15.戶篩對祭司撒督和亞比亞他說：「亞希多弗為押沙龍和以色列的長老所定的計謀是如此如此，我所定的計謀是如此如此。
Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, 「Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have advised them to do so and so.
16.現在你們要急速打發人去，告訴大衛說：『今夜不可住在曠野的渡口，務要過河，免得王和跟隨他的人都被吞滅。』」
Now send a message at once and tell David, 『Do not spend the night at the fords in the wilderness; cross over without fail, or the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.』」
17.那時，約拿單和亞希瑪斯在隱．羅結那裏等候，不敢進城，恐怕被人看見。有一個使女出來，將這話告訴他們，他們就去報信給大衛王。
Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A female servant was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they could not risk being seen entering the city.
18.然而有一個童子看見他們，就去告訴押沙龍。他們急忙跑到巴戶琳某人的家裏；那人院中有一口井，他們就下到井裏。
But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them left at once and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
19.那家的婦人用蓋蓋上井口，又在上頭鋪上碎麥，事就沒有洩漏。
His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it.
20.押沙龍的僕人來到那家，問婦人說：「亞希瑪斯和約拿單在哪裏？」婦人說：「他們過了河了。」僕人找他們，找不著，就回耶路撒冷去了。
When Absalom’s men came to the woman at the house, they asked, 「Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?」 The woman answered them, 「They crossed over the brook.」[c] The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Footnotes:
c. 2 Samuel 17:20 Or 「They passed by the sheep pen toward the water.」
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