¹And 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;

¹Ko pa pride David z možmi svojimi tretji dan proti Ziklagu, so bili Amalekovci naskočili južno stran in Ziklag, in so udarili v Ziklag in ga požgali;

²And 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.

²in so ujeli žene in vse, kar jih je bilo v njem, male in velike: niso sicer nikogar ubili, a odgnali so jih in šli svojo pot.

³So 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.

³Ko torej pridejo David in možje njegovi k mestu, vidijo, da je požgano z ognjem, in njih žene in njih sinovi in hčere so odpeljani v sužnost.

⁴Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

⁴Tedaj David in ljudstvo, ki je bilo ž njim, povzdigne glas svoj, in jočejo toliko, da niso mogli več jokati:

⁵And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

⁵Tudi obe ženi Davidovi sta bili ujeti, Ahinoama Jezreelska in Abigaila, bivša žena Nabala Karmelskega.

⁶And 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.

⁶In David je bil v veliki stiski, zakaj ljudstvo se je dogovarjalo, da ga posujejo s kamenjem, ker je bilo vse ljudstvo v srcu užaljeno, vsak nad sinovi in hčerami svojimi. Ali David se ohrabri v GOSPODU, Bogu svojem.

⁷And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

⁷In David veli Abiatarju duhovniku, sinu Ahimelekovemu: Prosim, prinesi mi sem naramnik! In Abiatar prinese tja naramnik k Davidu.

⁸And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

⁸In David vpraša GOSPODA, rekoč: Ali naj udarim za tisto roparsko druhaljo? Jih li dohitim? On mu odgovori: Spusti se za njimi, zakaj gotovo jih dohitiš in izvršiš popolno rešitev!

⁹So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

⁹David torej odrine, on in šeststo mož, ki so bili pri njem. In ko pridejo k potoku Besorju, jih nekaj obstane ondi.

¹⁰But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

¹⁰Ali David in štiristo mož se žene dalje; kajti dvesto jih je zaostalo, ker so bili tako upehani, da niso mogli iti čez potok Besor.

¹¹And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

¹¹In najdejo Egipčana na polju ter ga pripeljejo k Davidu, in mu dado kruha, in je jedel, in ga napojé z vodo,

¹²And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

¹²in mu dado kepo smokev in dve gruči posušenega grozdja: in ko se naje, se poživi, kajti ni jedel kruha, ne pil vode tri dni in tri noči.

¹³And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

¹³In David mu reče: Čigav si in odkod si? Odgovori: Mladenič iz Egipta sem, nekega Amalekovca hlapec, in gospodar moj me je zapustil, ker sem bil bolan pred tremi dnevi.

¹⁴We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

¹⁴Naskočili smo južno stran Keretejcev in Judovo in južno stran Kalebovo, in Ziklag smo požgali z ognjem.

¹⁵And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

¹⁵In David mu reče: Me li hočeš doli peljati k tej druhali? On reče: Prisezi mi pri Bogu, da me ne umoriš in tudi ne izročiš gospodarja mojega rokam, in popeljem te doli k tej druhali.

¹⁶And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁶Peljal ga je torej doli; in glej, bili so razkropljeni po vsem tistem kraju in so jedli in pili in praznovali zaradi vsega velikega ropa, ki so ga bili vzeli iz Filistejcev dežele in iz dežele Judove.

¹⁷And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

¹⁷In David jih je pobijal od somraka do večera drugega dne, in nihče se ni rešil, samo štiristo mladeničev, ki so na velblodih pobegnili.

¹⁸And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

¹⁸In David je otel vse, kar so bili vzeli Amalekovci; tudi dve ženi svoji je osvobodil David.

¹⁹And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.

¹⁹Nič se ni pogrešalo, ne malo, ne veliko, ne sinovi, ne hčere, prav nič, kar so jim bili poplenili: vse je David zopet dobil.

²⁰And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

²⁰In David je vzel vso drobnico in goved, in gnali so jo pred drugo živino in pravili: To je plen Davidov!

²¹And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

²¹In David dospe k tistim dvesto možem, ki so bili tako upehani, da niso mogli iti za Davidom, zato so jim veleli ostati pri potoku Besorju; ti pridejo Davidu naproti in ljudstvu, ki je bilo ž njim. In ko pristopi David k ljudstvu, jih pozdravi prijazno.

²²Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.

²²Tedaj izpregovore vsi hudobni in Belijalovi možje med temi, ki so bili šli z Davidom, in reko: Ker niso šli z nami, ne dajmo jim nič plena, ki smo ga oteli; samo naj vzame sleherni svojo ženo in otroke svoje, pa naj odidejo!

²³Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

²³Nato veli David: Ne ravnajte tako, bratje moji, s tem, kar nam je dal GOSPOD, ki nas je obvaroval in nam dal v roke roparsko druhal, ki je bila prišla zoper nas.

²⁴For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

²⁴In kdo bi vas v tem poslušal? Marveč kakršen je del tistega, ki je šel v boj, takšen bodi del tega, ki je ostal pri prtljagi: po enako naj si razdelijo.

²⁵And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

²⁵In tako je bilo od tega časa in poslej, da je to ustanovil kot postavo in pravilo v Izraelu, do tega dne.

²⁶And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

²⁶In ko je David prišel v Ziklag, pošlje od plena starejšinam Judovim, prijateljem svojim, rekoč: Glejte, to vam je blagodar od plena sovražnikov GOSPODOVIH.

²⁷To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

²⁷Namreč tem v Betelu in tem, ki so bili v Ramotu na jugu, in tem v Jatirju

²⁸And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

²⁸in tem v Aroerju in tem v Sifmotu in tem v Estemoi

²⁹And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,

²⁹in tem v Rahalu in tem, ki so bili v mestih Jerahmelijcev in v mestih Kenejcev,

³⁰And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,

³⁰in tem v Hormi in tem v Korašanu in v Atahu,in tem v Hebronu in v vseh mestih, v katera je kdaj zahajal David in možje njegovi.

³¹And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

³¹in tem v Hebronu in v vseh mestih, v katera je kdaj zahajal David in možje njegovi.