1 Samuels 29
1 Filistarane fylkte alle herarne sine i Afek. Israel låg i læger attmed kjelda i Jizre’el.
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites camped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
2 Filistarfyrstarne gjekk fram med sine hundrad mann og sine tusund. Og David og kararne hans kom attarst, i lag med Akis.
The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
3 Filistarfyrstarne spurde: «Kva hev desse hebræarane her å gjera?» Akis svara: «De veit då at David som var hirdmann hjå Saul, Israels-kongen, han hev vore hjå meg år og dag, og eg hev aldri funne nokon ting å segja på honom frå den stund han vart min mann og til i dag.»
Then the leaders of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" And Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he defected to me until this day?"
4 Men filistarfyrstarne vart forarga på honom, og dei sagde ifrå til honom: «Send den karen heim att! Lat honom halda seg på den staden du hev sett honom yver! Lat honom ikkje fara i strid saman med oss! Midt i slaget kann han venda seg mot oss. Kor kunde han betre vinna att godviljen hjå herren sin, enn med hovudi av hermennerne våre?
But the leaders of the Philistines were angry with him; and the leaders of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?
5 Er det ikkje til æra for denne David at dei syng med dei dansar: «Tusund tynte Saul men David tie tusund»?»
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
6 Då kalla Akis David til seg og sagde: «So sant Herren liver: Du er ein ærleg kar! og eg likar godt å sjå deg ganga ut og inn hjå meg i lægret. For eg hev inkje vondt funne hjå deg frå den stund du kom til meg og heilt til no. Men fyrstarne likar deg ikkje.
Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not favor you.
7 So far heim att i fred, so du ikkje skal gjera noko som filistarfyrstarne mislikar.»
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."
8 David sagde med Akis: «Kva hev eg då gjort? og kva hev du funne å segja på tenaren din frå den dagen eg kom fram for deg og heilt til i dag, etter som du negtar meg å ganga i strid mot uvenerne dine, herre konge?»
David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
9 Akis svara: «Eg veit best sjølv at eg held deg som ein gudsengel! Men filistarfyrstarne stend på sitt: han fær ikkje vera med oss i striden.
Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Nevertheless the leaders of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.'
10 Ris no tidleg upp i morgon, du og tenarane åt herren din som er komne med deg; og når det de hev gjort, so far dykkar veg so snart det ljosnar!»
Therefore now rise up early in the morning, you and the servants of your lord who have come with you, and go to the place which I allotted to you. As for evil remarks, take none to heart; for you are good in my sight. And as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart."
11 David og kararne hans reis då upp tidleg, for sin veg um morgonen, og kom heim att til Filistarlandet. Men filistarane drog upp til Jizre’el.
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.
