撒母耳记下 2
1 此后，大卫问耶和华说：“我上犹大的一个城去可以吗？”耶和华说：“可以。”大卫说：“我上哪一个城去呢？”耶和华说：“上希伯 去。”
After this David asked Yahweh and said, “Should I go up to one of the cities of Judah?” Yahweh replied to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which city should I go?” Yahweh replied, “To Hebron.”
2 于是大卫和他的两个妻—一个是耶斯列人亚希暖，一个是作过迦密人拿八妻的亚比该—都上那里去了。
So David went up with his two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel, and Abigail from Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
3 大卫也将跟随他的人和他们各人的眷属一同带上去，住在希伯 的城邑中。
David brought the men who were with him, who each brought his family, to the cities of Hebron, where they began to live.
4 犹大人来到希伯 ，在那里膏大卫作犹大家的王。 有人告诉大卫说：“葬埋扫罗的是基列·雅比人。”
Then men from Judah came and anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead have buried Saul.”
5 大卫就差人去见基列·雅比人，对他们说：“你们厚待你们的主—扫罗，将他葬埋。愿耶和华赐福与你们！
So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead and said to them, “You are blessed by Yahweh, since you have showed this loyalty to your master Saul and have buried him.
6 你们既行了这事，愿耶和华以慈爱诚实待你们，我也要为此厚待你们。
Now may Yahweh show you covenantal loyalty and faithfulness. I also will show you this goodness because you have done this thing.
7 现在你们的主—扫罗死了，犹大家已经膏我作他们的王，所以你们要刚强奋勇。”
Now then, let your hands be strong; be courageous for Saul your master is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”
8 扫罗的元帅尼珥的儿子押尼珥，曾将扫罗的儿子伊施波设带过河，到玛哈念，
But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim.
9 立他作王，治理基列、亚书利、耶斯列、以法莲、便雅悯，和以色列众人。
He made Ishbosheth king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and over all Israel.
10 扫罗的儿子伊施波设登基的时候年四十岁，作以色列王二年；惟独犹大家归从大卫。
Ishbosheth son of Saul, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
11 大卫在希伯 作犹大家的王，共七年零六个月。
The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
12 尼珥的儿子押尼珥和扫罗的儿子伊施波设的仆人从玛哈念出来，往基遍去。
Abner son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
13 洗鲁雅的儿子约押和大卫的仆人也出来，在基遍池旁与他们相遇；一班坐在池这边，一班坐在池那边。
Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. There they sat down, one group on one side of the pool and the other on the other side.
14 押尼珥对约押说：“让少年人起来，在我们面前戏耍吧！”约押说：“可以。”
Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and compete before us.” Then Joab said, “Let them arise.”
15 就按着定数起来：属扫罗儿子伊施波设的便雅悯人过去十二名，大卫的仆人也过去十二名，
Then the young men got up and gathered together, twelve for Benjamin and Ishbosheth son of Saul, and twelve from servants of David.
16 彼此揪头，用刀刺肋，一同仆倒。所以，那地叫做希利甲·哈素林，就在基遍。
Each man seized his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into the side of his opponent, and they fell down together. Therefore that place was called “Helkath Hazzurim,” or “Field of Swords,” which is in Gibeon.
17 那日的战事凶猛，押尼珥和以色列人败在大卫的仆人面前。
The battle was very severe that day and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated before the servants of David.
18 在那里有洗鲁雅的三个儿子：约押、亚比筛、亚撒黑。亚撒黑脚快如野鹿一般；
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was swift in his feet like a wild gazelle.
19 亚撒黑追赶押尼珥，直追赶他不偏左右。
Asahel closely pursued Abner and followed him without turning away in any direction.
20 押尼珥回头说：“你是亚撒黑吗？”回答说：“是。”
Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you Asahel?” He answered, “It is I.”
21 押尼珥对他说：“你或转向左转向右，拿住一个少年人，剥去他的战衣。”亚撒黑却不肯转开不追赶他。
Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn aside.
22 押尼珥又对亚撒黑说：“你转开不追赶我吧！我何必杀你呢？若杀你，有什么脸见你哥哥约押呢？”
So Abner said again to Asahel, “Stop pursuing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I hold up my face to Joab, your brother?”
23 亚撒黑仍不肯转开。故此，押尼珥就用枪 刺入他的肚腹，甚至枪从背后透出，亚撒黑就在那里仆倒而死。众人赶到亚撒黑仆倒而死的地方，就都站住。
But Asahel refused to turn aside, and so Abner stabbed him in the body with the blunt end of his spear, so that the spear came out the other side. Asahel fell down and died there. So it came about that anyone who arrived at the place where Asahel fell down and died, he stopped and stood still.
24 约押和亚比筛追赶押尼珥，日落的时候，到了通基遍旷野的路旁，基亚对面的亚玛山。
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. When the sun was going down, they came to the hill of Ammah, which is near Giah by the road to the wilderness of Gibeon.
25 便雅悯人聚集，跟随押尼珥站在一个山顶上。
The men of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and stood on the top of the hill.
26 押尼珥呼叫约押说：“刀剑岂可永远杀人吗？你岂不知终久必有苦楚吗？你要等何时才叫百姓回去、不追赶弟兄呢？”
Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not know it will be bitter in the end? How long will it be before you tell your men to stop pursuing their brothers?”
27 约押说：“我指着永生的 神起誓：你若不说戏耍的那句话，今日早晨百姓就回去，不追赶弟兄了。”
Joab replied, “Just as God lives, if you had not said that, my soldiers would have pursued their brothers until the morning!”
28 于是约押吹角，众民就站住，不再追赶以色列人，也不再打仗了。
So Joab blew the trumpet, and all his men stopped and did not pursue Israel anymore, nor did they fight anymore.
29 押尼珥和跟随他的人整夜经过亚拉巴，过约旦河，走过毕伦，到了玛哈念。
Abner and his men traveled all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, marched all the next morning, and then reached Mahanaim.
30 约押追赶押尼珥回来，聚集众民，见大卫的仆人中缺少了十九个人和亚撒黑。
Joab returned from pursuing Abner. He assembled all his men, from whom were missing Asahel and nineteen of David's soldiers.
31 但大卫的仆人杀了便雅悯人和跟随押尼珥的人，共三百六十名。
But the men of David had killed 360 men of Benjamin with Abner.
32 众人将亚撒黑送到伯利恒，葬在他父亲的坟墓里。约押和跟随他的人走了一夜，天亮的时候到了希伯 。
Then they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men traveled all night, and the day dawned on them at Hebron.
