今日读经

安慰哈嫩反遭羞辱

¹此后，亚扪人的王拿辖死了，他儿子接续他作王。Some time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.

²大卫说：“我要照哈嫩的父亲拿辖厚待我的恩典厚待哈嫩。”于是大卫差遣使者为他丧父安慰他。大卫的臣仆到了亚扪人的境内见哈嫩，要安慰他，And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

³但亚扪人的首领对哈嫩说：“大卫差人来安慰你，你想他是尊敬你父亲吗？他的臣仆来见你不是为详察窥探、倾覆这地吗？”the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”

⁴哈嫩便将大卫臣仆的胡须剃去一半，又割断他们下半截的衣服，使他们露出下体，打发他们回去。So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

⁵有人将臣仆所遇的事告诉大卫，他就差人去迎接他们，因为他们甚觉羞耻；告诉他们说：“可以住在耶利哥，等到胡须长起再回来。”When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

亚扪人雇来亚兰联军

⁶亚扪人知道大卫憎恶他们，哈嫩和亚扪人就打发人拿一千他连得银子，从美索不达米亚、亚兰玛迦、琐巴雇战车和马兵，When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

⁷于是雇了三万二千辆战车和玛迦王并他的军兵；他们来安营在米底巴前。亚扪人也从他们的城里出来，聚集交战。So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.

⁸大卫听见了，就差派约押统带勇猛的全军出去。On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.

⁹亚扪人出来在城门前摆阵，所来的诸王另在郊野摆阵。The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come stayed by themselves in the open country.

约押和亚比筛分兵迎战

¹⁰约押看见敌人在他前后摆阵，就从以色列军中挑选精兵，使他们对着亚兰人摆阵；When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

¹¹其余的兵交与他兄弟亚比筛，对着亚扪人摆阵。And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.

¹²约押对亚比筛说：“亚兰人若强过我，你就来帮助我；亚扪人若强过你，我就去帮助你。“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.

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¹³我们都当刚强，为本国的民和　神的城邑作大丈夫，愿耶和华凭他的意旨而行。”Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”

¹⁴于是约押和跟随他的人前进攻打亚兰人；亚兰人在约押面前逃跑。So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.

¹⁵亚扪人见亚兰人逃跑，他们也在约押的兄弟亚比筛面前逃跑进城。约押就回耶路撒冷去了。When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Joab’s brother Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.

大卫击败亚兰大军

¹⁶亚兰人见自己被以色列人打败，就打发使者将大河那边的亚兰人调来，哈大利谢的将军朔法率领他们。When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.

¹⁷有人告诉大卫，他就聚集以色列众人过约旦河，来到亚兰人那里，迎着他们摆阵。大卫既摆阵攻击亚兰人，亚兰人就与他打仗。When this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, advanced toward the Arameans, and arrayed for battle against them. When David lined up to engage them in battle, they fought against him.

¹⁸亚兰人在以色列人面前逃跑。大卫杀了亚兰七千辆战车的人，四万步兵，又杀了亚兰的将军朔法。But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.

¹⁹属哈大利谢的诸王见自己被以色列人打败，就与大卫和好，归服他。于是亚兰人不敢再帮助亚扪人了。When Hadadezer’s subjects saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites anymore.

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攻取拉巴

¹过了一年，到列王出战的时候，约押率领军兵毁坏亚扪人的地，围攻拉巴；大卫仍住在耶路撒冷。约押攻打拉巴，将城倾覆。In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.

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²大卫夺了亚扪人之王所戴的金冠冕（王：或译玛勒堪。玛勒堪即米勒公，是亚扪族之神名），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 David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh 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.

³将城里的人拉出来，放在锯下，或铁耙下，或铁斧下（或译：强他们用锯，或用打粮食的铁器，或用铁斧做工），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 did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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击杀迦特的伟人

⁴后来，以色列人在基色与非利士人打仗。户沙人西比该杀了伟人的一个儿子细派，非利士人就被制伏了。Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

⁵又与非利士人打仗。睚珥的儿子伊勒哈难杀了迦特人歌利亚的兄弟拉哈米；这人的枪杆粗如织布的机轴。Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

⁶又在迦特打仗。那里有一个身量高大的人，手脚都是六指，共有二十四个指头，他也是伟人的儿子。And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,

⁷这人向以色列人骂阵，大卫的哥哥示米亚的儿子约拿单就杀了他。and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.

⁸这三个人是迦特伟人的儿子，都死在大卫和他仆人的手下。So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

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撒但激动大卫数点百姓

¹撒但起来攻击以色列人，激动大卫数点他们。Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

²大卫就吩咐约押和民中的首领说：“你们去数点以色列人，从别是巴直到但，回来告诉我，我好知道他们的数目。”So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”

³约押说：“愿耶和华使他的百姓比现在加增百倍。我主我王啊，他们不都是你的仆人吗？我主为何吩咐行这事，为何使以色列人陷在罪里呢？”But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

⁴但王的命令胜过约押。约押就出去，走遍以色列地，回到耶路撒冷，Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and traveled throughout Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem.

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⁵将百姓的总数奏告大卫：以色列人拿刀的有一百一十万；犹大人拿刀的有四十七万。And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.

⁶惟有利未人和便雅悯人没有数在其中，因为约押厌恶王的这命令。But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.

神降灾，大卫认罪

⁷神不喜悦这数点百姓的事，便降灾给以色列人。This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.

⁸大卫祷告　神说：“我行这事大有罪了！现在求你除掉仆人的罪孽，因我所行的甚是愚昧。”Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

三样灾任选一样

⁹耶和华吩咐大卫的先见迦得说：And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer,

¹⁰“你去告诉大卫说，耶和华如此说：我有三样灾，随你选择一样，我好降与你。”“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

¹¹于是，迦得来见大卫，对他说：“耶和华如此说：‘你可以随意选择：So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose

¹²或三年的饥荒；或败在你敌人面前，被敌人的刀追杀三个月；或在你国中有耶和华的刀，就是三日的瘟疫，耶和华的使者在以色列的四境施行毁灭。’现在你要想一想，我好回复那差我来的。”between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

¹³大卫对迦得说：“我甚为难。我愿落在耶和华的手里，因为他有丰盛的怜悯；我不愿落在人的手里。”David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

瘟疫临到，使者停在禾场

¹⁴于是，耶和华降瘟疫与以色列人，以色列人就死了七万。So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

¹⁵神差遣使者去灭耶路撒冷，刚要灭的时候，耶和华看见后悔，就不降这灾了，吩咐灭城的天使说：“够了，住手吧！”那时，耶和华的使者站在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾场那里。Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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¹⁶大卫举目，看见耶和华的使者站在天地间，手里有拔出来的刀，伸在耶路撒冷以上。大卫和长老都身穿麻衣，面伏于地。When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

¹⁷大卫祷告　神说：“吩咐数点百姓的不是我吗？我犯了罪，行了恶，但这群羊做了什么呢？愿耶和华—我　神的手攻击我和我的父家，不要攻击你的民，降瘟疫与他们。”And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”

在阿珥楠的禾场筑坛

¹⁸耶和华的使者吩咐迦得去告诉大卫，叫他上去，在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾场上为耶和华筑一座坛；Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁹大卫就照着迦得奉耶和华名所说的话上去了。So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.

²⁰那时阿珥楠正打麦子，回头看见天使，就和他四个儿子都藏起来了。Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

²¹大卫到了阿珥楠那里，阿珥楠看见大卫，就从禾场上出去，脸伏于地，向他下拜。David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.

²²大卫对阿珥楠说：“你将这禾场与相连之地卖给我，我必给你足价，我好在其上为耶和华筑一座坛，使民间的瘟疫止住。”Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

²³阿珥楠对大卫说：“你可以用这禾场，愿我主我王照你所喜悦的去行。我也将牛给你作燔祭，把打粮的器具当柴烧，拿麦子作素祭。这些我都送给你。”Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”

²⁴大卫王对阿珥楠说：“不然！我必要用足价向你买。我不用你的物献给耶和华，也不用白得之物献为燔祭。”“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

²⁵于是大卫为那块地平了六百舍客勒金子给阿珥楠。So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

²⁶大卫在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛，献燔祭和平安祭，求告耶和华。耶和华就应允他，使火从天降在燔祭坛上。And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

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²⁷耶和华吩咐使者，他就收刀入鞘。Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.

就在禾场上献祭

²⁸那时，大卫见耶和华在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾场上应允了他，就在那里献祭。At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

²⁹摩西在旷野所造之耶和华的帐幕和燔祭坛都在基遍的高处；For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

³⁰只是大卫不敢前去求问　神，因为惧怕耶和华使者的刀。but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

美门口的瘸腿人

¹申初祷告的时候，彼得、约翰上圣殿去。One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

²有一个人，生来是瘸腿的，天天被人抬来，放在殿的一个门口（那门名叫美门），要求进殿的人周济。And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

³他看见彼得、约翰将要进殿，就求他们周济。When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.

⁴彼得、约翰定睛看他；彼得说：“你看我们！”Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.

⁵那人就留意看他们，指望得着什么。So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

奉耶稣的名起来行走

⁶彼得说：“金银我都没有，只把我所有的给你：我奉拿撒勒人耶稣基督的名，叫你起来行走！”But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

⁷于是拉着他的右手，扶他起来；他的脚和踝子骨立刻健壮了，Taking him by the right hand, Peter helped him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

⁸就跳起来，站着，又行走，同他们进了殿，走着，跳着，赞美　神。He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.

⁹百姓都看见他行走，赞美　神；When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

¹⁰认得他是那素常坐在殿的美门口求周济的，就因他所遇着的事满心希奇、惊讶。they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

众人跑到所罗门的廊下

¹¹那人正在称为所罗门的廊下，拉着彼得、约翰；众百姓一齐跑到他们那里，很觉希奇。While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.

彼得向百姓讲道

¹²彼得看见，就对百姓说：“以色列人哪，为什么把这事当作希奇呢？为什么定睛看我们，以为我们凭自己的能力和虔诚使这人行走呢？And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

¹³亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的　神，就是我们列祖的　神，已经荣耀了他的仆人（或译：儿子）耶稣；你们却把他交付彼拉多。彼拉多定意要释放他，你们竟在彼拉多面前弃绝了他。The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

¹⁴你们弃绝了那圣洁公义者，反求着释放一个凶手给你们。You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

¹⁵你们杀了那生命的主，　神却叫他从死里复活了；我们都是为这事作见证。You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

¹⁶我们因信他的名，他的名便叫你们所看见所认识的这人健壮了；正是他所赐的信心，叫这人在你们众人面前全然好了。By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.

当悔改归正

¹⁷弟兄们，我晓得你们做这事是出于不知，你们的官长也是如此。And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

¹⁸但神曾借众先知的口，预言基督将要受害，就这样应验了。But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

¹⁹所以，你们当悔改归正，使你们的罪得以涂抹，Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

²⁰这样，那安舒的日子就必从主面前来到；主也必差遣所预定给你们的基督（耶稣）降临。that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you.

²¹天必留他，等到万物复兴的时候，就是　神从创世以来、借着圣先知的口所说的。Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

摩西和众先知都说到这些日子

²²摩西曾说：‘主—　神要从你们弟兄中间给你们兴起一位先知像我，凡他向你们所说的，你们都要听从。For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

²³凡不听从那先知的，必要从民中全然灭绝。’Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’

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²⁴从撒母耳以来的众先知，凡说预言的，也都说到这些日子。Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

²⁵你们是先知的子孙，也承受　神与你们祖宗所立的约，就是对亚伯拉罕说：‘地上万族都要因你的后裔得福。’And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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²⁶神既兴起他的仆人（或译：儿子），就先差他到你们这里来，赐福给你们，叫你们各人回转，离开罪恶。”When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”