1 Samoela 21
1 Ary Davida tonga tany Noba, tany amin’ i Ahimeleka mpisorona; ary toran-kovitra Ahimeleka, raha nihaona tamin’ i Davida, ka nanao taminy hoe: Nahoana no mandeha irery ianao, fa tsy misy manaraka anao?
Then David came to Nob to see Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone and have no one with you?”
2 Dia hoy Davida tamin’ i Ahimeleka mpisorona: Ny mpanjaka efa nanome raharaha ahy, ka hoy izy tamiko: Aoka tsy ho fantatr’ olona ny raharaha nanirahako sy nandidiako anao; ka dia nasaiko nankary ny zatovoko.
David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has sent me on a mission and has said to me, 'Let no one know anything about the business I am sending you, and what I have commanded you.' I have directed the young men to a certain place.
3 Koa inona no misy ato aminao? Omeo mofo dimy aho ho etỳ an-tanako, na izay misy.
Now then what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”
4 Ary ny mpisorona namaly an’ i Davida hoe: Tsy misy mofo fihinana ato amiko, fa mofo masìna ihany no ato, ka raha mba nifady vehivavy ahay mantsy ny zatovo.
The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”
5 Ary Davida namaly ny mpisorona ka nanao taminy hoe: Eny, fa hatramin’ ny hateloana efa tsy niara-nitoetra tamim-behivavy rahateo izahay; ary tamin’ izaho niainga dia masìna ny fanaky ny zatovo; ary na dia tsy masìna aza ny lalana, dia hohamasinina anio izy noho ny fanaka.
David answered the priest, “Surely women have been kept from us for the past three days, as usual when I set out. The things belonging to the men have been set apart even on ordinary missions. How much more today will what they have be set apart!”
6 Ary ny mpisorona nanome azy mofo masìna; fa tsy nisy mofo teo, afa-tsy ny mofo aseho, izay nalainy teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah, mba hasiana mofo mafana tamin’ ny andro nanesorana azy.
So the priest gave him the bread that was set apart. For there was no bread there except the bread of the presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day it was taken away.
7 (Nefa nisy anankiray tamin’ ny mpanompon’ i Saoly teo tamin’ izany andro izany, voahazona teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah, Doega Edomita no anarany; lehiben’ ny mpiandrin’ i Saoly izy.)
Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.
8 Ary hoy Davida tamin’ i Ahimeleka: Tsy misy lefona na sabatra va eto aminao? fa izaho tsy nitondra ny sabatro na ny fiadiako etỳ amiko, satria nahamaika ny raharahan’ ny mpanjaka.
David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not here on hand any spear or sword? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business was urgent.”
9 Fa hoy ny mpisorona: Ny sabatr’ i Goliata Filistina, ilay novonoinao tao amin’ ny lohasaha Elaha, indro, fa mifono lamba ao ivohon’ ny efoda izy; ka raha iny no ho entinao, dia ento; fa tsy misy afa-tsy iny eto. Ary hoy Davida: Tsy misy tahaka iny, fa omeo ahy.
The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take that, take it, for there is no other weapon here.” David said, “There is no other sword like that one; give it to me.”
10 Ary Davida niainga nandositra tamin’ izany andro izany mba tsy ho azon’ i Saoly, dia nankany amin’ i Akisy, mpanjakan’ i Gata.
David arose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
11 Ary hoy ny mpanompon’ i Akisy taminy: Tsy ity moa no Davida, mpanjakan’ ny tany? Tsy izy va no nandihizany sy nifampihirany hoe: Saoly nahafaty arivoarivo, Fa Davida nahafaty alinalina?
Achish's servants said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another about him in dances, 'Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'”
12 Ary dia nalatsak’ i Davida tao am-pony izany teny izany, ka natahotra an’ i Akisy, mpanjakan’ i Gata, indrindra izy.
David took these words to heart and was very afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.
13 Dia nody adala teo anatrehany izy ka nanao tahaka ny olona very saina teo aminy, fa nanoratsoratra teo amin’ ny lela-vavahady izy, sady navelany hitsororoka tamin’ ny somony ny iviny.
He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands; he made marks on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
14 Ary hoy Akisy tamin’ ny mpanompony: He! hitanareo fa very saina io lehilahy io, ka nahoana no nentinareo etỳ amiko izy?
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad. Why have you brought him to me?
15 Izaho moa mitady olona very saina, no nitondranareo ity olona very saina ity mba hanondrana eto anatrehako? Moa hiditra ato an-tranoko va ilehio?
Do I lack madmen, so that you have brought this fellow to behave like one in my presence? Will this fellow really come into my house?”
