اول سموئیل 13
| شائول سی ساله بود که پادشاه شد و چهل و دو سال بر اسرائیل سلطنت کرد. | 1 |
Saul was no longer a young man when he became the king. He ruled Israel for 42 years.
| شائول سه هزار نفر از مردان اسرائیلی را برگزید و از ایشان دو هزار نفر را با خود برداشته، به مخماس و کوه بیتئیل برد و هزار نفر دیگر را نزد پسرش یوناتان در جِبعه واقع در ملک بنیامین گذاشت و بقیه را به خانههایشان فرستاد. | 2 |
[Several years after he became king], he chose three thousand men from the Israeli army to go with him [to fight the Philistines]. Then he sent the other soldiers back home. Of the men he chose, 2,000 stayed with Saul at Micmash and in the hilly area near Bethel, and 1,000 stayed with [Saul’s son] Jonathan at Gibeah, in the area where the descendants of Benjamin lived.
| یوناتان به قرارگاه فلسطینیها در جِبَع حمله کرد و افراد آنجا را از پای درآورد و این خبر فوری به گوش فلسطینیان رسید. شائول با نواختن کرنا به سراسر اسرائیل پیغام فرستاد که برای جنگ آماده شوند. | 3 |
Jonathan [and the men who were with him] attacked the Philistine soldiers who were camped at Geba. The [other] Philistines heard about that. [So Saul realized that the army of Philistia would probably come to fight the Israelis again]. So Saul [sent messengers to] blow trumpets throughout Israel [to gather the people together and] proclaim to them, “All you Hebrews need to hear [that now the Philistines will start a war with us]!”
| وقتی بنیاسرائیل شنیدند که شائول به قرارگاه فلسطینیها حمله کرده است و اینکه اسرائیلیها مورد نفرت فلسطینیها قرار گرفتهاند، در جِلجال نزد شائول گرد آمدند. | 4 |
The messengers told the rest of the army to gather together with Saul at Gilgal. And all the people in Israel heard the news. People were saying, “Saul’s army has attacked the Philistine camp, with the result that now the Philistines hate us Israelis very much.”
| فلسطینیها لشکر عظیمی که شامل سه هزار ارابه، شش هزار سرباز سواره و عدهٔ بیشماری سرباز پیاده بود، فراهم نمودند. آنها در مخماس واقع در سمت شرقی بیتآون اردو زدند. | 5 |
The Philistines gathered together and were given equipment to fight the Israelis. The Philistines had 3,000 chariots, and 6,000 chariot-drivers. Their soldiers [seemed to be as many] as grains of sand on the seashore [HYP]. They went up and set up their tents at Micmash, to the east of Beth-Aven ([which means ‘house of wickedness’, and really referred to Bethel town]).
| اسرائیلیها، چون چشمشان به لشکر عظیم دشمن افتاد، روحیهٔ خود را باختند و سعی کردند در غارها و بیشهها، چاهها و حفرهها، و در میان صخرهها خود را پنهان کنند. | 6 |
The Philistines attacked the Israelis very strongly, and the Israeli soldiers realized that they were in a very bad situation. So many of the Israeli soldiers hid in caves and holes in the ground, or among the rocks, or in pits, or in wells.
| بعضی از ایشان نیز از رود اردن گذشته، به سرزمین جاد و جلعاد گریختند. ولی شائول در جلجال ماند و همراهانش از شدت ترس میلرزیدند. | 7 |
Some of them crossed the Jordan River at a place where it was very shallow. Then they went to the area where the descendants of Gad lived and to [the] Gilead [region]. But Saul stayed at Gilgal. All the soldiers who were with him were shaking [because they were so afraid].
| سموئیل به شائول گفته بود که پس از هفت روز میآید، ولی از او خبری نبود و سربازان شائول به تدریج پراکنده میشدند. | 8 |
Saul waited seven days, which was the number of days that Samuel had told him to wait for him. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal [during that time], so many of the men in Saul’s army began to leave him and run away.
| پس شائول تصمیم گرفت خود، مراسم تقدیم قربانیهای سوختنی و سلامتی را اجرا کند. | 9 |
So Saul said to the soldiers, “Bring to me an animal to be completely burned [on the altar] and one for the offering to enable us to maintain fellowship [with God].” [So the men did that].
| درست در پایان مراسم تقدیم قربانی سوختنی، سموئیل از راه رسید و شائول به استقبال وی شتافت. | 10 |
And just as he was finished burning those offerings, Samuel arrived. Saul went to greet him.
| اما سموئیل به او گفت: «این چه کاری بود که کردی؟» شائول پاسخ داد: «چون دیدم سربازان من پراکنده میشوند و تو نیز به موقع نمیآیی و فلسطینیها هم در مخماس آمادهٔ جنگ هستند، | 11 |
Samuel [saw what Saul had done, and he] said to Saul, “Why have you done this?” Saul replied, “I saw that my men were leaving me and running away, and that you did not come here during the time that you said that you would come, and that the Philistine army was gathering together at Micmash.
| به خود گفتم که فلسطینیها هر آن ممکن است در جِلجال به ما حمله کنند و من حتی فرصت پیدا نکردهام از خداوند کمک بخواهم. پس مجبور شدم خودم قربانی سوختنی را تقدیم کنم.» | 12 |
“So I thought, ‘The Philistine army is going to attack us here at Gilgal, and I have not yet asked Yahweh to bless/help us.’ So I felt it was necessary to offer the burnt offerings [to seek God’s blessings].”
| سموئیل به شائول گفت: «کار احمقانهای کردی، زیرا از فرمان خداوند، خدایت سرپیچی نمودی. اگر اطاعت میکردی خداوند اجازه میداد تو و نسل تو همیشه بر اسرائیل سلطنت کنید، | 13 |
Samuel replied, “What you did was very foolish! You have not obeyed what Yahweh, your God, commanded [about sacrifices]. If you had obeyed him, God would have allowed you and your descendants to rule [Israel] for a long time.
| اما اینک سلطنت تو دیگر ادامه نخواهد یافت. خداوند مرد دلخواه خود را پیدا خواهد کرد تا او را رهبر قومش سازد، زیرا فرمان خداوند را نگاه نداشتی.» | 14 |
But now [because of what you have done, you will die, and after you die, ] none of your descendants will rule. Yahweh is seeking for a man [to be king] who will be just the kind of person that he wants him to be, so that he can appoint him to be the leader of his people. Yahweh will do this because you have not obeyed what he commanded.”
| سموئیل از جلجال به جِبعه که در سرزمین بنیامین بود، رفت. شائول سربازانی را که نزد وی باقی مانده بودند شمرد. تعداد آنها ششصد نفر بود. | 15 |
Then Samuel left Gilgal and went up to Gibeah. Saul stayed at Gilgal with his soldiers. There were only about 600 of them left [who had not run away].
| شائول و یوناتان با این ششصد نفر در جِبعۀ بنیامین اردو زدند. فلسطینیها هنوز در مخماس بودند. | 16 |
Saul and his son Jonathan and the soldiers who were with them went to Geba [city] in the area of the tribe of Benjamin [and set up their tents there]. The Philistine army set up their tents at Micmash.
| طولی نکشید که سه دسته از اردوگاه فلسطینیها بیرون آمدند، یک دسته به عُفره که در سرزمین شوعال واقع شده بود رفت، | 17 |
Three groups of Philistia men soon left the place where their army was staying, and went and (raided the Israeli towns/attacked the Israelis and took their possessions). One group went [north] toward Ophrah [city] in [the] Shual [region].
| دستۀ دیگر به بیتحورون شتافت و سومی به طرف مرز بالای درۀ صبوئیم که مشرف به بیابان بود، حرکت کرد. | 18 |
One group went [west] to Beth-Horon [city]. The third group went toward the [Israeli] border, above Zeboim Valley, near the desert.
| در آن روزها در اسرائیل آهنگری یافت نمیشد، چون فلسطینیها میترسیدند عبرانیها برای خود شمشیر و نیزه بسازند، پس اجازه نمیدادند پای هیچ آهنگری به اسرائیل برسد. | 19 |
At that time, there were no men in Israel who (were blacksmiths/could make things from iron). [The people of Philistia would not permit the Israelis to do that, because they were afraid that] they would make iron swords and spears for the Hebrews to fight with.
| بنابراین هر وقت اسرائیلیها میخواستند گاوآهن، بیل، تبر، و داس خود را تیز کنند آنها را به فلسطین میبردند. | 20 |
So [whenever the Israelis needed] to sharpen the blades of their plows, or picks, or axes, or sickles, they were forced to take those things to a Philistia man who could sharpen those things.
| (اجرت تیز کردن گاوآهن و بیل، هشت گرم نقره و اجرت تیز کردن تبر و چنگال سه دندانه و داس، چهار گرم نقره بود.) | 21 |
They needed to pay (one fourth of an ounce/8 grams) of silver for sharpening a plow, and (an eighth of an ounce/4 grams) of silver to sharpen an axe, or a sickle, or (an ox goad/a pointed rod to jab an ox to make it walk).
| به این ترتیب در آن موقع سربازان اسرائیلی شمشیر یا نیزه نداشتند، ولی شائول و یوناتان داشتند. | 22 |
So [because the Israelis could not make weapons from iron], on the day that the Israelis fought [against the men of Philistia], Saul and Jonathan were the only Israeli men who had swords. None of the others had a sword; [they had only bows and arrows].
| فلسطینیها یک دسته از سربازان خود را اعزام کردند تا از گذرگاه مخماس دفاع کنند. | 23 |
Before the battle started, some Philistia men went to (the pass/a narrow place between two cliffs) outside Micmash to guard it.
