1فهرب داود من نايوت في الرامة وجاء وقال قدام يوناثان ماذا عملت وما هو اثمي وما هي خطيتي امام ابيك حتى يطلب نفسي.
1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
2فقال له حاشا. لا تموت. هوذا ابي لا يعمل امرا كبيرا ولا امرا صغيرا الا ويخبرني به. ولماذا يخفي عني ابي هذا الأمر. ليس كذا.
2He said to him, “Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
3فحلف ايضا داود وقال ان اباك قد علم اني قد وجدت نعمة في عينيك فقال لا يعلم يوناثان هذا لئلا يغتمّ. ولكن حيّ هو الرب وحية هي نفسك انه كخطوة بيني وبين الموت.
3David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
4فقال يوناثان لداود مهما تقل نفسك افعله لك.
4Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
5فقال داود ليوناثان هوذا الشهر غدا حينما اجلس مع الملك للأكل. ولكن ارسلني فاختبئ في الحقل الى مساء اليوم الثالث.
5David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
6واذا افتقدني ابوك فقل قد طلب داود مني طلبة ان يركض الى بيت لحم مدينته لان هناك ذبيحة سنوية لكل العشيرة.
6If your father miss me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
7فان قال هكذا. حسنا. كان سلام لعبدك. ولكن ان اغتاظ غيظا فاعلم انه قد أعدّ الشر عنده.
7If he says, ‘It is well;’ your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
8فتعمل معروفا مع عبدك لانك بعهد الرب ادخلت عبدك معك. وان كان فيّ اثم فاقتلني انت ولماذا تأتي بي الى ابيك.
8Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”
9فقال يوناثان حاشا لك. لانه لو علمت ان الشر قد أعدّ عند ابي لياتي عليك أفما كنت اخبرك به.
9Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”
10فقال داود ليوناثان من يخبرني ان جاوبك ابوك شيئا قاسيا.
10Then David said to Jonathan, “Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?”
11فقال يوناثان لداود تعال نخرج الى الحقل. فخرجا كلاهما الى الحقل
11Jonathan said to David, “Come, and let us go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.
12وقال يوناثان لداود يا رب اله اسرائيل متى اختبرت ابي مثل الآن غدا او بعد غد فان كان خير لداود ولم ارسل حينئذ فاخبره
12Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?
13فهكذا يفعل الرب ليوناثان وهكذا يزيد. وان استحسن ابي الشر نحوك فاني اخبرك واطلقك فتذهب بسلام. وليكن الرب معك كما كان مع ابي.
13Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
14ولا وانا حيّ بعد تصنع معي احسان الرب حتى لا اموت
14You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
15بل لا تقطع معروفك عن بيتي الى الابد ولا حين يقطع الرب اعداء داود جميعا عن وجه الارض.
15but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth.”
16فعاهد يوناثان بيت داود وقال ليطلب الرب من يد اعداء داود.
16So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
17ثم عاد يوناثان واستحلف داود بمحبته له لانه احبه محبة نفسه
17Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
18وقال له يوناثان غدا الشهر فتفتقد لان موضعك يكون خاليا.
18Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
19وفي اليوم الثالث تنزل سريعا وتاتي الى الموضع الذي اختبأت فيه يوم العمل وتجلس بجانب حجر الافتراق.
19When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
20وانا ارمي ثلاثة سهام الى جانبه كأني ارمي غرضا.
20I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
21وحينئذ ارسل الغلام قائلا اذهب التقط السهام. فان قلت للغلام هوذا السهام دونك فجائيا. خذها. فتعال لان لك سلاما. لا يوجد شيء. حيّ هو الرب.
21Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
22ولكن ان قلت هكذا للغلام. هوذا السهام دونك فصاعدا. فاذهب لان الرب قد اطلقك.
22But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
23واما الكلام الذي تكلمنا به انا وانت فهوذا الرب بيني وبينك الى الابد
23Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”
24فاختبأ داود في الحقل. وكان الشهر فجلس الملك على الطعام لياكل.
24So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon had come, the king sat him down to eat food.
25فجلس الملك في موضعه حسب كل مرة على مجلس عند الحائط وقام يوناثان وجلس ابنير الى جانب شاول وخلا موضع داود.
25The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side: but David’s place was empty.
26ولم يقل شاول شيئا في ذلك اليوم لانه قال لعله عارض . غير طاهر هو. انه ليس طاهرا.
26Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day: for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
27وكان في الغد الثاني من الشهر ان موضع داود خلا فقال شاول ليوناثان ابنه لماذا لم يات ابن يسّى الى الطعام لا امس ولا اليوم.
27It happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?”
28فاجاب يوناثان شاول ان داود طلب مني ان يذهب الى بيت لحم
28Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.
29وقال اطلقني لان عندنا ذبيحة عشيرة في المدينة وقد اوصاني اخي بذلك والآن ان وجدت نعمة في عينيك فدعني افلت وأرى اخوتي. لذلك لم يأت الى مائدة الملك.
29He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”
30فحمي غضب شاول على يوناثان وقال له يا ابن المتعوّجة المتمردة أما علمت انك قد اخترت ابن يسّى لخزيك وخزي عورة امك.
30Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
31لانه ما دام ابن يسّى حيّا على الارض لا تثبت انت ولا مملكتك. والآن ارسل وائت به اليّ لانه ابن الموت هو.
31For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
32فاجاب يوناثان شاول اباه وقال له لماذا يقتل. ماذا عمل.
32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
33فصابى شاول الرمح نحوه ليطعنه فعلم يوناثان ان اباه قد عزم على قتل داود.
33Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
34فقام يوناثان عن المائدة بحمو غضب ولم يأكل خبزا في اليوم الثاني من الشهر لانه اغتمّ على داود لان اباه قد اخزاه
34So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
35وكان في الصباح ان يوناثان خرج الى الحقل الى ميعاد داود وغلام صغير معه.
35It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
36وقال لغلامه اركض التقط السهام التي انا راميها وبينما الغلام راكض رمى السهم حتى جاوزه.
36He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37ولما جاء الغلام الى موضع السهم الذي رماه يوناثان نادى يوناثان وراء الغلام وقال أليس السهم دونك فصاعدا.
37When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
38ونادى يوناثان وراء الغلام قائلا اعجل. اسرع. لا تقف. فالتقط غلام يوناثان السهم وجاء الى سيده.
38Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39والغلام لم يكن يعلم شيئا واما يوناثان وداود فكانا يعلمان الامر.
39But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40فاعطى يوناثان سلاحه للغلام الذي له قال له اذهب. ادخل به الى المدينة.
40Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
41الغلام ذهب وداود قام من جانب الجنوب وسقط على وجهه الى الارض وسجد ثلاث مرات. وقبّل كل منهما صاحبه وبكى كل منهما مع صاحبه حتى زاد داود.
41As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.
42فقال يوناثان لداود اذهب بسلام لاننا كلينا قد حلفنا باسم الرب قائلين الرب يكون بيني وبينك وبين نسلي ونسلك الى الابد. فقام وذهب واما يوناثان فجاء الى المدينة
42Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the name of Yahweh, saying, ‘Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.