¹ 扫罗对他儿子约拿单和众臣仆说，要杀大卫；扫罗的儿子约拿单却甚喜爱大卫。

² 约拿单告诉大卫说：我父扫罗想要杀你，所以明日早晨你要小心，到一个僻静地方藏身。

³ 我就出到你所藏的田里，站在我父亲旁边与他谈论。我看他情形怎样，我必告诉你。

⁴ 约拿单向他父亲扫罗替大卫说好话，说：王不可得罪王的仆人大卫；因为他未曾得罪你，他所行的都与你大有益处。

⁵ 他拚命杀那非利士人，耶和华为以色列众人大行拯救；那时你看见，甚是欢喜，现在为何无故要杀大卫，流无辜人的血，自己取罪呢？

⁶ 扫罗听了约拿单的话，就指着永生的耶和华起誓说：我必不杀他。

⁷ 约拿单叫大卫来，把这一切事告诉他，带他去见扫罗。他就仍然侍立在扫罗面前。

⁸ 此後又有争战的事。大卫出去与非利士人打仗，大大杀败他们，他们就在他面前逃跑。

⁹ 从耶和华那里来的恶魔又降在扫罗身上（扫罗手里拿枪坐在屋里），大卫就用手弹琴。

¹⁰ 扫罗用枪想要刺透大卫，钉在墙上；他却躲开，扫罗的枪刺入墙内。当夜大卫逃走，躲避了。

¹¹ 扫罗打发人到大卫的房屋那里窥探他，要等到天亮杀他。大卫的妻米甲对他说：你今夜若不逃命，明日你要被杀。

¹² 於是米甲将大卫从窗户里缒下去；大卫就逃走，躲避了。

¹³ 米甲把家中的神像放在床上，头枕在山羊毛装的枕头上，用被遮盖。

¹⁴ 扫罗打发人去捉拿大卫，米甲说：他病了。

¹⁵ 扫罗又打发人去看大卫，说：当连床将他抬来，我好杀他。

¹⁶ 使者进去，看见床上有神像，头枕在山羊毛装的枕头上。

¹⁷ 扫罗对米甲说：你为甚麽这样欺哄我，放我仇敌逃走呢？米甲回答说：他对我说：你放我走，不然我要杀你。

¹⁸ 大卫逃避，来到拉玛见撒母耳，将扫罗向他所行的事述说了一遍。他和撒母耳就往拿约去居住。

¹⁹ 有人告诉扫罗，说大卫在拉玛的拿约。

²⁰ 扫罗打发人去捉拿大卫。去的人见有一班先知都受感说话，撒母耳站在其中监管他们；打发去的人也受神的灵感动说话。

²¹ 有人将这事告诉扫罗，他又打发人去，他们也受感说话。扫罗第三次打发人去，他们也受感说话。

²² 然後扫罗自己往拉玛去，到了西沽的大井，问人说：撒母耳和大卫在哪里呢？有人说：在拉玛的拿约。

²³ 他就往拉玛的拿约去。神的灵也感动他，一面走一面说话，直到拉玛的拿约。

²⁴ 他就脱了衣服，在撒母耳面前受感说话，一昼一夜露体躺卧。因此有句俗语说：扫罗也列在先知中麽？

¹ Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

² The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

³ When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

⁴ When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.

⁵ Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day.

⁶ But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

⁷ When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us; for his hand is severe on us, and on Dagon our God."

⁸ They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath." They carried the ark of the God of Israel [there].

⁹ It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke out on them.

¹⁰ So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people."

¹¹ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people." For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

¹² The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.