1 Samuel 15
1 Samuel also said unto Saul, Yhwh sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of Yhwh.
Et dixit Samuel ad Saul: Me misit Dominus, ut ungerem te in regem super populum eius Israel: nunc ergo audi vocem Domini:
2 Thus saith Yhwh of Armies, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Recensui quæcumque fecit Amalec Israeli: quomodo restitit ei in via cum ascenderet de Ægypto.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
Nunc ergo vade, et percute Amalec, et demolire universa eius: non parcas ei, et non concupiscas ex rebus ipsius aliquid: sed interfice a viro usque ad mulierem, et parvulum atque lactentem, bovem et ovem, camelum et asinum.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Præcepit itaque Saul populo, et recensuit eos quasi agnos: ducenta millia peditum, et decem millia virorum Iuda.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
Cumque venisset Saul usque ad civitatem Amalec, tetendit insidias in torrente.
6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Dixitque Saul Cinæo: Abite, recedite, atque descendite ab Amalec: ne forte involvam te cum eo. Tu enim fecisti misericordiam cum omnibus filiis Israel, cum ascenderent de Ægypto. Et recessit Cinæus de medio Amalec.
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
Percussitque Saul Amalec ab Hevila, donec venias ad Sur, quæ est e regione Ægypti.
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Et apprehendit Agag regem Amalec vivum: omne autem vulgus interfecit in ore gladii.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Et pepercit Saul, et populus Agag, et optimis gregibus ovium et armentorum, et vestibus et arietibus, et universis, quæ pulchra erant, nec voluerunt disperdere ea: quidquid vero vile fuit et reprobum, hoc demoliti sunt.
10 Then came the word of Yhwh unto Samuel, saying,
Factum est autem verbum Domini ad Samuel, dicens:
11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto Yhwh all night.
Pœnitet me quod constituerim Saul regem: quia dereliquit me, et verba mea opere non implevit. Contristatusque est Samuel, et clamavit ad Dominum tota nocte.
12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
Cumque de nocte surrexisset Samuel, ut iret ad Saul mane, nunciatum est Samueli, eo quod venisset Saul in Carmelum, et erexisset sibi fornicem triumphalem, et reversus transisset, descendissetque in Galgala. Venit ergo Samuel ad Saul, et Saul offerebat holocaustum Domino de initiis prædarum quæ attulerat ex Amalec.
13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of Yhwh: I have performed the commandment of Yhwh.
Et cum venisset Samuel ad Saul, dixit ei Saul: Benedictus tu Domino, implevi verbum Domini.
14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
Dixitque Samuel: Et quæ est hæc vox gregum, quæ resonat in auribus meis, et armentorum, quam ego audio?
15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto Yhwh thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Et ait Saul: De Amalec adduxerunt ea: pepercit enim populus melioribus ovibus et armentis ut immolarentur Domino Deo tuo, reliqua vero occidimus.
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what Yhwh hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
Ait autem Samuel ad Saul: Sine me, et indicabo tibi quæ locutus sit Dominus ad me nocte. Dixitque ei: Loquere.
17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, And Yhwh anointed thee king over Israel?
Et ait Samuel: Nonne cum parvulus esses in oculis tuis, caput in tribubus Israel factus es? Unxitque te Dominus in regem super Israel.
18 And Yhwh sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Et misit te Dominus in viam, et ait: Vade, et interfice peccatores Amalec, et pugnabis contra eos, usque ad internecionem eorum:
19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of Yhwh, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of Yhwh?
Quare ergo non audisti vocem Domini: sed versus ad prædam es, et fecisti malum in oculis Domini?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of Yhwh, and have gone the way which Yhwh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
Et ait Saul ad Samuelem: Immo audivi vocem Domini, et ambulavi in via per quam misit me Dominus, et adduxi Agag regem Amalec, et Amalec interfeci.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto Yhwh thy God in Gilgal.
Tulit autem de præda populus oves et boves, primitias eorum quæ cæsa sunt, ut immolet Domino Deo suo in Galgalis.
22 And Samuel said, hath Yhwh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yhwh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Et ait Samuel: Numquid vult Dominus holocausta et victimas, et non potius ut obediatur voci Domini? Melior est enim obedientia quam victimæ: et auscultare magis quam offerre adipem arietum.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Yhwh, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Quoniam quasi peccatum ariolandi est, repugnare: et quasi scelus idololatriæ, nole acquiescere. Pro eo ergo quod abiecisti sermonem Domini, abiecit te Dominus ne sis rex.
24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of Yhwh, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
Dixitque Saul ad Samuelem: Peccavi, quia prævaricatus sum sermonem Domini, et verba tua, timens populum, et obediens voci eorum.
25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yhwh.
Sed nunc porta, quæso, peccatum meum, et revertere mecum, ut adorem Dominum.
26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of Yhwh, And Yhwh hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
Et ait Samuel ad Saul: Non revertar tecum, quia proiecisti sermonem Domini, et proiecit te Dominus ne sis rex super Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
Et conversus est Samuel ut abiret: ille autem apprehendit summitatem pallii eius, quæ et scissa est.
28 And Samuel said unto him, Yhwh hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
Et ait ad eum Samuel: Scidit Dominus regnum Israel a te hodie, et tradidit illud proximo tuo meliori te.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
Porro Triumphator in Israel non parcet, et pœnitudine non flectetur: neque enim homo est ut agat pœnitentiam.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yhwh thy God.
At ille ait: Peccavi: sed nunc honora me coram senioribus populi mei, et coram Israel, et revertere mecum, ut adorem Dominum Deum tuum.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Yhwh.
Reversus ergo Samuel secutus est Saulem: et adoravit Saul Dominum.
32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
Dixitque Samuel: Adducite ad me Agag regem Amalec. Et oblatus est ei Agag pinguissimus, et tremens. Et dixit Agag: Siccine separat amara mors?
33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yhwh in Gilgal.
Et ait Samuel: Sicut fecit absque liberis mulieres gladius tuus, sic absque liberis erit inter mulieres mater tua. Et in frustra concidit eum Samuel coram Domino in Galgalis.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
Abiit autem Samuel in Ramatha: Saul vero ascendit in domum suam in Gabaa.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: And Yhwh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Et non vidit Samuel ultra Saul usque ad diem mortis suæ: verumtamen lugebat Samuel Saulem, quoniam Dominum pœnitebat quod constituisset eum regem super Israel.
