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1 Samuel
Chapter 31

1 As they pressed their attack on Israel, with the Israelites fleeing before them and falling mortally wounded on Mount Gilboa,

培肋舍特人攻打以色列人，以色列人由培肋舍特面前逃走，在基耳波亚山上阵亡的人很多。

2 the Philistines pursued Saul and his sons closely, and slew Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul.

培肋舍特随后追击撒乌尔和他的儿子杀了撒乌耳的儿子约纳堂、阿彼纳达和玛耳基叔亚；

3 The battle raged around Saul, and the archers hit him; he was pierced through the abdomen.

以后，集中攻打撒乌耳，弓手射中了他，伤势很重。

4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, ＂Draw your sword and run me through, lest these uncircumcised come and make sport of me.＂ But his armor-bearer, badly frightened, refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.

当时撒乌耳对自己的执戟者说：＂拔出你的剑来，将我刺死，免得这些未受割损的人来刺死我，侮辱我！＂但是执戟者十分害怕，不肯作这事。于是撒乌耳拔出剑来，伏剑自刎。

5 ¹ When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell upon his sword and died with him.

执戟者见撒乌耳已死，也伏剑自刎，和他一同死了。

6 Thus Saul, his three sons, and his armor-bearer died together on that same day.

这样，撒乌耳和他的三个儿子以及执戟者，都在一天一同阵亡了。

7 When the Israelites on the slope of the valley and those along the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they too abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and lived in those cities.

住在平原和住在约旦河那边的以色列人，看见以色列人逃散了，撒乌耳和他的儿子们阵亡了，就都弃城逃走；培肋舍特人遂来住在那里。

8 The day after the battle the Philistines came to strip the slain, and found Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa.

次日，培肋舍特前来剥取阵亡者的衣服时，发现撒乌耳和他的三个儿子也阵亡在基尔波亚山上。

9 They cut off Saul's head and stripped him of his armor, and then sent the good news throughout the land of the Philistines to their idols and to the people.

他们就砍下撒乌耳的头，取去他的武器，送到培肋舍特各地，向他们的神和人民传报这喜信：

10 They put his armor in the temple of Astarte, but impaled his body on the wall of Bethshan.

把他的武器放在阿布托勒特庙内，将他的尸首悬在贝特商城墙上。

11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

基肋阿得雅贝士的居民，一听说培肋舍特人对撒乌耳所行的一切，

12 ² all their warriors set out, and after marching throughout the night, removed the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and brought them to Jabesh, where they cremated them.

所有的勇士就动身，走了一夜，从贝特商城墙上取下撒乌耳和他儿子们的尸体，带回雅贝士，在那里焚烧了。

13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

然后将他们的骨骸收殓起来，埋在雅贝士柽柳下，禁食七天。

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Footnotes(注解)

¹ [5] This report of the suicidal act of Saul is presented as a part of his downfall, to be judged accordingly.

² [12] Cremated them: cremation was not normally practiced in Israel, though it was known in the country from pre-Israelite times.