१ शमूएल 17
1 यति बेला पलिश्तीहरूले युद्धको निम्ति आफ्ना फौजहरू भेला गरे । तिनीहरू सोकोमा भेला भए जुन यहूदाको क्षेत्र हो । तिनीहरूले सोको र आजेकाको बिचमा एपेस-दम्मीममा छाउनी हाले ।
The Philistine armies gathered for battle at Socoh in Judah. They set up camp between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.
2 शाऊल र इस्राएलका मानिसहरू भेला भए र एलाहको मैदानमा छाउनी हाले र पलिश्तीहरूसँग युद्ध गर्न पङ्तीबद्ध भए ।
Saul and the Israelites gathered and camped in the Valley of Elah and took up their positions to engage in battle with the Philistines.
3 पलिश्तीहरू पहाडको एकापट्टि र इस्राएल पहाडको अर्कोपट्टि मैदानलाई तिनीहरूका बिचमा पारेर खडा भए ।
The Philistines were on one hill and the Israelites on another with the valley between them.
4 गातको गोल्यत नाउँ गरेको एक जना बलियो मानिस पलिश्तीहरूको छाउनीबाट आयो, जसको उचाइ तिन मिटर थियो ।
Then a champion came out of the Philistine camp. His name was Goliath from Gath, and he was six cubits and a span tall.
5 उसले आफ्नो शिरमा काँसाको टोप लगाएको थियो, त्यो झिलमले सुसज्जित थियो । उसको काँसाको झिलमको तौल साठी किलो थियो ।
He had on his head a bronze helmet and he wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels.
6 उसको खुट्टामा काँसाको झिलम थियो र त्यसको कुमहरूको बिचमा भाला थियो ।
On his legs he wore bronze armor, and he carried a javelin slung between his shoulders.
7 उसको भालाको डण्डा कपडा बुन्ने जुलाहको थुरीजस्तै ठुलो थियो । उसको भालाको टुप्पो सात किलो फलामको थियो । उसको ढाल बोक्ने त्यसको अगि-अगि गयो ।
The shaft of his spear was as thick as weaver's beam, with an iron tip that weighed six hundred shekels. His shield-bearer walked ahead of him carrying his shield.
8 ऊ खडा भयो र इस्राएलको फौजतिर चिच्याए, “तिमीहरू लडाइँको निम्ति पङ्तीबद्ध हुन किन आएका छौ? के म एक जना पलिश्ती होइन र तिमीहरू शाऊलको सेवकहरू होइनौ र? आफ्नो निम्ति एक जना मानिसलाई चुन र ऊ मकहाँ तल आओस् ।
Goliath stood and shouted at the lines of Israelite soldiers, “Why have you come and lined for battle? I am the Philistine, and you're Saul's servants. Pick one of your men and have him come down and fight me.
9 मसँग लडेर उसले मलाई जित्यो भने, हामी तिमीहरूका सेवकहरू हुनेछौं । तर मैले त्यसलाई हराएँ भने, तिमीहरू हाम्रो सेवकहरू हुनेछौ र हाम्रो सेवा गर्नेछौ ।”
If he can fight me and kill me, then we will be your slaves. But if I beat him and kill him, then you'll be our slaves and work for us.”
10 त्यो पलिश्तीले फेरि भन्यो, “म इस्राएलको फौजलाई आज चुनौती दिन्छु । मलाई एउटा मानिस देओ, ताकि हामीसँगै लड्न सकौं ।”
Then the Philistine said, “I mock the battle lines of Israel today! Give me a man so we can fight each other!”
11 जब शाऊल र सारा इस्राएलले त्यो पलिश्तीले भनेको कुरा सुने, तिनीहरू निरुत्साहित भए र साह्रै डराए ।
Saul and all the Israelite soldiers were shattered and absolutely terrified when they heard what the Philistine said.
12 दाऊदचाहिं यहूदाका बेथलेहेमको एप्रातीका छोरा थिए जसको नाम यिशै थियो । तिनका आठ भाइ छोरा थिए । शाऊलको समयमा यिशै बृद्ध मानिस, मानिसहरू माझ धेरै वृद्ध थिए ।
David was the son of a man named Jesse. He was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. At the time Saul was king, Jesse was very old.
13 यिशैका तिन जना ठुला छोराहरू युद्धमा शाऊलको पछि लागेका थिए । तिन छोराहरूका नाउँहरू जेठा एलीआब, माहिला अबीनादाब र साहिंला शम्मा थिए ।
Jesse's three oldest sons had joined Saul's army war. These were Eliab (the firstborn), Abinadab (second), and Shammah (third).
14 दाऊदचाहिं कान्छा थिए । तिन जना दाजुहरू शाऊलको पछि लागे ।
David was the youngest. The three oldest were with Saul,
15 अहिले दाऊद बेथलेहेममा भएका भेडाहरूलाई चराउनको निम्ति र शाऊलका फौज बिच आउने र जाने गर्थे ।
while David went to Saul and then back again to look after his father's sheep.
16 चालिस दिनसम्म त्यो बलियो पलिश्ती बिहान र साँझ आफूलाई युद्धको निम्ति प्रस्तुत गर्न देखा परे ।
Every morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came out to take his stand.
17 तब यिशैले तिनका छोरा दाऊदलाई भने, “यो भुटेको अन्न र दस वटा रोटी लेऊ र तिनीहरूलाई तिम्रा दाजुहरूका निम्ति छाउनीमा चाँडो बोकेर लैजाऊ ।
Jesse told his son David, “Please take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers. Take them quickly to your brothers' camp.
18 साथै यी दस वटा पनीर हजार जनाको कप्तानको निम्ति लैजाऊ । तिम्रा दाजुहरू कस्ता छन्, तिनीहरू राम्रै छन् भन्ने केही प्रमाण लेऊ ।
Take these ten cheese pieces to their commander. Check carefully to see how your brothers are doing and bring back their news.”
19 तिम्रा दाजुहरू शाऊलसँग र इस्राएलका सबै मानिसहरू एलाहको मैदानमा पलिश्तीहरूसँग लडिरहेका छन् ।”
They were with Saul and the whole Israelite army in the Valley of Elah, fighting the Philistines.
20 दाऊद बिहान सबेरै उठे र भेडाहरू गोठालाहरूको हातमा हेरचाहमा छोडे । तिनले खाद्यन्नहरू लिए र यिशैले तिनलाई आज्ञा गरेझैं गए । तिनी फौजहरू युद्ध-ध्वनिका साथ युद्ध मैदानमा जाँदै गर्दा छाउनीमा आए ।
David got up early in the morning and left the flock with a shepherd. He took the supplies and set out as Jesse had told him to. He arrived at the camp just as the army was marching out to its battle line, shouting the war cry.
21 इस्राएल र पलिश्तीहरू युद्धको निम्ति फौजको विरुद्ध फौज पङ्तिबद्ध भए ।
The Israelites took up their battle line and the Philistines took up their battle line on the opposite side.
22 सामानहरू राख्नेको जिम्मामा दाऊदले आफ्ना सामानहरू छोडे, फौजहरूतिर दौडे, र आफ्ना दाजुहरूलाई ढोग गरे ।
David left his supplies with the one responsible and ran to the battle line. When he got there he asked his brothers how they were.
23 तिनी उनीहरूसँग कुरा गरिरहँदा, गोल्यत नाउँ गरेको त्यो बलियो पलिश्ती पलिश्तीहरूको फौजबाट आयो र पहिलेको जस्तै शब्दहरू भन्यो र दाऊदले त्यो सुने ।
While he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, came up out of his lines and shouted his challenge as he had before, and David heard what he said.
24 जब इस्राएलका सबै मानिसहरूले त्यो मानिसलाई देखे, तिनीहरू त्यसदेखि भागे र साह्रै भयभीत भए ।
All the Israelite soldiers ran away when they saw him because they were terribly afraid.
25 इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले भने, “के माथि आएको यो मानिसलाई तपाईंले देख्नुभएको छ? ऊ इस्राएललाई चुनौती दिन आएको छ । उसलाई मार्नेलाई राजाले धेरै सम्पत्ति दिनेछन्, तिनले तिनलाई आफ्नो छोरी विवाह गर्न दिनेछन् र इस्राएलमा तिनको बुबाको घरानालाई करबाट मुक्त गर्नेछन् ।”
“Have you seen this man who keeps on coming out to mock Israel?” they asked. “The king will make the man who kills him really rich. He will also give him his daughter in marriage, and his family will live tax-free in Israel.”
26 दाऊदले आफ्नो छेउमा उभिएका मानिसहरूलाई सोधे, “यो पलिश्तीलाई मार्ने र इस्राएलबाट निन्दा दुर गर्नेलाई के गरिनेछ? जीवित परमेश्वरको फौजलाई धम्की दिने यो बेखतनाको पलिश्ती को हो?”
David asked the men who were standing beside him, “What will the man receive who kills this Philistine and removes this shame from Israel? Who does this heathen Philistine think he is, mocking the armies of the living God?”
27 अनि मानिसहरूले भनिरहेका कुरालाई नै दोहोर्याए र तिनलाई भने, “उसलाई मार्नेलाई यसै गरिनेछ ।”
The soldiers repeated what they had said, telling him, “This is what the man who kills him will receive.”
28 तिनले मानिसहरूसँग कुरा गर्दा तिनका जेठा दाजु एलीआबले सुने । एलीआबको रिस दाऊदमाथि दन्कियो, र तिनले भने, “तँ यहाँ किन आइस्? उजाड-स्थानमा भएका ती थोरै भेडाहरूलाई कसको साथमा छोडिस्? तेरो घमण्ड र तेरो हृदयको कुटिलता मलाई थाहा छ । किनकि युद्ध हेर्न भनेर तँ यहाँ तल आएको होस् ।”
When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him talking with the men, he got angry with him. “What are you doing here?” he asked. “Who have you left those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know how proud and wicked you are! You've just come to watch the battle!”
29 दाऊदले भने, “मैले अहिले के गरेको छु? के यो एउटा प्रश्न मात्र थिएन?”
“What have I done now?” David asked. “Can't I even ask a question?”
30 ऊबाट तिनी अर्कोतिर नै तर्किए र त्यसरी नै कुरा गरे । मानिसहरूले पहिलेको जस्तै गरी उही जवाफ दिए ।
He went over to some others and asked the same question, and they gave the same answer as before.
31 जब सिपाहीहरूले दाऊदले भनेका कुराहरू सुने, तब तिनीहरूले त्यो कुरा शाऊललाई बताए र तिनले दाऊदलाई लिन पठाए ।
Someone overheard what David said and reported it to Saul who sent for him.
32 तब दाऊदले शाऊललाई भने, “त्यो पलिश्तीको कारणले कसैको हृदय हतास नहोस् । तपाईंको दास जानेछ र यो पलिश्तीसँग लड्नेछ ।”
David told Saul, “No one should lose heart because of this Philistine. I, your servant, will go and fight him!”
33 शाऊलले दाऊदलाई भने, “तिमी यो पलिश्तीको विरुद्धमा लाड्न जान सक्षम छैनौ । किनभने तिमी भर्खरको केटा मात्र हौ र ऊ आफ्नो जवानीदेखि नै युद्धमा छ ।”
“You can't go out and fight this Philistine,” Saul replied. “You're just a boy, and he's a warrior trained from his youth.”
34 तर दाऊदले शाऊललाई भने, “तपाईंको दासले आफ्ना बुबाका भेडाहरूको हेरचाह गर्ने गर्थ्यो । जब सिंह वा भालु आएर भेडालाई बगालबाट लान्थ्यो,
David replied, “Your servant has been looking after his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,
35 म त्यसलाई लखेट्थें र त्यसलाई आक्रमण गर्थें र त्यसको मुखबाट यसलाई छुटकारा दिन्थें । जब त्यो मेरो विरुद्ध आइलाग्थ्यो, मैले त्यसको दाह्रीमा समातेर त्यसलाई प्रहार गर्थें र मार्थें ।
I would chase after it, knock it down, and save the lamb from its mouth. If it turned to attack me, I would grab its hair, hit it, and kill it.
36 तपाईंको दासले सिंह र भालु दुवै मारेको छ । यो पलिश्ती पनि तिनीहरूमध्ये एउटाझैं हुनेछ, किनभने यसले जीवित परमेश्वरको फौजलाई चुनौती दिएको छ ।”
I have killed lions and bears, and this heathen Philistine will be just like one of them, for he has mocked the armies of the living God.”
37 दाऊदले भने, “परमप्रभुले मलाई सिंह र भालुको पञ्जाबाट बचाउनुभएको छ । उहाँले नै यो पलिश्तीको हातबाट पनि मलाई बचाउनुहुने छ ।” त्यसपछि शाऊलले दाऊदलाई भने, “जाऊ, र परमप्रभु तिमीसँग हुनुभएको होस् ।”
David concluded, “The Lord who saved me from the claws of the lion and the bear will save me from this Philistine.” “Go, and may the Lord be with you,” Saul responded.
38 शाऊलले दाऊदलाई आफ्नो पोशाक लगाइदिए । तिनले उनको शिरमा काँसाको टोप लगाइदिए । तिनले उनलाई झिलम पहिर्याइदिए ।
Saul gave David his own battle clothes to wear, placed a bronze helmet on his head, and put armor on him.
39 दाऊदले तिनको तरवार तिनको झिलममाथि भिरे । तर उनी हिंड्न सकेनन्, किनभने ती लगाएर हिंड्ने तालिम तिनलाई थिएन । अनि दाऊदले शाऊललाई भने, “यि लगाएर म लड्न जान सक्दिनँ, किनभने यी लगाएर हिंड्ने तालिम मैले लिएको छैन ।” त्यसैले दाऊदले ती फुकाले ।
David strapped his sword on over the armor but he couldn't walk because he wasn't used to it. “I can't walk in all this,” David told Saul. “I ‘m not used to it.” So David took all the armor off.
40 तिनले आफ्नो लट्ठी हातमा लिए र खोलाबाट पाँच वटा चिल्लो ढुङ्गा छाने । तिनले ती आफ्नो गोठालोको झोलामा हाले । त्यो पलिश्तीसँग भिड्न जाँदा तिनको हातमा घुयेंत्रो थियो ।
He picked up his stick, chose five smooth stones from the stream, and put them in his shepherd's bag. Carrying his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.
41 त्यो पलिश्ति आयो र दाऊदको नजिक गयो । उसको हतियार बोक्ने उसको अगि थियो ।
The Philistine came towards David, closer and closer, with his shield-bearer in front of him.
42 जब त्यो पलिश्तीले अघि हेर्यो र दाऊदलाई देख्यो, तब उसले तिनलाई तुच्छ ठान्यो, किनकि तिनी राता गाला भएका सुन्दर स्वरूपका एउटा सानो केटा मात्र थिए ।
When the Philistine looked closely he could see that David was just a red-faced handsome youth, and so he treated David with contempt.
43 तब त्यो पलिश्तीले दाऊदलाई भन्यो, “के म कुकुर हो र तँ लट्टी लिएर आइस्?,” र पलिश्तीले आफ्नो देवताहरूको नाउँमा सराप्यो ।
“Do you think I'm a dog, coming to fight me with a stick?” the Philistine asked David, and he cursed David by his gods.
44 त्यो पलिश्तीले दाऊदलाई भन्यो, “मकहाँ आइज, र म तेरो मासु आकाशका चराहरू र जमिनका पशुहरूलाई दिनेछु ।”
Then the Philistine shouted at David, “Come over here, and I'll feed your flesh to the birds and the wild animals.”
45 दाऊदले त्यो पलिश्तिलाई जवाफ दिए, “तँ त तरवार, भाला र बर्छासित मकहाँ आइस् । तर म त सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु, इस्राएलको फौजका परमेश्वरको नाउँमा तँकहाँ आउँछु, जसको तैंले विरोध गरेको छस् ।
David replied to the Philistine, “You come to attack me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin. But I come to attack you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel—the one you have mocked.
46 आज परमप्रभुले मलाई तँमाथि विजय दिनुहुनेछ र म तँलाई मार्नेछु र तेरो शिरलाई तेरो शरीरबाट अलग गर्नेछु । आज म पलिश्ती फौजको मृत शरीरहरूलाई आकाशको चराहरू र पृथ्वीका जङ्गली जनावरहरूलाई दिनेछु, ताकि इस्राएलमा परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ भनी सारा पृथ्वीले जान्न सकोस्,
Today the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the dead bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and the wild animals. Then all the world will know that there is a God who acts for Israel.
47 साथै भेला भएका यी सबैले जानून् कि परमप्रभुले तरवार वा भालाले विजन दिनुहुन्न । किनकि युद्ध परमप्रभुको हो र उहाँले नै तँलाई मेरो हातमा दिनुहुनेछ ।
Everyone gathered here will realize that the Lord saves, but not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will hand all of you over to us.”
48 जब त्यो पलिश्ती उठ्यो र दाऊदको नजिक जान लाग्यो, तब उसलाई भेट्न दाऊद छिटो दौडेर शत्रुका फौजतिर गए ।
As the Philistine moved forward to attack him, David raced toward the battle line to confront him.
49 दाऊदले आफ्नो झोलामा आफ्नो हात हाले, त्यसबाट एउटा ढुङ्गा लिए, त्यसलाई घुयेंत्रोमा घुमाए र पलिश्तीको निधारमा हिर्काए । त्यो ढुङ्गा उक्त पलिश्तीको निधारमै गाडियो र ऊ घोप्टो परेर जमिनमा ढल्यो ।
David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and fired it from his sling, hitting the Philistine on the forehead. The stone went into his forehead, and he collapsed facedown on the ground.
50 त्यो पलिश्तीलाई एउटा घुयेंत्र र एउटा ढुङ्गाले दाउदले हराए । तिनले त्यो पलिस्तीलाई हिर्काए र उसलाई मारे । दाऊदको हातमा कुनै तरवार थिएन ।
This is how David defeated the Philistine with just a sling and a stone; with no sword in his hand David knocked the Philistine down and killed him.
51 अनि दाऊद दौडेर गए र त्यो पलिश्तीमाथि खडा भए, उसको तरवारलाई त्यसको म्यानबाट झिके, उसलाई मारे र त्यसले उसको शिर काटे । जब पलिश्तीहरूले आफ्नो वीर मानिस मरेको देखे, तब तिनीहरू भागे ।
David ran and stood over the Philistine. He took the Philistine's sword and pulled it out of its sheath. He killed him and then he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran away.
52 त्यसपछि इस्राएलका र यहूदका मानिसहरू चिच्याहटसँगै उठे पलिश्तीहरूलाई मैदान र एक्रोनको ढोकासम्म लखेटे । पलिश्तीहरूका मृत शरीर शारैम जाने बाटोदेखि गात र एक्रोन जाने बाटोभरि छरिएको थियो ।
Then the men of Israel and Judah rushed forward shouting the war-cry and chased the Philistines all the way to Gath and to the gates of Ekron. Their bodies were scattered along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
53 इस्राएलका मानिसहरू पलिश्तीहरूलाई खेदेर फर्के र तिनीहरूले उनीहरूको छाउनी लूटे ।
When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they plundered their camps.
54 दाऊदले त्यो पलिश्तीको शिर लिए र त्यो यरूशलेममा ल्याए, तर उसको हतियारचाहिं तिनले आफ्नो पालमा राखे ।
David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put the Philistine's weapons in his own tent.
55 जब दाऊद त्यो पलिश्तीको विरुद्धमा निस्केको शाऊलले देखे, तब तिनले फौजको कप्तान अबनेरलाई भने, “अबनेर, यो जवान केटा कसको छोरा हो?” अबनेरले भने, “हे महाराजा, तपाईं जीवित हुनुभएझैं, मलाई थाहा छैन ।”
When Saul had watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he'd asked Abner the army commander, “Abner, whose son is that young man?” “On your life, Your Majesty, I do not know,” Abner replied.
56 राजाले भने, “त्यो केटा कसका छोरा हुन् चिन्नेहरूलाई सोध ।”
“Find out whose son this young man is,” the king ordered.
57 जब त्यो पलिश्तीलाई मारेर दाऊद फर्के, अबनेरले तिनलाई लगे, र तिनको हातमा त्यो पलिश्तीको शिरसँगै तिनलाई शाऊलको सामु ल्याए ।
As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. David was still clutching the Philistine's head in his hand.
58 शाऊलले तिनलाई सोधे, “हे जवान मानिस, तिमी कसका छोरा हौ?” दाऊदले जवाफ दिए, “म तपाईंको दास बेथलेहेमी यिशैको छोरा हुँ ।”
“Whose son are you, young man?” Saul asked. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
