2 Samuel 21
1 I Davids tid kom tri store uår etter kvarandre. Då gjorde David spursmål til Herren um det. Herren svara: «På Saul og hans hus kvilar blodskuld, av di han drap gibeonitarne.»
And a famine occurred, during the days of David, for three years continuously. And David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: “This is because of Saul, and his house of bloodshed. For he killed the Gibeonites.”
2 Kongen kalla då til seg Gibeon-mennerne og tala med deim. Gibeonitarne var ikkje israelitar, men var ei atterleiva av amoritarne. Endå Israels-borni hadde gjort eiden sin til deim, hadde Saul vore so ihuga for Israels-borni og for Juda, at han freista tyna deim.
Therefore, the king, calling for the Gibeonites, spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but were the remnant of the Amorites. And the sons of Israel had sworn an oath to them, but Saul wished to strike them in zeal, as if on behalf of the sons of Israel and Judah.
3 David spurde no gibeonitarne: «Kva kann eg gjera for dykk? Korleis kann eg sona brotet, so de vil velsigna Herrens arvlut?»
Therefore, David said to the Gibeonites: “What shall I do for you? And what shall be your satisfaction, so that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?”
4 Gibeonitarne svara: «Ikkje sylv og gull krev me av Saul og hans hus. Og ikkje hev me lov å drepa nokon mann i Israel.» Han spurde: «Kva ynskjer det då eg skal gjera for dykk?»
And the Gibeonites said to him: “There is no quarrel for us over silver or gold, but against Saul and against his house. And we do not desire that any man of Israel be put to death.” The king said to them, “Then what do you wish that I should do for you?”
5 Dei svara kongen: «Den mannen som vilde tyna oss og tenktest rydja oss ut, so me ikkje lenger skulde få halda oss nokon stad innanfor Israels landskil,
And they said to the king: “The man who unjustly afflicted and oppressed us, we ought to destroy in such manner that not even one of his stock may be left behind in all the parts of Israel.
6 av hans etterkomarar må det gjeva oss sju mann, og me vil leggja deim på stegl for Herrens augo i Sauls Gibea, han som Herren valde ut.» Kongen sagde: «De skal eg gjera.»
Let seven men from his sons be given to us, so that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gibeon of Saul, formerly the chosen place of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”
7 Kongen sparde Mefiboset Jonatansson, soneson åt Saul, for skuld den eiden ved Herren som David og Jonatan Saulsson hadde svore einannan.
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord which had been made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.
8 Derimot tok kongen dei tvo sønerne Armoni og Mefiboset som Saul hadde fenge med Rispa Ajadotter, og dei fem sønerne som Adriel Barzillaison frå Mehola hadde fenge med Mikal Saulsdotter.
And so the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she conceived of Adriel, the son of Barzillai, who was from Meholath,
9 Deim gav han yver til gibeonitarne. Og dei lagde deim på stegl på fjellet for Herrens augo. Dei fekk sin bane alle sju på ein gong. Det var dei fyrste skurddagarne, då byggskurden tok til, at dei let livet.
and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they crucified them on a hill in the sight of the Lord. And these seven fell together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley is beginning to be reaped.
10 Rispa Ajadotter tok syrgjebunaden sin og breidde ut uppå fjellet frå skurdonni tok til, og til dess det strøymde regn yver deim frå himmelen. Ho let ikkje fuglarne under himmelen slå ned på deim um dagen, heller ikkje villdyri frå marki um natti.
Then Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, taking a haircloth, spread it under herself on a rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped from heaven upon them. And she did not permit the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.
11 Då David spurde det Rispa Ajadotter, fylgjekona åt Saul, hadde gjort,
And it was reported to David what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 drog David av stad og let henta beini etter Saul og Jonatan, son hans, hjå borgarne i Jabes i Gilead. Dei hadde i løynd teke liki frå torget i Bet-San, der som filistarane hadde hengt deim upp då dei hadde slege Saul på Gilboa.
And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of his son Jonathan, from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had suspended them after they had slain Saul at Gilboa.
13 Då han fekk ført beini etter Saul og Jonatan, son hans, upp derifrå, sanka dei i hop beini etter deim som var lagde på stegl,
And he brought the bones of Saul, and the bones of his son Jonathan, from there. And they collected the bones of those who had been crucified.
14 og gravlagde deim saman med beini etter Saul og Jonatan, son hans, i Benjaminslandet, i Sela, i gravi åt Kis, far hans. Dei gjorde alt det kongen baud. Og etterpå det vende Gud sin nåde til landet.
And they buried them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan, in the land of Benjamin, to the side of the sepulcher of his father Kish. And they did all that the king had instructed. And after these things, God showed favor again to the land.
15 Det vart krig millom filistarane og Israel att. David drog ned med tenarane sine; og dei slost med filistarane. Men David trøytna.
Then the Philistines again undertook a battle against Israel. And David descended, and his servants with him, and they fought against the Philistines. But when David grew faint,
16 Jisbo-Benob, ein ætting av Rafa - han hadde eit spjot som vog tri hundrad lodd kopar, og han hadde spent um seg eit nytt sverd - han tenktest drepa David.
Ishbibenob, who was of the ancestry of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, who had been girded with a new sword, strove to strike down David.
17 Men Abisai Serujason hjelpte kongen og gav filistaren banehogg. Då svor Davids menner ein eid til honom, og sagde: «Du må aldri meir draga ut med oss i strid. Elles kann Israels lampa slokna.»
And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, defended him, and striking the Philistine, he killed him. Then David’s men swore an oath to him, saying, “You shall no longer go out to war with us, lest you extinguish the lamp of Israel.”
18 So hende det sidan at det stod ein bardage med filistarane ved Gob. Då slo husatiten Sibbekai Saf av Rafa-ætti.
Also, a second war occurred in Gob against the Philistines. Then Sibbecai from Hushah struck down Saph, from the stock of Arapha, of the ancestry of the giants.
19 Då det endå ein gong stod eit slag mot filistarane ved Gob, gav Elhanan, son åt Ja’are-Orgim frå Betlehem, Goliat frå Gat banehogg, han som hadde eit spjotskaft so stort som ein vevbom.
Then there was a third war in Gob against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus, a son of the forest, a weaver from Bethlehem, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam used by a cloth maker.
20 Då det vart eit slag att ved Gat, var der ein storvaksen mann som hadde seks fingrar på kvar hand og seks tær på kvar fot, fire og tjuge til saman. Han var ogso utstokken frå Rafa-ætti.
A fourth battle was in Gath. In that place, there was a lofty man, who had six digits on each hand and each foot, that is, twenty-four in all, and he was from the origins of Arapha.
21 Han svivyrde Israels-mennerne. Jonatan, son åt Simea, bror åt David, gav honom difor banehugg.
And he blasphemed Israel. So Jonathan, the son of Shimei, the brother of David, struck him down.
22 Desse fire var ætta frå Rafa i Gat. Og dei fall for David og mennerne hans.
These four men were born of Arapha in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and his servants.
