1.Samuel 25 | English Standard Version کتاب مقدس، ترجمۀ معاصر

1.Samuel 25 | English Standard Version

The Death of SamuelDavid and Abigail

1 Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. 2 And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite. 4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 5 So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name. 6 And thus you shall greet him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. 7 I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel. 8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’” 9 When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited. 10 And Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters. 11 Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?” 12 So David’s young men turned away and came back and told him all this. 13 And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them. 15 Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them. 16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 17 Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.” 18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs* of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. 19 And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 20 And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them. 21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good. 22 God do so to the enemies of David* and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.” 23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. 25 Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal* is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. 26 Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. 27 And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. 29 If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. 30 And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince* over Israel, 31 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” 32 And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand! 34 For as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.” 35 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.” 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light. 37 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And about ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. 39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife. 40 When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” 41 And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” 42 And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife. 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives. 44 Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

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داوود و ابيجايل

1 سموئيل وفات يافت و اسرائيلیها جمع شده، برای او عزاداری كردند. سپس او را در گورستان خانوادگیاش در رامه دفن كردند. در اين هنگام، داوود به صحرای معون رفت. 2 در آنجا مرد ثروتمندی از خاندان كاليب به نام نابال زندگی میكرد. او املاكی در كرمل داشت و صاحب سه هزار گوسفند و هزار بز بود. همسر او ابيجايل نام داشت و زنی زيبا و باهوش بود، اما خود او خسيس و بداخلاق بود. يک روز وقتی نابال در كرمل مشغول چيدن پشم گوسفندانش بود، 5 داوود ده نفر از افراد خود را نزد او فرستاد تا سلامش را به وی برسانند و چنين بگويند: 6 «خدا تو و خانوادهات را كامياب سازد و اموالت را بركت دهد. 7 شنيدهام مشغول چيدن پشم گوسفندانت هستی. ما به چوپانان تو كه در اين مدت در ميان ما بودهاند آزاری نرساندهايم و نگذاشتهايم حتی يكی از گوسفندانت كه در كرمل هستند، گم شود. 8 از چوپانان خود بپرس كه ما راست میگوييم يا نه. پس حال كه افرادم را نزد تو میفرستم، خواهش میكنم لطفی در حق آنها بكن و در اين عيد هر چه از دستت برآيد به غلامانت و به دوستت داوود، بده.» 9 افراد داوود پيغام را به نابال رساندند و منتظر پاسخ ماندند. 10 نابال گفت: «اين داوود ديگر كيست؟ در اين روزها نوكرانی كه از نزد اربابان فرار میكنند، زياد شدهاند. 11 میخواهيد نان و آب و گوشت را از دهان كارگرانم بگيرم و به شما كه معلوم نيست از كجا آمدهايد، بدهم؟» 12 افراد داوود نزد او برگشتند و آنچه را كه نابال گفته بود برايش تعريف كردند. 13 داوود در حالی که شمشير خود را به كمر میبست، به افرادش دستور داد كه شمشيرهای خود را بردارند. چهارصد نفر شمشير به دست همراه داوود به راه افتادند و دويست نفر نزد اثاثيه ماندند. 14 در اين موقع يكی از نوكران نابال نزد ابيجايل رفت و به او گفت: «داوود، افراد خود را از صحرا نزد ارباب ما فرستاد تا سلامش را به او برسانند، ولی ارباب ما به آنها اهانت نمود. 15 در صورتی كه افراد داوود با ما رفتار خوبی داشتهاند و هرگز آزارشان به ما نرسيده است، بلكه شب و روز برای ما و گوسفندانمان چون حصار بودهاند و تا وقتی كه در صحرا نزد آنها بوديم حتی يک گوسفند از گلهٔ ما دزديده نشد. 17 بهتر است تا دير نشده فكری به حال ارباب و خانوادهاش بكنی، چون جانشان در خطر است. ارباب به قدری بداخلاق است كه نمیشود با او حرف زد.» 18 آنگاه ابيجايل با عجله دويست نان، دو مشک شراب، پنج گوسفند كباب شده، هفده كيلو غلهٔ برشته و صد نان كشمشی و دويست نان انجيری برداشته، آنها را روی چند الاغ گذاشت 19 و به نوكران خود گفت: «شما جلوتر برويد و من هم به دنبال شما خواهم آمد.» ولی در اين مورد چيزی به شوهرش نگفت. 20 ابيجايل بر الاغ خود سوار شد و به راه افتاد. وقتی در كوه به سر يک پيچ رسيد، داوود و افرادش را ديد كه به طرف او میآيند. 21 داوود پيش خود چنين فكر كرده بود: «من در حق اين مرد بسيار خوبی كردم. گلههای او را محافظت نمودم و نگذاشتم چيزی از آنها دزديده شود، اما او اين خوبی مرا با بدی جبران كرد. 22 لعنت بر من اگر تا فردا صبح يكی از افراد او را زنده بگذارم!» 23 وقتی ابيجايل داوود را ديد فوری از الاغ پياده شد و به او تعظيم نمود. 24 او به پاهای داوود افتاده، گفت: «سرور من، تمام اين تقصيرات را به گردن من بگذاريد، ولی اجازه بفرماييد بگويم قضيه از چه قرار است: 25 نابال آدم بداخلاقی است. پس خواهش میكنم به حرفهايی كه زده است توجه نكنيد. همانگونه كه از اسمش هم پيداست او شخص نادانی است. متأسفانه من از آمدن افراد شما مطلع نشدم. 26 سرور من، خداوند نمیخواهد دست شما به خون دشمنانتان آلوده شود و خودتان از آنها انتقام بگيريد، به حيات خداوند و به جان شما قسم كه همهٔ دشمنان و بدخواهانتان مانند نابال هلاک خواهند شد. 27 حال، خواهش میكنم اين هديهٔ كنيزتان را كه برای افرادتان آورده است، قبول فرماييد 28 و مرا ببخشيد. خداوند، شما و فرزندانتان را بر تخت سلطنت خواهد نشاند، چون برای اوست كه میجنگيد، و در تمام طول عمرتان هيچ بدی به شما نخواهد رسيد. 29 هر وقت كسی بخواهد به شما حمله كند و شما را بكشد، خداوند، خدايتان جان شما را حفظ خواهد كرد، همانطور كه گنج گرانبها را حفظ میكنند و دشمنانتان را دور خواهد انداخت، همانگونه كه سنگها را در فلاخن گذاشته، میاندازند. 30 وقتی خداوند تمام وعدههای خوب خود را در حق شما انجام دهد و شما را به سلطنت اسرائيل برساند، 31 آنگاه از اينكه بیسبب دستتان را به خون آلوده نكرديد و انتقام نكشيديد، پشيمان نخواهيد شد. هنگامی كه خداوند به شما توفيق دهد، كنيزتان را نيز به ياد آوريد.» 32 داوود به ابيجايل پاسخ داد: «متبارک باد خداوند، خدای اسرائيل كه امروز تو را نزد من فرستاد! 33 خدا تو را بركت دهد كه چنين حكمتی داری و نگذاشتی دستهايم به خون مردم آلوده شود و با دستهای خود انتقام بگيرم. 34 زيرا به حيات خداوند، خدای اسرائيل كه نگذاشت به تو آسيبی برسانم قسم كه اگر تو نزد من نمیآمدی تا فردا صبح كسی را از افراد نابال زنده نمیگذاشتم.» 35 آنگاه داوود هدايای او را قبول كرد و به او گفت: «با خيال راحت به خانهات برگرد، چون مطابق خواهش تو عمل خواهم كرد.» 36 وقتی ابيجايل به خانه رسيد ديد كه شوهرش يک مهمانی شاهانه ترتيب داده و خودش هم سرمست از باده است. پس چيزی به او نگفت. 37 صبح روز بعد كه مستی از سر نابال پريده بود، زنش همه وقايع را برای او تعريف كرد. آنگاه نابال از شدت ناراحتی سكته كرد 38 و بعد از ده روز خداوند بلايی به جانش فرستاد و او مرد. 39 داوود وقتی شنيد نابال مرده است، گفت: «خدا خود انتقام مرا از نابال گرفت و نگذاشت خدمتگزارش دستش به خون آلوده شود. سپاس بر خداوند كه نابال را به سزای عمل بدش رسانيد.» آنگاه داوود قاصدانی نزد ابيجايل فرستاد تا او را برای وی خواستگاری كنند. 40 چون قاصدان به كرمل رسيدند قصد خود را به ابيجايل گفتند. 41 ابيجايل تعظيم كرده، جواب داد: «من كنيز او هستم و آمادهام تا پاهای خدمتگزارانش را بشويم.» 42 او فوری از جا برخاست و پنج كنيزش را با خود برداشته، سوار بر الاغ شد و همراه قاصدان نزد داوود رفت و زن او شد. 43 داوود زن ديگری نيز به نام اخينوعم يزرعيلی داشت. 44 در ضمن شائول دخترش ميكال را كه زن داوود بود به مردی به نام فلطئيل (پسر لايش) از اهالی جليم داده بود.