1 Samuels 25

1 Samuel døydde. Heile Israel kom i hop og gret yver honom. Dei gravlagde honom heime i Rama. David braut upp og drog ned til øydemarki Paran.

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

2 I Maon var det ein mann som hadde buskapen sin på Karmel. Den mannen var ovleg rik; han åtte tri tusund sauer og tusund geiter. Han heldt på nett då å klyppa sauerne sine på Karmel.

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

3 Nabal heitte mannen, og kona hans heitte Abiga’il. Kona hans var både vitug og væn; men mannen var hardlyndt og vondlyndt. Han var av Kalebs-ætti.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was rude and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

4 Då no David høyrde gjete i øydemarki at Nabal heldt på å klyppa sauerne,

And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

5 sende han ti av sveinar med den ordsendingi: «Far upp til Karmel! Gakk til Nabal og helsa honom frå meg:

And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

6 «Heil og sæl!» skal det segja, «og fred med deg sjølv! fred med ditt hus! og fred med alt det du eig!

And thus shall all of you say to him that lives in prosperity, Peace be both to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be unto all that you have.

7 Eg hev spurt at du held på med saueklypping. No er det so at hyrdingarne dine hev halde seg i vårt grannelag, og me hev ikkje gjenge deim for nær, og dei hev ikkje sakna noko slag heile den tidi dei hev vore på Karmel.

And now I have heard that you have shearers: now your shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

8 Spør tenarane dine, so vil dei sjølve segja deg det. Syn no godvilje mot sveinarne mine! Du veit me hev kome hit i ei god stund. Gjev tenarane dine og David, son din, det du hev for handi!»»

Ask your young men, and they will show you. Wherefore let the young men find favour in your eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray you, whatsoever comes to your hand unto your servants, and to your son David.

9 Då sveinarne åt David kom dit, tala dei til Nabal i Davids namn og sagde som han hadde bode deim; og so tagde deim og gav tol.

And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

10 Nabal svara tenarane åt David: «Kven er David? Kven er Isaisonen? No um dagen stryk det so mange tenarar frå husbondsfolki sine.

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants these days that break away every man from his master.

11 Skulde eg taka min mat og min drykk og slagt, som eg hev etla åt saueklypparane mine, og gjeva åt folk som eg ikkje veit kvar dei høyrer heime?»

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

12 Sveinarne åt David vende då um og gjekk sin veg. Då dei kom attende, melde dei honom alt dette.

So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

13 Då baud David: «Alle mann spenner sverdet um seg!» Og alle so gjorde. David sjølv spente og sverdet um seg. Um lag fire hundrad mann fylgde David upp; dei hine tvo hundrad mann heldt seg attmed tyet.

And David said unto his men, Gird all of you on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

14 Men ein av drengjerne hadde meldt det til Abiga’il, kona hans Nabal: «David sende bod hit frå øydemarki og helsa husbond; men han hylja deim yver.

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

15 Men desse kararne hev gjort oss mykje gagn. Ikkje hev dei gjenge oss for nær, og aldri hev me sakna noko heile den tidi me ferdast i lag med deim der ute på marki.

But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

16 Dei var ein mur ikring oss natt og dag, heile tidi me heldt oss i deira grannelag og gjætte småfeet.

They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

17 Tenk difor yver, og finn på eitkvart! for det heng ei ulukka yver husbond og heile huset hans; han er slik ei uvyrda, at ingen vågar tala til honom.»

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

18 Då skunda Abiga’il seg og tok tvo hundrad brød, tvo vinhitar, fem tillaga sauer, ti settungar steikte aks, hundrad rosinkakor og tvo hundrad fikekakor, og klyvja på asni.

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

19 Og ho sagde til drengjerne: «Far i fyrevegen! Sjå eg kjem etter.» Men med Nabal, mannen sin, gat ho det ikkje.

And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

20 Då ho reid på asnet sitt og kom ned i livd av fjellet, fekk ho sjå David og kararne hans koma ned frå hi sida, so ho måtte møta deim.

And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.

21 David hadde sagt: «Til fåfengs hev eg verna um alt det den mannen åtte i øydemarki, so ingen ting vanta av all eigedomen hans. Og han gjev meg vondt i vederlag for godt.

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he has requited me evil for good.

22 So sant Gud må lata uvenerne åt David bøta no og sidan - av alle deim som høyrer honom til, let ikkje eit einaste karmannsemne liva til dagsprett i morgon.»

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisses against the wall.

23 Då no Abiga’il fekk sjå David, steig ho straks ned frå asnet, fall å gruve for David og bøygde seg mot jordi.

And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

24 Ho fall ned for føterne hans og sagde: «Mi er skuldi, herre! Men lat terna di få tala med deg! og høyr på ordi åt terna di!

And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your audience, and hear the words of your handmaid.

25 Ikkje må du bry deg um Nabal, den uvyrda. Det namnet hans tyder, det er han; dåre heiter han, og dårskap hyser han. Men eg, terna di, eg hev ikkje set dei sveinarne du sende, herre!

Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom you did send.

26 Og no, herre! so sant som Herren liver, og so sant du sjølv liver, og Herren hev meinka deg frå blodskuld og sjølvtekt - gjev det må ganga med uvenerne dine og alle som lurer på å gjera deg mein, like eins som det gjeng med Nabal!

Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has withheld you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

27 Lat no desse gåvor, som terna di hev ført med til deg, verta utskifte millom dei sveinarne som fylgjer deg!

And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

28 Herre, tilgjev terna di det ho hev synda! Herren skal visseleg byggja upp åt deg, herre, eit hus som vert standande. For du herre, fører striden for Herren. Inkje vondt hev dei funne hjå deg heile ditt liv.

I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil has not been found in you all your days.

29 Ris det upp nokon og forfylgjer deg og vil taka livet av deg, gjev so ditt liv, herre, må vera bunde i bundelen av dei livande hjå Herren, din Gud! Men livet åt uvenerne dine skal han leggja i slyngja, og slengja burt.

Yet a man has risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

30 Når Herren gjer med deg, herre, alt det gode han hev lova deg, og set deg til fyrste yver Israel,

And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler over Israel;

31 so skal ikkje dette verta til støytestein eller til samvitsagg for deg, herre, at du hev rent ut skuldlaust blod, og at du, herre, hev teke deg sjølv til rettes. Men når Herren gjer godt med deg, herre, so kom i hug terna di!»

That this shall be no grief unto you, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that you have shed blood causeless, or that my lord has avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

32 Då svara David Abiga’il: «Lova vere Herren, Israels Gud, som i dag hev sendt deg til møtes med meg!

And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:

33 Velsigna vere vitet ditt! og velsigna vere du sjølv, som i dag meinkar meg i blodskuld og sjølvtekt.

And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

34 Men so sant Herren, Israels Gud, liver, han som hev halde meg frå å gjera deg noko mein - hadde du ikkje straks møtt meg, so vilde ikkje karmannsemne vore att i huset hans Nabal ved solarkoma i morgon.»

For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept me back from hurting you, except you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisses against the wall.

35 David tok då imot av henne det ho førde med seg til honom. Og han sagde med henne: «Far heim att i fred! Sjå, eg hev lydt dine ord og gjort som du bad.»

So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and have accepted your person.

36 Då no Abiga’il kom heim til Nabal, heldt han nett gilde heime. Det var som eit kongsgilde. Og Nabal var lystig og fjåg, og han var ovdrukken. Difor gat ho ikkje det minste med honom, fyrr um morgonen ved dagsprett.

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

37 Men morgonen etter, då Nabal hadde sove ut ruset, fortalde kona hans det som var hendt. Då lamdest hjarta hans i bringa, og han vart som ein stein.

But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

38 Kring ti dagar etter slo Herren Nabal, og han døydde.

And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD stroke Nabal, that he died.

39 Då David spurde at Nabal var dåen, sagde han: «Lova vere Herren som hev hemnt på Nabal den svivyrding han synte meg, og som meinka tenaren sin frå å gjera vondt, med di Herren let vondskapen hjå Nabal koma att på hans eige hovud!» David sende bod og bela til Abiga’il og vilde hava henne til kona.

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept his servant from evil: for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

40 Då tenarane åt David kom til Abiga’il på Karmel, bar dei fram målemnet sitt: «David hev sendt oss for å bela til deg for honom.»

And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke unto her, saying, David sent us unto you, to take you to him to wife.

41 Då reis ho upp og å fall å gruve til jordi og sagde: «Sjå, terna di er viljug til å vera ei trælkvinna som tvær føterne åt tenarane til herren min.»

And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

42 So skunda Abiga’il seg, reis upp og sette seg på asnet; like eins dei fem ternorne hennar som var fylgjet hennar. So fylgde ho med sendemennerne til David. Og ho vart kona hans.

And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

43 David hadde dessutan teke til kona Ahinoam frå Jizre’el, so båe desse tvo vart konorne hans.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

44 Men Saul hadde gjeve Mikal, dotter si, kona hans David, åt Palti La’isson frå Gallim.

But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.