¹Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

¹In bila je lakota tri leta v dnevih Davidovih, leto za letom; in David je iskal obličja GOSPODOVEGA. In GOSPOD je dejal: Zaradi Savla je to in zaradi krvi, prelite od hiše njegove, ker je pomoril Gibeončane.

²And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

²In kralj pokliče Gibeončane in govori ž njimi. (Gibeončani pa niso bili izmed sinov Izraelovih, ampak iz ostanka Amorejcev, in sinovi Izraelovi so jim prisegli mir. Toda Savel jih je poskušal iztrebiti v svoji gorečnosti za sinove Izraelove in Judove.)

³Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

³In David reče Gibeončanom: Kaj naj storim za vas? In s čim naj storim poravnavo, da boste blagoslovili dediščino GOSPODOVO?

⁴And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

⁴In Gibeončani mu reko: Ni nam za srebro ali za zlato v zadevi med nami in med Savlom in hišo njegovo, niti za to, da se kdo umori v Izraelu. In jim reče: Kar porečete, storim za vas.

⁵And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

⁵In reko kralju: Tistega moža, ki nas je pokončeval in ki je izmišljal zoper nas, da bi bili potrebljeni, da nas ne bo v nobenem kraju Izraelovem,

⁶Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

⁶naj se nam da sedem iz sinov njegovih, in obesimo jih GOSPODU v Gibei Savlovi, v mestu izvoljenca GOSPODOVEGA. In kralj reče: Dam vam jih.

⁷But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

⁷Ali kralj je prizanesel Mefibosetu, sinu Jonatana, sina Savlovega, zaradi prisege GOSPODOVE, ki je bila med njima, med Davidom in Jonatanom, sinom Savlovim.

⁸But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

⁸Vzame pa kralj dva sinova Ricpe, hčere Ajeve, ki ju je rodila Savlu, Armonija in Mefiboseta, in pet sinov Mihale, hčere Savlove, ki jih je rodila Adrielu, sinu Barzilaja Meholačana,

⁹And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

⁹in jih da Gibeončanom v roke, in obesijo jih na gori pred GOSPODOM, in poginilo je teh sedem skupaj; in bili so usmrčeni ob žetvi, v prvih dneh, ko se je začela ječmenova žetev.

¹⁰And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

¹⁰A Ricpa, hči Ajeva, vzame raševnik in si ga razgrne na skali, od začetka žetve dotlej, ko je voda kapljala z neba na obešence, in ni dopustila ptičem nebeškim, da sedejo nanje po dne, ne zverinam poljskim po noči.

¹¹And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

¹¹In povedali so Davidu, kaj je storila Ricpa, hči Ajeva, priležnica Savlova.

¹²And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

¹²In David odide in vzame kosti Savlove in kosti Jonatana, sinu njegovega, od meščanov v Jabesu v Gileadu, ki so jih bili ukradli z ulic v Betsanu, kjer so ju Filistejci obesili v dan, ko so umorili Savla na Gilboi;

¹³And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

¹³in prinese odondod kosti Savlove in kosti Jonatana, sina njegovega. Zbrali so tudi kosti tistih, ki so bili obešeni.

¹⁴And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

¹⁴In pokopali so kosti Savlove in Jonatana, sina njegovega, v pokrajini Benjaminovi v Zeli, v grobu Kisa, očeta njegovega, in storili so vse, kar je kralj zapovedal. In potem se je dal Bog izprositi za deželo.

¹⁵Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

¹⁵In Filistejci so zopet začeli vojno z Izraelom. In David gre doli in služabniki njegovi ž njim in se bojujejo zoper Filistejce. In David je bil utrujen,

¹⁶And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

¹⁶in Isbibenob, ki je bil iz sinov velikana, čigar sulica je tehtala tristo seklov brona, in je bil opasan z novim mečem, je nameraval ubiti Davida.

¹⁷But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

¹⁷Ali Abisaj, sin Zervijin, mu je prišel v pomoč in je udaril Filistejca ter ga ubil. Tedaj so prisegli Davidu možje njegovi, rekoč: Nikdar več ne pojdeš z nami v boj, da ne ugasneš svetila Izraelu.

¹⁸And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

¹⁸In zgodi se potem, da je bila zopet vojna s Filistejci v Gobu; tedaj je Sibekaj Husajec ubil Safa, ki je bil iz sinov velikanov.

¹⁹And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

¹⁹In zopet je bila vojna s Filistejci v Gobu, in Elhanan, sin Jaare-orgimov, Betlehemčan, je ubil brata Goliata Gatovca, čigar suličišče je bilo kakor tkalsko vratilo.

²⁰And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

²⁰In zopet je bila vojna v Gatu, kjer je bil mož velike postave, ki je imel na vsaki roki šest in na vsaki nogi šest prstov, štiriindvajset po številu; tudi ta se je bil rodil velikanu.

²¹And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.

²¹Ko pa je ta sramoto kidal na Izraela, ga je ubil Jonatan, sin Simeja, brata Davidovega.Ti štirje so se rodili velikanu v Gatu, in padli so po roki Davidovi in po roki služabnikov njegovih.

²²These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

²²Ti štirje so se rodili velikanu v Gatu, in padli so po roki Davidovi in po roki služabnikov njegovih.