1فأخبر يوآب هوذا الملك يبكي وينوح على ابشالوم.
1It was told Joab, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
2فصارت الغلبة في ذلك اليوم مناحة عند جميع الشعب لان الشعب سمعوا في ذلك اليوم من يقول ان الملك قد تأسف على ابنه.
2The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”
3وتسلّل الشعب في ذلك اليوم للدخول الى المدينة كما يتسلّل القوم الخجلون عندما يهربون في القتال.
3The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
4وستر الملك وجهه وصرخ الملك بصوت عظيم يا ابني ابشالوم يا ابشالوم ابني يا ابني.
4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”
5فدخل يوآب الى الملك الى البيت وقال قد اخزيت اليوم وجوه جميع عبيدك منقذي نفسك اليوم وانفس بنيك وبناتك وانفس نسائك وانفس سراريك
5Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
6بمحبتك لمبغضيك وبغضك لمحبيك. لانك اظهرت اليوم انه ليس لك رؤساء ولا عبيد لاني علمت اليوم انه لو كان ابشالوم حيّا وكلنا اليوم موتى لحسن حينئذ الامر في عينيك.
6in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.
7فالآن قم واخرج وطيب قلوب عبيدك. لاني قد اقسمت بالرب انه ان لم تخرج لا يبيت احد معك هذه الليلة ويكون ذلك اشرّ عليك من كل شر اصابك منذ صباك الى الآن.
7Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”
8فقام الملك وجلس في الباب. فاخبروا جميع الشعب قائلين هوذا الملك جالس في الباب. فأتى جميع الشعب امام الملك. واما اسرائيل فهربوا كل واحد الى خيمته
8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
9وكان جميع الشعب في خصام في جميع اسباط اسرائيل قائلين ان الملك قد انقذنا من يد اعدائنا وهو نجّانا من يد الفلسطينيين. والآن قد هرب من الارض لاجل ابشالوم
9All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
10وابشالوم الذي مسحناه علينا قد مات في الحرب. فالآن لماذا انتم ساكتون عن ارجاع الملك.
10Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”
11وارسل الملك داود الى صادوق وابياثار الكاهنين قائلا كلما شيوخ يهوذا قائلين لماذا تكونون آخرين في ارجاع الملك الى بيته وقد أتى كلام جميع اسرائيل الى الملك في بيته.
11King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.
12انتم اخوتي انتم عظمي ولحمي. فلماذا تكونون آخرين في ارجاع الملك.
12You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
13وتقولان لعماسا. أما انت عظمي ولحمي. هكذا يفعل بي الله وهكذا يزيد ان كنت لا تصير رئيس جيش عندي كل الايام بدل يوآب.
13Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.’”
14فاستمال بقلوب جميع رجال يهوذا كرجل واحد فارسلوا الى الملك قائلين ارجع انت وجميع عبيدك.
14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
15فرجع الملك وأتى الى الاردن وأتى يهوذا الى الجلجال سائرا لملاقاة الملك ليعبّر الملك الاردن.
15So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
16فبادر شمعي بن جيرا البنياميني الذي من بحوريم ونزل مع رجال يهوذا للقاء الملك داود
16Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
17ومعه الف رجل من بنيامين وصيبا غلام بيت شاول وبنوه الخمسة عشر وعبيده العشرون معه فخاضوا الاردن امام الملك.
17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
18وعبر القارب لتعبير بيت الملك ولعمل ما يحسن في عينيه. وسقط شمعي بن جيرا امام الملك عندما عبر الاردن
18A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.
19وقال للملك. لا يحسب لي سيدي اثما ولا تذكر ما افترى به عبدك يوم خروج سيدي الملك من اورشليم حتى يضع الملك ذلك في قلبه.
19He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, nor remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
20لان عبدك يعلم اني قد اخطأت وهانذا قد جئت اليوم اوّل كل بيت يوسف ونزلت للقاء سيدي الملك.
20For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
21فاجاب ابيشاي ابن صروية وقال ألا يقتل شمعي لاجل هذا لانه سبّ مسيح الرب.
21But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”
22فقال داود ما لي ولكم يا بني صروية حتى تكونوا لي اليوم مقاومين. آليوم يقتل احد في اسرائيل. أفما علمت اني اليوم ملك على اسرائيل.
22David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don’t I know that I am this day king over Israel?”
23ثم قال الملك لشمعي لا تموت. وحلف له الملك.
23The king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” The king swore to him.
24ونزل مفيبوشث ابن شاول للقاء الملك ولم يعتن برجليه ولا اعتنى بلحيته ولا غسل ثيابه من اليوم الذي ذهب فيه الملك الى اليوم الذي اتى فيه بسلام.
24Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
25فلما جاء الى اورشليم للقاء الملك قال له الملك لماذا لم تذهب معي يا مفيبوشث.
25It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
26فقال يا سيدي الملك ان عبدي قد خدعني لان عبدك قال اشد لنفسي الحمار فاركب عليه واذهب مع الملك لان عبدك اعرج.
26He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.
27ووشى بعبدك الى سيدي الملك وسيدي الملك كملاك الله فافعل ما يحسن في عينيك.
27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.
28لان كل بيت ابي لم يكن الا اناسا موتى لسيدي الملك وقد جعلت عبدك بين الآكلين على مائدتك فاي حق لي بعد حتى اصرخ ايضا الى الملك.
28For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”
29فقال له الملك لماذا تتكلم بعد بامورك. قد قلت انك انت وصيبا تقسمان الحقل.
29The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
30فقال مفيبوشث للملك فليأخذ الكل ايضا بعد ان جاء سيدي الملك بسلام الى بيته
30Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”
31ونزل برزلاي الجلعادي من روجليم وعبر الاردن مع الملك ليشيعه عند الاردن
31Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
32وكان برزلاي قد شاخ جدا. كان ابن ثمانين سنة. وهو عال الملك عند اقامته في محنايم لانه كان رجلا عظيما جدا.
32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
33فقال الملك لبرزلاي اعبر انت معي وانا اعولك معي في اورشليم.
33The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
34فقال برزلاي للملك كم ايام سني حياتي حتى اصعد مع الملك الى اورشليم.
34Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
35انا اليوم ابن ثمانين سنة. هل اميّز بين الطيب والردي وهل يستطعم عبدك بما آكل وما اشرب وهل اسمع ايضا اصوات المغنين والمغنيات. فلماذا يكون عبدك ايضا ثقلا على سيدي الملك.
35I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
36يعبر عبدك قليلا الاردن مع الملك ولماذا يكافئني الملك بهذه المكافاة.
36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
37دع عبدك يرجع فاموت في مدينتي عند قبر ابي وامي وهوذا عبدك كمهام يعبر مع سيدي الملك فافعل له ما يحسن في عينيك.
37Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
38فاجاب الملك ان كمهام يعبر معي فأفعل له ما يحسن في عينيك وكل ما تتمناه مني افعله لك.
38The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you.”
39فعبر جميع الشعب الاردن والملك عبر. وقبّل الملك برزلاي وباركه فرجع الى مكانه
39All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
40وعبر الملك الى الجلجال وعبر كمهام معه وكل شعب يهوذا عبّروا الملك وكذلك نصف شعب اسرائيل.
40So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
41واذا بجميع رجال اسرائيل جاءون الى الملك وقالوا للملك لماذا سرقك اخوتنا رجال يهوذا وعبروا الاردن بالملك وبيته وكل رجال داود معه.
41Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
42فاجاب كل رجال يهوذا رجال اسرائيل لان الملك قريب اليّ ولماذا تغتاظ من هذا الأمر. هل اكلنا شيئا من الملك او وهبنا هبة.
42All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”
43فاجاب رجال اسرائيل رجال يهوذا وقالوا. لي عشرة اسهم في الملك وانا احق منك بداود. فلماذا استخففت بي ولم يكن كلامي اولا في ارجاع ملكي. وكان كلام رجال يهوذا اقسى من كلام رجال اسرائيل
43The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.