撒母耳记上 25
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
撒母耳逝世
25 撒母耳死了，以色列众人都聚集起来，为他哀哭，把他埋葬在拉玛他自己的家里。大卫起身，下到巴兰的旷野去。
大卫遣仆求拿八馈赠
2 在玛云有一个人，他的产业在迦密。他是一个很富有的人，有绵羊三千只，山羊一千只，那时他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 那人名叫拿八，他的妻子名叫亚比该。这女人既聪明，又美丽。但那男人为人粗暴，又行事凶恶。他是个迦勒族的人。 4 大卫在旷野听说拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就差派十个仆人，对他们说：“你们上迦密去见拿八，以我的名义向他问安。 6 你们要这样说：‘愿你长寿！愿你平安！愿你的家平安！愿你所有的一切都平安！ 7 现在我听说有人为你剪羊毛。你的牧人与我们在一起的时候，我们都没有侮辱他们；他们在迦密的日子，也从没有遗失过甚么。 8 你可以问问你的仆人，他们必会告诉你。愿我派来的这些仆人在你眼前蒙恩，因为我们是在好日子来的，请你把手中所有的，随便赏赐一点给你的仆人和你的儿子大卫。’”
9 大卫的仆人到了，就以大卫的名义，把这些话都对拿八说了，然后等候答复。
拿八辱骂仆人
10 拿八回答大卫的仆人说：“大卫是谁？耶西的儿子是谁？现在离开主人逃走的仆人太多了。 11 我怎能把我的饼、我的水，和我为剪羊毛的人宰杀的肉，给那些我不知道从哪里来的人呢？” 12 于是大卫的仆人转回原路，回去了。他们到了以后，就把这一切话都告诉大卫。 13 大卫对跟随他的人说：“你们各人都佩上刀。”他们各人就佩上自己的刀，大卫也佩上自己的刀。跟随大卫上去的约有四百人，有二百人留下来看守器具。
14 拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻子亚比该说：“大卫从旷野派遣使者来向我们的主人问候，主人却辱骂了他们。 15 但是，那些人对我们很好。我们在田野与他们往来的时候，他们都没有侮辱我们，我们也从没有遗失过甚么。 16 我们与他们在一起牧羊的日子，他们日夜都作保护我们的墙。 17 现在，你要想一想，看看你该怎么办，因为灾祸必定临到我们的主人和他的全家。他是一个性情凶恶的人，没有人敢对他说话。”
18 亚比该急忙拿了两百个饼、两皮袋酒、五只预备好了的羊、十七公斤烘好了的穗子、一百个葡萄饼、两百个无花果饼，都驮在驴背上， 19 然后对她的仆人说：“你们先去，我随着你们来。”这事她却没有告诉她的丈夫拿八。 20 亚比该骑着驴，正从山坡下来，忽见大卫和跟随他的人也正从对面迎着她走下来，亚比该就与他相遇了。 21 大卫曾经说过：“我在旷野看守这人一切所有的，使他一切所有的一样也没有失落，实在是白费心机了。他竟然对我以恶报善。 22 如果我让这人一切所有的，就是一个男丁，留到明天早晨， 神怎样惩罚大卫的仇敌，愿他也怎样加倍惩罚我。”
亚比该求大卫饶恕
23 亚比该见了大卫，就急忙从驴背下来，俯伏在大卫面前，脸伏于地，向他叩拜。 24 她又俯伏在大卫的脚前，说：“我主啊，愿这罪孽归我。求你容婢女向你讲话，求你听婢女所说的话。 25 请我主不要把这个性情凶恶的人拿八放在心上。因为他的名字怎样，他的为人也怎样。他名叫拿八，他也真是愚笨。我主派来的仆人，你的婢女并没有看见。 26 我主啊，现在我指着永活的耶和华，又在你面前起誓，耶和华既然阻止了你流人的血，又阻止了你亲手报仇，愿你的仇敌和那些谋害我主的人，都像拿八一样。 27 现在，请把你婢女给我主带来的这礼物，赐给跟随我主的仆人。 28 求你饶恕你婢女的过犯。耶和华必为我主建立一个坚固的家，因为我主为耶和华争战；在你一生的日子里，在你身上也找不到甚么过错。 29 虽然有人起来追赶你，寻索你的命，我主的性命必得保全在耶和华你的 神生命的囊中。至于你仇敌的命，耶和华却要甩去，像从甩石机甩出去一样。 30 将来耶和华照着他应许的一切善待了你，立了你作以色列的领袖的时候， 31 我主就不致因为无缘无故流人的血或亲自报仇而良心不安，心里有愧了。耶和华恩待了我主以后，求你记念你的婢女。”
大卫息怒
32 大卫对亚比该说：“耶和华以色列的 神是应当称颂的！他今天差派你来迎接我。 33 你的智慧和你的为人也是应当称赞的，因为你今天阻止了我流人的血，又阻止了我亲手报仇。 34 我指着那拦阻了我加害你的永活的耶和华以色列的 神起誓，如果你不及时来迎见我，到明天早晨，拿八所有的男丁必不留一个。” 35 大卫从亚比该手中接受了她带来给他的东西，就对她说：“你平平安安回家去吧！你看，我已经听了你的话，也答应了你的请求。”
拿八之死
36 亚比该到了拿八那里，他正在家中摆设筵席，好象帝王的筵席一样。拿八心里畅快，喝得烂醉如泥，所以无论大事小事亚比该都没有告诉他，直到第二天早晨。 37 到了早晨，拿八酒醒了，他的妻子才把这些事告诉他，他就吓得魂不附体，立刻中风瘫痪了。 38 大约过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。
大卫娶亚比该为妻
39 大卫听见拿八死了，就说：“耶和华是应当称颂的，因为他为我伸了拿八羞辱我的冤，又阻止了仆人行恶，也使拿八的恶归到他自己的头上。”于是大卫派人去对亚比该说要娶她作他的妻子。 40 大卫的仆人到了迦密去见亚比该，对她说：“大卫差派我们到你这里来，要娶你作他的妻子。” 41 亚比该就起来，面伏于地叩拜，说：“婢女愿意作女仆，洗我主人的脚！” 42 亚比该急忙起来，骑上驴，带着五个跟随她的女仆，跟从大卫的使者去了，就作了大卫的妻子。
43 大卫先娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人都作了他的妻子。
44 扫罗已经把他的女儿米甲，就是大卫的妻子，赐给了迦琳人拉亿的儿子帕提作妻子。
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”。
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 New Version (Simplified)
撒母耳逝世
25 撒母耳死了，以色列众人都聚集起来，为他哀哭，把他埋葬在拉玛他自己的家里。大卫起身，下到巴兰的旷野去。
大卫遣仆求拿八馈赠
2 在玛云有一个人，他的产业在迦密。他是一个很富有的人，有绵羊三千只，山羊一千只，那时他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 那人名叫拿八，他的妻子名叫亚比该。这女人既聪明，又美丽。但那男人为人粗暴，又行事凶恶。他是个迦勒族的人。 4 大卫在旷野听说拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就差派十个仆人，对他们说：“你们上迦密去见拿八，以我的名义向他问安。 6 你们要这样说：‘愿你长寿！愿你平安！愿你的家平安！愿你所有的一切都平安！ 7 现在我听说有人为你剪羊毛。你的牧人与我们在一起的时候，我们都没有侮辱他们；他们在迦密的日子，也从没有遗失过甚么。 8 你可以问问你的仆人，他们必会告诉你。愿我派来的这些仆人在你眼前蒙恩，因为我们是在好日子来的，请你把手中所有的，随便赏赐一点给你的仆人和你的儿子大卫。’”
9 大卫的仆人到了，就以大卫的名义，把这些话都对拿八说了，然后等候答复。
拿八辱骂仆人
10 拿八回答大卫的仆人说：“大卫是谁？耶西的儿子是谁？现在离开主人逃走的仆人太多了。 11 我怎能把我的饼、我的水，和我为剪羊毛的人宰杀的肉，给那些我不知道从哪里来的人呢？” 12 于是大卫的仆人转回原路，回去了。他们到了以后，就把这一切话都告诉大卫。 13 大卫对跟随他的人说：“你们各人都佩上刀。”他们各人就佩上自己的刀，大卫也佩上自己的刀。跟随大卫上去的约有四百人，有二百人留下来看守器具。
14 拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻子亚比该说：“大卫从旷野派遣使者来向我们的主人问候，主人却辱骂了他们。 15 但是，那些人对我们很好。我们在田野与他们往来的时候，他们都没有侮辱我们，我们也从没有遗失过甚么。 16 我们与他们在一起牧羊的日子，他们日夜都作保护我们的墙。 17 现在，你要想一想，看看你该怎么办，因为灾祸必定临到我们的主人和他的全家。他是一个性情凶恶的人，没有人敢对他说话。”
18 亚比该急忙拿了两百个饼、两皮袋酒、五只预备好了的羊、十七公斤烘好了的穗子、一百个葡萄饼、两百个无花果饼，都驮在驴背上， 19 然后对她的仆人说：“你们先去，我随着你们来。”这事她却没有告诉她的丈夫拿八。 20 亚比该骑着驴，正从山坡下来，忽见大卫和跟随他的人也正从对面迎着她走下来，亚比该就与他相遇了。 21 大卫曾经说过：“我在旷野看守这人一切所有的，使他一切所有的一样也没有失落，实在是白费心机了。他竟然对我以恶报善。 22 如果我让这人一切所有的，就是一个男丁，留到明天早晨， 神怎样惩罚大卫的仇敌，愿他也怎样加倍惩罚我。”
亚比该求大卫饶恕
23 亚比该见了大卫，就急忙从驴背下来，俯伏在大卫面前，脸伏于地，向他叩拜。 24 她又俯伏在大卫的脚前，说：“我主啊，愿这罪孽归我。求你容婢女向你讲话，求你听婢女所说的话。 25 请我主不要把这个性情凶恶的人拿八放在心上。因为他的名字怎样，他的为人也怎样。他名叫拿八，他也真是愚笨。我主派来的仆人，你的婢女并没有看见。 26 我主啊，现在我指着永活的耶和华，又在你面前起誓，耶和华既然阻止了你流人的血，又阻止了你亲手报仇，愿你的仇敌和那些谋害我主的人，都像拿八一样。 27 现在，请把你婢女给我主带来的这礼物，赐给跟随我主的仆人。 28 求你饶恕你婢女的过犯。耶和华必为我主建立一个坚固的家，因为我主为耶和华争战；在你一生的日子里，在你身上也找不到甚么过错。 29 虽然有人起来追赶你，寻索你的命，我主的性命必得保全在耶和华你的 神生命的囊中。至于你仇敌的命，耶和华却要甩去，像从甩石机甩出去一样。 30 将来耶和华照着他应许的一切善待了你，立了你作以色列的领袖的时候， 31 我主就不致因为无缘无故流人的血或亲自报仇而良心不安，心里有愧了。耶和华恩待了我主以后，求你记念你的婢女。”
大卫息怒
32 大卫对亚比该说：“耶和华以色列的 神是应当称颂的！他今天差派你来迎接我。 33 你的智慧和你的为人也是应当称赞的，因为你今天阻止了我流人的血，又阻止了我亲手报仇。 34 我指着那拦阻了我加害你的永活的耶和华以色列的 神起誓，如果你不及时来迎见我，到明天早晨，拿八所有的男丁必不留一个。” 35 大卫从亚比该手中接受了她带来给他的东西，就对她说：“你平平安安回家去吧！你看，我已经听了你的话，也答应了你的请求。”
拿八之死
36 亚比该到了拿八那里，他正在家中摆设筵席，好象帝王的筵席一样。拿八心里畅快，喝得烂醉如泥，所以无论大事小事亚比该都没有告诉他，直到第二天早晨。 37 到了早晨，拿八酒醒了，他的妻子才把这些事告诉他，他就吓得魂不附体，立刻中风瘫痪了。 38 大约过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。
大卫娶亚比该为妻
39 大卫听见拿八死了，就说：“耶和华是应当称颂的，因为他为我伸了拿八羞辱我的冤，又阻止了仆人行恶，也使拿八的恶归到他自己的头上。”于是大卫派人去对亚比该说要娶她作他的妻子。 40 大卫的仆人到了迦密去见亚比该，对她说：“大卫差派我们到你这里来，要娶你作他的妻子。” 41 亚比该就起来，面伏于地叩拜，说：“婢女愿意作女仆，洗我主人的脚！” 42 亚比该急忙起来，骑上驴，带着五个跟随她的女仆，跟从大卫的使者去了，就作了大卫的妻子。
43 大卫先娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人都作了他的妻子。
44 扫罗已经把他的女儿米甲，就是大卫的妻子，赐给了迦琳人拉亿的儿子帕提作妻子。
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”。
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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