¹It was told Joab, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

¹In oznanili so Joabu: Glej, kralj joče in žaluje po Absalomu!

²The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

²In zmaga se je tisti dan obrnila v žalost vsemu ljudstvu, zakaj ljudstvo je slišalo ta dan, da se je pravilo: Kralju je žal za svojega sina.

³The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

³In ljudstvo se po tihem prikrade v mesto ta dan, kakor se ljudstvo s sramom ukrade, ko je bežalo v boju.

⁴The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

⁴Kralj pa si je zagrnil obraz in vpil z velikim glasom: O sin moj Absalom! Absalom, moj sin, moj sin!

⁵Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

⁵In pride Joab v hišo h kralju in reče: Rdečico si danes pognal v obraze vseh hlapcev svojih, ki so ta dan rešili življenje tvoje in tvojih sinov in hčera, življenje tvojih žen in priležnic,

⁶in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

⁶s tem, da ljubiš tiste, ki te sovražijo, in mrziš te, ki te ljubijo. Zakaj pokazal si danes, da ne maraš za svoje kneze in hlapce; kajti danes vidim, ako bi le Absalom bil ostal živ, mi vsi pa bi bili pomrli danes, tebi bi bilo prav.

⁷Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

⁷Sedaj pa vstani, pojdi ven in govori prijazno hlapcem svojim! Zakaj prisegam pri GOSPODU: Ako ne pojdeš ven, ne ostane nocoj ne eden mož pri tebi, in to bo hujše zate nego vse hudo, ki te je zadelo od mladosti tvoje do sedaj.

⁸Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

⁸Tedaj vstane kralj in sede med vrata. In oznanijo vsemu ljudstvu, rekoč: Glej, kralj sedi med vrati. In vse ljudstvo je prišlo pred kralja. Izrael pa je bil bežal, vsak v šator svoj.

⁹All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

⁹In vse ljudstvo se je prepiralo po vseh rodovih Izraelovih, govoreč: Kralj nas je otel iz roke sovražnikov naših ter nas je oprostil pesti Filistejcev, in zdaj je moral bežati iz dežele pred Absalomom.

¹⁰Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”

¹⁰Absalom pa, ki smo ga pomazilili, da bodi nad nami, je mrtev na bojišču. Sedaj pa, zakaj ne izpregovorite besede, da pripeljemo kralja nazaj!

¹¹King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

¹¹In kralj David pošlje k Zadoku in Abiatarju, duhovnikoma, veleč: Govorita starejšinam Judovim in recita: Zakaj hočete biti poslednji, da bi pripeljali kralja nazaj v hišo njegovo! Kaj ti govor vsega Izraela se je donesel kralju, da ga hočejo privesti v hišo njegovo.

¹²You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

¹²Bratje moji ste, moja kost in meso, čemu bi torej bili poslednji, ko bodo peljali kralja nazaj!

¹³Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.’”

¹³In Amasu recita: Nisi li moja kost in meso? Bog mi stori to in še to prideni, ako ne boš vse svoje žive dni poveljnik vojske pred menoj na Joabovem mestu.

¹⁴He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

¹⁴In nagnil je vseh Judovih mož srce, kakor srce enega moža, da so sporočili kralju: Vrni se ti in vsi hlapci tvoji!

¹⁵So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

¹⁵Vrne se torej kralj in pride k Jordanu. In Judovci dospejo v Gilgal, gredoč naproti kralju, da ga prepeljejo čez Jordan.

¹⁶Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

¹⁶In Simej, sin Gerov, Benjaminec, ki je prebival v Bahurimu, pohiti in pride doli z možmi Judovimi naproti kralju Davidu.

¹⁷There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

¹⁷In bilo je ž njim tisoč mož iz Benjamina in Ziba, Savlove hiše služabnik, in petnajst sinov njegovih in dvajset hlapcev njegovih, in šli so čez Jordan pred kraljem.

¹⁸A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.

¹⁸Napravili so namreč brod, da prepeljejo kraljevo družino in store, kar mu je ugajalo. Simej pa, sin Gerov, pade pred kralja, ko se je hotel peljati čez Jordan,

¹⁹He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, nor remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

¹⁹in reče kralju: Ne prištevaj mi, gospod moj, krivice, in ne spominjaj se, kako se je pregrešil hlapec tvoj tisti dan, ko je bil šel gospod moj, kralj, iz Jeruzalema, in naj ne ohrani tega kralj v srcu.

²⁰For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

²⁰Zakaj hlapec tvoj spoznava, da sem grešil; in poglej, jaz sem danes prvi šel od vse hiše Jožefove, da pridem doli naproti gospodu svojemu, kralju.

²¹But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

²¹Abisaj pa, Zervijin sin, odgovori in reče: Ne bo li Simej usmrčen zato, ker je preklinjal maziljenca GOSPODOVEGA?

²²David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don’t I know that I am this day king over Israel?”

²²A David veli: Kaj imam z vama opraviti, sinova Zervije, da mi danes hočeta biti nasprotnika? Ali naj danes umre kdo v Izraelu? Ne vem li namreč, da sem danes zopet kralj nad Izraelom?

²³The king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” The king swore to him.

²³In Simeju reče kralj: Ne umreš. In kralj mu je prisegel.

²⁴Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

²⁴Mefiboset, Savlov sin, je tudi prišel doli kralju naproti. Ni si pa snažil nog, ne ravnal brade, ne pral obleke od dne, ko je bil kralj odšel, do dne, ko se je vrnil domov v miru.

²⁵It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

²⁵In zgodi se, ko pride v Jeruzalem kralju naproti, da ga kralj vpraša: Zakaj nisi šel z menoj, Mefiboset?

²⁶He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

²⁶On pa odgovori: O gospod moj, kralj, hlapec moj me je okanil! Zakaj hlapec tvoj je dejal: Osedlam si osla, da bom jezdil na njem in šel h kralju, ker hlapec tvoj je hrom.

²⁷He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

²⁷A on je še ovadil hlapca tvojega pred gospodom mojim, kraljem. Ali gospod moj, kralj, je kakor angel Božji! Stóri torej, kar se ti dobro vidi.

²⁸For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

²⁸Zakaj očeta mojega vsa družina ni bila nič drugega kakor ljudje, smrti izročeni pred gospodom mojim, kraljem; a vendar si posadil hlapca svojega med tiste, ki jedo pri mizi tvoji. Kaj imam torej še pravice, da bi dalje vpil h kralju?

²⁹The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

²⁹In kralj mu veli: Kaj toliko govoriš o svojih rečeh? Rekel sem: Ti in Ziba si vkup delita tiste njive!

³⁰Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

³⁰In Mefiboset reče kralju: Lahko si tudi vse vzame, samo da se je gospod moj, kralj, vrnil v miru v hišo svojo!

³¹Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

³¹In Barzilaj Gileadčan je prišel doli iz Rogelima in je šel s kraljem čez Jordan, da bi ga spremil čez Jordan.

³²Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

³²Barzilaj pa je bil silno star, dobrih osemdeset let, in je oskrboval kralja z živežem, dokler je bival v Mahanaimu, kajti bil je jako bogat mož.

³³The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”

³³In kralj veli Barzilaju: Pojdi z menoj na ono stran in hočem te oskrbeti pri sebi v Jeruzalemu.

³⁴Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

³⁴Barzilaj pa reče kralju: Koliko je še dni življenja mojega, da bi šel s kraljem gori v Jeruzalem?

³⁵I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

³⁵Osemdeset let sem sedaj star: morem li razločevati med dobrim in hudim? More li hlapcu tvojemu tekniti, kar bo jedel in kar bo pil? Morem li še poslušati glas pevcev in pevk? Čemu naj torej bode hlapec tvoj še v nadlego gospodu svojemu, kralju?

³⁶Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

³⁶Hlapec tvoj je samo hotel malo spremiti kralja čez Jordan, in zakaj bi mi kralj podelil tako povračilo?

³⁷Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

³⁷Naj se sme, prosim, vrniti hlapec tvoj, da umrjem v mestu svojem, pri grobu očeta svojega in matere svoje. A glej, tu je hlapec tvoj Kimham, ta naj gre na ono stran z mojim gospodom kraljem, in njemu stóri, kar se ti vidi prav.

³⁸The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you.”

³⁸In kralj odgovori: Kimham naj torej gre z menoj, in storiti mu hočem, kar je dobro v tvojih očeh; tudi vse, česar boš želel od mene, storim zate.

³⁹All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

³⁹In ko je prešlo vse ljudstvo čez Jordan in je tudi kralj bil na oni strani, poljubi kralj Barzilaja in ga blagoslovi. On pa se vrne v svoj kraj.

⁴⁰So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

⁴⁰Kralj pa je šel čez v Gilgal in Kimham je šel ž njim; in vse ljudstvo Judovo je spremljalo kralja na ono stran, tudi polovica ljudstva Izraelovega.

⁴¹Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

⁴¹In glej, vsi možje Izraelovi pridejo h kralju in mu reko: Zakaj so te ukradli bratje naši, možje Judovi, in so prepeljali kralja in družino njegovo čez Jordan in vse može Davidove ž njim?

⁴²All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

⁴²A vsi možje Judovi odgovore možem Izraelovim: Kralj je nam bliže! Zakaj se srdite zato? Ali smo dobili kaj kraljeve hrane ali kako darilo od njega?Možje Izraelovi pa odgovore možem Judovim in reko: Mi imamo desetkrat več pri kralju, in tudi Davidu smo več nego vi, zakaj ste nas torej zaničevali? In nismo li mi prvi govorili, da privedemo nazaj kralja svojega? Ali besede mož Judovih so bile trše nego mož Izraelovih besede.

⁴³The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

⁴³Možje Izraelovi pa odgovore možem Judovim in reko: Mi imamo desetkrat več pri kralju, in tudi Davidu smo več nego vi, zakaj ste nas torej zaničevali? In nismo li mi prvi govorili, da privedemo nazaj kralja svojega? Ali besede mož Judovih so bile trše nego mož Izraelovih besede.