2 Samweli 19
1 Yoabu akaambiwa, “Mfalme analia na kumwombolezea Absalomu.”
And word was given to Joab that the king was weeping and sorrowing for Absalom.
2 Kwa jeshi lote, ushindi wa siku ile ukageuka kuwa maombolezo, kwa sababu siku ile vikosi vilisikia ikisemwa, “Mfalme anahuzunika kwa ajili ya mwanawe.”
And the salvation of that day was changed to sorrow for all the people: for it was said to the people, The king is in bitter grief for his son.
3 Siku ile watu wakaingia mjini kimya kama vile waingiavyo kwa aibu watu waliokimbia kutoka vitani.
And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.
4 Mfalme akafunika uso wake akalia kwa sauti, akisema, “Ee mwanangu Absalomu! Ee Absalomu, mwanangu, mwanangu!”
But the king, covering his face, gave a great cry, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
5 Kisha Yoabu akaingia ndani ya nyumba ya mfalme na kusema, “Leo umewaaibisha watu wako wote, waliookoa maisha yako, maisha ya wanao na binti zako, maisha ya wake zako na masuria wako.
And Joab came into the house to the king and said, Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants who even now have kept you and your sons and your daughters and your wives and all your women safe from death;
6 Unawapenda wale wanaokuchukia, na unawachukia wale wanaokupenda. Leo umeonyesha wazi kwamba majemadari wako na watu wao hawana maana kwako. Naona kwamba ungefurahi kama Absalomu angekuwa hai leo na sisi sote tuwe tumekufa.
For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.
7 Sasa utoke nje ukawatie moyo watu wako. Naapa kwa Bwana kwamba ikiwa hutatoka nje, hakuna mtu atakayesalia pamoja nawe ifikapo leo jioni. Hii itakuwa mbaya zaidi kwako kuliko maafa yote yaliyokupata tangu ujana wako hadi sasa.”
So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.
8 Kwa hiyo mfalme akaondoka akaketi kitini pake penye lango. Watu walipoambiwa, “Mfalme ameketi langoni,” watu wote wakamjia. Wakati huo, Waisraeli walikuwa wamekimbilia nyumbani kwao.
Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.
9 Katika makabila yote ya Israeli, watu walikuwa wanabishana wao kwa wao, wakisema, “Mfalme alituokoa kutoka mikononi mwa adui zetu; ndiye alituokoa kutoka mikononi mwa Wafilisti. Lakini sasa mfalme ameikimbia nchi kwa sababu ya Absalomu,
And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.
10 naye Absalomu, tuliyemtia mafuta atutawale, amekufa vitani. Basi mbona hamsemi lolote kuhusu kumrudisha mfalme?”
And Absalom, whom we made a ruler over us, is dead in the fight. So now why do you say nothing about getting the king back? And word of what all Israel was saying came to the king.
11 Mfalme Daudi akapeleka ujumbe huu kwa makuhani Sadoki na Abiathari, kusema: “Waulizeni wazee wa Yuda, ‘Kwa nini mwe wa mwisho kumrudisha mfalme katika jumba lake la kifalme, maadamu kile kinachosemwa katika Israeli yote kimemfikia mfalme katika makao yake?
And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?
12 Ninyi ni ndugu zangu, nyama yangu na damu yangu mwenyewe. Kwa hiyo kwa nini mwe wa mwisho kumrudisha mfalme?’
You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?
13 Nanyi mwambieni Amasa, ‘Je, wewe si nyama yangu mwenyewe na damu yangu? Mungu na anishughulikie, tena kwa ukali, kama kuanzia sasa na kuendelea wewe si jemadari wa jeshi langu mahali pa Yoabu.’”
And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!
14 Aliipata mioyo ya watu wote wa Yuda kama vile walikuwa mtu mmoja. Wakapeleka ujumbe kwa mfalme, kusema, “Rudi, wewe na watu wako wote.”
And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.
15 Ndipo mfalme akarudi, akaenda hadi kufikia Mto Yordani. Basi watu wa Yuda walikuwa wamekuja mpaka Gilgali ili kutoka kwenda kumlaki mfalme na kumvusha Mto Yordani.
So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.
16 Shimei mwana wa Gera, wa kabila la Benyamini kutoka Bahurimu, akaharakisha kuteremka pamoja na watu wa Yuda ili kumlaki Mfalme Daudi.
And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, got up quickly and went down with the men of Judah for the purpose of meeting King David;
17 Pamoja naye walikuwepo Wabenyamini elfu moja wakiwa wamefuatana na Siba, msimamizi wa nyumba ya Sauli, pia wanawe kumi na watano, na watumishi ishirini. Wakaharakisha kwenda Yordani, mahali mfalme alipokuwa.
And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,
18 Wakavuka kivuko ili kuwachukua watu wa nyumbani mwa mfalme ili kuwavusha na kufanya kila kitu alichotaka. Shimei mwana wa Gera alipovuka Yordani, akaanguka kifudifudi mbele ya mfalme,
And kept going across the river to take the people of the king's house over, and to do whatever was desired by the king. And Shimei, the son of Gera, went down on his face in the dust before the king, when he was about to go over Jordan,
19 na kumwambia, “Bwana wangu na asinihesabie hatia. Usikumbuke jinsi mtumishi wako alivyofanya kosa siku ile bwana wangu mfalme alipoondoka Yerusalemu. Mfalme aliondoe moyoni mwake.
And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.
20 Kwa maana mimi mtumishi wako najua nimefanya dhambi, lakini leo nimekuja hapa kama wa kwanza wa nyumba yote ya Yosefu kushuka na kumlaki bwana wangu mfalme.”
For your servant is conscious of his sin: and so, as you see, I have come today, the first of all the sons of Joseph, for the purpose of meeting my lord the king.
21 Ndipo Abishai mwana wa Seruya akasema, “Je, Shimei hapaswi kuuawa kwa ajili ya hili? Alimlaani mpakwa mafuta wa Bwana.”
But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said, Is not death the right fate for Shimei, because he has been cursing the one marked by the holy oil?
22 Daudi akajibu, “Mimi nina nini nanyi, enyi wana wa Seruya? Leo hii mmekuwa adui zangu! Je, leo kuna yeyote atakayeuawa katika Israeli? Je, mimi sijui kuwa leo ndimi mfalme katika Israeli yote?”
And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you put yourselves against me today? is it right for any man in Israel to be put to death today? for I am certain today that I am king in Israel.
23 Basi mfalme akamwambia Shimei, “Hutakufa.” Naye mfalme akamwahidi kwa kiapo.
So the king said to Shimei, You will not be put to death. And the king gave him his oath.
24 Pia Mefiboshethi mwana wa Sauli akashuka kwenda kumlaki mfalme. Hakuwa amenawa miguu wala kunyoa ndevu zake wala kufua nguo zake tangu siku mfalme alipoondoka Yerusalemu mpaka siku aliporudi ile salama.
And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.
25 Wakati alipotoka Yerusalemu kuja kumlaki mfalme, mfalme akamuuliza, “Mefiboshethi, kwa nini hukufuatana nami?”
Now when he had come from Jerusalem to see the king, the king said to him, Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?
26 Akasema, “Bwana wangu mfalme, maadamu mimi mtumishi wako ni kiwete, nilisema, ‘Nitandikiwe punda wangu, nimpande, ili niweze kwenda pamoja na mfalme.’ Lakini Siba mtumishi wangu akanisaliti.
And he said in answer, Because of the deceit of my servant, my lord king: for I, your servant, said to him, You are to make ready an ass and on it I will go with the king, for your servant has not the use of his feet.
27 Naye amemchongea mtumishi wako kwa bwana wangu mfalme. Bwana wangu mfalme ni kama malaika wa Mungu, kwa hiyo fanya lolote linalokupendeza.
He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.
28 Wazao wote wa baba yangu hawastahili kitu kingine isipokuwa kifo kutoka kwa bwana wangu mfalme, lakini ulimpa mtumishi wako nafasi miongoni mwa wale waliokula mezani pako. Je, ninayo haki gani kumwomba mfalme zaidi ya hayo?”
For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?
29 Mfalme akamwambia, “Kwa nini useme zaidi? Naamuru wewe na Siba mgawanye mashamba.”
And the king said, Say nothing more about these things. I say, Let there be a division of the land between Ziba and you.
30 Mefiboshethi akamwambia mfalme, “Mruhusu achukue kila kitu, kwa kuwa sasa bwana wangu mfalme amerudi nyumbani salama.”
And Mephibosheth said, Let him take it all, now that my lord the king has come back to his house in peace!
31 Barzilai, Mgileadi, pia akashuka kutoka Rogelimu ili kuvuka Yordani pamoja na mfalme na kumsindikiza kutoka huko.
And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went on as far as Jordan with the king to take him across Jordan.
32 Basi Barzilai alikuwa mzee sana mwenye umri wa miaka themanini. Alikuwa amempatia mfalme mahitaji wakati alipokuwa anaishi huko Mahanaimu, kwa kuwa alikuwa mtu tajiri sana.
Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
33 Mfalme akamwambia Barzilai, “Vuka pamoja nami na ukae nami huko Yerusalemu, nami nitakupatia mahitaji yako.”
And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem.
34 Lakini Barzilai akamjibu mfalme, “Je, nitaishi miaka mingine mingapi, hata nipande kwenda Yerusalemu pamoja na mfalme?
And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?
35 Sasa nina miaka themanini. Je, naweza kutofautisha kati ya lililo jema na lililo baya? Je, mtumishi wako anaweza kujua ladha ya kile anachokula au anachokunywa? Je, bado naweza kusikiliza sauti za waimbaji wa kiume na za wanawake? Kwa nini mtumishi wako aongeze mzigo kwa bwana wangu mfalme?
I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?
36 Mtumishi wako atavuka Yordani pamoja na mfalme kwa umbali mfupi tu, lakini kwa nini mfalme anizawadie kwa namna hii?
Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?
37 Mruhusu mtumishi wako arudi, ili mimi nikafie katika mji wangu mwenyewe karibu na kaburi la baba yangu na mama yangu. Lakini yupo hapa mtumishi wako Kimhamu. Mruhusu avuke pamoja na bwana wangu mfalme. Mtendee lolote linalokupendeza.”
Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.
38 Mfalme akamwambia Barzilai, “Kimhamu atavuka Yordani pamoja nami, nami nitamtendea lolote litakalokupendeza. Nawe kitu chochote unachotaka kutoka kwangu nitakutendea.”
And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.
39 Kwa hiyo watu wote wakavuka Yordani, kisha mfalme akavuka. Mfalme akambusu Barzilai na kumbariki; Barzilai akarudi nyumbani kwake.
Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.
40 Mfalme alipovuka kwenda Gilgali, Kimhamu akavuka pamoja naye. Vikosi vyote vya Yuda na nusu ya vikosi vya Israeli vilimvusha mfalme.
So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him: and all the people of Judah, as well as half the people of Israel, took the king on his way.
41 Baada ya kitambo kidogo watu wote wa Israeli wakaja kwa mfalme na kumwambia, “Kwa nini ndugu zetu, watu wa Yuda, wamemrudisha mfalme kwa siri bila kutushirikisha, na kumvusha ngʼambo ya Yordani, yeye na nyumba yake, pamoja na watu wake wote?”
Then the men of Israel came to the king and said, Why have our countrymen of Judah taken you away in secret and come over Jordan with the king and all his family, because all his people are David's men?
42 Watu wote wa Yuda wakawajibu watu wa Israeli, “Tulifanya hivi kwa sababu mfalme ni jamaa yetu wa karibu. Kwa nini mnakasirikia jambo hili? Je, tumekula kitu chochote cha mfalme? Je, tumejichukulia kitu chochote kwa ajili yetu wenyewe?”
And all the men of Judah gave this answer to the men of Israel, Because the king is our near relation: why then are you angry about this? have we taken any of the king's food, or has he given us any offering?
43 Ndipo watu wa Israeli wakawajibu watu wa Yuda, “Tunayo haki mara kumi kwa mfalme; sisi tunahusika zaidi na Daudi kuliko ninyi. Kwa nini basi mnatudharau? Je, hatukuwa wa kwanza kuzungumza kuhusu kumrudisha mfalme nyumbani?” Lakini watu wa Yuda wakajibu kwa ukali hata zaidi kuliko watu wa Israeli.
And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.
