¹It happened, when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

¹¶ A, no ka tae a Rawiri ratou ko ana tangata ki Tikiraka i te toru o nga ra, na kua huaki nga Amareki ki te tonga, ki Tikiraka ano, patua ana a Tikiraka e ratou, tahuna ake ki te ahi;

²and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

²Whakaraua ana hoki e ratou nga wahine me nga mea o reira, te iti, te rahi; kihai i whakamatea tetahi, engari i kahakina atu, a haere ana i to ratou ara.

³When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

³Heoi, i te taenga o Rawiri ratou ko ana tangata ki te pa, kua oti te tahu ki te ahi, a kau whakaraua atu a ratou wahine, a ratou tama, a ratou tamahine.

⁴Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

⁴Katahi ka puaki te reo o Rawiri ratou ko ana tangata, tangi ana ratou, a kahore noa o ratou kaha ki te tangi.

⁵David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

⁵I riro whakarau ano nga wahine tokorua a Rawiri, a Ahinoama o Ietereere, raua ko Apikaira wahine a Napara o Karamere.

⁶David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

⁶Na mamae rawa a Rawiri, no te mea i kupukupu te nuinga kia akina ia ki te kohatu; i mamae hoki te ngakau o te iwi katoa, o tera, o tera, ki a ratou tama, ki a ratou tamahine: ko Rawiri ia i whakapakari i a ia i roto i a Ihowa, i tona Atua.

⁷David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring me here the ephod.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

⁷¶ Na ka mea a Rawiri ki a Apiatara tohunga, tama a Ahimereke, Tena, maua mai te epora ki ahau. Na maua ana te epora e Apiatara ki a Rawiri.

⁸David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all.”

⁸Na ka ui a Rawiri ki a Ihowa, ka mea, Ki te whai ahau i tenei taua e mau ranei ratou i ahau? Na ka mea ia, Whaia; ka mau pu hoki ratou i a koe, a ka riro katoa mai au i a koe.

⁹So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

⁹Heoi haere ana a Rawiri ratou ko ana tangata e ono rau, kua tae ki te awa, ki Pehoro, ki te wahi i noho ai te hunga i mahue iho.

¹⁰But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.

¹⁰Otiia whai tonu ana a Rawiri ratou ko nga tangata e wha rau: e rua hoki nga rau i noho; i ruha rawa hoki, te whiti ai i te awa, i Pehoro.

¹¹They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

¹¹Na ka tupono atu ratou ki tetahi tangata o Ihipa i te parae, a kawea ana ia ki a Rawiri. Na ka hoatu he taro mana, a kai ana ia; i whakainu ano ratou i a ia ki te wai.

¹²They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

¹²I hoatu ano e ratou tetahi wahi o te keke piki me etahi tautau karepe e rua, na ka kai ia, a ka hoki tona wairua ki a ia; e toru hoki nga ra, e toru nga po ona kihai nei ia i kai i te kai, kihai i inu i te wai.

¹³David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

¹³Na ka mea a Rawiri ki a ia, Na wai koe? no hea hoki koe? Ano ra ko ia, He tamaiti ahau no Ihipa, he pononga na tetahi Amareki; i whakarerea hoki ahau e toku ariki, he panga noku e te mate ka toru enei ra.

¹⁴We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

¹⁴I huakina e matou te tonga o nga Kereti, me te wahi i a Hura, me te tonga o Karepe; i tahuna ano e matou a Tikiraka ki te ahi.

¹⁵David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

¹⁵Na ka mea a Rawiri ki a ia, E taea ranei ahau te kawe e koe ki raro, ki te ope ra? Ano ra ko ia, Oati mai ki ahau ki te Atua hoki, e kore ahau e whakamatea e koe, e kore e tukua ki nga ringa o toku rangatira, a ka kawea koe e ahau ki raro ki tau a ope.

¹⁶When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁶A, no tana kawenga i a ia ki raro, kua wawa noa atu ratou ki te mata o te whenua katoa, e kai ana, e inu ana, e kanikani ana, mo nga taonga nui katoa, taonga parakete, i riro i a ratou i te whenua o nga Pirihitini, i te whenua hoki o Hura.

¹⁷David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

¹⁷Na patua iho ratou e Rawiri i te puaotanga a taea noatia te ahiahi o te aonga ake: kihai hoki tetahi o ratou i mawhiti, heoi ano ko etahi taitamariki e wha rau i eke ki nga kamera, a rere ana.

¹⁸David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

¹⁸I riro ano hoki i a Rawiri nga mea katoa i tangohia e nga Amareki: i riro ano i a Rawiri ana wahine tokorua.

¹⁹There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

¹⁹Kihai hoki i ngaro tetahi o a ratou mea; te iti, te rahi, nga tama, nga tamahine, nga taonga parakete, nga mea katoa i tangohia e ratou; i hoki katoa mai a Rawiri.

²⁰David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”

²⁰I mau ano i a Rawiri nga hipi katoa me nga kahui; a ka arahina e ratou i mua i era atu karerehe, i mea, Ko te taonga parakete tenei a Rawiri.

²¹David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

²¹¶ A ka tae a Rawiri ki nga tangata e rua rau i ruha nei, kihai nei i aru i a Rawiri, i meinga ra kia noho ki te awa, ki Pehoro: ka puta ratou ki te whakatau i a Rawiri, ki te whakatau hoki i te iwi i a ia: a ka tata a Rawiri ki aua tangata, ka oha ia ki a ratou.

²²Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

²²Katahi ka oho ake te hunga kino katoa, nga tangata o Periara i roto i te hunga i haere tahi ratou ko Rawiri, ka mea, Kihai ratou i haere tahi tatou, na, e kore e hoatu ki a ratou etahi o nga taonga i rio mai i a tatou, heoi ano ko te wahine me n ga tamariki a tenei, a tenei, na ma ratou e arahi atu, e haere.

²³Then David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

²³Katahi a Rawiri ka mea, Kaua e pena, e oku teina, ki ta Ihowa i homai ai ki a tatou; nana nei hoki tatou i tiaki, a homai ana e ia ki a tatou ringa taua ope i haere ake ra ki a tatou.

²⁴Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike.”

²⁴Ko wai hoki hei whakarongo ki tenei mea a koutou? Ko te wahi hoki a te tangata i haere ki te whawhai kia rite ki te wahi a te tangata i noho ki nga mea: kia rite tonu te wahi ma ratou.

²⁵It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

²⁵Na waiho tonu iho e ia tena hei tikanga, hei ritenga mo Iharaira no taua rangi a tuku iho ki tenei ra.

²⁶When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh.”

²⁶A, i te taenga o Rawiri ki Tikiraka, ka tonoa e ia etahi o nga taonga ki nga kaumatua o Hura, ki ona hoa, a ka mea, Tena tetahi manaaki mo koutou no nga taonga a nga hoariri o Ihowa;

²⁷He sent it to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,

²⁷Ki nga tangata hoki o Peteere, ki o Ramoto ki te tonga, ki era hoki i Iatiri;

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

²⁸Ki a Aroere, ki o Hipimoto, ki o Ehetemoa.

²⁹and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

²⁹Ki o Rakara, ki o nga pa o nga Ierameeri, ki o nga pa o nga Keni;

³⁰and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,

³⁰Ki o Horema, ki o Korahana, ki o Ataka;

³¹and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

³¹Ki o Heperona, ki o nga wahi katoa i haereere ai a Rawiri ratou ko ana tangata.