1 Samuel 25

1 Murió Samuel, y se reunió todo Israel. Lo lloraron y lo enterraron en su casa, en Ramá. Se levantó entonces David y bajó al desierto de Farán.

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 Y había un hombre en Maón, que tenía sus posesiones en Carmel. Este hombre era muy rico, tenía tres mil ovejas y mil cabras. Hallábase en Carmel para el esquileo de sus ovejas.

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 Este hombre se llamaba Nabal, y su mujer Abigail. La mujer era de gran prudencia y hermosura; el marido, al contrario, era duro y de malas costumbres y descendía del linaje de Caleb.

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 Al oír David en el desierto que Nabal esquilaba sus ovejas,

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

5 envió diez mozos, a los que dijo: “Subid a Carmel, y llegados a Nabal saludadle en mi nombre,

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 y diréis así: ¡Tengas (larga) vida! ¡Paz a ti, y paz a tu casa, y paz a cuanto tienes!

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 Acabo de saber que los esquiladores están contigo. Ahora bien, cuando tus pastores estaban con nosotros, no los hemos tratado mal y nada les ha faltado durante el tiempo que han estado en Carmel.

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 Pregunta a tus criados y te lo dirán. Hallen, pues, estos mozos gracia a tus ojos, porque venimos en un día de fiesta. Te ruego que des a tus siervos y a tu hijo David lo que encuentre tu mano.”

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 Fueron, pues, los mozos de David, y repitieron a Nabal todas estas palabras de parte de David, y se quedaron esperando.

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

10 Pero Nabal respondió a los siervos de David, y dijo: “¿Quién es David, y quién el hijo de Isaí? Hoy día son muchos los siervos que andan fugitivos de sus amos.

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 ¿He de tomar yo mi pan y mi agua y mis animales que he degollado para mis esquiladores, y lo daré a hombres que no sé de dónde son?”

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 Con esto retomaron los mozos de David el camino y volvieron; y habiendo llegado le dijeron todas estas palabras.

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

13 Entonces dijo David a su gente: “Cíñase cada uno su espada.” Y se ciñó cada uno su espada, ciñéndose también David la suya; y subieron tras David unos cuatrocientos hombres, quedándose doscientos para custodiar el bagaje.

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 Uno de los criados dio noticia a Abigail, mujer de Nabal, diciendo: “Mira que David ha enviado desde el desierto mensajeros a saludar a nuestro señor, mas él se precipitó sobre ellos.

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 Esos hombres han sido muy buenos con nosotros, no nos molestaron, ni echamos de menos cosa alguna en todo el tiempo que anduvimos con ellos mientras estábamos en el campo.

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 Nos servían de muro tanto de noche como de día, todo el tiempo que estuvimos con ellos, apacentando los rebaños.

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

17 Reflexiona ahora tú y mira lo que has de hacer; porque la ruina de nuestro señor y de toda su casa es cosa resuelta, y él es tan malo, que nadie le puede hablar.”

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 Tomó, pues, Abigail a toda prisa doscientos panes, dos pellejos de vino, cinco ovejas aderezadas, cinco medidas de grano tostado, cien atados de pasas y doscientas tortas de higos secos, y poniéndolos sobre los asnos,

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 dijo a sus criados: “Adelantaos, y he aquí que yo os sigo.” Mas a su marido Nabal no le dijo nada.

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

20 Cuando ella montada sobre el asno bajaba por la falda del monte, he aquí que David y sus hombres venían bajando frente a ella, de modo que dio con ellos.

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 Decía David: “A la verdad que en balde he guardado todo lo que este tenía en el desierto, sin que haya perdido nada de cuanto tenía; pero él me ha devuelto mal por bien.

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 ¡Así haga Dios con los enemigos de David, y aún más, si yo hasta la luz del alba dejare con vida uno solo de todos sus hombres!”

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 Tan pronto como vio Abigail a David, bajó a toda prisa del asno y cayó ante David sobre el rostro postrándose a tierra.

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 Y postrada a sus pies, dijo: “Caiga sobre mí, señor mío, esta culpa. Permite, te ruego, que hable tu sierva a tus oídos, y escucha lo que dice tu sierva.

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 Te ruego, señor mío, no hagas caso de Nabal, ese hombre de Belial, porque él es lo que significa su nombre. Se llama Insensato y de veras está poseído de insensatez. Yo, tu sierva, no vi a los mozos de mi señor, que tú enviaste.

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 Ahora, señor mío, ¡por la vida de Yahvé, y por la vida de tu alma! que es Yahvé quien te ha preservado de derramar sangre, y hacerte justicia por tu propia mano. ¡Sean como Nabal tus enemigos y los que maquinan el mal contra mi señor!

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 Y ahora (acepta) este regalo que tu sierva ha traído a mi señor, y que sea dado a los mozos que siguen a mi señor.

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 Perdona, te ruego, la falta de tu sierva; pues seguramente va a hacer Yahvé para mi señor una casa estable, puesto que mi señor combate los combates de Yahvé, y nunca en (todos) tus días se halle en ti maldad alguna.

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 Y si alguno se levantare para perseguirte y quitarte la vida, será la vida de mi señor guardada en el haz de los vivos junto a Yahvé tu Dios. Pero la vida de tus enemigos la arrojará como una piedra tirada de la cavidad de la honda.

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 Entonces, cuando haga Yahvé a mi señor todo el bien que tiene prometido en orden a ti, y te ponga por príncipe sobre 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 no tendrá mi señor remordimiento y pesar de corazón por haber derramado sangre inocente, ni por haberse vengado mi señor por propia cuenta. Y cuando Yahvé haga bien a mi señor, acuérdate de tu sierva.”

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 Respondió David a Abigail: “¡Bendito sea Yahvé, el Dios de Israel, que te ha enviado hoy a mi encuentro!

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

33 ¡Y bendita sea tu prudencia, y bendita seas tú misma, que hoy me has impedido derramar sangre y vengarme por mi propia cuenta!

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 Pues —vive Yahvé, el Dios de Israel, que me ha impedido hacerte mal— si tú no te hubieras apresurado a venir a mi encuentro, antes de romper el alba no le habría quedado vivo a Nabal ni un solo hombre.”

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 Luego recibió David de mano de (Abigail) lo que ella había traído; y le dijo: “Sube en paz a tu casa; ya ves que he oído tu petición y he aceptado tu persona.”

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 Abigail se volvió a Nabal; y he aquí que celebraban en su casa un banquete como banquete de rey. Y el corazón de Nabal rebosaba de alegría. Estaba él completamente borracho, por lo cual ella no le dijo nada, ni poco ni mucho, hasta la luz de la mañana.

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 Pero a la mañana, cuando Nabal ya había digerido el vino, su mujer le contó estas cosas, y se le paralizó el corazón en el cuerpo, de modo que quedó como una piedra.

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 Así al cabo de unos diez días, Yahvé hirió a Nabal, y este murió.

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

39 Cuando David supo que Nabal había muerto, dijo: “¡Bendito sea Yahvé que ha defendido mi causa (vengándome) de la afrenta que me hizo Nabal, y ha impedido a su siervo obrar mal! Yahvé ha hecho recaer la maldad de Nabal sobre su misma cabeza.” Después mandó David a decir a Abigail que quería tomarla por mujer.

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 Fueron los siervos de David a Carmel, a Abigail, y hablaron con ella, diciendo: “David nos ha enviado a ti para tomarte por mujer suya.”

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 Con lo cual ella se levantó, e inclinando su rostro hasta la tierra, dijo: “Tu sierva no es más que una sirvienta para lavar los pies de los siervos de mi señor.”

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 Y levantándose Abigail apresuradamente, montó en un asno, y acompañada de cinco criadas suyas que estaban a sus órdenes, siguió a los mensajeros de David, y fue su mujer.

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 tomó también a Ahinoam, de Jesreel, y ambas fueron mujeres suyas.

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

44 Saúl había dado Micol, su hija, mujer de David, a Faltí, hijo de Laís, de Gallim.

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