¹In Samuel je umrl, in ves Izrael se je zbral in žaloval po njem. In so ga pokopali v hiši njegovi v Rami. David pa vstane in gre doli v Paransko puščavo.

¹And Samuel dieth, and all Israel are gathered, and mourn for him, and bury him in his house, in Ramah; and David riseth and goeth down unto the wilderness of Paran.

²Bil pa je v Maonu mož, ki je imel posestvo svoje v Karmelu, in ta mož je bil silno velik in je imel tri tisoč ovac in tisoč koz. In je strigel ovce svoje v Karmelu.

²And [there is] a man in Maon, and his work [is] in Carmel; and the man [is] very great, and he hath three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he is shearing his flock in Carmel.

³Ime pa je bilo tistemu množu Nabal in ime ženi njegovi Abigaila; in žena je bila jako razumna in lepega lica, a mož neotesanec in hudoben v svojih dejanjih; bil pa je iz družine Kalebove.

³And the name of the man [is] Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and the woman [is] of good understanding, and of fair form, and the man [is] hard and evil [in] doings; and he [is] a Calebite.

⁴Ko pa je David slišal v puščavi, da striže Nabal ovce svoje,

⁴And David heareth in the wilderness that Nabal is shearing his flock,

⁵pošlje deset mladeničev in jim reče: Pojdite gori v Karmel, in ko pridete k Nabalu, ga prijazno pozdravite v mojem imenu

⁵and David sendeth ten young men, and David saith to the young men, `Go ye up to Carmel, and ye have come in unto Nabal, and asked of him in my name of welfare,

⁶in recite: Sreča! Mir bodi tebi in hiši tvoji mir in vsemu, kar imaš, mir!

⁶and said thus: To life! and thou, peace; and thy house, peace; and all that thou hast — peace!

⁷Slišal sem, da imaš strižce. Pastirji pa, kar jih imaš, so bili pri nas, in nismo jim bili nadležni, tudi niso ničesar pogrešali vse dni, dokler so bili ob Karmelu.

⁷and, now, I have heard that thou hast shearers; now, the shepherds whom thou hast have been with us, we have not put them to shame, nor hath anything been looked after by them, all the days of their being in Carmel.

⁸Vprašaj mladeniče svoje, in ti bodo povedali. Zato naj najdejo moji mladeniči milost v tvojih očeh; zakaj prišli smo na dober dan. Daj, prosim, hlapcem svojim in sinu svojemu Davidu, kar ti pride v roko.

⁸`Ask thy young men, and they declare to thee, and the young men find grace in thine eyes, for on a good day we have come; give, I pray thee, that which thy hand findeth, to thy servants, and to thy son, to David.`

⁹In ko pridejo mladeniči Davidovi, govore Nabalu po vseh teh besedah v imenu Davidovem, in umolknejo.

⁹And the young men of David come in, and speak unto Nabal according to all these words, in the name of David — and rest.

¹⁰Nabal pa odgovori hlapcem Davidovim in reče: Kdo je David? in kdo je Jesejev sin? Dandanes je čimdalje več hlapcev, ki uhajajo svojim gospodarjem!

¹⁰And Nabal answereth the servants of David and saith, `Who [is] David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master;

¹¹Ali naj vzamem kruh svoj in vodo svojo in meso živinčet, ki sem jih zaklal za strižce svoje, in naj to dam ljudem, za katere ne vem, od kod so?

¹¹and I have taken my bread, and my water, and my flesh, which I slaughtered for my shearers, and have given [it] to men whom I have not known whence they [are]!`

¹²Tedaj se obrnejo mladeniči Davidovi na svojo pot. In pridejo nazaj k njemu in mu povedo vse te besede.

¹²And the young men of David turn on their way, and turn back, and come in, and declare to him according to all these words.

¹³In David veli možem svojim: Vsak si opaši meč! In vsi se opašejo z mečem, tudi David opaše svoj meč. In je šlo za njim gori blizu štiristo mož, dvesto jih je pa ostalo pri prtljagi.

¹³And David saith to his men, `Gird ye on each his sword;` and they gird on each his sword, and David also girdeth on his sword, and there go up after David about four hundred men, and two hundred have remained by the vessels.

¹⁴Eden mladeničev pa oznani Abigaili, ženi Nabalovi, rekoč: Glej, David je poslal sle iz puščave, da pozdravijo našega gospodarja, a on je kriče planil nanje.

¹⁴And to Abigail wife of Nabal hath one young man of the youths declared, saying, `Lo, David hath sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our lord, and he flieth upon them;

¹⁵Toda tisti možje so nam bili dosti v prospeh, in žalega se nam ni nič zgodilo, tudi nismo ničesar pogrešali, dokler smo ž njimi občevali, ko smo bili na polju;

¹⁵and the men [are] very good to us, and have not put us to shame, and we have not looked after anything all the days we have gone up and down with them, in our being in the field;

¹⁶bili so nam kakor zidovje po noči in po dnevi, dokler smo pri njih pasli ovce.

¹⁶a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.

¹⁷Zdaj torej pazi in premisli, kaj ti je storiti; zakaj hudo je sklenjeno zoper gospodarja našega in zoper vso hišo njegovo. On pa je tak otrok Belijalov, da ne more nihče ž njim govoriti.

¹⁷`And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he [is] too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.`

¹⁸Tedaj pohiti Abigaila, in vzame dvesto hlebov in dva mehova vina in pet pripravljenih ovac in pet meric opraženega zrnja in sto posušenih grozdov in dvesto kep smokev, in naloži to na osle.

¹⁸And Abigail hasteth, and taketh two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep, prepared, and five measures of roasted corn, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred bunches of figs, and setteth [them] on the asses.

¹⁹In veli mladeničem svojim: Pojdite pred menoj, glejte, jaz pridem za vami! A možu svojemu Nabalu ni povedala nič.

¹⁹And she saith to her young men, `Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;` and to her husband Nabal she hath not declared [it];

²⁰In ko sede na osla in jezdi doli po gorskem ovinku, pridejo ji nasproti David in možje njegovi, in jih sreča.

²⁰and it hath come to pass, she is riding on the ass and is coming down in the secret part of the hill-country, and lo, David and his men are coming down to meet her, and she meeteth them.

²¹David pa je rekel: Res sem zastonj varoval vse, kar je njegovega, v puščavi, da se ni ničesar pogrešilo tega, kar ima; še hudo mi je povrnil za dobro.

²¹And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this [one] hath in the wilderness, and nothing hath been looked after of all that he hath, and he turneth back to me evil for good;

²²To naj stori Bog sovražnikom Davidovim in to naj doda, ako pustim od vsega, kar je njegovega, do jutranjega svita le enega moškega.

²²thus doth God do to the enemies of David, and thus He doth add, if I leave of all that he hath till the light of the morning — of those sitting on the wall.`

²³In ko vidi Abigaila Davida, spusti se hitro z osla in pade pred Davidom na obraz in se prikloni do tal.

²³And Abigail seeth David, and hasteth and cometh down from off the ass, and falleth before David on her face, and boweth herself to the earth,

²⁴In pade k nogam njegovim in reče: Na meni, gospod moj, na meni bodi ta pregreha, in dovoli, prosim, dekli svoji govoriti v ušesa tvoja, in čuj dekle svoje besede!

²⁴and falleth at his feet and saith, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray thee, thy handmaid speak in thine ear, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

²⁵Ne oziraj se, prosim, gospod moj, na tistega moža Belijalovega, na Nabala; zakaj kakršno je ime njegovo, takšen je on sam: Nabal [T. j. brezumnik.] mu je ime, in brezumnost je pri njem. Jaz pa, dekla tvoja, nisem videla mladeničev gospoda svojega, ki si jih poslal.

²⁵`Let not, I pray thee, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name [is] so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him; and I, thine handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom thou didst send;

²⁶Zdaj pa, gospod moj, kakor res živi GOSPOD in živi duša tvoja: GOSPOD ti je zabranil, da nisi prišel prelivat krvi in se nisi maščeval z lastno roko. Naj torej bodo kakor Nabal sovražniki tvoji in kateri žele nesreče gospodu mojemu.

²⁶and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee — now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord.

²⁷Tu je darilo, ki ga je služabnica tvoja prinesla gospodu svojemu; daj ga mladeničem, ki hodijo za gospodom mojim.

²⁷`And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord — it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord.

²⁸Odpusti, prosim, dekli svoji prestopek; zakaj GOSPOD bo gotovo ustanovil trdno hišo gospodu mojemu, ker gospod moj se vojskuje v bojih GOSPODOVIH, in nič hudega se ni našlo na tebi, odkar živiš.

²⁸`Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee [all] thy days.

²⁹In ako bi se vzdignil človek, da te preganja in ti streže po življenju, gospoda mojega duša bode zvezana v zvezi živečih pri GOSPODU, Bogu tvojem; a dušo sovražnikov tvojih naj zaluči kakor s prače.

²⁹And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

³⁰In kadar GOSPOD stori gospodu mojemu po vsem dobrem, kar ti je obljubil, in ti zapove, da bodi vojvoda Izraelu,

³⁰`And it hath been, when Jehovah doth to my lord according to all the good which He hath spoken concerning thee, and appointed thee for leader over Israel,

³¹ti tega ne bode žal, tudi srce ti tega ne bo očitalo, da nisi prelil krvi brez razloga in da ni samega sebe maščeval gospod moj. In ko GOSPOD stori dobro gospodu mojemu, spomni se dekle svoje.

³¹that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord — either to shed blood for nought, or my lord`s restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.`

³²Nato reče David Abigaili: Hvaljen bodi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ki te je poslal danes meni naproti!

³²And David saith to Abigail, `Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me,

³³In blagoslovljena bodi razumnost tvoja in ti bodi blagoslovljena, da si me danes zadržala, da nisem šel prelivat krvi in se maščevat z lastno roko.

³³and blessed [is] thy discretion, and blessed [art] thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

³⁴Zakaj v resnici, kakor res živi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ki mi je ubranil, da ti nisem storil žalega, ako bi ne bila hitro prišla naproti, gotovo bi ne bil ostal Nabalu do jutranjega svita ne eden moški!

³⁴And yet, Jehovah liveth, God of Israel, who hath kept me back from doing evil with thee, for unless thou hadst hasted, and dost come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.`

³⁵David torej sprejme iz roke njene, kar mu je prinesla, in ji reče: Pojdi v miru gori v hišo svojo! Glej, slišal sem glas tvoj in se ozrl na tvojo osebo!

³⁵And David receiveth from her hand that which she hath brought to him, and to her he hath said, `Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and accept thy face.`

³⁶In Abigaila pride k Nabalu. In glej, pripravil je v hiši svoji gostijo, kakor kraljevo gostijo, in srce Nabalovo je bilo veselo v njem, zakaj bil je jako pijan. Zato mu ona ničesar ne pove, ne malega, ne velikega, do jutranjega svita.

³⁶And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

³⁷Ko pa se je zdanilo in se je Nabalu izkadilo vino, mu pove žena njegova te reči. In srce mu je v životu omrtvelo, in bil je kakor kamen.

³⁷And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone.

³⁸In kakih deset dni pozneje udari GOSPOD Nabala, da je umrl.

³⁸And it cometh to pass, [in] about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

³⁹In ko David zasliši, da je Nabal mrtev, reče: Hvaljen bodi GOSPOD, ki je prevzel pravdo mojo za sramotenje Nabalovo in je zadržal hlapca svojega, da ni storil hudega; in hudobnost Nabalovo mu je povrnil na glavo! In David pošlje in veli govoriti z Abigailo, da bi si jo vzel za ženo.

³⁹and David heareth that Nabal [is] dead, and saith, `Blessed [is] Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;` and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

⁴⁰In ko pridejo hlapci Davidovi k Abigaili v Karmel, jo ogovore in reko: David nas je poslal k tebi, da bi te vzel za ženo.

⁴⁰And the servants of David come in unto Abigail at Carmel, and speak unto her, saying, `David hath sent us unto thee to take thee to him for a wife.`

⁴¹Ona vstane in se prikloni z obličjem do tal in reče: Glej, tu je dekla tvoja, da bode služkinja in da umiva noge gospodarja svojega hlapcem!

⁴¹And she riseth and boweth herself — face to the earth — and saith, `Lo, thy handmaid [is] for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.`

⁴²In Abigaila hitro vstane in sede na osla in za njo gre pet njenih dekel, in je šla za sli Davidovimi in mu je postala žena.

⁴²And Abigail hasteth and riseth, and rideth on the ass; and five of her young women who are going at her feet; and she goeth after the messengers of David, and is to him for a wife.

⁴³Tudi Ahinoamo iz Jezreela je vzel David za ženo. Tako sta bili obedve ženi Davidovi.Savel pa je bil dal Mihalo, hčer svojo, ženo Davidovo, Faltimu, sinu Laisovemu, iz Galima.

⁴³And Ahinoam hath David taken from Jezreel, and they are — even both of them — to him for wives;

⁴⁴Savel pa je bil dal Mihalo, hčer svojo, ženo Davidovo, Faltimu, sinu Laisovemu, iz Galima.

⁴⁴and Saul gave Michal his daughter, wife to David, to Phalti son of Laish, who [is] of Gallim.