1وكان لما شاخ صموئيل انه جعل بنيه قضاة لاسرائيل.
1It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
2وكان اسم ابنه البكر يوئيل واسم ثانيه ابيا كانا قاضيين في بئر سبع.
2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
3ولم يسلك ابناه في طريقه بل مالا وراء المكسب واخذا رشوة وعوّجا القضاء.
3His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
4فاجتمع كل شيوخ اسرائيل وجاءوا الى صموئيل الى الرامة
4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
5وقالوا له هوذا انت قد شخت وابناك لم يسيرا في طريقك. فالآن اجعل لنا ملكا يقضي لنا كسائر الشعوب.
5and they said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
6فساء الأمر في عيني صموئيل اذ قالوا اعطنا ملكا يقضي لنا. وصلى صموئيل الى الرب.
6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
7فقال الرب لصموئيل اسمع لصوت الشعب في كل ما يقولون لك. لانهم لم يرفضوك انت بل اياي رفضوا حتى لا املك عليهم.
7Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
8حسب كل اعمالهم التي عملوا من يوم اصعدتهم من مصر الى هذا اليوم وتركوني وعبدوا آلهة اخرى هكذا هم عاملون بك ايضا.
8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
9فالآن اسمع لصوتهم. ولكن أشهدنّ عليهم واخبرهم بقضاء الملك الذي يملك عليهم
9Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them.”
10فكلم صموئيل الشعب الذين طلبوا منه ملكا بجميع كلام الرب
10Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
11وقال هذا يكون قضاء الملك الذي يملك عليكم. يأخذ بنيكم ويجعلهم لنفسه لمراكبه وفرسانه فيركضون امام مراكبه.
11He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
12ويجعل لنفسه رؤساء الوف ورؤساء خماسين فيحرثون حراثته ويحصدون حصاده ويعملون عدّة حربه وأدوات مراكبه.
12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
13ويأخذ بناتكم عطارات وطباخات وخبازات.
13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14ويأخذ حقولكم وكرومكم وزيتونكم اجودها ويعطيها لعبيده.
14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
15ويعشّر زروعكم وكرومكم ويعطي لخصيانه وعبيده.
15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16ويأخذ عبيدكم وجواريكم وشبانكم الحسان وحميركم ويستعملهم لشغله.
16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
17ويعشّر غنمكم وانتم تكونون له عبيدا.
17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
18فتصرخون في ذلك اليوم من وجه ملككم الذي اخترتموه لانفسكم فلا يستجيب لكم الرب في ذلك اليوم.
18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
19فأبى الشعب ان يسمعوا لصوت صموئيل وقالوا لا بل يكون علينا ملك.
19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
20فنكون نحن ايضا مثل سائر الشعوب ويقضي لنا ملكنا ويخرج امامنا ويحارب حروبنا.
20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
21فسمع صموئيل كل كلام الشعب وتكلم به في اذني الرب.
21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
22فقال الرب لصموئيل اسمع لصوتهم وملّك عليهم ملكا. فقال صموئيل لرجال اسرائيل اذهبوا كل واحد الى مدينته
22Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”