撒上25:1 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。
撒上25:1 And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.
撒上25:2 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。
撒上25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.
撒上25:3 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。他是个迦密族的人。
撒上25:3 Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.
撒上25:4 大卫在旷野听说拿八正在剪羊毛，
撒上25:4 And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.
撒上25:5 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。
撒上25:5 And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;
撒上25:6 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！
撒上25:6 And say this to my brother, May all be well for you: peace be to you and your house and all you have.
撒上25:7 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，也从没有遗失过什么。
撒上25:7 I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.
撒上25:8 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。’”
撒上25:8 If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.
撒上25:9 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。
撒上25:9 And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.
撒上25:10 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。
撒上25:10 And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.
撒上25:11 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？”
撒上25:11 Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?
撒上25:12 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。
撒上25:12 So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.
撒上25:13 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。
撒上25:13 And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.
撒上25:14 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。
撒上25:14 But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.
撒上25:15 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什么。
撒上25:15 But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:
撒上25:16 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。
撒上25:16 But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.
撒上25:17 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。”
撒上25:17 So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.
撒上25:18 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，
撒上25:18 Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.
撒上25:19 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。
撒上25:19 And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.
撒上25:20 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。
撒上25:20 Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.
撒上25:21 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。
撒上25:21 Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.
撒上25:22 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。”
撒上25:22 May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.
撒上25:23 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。
撒上25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.
撒上25:24 她又俯伏在大卫的脚前，说：“我王啊，愿这罪孽归我。求你容婢女向你讲话，求你听婢女所说的话。
撒上25:24 And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.
撒上25:25 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。
撒上25:25 Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.
撒上25:26 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。
撒上25:26 So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal.
撒上25:27 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。
撒上25:27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.
撒上25:28 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，在你身上也找不到什么过错。
撒上25:28 And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
撒上25:29 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。
撒上25:29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
撒上25:30 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，
撒上25:30 And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;
撒上25:31 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。”
撒上25:31 Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.
撒上25:32 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。
撒上25:32 And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:
撒上25:33 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。
撒上25:33 A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
撒上25:34 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。”
撒上25:34 For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.
撒上25:35 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。”
撒上25:35 Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.
撒上25:36 亚比该到了拿八那里，他正在家中摆设筵席，好像帝王的筵席一样。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。
撒上25:36 And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.
撒上25:37 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。
撒上25:37 And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.
撒上25:38 大约过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。
撒上25:38 And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.
撒上25:39 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。
撒上25:39 And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
撒上25:40 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。”
撒上25:40 And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.
撒上25:41 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！”
撒上25:41 And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.
撒上25:42 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。
撒上25:42 Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.
撒上25:43 大卫先娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人都作了他的妻子。
撒上25:43 And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.
撒上25:44 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。
撒上25:44 Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish of Gallim.