¹كان شاول ابن سنة في ملكه وملك سنتين على اسرائيل.

¹Saul was ... years old when he became king; and he reigned two years over Israel.

²واختار شاول لنفسه ثلاثة آلاف من اسرائيل فكان الفان مع شاول في مخماس وفي جبل بيت ايل والف كان مع يوناثان في جبعة بنيامين. واما بقية الشعب فارسلهم كل واحد الى خيمته.

²And Saul chose him three thousand men out of Israel: there were with Saul two thousand in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

³وضرب يوناثان نصب الفلسطينيين الذي في جبع. فسمع الفلسطينيون. وضرب شاول بالبوق في جميع الارض قائلا ليسمع العبرانيون.

³And Jonathan smote the outpost of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

⁴فسمع جميع اسرائيل قولا قد ضرب شاول نصب الفلسطينيين وايضا قد انتن اسرائيل لدى الفلسطينيين. فاجتمع الشعب وراء شاول الى الجلجال.

⁴And all Israel heard say, Saul has smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and Israel also has become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.

⁵وتجمع الفلسطينيون لمحاربة اسرائيل. ثلاثون الف مركبة وستة آلاف فارس وشعب كالرمل الذي على شاطئ البحر في الكثرة. وصعدوا ونزلوا في مخماس شرقي بيت آون.

⁵And the Philistines were assembled together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude; and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward from Beth-Aven.

⁶ولما رأى رجال اسرائيل انهم في ضنك. لان الشعب تضايق. اختبأ الشعب في المغاير والغياض والصخور والصروح والآبار.

⁶And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.

⁷وبعض العبرانيين عبروا الاردن الى ارض جاد وجلعاد. وكان شاول بعد في الجلجال وكل الشعب ارتعد وراءه

⁷And the Hebrews went over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

⁸فمكث سبعة ايام حسب ميعاد صموئيل ولم يات صموئيل الى الجلجال والشعب تفرق عنه.

⁸And he waited seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

⁹فقال شاول قدموا اليّ المحرقة وذبائح السلامة. فاصعد المحرقة.

⁹And Saul said, Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings. And he offered up the burnt-offering.

¹⁰وكان لما انتهى من اصعاد المحرقة اذا صموئيل مقبل فخرج شاول للقائه ليباركه.

¹⁰And it came to pass, as soon as he had ended offering up the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

¹¹فقال صموئيل ماذا فعلت فقال شاول لاني رأيت ان الشعب قد تفرق عني وانت لم تات في ايام الميعاد والفلسطينيون متجمعون في مخماس

¹¹And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou didst not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were assembled at Michmash,

¹²فقلت الآن ينزل الفلسطينيون اليّ الى الجلجال ولم اتضرع الى وجه الرب فتجلّدت واصعدت المحرقة.

¹²I said, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to Jehovah; and I forced myself, and offered up the burnt-offering.

¹³فقال صموئيل لشاول قد انحمقت. لم تحفظ وصية الرب الهك التي امرك بها لانه الآن كان الرب قد ثبّت مملكتك على اسرائيل الى الابد.

¹³And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God which he commanded thee; for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever.

¹⁴واما الآن فمملكتك لا تقوم. قد انتخب الرب لنفسه رجلا حسب قلبه وامره الرب ان يترأس على شعبه. لانك لم تحفظ ما امرك به الرب.

¹⁴But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah has sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah has appointed him ruler over his people; for thou hast not kept what Jehovah commanded thee.

¹⁵وقام صموئيل وصعد من الجلجال الى جبعة بنيامين. وعدّ شاول الشعب الموجود معه نحو ست مئة رجل

¹⁵And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about six hundred men.

¹⁶وكان شاول ويوناثان ابنه والشعب الموجود معهما مقيمين في جبع بنيامين والفلسطينيون نزلوا في مخماس.

¹⁶And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were found with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin; and the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

¹⁷فخرج المخربون من محلّة الفلسطينيين في ثلاث فرق. الفرقة الواحدة توجهت في طريق عفرة الى ارض شوعال

¹⁷And the ravagers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned the way of Ophrah, into the land of Shual;

¹⁸والفرقة الاخرى توجهت في طريق بيت حوزون والفرقة الاخرى توجهت في طريق التخم المشرف على وادي صبوعيم نحو البرية.

¹⁸and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and the other company turned the way to the district that looks over the ravine of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

¹⁹ولم يوجد صانع في كل ارض اسرائيل. لان الفلسطينيين قالوا لئلا يعمل العبرانيون سيفا او رمحا.

¹⁹Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.

²⁰بل كان ينزل كل اسرائيل الى الفلسطينيين لكي يحدد كل واحد سكّته ومنجله وفأسه ومعوله

²⁰And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened,

²¹عندما كلّت حدود السكك والمناجل والمثلثات الاسنان والفؤوس ولترويس المناسيس.

²¹when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.

²²وكان في يوم الحرب انه لم يوجد سيف ولا رمح بيد جميع الشعب الذي مع شاول ومع يوناثان. على انه وجد مع شاول ويوناثان ابنه.

²²And it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and with Jonathan his son there was found.

²³وخرج حفظة الفلسطينيين الى معبر مخماس

²³And a garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.