13有人来禀告大卫：“以色列的民心都归向押沙龙了。”14大卫便对在耶路撒冷跟随他的臣仆说：“我们赶快逃命吧！否则，我们都难逃押沙龙的追捕。我们要马上离开！免得他赶到残害我们，屠杀全城。”15臣仆对王说：“臣等谨遵我主我王的决定。”16于是王就带着全家逃命，只留下十个妃嫔看守宫殿。17大卫王带着众民离开耶路撒冷，走到最后的那座房子时，停了下来。18跟随他的人都走到前面去了，包括基利提人、比利提人以及从迦特来跟随他的六百人。19王问迦特人以太说：“你为什么要跟我们一起逃难呢？回去留在新王那里吧！你是流亡到这里的外族人。20你刚来不久，我怎么可以叫你跟我们一同四处飘流呢？我甚至不知道往何处去。你还是和你的弟兄回去吧，愿耶和华以慈爱和信实待你！”21以太却答道：“我凭永活的耶和华和我主我王的性命起誓，不管我王去哪里，仆人都要誓死追随到底！”22大卫便对以太说：“那就继续前行吧！”于是，迦特人以太带着他的人及所有的家眷继续前行。23众人离开时，百姓都放声大哭。王带着所有的人过了汲沦溪，向旷野走去。24祭司撒督、亚比亚他和抬上帝约柜的利未人都来了，他们把约柜放下，让城里出来的人先走过去。25王对撒督说：“你把上帝的约柜运回城去吧。倘若耶和华恩待我，祂必使我重返家园，重见约柜和会幕；26但如果我使祂不悦，我也甘愿听凭祂的处置。27你是个有先见之明的人，安心带着你的儿子亚希玛斯和亚比亚他的儿子约拿单回城吧。28我会在旷野渡口那里等你们的消息。”29于是，撒督和亚比亚他便把上帝的约柜抬回耶路撒冷，留了下来。30大卫蒙着头，赤着脚登上橄榄山，边走边哭，他的随从也蒙着头，哭着走上山。31有人告诉大卫，亚希多弗也叛变，投奔了押沙龙，大卫就祷告说：“耶和华啊，求你使亚希多弗的谋算都变得愚不可及。”32大卫来到山顶敬拜上帝的地方，看见亚基人户筛撕破了衣服，头蒙灰尘前来迎接他。33大卫对他说：“你跟我一同逃命，只会给我带来不便。34你还是回到城中，告诉押沙龙你愿意做他的臣仆，就像以前做我的臣仆一样，这样你就可以帮我破坏亚希多弗的计谋。35祭司撒督和亚比亚他都在那里，你在宫内听到什么消息就告诉他们。36撒督的儿子亚希玛斯和亚比亚他的儿子约拿单也在那里，你听到什么消息，可以派他们传信给我。”37于是，大卫的朋友户筛便回到城里。那时，押沙龙也进了耶路撒冷。
English Standard Version
Absalom’s Conspiracy
1After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.2And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”3Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”4Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”5And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.6Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.7And at the end of four* years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.8For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to* the Lord.’”9The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.10But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”11With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.12And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for* Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.
David Flees Jerusalem
13And a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.”14Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”15And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”16So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.17And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.18And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.20You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show* steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”21But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”22And David said to Ittai, “Go then, pass on.” So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.23And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.24And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.25Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place.26But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”27The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Go back* to the city in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.28See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”29So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.30But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.31And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”32While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head.33David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.34But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.35Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.36Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”37So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
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