亞撒黑追趕押尼珥被殺
18.在那裡有洗魯雅的三個兒子：約押、亞比篩、亞撒黑。亞撒黑腳快如野鹿一般；
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was as fleet-footed as a wild gazelle.
19.亞撒黑追趕押尼珥，直追趕他不偏左右。
He chased Abner, turning neither to the right nor to the left as he pursued him.
20.押尼珥回頭說：「你是亞撒黑嗎？」回答說：「是。」
Abner looked behind him and asked, 「Is that you, Asahel?」 「It is,」 he answered.
21.押尼珥對他說：「你或轉向左轉向右，拿住一個少年人，剝去他的戰衣。」亞撒黑卻不肯轉開不追趕他。
Then Abner said to him, 「Turn aside to the right or to the left; take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons.」 But Asahel would not stop chasing him.
22.押尼珥又對亞撒黑說：「你轉開不追趕我吧！我何必殺你呢？若殺你，有甚麼臉見你哥哥約押呢？」
Again Abner warned Asahel, 「Stop chasing me! Why should I strike you down? How could I look your brother Joab in the face?」
23.亞撒黑仍不肯轉開。故此，押尼珥就用槍鐏刺入他的肚腹，甚至槍從背後透出，亞撒黑就在那裏仆倒而死。眾人趕到亞撒黑仆倒而死的地方，就都站住。
But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel’s stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.
24.約押和亞比篩追趕押尼珥，日落的時候，到了通基遍曠野的路旁，基亞對面的亞瑪山。
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, and as the sun was setting, they came to the hill of Ammah, near Giah on the way to the wasteland of Gibeon.
25.便雅憫人聚集，跟隨押尼珥站在一個山頂上。
Then the men of Benjamin rallied behind Abner. They formed themselves into a group and took their stand on top of a hill.
26.押尼珥呼叫約押說：「刀劍豈可永遠殺人嗎？你豈不知終久必有苦楚嗎？你要等何時才叫百姓回去、不追趕弟兄呢？」
Abner called out to Joab, 「Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?」
27.約押說：「我指著永生的 神起誓：你若不說戲耍的那句話，今日早晨百姓就回去，不追趕弟兄了。」
Joab answered, 「As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning.」
28.於是約押吹角，眾民就站住，不再追趕以色列人，也不再打仗了。
So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.
29.押尼珥和跟隨他的人整夜經過亞拉巴，過約但河，走過畢倫，到了瑪哈念。
All that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, continued through the morning hours[b] and came to Mahanaim.
Footnotes:
b. 2 Samuel 2:29 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
30.約押追趕押尼珥回來，聚集眾民，見大衛的僕人中缺少了十九個人和亞撒黑。
Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army. Besides Asahel, nineteen of David’s men were found missing.
31.但大衛的僕人殺了便雅憫人和跟隨押尼珥的人，共三百六十名。
But David’s men had killed three hundred and sixty Benjamites who were with Abner.
32.眾人將亞撒黑送到伯利恆，葬在他父親的墳墓裏。約押和跟隨他的人走了一夜，天亮的時候到了希伯崙。
They took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak. |
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