1 Samuel 25

1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Y murió Samuel, y se juntó todo Israel, y lo lloraron, y lo sepultaron en su casa en Ramá. Y se levantó David, y se fue al desierto de Parán.

2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Y en Maón había un hombre que tenía su hacienda en el Carmelo, el cual era muy rico, que tenía tres mil ovejas y mil cabras. Y aconteció hallarse esquilando sus ovejas en el Carmelo.

3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

El nombre de aquel varón era Nabal, y el nombre de su mujer, Abigail. Y era aquella mujer de buen entendimiento y de buena gracia; mas el hombre era duro y de malos hechos; y era del linaje de Caleb.

4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

Y oyó David en el desierto que Nabal esquilaba sus ovejas.

5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said to the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

Entonces envió David diez criados, y les dijo: Subid al Carmelo, e id a Nabal, y saludadle en mi nombre.

6 And thus shall you say to him that lives in prosperity, Peace be both to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

Y decidle así: Que vivas y sea paz a ti, y paz a tu familia, y paz a todo cuanto tienes.

7 And now I have heard that you have shearers: now your shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.

Hace poco supe que tienes esquiladores. Ahora, a los pastores tuyos que han estado con nosotros, nunca les hicimos fuerza, ni les faltó algo en todo el tiempo que han estado en el Carmelo.

8 Ask your young men, and they will show you. Why let the young men find favor in your eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray you, whatever comes to your hand to your servants, and to your son David.

Pregunta a tus criados, que ellos te lo dirán. Hallen, por tanto, estos criados gracia en tus ojos, pues que venimos en buen día; te ruego que des lo que tuvieres a mano a tus siervos, y a tu hijo David.

9 And when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

Y cuando llegaron los criados de David, dijeron a Nabal todas estas palabras en nombre de David, y callaron.

10 And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

Y Nabal respondió a los criados de David, y dijo: ¿Quién es David? ¿Y quién es el hijo de Isaí? Muchos siervos hay hoy que huyen de sus señores.

11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men, whom I know not from where they be?

¿He de tomar yo ahora mi pan, mi agua, y mi víctima que he preparado para mis esquiladores, y la daré a hombres que no sé de dónde son?

12 So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

Y yéndose los criados de David, se volvieron por su camino, y vinieron y dijeron a David todas estas palabras.

13 And David said to his men, Gird you on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred stayed by the stuff.

Entonces David dijo a sus criados: Cíñase cada uno su espada. Y se ciñó cada uno su espada; también David ciñó su espada; y subieron tras David como cuatrocientos hombres, y dejaron doscientos con el bagaje.

14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

Y uno de los criados dio aviso a Abigail mujer de Nabal, diciendo: He aquí David envió mensajeros del desierto que saludasen a nuestro amo, y él los ha zaherido.

15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

Mas aquellos hombres nos han sido muy buenos, y nunca nos han hecho fuerza, ni ninguna cosa nos ha faltado en todo el tiempo que hemos conversado con ellos, mientras hemos estado en el campo.

16 They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Nos han sido por muro de día y de noche, todos los días que hemos apacentando las ovejas con ellos.

17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

Ahora, pues, entiende y mira lo que has de hacer, porque el mal está del todo resuelto contra nuestro amo y contra toda su casa; pues él es un hombre tan malo, que no hay quien pueda hablarle.

18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

Entonces Abigail tomó luego doscientos panes, y dos cueros de vino, y cinco ovejas guisadas, y cinco medidas de harina tostada, y cien hilos de uvas pasas, y doscientos panes de higos secos, y lo cargó en asnos;

19 And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

y dijo a sus criados: Id delante de mí, que yo os seguiré luego. Y nada declaró a su marido Nabal.

20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.

Y sentándose sobre un asno, descendió por una parte secreta del monte, y he aquí David y los suyos que venían frente a ella, y ella los encontró.

21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has requited me evil for good.

Y David había dicho: Ciertamente en vano he guardado todo lo que éste tiene en el desierto, sin que nada le haya faltado de todo cuanto es suyo; y él me ha vuelto mal por bien.

22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that urinates against the wall.

Así haga Dios, y así añada a los enemigos de David, que de aquí a mañana no he de dejar de todo lo que fuere suyo ni aun meante a la pared.

23 And when Abigail saw David, she hurried, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

Y cuando Abigail vio a David, se bajó prestamente del asno, y postrándose delante de David sobre su rostro, se inclinó a tierra;

24 And fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be: and let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your audience, and hear the words of your handmaid.

y se echó a sus pies, y dijo: Señor mío, sobre mí sea el pecado; mas te ruego que permitas a tu sierva que hable en tus oídos, y oye las palabras de tu sierva.

25 Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom you did send.

No ponga ahora mi señor su corazón a aquel hijo de Belial, a Nabal; porque conforme a su nombre, así es. El se llama Nabal ( loco ), y la locura está con él; mas yo tu sierva no vi los criados de mi señor, los cuales tú enviaste.

26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has withheld you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Ahora pues, señor mío, vive el SEÑOR y vive tu alma, que el SEÑOR te ha vedado que vinieses a derramar sangre, y vengarte por tu propia mano. Sean, pues, como Nabal tus enemigos, y todos los que procuran mal contra mi señor.

27 And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it even be given to the young men that follow my lord.

Y ahora esta bendición que tu sierva ha traído a mi señor, dése a los criados que siguen a mi señor.

28 I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil has not been found in you all your days.

Y yo te ruego que perdones a tu sierva esta maldad; porque el SEÑOR de cierto hará casa firme a mi señor, por cuanto mi señor hace las guerras del SEÑOR, y mal no se ha hallado en ti en tus días.

29 Yet a man is risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Bien que alguien se haya levantado a perseguirte y a buscar tu alma, con todo, el alma de mi señor será ligada en el haz de los que viven con el SEÑOR Dios tuyo, y él arrojará el alma de tus enemigos como de en medio de la palma de una honda.

30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler over Israel;

Y acontecerá que cuando el SEÑOR hiciere con mi señor conforme a todo el bien que ha hablado de ti, y te mandare que seas capitán sobre Israel,

31 That this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood causeless, or that my lord has avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

entonces, señor mío, no te será esto en tropiezo y turbación de corazón, el que hayas derramado sangre sin causa, y que mi señor se haya vengado por sí mismo. Guárdese pues mi señor, y cuando el SEÑOR hiciere bien a mi señor, acuérdate de tu sierva.

32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:

Entonces dijo David a Abigail: Bendito sea el SEÑOR Dios de Israel, que te envió para que hoy me encontrases;

33 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

y bendito sea tu razonamiento, y bendita seas tú, que me has estorbado hoy el ir a derramar sangre, y a vengarme por mi propia mano;

34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept me back from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any that urinates against the wall.

porque, vive el SEÑOR Dios de Israel que me ha defendido de hacerte mal, que si no te hubieras dado prisa en venirme al encuentro, de aquí a mañana no le quedara a Nabal meante a la pared.

35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice, and have accepted your person.

Y recibió David de su mano lo que le había traído, y le dijo: Sube en paz a tu casa, y mira que he oído tu voz, y he recibido tu faz.

36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: why she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Y Abigail se vino a Nabal, y he aquí que él tenía banquete en su casa como banquete de rey; y el corazón de Nabal estaba ya alegre en él, y estaba muy borracho; por lo que ella no le declaró poco ni mucho, hasta que vino el día siguiente.

37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

Pero a la mañana, cuando ya el vino había salido de Nabal, su mujer le declaró estas cosas; y se le amorteció el corazón, y se quedó como una piedra.

38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

Y pasados diez días el SEÑOR hirió a Nabal, y murió.

39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept his servant from evil: for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

Y luego que David oyó que Nabal era muerto, dijo: Bendito sea el SEÑOR que juzgó la causa de mi afrenta recibida de la mano de Nabal, y detuvo del mal a su siervo; y el SEÑOR ha tornado la malicia de Nabal sobre su propia cabeza. Después envió David a hablar a Abigail, para tomarla por su mujer.

40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him to wife.

Y los criados de David vinieron a Abigail en el Carmelo, y hablaron con ella, diciendo: David nos ha enviado a ti, para tomarte por su mujer.

41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

Y ella se levantó, e inclinó su rostro a tierra, diciendo: He aquí tu sierva, para que sea sierva que lave los pies de los siervos de mi señor.

42 And Abigail hurried, and arose and rode on an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

Y levantándose luego Abigail con cinco doncellas que la seguían, se montó en un asno, y siguió a los mensajeros de David, y fue su mujer.

43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

También tomó David a Ahinoam de Jezreel, y ambas fueron sus mujeres.

44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

Porque Saúl había dado su hija Mical, la mujer de David, a Palti hijo de Lais, que era de Galim.