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1:1 掃羅死後，大衛擊殺亞瑪力人回來，在洗革拉住了兩天。 After the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.
1:2 第三天，有一人從掃羅的營裏出來，衣服撕裂，頭蒙灰塵，到大衛面前伏地叩拜。 On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and with dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor. 1:3 大衛問他說：「你從哪裏來？」他說：「我從以色列的營裏逃來。」 <<Where have you come from?>> David asked him. He answered, <<I have escaped from the Israelite camp.>> 1:4 大衛又問他說：「事情怎樣？請你告訴我。」他回答說：「百姓從陣上逃跑，也有許多人仆倒死亡；掃羅和他兒子約拿單也死了。」 <<What happened?>> David asked. <<Tell me.>> He said, <<The men fled from the battle. Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.>> 1:5 大衛問報信的少年人說：「你怎麼知道掃羅和他兒子約拿單死了呢？」 Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, <<How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?>> 1:6 報信的少年人說：「我偶然到基利波山，看見掃羅伏在自己槍上，有戰車、馬兵緊緊地追他。 <<I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,>> the young man said, <<and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and riders almost upon him. 1:7 他回頭看見我，就呼叫我。我說：『我在這裏。』 When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, <What can I do?> 1:8 他問我說：『你是甚麼人？』我說：『我是亞瑪力人。』 <<He asked me, <Who are you?> << <An Amalekite,> I answered. 1:9 他說：『請你來，將我殺死；因為痛苦抓住我，我的生命尚存。』 <<Then he said to me, <Stand over me and kill me! I am in the throes of death, but I'm still alive.> 1:10 我準知他仆倒必不能活，就去將他殺死，把他頭上的冠冕、臂上的鐲子拿到我主這裏。」 <<So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.>> 1:11 大衛就撕裂衣服，跟隨他的人也是如此， Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them. 1:12 而且悲哀哭號，禁食到晚上，是因掃羅和他兒子約拿單，並耶和華的民以色列家的人，倒在刀下。 They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. 1:13 大衛問報信的少年人說：「你是哪裏的人？」他說：「我是亞瑪力客人的兒子。」 David said to the young man who brought him the report, <<Where are you from?>> <<I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite,>> he answered. 1:14 大衛說：「你伸手殺害耶和華的受膏者，怎麼不畏懼呢？」 David asked him, <<Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?>> 1:15 大衛叫了一個少年人來，說：「你去殺他吧！」 Then David called one of his men and said, <<Go, strike him down!>> So he struck him down, and he died. 1:16 大衛對他說：「你流人血的罪歸到自己的頭上，因為你親口作見證說：『我殺了耶和華的受膏者。』」少年人就把他殺了。 For David had said to him, <<Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, <I killed the LORD's anointed.> >> 1:17 大衛作哀歌，弔掃羅和他兒子約拿單， David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan, 1:18 且吩咐將這歌教導猶大人。這歌名叫「弓歌」，寫在雅煞珥書上。 and ordered that the men of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar): 1:19 歌中說：以色列啊，你尊榮者在山上被殺！大英雄何竟死亡！ <<Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen! 1:20 不要在迦特報告；不要在亞實基倫街上傳揚；免得非利士的女子歡樂；免得未受割禮之人的女子矜誇。 <<Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice. 1:21 基利波山哪，願你那裏沒有雨露！願你田地無土產可作供物！因為英雄的盾牌在那裏被污丟棄；掃羅的盾牌彷彿未曾抹油。 <<O mountains of Gilboa, may you have neither dew nor rain, nor fields that yield offerings (((of grain))). For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul--no longer rubbed with oil. 1:22 約拿單的弓箭非流敵人的血不退縮；掃羅的刀劍非剖勇士的油不收回。 From the blood of the slain, from the flesh of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, the sword of Saul did not return unsatisfied. 1:23 掃羅和約拿單─活時相悅相愛，死時也不分離─他們比鷹更快，比獅子還強。 <<Saul and Jonathan-- in life they were loved and gracious, and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 1:24 以色列的女子啊，當為掃羅哭號！他曾使你們穿朱紅色的美衣，使你們衣服有黃金的妝飾。 <<O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery, who adorned your garments with ornaments of gold. 1:25 英雄何竟在陣上仆倒！約拿單何竟在山上被殺！ <<How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights. 1:26 我兄約拿單哪，我為你悲傷！我甚喜悅你！你向我發的愛情奇妙非常，過於婦女的愛情。 I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women. 1:27 英雄何竟仆倒！戰具何竟滅沒！ <<How the mighty have fallen! The weapons of war have perished!>> This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（01月25日）
一月廿五日 「您的杖，您的竿，都安慰我。」詩篇廿三篇4節 在我父親的家中有一個小房間，裡面藏著我家幾代所用的許多手杖。有的是爬山用的，有的是走平坦大道用的，有的是走泥濘之地用的，有的是雨後雪後行路用的，每種手杖的樣式各不相同。有時我回故鄉去探望父親，他老人家常喜歡和我出外散步；每次出發之前，我們總先到手杖室中去揀選我們那一次所適用的手杖。因此我們常常想起神的話語是我們生活中的手杖，會給我無限幫助和安慰。 在打仗的時候，緊急的風聲使我們心慌意亂，神給我們的杖是：「他必不怕兇惡的信息；他心堅定，倚靠耶和華。」（詩一一二7）這杖扶持我們經過許多黑暗的日子。 當死亡奪去我們的孩子，使我們心碎的時候，我在應許中找到另一根安慰的杖：「一宿雖然有哭泣，早晨便必歡呼。」（詩卅5） 有一次我病倒了，在外養病有一年之久，在這時期中我不知道究竟我是否再會恢復，再能回到我的家中去，再擔任我以前的工作。在這樣沒有指望之中，我始終抓住神的杖：「耶和華說：『我知道我向你們所懷的意念，是賜平安的意念，不是降災禍的意念。』」（耶廿九11） 在危險或疑懼的時候，人的評判都說「完了」的時候，我發見了一根帶領我安然過去的杖：「你們得力在乎平靜安穩。」（賽卅15） 在遇到意外事情的時候，似乎沒有一點工夫可以設法補救了，我發見了一根從來沒有誤過我的杖：「信靠的人必不著急。」（賽廿八16） ─亞保德便雅憫 馬丁路德的妻子說：「如果神不叫我經過苦難，我永遠不會知道詩篇中這些話語是甚麼意思；我也永遠不會明白基督人的責任是甚麼。」真的，神杖好像教員指示孩子識字的教鞭一般，指到某一個字，孩子就注意這一個字；照樣，神指導我們許多有益的功課，是我們在別的地方永不會學到的。 ─選 「神總是用祂的竿和杖指引我們。」 「你的鞋是銅的、鐵的。你的日子如何，你的力量也必如何。」（申卅三25） 讓我們記得：如果神要我們走在堅固的石路上，祂必先給我們穿上鐵鞋或是銅鞋；祂絕不會不先替我們預備好了，就差我們出外去走崎嶇的路。 ─麥克勞
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月25日）
January 25 "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."(Psa. 23:4.) ＡT my father's house in the country there is a little closet in the chimney corner where are kept the canes and walking-sticks of several generations of our family. In my visits to the old house, when my father and I are going out for a walk, we often go to the cane closet, and pich out our sticks to suit the fancy of the occasion. In this I have frequently been reminded that the Word of God is a staff. During the war, when the season of discouragement and impending danger was upon us, the verse, "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord." was a staff to walk with many dark days. When death took away our child and left us almost heartbrokden, I found another staff in the promise that "weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning." When in impaired health, I was exiled for a year, not knowing whether I should be permitted to return to my home and work again, I took with me this staff which never failed, "He knoweth the thoughts that he thinketh toward me, thoughts of peace and not of evil." In times of special danger or doubt, when human judgment has seemed to be set at naught, I have found it easy to go forward with this staff, "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." And in emergencies, when there has seemed to be no adequate time for deliberation or for action, I have never found that this staff has failed me, "He that believeth shall not make haste." ─Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, in The Outlook. "I had never known," said Martin Luther's wife, "what such and such things meant, in such and such psalms, such complaints and workings of spirit; I had never understood the practice of Christian duties, had not God brought me under some affiction." It is very true that God's rod is as the schoolmaster's pointer to the child, pointing out the letter, that he may the better take notice of it; thus He pointeth out to us many good lessons which we should never otherwise have learned. ─Selected. "God always sends His staff with His rod." "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." (Deut.33:25.) Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well. ─Maclaren
■ 永活之泉（01月25日）
一月廿五日 世界 「不要愛世界，和世界上的事，人若愛世界，父的愛就不在他裡面了。」約翰一書二章15節直譯 約翰很清楚地告訴我們，他所說的世界是甚麼意思。他說：「凡世界上的事，就像肉體的情慾、眼目的情慾，並今生的驕傲，都不是從父來的，乃是從世界來的。」（約壹二16） 世界是一種性質，或者說是一種權勢，就是人因著罪所墮落在其中的。這世界的神為著欺騙人的緣故，就把自己隱藏在神所創造的東西裡面，天天藉著世界上的福樂用諸般的試探圍繞著基督徒。 這就是夏娃在伊甸園裡所發生的故事，在創世記三章6節裡，我們也發現約翰所提到的三種情形：第一，肉體的情慾——「女人見那棵樹的果子好作食物：」第二，眼目的情慾——「也悅人的眼目；」第三，今生的驕傲——「且是可喜愛的，能使人有智慧。」就是在今天，世界仍然將引人食慾的美食，以及許多叫肉體嗜慾喜好的東西，並許多眼目的情慾、財富、美色，和奢華擺在我們的面前。此外還有今生的驕傲。當一個人想像他是知道並且瞭解每一件事物的時候，他就因此驕傲起來了。 我們在這個世界中的生活，因著這許多引誘肉體的事物，（那麼多能霸佔我們眼目和我們內心的事物，那麼多屬世的智慧和知識）豈不是充滿了危險麼？所以約翰告訴我們說：「不要愛世界，人若愛世界，父的愛就不在他裡面了。」我們的主也呼召我們，如同當初呼召祂的門徒一樣，要我們撇下一切來跟隨祂。 基督徒啊！你是生活在一個危險的世界中，緊緊的倚靠主耶穌吧！當祂教導你遠避世界和世界吸引的時候，你的愛就要在忠誠的事奉裡歸給祂。但是請記得，你必須每天和主耶穌有交通，獨有祂的愛才能消滅你愛世界的心，所以要花時間單獨與你的主同在。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月25日）
一月廿五日 留餘地給神 「神…既然樂意……」加拉太書一章16節 既為神的工人，我們就要為神稍留地步──給神旋轉自如的地方。我們計算著說，將要發生這，將要發生那；卻忘記替神留著容身之地。如果神用我們所不期望的一種方式，來參加我們的聚會或我們的佈道，我們驚奇麼？不要期望神從固定的方式到來，卻要期望祂來，期望祂來便是為祂稍留餘地。盼望祂來，卻不可盼望祂以一定方式裡來。知道神愈多，愈能叫我們曉得祂有隨時來到的可能。我們容易忽視神來的突兀，不過神絕然不用別的方法。神能於忽然之間，碰進生命裡面──「這是隨神的美意……。」 常常保持你的生活，與神有密切的關係，以便祂的威力臨近你的左右，圍繞著你。常存期望之心，留意你為神所留的餘地，是否是祂喜歡進來的地方？
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月25日）
一月廿五日 「善美的要持守」帖撒羅尼迦前書五章21節 我們若是能學習真理，而有更新的發現、接受更多的祝福，但是不排斥已經證實的真理，或是忽略奠定好的基礎，那是最理想不過了。 有些人似乎總是在奠定新的基礎，但是最後那些基礎看起來卻像廢墟，以及半途而廢的建築，沒有一樣是完工的成品。 如果今天你為了某些新的亮光，而拋棄一些一年前你認為珍貴且屬靈的真理，那麼我可以保證一年以後，你可能會為了另外一些更新的亮光，而放棄你現在所認識的真理。 雖然神不斷地加添我們的智慧，使我們成長茁壯，但是祂總是藉著祂已經教導我們的，或是在我們生命已經建立的基礎，給我們更多的教導。 總言之，我們應該凡事察驗，善美的要持守，正如腓立比書三章16節所說：「我們到了甚麼地步，就當照著甚麼地步行。」
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