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,
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روز سوم داوود و همراهانش به صقلغ آمدند و دیدند که عمالقه به جنوب حمله کرده، شهر صقلغ را آتش زدهاند
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.
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و زنها و کودکان را اسیر کرده با خود بردهاند، امّا کسی را نکشتهاند.
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.
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داوود و همراهانش وقتی آن صحنه را دیدند و پیبردند که شهر به خاکستر تبدیل شده و زنان و پسران و دخترانشان را به اسارت بردهاند،
4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
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آنقدر گریه کردند که دیگر توان گریه کردن نداشتند.
5David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
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دو زن داوود، اخینوعم یزرعیلی و ابیجایل زن نابال کرملی هم جزو اسیران بودند.
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.
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داوود با مشکل بزرگی روبهرو شده بود، زیرا مردها بهخاطر از دست دادن زن و فرزندانشان بشدّت ناراحت شده بودند و میخواستند داوود را سنگسار کنند. امّا خداوند خدای داوود، او را تقویت نمود.
7David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring me here the ephod.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
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داوود به ابیاتار کاهن، پسر اخیملک گفت: «جامهٔ مخصوص کاهنان را برای من بیاور!» و ابیاتار آن را برایش آورد.
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.”
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آنگاه داوود از خداوند پرسید: «آیا به تعقیب آنها بروم؟ آیا میتوانم به آنها برسم؟»
خداوند جواب داد: «بلی، برو و آنها تعقیب کن چون به آنها میرسی و آنچه را که گرفتهاند، پس خواهی گرفت.»
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.
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پس داوود و ششصد نفر همراهان او به راه افتادند تا به وادی بسور رسیدند.
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.
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دویست نفرشان آنقدر خسته شده بودند که یارای پیش رفتن نداشتند. امّا داوود با چهارصد نفر دیگر به راه خود ادامه دادند.
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.
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مردان داوود در سر راه خود با جوانی مصری در صحرا برخوردند و او را پیش داوود آوردند. آن شخص، سه شبانهروز چیزی نخورده بود، پس نان و آبی به او دادند تا بخورد.
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.
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همچنین یک تکه نان انجیر و دو خوشهٔ کشمش به او دادند. وقتیکه او سیر شد و حالش بجا آمد،
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.
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داوود از او پرسید: «کیستی و از کجا آمدهای؟»
او گفت: «من یک مصری و غلام یک عمالیقی هستم. سه روز پیش مریض شدم و به همین خاطر اربابم مرا ترک کرد.
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.”
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ما به منطقهٔ کریتیان که در جنوب یهوداست و جنوب کالیب حمله کردیم و شهر صقلغ را آتش زدیم.»
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.”
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داوود به او گفت: «آیا حاضری مرا پیش آنها ببری؟»
او جواب داد: «اگر به نام خدا قسم بخوری که مرا نکشی و به دست اربابم نسپاری، من تو را پیش آنها میبرم.»
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.
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وقتی او داوود را پیش عمالیقیان برد، دید که آنها بساط خود را در همهجا پهن کرده میخوردند و مینوشیدند و بهخاطر آنهمه غنیمتی که از کشور فلسطینیان و یهودا به دست آورده بودند، جشن گرفته بودند.
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.
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داوود و همراهانش، در سپیده دَم به آنها حمله کردند و تا شام روز دیگر به کشتار آنها پرداختند. به غیراز چهارصد نفرشان که بر شترهای خود سوار شدند و فرار کردند، کس دیگری نتوانست بگریزد.
18David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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داوود همهٔ افراد و همهٔ چیزهایی را که عمالیقیان به غنیمت گرفته بودند دوباره به دست آورد و دو زن خود را هم نجات داد.
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.
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هیچ چیزی از آنها کم نشد، نه خرد و نه بزرگ، نه پسر و نه دختر، همهچیز را دوباره به دست آوردند.
20David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”
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داوود همچنین گلّهها و رمهها را پس گرفت و مردم آنها را پیشاپیش خود میراندند و میگفتند: «اینها همه غنایم داوود است.»
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.
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وقتی داوود به وادی بسور برگشت به آن دویست نفری که بهخاطر خستگی نتوانستند همراه او بروند گفت: «صلح و سلامتی بر شما باد.»
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.”
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امّا بعضی از اشخاص پست و شرور که در بین همراهان داوود بودند گفتند: «چون اینها با ما نیامدند، پس از غنایمی هم که به دست آوردهایم، چیزی به آنها نمیرسد. فقط زن و فرزندان خود را بگیرند و پی کار خود بروند.»
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.
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امّا داوود گفت: «نه برادران، این کار را نکنید! شکرگزار باشید که خداوند ما را حفظ کرد و به ما کمک نمود که دشمن خود را شکست بدهیم.
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.”
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در این مورد من با شما موافق نیستم. هرکس حق مساوی دارد. خواه به جنگ رفته باشد، خواه از اموال و اثاثیه مراقبت کرده باشد.»
25It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
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از همان روز به بعد این قانون را در بین اسرائیل مرسوم ساخت که تا به امروز باقی است.
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.”
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وقتی داوود به صلقغ آمد یک سهم از غنیمت را برای دوستان و رهبران یهودا با این پیغام فرستاد: «اینها هدیهای است که از دشمنان خداوند به غنیمت گرفتهایم.»
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,
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هدایایی هم به شهرهایی فرستاد که او و همراهانش به آنجا سفر کرده بودند، یعنی بیتئیل، راموت جنوبی، یتیر،
28and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
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عروعیر، سفموت، اشتموع،
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,
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راکال، قینیان،
30and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,
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حُرما، بورعاشان، عتاق
و حبرون.
31and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.
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و حبرون.