1 Samuels 31
1 Filistarane gjekk på i striden mot Israel. Israels-mennerne rømde undan for filistarane, og det låg mange falne på Gilboafjellet.
Later, the Philistines again fought against the Israelis. The Israelis ran away from them, and (many Israelis were killed/the Philistines killed many Israelis) on Gilboa Mountain.
2 Filistarane sette etter Saul og sønerne hans. Og filistarane felte Jonatan, Abinadab og Malkisua, Sauls-sønerne.
The Philistines caught up with Saul and his three sons, and they killed [all three of] his sons, Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua.
3 Saul sjølv kom upp i ein hard strid. Og nokre bogeskyttarar råka innpå honom. Saul vreid seg i rædsla for skyttarane.
The fighting was very fierce around Saul. When the Philistine (archers/men with bows and arrows) caught up with Saul, they wounded him badly [with their arrows].
4 Og han baud våpnsveinen sin: «Drag sverdet ditt, og støyt det gjenom meg, so ikkje desse u-umskorne skal koma og drepa meg, og skamfara meg!» Men våpnsveinen vilde ikkje; han var altfor rædd. Då tok Saul sverdet sjølv og stupte seg på det.
Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, “Take out your sword and kill me with it, in order that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me [while I am dying].” But the man who was carrying Saul’s weapons was terrified, and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. [The sword pierced his body and he died].
5 Då våpnsveinen såg Saul var dåen, stupte han seg ogso på sitt sverd og fylgde honom i dauden.
When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
6 Den dagen fall dei alle i hop, Saul og dei tri sønerne hans og våpnsveinen, og sameleis alle mennerne hans.
So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul’s weapons, all died on that same day.
7 Og då Israels-mennerne på hi sida dalen og på hi sida Jordan gådde at Israels-mennerne hadde rømt, og at Saul og sønerne hans var falne, so rømde dei ut or byarne sine; og filistarane kom og busette seg der.
When the Israeli people on the north side of the [Jezreel] Valley and on the east side of the Jordan [River] heard that the Israeli army had run away and that Saul and his sons had died, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and occupied their towns.
8 Dagen etter kom filistarane og plundra liki. Dei fann Saul og dei tri sønerne hans liggjande på Gilboafjellet.
The next day, when the Philistines came to take away the weapons of the dead [Israeli soldiers], they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Gilboa Mountain.
9 Dei hogg hovudet av honom, og rana våpni hans og sende rundt i Filistarlandet, og let forkynna fagnadbodet i templi åt avgudarne sine og millom folket.
They cut off Saul’s head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land, to proclaim the news, in the temple where they kept their idols, and to the other people, [that their army had killed Saul].
10 Dei lagde våpni hans i Astarte-templet; og liket hans hengde dei upp på bymuren i Bet-San.
They put Saul’s weapons in the temple of [their goddess] Astarte. They also fastened the bodies of Saul [and his sons] to the wall [that surrounded] Beth-Shan [city].
11 Då folket i Jabes i Gilead høyrde gjete det filistarane hadde gjort med Saul,
When the people who lived in Jabesh in [the] Gilead [region] heard what the Philistines had done to Saul’s corpse,
12 tok dei i veg, alle våpnføre karar, gjekk heile natti, tok ned frå muren i Bet-San Sauls lik og liki av sønerne hans, for so til Jabes og brende liki der.
all their bravest soldiers walked all night to Beth-Shan. They took the corpses of Saul and his sons down from the city wall, and they took them back to Jabesh and burned the corpses there.
13 So tok dei og grov beini deira ned under tamariska i Jabes og heldt fasta i sju dagar.
They took the bones and buried them under a [big] tamarisk tree. Then they (fasted/abstained from eating food) for seven days.
