May 4【每日活水】真智慧始于聆听

9   大卫的仆人到了，将这话提大卫的名都告诉了拿八，就住了口。

10  拿八回答大卫的仆人说：「大卫是谁？耶西的儿子是谁？近来悖逆主人奔逃的仆人甚多，

11  我岂可将饮食和为我剪羊毛人所宰的肉给我不知道从哪里来的人呢？」

12  大卫的仆人就转身从原路回去，照这话告诉大卫。

13  大卫向跟随他的人说：「你们各人都要带上刀！」众人就都带上刀，大卫也带上刀。跟随大卫上去的约有四百人，留下二百人看守器具。

14  有拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻亚比该说：「大卫从旷野打发使者来问我主人的安，主人却辱骂他们。

15  但是那些人待我们甚好；我们在田野与他们来往的时候，没有受他们的欺负，也未曾失落什么。

16  我们在他们那里牧羊的时候，他们昼夜作我们的保障。

17  所以你当筹划，看怎样行才好；不然，祸患定要临到我主人和他全家。他性情凶暴，无人敢与他说话。」

9  When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.

10  Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.

11  Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”

12  David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.

13  David said to his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

14  One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.

15  Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.

16  Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

17  Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”