¹There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.”

¹In bila je lakota tri leta v dnevih Davidovih, leto za letom; in David je iskal obličja GOSPODOVEGA. In GOSPOD je dejal: Zaradi Savla je to in zaradi krvi, prelite od hiše njegove, ker je pomoril Gibeončane.

²The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

²In kralj pokliče Gibeončane in govori ž njimi. (Gibeončani pa niso bili izmed sinov Izraelovih, ampak iz ostanka Amorejcev, in sinovi Izraelovi so jim prisegli mir. Toda Savel jih je poskušal iztrebiti v svoji gorečnosti za sinove Izraelove in Judove.)

³and David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?”

³In David reče Gibeončanom: Kaj naj storim za vas? In s čim naj storim poravnavo, da boste blagoslovili dediščino GOSPODOVO?

⁴The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “Whatever you say, that will I do for you.”

⁴In Gibeončani mu reko: Ni nam za srebro ali za zlato v zadevi med nami in med Savlom in hišo njegovo, niti za to, da se kdo umori v Izraelu. In jim reče: Kar porečete, storim za vas.

⁵They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

⁵In reko kralju: Tistega moža, ki nas je pokončeval in ki je izmišljal zoper nas, da bi bili potrebljeni, da nas ne bo v nobenem kraju Izraelovem,

⁶let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”

⁶naj se nam da sedem iz sinov njegovih, in obesimo jih GOSPODU v Gibei Savlovi, v mestu izvoljenca GOSPODOVEGA. In kralj reče: Dam vam jih.

⁷But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

⁷Ali kralj je prizanesel Mefibosetu, sinu Jonatana, sina Savlovega, zaradi prisege GOSPODOVE, ki je bila med njima, med Davidom in Jonatanom, sinom Savlovim.

⁸But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

⁸Vzame pa kralj dva sinova Ricpe, hčere Ajeve, ki ju je rodila Savlu, Armonija in Mefiboseta, in pet sinov Mihale, hčere Savlove, ki jih je rodila Adrielu, sinu Barzilaja Meholačana,

⁹He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

⁹in jih da Gibeončanom v roke, in obesijo jih na gori pred GOSPODOM, in poginilo je teh sedem skupaj; in bili so usmrčeni ob žetvi, v prvih dneh, ko se je začela ječmenova žetev.

¹⁰Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

¹⁰A Ricpa, hči Ajeva, vzame raševnik in si ga razgrne na skali, od začetka žetve dotlej, ko je voda kapljala z neba na obešence, in ni dopustila ptičem nebeškim, da sedejo nanje po dne, ne zverinam poljskim po noči.

¹¹It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

¹¹In povedali so Davidu, kaj je storila Ricpa, hči Ajeva, priležnica Savlova.

¹²David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

¹²In David odide in vzame kosti Savlove in kosti Jonatana, sinu njegovega, od meščanov v Jabesu v Gileadu, ki so jih bili ukradli z ulic v Betsanu, kjer so ju Filistejci obesili v dan, ko so umorili Savla na Gilboi;

¹³and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

¹³in prinese odondod kosti Savlove in kosti Jonatana, sina njegovega. Zbrali so tudi kosti tistih, ki so bili obešeni.

¹⁴They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.

¹⁴In pokopali so kosti Savlove in Jonatana, sina njegovega, v pokrajini Benjaminovi v Zeli, v grobu Kisa, očeta njegovega, in storili so vse, kar je kralj zapovedal. In potem se je dal Bog izprositi za deželo.

¹⁵The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

¹⁵In Filistejci so zopet začeli vojno z Izraelom. In David gre doli in služabniki njegovi ž njim in se bojujejo zoper Filistejce. In David je bil utrujen,

¹⁶and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

¹⁶in Isbibenob, ki je bil iz sinov velikana, čigar sulica je tehtala tristo seklov brona, in je bil opasan z novim mečem, je nameraval ubiti Davida.

¹⁷But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

¹⁷Ali Abisaj, sin Zervijin, mu je prišel v pomoč in je udaril Filistejca ter ga ubil. Tedaj so prisegli Davidu možje njegovi, rekoč: Nikdar več ne pojdeš z nami v boj, da ne ugasneš svetila Izraelu.

¹⁸It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

¹⁸In zgodi se potem, da je bila zopet vojna s Filistejci v Gobu; tedaj je Sibekaj Husajec ubil Safa, ki je bil iz sinov velikanov.

¹⁹There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

¹⁹In zopet je bila vojna s Filistejci v Gobu, in Elhanan, sin Jaare-orgimov, Betlehemčan, je ubil brata Goliata Gatovca, čigar suličišče je bilo kakor tkalsko vratilo.

²⁰There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

²⁰In zopet je bila vojna v Gatu, kjer je bil mož velike postave, ki je imel na vsaki roki šest in na vsaki nogi šest prstov, štiriindvajset po številu; tudi ta se je bil rodil velikanu.

²¹When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.

²¹Ko pa je ta sramoto kidal na Izraela, ga je ubil Jonatan, sin Simeja, brata Davidovega.Ti štirje so se rodili velikanu v Gatu, in padli so po roki Davidovi in po roki služabnikov njegovih.

²²These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

²²Ti štirje so se rodili velikanu v Gatu, in padli so po roki Davidovi in po roki služabnikov njegovih.