2 Samoela 14
1 Nioni’ Ioabe ana’ i Tseroià te amy Absalome ty arofo’ i mpanjakay.
When Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart longed for Absalom,
2 Nañitrik’ amy Tekoý t’Ioabe, nangalake rakemba mahihitse boak’ añe, le nanao ty hoe ama’e: Miambane ama’o, ehe misarea mpandala, le mañombea sarom-pandalàñe, le ko mihosotse menake, fa mintse rakemba ela nandala vilasy;
he sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, "Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave as a woman who has been mourning for the dead a long time.
3 vaho akia mb’amy mpanjakay mb’eo, misaontsia an-tsata zao. Aa le napo’ Ioabe am-palie’e ty ho saontsie’e.
Go in to the king and say this to him." Then Joab told her what to say.
4 Aa ie nisaontsy amy mpanjakay i rakemba nte-Tekoý, le nibabok’ an-tane eo, nidrakadrakake nanao ty hoe: Oloro ry mpanjaka.
And the woman of Tekoa went to the king, and she bowed down with her face to the ground and showed respect, and said, "Help, O king."
5 Le hoe i mpanjakay tama’e: Ino ty mañore azo? Le hoe re: Toe vantotse iraho, mate valy.
And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she replied, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6 Nanañ’ anadahy roe ty anak’ ampata’o, aa ie nifanehak’ an-kivok’ añe, tsy teo ty hampifanarake iareo fa zinevo’ ty raike ty raike namono aze.
And your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
7 Ie amy zao, nitroatse niatreatre ami’ ty mpitoro’o o longo iabio nanao ty hoe: Aseseo i nañè-doza aman-drahalahi’ey hamonoa’ay ty amy fiain-drahalahi’e zinevo’ey, handrotsaha’ iareo ka ty mpandova. Izay ty hamonoa’ iareo ty sehangam-poroha mirekake, tsy hanañam-baliko ndra tahinañe ndra tariratse ambone tane atoy.
Look, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Give us the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed.' Thus they would eliminate also the heir and the one ember I have left will be extinguished, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.
8 Le hoe i mpanjakay tamy rakembay: Mimpolia mb’añ’ anjomba’o mb’eo, le hamantoke ty ama’o iraho.
Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to the king, my lord, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your servant said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'
9 Aa le hoe i rakemba nte-Tekoiý tamy mpanjakay: O ry talèko, mpanjaka, ee te ho amako ty hakeo naho ami’ty anjomban-draeko vaho halio tahiñe ty fiambesa’ i mpanjakay.
For the king will hear and deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who is seeking to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of the LORD.
10 Le hoe i mpanjakay tama’e: Ndra iaia ty hiatreatre azo, aseseo amako le tsy ho tsapae’e.
Then your servant said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the LORD, your God, be with you.'"
11 Aa le hoe re: Miambane ama’o, ehe te ho tiahi’ i mpanjakay t’Iehovà Andrianañahare’o, le tsy hijoy ka ty mpamale fate, tsy mone harotsa’ iereo i anakoy. Le hoe re: Kanao veloñe t’Iehovà, leo raik’ ami’ty maroi’ i ana’oy tsy hipok’ an-tane.
Then the king said, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."
12 Le hoe i rakembay: Mihalaly ama’o: adono hinday entañe raik’ amy talèko mpanjakay ty anak’ ampata’o. Le hoe re Misaontsia.
The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless."
13 Aa hoe i rakembay: Ino arè ty nikililia’o am’ondatin’ Añahareo o raha zao, t’ie, amy saontsy zay ty mete nampanan-kakeo i mpanjakay kanao tsy ampihitrife’e himpoly i naitoañey.
The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."
14 Amy te hivetrake zahay, manahake ty rano nadoañe an-tane, ie tsy mete tovizeñe; tsy mirihy ondaty t’i Andrianañahare; f’ie toe misafiry lalañe, soa tsy hatao añombelahi-mavo i naitoañey.
Then she said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
15 Aa kanao nimb’ etoa iraho nanese o entañe zao amy talèko mpanjakay, le amy te nañembañe ahy ondatio; le hoe iraho, Ho volañeko amy mpanjakay henaneo, hera hanoe’e ty halalim-pitoro’e.
Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."
16 Amy te hijanjiñe i mpanjakay, handrombake i mpitoro’ey ampità’ indaty te handrotsak’ ahy naho i anakoy amy lovan’ Añaharey.
The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of the LORD? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his exiled one.
17 Le hoe ty anak’ ampata’o: Ehe te hañohò ahy ty saontsin-talèko mpanjaka; fa hambañe ami’ty anjelin’ Añahare ty talèko mpanjaka, hahafitsikarake ty soa ami’ty raty; aa le ho ama’o abey t’Iehovà Andrianañahare’o.
For your son is dead, and as water spilled on the ground can't be gathered up again, so he can't bring his life back again. But it seems sensible to the king to keep his exiled one away from him."
18 Le hoe i mpanjakay amy rakembay: Ehe, ko aetak’ amako ty hañontaneako azo. Le hoe i rakembay: Ehe misaontsia, ry talèko mpanjaka.
Then the king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."
19 Le hoe i mpanjakay: Tsy ama’o amo raha zao hao ty fità’ Ioabe? Le hoe ty natoi’ i rakembay: Kanao veloñe ty arofo’o, ry talèko mpanjaka, tsy eo ty mahafitolike mb’am-pitàn-kavana ndra havia amy nisaontsie’ i mpanjakaiy; fa toe nihalaly amako t’i Ioabe mpitoro’o, ie ty nampipoke i entañe iaby zay am-bava’ o anak’ am-pata’oo;
So the king said, "Did Joab put you up to all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who had me do this, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
20 ty hampiova ty tarehe’ i rahay ty nanoe’ Ioabe mpitoro’o o raha zao; toe mahihitse o talèkoo hoe hihin’ anjelin’ Añahare, hahafohina’e ze he’e an-tane atoy.
Your servant Joab did this in order to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of an angel of God for knowing things in the land."
21 Aa le hoe i mpanjakay am’ Ioabe: Mahaoniña arè, fa nanoeko; aa le akia, hitrifo añe i ajalahy Absalome.
Then the king said to Joab, "Look now, I have done according to your word. Go, bring back the young man Absalom."
22 Nibabok’ an-dahara’e mb’an-tane t’Ioabe naho nidrakadrakake, vaho nañandriañe i mpanjakay, le hoe t’Ioabe: Fohi’ ty mpitoro’o henaneo te nahatrea fañisohañe am-pahaoniña’o ry talèko mpanjaka, ami’ty nanoe’ i mpanjakay i halalim-pitoro’ey.
Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground, and blessed the king. And Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."
23 Aa le niavotse t’Ioabe nimb’e Gesore mb’eo vaho nendese’e mb’e Ierosalaime mb’eo t’i Absalome.
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
24 Le hoe i mpanjakay: Ampitoliho mb’ añ’anjomba’e mb’eo re tsy hahatrea ty tareheko. Aa le nivìke mb’añ’ anjomba’e mb’eo t’i Absalome; vaho tsy niisa’e ty lahara’ i mpanjakay.
The king said, "He must return to his own house, but he must not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and did not see the king's face.
25 Ie amy zao, tsy ia e Israele ao ty nahazo engeñe ami’ty faràm-binta’e naho tsy i Absalome, ie tsy nanan-kandra boak’ an-delam-pandia’e pak’ an-dengon’ añambone’e.
Moreover, Absalom – in Israel no one was so much admired as he for his fine appearance. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
26 Aa ie harate’e ty añambone’e—amy t’ie niharatse i añambone’ey am-pigadoñan-taoñe, amy te navesatse ama’e o maròi’eo, le nañitsifa’e—naho nandanja i maròi’ey le ni-roanjato amy fandanjam-panjakay.
When he cut the hair of his head – now it was at the end of every year that he cut it, because it became too heavy, therefore he cut it – he weighed the hair of his head at one hundred shekels by the king's weight.
27 Nisamak’ ana-dahy telo t’i Absalome, naho anak’ ampela raike, natao Tamare ty añara’e; ampela soa vintañe.
To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.
28 Aa le nimoneñe roe taoñe e Ierosalaime ao t’i Absalome vaho tsy niisa’e ty lahara’ i mpanjakay.
Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he did not see the king's face.
29 Le nampihitrife’ i Absalome t’Ioabe, hañirake aze mb’ amy mpanjakay mb’eo; f’ie tsy nimete hiheo mb’ama’e; nampisangitrife’e fañindroe’e fe tsy nimete homb’eo.
Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
30 Aa le hoe re amo mpitoro’eo: Inao, marine i tetekoy ty tete’ Ioabe, akia ivaño afo. Aa le namiañ’ afo an-tete’e ao o mpitoro’ i Absalomeo.
Therefore he said to his servants, "Look, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." Absalom's servants set the field on fire. And the servants of Joab came to him with their clothes rent, and they said to him, "The servants of Absalom have set the field on fire."
31 Niongak’ amy zao t’Ioabe, nimb’ añ’ anjomba’i Absalome mb’eo, nanao ty hoe ama’e: Aa vaho akore ty nanodora’ o mpitoro’oo i tetekoy?
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"
32 Aa hoe ty natoi’ i Absalome Ioabe: Inao! toe nampihitrifeko ami’ty hoe: Mb’etoa, hañirahako azo amy mpanjakay, hanao ty hoe: Ino ty nimpoliako boake Gesore añe? Ndra kitra’e mbe nitambatse añe; aa ehe ampahaoniño ahy ty lahara’ i mpanjakay; aa lehe aman-kakeo iraho, adono re hañoho-doza amako.
And Absalom answered Joab, "Look, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there. Now therefore let me appear before the king. If I am guilty, put me to death.'"
33 Niheo amy mpanjakay t’Ioabe, nitalily ama’e; aa le kinanji’e t’i Absalome naho nimb’amy mpanjakay mb’eo nidrodrètse mb’an-tane ty lahara’e añatrefa’ i mpanjakay, vaho norofa’ i mpanjakay t’i Absalome.
So Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. And he came to the king and bowed himself with his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.
