¹David pa pobegne iz Najota v Rami ter pride in govori z Jonatanom: Kaj sem storil? Kaj je krivica moja in kaj je greh moj vpričo očeta tvojega, da mi streže po življenju?

¹And David fleeth from Naioth in Ramah, and cometh, and saith before Jonathan, `What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what my sin before thy father, that he is seeking my life?`

²On pa mu reče: Bog ne daj! ne umrješ. Glej, oče moj ne stori ničesar, ne velikega, ne malega, da ne bi prej meni razodel. Zakaj bi mar to tajil pred mano oče moj? Tega ni.

²And he saith to him, `Far be it! thou dost not die; lo, my father doth not do anything great or small and doth not uncover mine ear; and wherefore doth my father hide from me this thing? this [thing] is not.`

³In David še priseže in reče: Oče tvoj dobro ve, da sem našel milost v tvojih očeh, zato misli: Jonatan ne sme tega vedeti, ker bi ga bolelo! Pa zares, kakor GOSPOD živi in kakor živi duša tvoja, samo stopinja je med menoj in med smrtjo.

³And David sweareth again, and saith, `Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but — as a step between me and death.`

⁴Jonatan pa reče Davidu: Storiti hočem zate, karkoli želi srce tvoje!

⁴And Jonathan saith to David, `What doth thy soul say? — and I do it for thee.`

⁵In David reče Jonatanu: Glej, jutri bo mlaj, ko bi moral sedeti pri mizi s kraljem. Toda pústi me, da se na polju skrijem do večera tretjega dne.

⁵And David saith unto Jonathan, `Lo, the new moon [is] to-morrow; and I do certainly sit with the king to eat; and thou hast sent me away, and I have been hidden in a field till the third evening;

⁶Ako me oče tvoj pogreši in vpraša, reci: David me je silno prosil, da sme pohiteti v Betlehem, mesto svoje, ker ondi je letna daritev za vso rodovino.

⁶if thy father at all look after me, and thou hast said, David asked earnestly of me to run to Beth-Lehem his city, for a sacrifice of the days [is] there for all the family.

⁷Ako poreče: Dobro! pomeni to mir za hlapca tvojega, – ako pa se razjezi, vedi, da je hudo sklenil pri sebi.

⁷If thus he say: Good; peace [is] for thy servant; and if it be very displeasing to him — know that the evil hath been determined by him;

⁸Zato izkaži milost hlapcu svojemu, ker si me uvedel v zavezo GOSPODOVO s seboj. Ako pa je kaka krivica na meni, ubij me sam, ker zakaj bi me vodil k očetu svojemu?

⁸and thou hast done kindness, to thy servant, for into a covenant of Jehovah thou hast brought thy servant with thee; — and if there is in me iniquity, put thou me to death; and unto thy father, why is this — thou dost bring me in?`

⁹In Jonatan reče: Nič tega se ti ne bo zgodilo! Kajti ako bi jaz res zaznal, da je sklenil oče moj hudo spraviti nadte, bi li tebi ne sporočil?

⁹And Jonathan saith, `Far be it from thee! for I certainly do not know that the evil hath been determined by my father to come upon thee, and I do not declare it to thee.`

¹⁰Nato reče David Jonatanu: Kdo mi pove, ako ti oče tvoj kaj trdega odgovori?

¹⁰And David saith unto Jonathan, `Who doth declare to me? or what [if] thy father doth answer thee sharply?`

¹¹Jonatan veli Davidu: Pojdi, idiva ven na polje! In šla sta skupaj na polje.

¹¹And Jonathan saith unto David, `Come, and we go out into the field;` and they go out both of them into the field.

¹²In Jonatan reče Davidu: GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, bodi priča: ko bom zvedel jutri ob tem času ali tretjega dne, da je moj oče dobre volje proti Davidu, ako ne pošljem k tebi in ti tega ne razkrijem!

¹²And Jonathan saith unto David, `Jehovah, God of Israel — when I search my father, about [this] time to-morrow [or] the third [day], and lo, good [is] towards David, and I do not then send unto thee, and have uncovered thine ear —

¹³GOSPOD stóri to ali ono Jonatanu, ako ti ne razodenem, če bi bila volja očeta mojega storiti ti hudo; in pošljem te stran, da v miru odideš, in GOSPOD bodi s teboj, kakor je bil z očetom mojim.

¹³thus doth Jehovah do to Jonathan, and thus doth He add; when the evil concerning thee is good to my father, then I have uncovered thine ear, and sent thee away, and thou hast gone in peace, and Jehovah is with thee, as he was with my father;

¹⁴Ti pa boš ne samo meni, dokler živim, izkazoval milost GOSPODOVO, da me ne usmrtiš,

¹⁴and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,

¹⁵ampak tudi hiši moji ne prikrati milosti svoje vekomaj, tudi ne, ko iztrebi GOSPOD sovražnike Davidove, vsakega s površja zemlje.

¹⁵but thou dost not cut off thy kindness from my house unto the age, nor in Jehovah`s cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.`

¹⁶Tako je Jonatan storil zavezo s hišo Davidovo, rekoč: GOSPOD naj kaznuje sovražnike Davidove!

¹⁶And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought [it] from the hand of the enemies of David;

¹⁷In Jonatan je velel Davidu še enkrat priseči pri ljubezni, ki jo je imel do njega; zakaj ljubil ga je kakor svojo dušo.

¹⁷and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.

¹⁸Nato reče Jonatan Davidu: Jutri bo mlaj, in pogrešali te bodo, ker sedež tvoj ostane prazen.

¹⁸And Jonathan saith to him, `To-morrow [is] new moon, and thou hast been looked after, for thy seat is looked after;

¹⁹In tretji dan stopi hitro sem doli in pridi na mesto, kjer si se bil skril ob onem delavniku, in sedi blizu kamena Azela.

¹⁹and on the third day thou dost certainly come down, and hast come in unto the place where thou wast hidden in the day of the work, and hast remained near the stone Ezel.

²⁰Jaz pa izstrelim tri pšice mimo njega, kakor da bi se vadil v tarčo streljati.

²⁰`And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out for myself at a mark;

²¹Pa pazi, pošljem dečka, veleč: Pojdi, išči pšice! Ako porečem dečku: Glej, pšice leže na tej strani za tabo, prinesi jih! – pridi, zakaj to pomeni mir tebi in nobene nevarnosti, kakor res GOSPOD živi.

²¹and lo, I send the youth: Go, find the arrows. If I at all say to the youth, Lo, the arrows [are] on this side of thee — take them, — then come thou, for peace [is] for thee, and there is nothing; Jehovah liveth.

²²Ako pa porečem dečku takole: Glej, pšice so pred teboj dalje! pojdi, zakaj GOSPOD te pošilja proč.

²²And if thus I say to the young man, Lo, the arrows [are] beyond thee, — go, for Jehovah hath sent thee away;

²³Za stvar pa, ki sva o njej govorila ti in jaz, glej, GOSPOD je priča med teboj in med menoj vekomaj!

²³as to the thing which we have spoken, I and thou, lo, Jehovah [is] between me and thee — unto the age.`

²⁴David se je torej skril na polju. In ko pride mlaj, sede kralj za mizo k jedi.

²⁴And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,

²⁵In kralj je sedel na mestu svojem ob steni kakor navadno; in Jonatan vstane, da sede Abner zraven Savla; a Davidov sedež je bil prazen.

²⁵and the king sitteth on his seat, as time by time, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan riseth, and Abner sitteth at the side of Saul, and David`s place is looked after.

²⁶Toda Savel ni rekel ničesar ta dan, zakaj mislil je: Njemu se je kaj primerilo, morda ni čist; gotovo ni čist.

²⁶And Saul hath not spoken anything on that day, for he said, `It [is] an accident; he is not clean — surely not clean.`

²⁷A drugi dan po mlaju, ko je bil Davidov sedež zopet prazen, reče Savel sinu svojemu Jonatanu: Zakaj ni prišel Jesejev sin k jedi, ne včeraj, ne danes?

²⁷And it cometh to pass on the second morrow of the new moon, that David`s place is looked after, and Saul saith unto Jonathan his son, `Wherefore hath the son of Jesse not come in, either yesterday or to-day, unto the food?`

²⁸In Jonatan odgovori Savlu: David me je silno prosil, da bi smel iti v Betlehem;

²⁸And Jonathan answereth Saul, `David hath been earnestly asked of me unto Beth-Lehem,

²⁹dejal je: Dovoli mi, prosim, zakaj rodovina naša opravlja daritev v mestu, in brat moj sam me je povabil; če sem torej našel milost v tvojih očeh, naj grem, prosim, da vidim brate svoje. Zato ni prišel k mizi kraljevi.

²⁹and he saith, Send me away, I pray thee, for a family sacrifice we have in the city, and my brother himself hath given command to me, and now, if I have found grace in thine eyes, let me go away, I pray thee, and see my brethren; therefore he hath not come unto the table of the king.`

³⁰Tedaj se razvname srd Savlov zoper Jonatana in mu reče: Uporne popačenke sin! ali ne vem, da si izvolil sina Jesejevega na sramoto sebi in tudi materi svoji?

³⁰And the anger of Saul burneth against Jonathan, and he saith to him, `Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that thou art fixing on the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of thy mother?

³¹Zakaj dokler bo živel sin Jesejev na zemlji, ne bodeš utrjen, tudi tvoje kraljestvo ne. Zatorej pošlji ponj in ga pripelji k meni, zakaj mora umreti.

³¹for all the days that the son of Jesse liveth on the ground thou art not established, thou and thy kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he [is] a son of death.`

³²Jonatan odgovori svojemu očetu Savlu in mu reče: Zakaj bi moral umreti? kaj je storil?

³²And Jonathan answereth Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Why is he put to death? what hath he done?`

³³A Savel mahne s sulico po njem, da bi ga prebodel. Tedaj spozna Jonatan, da je trdno sklenil oče njegov Davida umoriti.

³³And Saul casteth the javelin at him to smite him, and Jonathan knoweth that it hath been determined by his father to put David to death.

³⁴In vstane Jonatan izza mize v goreči jezi, in ne okusi jedi tisti drugi dan meseca, zakaj žalilo se mu je Davida, ker ga je oče njegov tako onečastil.

³⁴And Jonathan riseth from the table in the heat of anger, and hath not eaten food on the second day of the new moon, for he hath been grieved for David, for his father put him to shame.

³⁵Zjutraj pa odide Jonatan na polje na kraj, določen Davidu, in majhen deček ž njim.

³⁵And it cometh to pass in the morning, that Jonathan goeth out into the field for the appointment with David, and a little youth [is] with him.

³⁶In veli dečku: Teci in išči mi pšice, ki jih izstrelim! In ko deček teče, izstreli pšico, da je letela mimo njega.

³⁶And he saith to his youth, `Run, find, I pray thee, the arrows which I am shooting;` the youth is running, and he hath shot the arrow, causing [it] to pass over him.

³⁷In ko dospe deček na mesto, kamor je padla pšica, kliče Jonatan za dečkom in reče: Ni li pšica dalje pred teboj?

³⁷And the youth cometh unto the place of the arrow which Jonathan hath shot, and Jonathan calleth after the youth, and saith, `Is not the arrow beyond thee?`

³⁸Še kliče Jonatan za dečkom: Hitro teci, ne stoj! In Jonatanov deček zbere pšice in se vrne h gospodu svojemu.

³⁸and Jonathan calleth after the youth, `Speed, haste, stand not;` and Jonathan`s youth gathereth the arrows, and cometh unto his lord.

³⁹A deček ni vedel ničesar, samo Jonatan in David sta vedela, kaj to pomeni.

³⁹And the youth hath not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word.

⁴⁰Nato izroči Jonatan hlapcu svojemu orožje in mu veli: Pojdi, nesi je v mesto.

⁴⁰And Jonathan giveth his weapons unto the youth whom he hath, and saith to him, `Go, carry into the city.`

⁴¹Ko pa deček odide, vstane David iz svojega skrivališča ob južni strani in pade z obrazom na tla ter se trikrat pokloni; potem poljubita drug drugega in skupaj jočeta, a David najbolj.In Jonatan reče Davidu: Pojdi v miru! Kar sva obadva prisegla v imenu GOSPODOVEM, rekoč: GOSPOD bodi med menoj in teboj in med semenom mojim in semenom tvojim, to veljaj vekomaj! [20:43] In David vstane ter odide; Jonatan pa se vrne v mesto.

⁴¹The youth hath gone, and David hath risen from Ezel, at the south, and falleth on his face to the earth, and boweth himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep one with another, till David exerted himself;

⁴²In Jonatan reče Davidu: Pojdi v miru! Kar sva obadva prisegla v imenu GOSPODOVEM, rekoč: GOSPOD bodi med menoj in teboj in med semenom mojim in semenom tvojim, to veljaj vekomaj! [20:43] In David vstane ter odide; Jonatan pa se vrne v mesto.

⁴²and Jonathan saith to David, `Go in peace, in that we have sworn — we two — in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah is between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed — unto the age;` and he riseth and goeth; and Jonathan hath gone in to the city.