1 W hen David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

وَحالَما وَصَلَ داوُدُ وَرِجالُهُ إلَى صِقلَغَ فِي اليَومِ الثّالِثِ، رَأَوْا أنَّ عَمالِيقَ قَدْ هاجَمُوا المَدِينَةَ. فَقَدْ غَزا عَمالِيقُ مِنْطَقَةَ النَّقَبِ، وَهاجَمُوا صِقلَغَ، وَأحرَقُوا المَدِينَةَ،

2 a nd had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

وَأخَذُوا كُلَّ نِسائِها الكَبِيراتِ مِنهُنَّ وَالصَّغِيراتِ سَبايا. لَمْ يَقتُلُوا أحَداً، لَكِنَّهُمْ أسَرُوا الجَمِيعَ، وَذَهَبُوا فِي طَرِيقِهِم.

3 W hen David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

وَعِندَما دَخَلَ داوُدُ وَرِجالُهُ صِقلَغَ، وَجَدُوها تَحتَرِقُ. وَوَجَدُوا أنَّ زَوجاتِهِمْ وَأولادَهُمْ وَبَناتِهِمْ قَدْ أُسِرُوا.

4 T hen David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

فَبَكَى داوُدُ وَكُلُّ رِجالِ جَيشِهِ بِشِدَّةٍ حَتَّى لَمْ تَعُدْ لَدَيهِمْ قُوَّةٌ عَلَى البُكاءِ.

5 D avid’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

وَكانَتِ امرَأتا داوُدَ، أخِينُوعَمُ اليَزرَعِيلِيَّةُ وَأبِيجايِلُ أرمَلَةُ نابالَ الكَرمِلِيِّ، قَدْ أُخِذَتا أيضاً.

6 D avid was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

وَكانَ كُلُّ رِجالِ الجَيشِ حَزانَى وَغاضِبِينَ لِأنَّ أولادَهُمْ وَبَناتِهِمْ قَدْ أُسِرُوا. فَتَشاوَرَ الرِّجالُ حَولَ رَجْمِ داوُدَ. فَتَضايَقَ داوُدُ كَثِيراً، لَكِنَّهُ وَجَدَ قُوَّةً فِي إلَهِهِ.

7 D avid said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

فَقالَ داوُدُ لِلكاهِنِ أبِياثارَ: «أحضِرِ الثَّوبَ الكَهَنُوتِيَّ،» فأحضَرَهُ.

8 D avid inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

ثُمَّ سألَ داوُدُ اللهَ: «هَلْ سَأُطارِدُ الَّذِينَ أخَذُوا عائِلاتِنا؟ هَلْ سَألحَقُ بِهِمْ؟» فَأجابَ اللهُ: «طارِدْهُمْ، وَسَتَلحَقُ بِهِمْ، وَسَتُخَلِّصُ كُلَّ المَسبِيِّينَ.» داوُدُ يُصادِفُ عَبداً مِصرِيّاً

9 S o David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

فَأخَذَ داوُدُ السِّتَّ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ مَعَهُ وَذَهَبَ إلَى وادِي البُسُورِ. فَتَخَلَّفَ بَعْضُهُمْ.

10 B ut David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.

أمّا داوُدُ وَالأربَعُ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ الَّذِينَ بَقُوا مَعَهُ، فَواصَلُوا مُطارَدَةَ عَمالِيقَ. فقَدْ تَخَلَّفَ مِئَتا رَجُلٍ، كانُوا تَعِبِينَ وَلَمْ يَستَطِيعُوا مُواصَلَةَ السَّيرِ.

11 T hey found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

فَوَجَدَ رِجالُ داوُدَ رَجُلاً مِصرِيّاً فِي الخَلاءِ، فَجاءُوا بِهِ إلَى داوُدَ. وَأعطُوا المِصرِيَّ ماءً لِيَشرَبَ وَطَعاماً لِيَأْكُلَ،

12 T hey gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

إذْ لَمْ يَكُنْ قَدْ ذاقَ طَعاماً أوْ شَرِبَ ماءً ثَلاثَةَ أيّامٍ بِلَيالِيها. فَأعطُوهُ كَعكَةَ تِينٍ، وَعُنقُودَينِ مِنَ الزَّبِيبِ، فَاسْتَعادَ قُوَّتَهُ.

13 D avid asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.

فَسَألَ داوُدُ المِصْرِيَّ: «مَنْ هُوَ سَيِّدُكَ؟ وَمِنْ أينَ أنتَ؟» فَأجابَ المِصْرِيُّ: «أنا مِصْرِيٌّ، وَأنا عَبدٌ لِرَجُلٍ عَمالِيقِيٍّ. وَقَدْ مَرِضتُ قَبلَ ثَلاثَةِ أيّامٍ. فَتَخَلَّى عَنِّي سَيِّدِي.

14 W e made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

وَكُنّا قَدْ هاجَمْنا جَنُوبَ النَّقَبِ حَيثُ يَسكُنُ الكْرِيتِيُّونَ. وَهاجَمْنا أيضاً يَهُوذا، حَيثُ يَسكُنُ الكالَبِيُّونَ وَأحرَقْنا مَدِينَةَ صِقلَغَ.»

15 D avid said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

فَسَألَ داوُدُ المِصْرِيَّ: «أتَقُودُنِي إلَى تِلْكَ الفِرقَةِ العَسْكَريَّةِ؟» فَأجابَ المِصْرِيُّ: «إنْ حَلَفْتَ لِي فِي حَضْرَةِ اللهِ أنَّكَ لَنْ تَقتُلَنِي أوْ تُعِيدَنِي إلَى سَيِّدِي، فَسَأُعِينُكَ عَلَى أنْ تَجِدَهُمْ.» داوُدُ يَنتَصِرُ عَلَى العَمالِقَة

16 W hen he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

فَقادَ المِصرِيُّ داوُدَ إلَى عَمالِيقَ. وَكانُوا مُتَمَدِّدِينَ عَلَى الأرْضِ هُنا وَهُناكَ، يَأكُلُونَ وَيَشرَبُونَ وَيَرْقُصُونَ احتِفالاً بِالغَنائمِ الَّتِي أخَذُوها مِنَ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ وَمِنْ يَهُوذا.

17 D avid struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

فَهاجَمَهُمْ داوُدُ وَقَتَلَهُمْ. حارَبَهُمْ مِنْ شُرُوقِ الشَّمسِ إلَى مَساءِ اليَومِ التّالِي. وَلَمْ يَهرُبْ مِنهُمْ أحَدٌ غَيرُ أربَعِ مِئَةٍ مِنْ خُدّامِهِمِ الفِتيانِ الَّذِينَ رَكِبُوا عَلَى الجِمالِ وَهَرَبُوا.

18 D avid recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

فَاسْتَرَدَّ داوُدُ كُلَّ ما أخَذَهُ عَمالِيقُ. وَأنقَذَ زَوجَتَيهِ أيضاً.

19 T here was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

وَلَمْ يَضِعْ لَهُمْ شَيءٌ. إذْ وَجَدُوا الجَمِيعَ صغاراً وَكِباراً، كُلَّ أولادِهِمْ وَبَناتِهِمْ، وَكُلَّ أشيائِهِمِ الثَّمِينَةِ. استَرجَعُوا كُلَّ ما سَلَبَهُ عَمالِيقُ. استَرجَعَ داوُدُ كُلَّ شَيءٍ.

20 D avid took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”

وَأخَذُوا كُلَّ الغَنَمِ وَالبَقَرِ. وَساقَها رِجالُهُ أمامَ كُلِّ الجَماعَةِ وَهُمْ يَقُولُونَ: «هَذِهِ هِيَ غَنِيمَةُ داوُدَ.» الجَمِيعُ يَقتَسِمُونَ الغَنائِمَ بِالتَّساوِي

21 D avid came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

وَجاءَ داوُدُ إلَى المِئَتَي رَجُلٍ الَّذِينَ بَقُوا فِي وادِي البُسُورِ. وَهُمُ الرَّجالُ الَّذِينَ كانُوا تَعِبِينَ فَلَمْ يَستَطِيعُوا أنْ يَتبَعُوا داوُدَ. فَخَرَجَ هَؤُلاءِ لِلِقاءِ داوُدَ وَالرِّجالِ الَّذِينَ ذَهَبُوا مَعَهُ. فَاقتَرَبَ داوُدُ إلَيْهِمْ وَحَيّاهُمْ.

22 T hen all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

وَكانَ بَينَ جَيشِ داوُدَ الَّذِينَ ذَهَبُوا مَعَهُ بَعضُ مُثِيرِي المَتاعِبِ. فَتَذَمَّرُوا وَقالُوا: «لَمْ يَذهَبْ هَؤُلاءِ المِئَتا رَجُلٍ مَعَنا. فَلِماذا نُعطِيهِمْ أيَّ نَصِيبٍ مِنَ الغَنائِمِ الَّتِي أخَذناها؟ يَكفِيهِمْ أنَّنا أرجَعْنا لَهُمْ زَوجاتِهِمْ وَأبناءَهُمْ.»

23 T hen David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

فَأجابَ داوُدُ: «لا يا إخْوَتِي، لا تَفعَلُوا ذَلِكَ! انْظُرُوا كَمْ أعْطانا اللهُ! فَقَدْ حَمانا وَنَصَرَنا عَلَى أعْدائِنا الَّذِينَ هاجَمُونا.

24 W ho will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

وَلا أظُنُّ أنَّهُ يُوجَدُ مَنْ هُوَ مُسْتَعِدٌّ لِلتَّجاوُبِ مَعَ ما تَقُولُونَ. لِهَذا سَيَكُونُ نَصِيبُ الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي بَقِيَ عِندَ المُؤَنِ نَفسَ نَصِيبِ الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي حارَبَ. وَسَيَكُونُ تَوزِيعُ الغَنائِمِ بِالتَّساوِي.»

25 I t was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

وَجَعَلَ داوُدُ هَذا الشَّيءَ أمراً وَقانُوناً فِي إسْرائِيلَ. وَمازالَ هَذا القانُونُ سارِياً إلَى الآنَ.

26 W hen David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”

وَعِندَما وَصَلَ داوُدُ إلَى صِقلِغَ، أرسَلَ بَعضاً مِنَ الأشياءِ الَّتِي غَنِمَها مِنْ عَمالِيقَ إلَى أصدِقائِهِ قادَةِ يَهُوذا. وَقالَ لَهُمْ: «هَذِهِ هَدِيَّةٌ لَكُمْ أخَذناها منْ أعداءِ اللهِ.»

27 H e sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,

فَأرْسلَها إلَى قادَة بَيتِ إيلَ وَرامُوثَ فِي النَّقَبِ وَيَتِّيرَ

28 t o those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,

وَعَرُوعيرَ وَسِفمُوثَ وَأشتَمُوعَ

29 t o those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

وَراخالَ وَمُدُنِ اليَرحَمْئِيلِيِّينَ وَمُدُنِ القِينِيِّينَ

30 t o those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,

وَحُرمَةَ وَبُورِ عاشانَ وَعَتاكَ

31 t o those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

وَحَبْرُونَ ، وَإلَى كُلِّ الأماكِنِ الأُخرَى الَّتِي كانَ يَرتادُها داوُدُ وَرِجالُهُ.