| 1 David emprendió el camino, mientras Jonatán entraba en la ciudad. | 1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. |
| 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?». | 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) |
| 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. | 3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? |
| 4 Y bien, ¿qué tienes a mano? Dame cinco panes o lo que haya». | 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. |
| 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». | 5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, |
| 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». | 6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. |
| 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. | 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. |
| 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. | 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: |
| 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». | 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. |
| 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». | 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. |
| 11 David emprendió aquel día la huida lejos de la presencia de Saúl y llegó adonde estaba Aquís, rey de Gat. | 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. |
| 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”?». | 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: |
| 13 David se dio cuenta del comentario y sintió mucho miedo de Aquís, rey de Gat. | 13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. |
| 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. | 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. |
| 15 Aquís dijo a sus servidores: «¿No veis que es un hombre que está loco? ¿Por qué me lo habéis traído? | 15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. |
| 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?». | 16 And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. |
| 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. |
| 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. |
| 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. |
| 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. |
| 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him. |
| 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. |
