¹Ben-hadad pa, kralj sirski, je zbral vso vojsko svojo, in bilo je pri njem dvaintrideset kraljev pa konj in vozov; in pride in oblega Samarijo in se bojuje zoper njo.

¹And Ben-Hadad king of Aram hath gathered all his force, and thirty and two kings [are] with him, and horse and chariot, and he goeth up and layeth siege against Samaria, and fighteth with it,

²In pošlje sporočnikov v mesto k Ahabu, kralju Izraelovemu, da mu reko: Tako pravi Ben-hadad:

²and sendeth messengers unto Ahab king of Israel, to the city,

³Tvoje srebro in zlato je moje, in najboljše žene tvoje in otroci tvoji so tudi moji.

³and saith to him, `Thus said Ben-Hadad, `Thy silver and thy gold are mine, and thy wives and thy sons — the best — are mine.`

⁴Kralj Izraelov pa odgovori in reče: Po besedi tvoji, gospod moj, kralj: tvoj sem in vse, kar imam.

⁴And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `According to thy word, my lord, O king: I [am] thine, and all that I have.`

⁵A sporočniki pridejo zopet in reko: Tako govori Ben-hadad: Ker sem poslal k tebi, rekoč: Meni daš srebro in zlato svoje in žene in otroke svoje,

⁵And the messengers turn back and say, `Thus spake Ben-Hadad, saying, Surely I sent unto thee, saying, Thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy sons, to me thou dost give;

⁶zato pošljem jutri ob tem času hlapce svoje k tebi, in preiščejo hišo tvojo in služabnikov tvojih hiše, in karkoli z veseljem gledaš, vzamejo v roke in odneso.

⁶for if, at this time to-morrow, I send my servants unto thee then they have searched thy house, and the houses of thy servants, and it hath been, every desirable thing of thine eyes they place in their hand, and have taken away.`

⁷Tedaj skliče kralj Izraelov vse starejšine dežele in reče: Premislite, prosim, in glejte, da ima ta mož le hudo v mislih! Zakaj poslal je k meni po žene in otroke moje in po srebro in zlato moje, in mu nisem odklonil.

⁷And the king of Israel calleth to all the elders of the land, and saith, `Know, I pray you, and see that evil this [one] is seeking, for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my sons, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I withheld not from him.`

⁸In vsi starejšine in vse ljudstvo mu reče: Ne poslušaj ga in ne vdaj se mu!

⁸And all the elders and all the people say unto him, `Do not hearken, nor consent.`

⁹Zatorej veli sporočnikom Ben-hadadovim: Povejte gospodu mojemu, kralju: Vse, kar si sporočil hlapcu svojemu najprej, sem hotel storiti, a tega ne morem. In sporočniki odidejo in mu prineso ta odgovor.

⁹And he saith to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, `Say to my lord the king, All that thou didst send for unto thy servant at the first I do, and this thing I am not able to do;` and the messengers go and take him back word.

¹⁰Tedaj pošlje Ben-hadad in mu sporoči: To naj mi bogovi store in to še pridenejo, ako bode dosti prahu v Samariji, da ga vzame vsak iz ljudstva mojega, ki ga vodim, le peščico!

¹⁰And Ben-Hadad sendeth unto him, and saith, `Thus do the gods to me, and thus do they add, if the dust of Samaria suffice for handfuls for all the people who [are] at my feet.`

¹¹Kralj Izraelov odgovori in reče: Povejte mu: Kdor se opasuje z mečem, naj se še ne hvali kakor oni, ki ga deva od sebe.

¹¹And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Speak ye: let not him who is girding on boast himself as him who is loosing [his armour].`

¹²In zgodi se, ko Ben-hadad sliši to sporočilo, ko je ravno pil s kralji v šatorih, da veli hlapcem svojim: Postavite se! In postavijo se v boj proti mestu.

¹²And it cometh to pass at the hearing of this word — and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the booths — that he saith unto his servants, `Set yourselves;` and they set themselves against the city.

¹³In glej, prorok pristopi k Ahabu, kralju Izraelovemu, in reče: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Si videl vso to preveliko množico? Glej, jaz ti jo danes dam v roke, da spoznaš, da sem jaz GOSPOD.

¹³And lo, a certain prophet hath come nigh unto Ahab king of Israel, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, `Hast thou seen all this great multitude? lo, I am giving it into thy hand to-day, and thou hast known that I [am] Jehovah.`

¹⁴In Ahab vpraša: Po kom? On odgovori: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Po mladeničih pokrajinskih poglavarjev. Nato vpraša: Kdo naj začne boj? Odgovori: Ti.

¹⁴And Ahab saith, `By whom?` and he saith, `Thus said Jehovah, By the young men of the heads of the provinces;` and he saith, `Who doth direct the battle?` and he saith, `Thou.`

¹⁵Tedaj prešteje mladeniče pokrajinskih poglavarjev, in bilo jih je dvesto in dvaintrideset; in za njimi prešteje vse ljudstvo, vse sinove Izraelove, sedem tisoč.

¹⁵And he inspecteth the young men of the heads of the provinces, and they are two hundred, two and thirty, and after them he hath inspecteth the whole of the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand,

¹⁶In gredo ven opoldne. Ben-hadad pa je pil in se opijanil v šatorih z dvaintridesetimi kralji, ki so mu bili prišli v pomoč.

¹⁶and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking — drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him.

¹⁷A mladeniči pokrajinskih poglavarjev so šli ven prvi. In Ben-hadad pošlje pogledat, in oznanijo mu, rekoč: Možje gredo sem iz Samarije!

¹⁷And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sendeth, and they declare to him, saying, `Men have come out of Samaria.`

¹⁸On veli: Bodisi, da prihajajo po mir, ali da se gredo vojskovat, primite jih žive!

¹⁸And he saith, `If for peace they have come out — catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out — alive catch them.`

¹⁹Oni torej gredo iz mesta, mladeniči pokrajinskih poglavarjev, druga vojska pa za njimi,

¹⁹And these have gone out of the city — the young men of the heads of the provinces — and the force that [is] after them,

²⁰in vsak udari moža sebi nasproti; in Sirci zbeže, in Izrael dere za njimi. Ben-hadad pa, kralj sirski, je zbežal na konju z jezdeci.

²⁰and smite each his man, and Aram fleeth, and Israel pursueth them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapeth on a horse, and the horsemen;

²¹In kralj Izraelov pride iz mesta in potolče konje in vozove in porazi Sirce z velikim pobojem.

²¹and the king of Israel goeth out, and smiteth the horses, and the charioteers, and hath smitten among the Aramaeans a great smiting.

²²Potem pristopi prorok h kralju Izraelovemu in mu reče: Pojdi, ojači se in premisli in glej, kaj delaš; zakaj kralj Sirije pride gori zoper tebe, ko mine leto.

²²And the prophet cometh nigh unto the king of Israel, and saith to him, `Go, strengthen thyself, and know and see that which thou dost, for at the turn of the year the king of Aram is coming up against thee.`

²³In služabniki sirskega kralja mu reko: Njih bogovi so bogovi gorá, zato so nas premagali. Da bi se mogli ž njimi bojevati na ravnem, gotovo jih zmagamo!

²³And the servants of the king of Aram said unto him, `Gods of hills [are] their gods, therefore they were stronger than we; and yet, we fight with them in the plain — are we not stronger than they?

²⁴Zatorej stóri to: Odstrani kralje, vsakega z njegovega mesta, in postavi namestnike na njih mesta!

²⁴`And this thing do thou: turn aside the kings each out of his place, and set captains in their stead;

²⁵In oskrbi si vojsko, kakor je bila vojska, ki si jo izgubil, tudi konje in vozove, enake prejšnjim; in bojevali se bomo zoper nje na ravnem, in gotovo jih premagamo! In slušal je njih glas in je storil tako.

²⁵and thou, number to thee a force as the force that is fallen from thee, and horse for horse, and chariot for chariot, and we fight with them in the plain; are we not stronger than they?` and he hearkeneth to their voice, and doth so.

²⁶In ko je minilo leto, prešteje Ben-hadad Sirce in gre gori proti Afeku, da se bojuje zoper Izraela.

²⁶And it cometh to pass at the turn of the year, that Ben-Hadad inspecteth the Aramaeans, and goeth up to Aphek, to battle with Israel,

²⁷In sinovi Izraelovi se tudi preštejejo in oskrbe z živežem ter gredo proti njim; in sinovi Izraelovi se utabore nasproti njim kakor dve majhni čredi koz. Sircev pa je bilo polno v deželi.

²⁷and the sons of Israel have been inspected, and supported, and go to meet them, and the sons of Israel encamp before them, like two flocks of goats, and the Aramaeans have filled the land.

²⁸In mož Božji pristopi in reče kralju Izraelovemu: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ker so dejali Sirci: GOSPOD je Bog gorá, a ni Bog dolin, zato dam vso to veliko množico v tvojo roko, in spoznate, da sem jaz GOSPOD.

²⁸And there cometh nigh a man of God, and speaketh unto the king of Israel, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that the Aramaeans have said, God of hills [is] Jehovah, and He [is] not God of valleys — I have given the whole of this great multitude into thy hand, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.`

²⁹In taborili so eni nasproti drugim sedem dni. Sedmi dan pa se vname bitka, in sinovi Izraelovi pobijejo izmed Sircev stotisoč pešcev v enem dnevi.

²⁹And they encamp one over-against another seven days, and it cometh to pass on the seventh day, that the battle draweth near, and the sons of Israel smite Aram — a hundred thousand footmen in one day.

³⁰Preostali pa so bežali v Afek, v mesto, in zidovje je padlo na preostalih sedemindvajset tisoč mož. Ben-hadad je tudi zbežal in pritekel v mesto, iz hrama v hram bežeč.

³⁰And those left flee to Aphek, unto the city, and the wall falleth on twenty and seven chief men who are left, and Ben-Hadad hath fled, and cometh in unto the city, into the innermost part.

³¹In hlapci njegovi mu reko: Poglej, slišali smo, da so kralji Izraelove hiše milostivi kralji; dovoli, prosimo, da si denemo raševnike okoli ledij in vrvi ob tilnike, pa pojdemo ven h kralju Izraelovemu; lahko da te ohrani v življenju.

³¹And his servants say unto him, `Lo, we pray thee, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel — that they are kind kings; let us put, we pray thee, sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we go out unto the king of Israel; it may be he doth keep thee alive.`

³²Opašejo si torej raševnike in denejo vrvi ob tilnike in pridejo h kralju Izraelovemu, pa reko: Hlapec tvoj Ben-hadad pravi: Prosim te, daj mi živeti! On pa reče: Živi li še? Brat je moj!

³²And they gird sackcloth on their loins, and ropes [are] on their heads, and they come in unto the king of Israel, and say, `Thy servant Ben-Hadad hath said, Let me live, I pray thee;` and he saith, `Is he yet alive? he [is] my brother.`

³³To pa so smatrali možje za dobro znamenje in so hitro povzeli to besedo od njega in dejali: Brat tvoj je Ben-hadad. Nato on veli: Pojdite, pripeljite ga! Tedaj pride Ben-hadad ven k njemu, in on mu veli stopiti na svoj voz.

³³And the men observe diligently, and hasten, and catch it from him, and say, `Thy brother Ben-Hadad;` and he saith, `Go ye in, bring him;` and Ben-Hadad cometh out unto him, and he causeth him to come up on the chariot.

³⁴In Ben-hadad reče: Mesta, ki jih je vzel moj oče tvojemu očetu, ti povrnem, in napravi si ulice v Damasku, kakor je oče moj napravil v Samariji. Jaz pa, reče Ahab, te izpustim s to zavezo. Storil je torej ž njim zavezo in ga je odpustil.

³⁴And he saith unto him, `The cities that my father took from thy father, I give back, and streets thou dost make for thee in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria;` — `and I, with a covenant, send thee away;` and he maketh with him a covenant, and sendeth him away.

³⁵In neki mož izmed proroških sinov reče tovarišu svojemu po besedi GOSPODOVI: Udari me, prosim! A mož ga ni hotel udariti.

³⁵And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour by the word of Jehovah, `Smite me, I pray thee;` and the man refuseth to smite him,

³⁶Tedaj mu reče: Ker nisi slušal glasu GOSPODOVEGA, glej, umori te lev, brž ko pojdeš od mene. In komaj je šel od njega, naleti nanj lev in ga umori.

³⁶and he saith to him, `Because that thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, lo, thou art going from me, and the lion hath smitten thee;` and he goeth from him, and the lion findeth him, and smiteth him.

³⁷Nato se nameri na drugega moža ter mu reče: Udari me, prosim! In mož ga krepko udari in rani.

³⁷And he findeth another man, and saith, `Smite me, I pray thee;` and the man smiteth him, smiting and wounding,

³⁸Prorok pa odide in se postavi kralju na poti in se pretvori z oglavno povezo nad očmi.

³⁸and the prophet goeth and standeth for the king on the way, and disguiseth himself with ashes on his eyes.

³⁹In ko gre kralj mimo, kliče kralju in reče: Hlapec tvoj je šel med boj, in glej, nekdo stopi vstran in mi pripelje moža in veli: Varuj tega moža! Ako ga bodo pogrešili, bode življenje tvoje namesto življenja njegovega, ali pa boš moral plačati talent srebra.

³⁹And it cometh to pass — the king is passing by — that he hath cried unto the king, and saith, `Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle, and lo, a man hath turned aside and bringeth in unto me a man, and saith, Keep this man; if he be at all missing, then hath thy life been for his life, or a talent of silver thou dost weigh out;

⁴⁰Ko pa je hlapec tvoj imel tu in tam opravilo, je mož izginil. In kralj Izraelov mu reče: Taka je sodba tvoja; sam si jo izrekel.

⁴⁰and it cometh to pass, thy servant is working hither and thither, and he is not!` and the king of Israel saith unto him, Right [is] thy judgment; thou hast determined [it].`

⁴¹Tedaj sname hitro povezo z oči; in kralj Izraelov ga spozna, da je izmed prorokov.

⁴¹And he hasteth and turneth aside the ashes from off his eyes, and the king of Israel discerneth him, that he [is] of the prophets,

⁴²On pa mu reče: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ker si pustil iz roke svoje moža, ki sem ga jaz izročil pogubi, zato bo življenje tvoje za njega življenje in ljudstvo tvoje za njegovo ljudstvo!In kralj Izraelov je šel hude volje in srdit v hišo svojo in je dospel v Samarijo.

⁴²and he saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Because thou hast sent away the man I devoted, out of [thy] hand, even thy life hath been for his life, and thy people for his people;`

⁴³In kralj Izraelov je šel hude volje in srdit v hišo svojo in je dospel v Samarijo.

⁴³and the king of Israel goeth unto his house, sulky and wroth, and cometh in to Samaria.