1وكان جوع في ايام داود ثلاث سنين سنة بعد سنة فطلب داود وجه الرب. فقال الرب هو لاجل شاول ولاجل بيت الدماء لانه قتل الجبعونيين.
1There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.”
2فدعا الملك الجبعونيين وقال لهم. والجبعونيون ليسوا من بني اسرائيل بل من بقايا الاموريين وقد حلف لهم بنو اسرائيل وطلب شاول ان يقتلهم لاجل غيرته على بني اسرائيل ويهوذا.
2The king called the Gibeonites, and said to 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 to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
3قال داود للجبعونيين ماذا افعل لكم وبماذا اكفّر فتباركوا نصيب الرب.
3and David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?”
4فقال له الجبعونيون ليس لنا فضة ولا ذهب عند شاول ولا عند بيته وليس لنا ان نميت احدا في اسرائيل. فقال مهما قلتم افعله لكم.
4The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “Whatever you say, that will I do for you.”
5فقالوا للملك الرجل الذي افنانا والذي تآمر علينا ليبيدنا لكي لا نقيم في كل تخوم اسرائيل
5They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
6فلنعط سبعة رجال من بنيه فنصلبهم للرب في جبعة شاول مختار الرب. فقال الملك انا اعطي.
6let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”
7واشفق الملك على مفيبوشث بن يوناثان بن شاول من اجل يمين الرب التي بينهما بين داود ويوناثان بن شاول.
7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8فاخذ الملك ابني رصفة ابنة ايّة اللذين ولدتهما لشاول ارموني ومفيبوشث وبني ميكال ابنة شاول الخمسة الذين ولدتهم لعدرئيل ابن برزلاي المحولي
8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
9وسلمهم الى يد الجبعونيين فصلبوهم على الجبل امام الرب فسقط السبعة معا وقتلوا في ايام الحصاد في اولها في ابتداء حصاد الشعير.
9He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
10فاخذت رصفة ابنة ايّة مسحا وفرشته لنفسها على الصخر من ابتداء الحصاد حتى انصب الماء عليهم من السماء ولم تدع طيور السماء تنزل عليهم نهارا ولا حيوانات الحقل ليلا.
10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
11فاخبر داود بما فعلت رصفة ابنة ايّة سرية شاول.
11It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12فذهب داود واخذ عظام شاول وعظام يوناثان ابنه من اهل يابيش جلعاد الذين سرقوها من شارع بيت شان حيث علقهما الفلسطينيون يوم ضرب الفلسطينيون شاول في جلبوع.
12David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
13فاصعد من هناك عظام شاول وعظام يوناثان ابنه وجمعوا عظام المصلوبين
13and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
14ودفنوا عظام شاول ويوناثان ابنه في ارض بنيامين في صيلع في قبر قيس ابيه وعملوا كل ما امر به الملك وبعد ذلك استجاب الله من اجل الارض
14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.
15وكانت ايضا حرب بين الفلسطينيين واسرائيل فانحدر داود وعبيده معه وحاربوا الفلسطينيين فاعيا داود.
15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
16ويشبي بنوب الذي من اولاد رافا ووزن رمحه ثلاث مئة شاقل نحاس وقد تقلد جديدا افتكر ان يقتل داود.
16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
17فانجده ابيشاي ابن صروية فضرب الفلسطيني وقتله. حينئذ حلف رجال داود له قائلين لا تخرج ايضا معنا الى الحرب ولا تطفئ سراج اسرائيل
17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
18ثم بعد ذلك كانت ايضا حرب في جوب مع الفلسطينيين. حينئذ سبكاي الحوشي قتل ساف الذي هو من اولاد رافا
18It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
19ثم كانت ايضا حرب في جوب مع الفلسطينيين. فالحانان بن يعري ارجيم البيتلحمي قتل جليات الجتّي وكانت قناة رمحه كنول النسّاجين.
19There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
20وكانت ايضا حرب في جتّ وكان رجل طويل القامة اصابع كل من يديه ست واصابع كل من رجليه ست عددها اربع وعشرون هو ايضا ولد لرافا.
20There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who 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.
21ولما عيّر اسرائيل ضربه يوناثان بن شمعي اخي داود.
21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
22هؤلاء الاربعة ولدوا لرافا في جتّ وسقطوا بيد داود وبيد عبيده
22These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.