今日读经

大卫留在耶路撒冷

¹过了一年，到列王出战的时候，大卫又差派约押，率领臣仆和以色列众人出战。他们就打败亚扪人，围攻拉巴。大卫仍住在耶路撒冷。In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

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大卫与拔示巴同房

²一日，太阳平西，大卫从床上起来，在王宫的平顶上游行，看见一个妇人沐浴，容貌甚美，One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

³大卫就差人打听那妇人是谁。有人说：“她是以连的女儿，赫人乌利亚的妻拔示巴。”So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

⁴大卫差人去，将妇人接来；那时她的月经才得洁净。她来了，大卫与她同房，她就回家去了。Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

⁵于是她怀了孕，打发人去告诉大卫说：“我怀了孕。”And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

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召乌利亚回来

⁶大卫差人到约押那里，说：“你打发赫人乌利亚到我这里来。”约押就打发乌利亚去见大卫。At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

⁷乌利亚来了，大卫问约押好，也问兵好，又问争战的事怎样。When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.

⁸大卫对乌利亚说：“你回家去，洗洗脚吧！”乌利亚出了王宫，随后王送他一分食物。Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

⁹乌利亚却和他主人的仆人一同睡在宫门外，没有回家去。But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.

¹⁰有人告诉大卫说：“乌利亚没有回家去。”大卫就问乌利亚说：“你从远路上来，为什么不回家去呢？”And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”

¹¹乌利亚对大卫说：“约柜和以色列与犹大兵都住在棚里，我主约押和我主（或译：王）的仆人都在田野安营，我岂可回家吃喝、与妻子同寝呢？我敢在王面前起誓（原文是我指着王和王的性命起誓）：我决不行这事！”Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”

¹²大卫吩咐乌利亚说：“你今日仍住在这里，明日我打发你去。”于是乌利亚那日和次日住在耶路撒冷。“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

¹³大卫召了乌利亚来，叫他在自己面前吃喝，使他喝醉。到了晚上，乌利亚出去与他主的仆人一同住宿，还没有回到家里去。Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

大卫写信要乌利亚死在阵上

¹⁴次日早晨，大卫写信与约押，交乌利亚随手带去。The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

¹⁵信内写着说：“要派乌利亚前进，到阵势极险之处，你们便退后，使他被杀。”In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”

¹⁶约押围城的时候，知道敌人那里有勇士，便将乌利亚派在那里。So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.

¹⁷城里的人出来和约押打仗；大卫的仆人中有几个被杀的，赫人乌利亚也死了。And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

约押报告乌利亚的死

¹⁸于是，约押差人去将争战的一切事告诉大卫，Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

¹⁹又嘱咐使者说：“你把争战的一切事对王说完了，and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,

²⁰王若发怒，问你说：‘你们打仗为什么挨近城墙呢？岂不知敌人必从城上射箭吗？if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?

²¹从前打死耶路·比设（就是耶路·巴力，见士师记九章一节）儿子亚比米勒的是谁呢？岂不是一个妇人从城上抛下一块上磨石来，打在他身上，他就死在提备斯么？你们为什么挨近城墙呢？’你就说：‘王的仆人—赫人乌利亚也死了。’”Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”

²²使者起身，来见大卫，照着约押所吩咐他的话奏告大卫。So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.

²³使者对大卫说：“敌人强过我们，出到郊野与我们打仗，我们追杀他们，直到城门口。The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.

²⁴射箭的从城上射王的仆人，射死几个，赫人乌利亚也死了。”Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”

²⁵王向使者说：“你告诉约押说：‘不要因这事愁闷，刀剑或吞灭这人或吞灭那人，没有一定的；你只管竭力攻城，将城倾覆。’可以用这话勉励约押。”Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”

大卫娶拔示巴，耶和华不喜悦

²⁶乌利亚的妻听见丈夫乌利亚死了，就为他哀哭。When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

²⁷哀哭的日子过了，大卫差人将她接到宫里，她就作了大卫的妻，给大卫生了一个儿子。但大卫所行的这事，耶和华甚不喜悦。And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

拿单讲穷人羊羔的比喻

¹耶和华差遣拿单去见大卫。拿单到了大卫那里，对他说：“在一座城里有两个人：一个是富户，一个是穷人。Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

²富户有许多牛群羊群；The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

³穷人除了所买来养活的一只小母羊羔之外，别无所有。羊羔在他家里和他儿女一同长大，吃他所吃的，喝他所喝的，睡在他怀中，在他看来如同女儿一样。but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

⁴有一客人来到这富户家里；富户舍不得从自己的牛群羊群中取一只预备给客人吃，却取了那穷人的羊羔，预备给客人吃。”Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

⁵大卫就甚恼怒那人，对拿单说：“我指着永生的耶和华起誓，行这事的人该死！David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

⁶他必偿还羊羔四倍；因为他行这事，没有怜恤的心。”Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

你就是那人

⁷拿单对大卫说：“你就是那人！耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：‘我膏你作以色列的王，救你脱离扫罗的手。Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

⁸我将你主人的家业赐给你，将你主人的妻交在你怀里，又将以色列和犹大家赐给你；你若还以为不足，我早就加倍地赐给你。I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.

⁹你为什么藐视耶和华的命令，行他眼中看为恶的事呢？你借亚扪人的刀杀害赫人乌利亚，又娶了他的妻为妻。Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

¹⁰你既藐视我，娶了赫人乌利亚的妻为妻，所以刀剑必永不离开你的家。’Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

¹¹耶和华如此说：‘我必从你家中兴起祸患攻击你；我必在你眼前把你的妃嫔赐给别人，他在日光之下就与她们同寝。This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

¹²你在暗中行这事，我却要在以色列众人面前，日光之下，报应你。’”You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”

大卫认罪

¹³大卫对拿单说：“我得罪耶和华了！”拿单说：“耶和华已经除掉你的罪，你必不至于死。Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

¹⁴只是你行这事，叫耶和华的仇敌大得亵渎的机会，故此，你所得的孩子必定要死。”Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

孩子病死

¹⁵拿单就回家去了。耶和华击打乌利亚妻给大卫所生的孩子，使他得重病。After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

¹⁶所以大卫为这孩子恳求　神，而且禁食，进入内室，终夜躺在地上。David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

¹⁷他家中的老臣来到他旁边，要把他从地上扶起来，他却不肯起来，也不同他们吃饭。The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

¹⁸到第七日，孩子死了。大卫的臣仆不敢告诉他孩子死了，因他们说：“孩子还活着的时候，我们劝他，他尚且不肯听我们的话，若告诉他孩子死了，岂不更加忧伤吗？”On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”

¹⁹大卫见臣仆彼此低声说话，就知道孩子死了，问臣仆说：“孩子死了吗？”他们说：“死了。”When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.

²⁰大卫就从地上起来，沐浴，抹膏，换了衣裳，进耶和华的殿敬拜；然后回宫，吩咐人摆饭，他便吃了。Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

²¹臣仆问他说：“你所行的是什么意思？孩子活着的时候，你禁食哭泣；孩子死了，你倒起来吃饭。”“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”

²²大卫说：“孩子还活着，我禁食哭泣；因为我想，或者耶和华怜恤我，使孩子不死也未可知。David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

²³孩子死了，我何必禁食，我岂能使他返回呢？我必往他那里去，他却不能回我这里来。”But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

所罗门出生

²⁴大卫安慰他的妻拔示巴，与她同寝，她就生了儿子，给他起名叫所罗门。耶和华也喜爱他，Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

²⁵就借先知拿单赐他一个名字，叫耶底底亚，因为耶和华爱他。and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

攻取拉巴

²⁶约押攻取亚扪人的京城拉巴。Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

²⁷约押打发使者去见大卫，说：“我攻打拉巴，取其水城。Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.

²⁸现在你要聚集其余的军兵来，安营围攻这城，恐怕我取了这城，人就以我的名叫这城。”Now, therefore, assemble the rest of the troops, lay siege to the city, and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city, and it will be named after me.”

²⁹于是大卫聚集众军，往拉巴去攻城，就取了这城，So David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; and he fought against it and captured it.

³⁰夺了亚扪人之王所戴的金冠冕（王：或译玛勒堪；玛勒堪就是米勒公，又名摩洛，亚扪族之神名），其上的金子重一他连得，又嵌着宝石。人将这冠冕戴在大卫头上。大卫从城里夺了许多财物，Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

³¹将城里的人拉出来，放在锯下，或铁耙下，或铁斧下，或叫他经过砖窑（或译：强他们用锯，或用打粮食的铁器，或用铁斧做工，或使在砖窑里服役）；大卫待亚扪各城的居民都是如此。其后，大卫和众军都回耶路撒冷去了。David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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往以马忤斯的路上

¹³正当那日，门徒中有两个人往一个村子去；这村子名叫以马忤斯，离耶路撒冷约有二十五里。That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

¹⁴他们彼此谈论所遇见的这一切事。They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.

¹⁵正谈论相问的时候，耶稣亲自就近他们，和他们同行；And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them.

¹⁶只是他们的眼睛迷糊了，不认识他。But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.

脸上带着愁容

¹⁷耶稣对他们说：“你们走路彼此谈论的是什么事呢？”他们就站住，脸上带着愁容。He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on their faces.

¹⁸二人中有一个名叫革流巴的回答说：“你在耶路撒冷作客，还不知道这几天在那里所出的事吗？”One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”

¹⁹耶稣说：“什么事呢？”他们说：“就是拿撒勒人耶稣的事。他是个先知，在　神和众百姓面前，说话行事都有大能。“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

²⁰祭司长和我们的官府竟把他解去，定了死罪，钉在十字架上。Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.

²¹但我们素来所盼望、要赎以色列民的就是他！不但如此，而且这事成就，现在已经三天了。But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.

²²再者，我们中间有几个妇女使我们惊奇；她们清早到了坟墓那里，Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

²³不见他的身体，就回来告诉我们，说看见了天使显现，说他活了。but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.

²⁴又有我们的几个人往坟墓那里去，所遇见的正如妇女们所说的，只是没有看见他。”Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.”

耶稣讲解经上的话

²⁵耶稣对他们说：“无知的人哪，先知所说的一切话，你们的心信得太迟钝了。Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶基督这样受害，又进入他的荣耀，岂不是应当的吗？”Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

²⁷于是从摩西和众先知起，凡经上所指着自己的话都给他们讲解明白了。And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

擘饼时认出主

²⁸将近他们所去的村子，耶稣好像还要往前行，As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.

²⁹他们却强留他，说：“时候晚了，日头已经平西了，请你同我们住下吧！”耶稣就进去，要同他们住下。But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

³⁰到了坐席的时候，耶稣拿起饼来，祝谢了，擘开，递给他们。While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.

³¹他们的眼睛明亮了，这才认出他来。忽然耶稣不见了。Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

³²他们彼此说：“在路上，他和我们说话，给我们讲解圣经的时候，我们的心岂不是火热的吗？”They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

赶回耶路撒冷报信

³³他们就立时起身，回耶路撒冷去，正遇见十一个使徒和他们的同人聚集在一处，And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together

³⁴说：“主果然复活，已经现给西门看了。”and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”

³⁵两个人就把路上所遇见，和擘饼的时候怎么被他们认出来的事，都述说了一遍。Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.