Secondo libro di Samuele 21

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Facta est fames in diebus David tribus annis iugiter. Et consuluit David oraculum Domini, dixitque Dominus: “ Super Saul et super domum eius est sanguis, quia occidit Gabaonitas ”.	1 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slew the Gabaonites.
2 Vocatis ergo Gabaonitis, rex dixit ad eos — porro Gabaonitae non sunt de filiis Israel, sed reliquiae Amorraeorum; filii quippe Israel iuraverant eis, sed voluit Saul percutere eos zelo suo pro filiis Israel et Iudae —;	2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: I and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)
3 dixit ergo David ad Gabaonitas: “ Quid faciam vobis? Et quod erit vestri piaculum, ut benedicatis hereditati Domini? ”.	3 David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you? and what shall be the atonement for you, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
4 Dixeruntque ei Gabaonitae: “ Non est nobis super argento et auro quaestio contra Saul et contra domum eius; neque nobis licet interficere hominem de Israel ”. Ad quos ait: “ Quod ergo dixeritis, faciam vobis ”.	4 And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver and gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire that any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will you then that I should do for you?
5 Qui dixerunt regi: “ De filiis viri, qui attrivit nos et cogitavit delere nos ita ut ne unus quidem nostrum residuus esset in cunctis finibus Israel,	5 And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.
6 dentur nobis septem viri, et suspendamus eos in patibulis Domino in Gabaon in monte Domini ”. Et ait rex: “ Ego dabo ”.	6 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them.
7 Pepercitque rex Meribbaal filio Ionathan filii Saul propter iusiurandum Domini, quod fuerat inter David et inter Ionathan filium Saul.	7 And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 Tulit itaque rex duos filios Respha filiae Aia, quos peperit Saul, Armoni et Meribbaal, et quinque filios Merob filiae Saul, quos genuerat Hadrieli filio Berzellai, qui fuit de Molathi,	8 So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai, that was of Molathi:
9 et dedit eos in manu Gabaonitarum, qui suspenderunt illos in monte coram Domino. Et ceciderunt hi septem simul, occisi in diebus messis primis, incipiente messione hordei.	9 And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.
10 Tollens autem Respha filia Aia cilicium substravit sibi super petram ab initio messis, donec stillaret aqua super eos de caelo, et non dimisit aves caeli considere super eos per diem neque bestias campi per noctem.	10 And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.
11 Et nuntiata sunt David, quae fecerat Respha filia Aia concubina Saul.	11 And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 Et abiit David et tulit ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filii eius a civibus Iabes Galaad, qui furati fuerant ea de platea Bethsan, in qua suspenderant eos Philisthim, cum interfecissent Saul in Gelboe,	12 And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they had slain Saul in Gelboe.
13 et asportavit inde ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filii eius; et colligentes ossa eorum, qui suspensi fuerant,	13 And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were crucified,
14 sepelierunt ea cum ossibus Saul et Ionathan filii eius in terra Beniamin in Sela, in sepulcro Cis patris eius. Feceruntque omnia, quae praeceperat rex; et repropitiatus est Deus terrae post haec.	14 And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his father: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed mercy again to the land after these things.
15 Factum est autem rursum proelium Philisthinorum adversum Israel, et descendit David et servi eius cum eo, et pugnabant contra Philisthim, et fatigatus est David.	15 And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David growing faint,
16 Iesbibenob, qui fuit de genere Rapha — ferrum hastae trecentos siclos appendebat — et accinctus erat ense novo, nisus est percutere David;	16 Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword, attempted to kill David.
17 praesidioque ei fuit Abisai filius Sarviae et percussum Philisthaeum interfecit. Tunc iuraverunt viri David dicentes: “ Iam non egredieris nobiscum in bellum, ne exstinguas lucernam Israel ”.	17 And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the Philistine killed him. Then David's men swore unto him, saying: Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of Israel.
18 Fuitque rursum bellum in Gob contra Philisthaeos; tunc percussit Sobbochai de Husa Saph de stirpe Rapha.	18 There was also a second battle in Gob against the Philistines: then Sobochai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family of the giants.
19 Et fuit iterum bellum in Gob contra Philisthaeos, in quo percussit Elchanan filius Iair Bethlehemites Goliath Getthaeum, cuius hastile hastae erat quasi liciatorium texentium.	19 And there was a third battle in Gob against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew Goliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20 Et adhuc fuit bellum in Geth, in quo vir excelsus, qui senos in manibus pedibusque habebat digitos, id est viginti et quattuor, et is quoque erat de origine Rapha,	20 A fourth battle was in Geth. where there was a man of great stature, that had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, four and twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.
21 exprobravit Israel; percussit autem eum Ionathan filius Samma fratris David.	21 And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the brother of David slew him.
22 Hi quattuor erant de genere Rapha ex Geth et ceciderunt per manum David et servorum eius.	22 These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the hand of David, and of his servants.