< 1 Tawarikh 19 >
1 Beberapa waktu kemudian Nahas raja amon meninggal, dan Hanun putranya menjadi raja.
Some time later, Nahash, the king of the Ammon people-group, died. Then his son Hanun became their king.
2 Lalu berkatalah Raja Daud, "Nahas adalah sahabatku yang setia, jadi aku harus begitu juga terhadap Hanun, anaknya." Karena itu Daud mengirim utusan ke negeri Amon untuk menghibur dia atas kematian ayahnya. Ketika mereka tiba di Amon,
[When] David [heard about that, he] thought [to himself], “Nahash was kind to me, so I will be kind to his son.” So David sent some officials there, to tell Hanun that he was sorry to hear that Hanun’s father [had died]. But when David’s officials came to Hanun in the land where the Ammon people-group lived,
3 para pemimpin negeri itu berkata kepada Raja Hanun, "Janganlah Baginda berpikir Daud mengirim utusannya itu karena ia mau menghormati ayah Baginda! Ia mengirim orang-orang itu ke mari sebagai mata-mata untuk menyelidiki negeri kita, supaya dapat merebutnya!"
the leaders of the Ammon people-group said to Hanun, “Do you think that it is really to honor your father that King David is sending these men to say that he is sorry that your father died? [We think that] his men have come to (look around/spy) our city in order to determine how his [army] can conquer us.”
4 Raja Hanun menangkap para utusan Daud itu, mencukur jenggot mereka, memotong pakaian mereka sependek pinggul, dan menyuruh mereka pergi.
Hanun [believed what they said, so he commanded some soldiers to] seize the officials whom David had sent, and shave off their beards, and [insult them by] cutting off the lower part of their robes, and then send them away. [So his soldiers did that].
5 Tetapi mereka malu untuk pulang, jadi mereka pergi ke Yerikho. Ketika hal itu diberitahukan kepada Daud, ia mengirim pesan supaya utusan-utusan itu tinggal di Yerikho sampai jenggot mereka sudah tumbuh lagi.
The officials were greatly humiliated/ashamed. When David found out about what had happened to his officials, he sent some messengers to them to tell them, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown again, and then return home.”
6 Lalu Raja Hanun dan orang Amon menyadari bahwa perbuatan mereka telah menyebabkan Daud memusuhi mereka. Karena itu mereka mengirim 34.000 kilogram perak ke daerah Mesopotamia Atas, serta ke Maakha dan Zoba di Siria untuk menyewa 32.000 kereta perang dan tentara berkuda. Maka datanglah tentara raja Maakha dengan semua kereta perang sewaan itu dan berkemah dekat Medeba. Orang Amon juga datang dari semua kota mereka untuk berperang.
Then the [leaders of the] Ammon people-group realized that they had greatly insulted [IDM] David. So Hanun and some of his officials sent about (37,000 pounds/34,000 kg.) of silver to hire chariots and chariot-drivers from [the] Aram-Naharaim, Aram-Maacah and Zobah [regions of Syria northeast of Israel].
They hired 32,000 chariots and chariot-drivers, as well as the king of [the] Maacah [region] and his army. They came and set up their tents near Medeba [town in Moab region]. The soldiers from the Ammon people-group also marched out and (stood in their positions/arranged themselves for battle) [at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah].
8 Ketika Daud mendengar hal itu ia menyuruh Yoab dengan seluruh angkatan perangnya maju melawan musuh.
When David heard about that, he sent Joab and all his army.
9 Orang Amon keluar dan mengatur barisan mereka di depan pintu gerbang Raba, ibukota mereka, sedangkan raja-raja yang telah datang untuk membantu mereka, mengatur barisannya di padang.
The soldiers of the Ammon people-group came out of their city and lined up for battle at the entrance to [their capital city, Rabbah]. Meanwhile, the other kings who had come [with their armies] stood in their positions in the open fields.
10 Yoab melihat bahwa ia terjepit oleh pasukan musuh di depan dan di belakang. Karena itu ia memilih tentara Israel yang terbaik dan menempatkan mereka berhadap-hadapan dengan tentara Siria.
Joab saw that there were groups of enemy soldiers in front of his troops and behind his troops. So he selected some of the best Israeli troops and put them in positions to fight against the soldiers of Syria.
11 Selebihnya dari tentara Israel diserahkannya kepada Abisai adiknya, yang mengatur barisan mereka berhadap-hadapan dengan tentara Amon.
He appointed his [older] brother Abishai to be the commander of his other soldiers and he told them to (stand in their positions/arrange themselves) in front of [the army of] the Ammon people-group.
12 Yoab berkata kepada adiknya itu, "Jika aku tidak sanggup lagi bertahan terhadap tentara Siria, cepatlah datang menolong aku. Sebaliknya, jika engkau tidak sanggup lagi bertahan terhadap tentara Amon, aku akan datang menolong engkau.
Joab said to them, “If the soldiers from Syria are too strong for us to defeat them, then your soldiers must come and help us. But if the soldiers from the Ammon people-group are too strong for you to defeat them, then my soldiers will come and help your men.
13 Tabahlah! Mari kita berjuang dengan berani untuk bangsa kita dan untuk kota-kota Allah kita. Semoga TUHAN melaksanakan apa yang dikehendaki-Nya."
We must be strong/courageous, and fight hard to [defend] our people and our cities (that belong to/where we worship) our God. I will pray that Yahweh will do what he considers to be good.”
14 Yoab dan pasukannya maju menyerang, sehingga tentara Siria lari.
So Joab and his troops [advanced to] fight the army of Syria, and the soldiers from Syria ran away from them.
15 Ketika orang Amon melihat tentara Siria melarikan diri, mereka juga lari dari Abisai dan mundur ke dalam kota. Sesudah memerangi orang Amon, Yoab pulang ke Yerusalem.
And when the soldiers of the Ammon people-group saw that the soldiers from Syria were running away, they also started to run away from Abishai and his army, and they retreated back inside the city. So Joab [and his army] returned to Jerusalem.
16 Orang Siria menyadari bahwa mereka telah dikalahkan oleh orang Israel. Maka mereka memanggil tentara mereka yang dari daerah sebelah timur Sungai Efrat dan menyuruh tentaranya itu bertempur di bawah pimpinan Sobakh panglima angkatan perang Hadadezer raja Zoba.
After [the leaders of the army of] Syria realized that they had been defeated by [the army of] Israel, they sent messengers to [another part of Syria on] the east side of the [Euphrates] river, and brought troops from there [to the battle area], with Shophach, the commander of Hadadezer’s army, leading them.
17 Mendengar hal itu, Daud mengumpulkan seluruh pasukan Israel, lalu menyeberangi Sungai Yordan dan mengatur barisannya berhadapan dengan orang Siria. Maka bertempurlah mereka,
When David heard about that, he gathered all the Israeli soldiers, and they crossed the Jordan [River]. They advanced and took their battle positions to attack the army of Syria.
18 dan tentara Siria dipukul mundur oleh tentara Israel. Daud dan pasukannya menewaskan 7.000 orang pengemudi kereta perang dan 40.000 orang tentara berjalan kaki. Sobakh panglima Siria itu dibunuh juga.
But the army of Syria ran away from the soldiers of Israel. However, David’s soldiers killed 7,000 of their chariot-drivers and 40,000 other soldiers. They also killed Shophach, their army commander.
19 Ketika raja-raja yang dikuasai Hadadezer melihat bahwa mereka telah dikalahkan oleh tentara Israel, mereka minta berdamai dengan Daud, dan takluk kepadanya. Sesudah itu orang Siria tidak mau lagi membantu orang Amon.
When the kings who had been ruled by Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israeli army, they made peace with David, and agreed to allow him to rule them. So the rulers of Syria did not want to help the rulers of the Ammon people-group any more.