¹بعد از سه روز داود و همراهانش به صِقلَغ آمدند و دیدند که عمالیقیان به جنوب حمله کرده و شهر صِقلَغ را آتش زده اند.

¹And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

²و زنها و کودکان را اسیر کرده با خود برده اند، اما کسی را نکشته اند.

²And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

³داود و همراهانش وقتی آن صحنه را دیدند و پی بردند که شهر به خاکستر تبدیل شده است و زن و پسر و دختر شانرا به اسارت برده اند،

³So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

⁴آنقدر گریه کردند که دیگر طاقت گریه کردن برای شان نماند.

⁴Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

⁵دو زن داود، اَخِینُوعَم یِزرعیلی و اَبِیجایَل بيوۀ نابال کَرمَلی هم در جملۀ اسیران بودند.

⁵And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

⁶داود بسیار تشویش داشت، زیرا مردم بخاطر از دست دادن فامیل شان بی حد متأثر بودند و می گفتند که او را سنگسار کنند. اما داود از خداوند، خدای خود قوت قلب گرفت.

⁶And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

⁷داود به ابیاتار کاهن، پسر اَخِیمَلَک گفت: «ایفود را برای من بیاور!» وابیاتار آنرا برایش آورد.

⁷And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

⁸آنگاه داود از خداوند مصلحت خواسته گفت: «آیا به تعقیب آن ها بروم؟ آیا به آن ها رسیده می توانم؟» خداوند جواب داد: «بلی، برو به تعقیب شان. به آن ها می رسی و همه چیزی را که گرفته اند، دوباره به دست می آوری.»

⁸And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

⁹پس داود و ششصد نفر همراهان او براه افتادند تا به نهر بسور رسیدند.

⁹So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

¹⁰دوصد نفر شان آنقدر خسته شده بودند که یارای پیش رفتن را نداشتند. اما داود با چهارصد نفر دیگر براه خود ادامه داد.

¹⁰But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

¹¹در سر راه خود با یکنفر مصری در صحرا برخوردند و او را پیش داود آوردند. آن شخص سه شبانه روز چیزی نخورده بود، بنابران، به او نان و آب دادند که بخورد.

¹¹And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

¹²همچنین یک تکه از کیک انجیر و کشمش هم به او دادند. وقتیکه او سیر شد، حالش بجا آمد، زیرا سه شبانه روز نان و آب را بلب نزده بود.

¹²And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

¹³داود از او پرسید: «کیستی و از کجا آمده ای؟» او گفت: «من یک مصری و خادم یک عمالیقی هستم. سه روز پیش مریض شدم و از همین خاطر آقایم مرا ترک کرد.

¹³And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

¹⁴ما به جنوب و کَرِیتیان و کشور یهودا و جنوب کالیب حمله کردیم و شهر صِقلَغ را آتش زدیم و در راه بازگشت بودیم.»

¹⁴We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

¹⁵داود به او گفت: «آیا می توانی مرا پیش آن ها ببری؟» او جواب داد: «اگر بنام خدا قسم بخوری که مرا نکشی و به دست آقایم نسپاری، من ترا پیش آن ها می برم.»

¹⁵And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

¹⁶وقتی داود را پیش عمالیقیان برد، دید که آن ها بساط خود را در همه جا هموار کرده می خوردند و می نوشیدند و بخاطر آنهمه غنیمتی که از کشور فلسطینی ها به دست آورده بودند، جشن داشتند.

¹⁶And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁷داود و همراهانش بر آن ها شبخون زدند و تا شام روز دیگر به کشتار آن ها پرداختند. بغیر از چهارصد نفر شان که بر شترهای خود سوار شدند و فرار کردند، کسی دیگر نتوانست که بگریزد.

¹⁷And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

¹⁸داود همه چیزهائی را که عمالیقیان به غنیمت گرفته بودند، دوباره به دست آورد و دو زن خود را هم نجات داد.

¹⁸And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

¹⁹هیچ چیز شان، نه خورد و نه بزرگ، نه پسر و نه دختر و هیچیک از مال شان کم نشده بود و همه را با خود آوردند.

¹⁹And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.

²⁰داود همچنین گله و رمه را پس گرفت و مردم، آن ها را پیشاپیش خود می راندند و می گفتند: «اینها همه غنیمت داود است.»

²⁰And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

²¹وقتی داود به نهر بسور برگشت با آن دوصد نفریکه بخاطر خستگی نتوانستند همراه او بروند، با آغوش باز احوالپرسی کرد.

²¹And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

²²اما بعضی از اشخاص پست و بدبین که در بین همراهان داود بودند، گفتند: «چون اینها با ما نرفتند از غنیمتی که به دست آورده ایم نمی خواهیم چیزی به آن ها بدهیم. هر کدام شان زن و فرزندان خود را بگیرند و پی کار خود بروند.»

²²Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.

²³اما داود گفت: «نی، برادران، این کار را نکنید! شکرگزار باشید که خداوند ما را حفظ کرد و به ما کمک نمود که دشمن خود را شکست بدهیم.

²³Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

²⁴کسی در این مورد با شما موافق نیست. هر کسی حق مساوی دارد. خواه به جنگ برود، خواه از مال و لوازم نگهداری کند.»

²⁴For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

²⁵و داود از همان روز ببعد این قانون را در بین اسرائیل جاری ساخت که تا به امروز دوام دارد.

²⁵And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

²⁶وقتی داود به صِقلَغ آمد یک حصۀ غنیمت را به دوستان و مو سفیدان یهودا فرستاد و به آن ها نوشت: «اینها تحفه ایست که از دشمنان خداوند به غنیمت گرفته ایم.»تحفه ها را به شهرهائی فرستاد که او و همراهانش به آنجا ها سفر کرده بودند ـ یعنی بیت ئیل، راموت جنوبی، یتیر، عروعیر، سفموت، اَشتَموع، راکال، شهرهای یِرَحمئیلی ها، قَینی ها، حُرما، بورعاشان، عَتاق و حبرون.

²⁶And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

²⁷تحفه ها را به شهرهائی فرستاد که او و همراهانش به آنجا ها سفر کرده بودند ـ یعنی بیت ئیل، راموت جنوبی، یتیر، عروعیر، سفموت، اَشتَموع، راکال، شهرهای یِرَحمئیلی ها، قَینی ها، حُرما، بورعاشان، عَتاق و حبرون.

²⁷To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

²⁸And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

²⁹And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,

³⁰And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,

³¹And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.