Secondo libro di Samuele 21

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 a famine occurred, during the days of David, for three years continuously. And David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: “This is because of Saul, and his house of bloodshed. For he killed the Gibeonites.”
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 Therefore, the king, calling for the Gibeonites, spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but were the remnant of the Amorites. And the sons of Israel had sworn an oath to them, but Saul wished to strike them in zeal, as if on behalf of the sons of Israel and Judah.
3 dixit ergo David ad Gabaonitas: “ Quid faciam vobis? Et quod erit vestri piaculum, ut benedicatis hereditati Domini? ”.	3 Therefore, David said to the Gibeonites: “What shall I do for you? And what shall be your satisfaction, so 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 Gibeonites said to him: “There is no quarrel for us over silver or gold, but against Saul and against his house. And we do not desire that any man of Israel be put to death.” The king said to them, “Then what do you wish 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 who unjustly afflicted and oppressed us, we ought to destroy in such manner that not even one of his stock may be left behind in all the parts 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 from his sons be given to us, so that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gibeon of Saul, formerly the chosen place 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 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord which had been made 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 And so the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she conceived of Adriel, the son of Barzillai, who was from Meholath,
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 he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they crucified them on a hill in the sight of the Lord. And these seven fell together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley is beginning 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 Then Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, taking a haircloth, spread it under herself on a rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped from heaven upon them. And she did not permit 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 reported to David what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, 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 his son Jonathan, from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had suspended them after they had slain Saul at Gilboa.
13 et asportavit inde ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filii eius; et colligentes ossa eorum, qui suspensi fuerant,	13 And he brought the bones of Saul, and the bones of his son Jonathan, from there. And they collected the bones of those who had been 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 his son Jonathan, in the land of Benjamin, to the side of the sepulcher of his father Kish. And they did all that the king had instructed. And after these things, God showed favor again to the land.
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 Then the Philistines again undertook a battle against Israel. And David descended, and his servants with him, and they fought against the Philistines. But when David grew faint,
16 Iesbibenob, qui fuit de genere Rapha — ferrum hastae trecentos siclos appendebat — et accinctus erat ense novo, nisus est percutere David;	16 Ishbibenob, who was of the ancestry of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, who had been girded with a new sword, strove to strike down 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 Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, defended him, and striking the Philistine, he killed him. Then David’s men swore an oath to him, saying, “You shall no longer go out to war with us, lest you extinguish the lamp of Israel.”
18 Fuitque rursum bellum in Gob contra Philisthaeos; tunc percussit Sobbochai de Husa Saph de stirpe Rapha.	18 Also, a second war occurred in Gob against the Philistines. Then Sibbecai from Hushah struck down Saph, from the stock of Arapha, of the ancestry 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 Then there was a third war in Gob against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus, a son of the forest, a weaver from Bethlehem, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam used by a cloth maker.
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 Gath. In that place, there was a lofty man, who had six digits on each hand and each foot, that is, twenty-four in all, and he was from the origins of Arapha.
21 exprobravit Israel; percussit autem eum Ionathan filius Samma fratris David.	21 And he blasphemed Israel. So Jonathan, the son of Shimei, the brother of David, struck him down.
22 Hi quattuor erant de genere Rapha ex Geth et ceciderunt per manum David et servorum eius.	22 These four men were born of Arapha in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and his servants.