27.押尼珥回到希伯崙,約押領他到城門的甕洞,假作要與他說機密話,就在那裏刺透他的肚腹,他便死了。這是報殺他兄弟亞撒黑的仇。
Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died.
28.大衛聽見了,就說:「流尼珥的兒子押尼珥的血,這罪在耶和華面前必永不歸我和我的國。
Later, when David heard about this, he said, 「I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
29.願流他血的罪歸到約押頭上和他父的全家;又願約押家不斷有患漏症的,長大痲瘋的,架柺而行的,被刀殺死的,缺乏飲食的。」
May his blood fall on the head of Joab and on his whole family! May Joab’s family never be without someone who has a running sore or leprosy[a] or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.」
Footnotes:
a. 2 Samuel 3:29 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
30.約押和他兄弟亞比篩殺了押尼珥,是因押尼珥在基遍爭戰的時候殺了他們的兄弟亞撒黑。
(Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)