2 Samuel
Chapter 16

1 David had gone a little beyond the top when Ziba, the servant of Meribbaal, met him with saddled asses laden with two hundred loaves of bread, an ephah of cakes of pressed raisins, an ephah of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

2 The king said to Ziba, ＂What do you plan to do with these?＂ Ziba replied: ＂The asses are for the king's household to ride on. The bread and summer fruits are for your servants to eat, and the wine for those to drink who are weary in the desert.＂

3 Then the king said, ＂And where is your lord's son?＂ Ziba answered the king, ＂He is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Now the Israelites will restore to me my father's kingdom.'＂

君王问说：＂你主人的儿子在哪里？＂漆巴回答君王说：＂他仍留在耶路撒冷，因为他说：今日以色列家会将我父亲的王位归还给我了！＂

4 The king therefore said to Ziba, ＂So! Everything Meribbaal had is yours.＂ Then Ziba said: ＂I pay you homage, my lord the king. May I find favor with you!＂

5 As David was approaching Bahurim, a man named Shimei, the son of Gera of the same clan as Saul's family, was coming out of the place, cursing as he came.

6 He threw stones at David and at all the king's officers, even though all the soldiers, including the royal guard, were on David's right and on his left.

7 Shimei was saying as he cursed: ＂Away, away, you murderous and wicked man!

8 ¹ The LORD has requited you for all the bloodshed in the family of Saul, in whose stead you became king, and the LORD has given over the kingdom to your son Absalom. And now you suffer ruin because you are a murderer.＂

上主将撒乌耳一家的血都归在你身上，你夺了他的王位，现在，上主将王权交在你儿子阿贝沙隆手里，使你陷入绝境，足见你是个杀人王＂。

9 Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king: ＂Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, please, and lop off his head.＂

10 But the king replied: ＂What business is it of mine or of yours, sons of Zeruiah, that he curses? Suppose the LORD has told him to curse David; who then will dare to say, 'Why are you doing this?'＂

11 Then the king said to Abishai and to all his servants: ＂If my own son, who came forth from my loins, is seeking my life, how much more might this Benjaminite do so! Let him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.

12 Perhaps the LORD will look upon my affliction and make it up to me with benefits for the curses he is uttering this day.＂

13 David and his men continued on the road, while Shimei kept abreast of them on the hillside, all the while cursing and throwing stones and dirt as he went.

达味与跟随自己的人沿路前行，史米也沿着山麓与他平排进行，边走边骂，向他拋石撒土。

14 The king and all the soldiers with him arrived at the Jordan tired out, and stopped there for a rest.

15 In the meantime Absalom, accompanied by Ahithophel, entered Jerusalem with all the Israelites.

16 When David's friend Hushai the Archite came to Absalom, he said to him: ＂Long live the king! Long live the king!＂

17 But Absalom asked Hushai: ＂Is this your devotion to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?＂

阿贝沙隆对胡瑟说：＂这是你对你朋友的恩情吗？为什么没有去跟随你的朋友？＂

18 Hushai replied to Absalom: ＂On the contrary, I am his whom the LORD and all this people and all Israel have chosen, and with him I will stay.

19 Furthermore, as I was in attendance upon your father, so will I be before you. Whom should I serve, if not his son?＂

20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, ＂Offer your counsel on what we should do.＂

21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom: ＂Have relations with your father's concubines, whom he left behind to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears how odious you have made yourself to your father, all your partisans will take courage.＂

22 So a tent was pitched on the roof for Absalom, and he visited his father's concubines in view of all Israel.

于是人们在屋顶上，给阿贝沙隆支搭了一座帐棚；阿贝沙隆当着众以色列人的面，亲近了他父亲的嫔妃。

23 Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that time was as though one had sought divine revelation. Such was all his counsel both to David and to Absalom.

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Footnotes（注解）

¹ [8] Bloodshed . . . Saul: refers to the episode recounted in 2 Sam 21:1-14.