吩咐你爱耶和华你的神，遵行他的道，谨守他的诫命，律例，典章，使你可以存活，人数增多，耶和华你神就必在你所要进去得为业的地上赐福与你。
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
倘若你心里偏离，不肯听从，却被勾引去敬拜事奉别神，
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
我今日明明告诉你们，你们必要灭亡。在你过约旦河，进去得为业的地上，你的日子必不长久。
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
我今日呼天唤地向你作见证。我将生死祸福陈明在你面前，所以你要拣选生命，使你和你的后裔都得存活。
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
第三日，大卫和跟随他的人到了洗革拉。亚玛力人已经侵夺南地，攻破洗革拉，用火焚烧，
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
掳了城内的妇女和其中的大小人口，却没有杀一个，都带着走了。
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
大卫和跟随他的人到了那城，不料，城已烧毁，他们的妻子儿女都被掳去了。
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
大卫和跟随他的人就放声大哭，直哭得没有气力。
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
大卫的两个妻耶斯列人亚希暖和作过拿八妻的迦密人亚比该，也被掳去了。
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
大卫甚是焦急，因众人为自己的儿女苦恼，说，要用石头打死他。大卫却倚靠耶和华他的神，心里坚固。
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.