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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（02月17日）
二月十七日 「我……賜給以色列人的地。」約書亞記一章2節（直譯） 這裏神所說的「賜給」是現在式，並不是神將要作的事，乃是神就在此刻要作的。信心求神現在，神就現在賜給。神今天就要工作。許多時候我們在神面前等候一件東西、盼望一件東西、尋求一件東西，卻並沒有相信。這不過是我們的盼望，這不過是我們的需要，並不是我們的信心；因為「信就是所望之事的實底，是未見之事的確據。」（來十一1）「凡你們禱告祈求的，無論是甚麼，只要信是得著的，就必得著。」（可十一24）這裏說到信心的禱告，所用的動詞都是現在式的。我們有沒有這現在的信心呢？ ─辛普遜 真實的信心，就是以神的話為算數，在未見應驗之前，就已經深信了。頂自然地，我們常要先有眼見，或是憑據，證明我們所求的已經蒙神應許，然後纔肯相信；但是如果我們走信心的道路，除了神的話以外，我們不需要別的憑據，雖然四周的環境儘可和祂的話相反。祂已經說了，必定會按照我們的信心，給我們成全的。我們將要看見祂話語的應驗，因為我們已經信了。 寫詩篇的人說：「我若不信在活人之地得見耶和華的恩惠，就早已喪膽了。」（詩廿七13）他雖然還沒有看見神對他禱告的答應，但是他已經相信得見；這就能保守他不喪膽。 若是我們也有「信得見」的信心，我們就不會灰心了。我們要笑「不可能」，我們要頂高興地看神怎樣在紅海——人沒有方法可以脫離艱難的時候─開路。在這種試煉中，我們的信心最會長髮。 親愛的受苦的信徒啊，你是不是日夜在等待神，深怕神已經把你忘了呢？絕不會的，你當舉起你的頭來，為著那已經在半路上的拯救開始讚美祂。 ─譯自讚美的生命
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月17日）
February 17 "The land which I do give them, even the children of Israel." (Joshua 1:2.) ＧOD here speaks in the immediate present. It is not something He is going to do, but something He does do, this moment. So faith ever speaks. So God ever gives. So He is meeting you today, in the present moment. This is the test of faith. So long as you are waiting for a thing, hoping for it, looking for it, you are not believing. It may be hope, it may be earnest desire, but it is not faith; for "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The command in regard to believing prayer is the present tense. "When ye pray, believe that ye receive the things that ye desire, and ye shall have them." Have we come to that moment' Have we met God in His everlasting NOW? ─Joshua, by Simpson. True faith counts on God, and believes before it sees. Naturally, we want some evidence that our petition is granted before we believe; but when we walk by faith we need no other evidence than God's Word. He has spoken, and according to our faith it shall be done unto us. We shall see because we have believed, and this faith sustains us in the most trying places, when everything around us seems to contradict God's Word. The Psalmist says, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of living" (Psa. 27:13). He did not see as yet the Lord's answer to his prayers, but he believed to see; and this kept him from fainting. If we have the faith that believes to see, it will keep us from growing discouraged. We shall "laugh at impossibilities," we shall watch with delight to see how God is going to open up a path through the Red Sea when there is no human way out of our difficulty. It is just in such places of severe testing that our faith grows and strengthens. Have you been waiting upon God, dear troubled one, during long nights and weary days, and have feared that you were forgotten? Nay, lift up your head, and begin to praise Him even now for the deliverance which is on its way to you. ─Life of Praise.
■ 永活之泉（02月17日）
二月十七日 一個完全的心 「耶和華的眼目遍察全地，要顯大能幫助向祂心存誠實的人。」歷代志下十六章9節 我們知道，作世界的事務，必須用整個的心，才能作得好；這個原則，在屬靈的境界裡更是如此。神曾命令我們：「你要盡心、盡性、盡力，愛耶和華你的神。」（申六5）在耶利米廿九章十三節說：「你們尋求我，若專心尋求我，就必尋見。」 如果有熱心的基督徒，只專心注意他們日常的工作，卻在事奉神的事上非常隨便，這是希奇的事。他們不認識無論在甚麼情景中都該全心全力獻上事奉神。 我們願藉這本書有一個徹底的認識，就是：必須絕對用全心來尋求神。「耶和華的眼目遍察全地，要顯大能幫助向祂心存誠實的人。」這句話對於我們是一個何等的鼓勵，要叫我們帶著一個正直的心，謙卑等候在神面前，我們可以相信，祂的眼睛是察看我們的，要在我們和我們的工作上，顯出神的大能來。 基督徒啊！你有沒有在你敬拜神的時候，每個早晨學習這個功課，將自己獻上，為要遵行祂的旨意呢？用全心來禱告，用誠實的全心將自己獻給祂，然後在信心裡盼望神的能力在你裡面作工，也藉著你作工。 請你記得，要達到這個，必須先安靜在祂面前，直到你充分地領會祂實在是秘密的在你心裡作工。「我……等候神。」（詩六十九3）「把我藏在祂帳幕的隱密處。」（詩廿七5）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月17日）
二月十七日 避免意志消沉的自動力 「起來吃罷！」列王記上十九章5節 天使未給以利亞甚麼異象，未給他解釋聖經，也未行甚麼非常的事；只吩咐他去做極平常的事──起來吃。如果我們從未意志消沉，我們就不是有生之物；一個結晶體，是不會意志消沉的。要做一個人就有意志消沉的可能。不然，也就沒有所謂揚眉吐氣了。有些東西，是使我們意志消沉的，是產生死亡的，所以估計你自己的力量，總要將意志消沉的可能計算在裡面。 當神的靈來臨的時候，也不給我們異象；祂只告訴我行極平常的事。意志消沉容易叫我們避免神所造諸物中極平常的事，但神的靈來到，祂就啟示我們極自然極平常的事──我們也從未夢到神在這些事裡面，不過在我們作的時候，我們就會覺得神是在裡面。這樣的靈感，是一種避免意志消沉的自動力；我們要做當前的事，並且是因神的靈感而去做。如果我們做一件事，為的是勝過消沉，反而更加消沉起來；但是，如果神的靈使我們直覺地覺悟我們應做的事，我們一做，馬上就不消沉了。我們起來服從，就立刻踏入一種高尚生命的範圍。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月17日）
二月十七日 「……你們的生命與基督一同藏在神裡面。」歌羅西書三章3節 有些基督徒帶領了極多的人歸主，有時多得不太對勁。他們自己知道、別人也知道他們帶領了多少人信主。他們的果實似乎像水晶一樣具體，而且變成勞動本身的記念。 有些基督徒則完全與其他同工打成一片，所以別人很難看到他們的特性。但是這樣的事工才是最像基督的事工，因為主耶穌在教會的事工裡，也是隱藏的。主耶穌是教會隱藏的生命、榮耀的頭，而聖靈則更是藏在祂所用的器皿裡。 葡萄樹的主籐並不結果子，結滿成串果實的常是較小的籐，並且似乎得到收穫的光榮。而樹汁雖然不停地流，卻不為人所見；當我們越接近基督時，我們也願意不為人所注目，而讓他人變得更重要。我們應藉著無聲的愛和禱告，來支持別人的事工。 主啊！求您讓我變成在您寶座面前，用兩片翅膀遮臉的撒拉弗。我願像這些天使遮住他們的臉和腳一樣；情願順服您，就像他們將自己和他們的事奉都藏起來，那樣地服事您。
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