1 Samuel 20
1 Eka Daudi noringo koa Nayoth e gwengʼ Rama mine odhi ir Jonathan mopenje niya, “Angʼo masetimo? Ere kethona? Rach mane ma asetimo ne wuonu, momiyo odwaro kawo ngimana?”
Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
2 Jonathan nodwoke niya, “Onge. Ok ibi tho! Winji, wuonwa ok tim gimoro amora, bedni oduongʼ kata otin, ma ok onyisa. Angʼo madimi opandna wachni? Ok en kamano!”
“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
3 Daudi to nowacho ka kwongʼore niya, “Wuoru ongʼeyo malongʼo kaka igena mi osewacho e chunye ni, ‘Jonathan ok onego ngʼe wachni nikech chunye nyalo bedo gi lit.’ Kata kamano akwongʼora gi nying Jehova Nyasaye mangima to gi nyingi ni kinda gi tho odongʼ mana ondamo achiel.”
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
4 Jonathan nowacho ni Daudi niya, “Gimoro amora midwaro ni atim abiro timoni.”
Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
5 Omiyo Daudi nowacho niya, “Winji, kiny en Sawo mar Dwe manyien kendo nitie budho ma onego bed ni achiemo gi ruoth, to we adhi apondi oko nyaka chop odhiambo mar orucha.
So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
6 Ka wuonu ok onena e nyasini, to nyise ni, ‘Daudi nokwaya mondo amiye thuolo odhi dalagi Bethlehem mapiyo piyo, nikech anywolagi duto nigi misango mar higa ka higa.’
If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
7 Ka owacho ni, ‘Mano ber,’ eka anabed gi adieri ni jatichni nigi kwe. To ka mirima omake, to ibiro bedo gi adiera ni oseketo chunye ni nyaka to onega.
If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
8 In to koro bed ja-adiera ne jatichni, nikech isekwongʼori kode e nyim Jehova Nyasaye. To ka an jaketho to nega in iwuon! Angʼo ma dimi iketa e lwet wuonu?”
Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
9 Jonathan nowachone niya, “Mano ok nyal timore! Ka dine angʼeyo kata mana matin ni wuora dwaro timoni marach, donge danyisi?”
“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
10 Daudi nopenje niya, “Ngʼa mabiro wachona ka wuonu odwoki gi gero?”
Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
11 Jonathan nowacho niya, “Bi wadhi kuma opondo.” Omiyo negidhi giduto.
“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,
12 Eka Jonathan nowachone Daudi niya, “Gi nying Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasach Israel, abiro wuoyo gi wuora e sa maka ma orucha! Ka en gi paro maber kuomi, to donge abiro anyisi?
and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
13 To ka wuora nigi chuny mar hinyi, to aweyo ma ok anyisi kendo konyi mondo itony idhi gi kwe, to mondo Jehova Nyasaye ochwada malit. Mad Jehova Nyasaye obed kodi mana kaka osebedo gi wuora.
But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
14 To yie itimna ngʼwono mana machal gi ngʼwono mosiko mar Jehova Nyasaye e ndalo duto mag ngimana, mondo kik nega,
And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
15 kendo kik iwe timo ngʼwono ni jooda kata mana ka Jehova Nyasaye osetieko wasik Daudi e wangʼ piny.”
and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
16 Omiyo Jonathan nokwongʼore gi joka Daudi, kowacho niya, “Mad Jehova Nyasaye mondo ongʼad bura ne wasik Daudi.”
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”
17 Omiyo Jonathan noketo Daudi mochako ojiwo kwongʼruokne nikech nohere, nimar nohere mana kaka oherore owuon.
And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
18 Eka Jonathan nowachone Daudi niya, “Kiny en Sawo mar dwe manyien kendo kiny nongʼere ni ionge nikech komi nobed nono.
Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.
19 To kochopo orucha kar odhiambo kanyo to idhi kama ne ipondoe mokwongo ka wechegi nochakore kendo irit but kit Ezel.
When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
20 Abiro diro aserni adek e bathe kanyo, ka gima atemo lengʼo gimoro.
I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
21 Eka abiro oro rawera kawachone ni, ‘Dhi idwar aserni.’ To kawachone ni, ‘Ne, aserni ni e bathi koni; kelgi ka, eka ibi, nikech akwongʼora gi nying Jehova Nyasaye mangima ni onge gima biro hinyi kendo onge gima rach.’
Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
22 To ka awachone rawera ni, ‘Ne, aserni ni nyimi,’ eka nyaka idhi nikech Jehova Nyasaye dwaro ni idhi adhiya.
But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
23 To kuom weche mawasewuoyoe to ipar, nimar Jehova Nyasaye en janeno e kindwa nyaka chiengʼ.”
And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”
24 Omiyo Daudi nopondo oko kendo kane Sawo mar Dwe manyien ochopo, to ruoth nobet piny mondo ochiem.
So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
25 Nobet kare mane ojabetie but kor ot, ka gimanyore gi Jonathan, Abner to nobet bath Saulo, kom Daudi to ne ninono.
He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
26 Saulo ne ok owacho gimoro chiengʼno, nikech noparo e chunye niya, “Nyaka bed ni Daudi osetimo gimoro marach, omiyo ok oler adiera emomiyo ok obiro e nyasi.”
Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
27 To kata mana kinyne, ma en chiengʼ mar ariyo mar dwe, kom Daudi ne pod ninono. Eka Saulo nowachone Jonathan wuode niya, “Angʼo momiyo wuod Jesse ok obiro e chiemo, chakre nyoro nyaka kawuono?”
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
28 Jonathan nodwoko niya, “Daudi nohomba kokwaya thuolo mondo odhi Bethlehem.”
Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
29 Nokwayo niya, “Yiena mondo adhi nikech joodwa timo misango e dala kendo owadwa nochika matek ni nyaka achop kuno. Koro akwayi ni yie ingʼwon-na mondo adhi ane owetena. Mano ema omiyo ok osebiro e mesa ruoth.”
saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
30 Saulo notoyo mirimbe kuom Jonathan mowachone niya, “In wuod dhako ma wiye tek kendo ma ja-mahundu! Donge angʼeyo ni isebedo jakor wuod Jesse makelo wichkuot ne in iwuon kendo ne minu monywoli?
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
31 Ka wuod Jesse pod ngima e pinyni to in kata pinyruodhi ok nyal gurore. Koro or wach mondo okelnago nikech nyaka otho!”
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
32 Jonathan nopenjo wuon-gi niya, “Angʼo momiyo nyaka otho? Angʼo mosetimo?”
“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
33 To Saulo nobaye gi tongʼ mondo onege. Eka Jonathan nongʼeyo ni kare wuon-gi dwaro nego Daudi.
Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
34 Jonathan nochungʼ moa e mesa ka mirima mager omake chiengʼ mar ariyo mar dwe mane ok ochiemo, nikech chunye ne lit kod timbe wuon-gi mag wichkuot mane otimone Daudi.
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
35 Kinyne gokinyi Jonathan nodhi oko e kargi mar romo gi Daudi. Ne en-gi wuowi matin,
In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.
36 kendo nowachone wuowino niya, “Ringi mondo idwar aserni madirogi.” E sa ma wuowino ne ringo, nodiro asere mokadhe.
He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
37 Ka wuowino nochopo kama asech Jonathan ne olwarie, Jonathan noluonge gi dwol maduongʼ niya, “Donge asere ni nyimi kanyo?”
When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
38 Eka nokok kowacho niya, “Reti! Dhi piyo! Kik ichungʼ!” Wuowino nokwanyo asereno mi odok ir ruodhe.
Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
39 Wuowino ne ok ongʼeyo gimoro amora mane timore, makmana Jonathan gi Daudi kende ema nongʼeyo.
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
40 Eka Jonathan nomiyo wuowino gige mag lweny mowachone niya, “Dhiyo idwokgi dala.”
Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
41 Bangʼ ka wuowino nosedhi, Daudi nowuok yo milambo mar dir kidi, mi okulore piny e nyim Jonathan nyadidek ka lend wangʼe mulo piny. Eka ne gimosore ma giywak giduto to Daudi noywak moloyo.
When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
42 Jonathan nowachone Daudi niya, “Dhi gi kwe nimar wasesingore e nyim Jehova Nyasaye ni osiep man e kindwa kodi ka wakwongʼore niya, Jehova Nyasaye obed janeno e kindi koda kendo e kind nyikwayi kod nyikwaya nyaka chiengʼ” Eka Daudi nowuok to Jonathan bende nodok dala.
And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
