Samuel 1 29
1 Azɔ la, Filistitɔwo ƒe aʋakɔ kpe ta ɖe Afek eye Israelviwo ƒe aʋakɔ ƒu asaɖa anyi ɖe vudoawo gbɔ le Yezreel.
And the Philistines gather all their camps to Aphek, and Israel is encamping at a fountain which [is] in Jezreel,
2 Esime Filistitɔwo ƒe aʋakplɔlawo nɔ woƒe aʋalɔgowo kplɔm va yina la, David kple eƒe amewo nɔ wo megbe kple Fia Akis.
and the princes of the Philistines are passing on by hundreds, and by thousands, and David and his men are passing on in the rear with Achish.
3 Filistitɔwo ƒe aʋakplɔlawo bia be, “Nu ka wɔm Israelviwo le le afi sia?” Fia Akis gblɔ na wo be, “Ame siae nye David, Israel fia Saul ƒe subɔla ame si si le egbɔ. Ƒe aɖewo nye esi wòle gbɔnye eye nyemekpɔ vodada aɖeke le eŋu kpɔ tso esime wòva gbɔnye o.”
And the heads of the Philistines say, “What [are] these Hebrews?” And Achish says to the heads of the Philistines, “Is this not David, servant of Saul king of Israel, who has been with me these days or these years, and I have not found anything in him [wrong] from the day of his falling away until this day?”
4 Ke Filistitɔwo ƒe kplɔlawo do dɔmedzoe eye wogblɔ be, “Na woatrɔ adzo, womele aʋa yi ge kpli mí o. Woava trɔ le mía yome. Mɔ nyui aɖe li si dzi wòato awɔ ɖeka kple eƒe aƒetɔ, Saul, wu tɔtrɔ ɖe mía ŋu le aʋa la mea?
And the heads of the Philistines are angry against him, and the heads of the Philistines say to him, “Send back the man, and he turns back to his place to where you have appointed him, and does not go down with us into battle, and is not for an adversary to us in battle; and with what does this one reconcile himself to his lord—is it not with the heads of those men?
5 Ame sia ŋue nyɔnuwo dzi ha le, le woƒe ɣeɖuɖuwo me be, “Saul wu akpe eye David wu akpewo!”
Is this not David, of whom they answer in choruses, saying, Saul has struck among his thousands, and David among his myriads?”
6 Ale Fia Akis yɔ David kple eƒe amewo eye wògblɔ na wo be, “Metsɔ Yehowa ka atam be miawoe nye ame nyuitɔ siwo medo goe kpɔ eye mebu be miayi aʋa kpli mí ke nye aʋafiawo melɔ̃ ɖe edzi o.
And Achish calls to David and says to him, “YHWH lives, surely you [are] upright, and good in my eyes is your going out, and your coming in with me in the camp, for I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me until this day; but you are not good in the eyes of the princes;
7 Meɖe kuku, migawɔ nu si ado dɔmedzoe na wo o, ke boŋ mitrɔ dzo kpoo!”
and now, return, and go in peace, and you do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.”
8 David bia Akis be, “Nu ka mewɔ eye nu ka nèkpɔ le wò dɔla ŋu tso gbesigbe meva gbɔwò va se ɖe egbe, si na be miawɔm ale? Nu ka ta nyemekpɔ mɔ aɖawɔ aʋa kple nye aƒetɔ ƒe futɔwo o?”
And David says to Achish, “But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day that I have been before you until this day—that I do not go in and have fought against the enemies of my lord the king?”
9 Akis metrɔ eƒe tameɖoɖo o. Egagblɔ be, “Le nye ɖeka gome la, èle abe mawudɔla ene, ke nye aʋafiawo le vɔvɔ̃m na wò kpekpe ɖe mía ŋu le aʋawɔwɔ me.
And Achish answers and says to David, “I have known that you [are] good in my eyes as a messenger of God; only, the princes of the Philistines have said, He does not go up with us into battle;
10 Mifɔ ŋdi kanya eye miadzo ne agu dze ko.”
and now, rise early in the morning—and the servants of your lord who have come with you. When you have risen early in the morning, and have light, then go.”
11 Ale David kple eƒe amewo fɔ ŋdi kanya be yewoatrɔ ayi Filistitɔwo ƒe anyigba dzi eye Filistitɔwo hã dzo yi Yezreel.
And David rises early, he and his men, to go in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines have gone up to Jezreel.
