1Naizvozvo Dhavhidhi wakabvapo akatizira kubako reAdhurami; zvino hama dzake navose veimba yababa vake vakati vachinzwa, vakaburukirako kwaari.
1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
2Zvino vose vakanga vari panjodzi, navose vakanga vane mhosva, navose vakanga vane shungu vakaungana kwaari, akava mutangamiriri wavo; kwakanga kuna varume vanenge mazana mana naye.
2Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3Zvino Dhavhidhi akabvapo akaenda Mizipa kwaMoabhu; akati kuna mambo waMoabhu, Baba vangu namai vangu ndinokumbira kuti vauye vagare nemi, kusvikira ndaziva chandichaitirwa naMwari.
3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”
4Akavaisa kuna mambo waMoabhu, vakagara naye nguva yose yokugara kwaDhavhidhi munhare.
4He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
5Zvino muporofita Gadhi akati kuna Dhavhidhi: Usaramba ugere munhare, asi ibva undogara panyika yaJudha. Ipapo Dhavhidhi akabva akasvika kudondo reHereti.
5The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
6Zvino Sauro wakanzwa kuti Dhavhidhi wawanikwa, iye navarume vaiva naye; Sauro wakange agere Gibhiya, munyasi momuti womutamarisiki paRama, akabata pfumo rake muruoko rwake, navaranda vake vose vakanga vamire naye.
6Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
7Zvino Sauro wakati kuvaranda vake vakanga vamire naye, Inzwai zvino, vaBhenjamini! Mwanakomana waJese uchakupai mose minda neminda yemizambiringa here? Uchakuitai mose vakuru vezviuru navakuru vamazana here?
7Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
8Zvamandirangana mose, zvakusina mumwe unondizivisa kana mwanakomana wangu akaita sungano nomwanakomana waJese, zvakusino mumwe wenyu unondinzwira tsitsi, kana unondizivisa kuti mwanakomana wangu wakamutsa muranda wangu kuti andimukire, andivandire, sezvaanoita nhasi here?
8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”
9Ipapo Dhoegi muEdhomu, wakange amire navaranda vaSauro, akapindura akati, Ndakaona mwanakomana waJese achisvika Nobhi, kuna Ahimereki mwanakomana waAitubi.
9Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10Iye akamubvunzira kuna Jehovha, akamupa mbuva, akamupawo munondo waGoriati muFirisitia.
10He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11Ipapo mambo akatuma nhume kundodana Ahimereki mupristi, mwanakomana waAhitubi, neveimba yake yose, ivo vapristi vaiva paNobhi; vakauya vose kuna mambo.
11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
12Zvino Sauro akati; Zvino chinzwa, iwe mwanakomana waAhitubi. Iye akapindura, akati, Ndiri pano, ishe wangu.
12Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
13Sauro akati kwaari; Mandiranganeiko, iwe nomwanakomana waJese, zvawakamupa, chingwa, nomunondo, nokumubvunzira kuna Mwari, kuti andimukire, andivandire sezvaanoita nhasi?
13Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”
14Ipapo Ahimereki akapindura mambo akati, Ndianiko pakati pavaranda venyu vose wakatendeka saDhavhidhi, mukwambo wamambo, unosirangana nemi, unokudzwa mumba menyu?
14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
15Ndiko nhasi kwandatanga kumubvunzira kuna Mwari here? Ngazvisadaro! Mambo ngaarege hake kusundira muranda wake mhosva, kunyange vose veimba yababa vangu; nekuti muranda wenyu haazivi izvozvo zvose, kunyange zviduku kana zv ikuru.
15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”
16Ipapo mambo akati, Zvirokwazvo, uchafa Ahimereki, iwe navose veimba yababa vako.
16The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”
17Mambo akati kuvanyai vakanga vamire naye, Tendeukai, muuraye vapristi vaJehovha, nekuti maoko avo anobatsira Dhavhidhi, nekuti vakanga vachiziva kuti watiza, asi havana kundizivisa. Asi varanda vamambo vakaramba kutambanudzira maoko avo kuuraya vapristi vaJehovha.
17The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
18Ipapo mambo akati kuna Dhoegi, Tendeuka iwe, uuraye vapristi. Dhoegi muEdhomu, akatendeuka, akauraya vapristi, akaparadza nomusi iwoyo vanhu vana makumi masere navashanu vakanga vakafuka efodhi yomucheka.
18The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
19Akaparadzawo Nobhi, guta ravapristi, neminondo inopinza, varume navakadzi vose, navana navakanga vachimwa, nemombe, nembongoro, namakwai; zvose zvakaparadzwa neminondo inopinza.
19He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
20Asi mumwe wavanakomana vaAhimereki mwanakomana waAhitubi, wainzi Abhiatari, wakapukunyuka, akatiza, akatevera Dhavhidhi.
20One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
21Abhiatari akaudza Dhavhidhi kuti Sauro wauraya vapristi vaJehovha.
21Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests.
22Dhavhidhi akati kuna Abhiatari, Musi uya wandakaona Dhoegi muEdhomu aripo, ndakaziva kuti zvirokwazvo uchandoudza Sauro; ndini ndakonzera rufu rwemweya yose yeimba yababa vako.
22David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
23Gara hako neni, usatya; nekuti unotsvaka kundiuraya ini, ndiye unotsvaka kukuuraya iwewo; nekuti kana ukagara neni uchachengetwa.
23Stay with me, don’t be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard.”