撒下17:1 亚希多弗又对押沙龙说：“求你准我挑选一万二千人，今晚我要动身去追赶大卫，
撒下17:1 Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
撒下17:2 趁他疲乏手软的时候，忽然追上他，使他惊惶失措，与他在一起的人就必逃跑；我只要单单击杀王一人，
撒下17:2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
撒下17:3 使众人都来归你。你所寻索的那个人一死，众人就都归你了，众人也可以平安无事。”
撒下17:3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.
撒下17:4 押沙龙和以色列的众长老都看这事为美。
撒下17:4 And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.
撒下17:5 押沙龙说：“把亚基人户筛召来，我们也听听他怎么说。”
撒下17:5 Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.
撒下17:6 于是户筛来见押沙龙，押沙龙问他说：“亚希多弗说了这样的话，我们可以照着他的话去行吗？如果不可以，请你提议吧！”
撒下17:6 And when Hushai came, Absalom said to him, This is what Ahithophel has said: are we to do as he says? if not, what is your suggestion?
撒下17:7 户筛回答押沙龙：“亚希多弗这次计划的谋略不好。”
撒下17:7 And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.
撒下17:8 户筛又说：“你知道你父亲和那些跟随他的人都是勇士；他们凶恶威猛，好像野地里丧子的母熊一样；并且你父亲是个战士，必不会与众人在一起住宿。
撒下17:8 Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;
撒下17:9 现在他或躺在一个坑中，或在另一个地方，如果他首先攻击你的手下，听见的人就必说：‘跟从押沙龙的人被杀了！’
撒下17:9 But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.
撒下17:10 那时，纵使有人像狮子一般勇敢，心里也必惊慌，因为全以色列都知道你父亲是个勇士，跟随他的人都是英勇的人。
撒下17:10 Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.
撒下17:11 因此，我建议把以色列众人，从但到别是巴，都聚集到你这里来，好像海边的萨那样多，然后你亲自率领他们上战场。
撒下17:11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.
撒下17:12 无论我们在哪一个地方找到大卫，就攻击他；我们临到他，像露水降在地上一样。这样，他和跟随他的人，就一个也不会留下。
撒下17:12 Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.
撒下17:13 如果他退入城里去，以色列众人就要带绳子到那城去，我们要把那城拉到河里去，使那里连一块小石头也找不到。”
撒下17:13 And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.
撒下17:14 押沙龙和以色列众人都说：“亚基人户筛的谋略比亚希多弗的好。”因为耶和华定意要破坏亚希多弗的好计谋，为要降灾祸给押沙龙。
撒下17:14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
撒下17:15 于是户筛对撒督祭司和亚比亚他说：“亚希多弗为押沙龙和以色列的众长老所策定的谋略是这样这样的，我所策定的谋略又是这样这样的。
撒下17:15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.
撒下17:16 现在你们要赶快派人去告诉大卫：‘今天晚上你不可在旷野的渡口住宿，务要过河，免得王和跟随他的众人都被吞灭。’”
撒下17:16 So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.
撒下17:17 那时，约拿单和亚希玛斯停留在隐．罗结，他们不敢进城，怕被人看见。有一个婢女经常出来，把话告诉他们，然后他们再去告诉大卫王。
撒下17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.
撒下17:18 但有一个仆人看见他们，就去告诉押沙龙。因此，他们两人急忙离开那里，来到巴户琳某人的家里；那人的院子里有一口井，他们就下到井里。
撒下17:18 But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.
撒下17:19 那家的主妇拿了一块大布，盖在井口上，又在上面铺了一些麦子，所以没有人知道这件事。
撒下17:19 And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
撒下17:20 押沙龙的臣仆到这家来见那妇人，问她：“亚希玛斯和约拿单在哪里？”那妇人回答他们说：“他们已经过了河了。”于是臣仆搜索他们，却没有找着，就都回耶路撒冷去了。
撒下17:20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.
撒下17:21 他们走了以后，两人从井里上来，去告诉大卫王，对大卫说：“你们要起来，赶快过河，因为亚希多弗已经定了这样这样的谋略攻击你们。”
撒下17:21 Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.
撒下17:22 于是大卫和跟随他的众人都起来，渡过约旦河；到了天亮，没有一人还没有渡过约旦河的。
撒下17:22 So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.
撒下17:23 亚希多弗见自己的谋略不被采纳，就预备了驴子，起程往本城自己的家去。他安排好了家里的事，就上吊死了，埋葬在他父亲的坟墓里。
撒下17:23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.
撒下17:24 大卫到了玛哈念，押沙龙和跟随他的以色列众人也都过了约旦河。
撒下17:24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.
撒下17:25 押沙龙派亚玛撒统率军队，作军队的元帅，取代约押。亚玛撒是以实玛利人以特拉的儿子。以特拉曾经与拿辖的女儿亚比该亲近过；亚比该和约押的母亲洗鲁雅是姊妹。
撒下17:25 And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
撒下17:26 以色列人和押沙龙都在基列地安营。
撒下17:26 And Israel and Absalom put up their tents in the land of Gilead.
撒下17:27 大卫到了玛哈念的时候，亚扪族的拉巴人拿辖的儿子朔比、罗．底巴人亚米利的儿子玛吉、基列的罗基琳人巴西莱，
撒下17:27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
撒下17:28 带来寝具、碗盘、瓦器、小麦、大麦、面粉、炒麦、豆子、红豆、炒豆、
撒下17:28 Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,
撒下17:29 蜂蜜、奶油、绵羊和奶酪送给大卫和跟随他的人吃，因为他们说：“这些人在旷野一定又饥饿，又疲倦，又口渴了。”
撒下17:29 And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.