1
2Sa 16:1-4.
繁體中文
英語原文
2Sa 16:1-4.
ZIBA, BY FALSE SUGGESTIONS, CLAIMS HIS MASTER'S INHERITANCE.
1. Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him--This crafty man, anticipating the certain failure of Absalom's conspiracy, took steps to prepare for his future advancement on the restoration of the king.
a bottle of wine--a large goatskin vessel. Its size made the supply of wine proportioned to the rest of his present.
2
無題
繁體中文
2. 這些驢是給王的家眷騎的——逃亡的王室是步行而行的，這並非因無力備辦坐騎，而是與他們當前謙卑悔罪的狀態相稱。
英語原文
2. The asses be for the king's household to ride on--The royal fugitives were moving on foot, not from inability to procure conveyances, but as being suitable to their present state of humiliation and penitence.
3
無題
繁體中文
3. 今日以色列家必將我父親的國歸還我——在這內亂紛擾的時刻，這樣的指望原也不無道理：大衛一家會因彼此的內鬥而自取滅亡，百姓則會恢復舊日的王朝。洗巴的話聽來頗為可信。許多曾蒙王恩的人如今都背棄了他。無怪乎他在一時激憤之中，因聽信讒言而以為米非波設也在其列，便輕率地作出不義的判斷，使一位忠誠的朋友在名聲和利益上都受了重大的損害。
英語原文
3. To-day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father--Such a hope might not unnaturally arise at this period of civil distraction, that the family of David would destroy themselves by their mutual broils, and the people reinstate the old dynasty. There was an air of plausibility in Ziba's story. Many, on whom the king had conferred favors, were now deserting him. No wonder, therefore, that in the excitement of momentary feeling, believing, on the report of a slanderer, Mephibosheth to be among the number, he pronounced a rash and unrighteous judgment by which a great injury was inflicted on the character and interests of a devoted friend.
5
2Sa 16:5-19.
繁體中文
2Sa 16:5-19.
示每咒詛大衛。
5-12. 大衛王到了巴戶琳——這是便雅憫的一座城
（撒下3:16；19:16）。
不過此處所指的只是那地的邊界。
示每……屬掃羅家族的人——他家族的不幸，以及大衛佔據了他們視為己有的產業，為這番粗暴侮辱和暴行的爆發提供了一個自然卻不足為據的理由。他斥責大衛為野心勃勃的篡位者，並作為一個罪行累累自食其果的人，要他交出他根本無權佔有的王位。他的話，是一個自以為家族蒙受冤屈而滿腔憤慨之人所說的話。大衛並未犯示每所控之罪；但他的良心卻提醒他別的一些明顯的罪愆；因此他把這人的咒詛視為來自上天的管教。他對亞比篩之議的答覆，顯出一種深沉而謙卑順服的靈——一種注視神的護理、並承認示每為神管教之杖的工具之人的靈。有一件事值得注意：他在這樣大患難之中，行事竟比他在昌盛有權之時所常能鼓起的勇氣，更加獨立於洗魯雅的眾子。
英語原文
2Sa 16:5-19.
SHIMEI CURSES DAVID.
5-12. when king David came to Bahurim--a city of Benjamin
(2Sa 3:16; 19:16).
It is, however, only the confines of the district that are here meant.
Shimei, . . . a man of the family of Saul--The misfortune of his family, and the occupation by David of what they considered their rightful possessions, afforded a natural, if not a justifiable cause for this ebullition of rude insults and violence. He upbraided David as an ambitious usurper, and charged him, as one whose misdeeds had recoiled upon his own head, to surrender a throne to which he was not entitled. His language was that of a man incensed by the wrongs that he conceived had been done to his house. David was guiltless of the crime of which Shimei accused him; but his conscience reminded him of other flagrant iniquities; and he, therefore, regarded the cursing of this man as a chastisement from heaven. His answer to Abishai's proposal evinced the spirit of deep and humble resignation--the spirit of a man who watched the course of Providence, and acknowledged Shimei as the instrument of God's chastening hand. One thing is remarkable, that he acted more independently of the sons of Zeruiah in this season of great distress than he could often muster courage to do in the days of his prosperity and power.
13
無題
繁體中文
13. 大衛沿著山坡對面而行——當他沿著橄欖山東面那條崎嶇的小路下山時，「沿著山坡而行」——字面作「山的肋骨」。
拿石頭砍他——作為輕蔑和侮辱的記號。
揚起塵土——這不忠的臣民竟在不幸君王經過的路上揚起陣陣塵土，似乎是故意雪上加霜地侮辱他。
英語原文
13. went along on the hill's side over against him--as he descended the rough road on the eastern side of the Mount of Olives, "went along on the hill's side"--literally, "the rib of the hill."
threw stones at him--as a mark of contempt and insult.
cast dust--As if to add insult to injury, clouds of dust were thrown by this disloyal subject in the path of his unfortunate sovereign.
14
無題
繁體中文
14. 就在那裡歇息歇息——即在那個叫巴戶琳的城裡。
英語原文
14. refreshed themselves there--that is, in the city of Bahurim.
15
無題
繁體中文
15-19. 戶篩對押沙龍說：願王萬歲——戶篩對大衛的忠誠是眾所周知的，他在叛黨營中出現，引起了極大的驚訝。然而他以極大的手腕，聲稱自己有責任支持那照著神的護理和民意似乎已定意要得勝的一方，又以他對父親的友誼作為他對兒子忠誠的保證，於是說服了押沙龍相信他的真誠，被接納為新王的謀臣之一。
英語原文
15-19. Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king--Hushai's devotion to David was so well-known, that his presence in the camp of the conspirators excited great surprise. Professing, however, with great address, to consider it his duty to support the cause which the course of Providence and the national will had seemingly decreed should triumph, and urging his friendship for the father as a ground of confidence in his fidelity to the son, he persuaded Absalom of his sincerity, and was admitted among the councillors of the new king.
20
2Sa 16:20-23.
繁體中文
2Sa 16:20-23.
亞希多弗的計謀。
20. 你們出個主意，我們怎樣行才好——這是史載第一次的內閣會議，不過由於眾人對亞希多弗的敬重，會議的進行便完全由他主導。
英語原文
2Sa 16:20-23.
AHITHOPHEL'S COUNSEL.
20. Give counsel among you what we shall do--This is the first cabinet council on record, although the deference paid to Ahithophel gave him the entire direction of the proceedings.
21
無題
繁體中文
21. 亞希多弗對押沙龍說——這位謀士看出如今木已成舟；半吊子的措施是不合宜的。為了徹底斷絕王與他叛逆之子之間和好的可能，他就留守在宮中的那些王室婦女的處置，提出了這個殘忍至極的建議。婦女被視為神聖，在戰禍中通常不受侵犯。東方的歷史中，押沙龍這種無恥暴行只有一個相仿的例子。
英語原文
21. Ahithophel said unto Absalom--This councillor saw that now the die was cast; half measures would be inexpedient. To cut off all possibility of reconciliation between the king and his rebellious son, he gave this atrocious advice regarding the treatment of the royal women who had been left in charge of the palace. Women, being held sacred, are generally left inviolate in the casualties of war. The history of the East affords only one parallel to this infamous outrage of Absalom.
2Sa 16:1-4.
洗巴藉讒言霸佔主人的產業。
1. 米非波設的僕人洗巴來迎接他——這個狡黠的人預料押沙龍的叛亂必敗無疑，便設法為自己在王復位後的前途鋪路。
一皮袋酒——一個盛酒的山羊皮大囊。它的容量使所備的酒與其餘的禮物分量相稱。