2 Samuel 14

1 Manghai kaha lungbuei tah Absalom taengla a om te Zeruiah capa Joab loh a ming.

And Joab the son of Saruia knew that the heart of the king was toward Abessalom.

2 Te dongah Joab loh Tekoa la ol a tah tih te lamkah huta aka cueih te a khuen. Te phoeiah anih te, “Nguekcoi mai lamtah nguekcoinah himbai bai mai laeh. Situi hluk boeh, aka duek ham khohnin yung ah aka nguekcoi huta bangla om laeh.

And Joab sent to Thecoe, and took thence a cunning woman, and said to her, Mourn, I pray you, and put on mourning apparel, and anoint you not with oil, and you shall be as a woman mourning for one that is dead thus for many days.

3 Te phoeiah manghai taengla cet lamtah amah taengah hekah ol bangla thui pah,” a ti nah tih Joab loh anih ka dongah ola khuehpah.

And you shall go to the king, and speak to him according to this word. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 Tekoa nu loh manghai tea voek vaengah a maelhmai diklai laa buluk thil tiha bawk pueng. Te phoeiah ni, “Manghai nang loh ng'khang,” a tinah.

So the woman of Thecoe went in to the king and fell upon her face to the earth, and did him obeisance, and said, Help, O king, help.

5 Te dongah amah te manghai loh, “Nang te ba dae lae,” a tinah. Te vaengah, “Kai tah nuhmai nu tih ka va khaw duek coeng.

And the king said to her, What is the matter with you? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

6 Na salnu taengkah capa panit he amamih rhoiTe lohma ah hnueiuhrhoi. Amih rhoi laklo ah sim uh pawh. Te dongah pakhat loh pakhat tea ngawn tih duek.

And moreover your handmaid had two sons, and they fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them; and the one struck the other his brother, and killed him.

7 Te dongaha huiko boeih loh na salnu he m'pai thil tih, 'A manuca aka ngawn te han tloeng lamtah anih loh a ngawn a manuca kah hinglu ah anih te ka ngawn uh pawn eh. A pang tueng khaw ka phae uh ni,’ a tiuh. Te dongah ka hmai-alh aka sueng te thih koinih ka va ming neha meet he diklai hman ah khueh rhoe khueh mahpawh he,” a tinah.

And behold the whole family rose up against your handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that struck his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he killed, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.

8 Te dongah manghai loh huta te, “Na im la mael laeh, nang hamTe kamah loh ka uen bitni,” a tinah.

And the king said to the woman, Go in peace to your house, and I will give commandment concerning you.

9 Tedae Tekoa nu loh manghai taengah, “Ka boei manghai kathaesainah he kamah so neh a pa imkhui ah om saeh lamtah manghai neh a ngolkhoel ta ommongsitoe la om saeh,” a tinah.

And the woman of Thecoe said to the king, On me, my lord, O king, and on my father's house [be] the iniquity, and the king and his throne [be] guiltless.

10 Te phoeiah manghai loh, “Nang taengah aka thui te kamah taengla hang khuen, nang koep m'ben hamTe khoep boel saeh,” a tinah.

And the king said, Who was it that spoke to you? you shall even bring him to me, and [one] shall not touch him any more.

11 Te phoeiah, “BOEIPA na Pathen loh manghai te n'thoelh pawn saeh. Thii phu aka suk te a rhaep, rhaep la thup nawn saeh. Te daengah ni ka capa tea diil sak uh pawt eh,” a tinah. Te vaengah manghai loh, “BOEIPA kah hingnah rhangneh na capa kah a sam pakhat pataeng diklai la rhul mahpawh,” a tinah.

And she said, Let now the king remember concerning his Lord God in that the avenger of blood is multiplied to destroy, and let them not take away my son. And he said, [As] the lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.

12 Te phoeiah huta loh, “Na salnu long he ka boeipa manghai taengah ol kan thui dae eh,” a ti nah hatah, “Thui saw,” a tinah.

And the woman said, Let now your servant speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

13 Te dongah huta loh, “Balae tih tahae kah bangla, Pathen kah pilnam he na moeh thil. A heh uhTe manghai loh na khue pawt vaengah, a rhaem banghui la hekah ol he manghai loh a thui.

And the woman said, Why have you devised this thing against the people of God? or [is] this word out of the king's mouth as a transgression, so that the king should not bring back his banished?

14 Diklai dongah tuia luh tih a coi thai voel pawt bangla n'duek rhoe n'duek uh pawn ni. Pathen loh a hinglu bawt pah pawt cakhawa kopoek te a moeh pah ta. Te dongaha heh tangtae khaw amah taeng lamloh loh a bung moenih.

For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.

15 Te dongah he ol he ka boei manghai taengah thui ham ni ka pawk coeng. Pilnam loh kai ng'hih cakhawa ti banglam ni na salnu loh manghai taengah ka thui eh. A salnu kah olkaTe manghai loh a rhoirhi mai khaming.

And now whereas I came to speak this word to my lord the king, [the reason is] that the people will see me, and your handmaid will say, Let one now speak to my lord the king, if perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid;

16 Pathen kah rho dong lamloh kamah neh ka capa rhenten aka mitmoeng sak ham khaw, hlang kut lamloh a sal nu a huul ham khaw manghai loh ya pai saeh.

for the king will hear. Let him rescue his handmaid out of the hand of the man that seeks to cast out me and my son from the inheritance of God.

17 Na salnu long tah ka boei manghai kah ol he Pathen puencawn bangla duemnah la om saeh a ti dae ta. Ka boei manghai loh a thaea then khaw a yaak dongah BOEIPA na Pathen tah namah taengah om nawn saeh,” a tinah.

And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious, —[well]: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, to hear good and evil: and the Lord your God shall be with you.

18 Te phoeiah manghai loh huta tea doo tih, “Namah kan dawt bangla kai taengah ol phah boel mai,” a tinah. Te vaengah huta long khaw, “Ka boei manghai nang thui laeh,” a tinah.

And the king answered, and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray you, the matter which I ask you. And the woman said, Let my lord the king by all means speak.

19 Te vaengah manghai loh, “Nang taengkah olka boeih dongah he Joab kah kutngo om nama?,” a tinah. Te dongah huta loh a doo tih, “Ka boei manghai kah na hinglu kah hingnah vanbangla ka boei manghai loha thui te pakhat khaw banvoei bantang laa hlihloeh moenih. Na sal Joab loh kai ng'uen tih he rhoek kah olka boeih he na salnu kah a ka dongaha khueh.

And the king said, [Is] not the hand of Joab in all this matter with you? and the woman said to the king, [As] your soul lives, my lord, O king, there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab himself charged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

20 Olka tea hmuethma hoilae ham ni hekah olka he na sal Joab loh a saii. Tedae ka boeipa tah Pathen puencawn kah cueihnah banglaa cueih dongah, diklai hman kah khaw boeiha ming,” a tinah.

In order that this form of speech might come about [it was] that your servant Joab has framed this matter: and my lord is wise as [is] the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

21 Te daengah manghai loh Joab te, “Ol he ka tloek bitni ne, cet lamtah Absalom camoe te lo laeh,” a tinah.

And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done to you according to this your word: go, bring back the young man Abessalom.

22 Te dongah Joab loh a maelhmai te diklai laa buluk tiha bawk phoeiah manghai tea uem. Te phoeiah Joab loh, “Tihnin ah tah ka boei manghai na mikhmuh ah mikdaithen ka dang te na sal loh ka ming. Na sal kah a sal patoeng ol he manghai loha rhoi coeng,” a ti.

And Joab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, To-day your servant knows that I have found grace in your sight, my lord, O king, for my lord the king has performed the request of his servant.

23 JoabTe thoo tih Geshuri la cet tih Absalom te Jerusalem la a mael puei.

And Joab arose, and went to Gedsur, and brought Abessalom to Jerusalem.

24 Tedae manghai loh, “Amah im la mael saeh lamtah ka maelhmai he hmu boel saeh,” a tinah. Te dongah AbsalomTe amah im la mael tih manghai kah maelhmai khaw hmu pawh.

And the king said, Let him return to his house, and not see my face. And Abessalom returned to his house, and saw not the king's face.

25 Absalom bangla sakthen hlang he Israel boeih khuiaha om moenih. A khopha lamloh a luki duela thangthen hamla om. A pum dongaha lolhmaih pakhat khaw om pawh.

And there was not a man in Israel so very comely as Abessalom: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

26 A kum, kum ah apata pha atah a luTe vok. Te khaw amah mat a nan vaengah ni a vok pueng. A lu dongkah sam tea vok tiha thuek vaengah manghai coilung ah shekel yahnih a lo pah.

And when he polled his head, (and it was at the beginning of every year that he polled it, because it grew, heavy upon him, ) even when he polled it, he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels according to the royal shekel.

27 Absalom loh capa pathum neh canu pakhata sak. A canu ming tah Tamar tih, a mueimae khaw sakthen nu la om.

And there were born to Abessalom three sons and one daughter, and her name was Themar: she was a very beautiful woman, and she becomes the wife of Roboam son of Solomon, and she bears to him Abia.

28 Absalom tah Jerusalem ah khohnin la kum nit kho a sak dae manghai maelhmai hmuh pawh.

And Abessalom remained in Jerusalem two full years, and he saw not the king's face.

29 Te dongah Absalom loh Joab tea tah tih manghai taenglaa tueih. Tedae a taenglaa pawk pah ham te a ngaih pah moenih. Te dongaha pabae la koepa tueih dae lo sak ham ngaih pah pawh.

And Abessalom sent to Joab to bring him in to the king, and he would not come to him: and he sent to him the second time, and he would not come.

30 Te vaengah a sal rhoek taengah, “So uh lah, Joab kah lo he kamah kut ah om, te lamkah cangtun te paan uh lamtah hmai neh hlup la hlup pa uh,” a tinah. Te dongah Absalom kah sal rhoek loh lo te hmai neha hlupuh.

And Abessalom said to his servants, Behold, Joab's portion in the field [is] next to mine, and he has in it barley; go and set it on fire. And the servants of Abessalom set the field on fire: and the servants of Joab come to him with their clothes tore, and they said to him, The servants of Abessalom have set the field on fire.

31 Te daengah JoabTe too tih Absalom tea im laa paan. Te vaengah, “Balae tih na sal rhoek loh kai lo ke hmai neha hlup uh,” a tinah.

And Joab arose, and came to Abessalom into the house, and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?

32 Absalom loh Joab te, “'Hela halo dae,’ ka ti tih la nang te kan tah. Te daengah man manghai te voek hamla nang te kan tueih ve. Geshuri lamkah ka pawk parhiTe kai hamla balaea then, ka om palueng vetih manghai kah maelhmai ka hmuh laeh mako, tedae kai pum dongah thaesainah a om atah kai he ng'ngawn saeh,” a tinah.

And Abessalom said to Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come hither, and I will send you to the king, saying, Why did I come out of Gedsur? it would have been better for me to have remained there: and now, behold, I have not seen the face of the king; but if there is iniquity in me, then put me to death.

33 JoabTe manghai taengla cet tiha thuipah. Te daengah Absalom tea khue tih manghai taengla koep ha pawk. Te vaengah manghai kah mikhmuh ah a maelhmai diklai la a buluk tih a bawk. Manghai loh Absalom tea mok.

And Joab went in to the king, and brought him word: and he called Abessalom, and he went in to the king, and did him obeisance, and fell upon his face to the ground, even in the presence of the king; and the king kissed Abessalom.