情愉快，喝得酩酊大醉，就什麼也沒告訴他，等第二天早上再說。 37 次日清晨，拿八酒醒以後，他妻子把發生的一切告訴他，他嚇得昏死過去，身體僵硬如石。 38 過了十天，耶和華擊打拿八，他就死了。
39 大衛聽見拿八的死訊，就說：「讚美耶和華！拿八羞辱我，祂為我申了冤，又阻止僕人行惡。祂使拿八得到了報應。」後來，大衛差遣使者去向亞比該求婚。 40 他的使者就啟程到迦密去向亞比該傳達大衛的心意。 41 亞比該聽了，立刻俯伏在地上說：「婢女願意效勞，為我主的僕人洗腳。」 42 她連忙騎上驢，帶了五個侍女，跟隨大衛的使者前去，做了大衛的妻子。 43 大衛已經娶了耶斯列人亞希暖，她們二人就同做大衛的妻子。 44 掃羅已經把自己的女兒——大衛的妻子米甲嫁給了迦琳人拉億的兒子帕提。
Footnotes
- 25·25 「拿八」意思是「愚蠢」。
1 Samuel 25
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
25 And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.
2 Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman, but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.
4 And when David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
5 He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.
6 And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast.
7 I heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel.
8 Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son David.
9 And when David's servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these words in David's name: and then held their peace.
10 But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now a days who flee from their masters.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?
12 So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said.
13 Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men: and two hundred remained with the baggage.
14 But one of the servants told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them.
15 These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert.
16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses:
19 And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold I will follow after you: but she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.
21 And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this man in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
22 May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.
24 And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears: and hear the words of thy servant.
25 Let not my lord the king, I pray, regard this naughty man Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
26 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord.
27 Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord.
28 Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.
29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.
30 And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel,
31 This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:
33 And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day, from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.
34 Otherwise as the Lord liveth the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil: if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
35 And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and have honoured thy face.
36 And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was merry: for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.
37 But early in the morning when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38 And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with Abigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife.
40 And David's servants came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife.
41 And she arose and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43 Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives.
44 But Saul gave Michol his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was of Gallium.
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