صَمُوئِيلَ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 20
| فَهَرَبَ دَاوُدُ مِنْ نَايُوتَ فِي ٱلرَّامَةِ، وَجَاءَ وَقَالَ قُدَّامَ يُونَاثَانَ: «مَاذَا عَمِلْتُ؟ وَمَا هُوَ إِثْمِي؟ وَمَا هِيَ خَطِيَّتِي أَمَامَ أَبِيكَ حَتَّى يَطْلُبَ نَفْسِي؟» | ١ 1 |
And David flees from Naioth in Ramah, and comes, and says before Jonathan, “What have I done? What [is] my iniquity? And what [is] my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?”
| فَقَالَ لَهُ: «حَاشَا. لَا تَمُوتُ! هُوَذَا أَبِي لَا يَعْمَلُ أَمْرًا كَبِيرًا وَلَا أَمْرًا صَغِيرًا إِلَّا وَيُخْبِرُنِي بِهِ. وَلِمَاذَا يُخْفِي عَنِّي أَبِي هَذَا ٱلْأَمْرَ؟ لَيْسَ كَذَا». | ٢ 2 |
And he says to him, “Far be it! You do not die; behold, my father does not do anything great or small and does not uncover my ear; and why does my father hide this thing from me? This [thing] is not.”
| فَحَلَفَ أَيْضًا دَاوُدُ وَقَالَ: «إِنَّ أَبَاكَ قَدْ عَلِمَ أَنِّي قَدْ وَجَدْتُ نِعْمَةً فِي عَيْنَيْكَ، فَقَالَ: لَا يَعْلَمْ يُونَاثَانُ هَذَا لِئَلَّا يَغْتَمَّ. وَلَكِنْ حَيٌّ هُوَ ٱلرَّبُّ، وَحَيَّةٌ هِيَ نَفْسُكَ، إِنَّهُ كَخَطْوَةٍ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ». | ٣ 3 |
And David swears again and says, “Your father has certainly known that I have found grace in your eyes, and he says, Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he is grieved; and yet, YHWH lives, and your soul lives, but—as a step between me and death.”
| فَقَالَ يُونَاثَانُ لِدَاوُدَ: «مَهْمَا تَقُلْ نَفْسُكَ أَفْعَلْهُ لَكَ». | ٤ 4 |
And Jonathan says to David, “What does your soul [desire]? Command and I do it for you.”
| فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِيُونَاثَانَ: «هُوَذَا ٱلشَّهْرُ غَدًا حِينَمَا أَجْلِسُ مَعَ ٱلْمَلِكِ لِلْأَكْلِ. وَلَكِنْ أَرْسِلْنِي فَأَخْتَبِئَ فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ إِلَى مَسَاءِ ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلثَّالِثِ. | ٥ 5 |
And David says to Jonathan, “Behold, the new moon [is] tomorrow; and I certainly sit with the king to eat; and you have sent me away, and I have been hidden in a field until the third evening;
| وَإِذَا ٱفْتَقَدَنِي أَبُوكَ، فَقُلْ: قَدْ طَلَبَ دَاوُدُ مِنِّي طِلْبَةً أَنْ يَرْكُضَ إِلَى بَيْتِ لَحْمٍ مَدِينَتِهِ، لِأَنَّ هُنَاكَ ذَبِيحَةً سَنَوِيَّةً لِكُلِّ ٱلْعَشِيرَةِ. | ٦ 6 |
if your father looks after me at all, then you have said, David earnestly asked of me to run to his city of Beth-Lehem, for there [is] a sacrifice of the days for all the family.
| فَإِنْ قَالَ هَكَذاَ: حَسَنًا. كَانَ سَلَامٌ لِعَبْدِكَ. وَلَكِنْ إِنِ ٱغْتَاظَ غَيْظًا، فَٱعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ قَدْ أُعِدَّ ٱلشَّرُّ عِنْدَهُ. | ٧ 7 |
If thus he says: Good; [there is] peace for your servant; and if it is very displeasing to him—know that the evil has been determined by him;
| فَتَعْمَلُ مَعْرُوفًا مَعَ عَبْدِكَ، لِأَنَّكَ بِعَهْدِ ٱلرَّبِّ أَدْخَلْتَ عَبْدَكَ مَعَكَ. وَإِنْ كَانَ فِيَّ إِثْمٌ فَٱقْتُلْنِي أَنْتَ، وَلِمَاذَا تَأْتِي بِي إِلَى أَبِيكَ؟». | ٨ 8 |
and you have done kindness to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of YHWH with you—and if there is iniquity in me, put me to death yourself; for why [is] this [that] you bring me to your father?”
| فَقَالَ يُونَاثَانُ: «حَاشَا لَكَ! لِأَنَّهُ لَوْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ ٱلشَّرَّ قَدْ أُعِدَّ عِنْدَ أَبِي لِيَأْتِيَ عَلَيْكَ، أَفَمَا كُنْتُ أُخْبِرُكَ بِهِ؟». | ٩ 9 |
And Jonathan says, “Far be it from you! For I certainly do not know that the evil has been determined by my father to come on you, and I do not declare it to you.”
| فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِيُونَاثَانَ: «مَنْ يُخْبِرُنِي إِنْ جَاوَبَكَ أَبُوكَ شَيْئًا قَاسِيًا؟». | ١٠ 10 |
And David says to Jonathan, “Who declares [it] to me? Or what [if] your father answers you sharply?”
| فَقَالَ يُونَاثَانُ لِدَاوُدَ: «تَعَالَ نَخْرُجُ إِلَى ٱلْحَقْلِ». فَخَرَجَا كِلَاهُمَا إِلَى ٱلْحَقْلِ. | ١١ 11 |
And Jonathan says to David, “Come, and we go out into the field”; and both of them go out into the field.
| وَقَالَ يُونَاثَانُ لِدَاوُدَ: «يَارَبُّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، مَتَى ٱخْتَبَرْتُ أَبِي مِثْلَ ٱلْآنَ غَدًا أَوْ بَعْدَ غَدٍ، فَإِنْ كَانَ خَيْرٌ لِدَاوُدَ وَلَمْ أُرْسِلْ حِينَئِذٍ فَأُخْبِرَهُ، | ١٢ 12 |
And Jonathan says to David, “YHWH, God of Israel, [is my witness]—when I search out my father about [this] time tomorrow [or] the third [day], and behold, [there is] good toward David, and I do not then send to you, and have uncovered your ear—
| فَهَكَذَا يَفْعَلُ ٱلرَّبُّ لِيُونَاثَانَ وَهَكَذَا يَزِيدُ. وَإِنِ ٱسْتَحْسَنَ أَبِي ٱلشَّرَّ نَحْوَكَ، فَإِنِّي أُخْبِرُكَ وَأُطْلِقُكَ فَتَذْهَبُ بِسَلَامٍ. وَلْيَكُنِ ٱلرَّبُّ مَعَكَ كَمَا كَانَ مَعَ أَبِي. | ١٣ 13 |
thus YHWH does to Jonathan, and thus He adds; when the evil concerning you is good to my father, then I have uncovered your ear, and sent you away, and you have gone in peace, and YHWH is with you, as he was with my father;
| وَلَا وَأَنَا حَيٌّ بَعْدُ تَصْنَعُ مَعِي إِحْسَانَ ٱلرَّبِّ حَتَّى لَا أَمُوتَ، | ١٤ 14 |
and not only while I am alive do you do the kindness of YHWH with me, and I do not die,
| بَلْ لَا تَقْطَعُ مَعْرُوفَكَ عَنْ بَيْتِي إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ، وَلَا حِينَ يَقْطَعُ ٱلرَّبُّ أَعْدَاءَ دَاوُدَ جَمِيعًا عَنْ وَجْهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ». | ١٥ 15 |
but you do not cut off your kindness from my house for all time, nor in YHWH’s cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.”
| فَعَاهَدَ يُونَاثَانُ بَيْتَ دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ: «لِيَطْلُبِ ٱلرَّبُّ مِنْ يَدِ أَعْدَاءِ دَاوُدَ». | ١٦ 16 |
So Jonathan cuts [a covenant] with the house of David, and YHWH has sought [it] from the hand of the enemies of David;
| ثُمَّ عَادَ يُونَاثَانُ وَٱسْتَحْلَفَ دَاوُدَ بِمَحَبَّتِهِ لَهُ لِأَنَّهُ أَحَبَّهُ مَحَبَّةَ نَفْسِهِ. | ١٧ 17 |
and Jonathan adds to cause David to swear, because he loves him, for he has loved him [as] the love [for] his own soul.
| وَقَالَ لَهُ يُونَاثَانُ: «غَدًا ٱلشَّهْرُ، فَتُفْتَقَدُ لِأَنَّ مَوْضِعَكَ يَكُونُ خَالِيًا. | ١٨ 18 |
And Jonathan says to him, “Tomorrow [is] the new moon, and you have been looked after, for your seat is looked after;
| وَفِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلثَّالِثِ تَنْزِلُ سَرِيعًا وَتَأْتِي إِلَى ٱلْمَوْضِعِ ٱلَّذِي ٱخْتَبَأْتَ فِيهِ يَوْمَ ٱلْعَمَلِ، وَتَجْلِسُ بِجَانِبِ حَجَرِ ٱلِٱفْتِرَاقِ. | ١٩ 19 |
and on the third day you certainly come down, and have come to the place where you were hidden in the day of the work, and have remained near the stone of Ezel.
| وَأَنَا أَرْمِي ثَلَاثَةَ سِهَامٍ إِلَى جَانِبِهِ كَأَنِّي أَرْمِي غَرَضًا. | ٢٠ 20 |
And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out at a mark for myself;
| وَحِينَئِذٍ أُرْسِلُ ٱلْغُلَامَ قَائِلًا: ٱذْهَبِ ٱلْتَقِطِ ٱلسِّهَامَ. فَإِنْ قُلْتُ لِلْغُلَامِ: هُوَذَا ٱلسِّهَامُ دُونَكَ فَجَائِيًا، خُذْهَا. فَتَعَالَ، لِأَنَّ لَكَ سَلَامًا. لَا يُوجَدُ شَيْءٌ، حَيٌّ هُوَ ٱلرَّبُّ. | ٢١ 21 |
and behold, I send the youth, [saying], Go, find the arrows. If I say to the youth at all, Behold, the arrows [are] on this side of you—take them and come, for [there is] peace for you, and there is no [adverse] word—[as] YHWH lives.
| وَلَكِنْ إِنْ قُلْتُ هَكَذَا لِلْغُلَامِ: هُوَذَا ٱلسِّهَامُ دُونَكَ فَصَاعِدًا. فَٱذْهَبْ، لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ قَدْ أَطْلَقَكَ. | ٢٢ 22 |
And if thus I say to the young man, Behold, the arrows [are] beyond you—go, for YHWH has sent you away;
| وَأَمَّا ٱلْكَلَامُ ٱلَّذِي تَكَلَّمْنَا بِهِ أَنَا وَأَنْتَ، فَهُوَذَا ٱلرَّبُّ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ». | ٢٣ 23 |
as for the thing which you and I have spoken, behold, YHWH [is] between me and you for all time.”
| فَٱخْتَبَأَ دَاوُدُ فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ. وَكَانَ ٱلشَّهْرُ، فَجَلَسَ ٱلْمَلِكُ عَلَى ٱلطَّعَامِ لِيَأْكُلَ. | ٢٤ 24 |
And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sits down by the food to eat,
| فَجَلَسَ ٱلْمَلِكُ فِي مَوْضِعِهِ حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ عَلَى مَجْلِسٍ عِنْدَ ٱلْحَائِطِ. وَقَامَ يُونَاثَانُ وَجَلَسَ أَبْنَيْرُ إِلَى جَانِبِ شَاوُلَ، وَخَلَا مَوْضِعُ دَاوُدَ. | ٢٥ 25 |
and the king sits on his seat, as time by time, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan rises, and Abner sits at the side of Saul, and David’s place is looked after.
| وَلَمْ يَقُلْ شَاوُلُ شَيْئًا فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، لِأَنَّهُ قَالَ: «لَعَلَّهُ عَارِضٌ. غَيْرُ طَاهِرٍ هُوَ. إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ طَاهِرًا». | ٢٦ 26 |
And Saul has not spoken anything on that day, for he said, “It [is] an accident; he is not clean—surely not clean.”
| وَكَانَ فِي ٱلْغَدِ ٱلثَّانِي مِنَ ٱلشَّهْرِ أَنَّ مَوْضِعَ دَاوُدَ خَلَا، فَقَالَ شَاوُلُ لِيُونَاثَانَ ٱبْنِهِ: «لِمَاذَا لَمْ يَأْتِ ٱبْنُ يَسَّى إِلَى ٱلطَّعَامِ لَا أَمْسِ وَلَا ٱلْيَوْمَ؟» | ٢٧ 27 |
And it comes to pass on the second day of the new moon, that David’s place is looked after, and Saul says to his son Jonathan, “Why has the son of Jesse not come in, either yesterday or today, to the food?”
| فَأَجَابَ يُونَاثَانُ شَاوُلَ: «إِنَّ دَاوُدَ طَلَبَ مِنِّي أَنْ يَذْهَبَ إِلَى بَيْتِ لَحْمٍ، | ٢٨ 28 |
And Jonathan answers Saul, “David has earnestly asked [permission] from me [to go] to Beth-Lehem,
| وَقَالَ: أَطْلِقْنِي لِأَنَّ عِنْدَنَا ذَبِيحَةَ عَشِيرَةٍ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ، وَقَدْ أَوْصَانِي أَخِي بِذَلِكَ. وَٱلْآنَ إِنْ وَجَدْتُ نِعْمَةً فِي عَيْنَيْكَ فَدَعْنِي أُفْلِتُ وَأَرَى إِخْوَتِي. لِذَلِكَ لَمْ يَأْتِ إِلَى مَائِدَةِ ٱلْمَلِكِ». | ٢٩ 29 |
and he says, Please send me away, for we have a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother has given command to me himself, and now, if I have found grace in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers; therefore he has not come to the table of the king.”
| فَحَمِيَ غَضَبُ شَاوُلَ عَلَى يُونَاثَانَ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «يَا ٱبْنَ ٱلْمُتَعَوِّجَةِ ٱلْمُتَمَرِّدَةِ، أَمَا عَلِمْتُ أَنَّكَ قَدِ ٱخْتَرْتَ ٱبْنَ يَسَّى لِخِزْيِكَ وَخِزْيِ عَوْرَةِ أُمِّكَ؟ | ٣٠ 30 |
And the anger of Saul burns against Jonathan, and he says to him, “Son of a perverse [woman] of rebellion! Have I not known that you are fixing on the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?
| لِأَنَّهُ مَا دَامَ ٱبْنُ يَسَّى حَيًّا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ لَا تُثْبَتُ أَنْتَ وَلَا مَمْلَكَتُكَ. وَٱلْآنَ أَرْسِلْ وَأْتِ بِهِ إِلَيَّ لِأَنَّهُ ٱبْنُ ٱلْمَوْتِ هُوَ». | ٣١ 31 |
For all the days that the son of Jesse lives on the ground you are not established, you and your kingdom; and now, send and bring him to me, for he [is] a son of death.”
| فَأَجَابَ يُونَاثَانُ شَاوُلَ أَبَاهُ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «لِمَاذَا يُقْتَلُ؟ مَاذَا عَمِلَ؟». | ٣٢ 32 |
And Jonathan answers his father Saul and says to him, “Why is he put to death? What has he done?”
| فَصَابَى شَاوُلُ ٱلرُّمْحَ نَحْوَهُ لِيَطْعَنَهُ، فَعَلِمَ يُونَاثَانُ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ قَدْ عَزَمَ عَلَى قَتْلِ دَاوُدَ. | ٣٣ 33 |
And Saul casts the javelin at him to strike him, and Jonathan knows that it has been determined by his father to put David to death.
| فَقَامَ يُونَاثَانُ عَنِ ٱلْمَائِدَةِ بِحُمُوِّ غَضَبٍ وَلَمْ يَأْكُلْ خُبْزًا فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلثَّانِي مِنَ ٱلشَّهْرِ، لِأَنَّهُ ٱغْتَمَّ عَلَى دَاوُدَ، لِأَنَّ أَبَاهُ قَدْ أَخْزَاهُ. | ٣٤ 34 |
And Jonathan rises from the table in the heat of anger, and has not eaten food on the second day of the new moon, for he has been grieved for David, for his father put him to shame.
| وَكَانَ فِي ٱلصَّبَاحِ أَنَّ يُونَاثَانَ خَرَجَ إِلَى ٱلْحَقْلِ إِلَى مِيعَادِ دَاوُدَ، وَغُلَامٌ صَغِيرٌ مَعَهُ. | ٣٥ 35 |
And it comes to pass in the morning, that Jonathan goes out into the field for the appointment with David, and a little youth [is] with him.
| وَقَالَ لِغُلَامِهِ: «ٱرْكُضِ ٱلْتَقِطِ ٱلسِّهَامَ ٱلَّتِي أَنَا رَامِيهَا». وَبَيْنَمَا ٱلْغُلَامُ رَاكِضٌ رَمَى ٱلسَّهْمَ حَتَّى جَاوَزَهُ. | ٣٦ 36 |
And he says to his youth, “Now run, find the arrows which I am shooting”; the youth is running, and he has shot the arrow, causing [it] to pass over him.
| وَلَمَّا جَاءَ ٱلْغُلَامُ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ ٱلسَّهْمِ ٱلَّذِي رَمَاهُ يُونَاثَانُ، نَادَى يُونَاثَانُ وَرَاءَ ٱلْغُلَامِ وَقَالَ: «أَلَيْسَ ٱلسَّهْمُ دُونَكَ فَصَاعِدًا؟». | ٣٧ 37 |
And the youth comes to the place of the arrow which Jonathan has shot, and Jonathan calls after the youth, and says, “Is the arrow not beyond you?”
| وَنَادَى يُونَاثَانُ وَرَاءَ ٱلْغُلَامِ قَائِلًا: «ٱعْجَلْ. أَسْرِعْ. لَا تَقِفْ». فَٱلْتَقَطَ غُلَامُ يُونَاثَانَ ٱلسَّهْمَ وَجَاءَ إِلَى سَيِّدِهِ. | ٣٨ 38 |
And Jonathan calls after the youth, “Speed, hurry, do not stand”; and Jonathan’s youth gathers the arrows, and comes to his lord.
| وَٱلْغُلَامُ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْلَمُ شَيْئًا، وَأَمَّا يُونَاثَانُ وَدَاوُدُ فَكَانَا يَعْلَمَانِ ٱلْأَمْرَ. | ٣٩ 39 |
And the youth has not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word.
| فَأَعْطَى يُونَاثَانُ سِلَاحَهُ لِلْغُلَامِ ٱلَّذِي لَهُ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «ٱذْهَبِ. ٱدْخُلْ بِهِ إِلَى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ». | ٤٠ 40 |
And Jonathan gives his weapons to the youth whom he has and says to him, “Go, carry into the city.”
| اَلْغُلَامُ ذَهَبَ وَدَاوُدُ قَامَ مِنْ جَانِبِ ٱلْجَنُوبِ وَسَقَطَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَسَجَدَ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ. وَقَبَّلَ كُلٌّ مِنْهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ، وَبَكَى كُلٌّ مِنْهُمَا مَعَ صَاحِبِهِ حَتَّى زَادَ دَاوُدُ. | ٤١ 41 |
The youth has gone, and David has risen from Ezel, at the south, and falls on his face to the earth, and bows himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep with one another, until David exerted himself;
| فَقَالَ يُونَاثَانُ لِدَاوُدَ: «ٱذْهَبْ بِسَلَامٍ لِأَنَّنَا كِلَيْنَا قَدْ حَلَفْنَا بِٱسْمِ ٱلرَّبِّ قَائِلَيْنِ: ٱلرَّبُّ يَكُونُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَ نَسْلِي وَنَسْلِكَ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ». فَقَامَ وَذَهَبَ، وَأَمَّا يُونَاثَانُ فَجَاءَ إِلَى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ. | ٤٢ 42 |
and Jonathan says to David, “Go in peace, in that we have sworn—the two of us—in the Name of YHWH, saying, YHWH is between me and you, and between my seed and your seed—for all time”; and he rises and goes; and Jonathan has gone into the city.
