صَمُوئِيلَ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 30

١ 1 وَلَمَّا جَاءَ دَاوُدُ وَرِجَالُهُ إِلَى صِقْلَغَ فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلثَّالِثِ، كَانَ ٱلْعَمَالِقَةُ قَدْ غَزَوْا ٱلْجَنُوبَ وَصِقْلَغَ، وَضَرَبُوا صِقْلَغَ وَأَحْرَقُوهَا بِٱلنَّارِ،

When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,

٢ 2 وَسَبَوْا ٱلنِّسَاءَ ٱللَّوَاتِي فِيهَا. لَمْ يَقْتُلُوا أَحَدًا لَا صَغِيرًا وَلَا كَبِيرًا، بَلْ سَاقُوهُمْ وَمَضَوْا فِي طَرِيقِهِمْ.

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

٣ 3 فَدَخَلَ دَاوُدُ وَرِجَالُهُ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ وَإِذَا هِيَ مُحْرَقَةٌ بِٱلنَّارِ، وَنِسَاؤُهُمْ وَبَنُوهُمْ وَبَنَاتُهُمْ قَدْ سُبُوا.

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

٤ 4 فَرَفَعَ دَاوُدُ وَٱلشَّعْبُ ٱلَّذِينَ مَعَهُ أَصْوَاتَهُمْ وَبَكَوْا حَتَّى لَمْ تَبْقَ لَهُمْ قُوَّةٌ لِلْبُكَاءِ.

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

٥ 5 وَسُبِيَتِ ٱمْرَأَتَا دَاوُدَ: أَخِينُوعَمُ ٱلْيَزْرَعِيلِيَّةُ وَأَبِيجَايِلُ ٱمْرَأَةُ نَابَالَ ٱلْكَرْمَلِيِّ.

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

٦ 6 فَتَضَايَقَ دَاوُدُ جِدًّا لِأَنَّ ٱلشَّعْبَ قَالُوا بِرَجْمِهِ، لِأَنَّ أَنْفُسَ جَمِيعِ ٱلشَّعْبِ كَانَتْ مُرَّةً كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ عَلَى بَنِيهِ وَبَنَاتِهِ. وَأَمَّا دَاوُدُ فَتَشَدَّدَ بِٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِهِ.

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

٧ 7 ثُمَّ قَالَ دَاوُدُ لِأَبِيَاثَارَ ٱلْكَاهِنِ ٱبْنِ أَخِيمَالِكَ: «قَدِّمْ إِلَيَّ ٱلْأَفُودَ». فَقَدَّمَ أَبِيَاثَارُ ٱلْأَفُودَ إِلَى دَاوُدَ.

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

٨ 8 فَسَأَلَ دَاوُدُ مِنَ ٱلرَّبِّ قَائِلًا: «إِذَا لَحِقْتُ هَؤُلَاءِ ٱلْغُزَاةَ فَهَلْ أُدْرِكُهُمْ؟» فَقَالَ لَهُ: «ٱلْحَقْهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ تُدْرِكُ وَتُنْقِذُ».

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

٩ 9 فَذَهَبَ دَاوُدُ هُوَ وَٱلسِّتُّ مِئَةِ ٱلرَّجُلِ ٱلَّذِينَ مَعَهُ وَجَاءُوا إِلَى وَادِي ٱلْبَسُورِ، وَٱلْمُتَخَلِّفُونَ وَقَفُوا.

So 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.

١٠ 10 وَأَمَّا دَاوُدُ فَلَحِقَ هُوَ وَأَرْبَعُ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ، وَوَقَفَ مِئَتَا رَجُلٍ لِأَنَّهُمْ أَعْيَوْا عَنْ أَنْ يَعْبُرُوا وَادِيَ ٱلْبَسُورِ.

But 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.

١١ 11 فَصَادَفُوا رَجُلًا مِصْرِيًّا فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ فَأَخَذُوهُ إِلَى دَاوُدَ، وَأَعْطَوْهُ خُبْزًا فَأَكَلَ وَسَقَوْهُ مَاءً،

They 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.

١٢ 12 وَأَعْطَوْهُ قُرْصًا مِنَ ٱلتِّينِ وَعُنْقُودَيْنِ مِنَ ٱلزَّبِيبِ، فَأَكَلَ وَرَجَعَتْ رُوحُهُ إِلَيْهِ، لِأَنَّهُ لَمْ يَأْكُلْ خُبْزًا وَلَا شَرِبَ مَاءً فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ وَثَلَاثِ لَيَالٍ.

They 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, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

١٣ 13 فَقَالَ لَهُ دَاوُدُ: «لِمَنْ أَنْتَ؟ وَمِنْ أَيْنَ أَنْتَ؟» فَقَالَ: «أَنَا غُلَامٌ مِصْرِيٌّ عَبْدٌ لِرَجُلٍ عَمَالِيقِيٍّ، وَقَدْ تَرَكَنِي سَيِّدِي لِأَنِّي مَرِضْتُ مُنْذُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ.

David 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 got sick.

١٤ 14 فَإِنَّنَا قَدْ غَزَوْنَا عَلَى جَنُوبِيِّ ٱلْكَرِيتِيِّينَ، وَعَلَى مَا لِيَهُوذَا وَعَلَى جَنُوبِيِّ كَالِبَ وَأَحْرَقْنَا صِقْلَغَ بِٱلنَّارِ».

We 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.”

١٥ 15 فَقَالَ لَهُ دَاوُدُ: «هَلْ تَنْزِلُ بِي إِلَى هَؤُلَاءِ ٱلْغُزَاةِ؟» فَقَالَ: «ٱحْلِفْ لِي بِٱللهِ أَنَّكَ لَا تَقْتُلُنِي وَلَا تُسَلِّمُنِي لِيَدِ سَيِّدِي، فَأَنْزِلَ بِكَ إِلَى هَؤُلَاءِ ٱلْغُزَاةِ».

David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

١٦ 16 فَنَزَلَ بِهِ وَإِذَا بِهِمْ مُنْتَشِرُونَ عَلَى وَجْهِ كُلِّ ٱلْأَرْضِ، يَأْكُلُونَ وَيَشْرَبُونَ وَيَرْقُصُونَ بِسَبَبِ جَمِيعِ ٱلْغَنِيمَةِ ٱلْعَظِيمَةِ ٱلَّتِي أَخَذُوا مِنْ أَرْضِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ وَمِنْ أَرْضِ يَهُوذَا.

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

١٧ 17 فَضَرَبَهُمْ دَاوُدُ مِنَ ٱلْعَتَمَةِ إِلَى مَسَاءِ غَدِهِمْ، وَلَمْ يَنْجُ مِنْهُمْ رَجُلٌ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَ مِئَةِ غُلَامٍ ٱلَّذِينَ رَكِبُوا جِمَالًا وَهَرَبُوا.

David 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.

١٨ 18 وَٱسْتَخْلَصَ دَاوُدُ كُلَّ مَا أَخَذَهُ عَمَالِيقُ، وَأَنْقَذَ دَاوُدُ ٱمْرَأَتَيْهِ.

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

١٩ 19 وَلَمْ يُفْقَدْ لَهُمْ شَيْءٌ لَا صَغِيرٌ وَلَا كَبِيرٌ، وَلَا بَنُونَ وَلَا بَنَاتٌ وَلَا غَنِيمَةٌ، وَلَا شَيْءٌ مِنْ جَمِيعِ مَا أَخَذُوا لَهُمْ، بَلْ رَدَّ دَاوُدُ ٱلْجَمِيعَ.

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

٢٠ 20 وَأَخَذَ دَاوُدُ ٱلْغَنَمَ وَٱلْبَقَرَ. سَاقُوهَا أَمَامَ تِلْكَ ٱلْمَاشِيَةِ وَقَالُوا: «هَذِهِ غَنِيمَةُ دَاوُدَ».

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

٢١ 21 وَجَاءَ دَاوُدُ إِلَى مِئَتَيِ ٱلرَّجُلِ ٱلَّذِينَ أَعْيَوْا عَنِ ٱلذَّهَابِ وَرَاءَ دَاوُدَ، فَأَرْجَعُوهُمْ فِي وَادِي ٱلْبَسُورِ، فَخَرَجُوا لِلِقَاءِ دَاوُدَ وَلِقَاءِ ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلَّذِينَ مَعَهُ. فَتَقَدَّمَ دَاوُدُ إِلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ وَسَأَلَ عَنْ سَلَامَتِهِمْ.

David 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 out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

٢٢ 22 فَأَجَابَ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ شِرِّيرٍ وَلَئِيمٍ مِنَ ٱلرِّجَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ سَارُوا مَعَ دَاوُدَ وَقَالُوا: «لِأَجْلِ أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَذْهَبُوا مَعَنَا لَا نُعْطِيهِمْ مِنَ ٱلْغَنِيمَةِ ٱلَّتِي ٱسْتَخْلَصْنَاهَا، بَلْ لِكُلِّ رَجُلٍ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ وَبَنِيهِ، فَلْيَقْتَادُوهُمْ وَيَنْطَلِقُوا».

Then all the wicked men and worthless 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 plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart.”

٢٣ 23 فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ: «لَا تَفْعَلُوا هَكَذَا يَا إِخْوَتِي، لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ قَدْ أَعْطَانَا وَحَفِظَنَا وَدَفَعَ لِيَدِنَا ٱلْغُزَاةَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَاءُوا عَلَيْنَا.

Then David said, “Do 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.

٢٤ 24 وَمَنْ يَسْمَعُ لَكُمْ فِي هَذَا ٱلْأَمْرِ؟ لِأَنَّهُ كَنَصِيبِ ٱلنَّازِلِ إِلَى ٱلْحَرْبِ نَصِيبُ ٱلَّذِي يُقِيمُ عِنْدَ ٱلْأَمْتِعَةِ، فَإِنَّهُمْ يَقْتَسِمُونَ بِٱلسَّوِيَّةِ».

Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

٢٥ 25 وَكَانَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ فَصَاعِدًا أَنَّهُ جَعَلَهَا فَرِيضَةً وَقَضَاءً لِإِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ.

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

٢٦ 26 وَلَمَّا جَاءَ دَاوُدُ إِلَى صِقْلَغَ أَرْسَلَ مِنَ ٱلْغَنِيمَةِ إِلَى شُيُوخِ يَهُوذَا، إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ قَائِلًا: «هَذِهِ لَكُمْ بَرَكَةٌ مِنْ غَنِيمَةِ أَعْدَاءِ ٱلرَّبِّ».

When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”

٢٧ 27 إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ فِي بَيْتِ إِيلٍ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي رَامُوتِ ٱلْجَنُوبِ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي يَتِّيرَ،

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

٢٨ 28 وَإِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ فِي عَرُوعِيرَ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي سِفْمُوثَ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي أَشْتِمُوعَ،

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

٢٩ 29 وَإِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ فِي رَاخَالَ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي مُدُنِ ٱلْيَرْحَمْئِيلِيِّينَ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي مُدُنِ ٱلْقِينِيِّينَ،

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

٣٠ 30 وَإِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ فِي حُرْمَةَ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي كُورِ عَاشَانَ وَٱلَّذِينَ فِي عَتَاكَ،

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

٣١ 31 وَإِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ فِي حَبْرُونَ، وَإِلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلْأَمَاكِنِ ٱلَّتِي تَرَدَّدَ فِيهَا دَاوُدُ وَرِجَالُهُ.

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