2 Samuel 21

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Biblia Sagrada
1 During David's reign there was a famine for three successive years. David had recourse to the LORD, who said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death."	1 David emprendió el camino, mientras Jonatán entraba en la ciudad.
2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but survivors of the Amorites; and although the Israelites had given them their oath, Saul had attempted to kill them off in his zeal for the men of Israel and Judah.)	2 David llegó a Nob, donde se encontraba el sacerdote Ajimélec. Este salió con miedo a su encuentro, y le preguntó: «¿Cómo vienes solo y sin compañía?».
3 David said to the Gibeonites, "What must I do for you and how must I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?"	3 David le respondió: «El rey me ha dado órdenes, diciéndome: “Nadie sepa nada del asunto al que te envío y de lo que te he ordenado”. A los criados, los he citado en tal lugar.
4 The Gibeonites answered him, "We have no claim against Saul and his house for silver or gold, nor is it our place to put any man to death in Israel." Then he said, "I will do for you whatever you propose."	4 Y bien, ¿qué tienes a mano? Dame cinco panes o lo que haya».
5 They said to the king, "As for the man who was exterminating us and who intended to destroy us that we might have no place in all the territory of Israel,	5 El sacerdote le dijo: «No tengo a mano pan común, sino pan consagrado; bastaría con que los criados se hayan guardado al menos de mujer».
6 let seven men from among his descendants be given to us, that we may dismember them before the LORD in Gibeon, on the LORD'S mountain." The king replied, "I will give them up."	6 David le respondió: «Ciertamente. Siempre que salgo a luchar, nos abstenemos de mujeres y los criados se mantienen puros. Aunque es un viaje profano, hoy están puros sus cuerpos».
7 The king, however, spared Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that formed a bond between David and Saul's son Jonathan.	7 El sacerdote le entregó el pan consagrado, pues no había otro pan que el de la proposición, que se retira de la presencia del Señor para poner pan reciente ese día.
8 But the king took Armoni and Meribbaal, the two sons that Aiah's daughter Rizpah had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merob that she had borne to Adriel, son of Barzillai the Meholathite,	8 Aquel día se encontraba allí uno de los servidores de Saúl, detenido ante el Señor. Se llamaba Doeg, edomita, jefe de los pastores de Saúl.
9 and surrendered them to the Gibeonites. They then dismembered them on the mountain before the LORD. The seven fell at the one time; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest--that is, at the beginning of the barley harvest.	9 David preguntó a Ajimélec: «No hay por aquí a mano una lanza o una espada? Pues ni siquiera cogí la espada ni las armas, por tratarse de un asunto urgente del rey».
10 Then Rizpah, Aiah's daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until rain came down on them from the sky, fending off the birds of the sky from settling on them by day, and the wild animals by night.	10 El sacerdote respondió: «Ahí está la espada de Goliat, el filisteo, al que mataste en el valle del Terebinto, envuelta en un paño, detrás del efod. Si la quieres, cógela, ya que aquí no hay más que esa». David dijo: «No hay otra mejor. Dámela».
11 When David was informed of what Rizpah, Aiah's daughter, the concubine of Saul, had done,	11 David emprendió aquel día la huida lejos de la presencia de Saúl y llegó adonde estaba Aquís, rey de Gat.
12 he went and obtained the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead, who had carried them off secretly from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them at the time they killed Saul on Gilboa.	12 Los servidores de Aquís le dijeron: «¡Oh rey del país! ¿No es este David, de quien se cantaba en los corros:“Saúl mató a mil, | David a diez mil”?».
13 When he had brought up from there the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan, the bones of those who had been dismembered were also gathered up.	13 David se dio cuenta del comentario y sintió mucho miedo de Aquís, rey de Gat.
14 Then the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan were buried in the tomb of his father Kish at Zela in the territory of Benjamin. After all that the king commanded had been carried out, God granted relief to the land.	14 Entonces fingió ante él tener perturbada la razón. Tambaleándose ante ellos, hacía signos en las hojas del portón, dejando caer la baba sobre la barba.
15 There was another battle between the Philistines and Israel. David went down with his servants and fought the Philistines, but David grew tired.	15 Aquís dijo a sus servidores: «¿No veis que es un hombre que está loco? ¿Por qué me lo habéis traído?
16 Dadu, one of the Rephaim, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels, was about to take him captive. Dadu was girt with a new sword and planned to kill David,	16 ¿Necesito yo locos, para que me hayáis traído a este a hacer locuras delante a mí? ¿Pensáis que va a entrar a mi servicio?».
17 but Abishai, son of Zeruiah, came to his assistance and struck and killed the Philistine. Then David's men swore to him, "You must not go out to battle with us again, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."
18 After this there was another battle with the Philistines in Gob. On that occasion Sibbecai, from Husha, killed Saph, one of the Rephaim.
19 There was another battle with the Philistines in Gob, in which Elhanan, son of Jair from Bethlehem, killed Goliath of Gath, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's heddle-bar.
20 There was another battle at Gath in which there was a man of large stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot--twenty-four in all. He too was one of the Rephaim.
21 And when he insulted Israel, Jonathan, son of David's brother Shimei, killed him.
22 These four were Rephaim in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his servants.