1 O ra, faleceu Samuel; e todo o Israel se ajuntou e o pranteou; e o sepultaram na sua casa, em Ramá. E Davi se levantou e desceu ao deserto de Parã.

Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. Nabal and Abigail

2 H avia um homem em Maom que tinha as suas possessões no Carmelo. Este homem era muito rico, pois tinha três mil ovelhas e mil Cabras e estava tosquiando as suas ovelhas no Carmelo.

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

3 C hamava-se o homem Nabal, e sua mulher chamava-se Abigail; era a mulher sensata e formosa; o homem porém, era duro, e maligno nas suas ações; e era da casa de Calebe.

(now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),

4 O uviu Davi no deserto que Nabal tosquiava as suas ovelhas,

that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

5 e enviou-lhe dez mancebos, dizendo-lhes: Subi ao Carmelo, ide a Nabal e perguntai-lhe, em meu nome, como está.

So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, visit Nabal and greet him in my name;

6 A ssim lhe direis: Paz seja contigo, e com a tua casa, e com tudo o que tens.

and thus you shall say, ‘ Have a long life, peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

7 A gora, pois, tenho ouvido que tens tosquiadores. Ora, os pastores que tens acabam de estar conosco; agravo nenhum lhes fizemos, nem lhes desapareceu coisa alguma por todo o tempo que estiveram no Carmelo.

Now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel.

8 P ergunta-o aos teus mancebos, e eles to dirão. Que achem, portanto, os teus servos graça aos teus olhos, porque viemos em boa ocasião. Dá, pois, a teus servos e a Davi, teu filho, o que achares ã mão.

Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”

9 C hegando, pois, os mancebos de Davi, falaram a Nabal todas aquelas palavras em nome de Davi, e se calaram.

When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David’s name; then they waited.

10 A o que Nabal respondeu aos servos de Davi, e disse: Quem é Davi, e quem o filho de Jessé? Muitos servos há que hoje fogem ao seu senhor.

But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “ Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.

11 T omaria eu, pois, o meu pão, e a minha água, e a carne das minhas reses que degolei para os meus tosquiadores, e os daria a homens que não sei donde vêm?

Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men whose origin I do not know?”

12 E ntão os mancebos de Davi se puseram a caminho e, voltando, vieram anunciar-lhe todas estas palavras.

So David’s young men retraced their way and went back; and they came and told him according to all these words.

13 P elo que disse Davi aos seus homens: Cada um cinja a sua espada. E cada um cingiu a sua espada, e Davi também cingiu a sua, e subiram após Davi cerca de quatrocentos homens, e duzentos ficaram com a bagagem.

David said to his men, “Each of you gird on his sword.” So each man girded on his sword. And David also girded on his sword, and about four hundred men went up behind David while two hundred stayed with the baggage.

14 u m dentre os mancebos, porém, o anunciou a Abigail, mulher de Nabal, dizendo: Eis que Davi enviou mensageiros desde o deserto a saudar o nosso amo; e ele os destratou.

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he scorned them.

15 T odavia, aqueles homens têm-nos sido muito bons, e nunca fomos agravados deles, e nada nos desapareceu por todo o tempo em que convivemos com eles quando estávamos no campo.

Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not insulted, nor did we miss anything as long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields.

16 D e muro em redor nos serviram, assim de dia como de noite, todos os dias que andamos com eles apascentando as ovelhas.

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep.

17 C onsidera, pois, agora e vê o que hás de fazer, porque o mal já está de todo determinado contra o nosso amo e contra toda a sua casa; e ele é tal filho de Belial, que não há quem lhe possa falar.

Now therefore, know and consider what you should do, for evil is plotted against our master and against all his household; and he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him.” Abigail Intercedes

18 E ntão Abigail se apressou, e tomou duzentos pães, dois odres de vinho, cinco ovelhas assadas, cinco medidas de trigo tostado, cem cachos de passas, e duzentas pastas de figos secos, e os pôs sobre jumentos.

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

19 E disse aos seus mancebos: Ide adiante de mim; eis que vos seguirei de perto. Porém não o declarou a Nabal, seu marido.

She said to her young men, “ Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20 E quando ela, montada num jumento, ia descendo pelo encoberto do monte, eis que Davi e os seus homens lhe vinham ao encontro; e ela se encontrou com eles.

It came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them.

21 O ra, Davi tinha dito: Na verdade que em vão tenho guardado tudo quanto este tem no deserto, de sorte que nada lhe faltou de tudo quanto lhe pertencia; e ele me pagou mal por bem.

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

22 A ssim faça Deus a Davi, e outro tanto, se eu deixar até o amanhecer, de tudo o que pertence a Nabal, um só varão.

May God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if by morning I leave as much as one male of any who belong to him.”

23 V endo, pois, Abigail a Davi, apressou-se, desceu do jumento e prostrou-se sobre o seu rosto diante de Davi, inclinando-se ã terra,

When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed herself to the ground.

24 e , prostrada a seus pés, lhe disse: Ah, senhor meu, minha seja a iniqüidade! Deixa a tua serva falar aos teus ouvidos, e ouve as palavras da tua serva.

She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your maidservant speak to you, and listen to the words of your maidservant.

25 R ogo-te, meu senhor, que não faças caso deste homem de Belial, a saber, Nabal; porque tal é ele qual é o seu nome. Nabal é o seu nome, e a loucura está com ele; mas eu, tua serva, não vi os mancebos de meu senhor, que enviaste.

Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

26 A gora, pois, meu senhor, vive o Senhor, e vive a tua alma, porquanto o Senhor te impediu de derramares sangue, e de te vingares com a tua própria mão, sejam agora como Nabal os teus inimigos e os que procuram fazer o mal contra o meu senhor.

“Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, since the Lord has restrained you from shedding blood, and from avenging yourself by your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.

27 A ceita agora este presente que a tua serva trouxe a meu senhor; seja ele dado aos mancebos que seguem ao meu senhor.

Now let this gift which your maidservant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who accompany my lord.

28 P erdoa, pois, a transgressão da tua serva; porque certamente fará o Senhor casa firme a meu senhor, pois meu senhor guerreia as guerras do Senhor; e não se achará mal em ti por todos os teus dias.

Please forgive the transgression of your maidservant; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

29 S e alguém se levantar para te perseguir, e para buscar a tua vida, então a vida de meu senhor será atada no feixe dos que vivem com o Senhor teu Deus; porém a vida de teus inimigos ele arrojará ao longe, como do côncavo de uma funda.

Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

30 Q uando o Senhor tiver feito para com o meu senhor conforme todo o bem que já tem dito de ti, e te houver estabelecido por príncipe sobre Israel,

And when the Lord does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel,

31 e ntão, meu senhor, não terás no coração esta tristeza nem este remorso de teres derramado sangue sem causa, ou de haver-se vingado o meu senhor a si mesmo. E quando o Senhor fizer bem a meu senhor, lembra-te então da tua serva.

this will not cause grief or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord having avenged himself. When the Lord deals well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”

32 A o que Davi disse a Abigail: Bendito seja o Senhor Deus de Israel, que hoje te enviou ao meu encontro!

Then David said to Abigail, “ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,

33 E bendito seja o teu conselho, e bendita sejas tu, que hoje me impediste de derramar sangue, e de vingar-me pela minha própria mão!

and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

34 P ois, na verdade, vive o Senhor Deus de Israel que me impediu de te fazer mal, que se tu não te apressaras e não me vieras ao encontro, não teria ficado a Nabal até a luz da manhã nem mesmo um menino.

Nevertheless, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one male.”

35 E ntão Davi aceitou da mão dela o que lhe tinha trazido, e lhe disse: Sobe em paz ã tua casa; vê que dei ouvidos ã tua voz, e aceitei a tua face.

So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, “ Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to you and granted your request.”

36 O ra, quando Abigail voltou para Nabal, eis que ele fazia em sua casa um banquete, como banquete de rei; e o coração de Nabal estava alegre, pois ele estava muito embriagado; pelo que ela não lhe deu a entender nada daquilo, nem pouco nem muito, até a luz da manhã.

Then 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 did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

37 S ucedeu, pois, que, pela manhã, estando Nabal já livre do vinho, sua mulher lhe contou essas coisas; de modo que o seu coração desfaleceu, e ele ficou como uma pedra.

But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.

38 P assados uns dez dias, o Senhor feriu a Nabal, e ele morreu.

About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died. David Marries Abigail

39 Q uando Davi ouviu que Nabal morrera, disse: Bendito seja o Senhor, que me vingou da afronta que recebi de Nabal, e deteve do mal a seu servo, fazendo cair a maldade de Nabal sobre a sua cabeça. Depois mandou Davi falar a Abigail, para tomá-la por mulher.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. The Lord has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

40 V indo, pois, os servos de Davi a Abigail, no Carmelo, lhe falaram, dizendo: Davi nos mandou a ti, para te tomarmos por sua mulher.

When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you as his wife.”

41 A o que ela se levantou, e se inclinou com o rosto em terra, e disse: Eis que a tua serva servirá de criada para lavar os pés dos servos de meu senhor.

She arose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

42 E ntão Abigail se apressou e, levantando-se, montou num jumento, e levando as cinco moças que lhe assistiam, seguiu os mensageiros de Davi, que a recebeu por mulher.

Then Abigail quickly arose, and rode on a donkey, with her five maidens who attended her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.

43 D avi tomou também a Ainoã de Jizreel; e ambas foram suas mulheres.

David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

44 P ois Saul tinha dado sua filha Mical, mulher de Davi, a Palti, filho de Laís, o qual era de Galim.

Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.