1 Samuel 25

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 Samuel died, and all Israel gathered to mourn him; they buried him at his home in Ramah.Then David went down to the desert of Maon.	1 ومات صموئيل فاجتمع جميع اسرائيل وندبوه ودفنوه في بيته في الرامة. وقام داود ونزل الى برية فاران
2 There was a man of Maon who had property in Carmel; he was very wealthy, owning three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At this time he was present for the shearing of his flock in Carmel.	2 وكان رجل في معون واملاكه في الكرمل وكان الرجل عظيما جدا وله ثلاثة آلاف من الغنم والف من المعز وكان يجزّ غنمه في الكرمل.
3 The man was named Nabal, his wife, Abigail. The woman was intelligent and attractive, but Nabal himself, a Calebite, was harsh and ungenerous in his behavior.	3 واسم الرجل نابال واسم امرأته ابيجايل. وكانت المرأة جيدة الفهم وجميلة الصورة. واما الرجل فكان قاسيا وردي الاعمال. وهو كالبي.
4 When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his flock,	4 فسمع داود في البرية ان نابال يجزّ غنمه.
5 he sent ten young men, instructing them: "Go up to Carmel. Pay Nabal a visit and greet him in my name.	5 فارسل داود عشرة غلمان وقال داود للغلمان اصعدوا الى الكرمل وادخلوا الى نابال واسألوا باسمي عن سلامته
6 Say to him, 'Peace be with you, my brother, and with your family, and with all who belong to you.	6 وقولوا هكذا. حييت وانت سالم وبيتك سالم وكل ما لك سالم.
7 I have just heard that shearers are with you. Now, when your shepherds were with us, we did them no injury, neither did they miss anything all the while they were in Carmel.	7 والآن قد سمعت ان عندك جزّازين. حين كان رعاتك معنا لم نؤذهم ولم يفقد لهم شيء كل الايام التي كانوا فيها في الكرمل.
8 Ask your servants and they will tell you so. Look kindly on these young men, since we come at a festival time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can manage.'"	8 اسأل غلمانك فيخبروك. فليجد الغلمان نعمة في عينيك لاننا قد جئنا في يوم طيب. فاعط ما وجدته يدك لعبيدك ولابنك داود.
9 When David's young men arrived, they delivered this message fully to Nabal in David's name, and then waited.	9 فجاء الغلمان وكلموا نابال حسب كل هذا الكلام باسم داود وكفّوا.
10 But Nabal answered the servants of David: "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are many servants who run away from their masters.	10 فاجاب نابال عبيد داود وقال من هو داود ومن هو ابن يسّى. قد كثر اليوم العبيد الذين يقحصون كل واحد من امام سيده.
11 Must I take my bread, my wine, my meat that I have slaughtered for my own shearers, and give them to men who come from I know not where?"	11 أآخذ خبزي ومائي وذبيحي الذي ذبحت لجازّي واعطيه لقوم لا اعلم من اين هم.
12 So David's young men retraced their steps and on their return reported to him all that had been said.	12 فتحول غلمان داود الى طريقهم ورجعوا وجاءوا واخبروه حسب كل هذا الكلام.
13 Thereupon David said to his men, "Let everyone gird on his sword." And so everyone, David included, girded on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.	13 فقال داود لرجاله ليتقلد كل واحد منكم سيفه. فتقلد كل واحد سيفه. وتقلد داود ايضا سيفه. وصعد وراء داود نحو اربع مئة رجل ومكث مئتان مع الامتعة.
14 But Nabal's wife Abigail was informed of this by one of the servants, who said: "David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master, but he flew at them screaming.	14 فاخبر ابيجايل امرأة نابال غلام من الغلمان قائلا هوذا داود ارسل رسلا من البرية ليباركوا سيدنا فثار عليهم.
15 Yet these men were very good to us. We were done no injury, neither did we miss anything all the while we were living among them during our stay in the open country.	15 والرجال محسنون الينا جدا فلم نؤذ ولا فقد منا شيء كل ايام ترددنا معهم ونحن في الحقل.
16 For us they were like a rampart night and day the whole time we were pasturing the sheep near them.	16 كانوا سورا لنا ليلا ونهارا كل الايام التي كنا فيها معهم نرعى الغنم.
17 Now, see what you can do, for you must realize that otherwise evil is in store for our master and for his whole family. He is so mean that no one can talk to him."	17 والآن اعلمي وانظري ماذا تعملين لان الشر قد اعد على سيدنا وعلى بيته وهو ابن لئيم لا يمكن الكلام معه
18 Abigail quickly got together two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of pressed raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on asses.	18 فبادرت ابيجايل واخذت مئتي رغيف خبز وزقّي خمر وخمسة خرفان مهيّأة وخمس كيلات من الفريك ومئتي عنقود من الزبيب ومئتي قرص من التين ووضعتها على الحمير
19 She then said to her servants, "Go on ahead; I will follow you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.	19 وقالت لغلمانها اعبروا قدامي هانذا جائية وراءكم. ولم تخبر رجلها نابال.
20 As she came down through a mountain defile riding on an ass, David and his men were also coming down from the opposite direction. When she met them,	20 وفيما هي راكبة على الحمار ونازلة في سترة الجبل اذا بداود ورجاله منحدرون لاستقبالها فصادفتهم.
21 David had just been saying: "Indeed, it was in vain that I guarded all this man's possessions in the desert, so that he missed nothing. He has repaid good with evil.	21 وقال داود انما باطلا حفظت كل ما لهذا في البرية فلم يفقد من كل ما له شيء فكافاني شرا بدل خير.
22 May God do thus and so to David, if by morning I leave a single male alive among all those who belong to him."	22 هكذا يصنع الله لاعداء داود وهكذا يزيد ان ابقيت من كل ما له الى ضوء الصباح بائلا بحائط.
23 As soon as Abigail saw David, she dismounted quickly from the ass and, falling prostrate on the ground before David, did him homage.	23 ولما رأت ابيجايل داود اسرعت ونزلت عن الحمار وسقطت امام داود على وجهها وسجدت الى الارض
24 As she fell at his feet she said: "My lord, let the blame be mine. Please let your handmaid speak to you, and listen to the words of your handmaid.	24 وسقطت على رجليه وقالت عليّ انا يا سيدي هذا الذنب ودع امتك تتكلم في اذنيك واسمع كلام امتك.
25 Let not my lord pay attention to that worthless man Nabal, for he is just like his name. Fool is his name, and he acts the fool. I, your handmaid, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.	25 لا يضعنّ سيدي قلبه على الرجل اللئيم هذا على نابال لان كاسمه هكذا هو. نابال اسمه والحماقة عنده. وانا امتك لم أر غلمان سيدي الذين ارسلتهم.
26 Now, therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and from avenging yourself personally. May your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord become as Nabal!	26 والآن يا سيدي حيّ هو الرب وحية هي نفسك ان الرب قد منعك عن أتيان الدماء وانتقام يدك لنفسك. والآن فليكن كنابال اعداؤك والذين يطلبون الشر لسيدي.
27 Accept this present, then, which your maidservant has brought for my lord, and let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.	27 والآن هذه البركة التي أتت بها جاريتك الى سيدي فلتعط للغلمان السائرين وراء سيدي.
28 Please forgive the transgression of your handmaid, for the LORD shall certainly establish a lasting dynasty for my lord, because your lordship is fighting the battles of the LORD, and there is no evil to be found in you your whole life long.	28 واصفح عن ذنب امتك لان الرب يصنع لسيدي بيتا امينا لان سيدي يحارب حروب الرب ولم يوجد فيك شر كل ايامك.
29 If anyone rises to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God; but may he hurl out the lives of your enemies as from the hollow of a sling.	29 وقد قام رجل ليطاردك ويطلب نفسك ولكن نفس سيدي لتكن محزومة في حزمة الحياة مع الرب الهك واما انفس اعدائك فليرم بها كما من وسط كفّة المقلاع.
30 And when the LORD carries out for my lord the promise of success he has made concerning you, and appoints you as commander over Israel,	30 ويكون عندما يصنع الرب لسيدي حسب كل ما تكلم به من الخير من اجلك ويقيمك رئيسا على اسرائيل
31 you shall not have this as a qualm or burden on your conscience, my lord, for having shed innocent blood or for having avenged yourself personally. When the LORD confers this benefit on your lordship, remember your handmaid."	31 انه لا تكون لك هذه مصدمة ومعثرة قلب لسيدي انك قد سفكت دما عفوا او ان سيدي قد انتقم لنفسه. واذا احسن الرب الى سيدي فاذكر امتك
32 David said to Abigail: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today.	32 فقال داود لابيجايل. مبارك الرب اله اسرائيل الذي ارسلك هذا اليوم لاستقبالي
33 Blessed be your good judgment and blessed be you yourself, who this day have prevented me from shedding blood and from avenging myself personally.	33 ومبارك عقلك ومباركة انت لانك منعتني اليوم من أتيان الدماء وانتقام يدي لنفسي.
34 Otherwise, as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come so promptly to meet me, by dawn Nabal would not have had a single man or boy left alive."	34 ولكن حيّ هو الرب اله اسرائيل الذي منعني عن اذيتك انك لو لم تبادري وتأتي لاستقبالي لما ابقي لنابال الى ضوء الصباح بائل بحائط.
35 David then took from her what she had brought him and said to her: "Go up to your home in peace! See, I have granted your request as a personal favor."	35 فاخذ داود من يدها ما اتت به اليه وقال لها اصعدي بسلام الى بيتك. انظري. قد سمعت لصوتك ورفعت وجهك
36 When Abigail came to Nabal, there was a drinking party in his house like that of a king, and Nabal was merry because he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all before daybreak the next morning.	36 فجاءت ابيجايل الى نابال واذا وليمة عنده في بيته كوليمة ملك. وكان نابال قد طاب قلبه وكان سكران جدا. فلم تخبره بشيء صغير او كبير الى ضوء الصباح.
37 But then, when Nabal had become sober, his wife told him what had happened. At this his courage died within him, and he became like a stone.	37 وفي الصباح عند خروج الخمر من نابال اخبرته امرأته بهذا الكلام فمات قلبه داخله وصار كحجر.
38 About ten days later the LORD struck him and he died.	38 وبعد نحو عشرة ايام ضرب الرب نابال فمات.
39 On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said: "Blessed be the LORD, who has requited the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and who restrained his servant from doing evil, but has punished Nabal for his own evil deeds." David then sent a proposal of marriage to Abigail.	39 فلما سمع داود ان نابال قد مات قال. مبارك الرب الذي انتقم نقمة تعييري من يد نابال وامسك عبده عن الشر ورد الرب شر نابال على راسه. وارسل داود وتكلم مع ابيجايل ليتخذها له امرأة.
40 When David's servants came to Abigail in Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you that he may take you as his wife."	40 فجاء عبيد داود الى ابيجايل الى الكرمل وكلموها قائلين ان داود قد ارسلنا اليك لكي نتخذك له امرأة.
41 Rising and bowing to the ground, she answered, "Your handmaid would become a slave to wash the feet of my lord's servants."	41 فقامت وسجدت على وجهها الى الارض وقالت هوذا امتك جارية لغسل ارجل عبيد سيدي.
42 She got up immediately, mounted an ass, and followed David's messengers, with her five maids following in attendance upon her. She became his wife,	42 ثم بادرت وقامت ابيجايل وركبت الحمار مع خمس فتيات لها ذاهبات وراءها وسارت وراء رسل داود وصارت له امرأة.
43 and David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. Thus both of them were his wives; but Saul gave David's wife Michal, Saul's own daughter, to Palti, son of Laish, who was from Gallim.	43 ثم اخذ داود اخينوعم من يزرعيل فكانتا له كلتاهما امرأتين.
	44 فاعطى شاول ميكال ابنته امرأة داود لفلطي بن لايش الذي من جلّيم