2 Samuel 17
1 Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
Nato Ahitofel reče Abšalomu: “Dopusti da izaberem dvanaest tisuća ljudi pa da se dignem i pođem u potjeru za Davidom još noćas.
2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
Navalit ću na njega kad bude umoran i bez snage; plašit ću ga i razbježat će se sav narod koji je s njim. Onda ću ubiti samoga kralja.
3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.
A sav ću narod dovesti natrag k tebi, kao što se mlada vraća svome mužu: ti radiš o glavi samo jednome čovjeku, a sav će narod onda biti miran.”
4 And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.
Svidje se to Abšalomu i svim starješinama Izraelovim.
5 Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.
Ali Abšalom reče: “Pozovimo još Hušaja Arčanina da čujemo što će nam on kazati!”
6 And when Hushai came, Absalom said to him, This is what Ahithophel has said: are we to do as he says? if not, what is your suggestion?
Kad je Hušaj došao k Abšalomu, reče mu Abšalom: “Ahitofel je svjetovao ovako. Hoćemo li učiniti kako je on predložio? Ako ne, govori ti!”
7 And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.
A Hušaj odgovori Abšalomu: “Ovaj put savjet Ahitofelov nije dobar.”
8 Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;
I nastavi Hušaj: “Ti znaš da su tvoj otac i njegovi ljudi junaci i da su ljuti kao medvjedica kojoj su oteli njezine medvjediće. Tvoj je otac ratnik, neće on dopustiti da narod počiva preko noći.
9 But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.
On se sada krije u kakvoj jami ili na kakvu drugom mjestu. Pa ako odmah u početku koji od naših padne, proširit će se glas o porazu u vojsci koja je pristala uz Abšaloma.
10 Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.
Tada će i najhrabriji, u koga je srce kao u lava, izgubiti srčanost. Jer sav Izrael zna da je tvoj otac junak i da su hrabri oni koji ga prate.
11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.
Zato ja svjetujem ovo: neka se sav Izrael, od Dana do Beer Šebe, okupi oko tebe, da ga bude kao pijeska na obali morskoj, a ti sam da stupaš u njihovoj sredini.
12 Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.
Tada ćemo navaliti na njega gdje se god bude nalazio, oborit ćemo se na nj kao što rosa pada na zemlju i nećemo ostaviti živa ni njega niti ikojega od njegovih ljudi.
13 And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.
Ako li se povuče u koji grad, sav će izraelski narod donijeti užeta pod onaj grad pa ćemo ga povlačiti do potoka, sve dok više ni kamenčića ne bude od njega.”
14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
Tada Abšalom i svi Izraelci rekoše: “Bolji je savjet Hušaja Arčanina nego savjet Ahitofelov.” Jer Jahve bijaše odlučio da se osujeti izvrsna Ahitofelova osnova, kako bi navukao nesreću na Abšaloma.
15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.
Potom Hušaj javi svećenicima Sadoku i Ebjataru: “Ahitofel je tako i tako savjetovao Abšaloma i starješine izraelske, a ja sam savjetovao tako i tako.
16 So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.
Zato sad brzo javite to Davidu i poručite mu: 'Nemoj noćas noćiti na ravnicama pustinje, nego brzo prijeđi na drugu stranu da ne bude uništen kralj i sva vojska koja je s njim.'”
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.
Jonatan i Ahimaas zadržavali se kod Rogelskog izvora; jedna je sluškinja dolazila i donosila im vijesti, a oni su odlazili da to jave kralju Davidu, jer se nisu smjeli odati ulazeći u grad.
18 But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.
Ali ih opazi neki momak te javi Abšalomu. Nato obojica žurno odoše i dođoše u kuću nekoga čovjeka u Bahurimu. U njegovu dvorištu bijaše studenac i oni se spustiše u nj.
19 And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
A žena uze i razastrije pokrivač preko otvora studencu i posu po njem stučenoga zrnja, tako da se ništa nije moglo opaziti.
20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.
Abšalomove sluge dođoše k toj ženi u kuću i upitaše: “Gdje su Ahimaas i Jonatan?” A žena im odgovori: “Otišli su dalje prema vodi.” Potom su ih još tražili, ali ih ne nađoše pa se vratiše u Jeruzalem.
21 Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.
A kad su oni otišli, ona dvojica iziđoše iz studenca i odoše da donesu vijesti kralju Davidu. I rekoše mu: “Ustajte i prijeđite brže preko vode, jer je tako i tako savjetovao protiv vas Ahitofel.”
22 So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.
Tada se David i sav narod što bijaše s njim diže i prijeđe preko Jordana; u zoru nije više bilo nijednoga koji nije prešao preko Jordana.
23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.
Kad je Ahitofel vidio da se nije izvršio njegov savjet, osamari svoga magarca, krenu na put i ode svojoj kući u svoj grad. Ondje se pobrinu za svoju kuću, zatim se objesi i umrije. Pokopaše ga u grobu njegova oca.
24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.
David je već bio došao u Mahanajim kad je Abšalom prešao preko Jordana sa svim Izraelcima koji bijahu s njim.
25 And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
Abšalom bijaše postavio Amasu za zapovjednika nad vojskom namjesto Joaba. A Amasa je bio sin nekoga čovjeka po imenu Jitre, Jišmaelovca, koji je ušao k Abigajili, kćeri Jišajevoj i sestri Sarvije, Joabove majke.
26 And Israel and Absalom put up their tents in the land of Gilead.
Izrael i Abšalom udariše tabor u zemlji gileadskoj.
27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
Kad je David došao u Mahanajim, tada Šobi, sin Nahašev iz Rabe Amonske, pa Makir, sin Amielov iz Lo Debara, i Barzilaj, Gileađanin iz Rogelima,
28 Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,
donesoše postelja, pokrivača, čaša i zemljanog suđa, uz to pšenice, ječma, brašna, pržena žita, boba, leće,
29 And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.
meda, kiseloga mlijeka i sira kravljeg i ovčjeg i ponudiše Davida i narod što bijaše s njim da jedu. Jer mišljahu: “Ljudi su u pustinji trpjeli glad, umor i žeđu.”
