Primo libro di Samuele 11

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Ascendit autem Naas Am monites et pugnare coepit ad versum Iabes Galaad. Dixeruntque omnes viri Iabes ad Naas: “ Habeto nos foederatos, et serviemus tibi ”.	1 About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite marched up and laid siege to Jabesh in Gilead. Al themen of Jabesh said to Nahash, 'Make a treaty with us and we wil be your subjects.'
2 Et respondit ad eos Naas Ammonites: “ In hoc feriam vobiscum foedus, ut eruam omnium vestrum oculos dextros ponamque vos opprobrium in universo Israel ”.	2 Nahash the Ammonite replied, 'I shal make a treaty with you only on this condition, that I put out alyour right eyes, and I wil make it a taunt to the whole of Israel.'
3 Et dixerunt ad eum seniores Iabes: “ Concede nobis septem dies, ut mittamus nuntios in universos terminos Israel; et, si non fuerit qui defendat nos, egrediemur ad te ”.	3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, 'Give us seven days' grace while we send messengers throughoutthe territory of Israel, and if no one comes to our help, we wil come out to you.'
4 Venerunt ergo nuntii in Gabaa Saulis et locuti sunt verba audiente populo; et levavit omnis populus vocem suam et flevit.	4 The messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and reported this to the people, and al the people weptaloud.
5 Et ecce Saul veniebat sequens boves de agro et ait: “ Quid habet populus quod plorat? ”. Et narraverunt ei verba virorum Iabes.	5 Now Saul was just then coming in from the fields behind his oxen, and he said, 'What is wrong? Whyare the people weeping?' They explained to him what the men of Jabesh had said.
6 Et insilivit spiritus Domini in Saul, cum audisset verba haec; et iratus est furor eius nimis.	6 And the spirit of Yahweh seized on Saul when he heard these words, and he fel into a fury.
7 Et assumens par boum concidit in frusta misitque in omnes terminos Israel per manum nuntiorum dicens: “ Quicumque non exierit secutusque fuerit Saul et Samuel, sic fiet bobus eius ”. Invasit ergo timor Domini populum, et egressi sunt quasi vir unus.	7 He took a yoke of oxen, cut them into pieces and sent these by messengers throughout the territory ofIsrael with these words, 'Anyone who wil not march with Saul wil have the same done to his oxen!' At this, apanic from Yahweh swept on the people and they marched out as one man.
8 Et recensuit eos in Bezec: fueruntque filiorum Israel trecenta milia; virorum autem Iudae triginta milia.	8 Saul inspected them at Bezek; there were three hundred thousand of Israel and thirty thousand ofJudah.
9 Et dixit nuntiis, qui venerant: “ Sic dicetis viris, qui sunt in Iabes Galaad: Cras erit vobis salus, cum incaluerit sol ”. Venerunt ergo nuntii et annuntiaverunt viris Iabes, qui laetati sunt	9 Then he said to the messengers who had come, 'This is what you are to say to the people of Jabeshin Gilead, "Tomorrow, by the time that the sun is hot, help wil reach you." ' The messengers went and reportedthis to the people of Jabesh who were overjoyed;
10 et dixerunt: “Mane exibimus ad vos, et facietis nobis omne, quod placuerit vobis ”.	10 they said to Nahash, 'Tomorrow we shal come out to you and you can do whatever you like to us.'
11 Et factum est, cum venisset dies crastinus, constituit Saul populum in tres partes; et ingressi sunt media castra in vigilia matutina et percusserunt Ammon, usque dum incalesceret dies. Reliqui autem dispersi sunt, ita ut non relinquerentur in eis duo pariter.	11 The next day, Saul disposed the army in three contingents, which burst into the middle of the campduring the dawn watch and slaughtered the Ammonites until high noon. The survivors were so scattered that notwo of them were left together.
12 Et ait populus ad Samuel: “ Quis est iste qui dixit: “Saul num regnabit super nos?”. Date viros, et interficiemus eos ”.	12 The people then said to Samuel, 'Who said, "Must we have Saul reigning over us?" Hand the menover, for us to put them to death.'
13 Et ait Saul: “ Non occidetur quisquam in die hac, quia hodie fecit Dominus salutem in Israel”.	13 'No one must be put to death today,' Saul said, 'for today Yahweh has intervened to rescue Israel.'
14 Dixit autem Samuel ad populum: “ Venite, et eamus in Galgala et innovemus ibi regnum ”.	14 Samuel then said to the people, 'Let us now go to Gilgal and reaffirm the monarchy there.'
15 Et perrexit omnis populus in Galgala, et fecerunt ibi regem Saul coram Domino in Galgala; et immolaverunt ibi victimas pacificas coram Domino. Et laetatus est ibi Saul et cuncti viri Israel nimis.	15 The people then al went to Gilgal. And there, at Gilgal, they proclaimed Saul king before Yahweh;they offered communion sacrifices before Yahweh, and there Saul and al the people of Israel gave themselvesover to great rejoicing.