१ शमूएल 25
1 शमूएल मरे । सबै इस्राएल भेला भए र तिनको निम्ति विलाप गरे र तिनलाई आफ्नै घर रामामा दफन गरे । त्यसपछि दाऊद उठे र पारानको उजाड-स्थानमा तल झरे ।
And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.
2 माओनमा एक जना मानिस थिए जसको सम्पत्ति कार्मेलमा थियो । त्यो मानिस धेरै धनी थियो । उसको तिन हजार भेडा र एक हजार बाख्राहरू थिए । उसले कार्मेलमा भेडाको ऊन कत्रँदै थियो ।
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.
3 त्यो मानिसको नाउँ नाबाल थियो । उसकी पत्नीको नाउँ अबीगेल थियो । ती स्त्री बुद्धिमती र देख्नमा सुन्दरी थिइन् । तर त्यो मानिस आफ्नो व्यावहारमा कठोर र खराब थियो । ऊ कालेबको घरानाको सन्तान थियो ।
Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.
4 नाबालले उजाड-स्थानमा भेडाको ऊन कत्रँदैछन् भनी दाऊदले सुने ।
And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.
5 त्यसैले दाऊदले दस जना जवान मानिसलाई पठाए । दाऊदले ती जवान मानिसहरूलाई भने, “कार्मेलमा माथि जाओ, नाबालकहाँ जाओ र मेरो नाउँमा तिनलाई अभिवादन गर ।
And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;
6 तिमीहरूले तिनलाई भन्नु, “समृद्धिमा जिउनुहोस् । तपाईंलाई शान्ति मिलोस्, तपाईंका घरानामा शान्ति छाओस् र तपाईंसँग भएका सबैलाई शान्ति होस् ।
And say this to my brother, May all be well for you: peace be to you and your house and all you have.
7 तपाईंसँग ऊन कत्रनेहरू छन् भनी म सुन्छु । तपाईंका गोठालाहरू हामीसँग छन् र हामीले तिनीहरूलाई कुनै हानि गरेनौं र तिनीहरू कार्मेलमा हुँदा तिनीहरूले कुनै पनि कुरा गुमाएनन् ।
I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.
8 तपाईंका जवान मानिसहरूलाई सोध्नुहोस् र तिनीहरूले तपाईंलाई भन्नेछन् । अब मेरा जवानहरूले तपाईंको दृष्टिमा निगाह पाऊन्, किनकि हामी आज उत्सवको समयमा आएका छौं । कृपया तपाईंको हातमा जे छ सो तपाईंका सेवकहरू र तपाईंका छोरा दाऊदलाई दिनुहोस् ।”
If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.
9 जब दाऊदका जवान मानिसहरू आइपुगे, तिनीहरूले यी सबै कुरा दाऊदको तर्फबाट नाबाललाई भने र प्रतिक्षा गरे ।
And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.
10 नाबालले दाऊदका सेवकहरूलाई जवाफ दिए, “दाऊद को हुन् र यिशैका छोरा को हुन्? आजभोलि आफ्ना मालिकहरूबाट भाग्ने धेरै जना सेवकहरू छन् ।
And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.
11 के मैले आफ्ना ऊन कत्रनेहरूका निम्ति काटेका मासु, मेरो रोटी र मेरो पानी कहाँबाट आएका हुन् भनी मैले नचिनेको मानिसहरूलाई दिनुपर्छ?”
Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?
12 त्यसैले दाऊदका मानिसहरू फर्केर आए र भनिएका हरेक कुरा तिनलाई बताए ।
So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.
13 दाऊदले तिनका मानिसहरूलाई भने, “हरेक मानिसले आ-आफ्नो तरवार भिर ।” त्यसैले हरेक मानिसले आ-आफ्नो तरवार भिरे । दाऊदले पनि आफ्नो तरवार भिरे । झण्डै चार सय मानिसहरू दाऊदको पछि लागे र दुई सय जनाचाहिं सरसामानसँगै बसे ।
And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.
14 तर ती जवान मानिसहरूमध्ये एक जनाले नाबालकी पत्नी अबीगेललाई भने । तिनले भने, “दाऊदले उजाड-स्थानबाट हाम्रा मालिकसँग भेट गर्न दूतहरू पठाए र तिनले उनीहरूको अपमान गरे ।
But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.
15 तापनि ती मानिसहरू हामीप्रति धेरै असल थिए । हामी बाहिर चरनमा हुँदा तिनीहरूसँग जाँदा र हामीलाई कुनै हानि भएन र कुनै कुरा पनि गुामएनौं ।
But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:
16 हामीले तिनीहरूसँगै भेडाहरू चराउँदा तिनीहरू हाम्रा निम्ति दिन र रात दुवै समयमा पर्खाल नै भएका थिए ।
But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.
17 यसकारण यो कुरा जान्नुहोस् र तपाईंले के गर्नुपर्ने हो सो विचार गर्नुहोस्, किनकि हाम्रा मालिक र उहाँका सारा घरानाका विरुद्ध खराब षड्यन्त्र रचिएको छ । उहाँ यस्तो वेकामको मानिस हुनुहुन्छ, उहासँग कसैले वहस गर्न सक्दैन ।”
So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.
18 अनि अबीगेलले हतार गरिन् र दुई सय रोटी, दुई मशक दाखमद्य, पहिले नै तयार पाँच वटा भेडा, आठ पाथी सुकेको अन्न, एक सय झुप्पा किशमिश, दुई सय डल्ला सुकेको नेभारा लिए र तिनलाई गधामाथि राखिन् ।
Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.
19 तिनले आफ्ना जवान मानिसहरूलाई भनिन्, “मेरो अगिअगि जाओ र म तिमीहरूको पछिपछि आउनेछु ।” तर तिनले आफ्नो पति नाबाललाई यो कुरा भनिनन् ।
And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.
20 जसै तिनी आफ्नो गधामा चढिन् र पहाडको बिचतिर आइपुगिन्, दाऊद र तिनका मानिसहरू तिनीकहाँ तल आए र तिनले तिनीहरूलाई भेटिन् ।
Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.
21 दाऊदले भनेका थिए, “निश्चय नै यो मानिसँग उजाड-स्थानमा भएका सबै थोकलाई मैले व्यार्थमा सुरक्षा दिएको रहेछु, ताकि उसँग भएका कुनै पनि कुरा हराएनन् र उसले मलाई असलको सट्टामा खराब फिर्ता दिएको छ ।
Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.
22 भोलि बिहानसम्म यससँग भएका सबै पुरुषहरूमध्ये एक जनालाई पनि मैले छोडें भने म दाऊदलाई यस्तै र यो भन्दा बढ्ता होस् ।”
May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.
23 जब अबीगेलले दाऊदलाई देखिन्, तिनी हतार गरिन् र आफ्नो गधाबाट ओर्लिन् र दाऊदको सामु तिनले शिर तल गरिन् र जमिनमा घोप्टो परिन् ।
And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.
24 तिनी दाऊदको पाउमा परिन् र भनिन्, “हे मेरो मालिक, सारा दोष ममाथि नै परोस् । कृपया आफ्नो दासीलाई तपाईंसँग बोल्न दिनुहोस् र आफ्नो दासीको कुरा सुन्नुहोस् ।
And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.
25 मेरो मालिकले यो वेकामको मानिस नाबालको ख्याल नगर्नुहोस्, किनकि जस्तो उसको नाम छ ऊ त्यस्तै छ । उसको नाम नाबाल हो र उससँग मूर्खता छ । तर मेरो मालिकले पठाउनुभएका हजुरका जवान मानिसहरूलाई म तपाईंकी दासीले देखिन ।
Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.
26 अब, हे मेरा मालिक, जस्तो परमप्रभु जीवित हुनुहुन्छ र हजूर जीवित हुनुहुन्छ, किनकि परमप्रभुले तपाईंलाई रक्तपात गर्न र आफ्नो शत्रुमाथि आफ्नै हातले बद्ला लिनबाट रोक्नुभएको छ, अब हे मेरा मालिक, तपाईंका सत्रुहरू र तपाईंको खराबी गर्न खोज्ने सबै नाबालजस्तै होऊन् ।
So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal.
27 अब तपाईंकी दासीले ल्याएकी यो उपहार मेरो मालिकका पछि हिंड्ने जवान मानिसहरूलाई दिइयोस् ।
And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.
28 कृपया आफ्नो दासीको अपराध क्षमा गर्नुहोस्, किनकि परमप्रभुले निश्चय नै मेरो मालिकको निम्ति अटल घराना बनाउनुहुनेछ, किनकि मेरो मालिकले परमप्रभुको युद्ध लडिरहनुभएको छ । र तपाईं जिवित बएसम्म तपाईंमा कुनै खराबी भेट्टाइने छैन ।
And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
29 तपाईंको ज्यान लिनलाई मानिसहरूले तपाईंलाई लखेटे तापनि मेरो मालिकको जीवनलाई परमप्रभु तपाईंका परमेश्वरले जीवितहरूको मुट्ठामा बाँध्नुहुनेछ । अनि उहाँले तपाईंका शत्रुहरूको जीवनलाई घुँयत्रोको पाकेटबाट फालेझैं फाल्नुहुनेछ ।
And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
30 परमप्रभुले तपाईंलाई प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको हरेक कुरा उहाँले मेरो मालिकको निम्ति पुरा गर्नुहुनेछ, र तपाईंलाई इस्राएलमाथि अगुवा नियुक्त गर्नुभएको छ ।
And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;
31 तपाईंले निर्दोष रगत बगाउनुभएको वा मेरो मालिकले आफ्नो उद्धार आफैले गरेकोले यो तपाईंको निम्ति पछुताउनुपर्ने बोझ हुनेछैन । किनकि परमप्रभुले मेरो मालिकको निम्ति असल गर्नुहुँदा आफ्नो दासीलाई पनि सम्झनुहोस् ।”
Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.
32 दाऊदले अबीगेललाई भने, “इस्राएलका परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले तिमीलाई आशिष् देऊन्, जसले आज मलाई भेट्न तिमीलाई पठाउनुभयो ।
And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:
33 तिम्रो बुद्धि धन्यको होस् र तिमी धन्यकी हौ, किनभने तिमीले आज मलाई रक्तपात र आफ्नो निम्ति आफ्नै हातले बद्ला लिनबाट बचाएकी छ्यौ!
A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
34 किनकि साँचो भन्दा, जस्तो परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वर जीवित हुनुहुन्छ, जसले मलाई तिमीलाई चोट पुर्याउनबाट बचाउनुभयो, तिमी मलाई भेट्न नआएको भए भोलि बिहानसम्ममा नाबालसँग एउटा पुरुष बालक पनि बाँकी रहने थिएन ।”
For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.
35 त्यसैले तिनले जे ल्याएकी थिइन् सो तिनको हातबाट दाऊदले ग्रहण गरे । तिनले उनलाई भने, “आफ्नो घरमा शान्तिसँग जाऊ । हेर, मैले तिम्रो कुरा सुनेको छु र तिमीलाई स्वीकार गरेको छु ।”
Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.
36 अबीगेल नाबालकहाँ फर्केर गइन् । हेर, उसले आफ्नो घरमा राजाको भोजजस्तै भोज दिइरहेको थियो । नाबालको हृदय आफैमा हर्षित थियो, किनकि उसले धेरै पिएको थियो । त्यसैले तिनले भोलिपल्ट बिहान नभएसम्म उसलाई केही पनि भनिनन् ।
And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.
37 बिहान यसो भयो, जब नाबाललाई मद्यले छोडेको थियो, तब उसकी पत्नीले उसलाई यी कुराहरू भनिन् । उसको हृदय आफैभित्र मर्यो र ऊ ढुङ्गाजस्तो भयो ।
And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.
38 दस दिनपछि परमप्रभुले नाबाललाई प्रहार गर्नुभयो ताकि ऊ मर्यो ।
And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.
39 जब नाबाल मर्यो भन्ने दाऊदले सुने, तिनले भने, “परमप्रभु धन्यको होऊन्, जसले नाबालको हातबाट आएको मेरो अपमानको मामला लिनुभएको छ र आफ्नो दासलाई खराबी गर्नबाट बचाउनुभएको छ । उहाँले नाबालको दुष्ट कामलाई उसैको आफ्नै शिरमा खन्याउनुभएको छ ।” तब दाऊदले अबीगेललाई आफ्नी पत्नीको रूपमा लिन कुरा गर्न मानिसहरू पठाए ।
And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
40 जब दाऊदका सेवकहरू कार्मेलमा अबीगेलकहाँ आए, तब तिनीहरूले उनीसँग कुरा गरे र भने, “दाऊदले तपाईंलाई आफ्नो पत्नीको रूपमा लिन हामीलाई पठाउनुभएको छ ।”
And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.
41 उनी उठिन्, आफ्नो अनुहार जमिनमा घोप्टो पारिन् र भनिन्, “हेर्नुहोस्, तपाईंकी दासी मेरो मालिकको सेवकहरूका खुट्टा धुने दासी हुँ ।”
And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.
42 अबीगेलले हतार गरिन् र उठिन् र आफूसँगै लान आफ्ना पाँच जना दासीहरूसँगै गधामा बसिन्, अनि उनी दाऊदको दूतहरूको पछि लागिन् र तिनकी पत्नी भइन् ।
Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.
43 यति बेला दाऊदले यिजरेलकी अहीनोमलाई पनि पत्नीको रूपमा लिएका थिए । ती दुवै जना तिनकी पत्नीहरू भए ।
And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.
44 साथै शाऊलले आफ्नी छोरी, दाऊदकी पत्नी मीकललाई गलीमका लेशका छोरा पल्तिएललाई दिएका थिए ।
Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish of Gallim.
