1 Samuel 31
1 Later, the Philistines again fought against the Israelis. The Israelis ran away from them, and (many Israelis were killed/the Philistines killed many Israelis) on Gilboa Mountain.
Or i Filistei vennero a battaglia con Israele, e gl’Israeliti fuggirono dinanzi ai Filistei, e caddero morti in gran numero sul monte Ghilboa.
2 The Philistines caught up with Saul and his three sons, and they killed [all three of] his sons, Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua.
I Filistei inseguirono accanitamente Saul e i suoi figliuoli, e uccisero Gionathan, Abinadab e Malkishua, figliuoli di Saul.
3 The fighting was very fierce around Saul. When the Philistine (archers/men with bows and arrows) caught up with Saul, they wounded him badly [with their arrows].
Il forte della battaglia si volse contro Saul; gli arcieri lo raggiunsero, ed egli si trovò in grande angoscia a motivo degli arcieri.
4 Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, “Take out your sword and kill me with it, in order that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me [while I am dying].” But the man who was carrying Saul’s weapons was terrified, and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. [The sword pierced his body and he died].
Saul disse al suo scudiero: “Sfodera la spada, e trafiggimi, affinché questi incirconcisi non vengano a trafiggermi ed a farmi oltraggio”. Ma lo scudiero non volle farlo, perch’era còlto da gran paura. Allora Saul prese la propria spada e vi si gettò sopra.
5 When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
Lo scudiero di Saul, vedendolo morto, si gettò anch’egli sulla propria spada, e morì con lui.
6 So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul’s weapons, all died on that same day.
Così, in quel giorno, morirono insieme Saul, i suoi tre figliuoli, il suo scudiero e tutta la sua gente.
7 When the Israeli people on the north side of the [Jezreel] Valley and on the east side of the Jordan [River] heard that the Israeli army had run away and that Saul and his sons had died, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and occupied their towns.
E quando gl’Israeliti che stavano di là dalla valle e di là dal Giordano videro che la gente d’Israele s’era data alla fuga e che Saul e i suoi figliuoli erano morti, abbandonarono le città, e fuggirono; e i Filistei andarono essi ad abitarle.
8 The next day, when the Philistines came to take away the weapons of the dead [Israeli soldiers], they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Gilboa Mountain.
L’indomani i Filistei vennero a spogliare i morti, e trovarono Saul e i suoi tre figliuoli caduti sul monte Ghilboa.
9 They cut off Saul’s head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land, to proclaim the news, in the temple where they kept their idols, and to the other people, [that their army had killed Saul].
Tagliarono la testa a Saul, lo spogliarono delle sue armi, e mandarono all’intorno per il paese de’ Filistei ad annunziare la buona notizia nei templi dei loro idoli ed al popolo;
10 They put Saul’s weapons in the temple of [their goddess] Astarte. They also fastened the bodies of Saul [and his sons] to the wall [that surrounded] Beth-Shan [city].
e collocarono le armi di lui nel tempio di Astarte, e appesero il suo cadavere alle mura di Beth-Shan.
11 When the people who lived in Jabesh in [the] Gilead [region] heard what the Philistines had done to Saul’s corpse,
Ma quando gli abitanti di Jabes di Galaad udirono quello che i Filistei avean fatto a Saul,
12 all their bravest soldiers walked all night to Beth-Shan. They took the corpses of Saul and his sons down from the city wall, and they took them back to Jabesh and burned the corpses there.
tutti gli uomini valorosi si levarono, camminarono tutta la notte, tolsero dalle mura di Beth-Shan il cadavere di Saul e i cadaveri dei suoi figliuoli, tornarono a Jabes, e quivi li bruciarono.
13 They took the bones and buried them under a [big] tamarisk tree. Then they (fasted/abstained from eating food) for seven days.
Poi presero le loro ossa, le seppellirono sotto alla tamerice di Jabes, e digiunarono per sette giorni.
