Zadok’s son Ahimaaz spoke to Joab. ‘Let me run to give the king the news that the Lord has saved him from his enemies,’ he said. Joab said, ‘You must not take any good news today. You can take it another day, but not today. The king’s son is dead.’ 2 Samuel 18:19-20 撒督的兒子亞希瑪斯說：「容我跑去，將耶和華向仇敵給王報仇的信息報與王知。」 約押對他說：「你今日不可去報信，改日可以報信；因為今日王的兒子死了，所以你不可去報信。」 […]
Ahithophel got on his donkey and he left Jerusalem. He realized that Absalom had not agreed to his ideas. When he arrived home, he told his family what he needed to tell them. Then he hung himself by his neck. He died and they buried him in his father’s grave. 2 Samuel 17:23 亞希多弗見不依從他的計謀，就備上驢，歸回本城；到了家，留下遺言，便吊死了，葬在他父親的墳墓裏。 撒母耳記下 […]
Absalom and all Israel’s men said, ‘Hushai’s idea is better than Ahithophel’s.’ (The Lord had decided to make Ahithophel’s idea seem worse than Hushai’s idea. He wanted to cause bad trouble for Absalom.) 2 Samuel 17:14 押沙龍和以色列眾人說：「亞基人戶篩的計謀比亞希多弗的計謀更好！」這是因耶和華定意破壞亞希多弗的良謀，為要降禍與押沙龍。 撒母耳記下 17:14
Then the king said to Zadok, ‘Take the Covenant Box into the city. If I have pleased the Lord, he will bring me there again. Then I will see it again in the Lord’s house. But if not, I am ready. He must do what seems best to him.’ 2 Samuel 15:25-26 王對撒督說：「你將上帝的約櫃擡回城去。我若在耶和華眼前蒙恩，他必使我回來，再見約櫃和他的居所。 倘若他說：『我不喜悅你』，看哪，我在這裏，願他憑自己的意旨待我！」 撒母耳記下 […]
Then she said, ‘I do not want the man who should punish my son to kill him. That would be a worse thing than the death of my other son. Please pray to the Lord your God that it will not happen.’ ‘I promise the living Lord that he will not touch one hair of […]
‘Do not do it, my brother,’ she said. ‘Do not cause me to do a wrong thing like that. We in Israel should not do things like that. It is an evil thing. Think about me. Nobody would honour me. I would be ashamed and I would not be able to hide myself. And nobody […]
Then David went to help his wife, Bathsheba, to feel better. He slept with her and she had a son. They called him Solomon, and the Lord loved him. The Lord sent Nathan the prophet to tell them that they should call him Jedidiah. That was because the Lord loved him. 2 Samuel 12:24-25 大衛安慰他的妻拔示巴，與她同寢，她就生了兒子，給他起名叫所羅門。耶和華也喜愛他， […]
David replied, ‘While the child was alive I wept. And I did not eat anything. I thought that perhaps the Lord would be merciful to me. I thought that he might forgive me. Then he might let the child live. But I do not need to do this now that the child is dead. I […]
But you did not obey the word of the Lord. You did an evil thing. You caused the Ammonite soldiers to kill Uriah the Hittite in a battle. You killed him and you took his wife to be your own wife. So now your family will always have wars and death. You thought that I […]
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and Uriah carried it to Joab. In it he wrote, ‘Put Uriah in front of all the soldiers, where it is most dangerous. Then pull your men away from him so that he is alone. And so the enemy will kill him.’ ……People told Uriah’s wife […]
