I Livro de Samuel 25

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1 Samuel morreu. Todo o Israel se juntou para chorá-lo. Sepultaram-no na sua propriedade em Ramá. E Davi retirou-se para o deserto de Farã.	1 Then Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered together, and they mourned him. And they buried him at his house in Ramah. And David, rising up, descended to the desert of Paran.
2 Havia um homem em Maon cujas propriedades estavam em Carmelo. Era um homem muito rico: possuía três mil ovelhas e mil cabras. Ele encontrava-se então em Carmelo para a tosquia de suas ovelhas.	2 Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were at Carmel. And this man was exceedingly great. And three thousand sheep, and one thousand goats were his. And it happened that he was shearing his sheep at Carmel.
3 Chamava-se Nabal, e sua esposa Abigail, mulher de grande inteligência e formosura. Ele, porém, era grosseiro e mau; descendia de Caleb.	3 Now the name of this man was Nabal. And the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a very prudent and beautiful woman. But her husband was hard-hearted, and very wicked, and malicious. And he was of the stock of Caleb.
4 Davi, no deserto, sabendo que Nabal tosquiava o seu rebanho,	4 Therefore, when David, in the desert, had heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
5 mandou-lhe dez homens com esta ordem: Subi a Carmelo e dirigi-vos a Nabal,	5 he sent ten young men, and he said to them: “Ascend to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name peacefully.
6 saudando-o em meu nome e dizendo-lhe: Pela vida! A paz seja contigo! Paz à tua casa e paz a todos os teus bens!	6 And you shall say: ‘Peace be to my brothers and to you, and peace to your house, and peace to whatever you have.
7 Soube que há tosquia em tua casa. Ora, os teus pastores estiveram perto de nós e nunca lhes fizemos mal algum. Nada lhes faltou durante todo o tempo que ficaram em Carmelo.	7 I have heard that your shepherds, who were with us in the desert, were shearing. We have never troubled them, nor was anything from the flock missing to them at any time, during the entire time that they have been with us in Carmel.
8 Pergunta-o aos teus servos e eles to dirão. Que os meus encontrem agora graça aos teus olhos, porque chegamos em um dia de festa. Rogo-te que dês aos teus servos e ao teu filho Davi o que tiveres à mão.	8 Question your servants, and they will tell you. Now therefore, may your servants find favor in your eyes. For we have arrived on a good day. Whatever your hand will find, give it to your servants and to your son David.’ ”
9 Os homens de Davi foram e repetiram a Nabal todas estas palavras em nome de Davi, e ficaram esperando.	9 And when the servants of David had arrived, they spoke to Nabal all these words in the name of David. And then they were silent.
10 Nabal, porém, respondeu-lhes: Quem é Davi? E quem é o filho de Isaí? Há hoje muitos escravos que fogem da casa de seus senhores!	10 But Nabal, responding to the servants of David, said: “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, servants who are fleeing from their lords are increasing.
11 Irei eu tomar meu pão, minha água e a carne que preparei para os meus tosquiadores, e dá-los a homens que vêm não se sabe de onde?	11 Therefore, shall I take my bread, and my water, and the meat of the cattle that I have slain for my shearers, and give it to men, when I do not know where they are from?”
12 Os servos de Davi retomaram o caminho e voltaram. Ao chegarem, contaram tudo ao seu senhor.	12 And so the servants of David traveled back along their way. And returning, they went and reported to him all the words that he had said.
13 Então disse Davi aos seus homens: Cinja cada um a sua espada! Todos o fizeram, inclusive Davi. Cerca de quatrocentos homens seguiram Davi, ficando duzentos com as bagagens.	13 Then David said to his servants, “Let each one gird his sword.” And each one girded his sword. And David also girded his sword. And about four hundred men followed David. But two hundred remained behind with the supplies.
14 Mas Abigail, mulher de Nabal, fora informada por um dos servos de seu marido: Davi mandou, do deserto, mensageiros para saudar o nosso amo, mas ele os recebeu mal.	14 Then it was reported to Abigail, the wife of Nabal, by one of his servants, saying: “Behold, David has sent messengers from the desert, so that they might speak kindly to our lord. But he turned them away.
15 No entanto, esses homens nos trataram sempre muito bem, e jamais nos fizeram mal algum, nem nos causaram prejuízo durante todo o tempo que estivemos com eles no campo.	15 These men were good enough to us, and were not troublesome. Neither did we ever lose anything, during the entire time that we conversed with them in the desert.
16 Pelo contrário, serviram-nos de defesa, dia e noite, durante todo o tempo em que estivemos com eles apascentando os rebanhos.	16 They were a wall to us, as much in the night as in the day, during all the days that we were with them, pasturing the sheep.
17 Vê, pois, o que tens a fazer, porque nosso amo e toda a sua casa está ameaçada de ruína, e ele é um malvado com quem não se pode falar.	17 For this reason, consider and realize what you should do. For evil has been decided against your husband and against your house. And he is a son of Belial, so that no one is able to speak to him.”
18 Apressou-se então Abigail, e tomou duzentos pães, dois odres de vinho, cinco cordeiros preparados, cinco medidas de grão torrado, cem tortas de uvas secas, duzentas de figos secos, colocando tudo em cima de jumentos.	18 And so Abigail hurried, and she took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five cooked sheep, and five measures of cooked grain, and one hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred masses of dried figs, and she set them upon donkeys.
19 E disse aos seus servos: Ide adiante de mim; eu vos seguirei. Mas não disse nada a Nabal, seu marido.	19 And she said to her servants: “Go before me. Behold, I will follow after your back.” But she did not reveal it to her husband, Nabal.
20 Quando descia por um caminho secreto da montanha, montada num jumento, encontrou Davi com os seus homens que vinham em sentido inverso.	20 And when she had climbed on a donkey, and was descending to the base of the mountain, David and his men were descending to meet her. And she met them.
21 Ora, Davi dissera: Em vão, pois, guardei tudo o que esse homem possuía no deserto, sem que lhe fosse tirada coisa alguma! E ele paga-me o bem com o mal.	21 And David said: “Truly, in vain have I preserved all that was his in the wilderness, so that nothing perished out of all that belonged to him. And he has repaid evil to me for good.
22 Deus trate com todo o seu rigor os inimigos de Davi! E que ele não me poupe, se de hoje até amanhã eu deixar vivo um só homem de tudo o que pertence a Nabal!	22 May God do these things, by the enemies of David, and may he add these other things, if I leave behind until morning, out of all that belongs to him, anything that urinates against a wall.”
23 Quando Abigail avistou Davi, desceu prontamente do jumento e prostrou-se com o rosto por terra diante dele.	23 Then, when Abigail had seen David, she hurried and descended from the donkey. And she fell upon her face before David, and she reverenced on the ground.
24 Assim prostrada aos seus pés, disse-lhe: Sobre mim, meu senhor, caia a culpa! Deixa falar a tua serva e ouve suas palavras.	24 And she fell at his feet, and she said: “May this iniquity be upon me, my lord. I beg you, let your handmaid speak to your ears, and listen to the words of your servant.
25 Que o meu senhor não faça caso desse malvado Nabal, pois ele é bem o que o seu nome indica: Nabal, louco; e ele o é. Mas eu, tua escrava, não vi os homens que o meu senhor mandou.	25 Let not my lord, the king, I beseech you, set his heart upon this iniquitous man, Nabal. For in accord with his name, he is senseless, and foolishness is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see your servants, my lord, whom you had sent.
26 Agora, por Deus e por tua vida: foi o Senhor quem te impediu de derramar sangue e de te vingar por tua mão. Sejam como Nabal os teus inimigos e os que procuram fazer mal ao meu senhor.	26 Now therefore, my lord, as your soul lives, and as the Lord lives, who has kept your hand to yourself, and has prevented you from coming to blood: now, let your enemies be like Nabal, and like all those who are seeking evil for my lord.
27 Aceita, pois, este presente que tua serva trouxe ao meu senhor, e reparte-o entre os homens que te seguem.	27 Because of this, accept this blessing, which your handmaid has brought to you, my lord. And give it to the young men who follow you, my lord.
28 Rogo-te que perdoes a culpa de tua serva. Certamente o Senhor dará à casa de meu senhor uma existência durável, porque o meu senhor combate nas guerras de Deus, e nenhum mal te atingirá em todos os dias de tua vida.	28 Forgive the iniquity of your handmaid. For the Lord will surely make for you, my lord, a faithful house, because you, my lord, fight the battles of the Lord. Therefore, let no evil be found in you all the days of your life.
29 Se alguém te perseguir ou conspirar contra a tua vida, a alma de meu senhor será guardada no escrínio dos vivos junto do Senhor, teu Deus, enquanto a vida de teus inimigos será lançada pelo Senhor ao longe, como a pedra de uma funda.	29 For if a man, at any time, will rise up, pursuing you and seeking your life, the life of my lord will be preserved, as if in the sheave of the living, with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies will be spun around, as if with the force of a whirling sling.
30 Quando o Senhor tiver feito ao meu senhor todo o bem que lhe prometeu, e te tiver estabelecido chefe sobre Israel,	30 Therefore, when the Lord will have done for you, my lord, all the good that he has spoken about you, and when he will have appointed you as leader over Israel,
31 não terás no coração este pesar, nem este remorso de ter derramado sangue sem motivo e de se ter vingado por si mesmo! Quando o Senhor te tiver feito bem, ó meu Senhor, lembra-te de tua serva.	31 this will not be for you a regret or a scruple of the heart, my lord, that you had shed innocent blood, or had taken revenge for yourself. And when the Lord will have done well for my lord, you shall remember your handmaid.”
32 Davi respondeu a Abigail: Bendito seja o Senhor, Deus de Israel, que te mandou hoje ao meu encontro!	32 And David said to Abigail: “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me. And blessed is your eloquence.
33 Bendita seja a tua prudência! E bendita sejas tu mesma, que me impediste hoje de derramar sangue e vingar-me pela minha mão!	33 And blessed are you, who prevented me today from going to blood, and from taking revenge for myself with my own hand.
34 Mas, pelo Senhor, Deus de Israel, que me impediu de te fazer mal, se não tivesses vindo tão depressa ao meu encontro, nada teria ficado de Nabal até amanhã cedo, nem mesmo o último homem!	34 But instead, as the Lord God of Israel lives, he has prevented me from doing evil to you. But if you had not come quickly to meet me, there would not have been left to Nabal by the morning light, anything that urinates against a wall.”
35 Davi aceitou o que lhe trazia Abigail e ajuntou: Volta em paz para a tua casa. Vê que te ouvi e te fiz boa acolhida.	35 Then David received from her hand all that she had brought to him. And he said to her: “Go in peace to your own house. Behold, I have heeded your voice, and I have honored your face.”
36 Quando Abigail chegou à casa de Nabal, havia em sua casa um grande banquete, um verdadeiro festim de rei. Nabal tinha o coração alegre e estava completamente ébrio. Por isso nada lhe disse, nem pouco nem muito, até ao amanhecer.	36 Then Abigail went to Nabal. And behold, he was holding a feast for himself in his house, like the feast of a king. And the heart of Nabal was cheerful. For he was greatly inebriated. And she did not reveal a word to him, small or great, until morning.
37 Mas pela manhã, tendo Nabal curtido o seu vinho, sua mulher contou-lhe tudo. Seu coração gelou-se no peito e ele tornou-se como uma pedra.	37 Then, at first light, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife revealed to him these words, and his heart died within himself, and he became like a stone.
38 Dez dias depois Nabal, ferido pelo Senhor, morreu.	38 And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 Tendo Davi notícia da morte de Nabal, exclamou: Bendito seja o Senhor que me fez justiça do ultraje recebido de sua mão, e impediu-me de fazer-lhe mal! O Senhor fez cair sobre sua cabeça a sua própria maldade! Depois disso Davi mandou propor a Abigail tornar-se sua mulher.	39 And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: “Blessed is the Lord, who has judged the case of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and who has preserved his servant from evil. And the Lord has repaid the malice of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent and he spoke with Abigail, so that he might take her to himself as wife.
40 Seus servos, chegando a Carmelo, disseram-lhe: Davi mandou-nos a ti, porque deseja tomar-te por mulher.	40 And David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, so that he might take you to himself as wife.”
41 Levantou-se então Abigail e prostrou-se com o rosto por terra, dizendo: Eis a tua serva, que será uma escrava para lavar os pés dos servos de meu Senhor.	41 And rising up, she reverenced prone on the ground, and she said, “Behold, let your servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42 Levantou-se depressa, montou num jumento e, seguida de cinco moças, partiu com os enviados de Davi para tornar-se sua mulher.	42 And Abigail rose up and hurried, and she climbed upon a donkey, and five girls went with her, her attendants. And she followed the messengers of David, and she became his wife.
43 Davi desposara também Aquinoã, de Jezrael, e ambas foram suas mulheres.	43 Moreover, David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. And both of them were his wives.
44 Quanto à sua mulher Micol, filha de Saul, este a tinha dado por esposa a Falti, de Galim, filho de Lais.	44 Then Saul gave his daughter Michal, the wife of David, to Palti, the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.