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1 अब पलिश्‍तीहरूले आफ्‍ना सारा फौजलाई अपेकमा एकसाथ भेला पारे । इस्रएलीहरूले यिजरेलको पानीको मूलनेर छाउनी हाले ।
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.
2 पलिश्‍तीहरूका शासकहरू सय र हजारको पङ्तिमा अघि बढे । दाऊद र तिनका मानिसहरू आकीशका पछिल्तिरका अङ्‍गरक्षकहरू थिए ।
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
3 तब पलिश्तीहरूका शासकहरूले भने, “यी हिब्रूहरूले यहाँ के गरिरहेका छन्?” आकीशले पलिश्तीहरूका अरू शासकहरूलाई भने, “यिनी इस्राएलका राजा शाऊलका सेवक दाऊद होइन् जो मकहाँ आएको दिनदेखि आजसम्म मैले कुनै दोष भेट्टाएको छैन जो यी दिनहरू वा वर्षहरूमा मसँग बसेका छन्?”
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, [Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?
4 तर पलिश्‍तीहरूका शासकहरू तिनीसँग रिसाए र भने, “उसलाई फिर्ता पठाउनुहोस्, कि उसलाई दिइएको ठाउँमा फर्कोस् । ऊ हामीसँग युद्ध जानेछैन, किनकि ऊ युद्धको समयमा हाम्रै विरुद्धमा जाइलग्‍नेछ । किनकि उसले हाम्रा मानिसहरूको शिर काट्नुभन्दा अरू कसरी आफ्नो मालिकप्रति आफूलाई स्वीकारयोग्य बनाउन सक्‍छ र?
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men?
5 के यिनै दाऊद होइनन् जसको बारेमा तिनीहरूले यसो भनेर एकआपस नाँच्दै गएका थिए, 'शाऊलले हजारौंलाई मारे र दाऊदले दसौं हजारलाई मारे'?”
[Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
6 त्यसपछि आकीशले दाऊदलाई बलाए र तिनलाई भने, “जस्तो परमप्रभु जीवित हुनुहुन्छ, तिमी असल भएका छौ र तिमी मेरो फौजसँगै बाहिर जाने र भित्र आउने कुरा मेरो दृष्‍टिमा असल नै छ । किनकि तिमी आएको दिनदेखि आजको दिनसम्म मैले तिमीसँग कुनै खराबी भेट्टाएको छैन । तापनि शासकहरूले तिमीलाई रुचाउँदैनन् ।
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
7 त्यसैले अब फर्क र शान्तिसँग जाऊ, ताकि तिमीले पलिश्‍ती शासकहरूलाई अप्रशन्‍न तुल्याउनेछैनौ ।
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
8 दाऊदले आकीशलाई भने, “तर मैले के गरेको छु? म तपाईंको सामुन्‍ने आजको दिनसम्म बस्‍दा तपाईंले आफ्नो दासमा के भेट्टाउनुभएको छ, ताकि म मेरा मालिक राजाका शत्रुहरू विरुद्ध जान र युद्ध गर्न सक्‍दिन?”
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
9 आकीशले दाऊदलाई जवाफ दिए र भने, “तिमी मेरो दृष्‍टिमा परमेश्‍वरको दूत जत्तिकै दोषरहित छौ । तापनि पलिश्‍ती शासकहरूले भनेका छन्, 'यिनी हामीसँग युद्धमा जानुहुँदैन ।'
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou [art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
10 त्यसैले तिमीसँग आएका आफ्नो मालिकका सेवकहरूसँगै बिहान सबेरै उठ । बिहान जति सक्‍दो सबेरै र उज्यालो हुनुअघि नै गइहाल ।”
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master’s servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
11 त्यसैले दाऊद बिहान सबेरै उठे, तिनी र तिनका मानिसहरू पलिश्तीहरूको देशमा फर्कन बिहान सबेरै हिंडे । तर पलिश्तीहरू माथि यिजरेलतिर गए ।
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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