사무엘하 18

1이에 다윗이 그 함께한 백성을 계수하고 천부장과 백부장을 그 위에 세우고 2그 백성을 내어 보낼새 삼분지 일은 요압의 수하에 삼분지 일은 스루야의 아들 요압의 동생 아비새의 수하에 붙이고 삼분지 일은 가드 사람 잇대의 수하에 붙이고 백성에게 이르되 나도 반드시 너희와 함께 나가리라 3백성들이 가로되 왕은 나가지 마소서 우리가 도망할지라도 저희는 우리에게 주의하지 아니할 터이요 우리가 절반이나 죽을지라도 우리에게 주의하지 아니할 터이라 왕은 우리 만 명보다 중하시오니 왕은 성에 계시다가 우리를 도우심이 좋으니이다 4왕이 저희에게 이르되 너희가 선히 여기는 대로 내가 행하리라 하고 문 곁에 서매 모든 백성이 백 명씩 천 명씩 대를 지어 나가는지라 5왕이 요압과 아비새와 잇대에게 명하여 가로되 나를 위하여 소년 압살롬을 너그러이 대접하라 하니 왕이 압살롬을 위하여 모든 군장에게 명령할 때에 백성들이 다 들으니라 6이에 백성이 이스라엘을 치러 들로 나가서 에브라임 수풀에서 싸우더니 7거기서 이스라엘 무리가 다윗의 심복들에게 패하매 그 날 그곳에서 살륙이 커서 이만에 이르렀고 8그 땅에서 사면으로 퍼져 싸웠으므로 그 날에 수풀에서 죽은 자가 칼에 죽은 자보다 많았더라 9압살롬이 다윗의 신복과 마주치니라 압살롬이 노새를 탔는데 그 노새가 큰 상수리나무 번성한 가지 아래로 지날 때에 압살롬의 머리털이 그 상수리나무에 걸리매 저가 공중에 달리고 그 탔던 노새는 그 아래로 빠져 나간지라 10한 사람이 보고 요압에게 고하여 가로되 내가 보니 압살롬이 상수리나무에 달렸더이다 11요압이 그 고한 사람에게 이르되 네가 보고 어찌하여 당장에 쳐서 땅에 떨어뜨리지 아니하였느뇨 내가 네게 은 열 개와 띠 하나를 주었으리라 12그 사람이 요압에게 대답하되 내가 내 손에 은 천 개를 받는다 할지라도 나는 왕의 아들에게 손을 대지 아니하겠나이다 우리가 들었거니와 왕이 당신과 아비새와 잇대에게 명하여 이르시기를 삼가 누구든지 소년 압살롬을 해하지 말라 하셨나이다 13아무 일도 왕 앞에는 숨길 수 없나니 내가 만일 거역하여 그 생명을 해하였다면 당신도 나를 대적하였으리이다 14요압이 가로되 나는 너와 같이 지체할 수 없다 하고 손에 작은 창 셋을 가지고 가서 상수리나무 가운데서 아직 살아 있는 압살롬의 심장을 찌르니 15요압의 병기를 맡은 소년 열이 압살롬을 에워싸고 쳐 죽이니라 16요압이 나팔을 불어 백성들로 그치게 하니 저희가 이스라엘을 따르지 아니하고 돌아오니라 17무리가 압살롬을 옮겨다가 수풀 가운데 큰 구멍에 던지고 그 위에 심히 큰 돌무더기를 쌓으니라 온 이스라엘 무리가 각기 장막으로 도망하니라 18압살롬이 살았을 때에 자기를 위하여 한 비석을 가져 세웠으니 이는 저가 자기 이름을 전할 아들이 없음을 한탄함이라 그러므로 자기 이름으로 그 비석을 이름하였으며 그 비석이 왕의 골짜기에 있고 이제까지 압살롬의 기념비라 일컫더라 19사독의 아들 아히마아스가 가로되 청컨대 나로 빨리 왕에게 가서 여호와께서 왕의 원수 갚아 주신 소식을 전하게 하소서 20요압이 저에게 이르되 너는 오늘 소식을 전하는 자가 되지 말고 다른 날에 전할 것이니라 왕의 아들이 죽었나니 네가 오늘날 소식을 전하지 못하리라 하고 21구스 사람에게 이르되 네가 가서 본 것을 왕께 고하라 하매 구스 사람이 요압에게 절하고 달음질하여 가니 22사독의 아들 아히마아스가 다시 요압에게 이르되 청컨대 아무쪼록 나로 또한 구스 사람의 뒤를 따라 달음질하게 하소서 요압이 가로되 내 아들아 왜 달음질하려 하느냐 이 소식으로 인하여는 상을 받지 못하리라 하되 23저가 아무쪼록 달음질하겠노라 하는지라 요압이 가로되 그리하라 하니 아히마아스가 들길로 달음질하여 구스 사람보다 앞서니라 24때에 다윗이 두 문 사이에 앉았더라 파수꾼이 성문루에 올라가서 눈을 들어 보니 어떤 사람이 홀로 달음질하는지라 25파수꾼이 외쳐 왕께 고하매 왕이 가로되 저가 만일 혼자면 그 입에 소식이 있으리라 할 때에 저가 차차 가까이 오니라 26파수꾼이 본즉 한 사람이 또 달음질하는지라 문지기에게 외쳐 이르되 보라 한 사람이 또 혼자 달음질한다 하니 왕이 가로되 저도 소식을 가져오느니라 27파수꾼이 가로되 나 보기에는 앞선 사람의 달음질이 사독의 아들 아히마아스의 달음질과 같으니이다 왕이 가로되 저는 좋은 사람이니 좋은 소식을 가져 오느니라 28아히마아스가 외쳐 왕께 말씀하되 평안하옵소서 하고 왕의 앞에서 얼굴을 땅에 대고 절하여 가로되 왕의 하나님 여호와를 찬양하리로소이다 그 손을 들어 내 주 왕을 대적하는 자들을 붙여 주셨나이다 29왕이 가로되 소년 압살롬이 잘 있느냐 아히마아스가 대답하되 요압이 왕의 종 나를 보낼 때에 크게 소동하는 것을 보았사오나 무슨 일인지 알지 못하였나이다 30왕이 가로되 물러나 곁에 서 있으라 하매 물러나서 섰더라 31구스 사람이 이르러 고하되 내 주 왕께 보할 소식이 있나이다 여호와께서 오늘날 왕을 대적하던 모든 원수를 갚으셨나이다 32왕이 구스 사람에게 묻되 소년 압살롬이 잘 있느냐 구스 사람이 대답하되 내 주 왕의 원수와 일어나서 왕을 대적하는 자들은 다 그 소년과 같이 되기를 원하나이다 33왕의 마음이 심히 아파 문루로 올라가서 우니라 저가 올라갈 때에 말하기를 내 아들 압살롬아 내 아들 내 아들 압살롬아 내가 너를 대신하여 죽었더면, 압살롬 내 아들아 내 아들아 하였더라

1David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. 2David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.” 3But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.” 4The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. 5The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom. 6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. 7The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. 8For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. 9Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on. 10A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.” 11Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.” 12The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’ 13Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.” 14Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. 15Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him. 16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people. 17They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled everyone to his tent. 18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom’s monument, to this day. 19Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.” 20Joab said to him, “You shall not be the bearer of news this day, but you shall bear news another day. But today you shall bear no news, because the king’s son is dead.” 21Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran. 22Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.” Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since that you will have no reward for the news?” 23“But come what may,” he said, “I will run.” He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. 24Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. 25The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer. 26The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.” 27The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.” 28Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!” 29The king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.” 30The king said, “Turn aside, and stand here.” He turned aside, and stood still. 31Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king; for Yahweh has avenged you this day of all those who rose up against you.” 32The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.” 33The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

1En David monsterde het volk, dat met hem was; en hij stelde over hen oversten van duizenden, en oversten van honderden. 2Voorts zond David het volk uit, een derde deel onder de hand van Joab, en een derde deel onder de hand van Abisai, den zoon van Zeruja, Joabs broeder, en een derde deel onder de hand van Ithai, den Gethiet. En de koning zeide tot het volk: Ik zal ook zelf zekerlijk met ulieden uittrekken. 3Maar het volk zeide: Gij zult niet uittrekken; want of wij te enen male vloden, zij zullen het hart op ons niet stellen; ja, of de helft van ons stierf, zij zullen het hart op ons niet stellen; maar gij zijt nu als tien duizend onzer. Zo zal het nu beter zijn, dat gij ons uit de stad ter hulpe zijt. 4Toen zeide de koning tot hen: Ik zal doen, wat goed is in uw ogen. De koning nu stond aan de zijde van de poort, en al het volk trok uit bij honderden en bij duizenden. 5En de koning gebood Joab, en Abisai, en Ithai, zeggende: Handelt mij zachtkens met den jongeling, met Absalom. En al het volk hoorde het, als de koning aan al de oversten van Absaloms zaak gebood. 6Alzo toog het volk uit in het veld, Israel tegemoet, en de strijd geschiedde bij Efraims woud. 7En het volk van Israel werd aldaar voor het aangezicht van Davids knechten geslagen; en aldaar geschiedde te dienzelven dage een grote slag, van twintig duizend. 8Want de strijd werd aldaar verspreid over al dat land. En het woud verteerde meer van het volk, dan die het zwaard verteerde, te denzelven dage. 9Absalom nu ontmoette voor het aangezicht der knechten Davids; en Absalom reed op een muildier; en als het muildier kwam onder de dichte takken van een groten eik, zo werd zijn hoofd vast aan den eik, dat hij hangen bleef tussen den hemel en tussen de aarde, en het muildier, dat onder hem was, ging door. 10Als dat een man zag, zo gaf hij het Joab te kennen, en zeide: Zie, ik heb Absalom zien hangen aan een eik. 11Toen zeide Joab tot den man, die het hem te kennen gaf: Zie toch, gij hebt het gezien, waarom dan hebt gij hem niet aldaar ter aarde geslagen, alzo het aan mij stond om u tien zilverlingen en een gordel te geven? 12Maar die man zeide tot Joab: En of ik al duizend zilverlingen op mijn handen mocht wegen, zo zou ik mijn hand aan des konings zoon niet slaan; want de koning heeft u, en Abisai, en Ithai, voor onze oren geboden, zeggende: Hoedt u, wie gij zijt, van den jongeling, van Absalom. 13Of ik al valselijk tegen mijn ziel handelde, zo zou toch geen ding voor den koning verborgen worden; ook gij zelf zoudt er u van tegenover stellen. 14Toen zeide Joab: Ik zal hier bij u alzo niet vertoeven; en hij nam drie pijlen, en stak ze in Absaloms hart, daar hij nog levend was in het midden van den eik. 15En tien jongens, wapendragers van Joab, omringden hem, en zij sloegen Absalom, en doodden hem. 16Toen blies Joab met de bazuin, en al het volk keerde af van Israel achterna te jagen, want Joab hield het volk terug. 17En zij namen Absalom, en wierpen hem in het woud, in een groten kuil, en stelden op hem een zeer groten steenhoop; en gans Israel vluchtte, een iegelijk naar zijn tent. 18Absalom nu had genomen, en in zijn leven voor zich opgericht een pilaar, die in het koningsdal is; want hij zeide: Ik heb geen zoon, om aan mijn naam te doen gedenken; en hij had dien pilaar genoemd naar zijn naam; daarom wordt hij tot op dezen dag genoemd: Absaloms hand. 19Toen zeide Ahimaaz, Zadoks zoon: Laat mij toch heenlopen, en den koning boodschappen, dat de HEERE hem recht gedaan heeft van de hand zijner vijanden. 20Maar Joab zeide tot hem: Gij zult dezen dag geen boodschapper zijn, maar op een anderen dag zult gij boodschappen; dezen dag nu zult gij niet boodschappen, daarom dat des konings zoon dood is. 21En Joab zeide tot Cuschi: Ga heen, en zeg den koning aan, wat gij gezien hebt; en Cuschi boog zich voor Joab, en liep heen. 22Doch Ahimaaz, Zadoks zoon, voer nog voort en zeide tot Joab: Wat het ook zij, laat mij toch ook Cuschi achterna lopen. En Joab zeide: Waarom zoudt gij nu heenlopen, mijn zoon! Zo gij toch geen bekwame boodschap hebt? 23Wat het ook zij, zeide hij, laat mij heenlopen; zo zeide hij tot hem: Loop heen. En Ahimaaz liep den weg van het effen veld, en kwam Cuschi voorbij. 24David nu zat tussen de twee poorten; en de wachter ging op het dak der poort aan den muur, en hief zijn ogen op, en zag, en ziet, er liep een man alleen. 25Zo riep de wachter, en zeide het den koning aan; en de koning zeide: Indien hij alleen is, zo is er een boodschap in zijn mond; en hij ging al voort en naderde. 26Toen zag de wachter een anderen man lopende, en de wachter riep tot den poortier en zeide: Zie, er loopt nog een man alleen. Toen zeide de koning: Die is ook een boodschapper. 27Voorts zeide de wachter: Ik zie den loop des eersten aan, als den loop van Ahimaaz, Zadoks zoon. Toen zeide de koning: Dat is een goed man, en hij zal met een goede boodschap komen. 28Ahimaaz dan riep en zeide tot den koning Vrede! En hij boog zich voor den koning met het aangezicht ter aarde, en hij zeide: Geloofd zij de HEERE, uw God, Die de mannen, dewelke hun hand tegen mijn heer den koning ophieven, heeft overgegeven. 29Toen zeide de koning: Is het wel met den jongeling, met Absalom? En Ahimaaz zeide: Ik zag een groot rumoer, als Joab, den knecht des konings, en mij uw knecht afzond, maar ik weet niet wat. 30En de koning zeide: Ga om, stel u hier; zo ging hij om, en bleef staan. 31En ziet, Cuschi kwam aan; en Cuschi zeide: Mijn heer den koning wordt geboodschapt, dat u de HEERE heden heeft recht gedaan van de hand van al degenen, die tegen u opstonden. 32Toen zeide de koning tot Cuschi: Is het wel met den jongeling, met Absalom? En Cuschi zeide: De vijanden van mijn heer den koning, en allen, die tegen u ten kwade opstaan, moeten worden als die jongeling. 33Toen werd de koning zeer beroerd, en ging op naar de opperzaal der poort, en weende; en in zijn gaan zeide hij alzo: Mijn zoon Absalom, mijn zoon, mijn zoon Absalom! Och, dat ik, ik voor u gestorven ware, Absalom, mijn zoon, mijn zoon!