2 Samuel 17

1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;

Poleg tega je Ahitófel rekel Absalomu. »Naj sedaj izberem dvanajst tisoč mož in vstal bom in to noč zasledoval Davida

2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

in prišel bom nadenj, medtem ko je izmučen in slabotnih rok in ga prestrašil. Vse ljudstvo, ki je z njim, bo pobegnilo, udaril pa bom samo kralja

3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee; when all shall have returned, save the man whom thou seekest, all the people will be in peace.'

in vse ljudstvo bom privedel nazaj k tebi. Mož, ki ga iščeš, je kakor, če se vsi vrnejo; tako bo vse ljudstvo v miru.«

4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

Beseda je dobro ugajala Absalomu in vsem Izraelovim starešinam.

5 Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.'

Potem je Absalom rekel: »Pokličite sedaj tudi Arkéjca Hušája in naj slišimo tudi, kaj pravi on.«

6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying: 'Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner; shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.'

Ko je Hušáj prišel k Absalomu, mu je Absalom spregovoril, rekoč: »Ahitófel je govoril na ta način. Ali naj storimo po njegovem govoru? Če ne, ti spregovori.«

7 And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.'

Hušáj je rekel Absalomu: »Nasvet, ki ti ga je tokrat dal Ahitófel, ni dober.

8 Hushai said moreover: 'Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are embittered in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Kajti, « je rekel Hušáj, »poznaš svojega očeta in njegove može, da so mogočni možje in v svojih mislih komaj čakajo, kakor medvedka, oropana svojih mladičev, na polju. In tvoj oče je bojevnik in ne bo prenočeval z ljudstvom.

9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some place; and it will come to pass, when they fall upon them at the first, and whosoever heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom;

Glej, sedaj je skrit v neki jami ali na nekem drugem kraju. In zgodilo se bo, ko bodo na začetku nekateri izmed njih premagani, da kdorkoli to sliši, bo rekel: ›Tam je pokol med ljudstvom, ki sledijo Absalomu.‹

10 then even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.

Tudi tisti, ki je hraber, katerega srce je kakor srce leva, se bo popolnoma stopil, kajti ves Izrael ve, da je tvoj oče mogočen človek in tisti, ki so z njim, so hrabri možje.

11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

Zato svetujem, da se ves Izrael nasploh zbere k tebi, od Dana, celo do Beeršébe, kakor je peska, ki je pri morju zaradi množice in da greš ti osebno v bitko.

12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him we will not leave so much as one.

Tako bomo prišli nadenj na nekem kraju, kjer bo najden in posvetili bomo nanj, kakor rosa pada na tla in od njega in od vseh mož, ki so z njim, tam ne bo nihče ostal.

13 Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel bring up ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the valley until there be not one small stone found there.'

Poleg tega, če bo odšel v mesto, potem bo ves Izrael do tega mesta prinesel vrvi in potegnili ga bomo v reko, dokler ne bo tam najden niti en majhen kamen.«

14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.' — For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

Absalom in vsi možje iz Izraela so rekli: »Nasvet Arkéjca Hušája je boljši kakor nasvet Ahitófela.« Kajti Gospod je določil, da porazi dober Ahitófelov nasvet, z namenom, da bo Gospod lahko privedel zlo nad Absaloma.

15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests: 'Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

Potem je Hušáj rekel Cadóku in duhovniku Abjatárju: »Tako in tako je Ahitófel svetoval Absalomu in starešinam Izraela, in tako in tako sem svetoval jaz.

16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but in any wise pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.'

Zdaj torej hitro pošlji in povej Davidu, rekoč: ›To noč ne prenočuj na ravninah divjine, temveč naglo prečkaj, da te ne bi kralj požrl in vse ljudstvo, ki je z njim.‹«

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David; for they might not be seen to come into the city.

Torej Jonatan in Ahimáac sta ostala v En Rogelu, kajti nista smela biti videna, da pridete v mesto. In deklina je odšla in jima povedala. Odšla sta ter povedala kralju Davidu.

18 But a lad saw them, and told Absalom; and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down thither.

Kljub temu ju je videl deček in povedal Absalomu. Toda oba izmed njiju sta hitro odšla proč in prišla k hiši človeka v Bahurímu, ki je na svojem dvorišču imela vodnjak, kamor sta se spustila.

19 And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.

Ženska je vzela [pokrivalo] in pokrivalo razprostrla čez ustje vodnjaka in nanj raztresla zmleto žito in stvar ni bila znana.

20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said: 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' And the woman said unto them: 'They are gone over the brook of water.' And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

Ko so Absalomovi služabniki prišli v hišo k ženski, so rekli: »Kje sta Ahimáac in Jonatan?« Ženska jim je rekla: »Odšla sta čez vodni potok.« Ko pa so ju iskali in ju niso mogli najti, so se vrnili v Jeruzalem.

21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said unto David: 'Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.'

Pripetilo se je, potem ko so odšli, da sta prišla ven iz vodnjaka in odšla in kralju Davidu povedala in Davidu rekla: »Vstani in hitro prečkaj vodo, kajti Ahitófel je tako svetoval zoper tebe.«

22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan; by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over the Jordan.

Potem je David vstal in vse ljudstvo, ki je bilo z njim in so prečkali Jordan. Do jutranje svetlobe ni manjkal niti eden izmed teh, ki so prečkali Jordan.

23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Ko je Ahitófel videl, da njegov nasvet ni bil sleden, je osedlal svojega osla, vstal in se spravil domov k svoji hiši, k svojemu mestu in svojo družino postavil v red in samega sebe obesil in umrl in bil pokopan v mavzoleju svojega očeta.

24 When David was come to Mahanaim, Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

Potem je David prišel v Mahanájim. Absalom pa je prečkal Jordan, on in vsi možje iz Izraela z njim.

25 And Absalom had set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

Absalom je namesto Joába za poveljnika vojske postavil Amasája. Ta Amasá je bil sin moža, katerega ime je bilo Itra, Izraelec, ki je odšel noter k Naháševi hčeri Abigájili, sestri Joábove matere Cerúje.

26 And Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

Tako so Izrael in Absalom taborili v deželi Gileád.

27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

Pripetilo se je, ko je David prišel v Mahanájim, da so Nahášev sin Šobí, iz Rabe Amónovih otrok in Amiélov sin Mahír iz Lo Dabárja in Gileádec Barziláj iz Roglíma

28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

prinesli postelje, umivalnike, lončene posode ter pšenico, ječmen, moko, praženo zrnje, fižol, lečo, posušene stročnice,

29 and honey, and curd, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said: 'The people is hungry, and faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

med, maslo, ovce in kravji sir za Davida in za ljudstvo, ki je bilo z njim, da jedo, kajti rekli so: »Ljudstvo je lačno, izmučeno in žejno v divjini.«