2 Samuelsboken 21
1 Så vardt en hård tid i Davids dagar i tre år efter hvartannat; och David sökte Herrans ansigte; och Herren sade: För Sauls skull, och för det blodhus skull, derföre att han drap de Gibeoniter.
And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, [There is] guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he killed the Gabaonites.
2 Då lät Konungen kalla de Gibeoniter, och talade med dem; men de Gibeoniter voro icke utaf Israels barn, utan voro igenblefne utaf de Amoreer; men Israels barn hade svorit dem; och Saul sökte efter att slå dem i sitt nit för Israels barn och Juda.
And King David called the Gabaonites, and said to them; —(now the Gabaonites are not the children of Israel, but [are] of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them: but Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Juda.)
3 Så sade nu David till de Gibeoniter: Hvad skall jag göra eder? Och hvarmed skall jag försonat, att I mågen välsigna Herrans arfvedel?
And David said to the Gabaonites, What shall I do to you? and wherewithal shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
4 De Gibeoniter svarade honom: Oss är intet om guld eller silfver af Saul eller hans hus; och är oss intet om, att någor skall dräpas af Israel. Han sade: Hvad sägen I då, det jag eder göra skall?
And the Gabaonites said to him, We have no [question about] silver or gold with Saul and with his house; and there is no man for us to put to death in Israel.
5 De sade till Konungen: Den mannen, som oss förderfvat och tillintetgjort hafver, honom skole vi förderfva, så att intet blifver qvart af honom i alla Israels gränsor.
And he said, What say you? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.
6 Gif oss sju män utaf hans hus, att vi upphänge dem Herranom i Gibea Sauls, Herrans utvaldas. Konungen sade: Jag vill få eder dem.
Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give [them].
7 Men Konungen skonade MephiBoseth, Jonathans son, Sauls sons, för Herrans eds skull, som emellan dem var, nämliga, emellan David och Jonathan, Sauls son.
But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 Men de två Rizpa söner, Aja dotters, hvilka hon Saul födt hade, Armoni och MephiBoseth; dertill de fem Michals söner Sauls dotters, hvilka hon Adriel, Barsillai den Meholathitens son, födt hade, tog Konungen;
And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moulathite.
9 Och fick dem uti de Gibeoniters hand; dem upphängde de på bergena för Herranom. Och så föllo desse sju på eno reso; och blefvo döde i första andene, när bjugganden uppågick.
And he gave them into the hand of the Gabaonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the lord: and they fell, even the seven together: moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 Då tog Rizpa, Aja dotter, en säck och bredde honom på ena håll i andenes begynnelse, intilldess vattnet af himmelen dröp uppå dem; och lät i den dagen inga himmelens foglar sätta sig på dem; ej heller markenes djur om nattena.
And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11 Och det vardt sagdt David, hvad Rizpa, Aja dotter, Sauls frilla, gjort hade.
And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, [and they were faint, and Dan, the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.]
12 Och David gick bort, och tog Sauls ben, och Jonathans hans sons ben ifrå de borgare i Jabes i Gilead, hvilken de utaf Bethsans gato stulit hade; der de Philisteer dem hängt hade, på den tiden då de Philisteer slogo Saul på Gilboa berg;
And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabis Galaad, who stole them from the street of Baethsan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines struck Saul in Gelbue.
13 Och förde dem dädan ditupp, och samkade dem tillhopa med de hängdas ben;
And he carried up thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and gathered the bones of them that had been hanged.
14 Och begrofvo Sauls och hans sons Jonathans ben i BenJamins land i Zela, i hans faders Kis graf; och gjorde allt såsom Konungen budit hade. Alltså vardt då Gud sedan landena försonad.
And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulchre of Cis his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God listened to [the prayers of] the land.
15 Så hof sig åter ett örlig upp utaf de Philisteer emot Israel. Och David drog neder, och hans tjenare med honom, och stridde emot de Philisteer. Och David vardt trött.
And there was yet war between the Philistines and Israel: and David went down and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David went.
16 Och Jesbi af Nob, hvilken en af Rapha barn var, och hans glafvens vigt var trehundrad kopparsvigter, och han hade ett nytt harnesk uppå, han for efter att slå David.
And Jesbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear [was] three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girded with a club, even he thought to strike David.
17 Men Abisai, ZeruJa son, halp honom, och slog den Philisteen ihjäl. Då svoro honom Davids män, och sade: Du skall icke mer draga ut med oss i strid, att icke utsläckes lyktan i Israel.
And Abessa the son of Saruia helped him and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore, saying, You shall not any longer go out with us to battle, and you shall not quench the lamp of Israel.
18 Sedan hof sig åter ett örlig upp i Gob med de Philisteer; då slog Sibbechai, den Husathiten, Saph, den ock en var utaf de Rapha barn.
And after this there was a battle again with the Philistines in Geth: then Sebocha the Astatothite killed Seph of the progeny of Rapha.
19 Och sig hof ännu upp ett örlig i Gob med de Philisteer; då slog ElhananJaere, Orgims son, en BethLehemit, Goliath, den Gitthiten, hvilken hade en spets, hvilkens stång var såsom ett väfträ.
And there was a battle in Rom with the Philistines; and Eleanan son of Ariorgim the Bethleemite killed Goliath the Gittite; and the staff of his spear [was] as a weaver's beam.
20 Och sig upphof ännu ett örlig i Gath. Der var en lång man, han hade sex finger på sina händer, och sex tår på sina fötter, så att de voro fyra och tjugu på talet; och han var också födder af Rapha.
And there was yet a battle in Geth: and there was a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet [were] six on each, four and twenty in number: and he also was born to Rapha.
21 Och då han talade hädelse till Israel, slog honom Jonathan, Simea son, Davids broders.
And he defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Semei brother of David, struck him.
22 Desse fyra voro Rapha födde i Gath; och föllo igenom Davids och hans tjenares hand.
These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
