¹A stalo sa, keď prišiel Dávid i jeho mužovia do Ciklagu na tretí deň, že videl, že Amalechiti vtrhli do južného kraja i do Ciklagu a zbili Ciklag a spálili ho ohňom.

¹And it cometh to pass, in the coming in of David and his men to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites have pushed unto the south, and unto Ziklag, and smite Ziklag, and burn it with fire,

²A zajali ženy, ktoré boly v ňom, i všetko, od malého až do veľkého; nezabili nikoho, ale ženúc odviedli a išli svojou cestou.

²and they take captive the women who [are] in it; from small unto great they have not put any one to death, and they lead away, and go on their way.

³A keď prišiel Dávid a jeho mužovia k mestu, videl, že hľa, je spálené ohňom, a že ich ženy, ich synovia aj ich dcéry sú odvedené do zajatia.

³And David cometh in — and his men — unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive!

⁴Vtedy pozdvihol Dávid i ľud, ktorý bol s ním, svoj hlas, a plakali, až už nebolo v nich viacej sily plakať.

⁴And David lifteth up — and the people who [are] with him — their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.

⁵Zajaté boly aj obe ženy Dávidove, Achinoam Jizreelská, i Abigaiľ, predtým žena Nábala Karmelského.

⁵And the two wives of David have been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite;

⁶A Dávidovi bolo veľmi úzko, lebo ľud hovoril, aby ho ukameňovali, pretože horkým žiaľom bola naplnená duša všetkého ľudu, lebo každý žialil nad svojimi synmi a nad svojimi dcérami. Ale Dávid sa posilnil v Hospodinovi, svojom Bohu.

⁶and David hath great distress, for the people have said to stone him, for the soul of all the people hath been bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters; and David doth strengthen himself in Jehovah his God.

⁷Potom riekol Dávid Ebiatárovi, kňazovi, synovi Achimelechovmu: Dones mi, prosím, efod. A Ebiatár doniesol efod k Dávidovi.

⁷And David saith unto Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, `Bring nigh, I pray thee, to me the ephod;` and Abiathar bringeth nigh the ephod unto David,

⁸A Dávid sa dopytoval Hospodina a povedal: Či mám prenasledovať tú rotu a či ju dostihnem? A riekol mu: Prenasleduj, lebo istotne dostihneš a istotne vytrhneš.

⁸and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, `I pursue after this troop — do I overtake it?` And He saith to him, `Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.`

⁹A tak išiel Dávid, on i šesťsto mužov, ktorí boli s ním, a prišli až k potoku Besor, kde tí ostatné, zanechaní, zastáli.

⁹And David goeth on, he and six hundred men who [are] with him, and they come in unto the brook of Besor, and those left have stood still,

¹⁰Ďalej prenasledoval iba Dávid a štyristo mužov. Zastálo dvesto mužov, ktorí ustali tak, že nevládali prejsť potok Besor.

¹⁰and David pursueth, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor),

¹¹A našli nejakého egyptského muža na poli, ktorého doviedli k Dávidovi a dali mu chleba, a zjedol, aj sa mu dali napiť vody.

¹¹and they find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and take him unto David, and give to him bread, and he eateth, and they cause him to drink water,

¹²A tiež mu dali kus hrudy sušených fíkov i dva sväzky sušeného hrozna. A keď pojedol, navrátil sa k nemu jeho duch, lebo nejedol chleba ani nepil vody už tri dni a tri noci.

¹²and give to him a piece of a bunch of dried figs, and two bunches of raisins, and he eateth, and his spirit returneth unto him, for he hath not eaten bread nor drunk water three days and three nights.

¹³A Dávid mu riekol: Čí si ty a odkiaľ si? A odpovedal: Som egyptský mládenec, sluha amalechitského muža, a môj pán ma zanechal, lebo som chorý toto už tretí deň.

¹³And David saith to him, `Whose [art] thou? and whence [art] thou?` And he saith, `An Egyptian youth I [am], servant to a man, an Amalekite, and my lord forsaketh me, for I have been sick three days,

¹⁴Boli sme vpadli do južného kraja Keréťanov i na územie, ktoré patrí Judsku, i na južnú stranu Kálefovu a Ciklag sme spálili ohňom.

¹⁴we pushed [to] the south of the Cherethite, and against that which [is] to Judah, and against the south of Caleb, and Ziklag we burned with fire.`

¹⁵A Dávid mu riekol: Či ma zavedieš dolu k tej rote? A on povedal: Prisahaj mi na Boha, že ma nezabiješ a že ma nevydáš do ruky môjho pána, potom ťa zavediem dolu k tej rote.

¹⁵And David saith unto him, `Dost thou bring me down unto this troop?` and he saith, `Swear to me by God — thou dost not put me to death, nor dost thou shut me up into the hand of my lord — and I bring thee down unto this troop.`

¹⁶A zaviedol ho. A hľa, práve sa boli rozložili po tvári celej zeme jediac a pijúc a slávili pre všetku tú veľkú korisť, ktorú vzali zo zeme Filištínov i zo zeme Júdovej.

¹⁶And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁷A tak ich bil Dávid od mrku až do večera druhého dňa, a neušiel nikto z nich krome štyristo mladých mužov, ktorí vysadli na veľblúdov a utiekli.

¹⁷And David smiteth them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there hath not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled.

¹⁸A Dávid vytrhol všetko, čo boli vzali, Amalech, aj obe svoje ženy vytrhol Dávid.

¹⁸And David delivereth all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives hath David delivered.

¹⁹Ani im nič nechýbalo, ani malé ani veľké, jako ani nechýbal nikto zo synov ani z dcér, nechýbalo ani z koristi ani vôbec nič z toho, čo im boli vzali; všetko dopravil Dávid zpät.

¹⁹And there hath not lacked to them [anything], from small unto great, and unto sons and daughters, and from the spoil, even unto all that they had taken to themselves, the whole hath David brought back,

²⁰A Dávid vzal všetko drobné stádo, ovce a kozy, i hovädá, a tí, ktorí išli pred tým dobytkom, vraveli: Toto je korisť Dávidova.

²⁰and David taketh the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, `This [is] David`s spoil.`

²¹Keď potom prišiel Dávid k tým dvesto mužom, ktorí boli tak ustali, že nevládali ísť za Dávidom, a ktorých boli zanechali pri potoku Besore, tí vyšli vústrety Dávidovi a vústrety ľudu, ktorý bol s ním. A Dávid pristúpil k ľudu a pozdravil ho.

²¹And David cometh in unto the two hundred men who were too faint to go after David, and whom they cause to abide at the brook of Besor, and they go out to meet David, and to meet the people who [are] with him, and David approacheth the people, and asketh of them of welfare.

²²Ale všetci mužovia, zlí a beliálski, z mužov, ktorí boli išli s Dávidom, odpovedali a riekli: Pretože neišli s nami, nedáme im z koristi, ktorú sme vytrhli, iba čo každému dáme jeho ženu a jeho synov, a tak nech si odvedú a idú.

²²And every bad and worthless man, of the men who have gone with David, answereth, yea, they say, `Because that they have not gone with us we do not give to them of the spoil which we have delivered, except each his wife and his children, and they lead away and go.

²³Ale Dávid riekol: Nerobte tak, moji bratia, s tým, čo nám dal Hospodin, ktorý nás ostríhal a dal tú rotu lupičov, ktorá bola prišla na nás, do našej ruky.

²³And David saith, `Ye do not do so, my brethren, with that which Jehovah hath given to us, and He doth preserve us, and doth give the troop which cometh against us into our hand;

²⁴Lebo veď kto by vás poslúchol v tejto veci?! Ale jaký diel bude toho, ktorý išiel dolu do boja, taký bude i diel toho, ktorý strážiac sedel pri batožine, rovnako sa rozdelia.

²⁴and who doth hearken to you in this thing? for as the portion of him who was brought down into battle, so also [is] the portion of him who is abiding by the vessels — alike they share.`

²⁵A tak to bývalo od toho dňa i potom, a učinil to zákonom a obyčajou Izraelovi až do tohoto dňa.

²⁵And it cometh to pass from that day and forward, that he appointeth it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

²⁶A keď prišiel Dávid do Ciklagu, poslal z koristi starším Judska, svojim priateľom, a odkázal: Hľa, pre vás požehnanie, dar to z koristi, vzatej od nepriateľov Hospodinových.

²⁶And David cometh in unto Ziklag, and sendeth of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, (saying, `Lo, for you a blessing, of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah),`

²⁷Tým, ktorí boli v Bét-ele, tým, ktorí v Rámot-négebe, a tým, ktorí v Jattíre,

²⁷to those in Beth-El, and to those in South Ramoth, and to those in Jattir,

²⁸tým, ktorí v Aroere, tým, ktorí v Sifemóte, tým, ktorí v Eštemoe,

²⁸and to those in Aroer, and to those in Siphmoth, and to those in Eshtemoa,

²⁹tým, ktorí v Rachále, tým, ktorí v mestách Jerachmeelovcov, tým, ktorí v mestách Kéniho,

²⁹and to those in Rachal, and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those in the cities of the Kenites,

³⁰tým, ktorí v Chorme, tým, ktorí v Chor-ašane, tým, ktorí v Atachu,

³⁰and to those in Hormah, and to those in Chor-Ashan, and to those in Athach,

³¹tým, ktorí v Hebrone, a všetkým miestam, po ktorých chodil Dávid, on i jeho mužovia.

³¹and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.