2 Samuelova 14
1 A Joav sin Serujin opazi da se srce carevo obratilo k Avesalomu.
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
2 I posla Joav u Tekuju te dozva otuda ženu lukavu, pa joj reèe: uèini se kao da si u žalosti, i obuci žalosne haljine, i nemoj se namazati uljem, nego budi kao žena koja odavna žali za mrtvijem.
Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
3 I otidi k caru, i govori mu tako i tako. I nauèi je Joav šta æe govoriti.
Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
4 I kad otide žena Tekujanka k caru da govori, pade nièice na zemlju i pokloni se, i reèe: pomagaj, care!
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
5 A car joj reèe: što ti je? A ona reèe: udovica sam, umro mi je muž.
The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6 A imaše sluškinja tvoja dva sina, pa se svadiše u polju, a ne bješe nikoga da ih razvadi, te jedan udari drugoga i ubi ga.
Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.
7 I gle, sav dom usta na sluškinju tvoju govoreæi: daj toga što je ubio brata svojega da ga pogubimo za dušu brata njegova, kojega je ubio, i da istrijebimo našljednika; i tako hoæe da ugase iskru koja mi je ostala, da ne ostave imena mužu mojemu ni ostatka na zemlji.
Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
8 A car reèe ženi: idi kuæi svojoj, a ja æu narediti za te.
The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”
9 A žena Tekujanka reèe caru: care gospodaru! neka na me i na dom oca mojega padne krivica, a car i njegov prijesto neka je prav.
The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
10 A car reèe: ko uzgovori na te, dovedi ga k meni, i neæe te se više dotaæi.
The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”
11 A ona reèe: neka se opomene car Gospoda Boga svojega, da se ne umnože osvetnici koji ubijaju, i da ne ubiju sina mojega. A on reèe: tako živ bio Gospod, nijedna dlaka s tvojega sina neæe pasti na zemlju.
Then she said, “Please let the king remember the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
12 A žena reèe: da kaže sluškinja tvoja nešto caru gospodaru. A on reèe: govori.
Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”
13 A žena reèe: a zašto si namislio taku stvar narodu Božijemu? jer car kao da je kriv govoreæi tako, jer neæe car da dozove natrag onoga koga je odagnao.
The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
14 Jer æemo doista pomrijeti, i jesmo kao voda koja se prospe na zemlju i više se ne može skupiti; jer mu Bog nije uzeo života, nego je naumio da odagnani ne ostane odagnan od njega.
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
15 I tako doðoh da kažem ovo caru gospodaru svojemu, jer me narod uplaši; zato reèe sluškinja tvoja: da govorim caru, može biti da æe uèiniti car što sluškinja njegova kaže.
Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
16 Jer æe car uslišiti i izbaviti sluškinju svoju iz ruke onoga koji hoæe da istrijebi mene i sina mojega iz našljedstva Božijega.
For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
17 I sluškinja tvoja reèe: rijeè cara gospodara mojega biæe mi utjeha, jer je car gospodar moj kao anðeo Božji, te sluša i dobro i zlo, i Gospod æe Bog tvoj biti s tobom.
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the LORD, your God, be with you.’”
18 A car odgovori i reèe ženi: nemoj tajiti od mene što æu te pitati. A žena reèe: neka govori car gospodar moj.
Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
19 Tada car reèe: da nije Joavov posao u svemu tome što èiniš? A žena odgovori i reèe: tako da je živa duša tvoja, care gospodaru, ne može se ni nadesno ni nalijevo od svega što kaza car gospodar moj; jer sluga tvoj Joav zapovijedio mi je i nauèio sluškinju tvoju sve ovo da govorim.
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
20 Sluga je tvoj Joav uèinio, te sam ovako izvila besjedu svoju; ali je gospodar moj mudar kao anðeo Božji, te zna sve što biva na zemlji.
Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
21 Tada reèe car Joavu: evo, ti si uèinio to, idi, dovedi natrag dijete Avesaloma.
The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
22 Tada pade Joav licem na zemlju, i pokloni se i blagoslovi cara, i reèe Joav: danas vidi sluga tvoj da sam našao milost pred tobom, care gospodaru, kad je car uèinio što mu sluga njegov reèe.
Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”
23 Potom se podiže Joav i otide u Gesur, i dovede natrag u Jerusalim Avesaloma.
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
24 I car reèe: neka ide svojoj kuæi, a lica mojega da ne vidi. I otide Avesalom svojoj kuæi, i ne vidje lica careva.
The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.
25 A ne bješe èovjeka tako lijepa kao Avesalom u svem Izrailju, da ga tako hvale; od pete do tjemena ne bješe na njemu mane.
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
26 I kad bi strigao glavu a imaše obièaj svake godine striæi je, jer mu bijaše teško mjerio bi kosu s glave svoje, i bivaše je dvjesta sikala carskom mjerom.
When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.
27 I rodiše se Avesalomu tri sina i jedna kæi, kojoj bijaše ime Tamara, i ona bijaše lijepa.
Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.
28 I Avesalom osta cijele dvije godine u Jerusalimu, a lica careva ne vidje.
Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.
29 Tada posla Avesalom po Joava da ga pošlje k caru; ali on ne htje doæi k njemu; i posla opet drugi put, ali on ne htje doæi.
Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
30 Tada reèe slugama svojim: vidite li njivu Joavovu pored moje? na njoj je jeèam; idite i upalite je. I upališe sluge Avesalomove onu njivu.
Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
31 Tada se podiže Joav, i doðe k Avesalomu u kuæu, i reèe mu: zašto sluge tvoje upališe moju njivu?
Then Joab arose and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
32 Avesalom reèe Joavu: eto slao sam k tebi govoreæi: hodi ovamo da te pošljem k caru da mu kažeš: zašto sam došao iz Gesura? bolje bi bilo da sam još ondje. Zato da vidim lice carevo; ako li ima kaka krivica na meni, neka me pogubi.
Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore, let me see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
33 I otide Joav k caru, i kaza mu. I dozva Avesaloma; a on došavši k caru pokloni se licem do zemlje pred carem, i car cjelova Avesaloma.
So Joab came to the king and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
