2 Samuel 14
1 Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
Torej Cerújin sin Joáb je zaznal, da je bilo kraljevo srce [nagnjeno] k Absalomu.
2 So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
Joáb je poslal v Tekóo in od tam privedel modro žensko ter ji rekel: »Prosim te, hlini se, da si žalovalka in sedaj si nadeni žalovalno obleko in se ne mazili z oljem, temveč bodi kakor ženska, ki je dolgo časa žalovala za mrtvim
3 Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
in pojdi h kralju in mu govori na ta način.« Tako je Joáb položil besede v njena usta.
4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
Ko je ženska iz Tekóe govorila kralju, je padla na svoj obraz do tal in se globoko priklonila ter rekla: »Pomagaj, oh kralj.«
5 “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
Kralj ji je rekel: »Kaj te pesti?« Odgovorila je: »Res sem vdova in moj soprog je mrtev.
6 And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
Tvoja pomočnica je imela dva sinova in skupaj sta se prepirala na polju in tam ni bilo nobenega, da ju loči, temveč je eden udaril drugega in ga usmrtil.
7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
Glej, celotna družina je vstala zoper tvojo pomočnico in rekli so: ›Izroči tega, ki je usmrtil svojega brata, da ga bomo lahko ubili za življenje njegovega brata, ki ga je usmrtil in tudi dediča bomo uničili.‹ Tako bodo pogasili moj ogorek, ki je ostal in mojemu soprogu ne bodo pustili niti imena niti ostanka na tej zemlji.«
8 “Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
Kralj je rekel ženski: »Pojdi k svoji hiši in glede tebe dal bom zadolžitev.«
9 But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
Ženska iz Tekóe je rekla kralju: »Moj gospod, oh kralj, krivičnost bodi na meni in na hiši mojega očeta, kralj in njegov prestol pa naj bosta brez krivde.«
10 “If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
Kralj je rekel: »Kdorkoli ti karkoli reče, ga privedi k meni in ne bo se te več dotaknil.«
11 “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
Potem je rekla: »Prosim te, naj se kralj spomni Gospoda, svojega Boga, da ti nočeš trpeti, da krvni maščevalci še naprej uničujejo, da ne bi uničili mojega sina.« Rekel je: »Kakor Gospod živi niti en las tvojega sina ne bo padel k zemlji.«
12 Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
Potem je ženska rekla: »Naj tvoja pomočnica, prosim te, spregovori eno besedo mojemu gospodu kralju.« In ta je rekel: »Povej.«
13 The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
Ženska je rekla: »Zakaj si potem mislil storiti takšno stvar zoper Božje ljudstvo? Kajti kralj govori to stvar kakor nekdo, ki je pomanjkljiv, v tem, da kralj ne privede ponovno domov svojega pregnanega.
14 For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
Kajti mi moramo umreti in smo kakor voda, razlita na tla, ki ne more biti ponovno zbrana niti Bog ne upošteva nobene osebe, vendar snuje način, da njegov pregnani ne bo izključen od njega.
15 Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
Zdaj torej, ko sem prišla, da o tej stvari govorim mojemu gospodu kralju, je to zato, ker me je ljudstvo prestrašilo. Tvoja pomočnica je rekla: ›Spregovorila bom torej kralju. Lahko se zgodi, da bo kralj izpolnil zahtevo svoje pomočnice.‹
16 For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
Kajti kralj bo slišal, da svojo pomočnico osvobodi iz roke človeka, ki hoče skupaj uničiti tako mene in mojega sina iz Božje dediščine.
17 And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
Potem je tvoja pomočnica rekla Gospodu: ›Beseda mojega gospoda kralja bo sedaj tolažilna, kajti kakor angel od Boga, tako je moj gospod kralj, da razlikuje dobro in slabo, zato bo Gospod, tvoj Bog, s teboj.‹«
18 Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
Potem je kralj ženski odgovoril in rekel: »Ne skrivaj pred menoj, prosim te, stvari, ki jo bom vprašal.« Ženska je rekla: »Naj moj gospod kralj sedaj spregovori.«
19 So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
Kralj je rekel: » Mar ni v vsem tem s teboj Joábova roka?« Ženska je odgovorila ter rekla: » Kakor živi tvoja duša, moj gospod kralj, nihče se ne more izogniti ne na desno ne na levo od tega, kar je moj gospod kralj govoril, kajti tvoj služabnik Joáb mi je zaukazal in on je položil vse te besede v usta tvoje pomočnice,
20 Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
da privleče na dan to obliko govora, je tvoj služabnik Joáb storil to stvar. In moj gospod je moder, glede na modrost Božjega angela, da ve vse stvari, ki so na zemlji.«
21 Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
Kralj je rekel Joábu: »Glej torej, jaz sem storil to stvar, zato pojdi, ponovno privedi mladeniča Absaloma.«
22 Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
Joáb je padel k tlom, na svoj obraz, se upognil in zahvalil kralju in Joáb je rekel: »Danes tvoj služabnik vé, da sem našel milost v tvojem pogledu, moj gospod, oh kralj, v tem, da je kralj izpolnil zahtevo svojega služabnika.«
23 So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
Tako je Joáb vstal in odšel v Gešur in Absaloma privedel v Jeruzalem.
24 But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the king.
Kralj je rekel: »Naj se obrne k svoji lastni hiši in naj ne vidi mojega obraza.« Tako se je Absalom vrnil k svoji lastni hiši in ni videl kraljevega obraza.
25 Now there was not a man in all Israel as handsome and highly praised as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.
Toda v vsem Izraelu ni bilo nikogar, da bi bil tako zelo hvaljen zaradi svoje lepote kakor Absalom. Od podplata svojega stopala, celo do krone njegove glave, ni bilo na njem nobenega madeža.
26 And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
In ko je ostrigel svojo glavo (kajti ob koncu vsakega leta si jo je ostrigel, ker so bili lasje na njem težki, zato jo je ostrigel) si je stehtal lase svoje glave, dvesto šeklov po kraljevi teži.
27 Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
Absalomu so se tam rodili trije sinovi in ena hči, ki ji je bilo ime Tamara. Bila je ženska lepega obličja.
28 Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
Tako je Absalom dve polni leti prebival v Jeruzalemu in ni videl kraljevega obraza.
29 Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
Zato je Absalom poslal po Joába, da ga pošlje h kralju, toda ta ni hotel priti k njemu in ko je drugič ponovno poslal, ta ni hotel priti.
30 Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
Zato je rekel svojim služabnikom: »Glejte, Joábovo polje je v bližini mojega in tam ima ječmen. Pojdite in ga požgite.« In Absalomovi služabniki so zažgali polje.
31 Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
Potem je Joáb vstal in prišel k Absalomu v njegovo hišo ter mu rekel: »Zakaj so tvoji služabniki zažgali moje polje?«
32 “Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
Absalom je odgovoril Joábu: »Glej, poslal sem k tebi, rekoč: ›Pridi sèm, da te lahko pošljem h kralju, da rečem: ›Zakaj sem prišel iz Gešurja?‹‹ Zame bi bilo dobro, da bi bil še vedno tam. Sedaj mi torej pusti videti kraljev obraz in če bo kakršnakoli krivičnost v meni, naj me ubije.«
33 So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
Tako je Joáb prišel h kralju in mu povedal in ko je dal poklicati Absaloma, je ta prišel h kralju in se pred kraljem priklonil na svoj obraz do tal in kralj je poljubil Absaloma.
