1 Samuel 13
I ett år hadde Saul dengang vært konge; og da han hadde vært konge over Israel i to år,
2 And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Michmash and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: the rest of the people he sent back to their tents.
valgte han sig tre tusen mann av Israel; av dem var to tusen med Saul i Mikmas og i Betel-fjellene, og tusen var med Jonatan i Gibea i Benjamin; resten av folket lot han fare hjem hver til sitt.
3 And Jonathan made an attack on the armed force of the Philistines stationed at Gibeah; and news was given to the Philistines that the Hebrews were turned against them. And Saul had a horn sounded through all the land,
Og Jonatan slo det krigsmannskap som filistrene hadde i Geba; det fikk filistrene høre; men Saul lot basunen lyde rundt omkring i hele landet og sa: Hebreerne skal høre det.
4 And all Israel had the news that Saul had made an attack on the Philistines, and that Israel was bitterly hated by the Philistines. And the people came together after Saul to Gilgal.
Og hele Israel fikk høre tidenden om at Saul hadde slått filistrenes krigsmannskap, og at filistrene hadde lagt Israel for hat. Og folket blev kalt til våben for å følge Saul til Gilgal.
5 And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
Filistrene samlet sig for å stride mot Israel, tretti tusen vogner og seks tusen hestfolk, og fotfolk så mange som sanden ved havets bredd; og de drog op og leiret sig ved Mikmas østenfor Bet-Aven.
6 When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled, ) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.
Da nu Israels menn så hvilken fare de var i fordi folket blev hårdt angrepet, da skjulte folket sig i huler og tornebusker og fjellkløfter og tårner og brønner.
7 And a great number of the people had gone over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but Saul was still in Gilgal, and all the people went after him shaking in fear.
Nogen av hebreerne gikk over Jordan til Gads og Gileads land; men Saul var ennu i Gilgal, og alt folket fulgte ham skjelvende.
8 And he went on waiting there for seven days, the time fixed by Samuel: but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were starting to go away from him.
Han ventet syv dager - til den tid Samuel hadde fastsatt; men Samuel kom ikke til Gilgal, og folket spredte sig og forlot ham.
9 Then Saul said, Come here and give me the burned offering and the peace-offerings. And he made a burned offering to the Lord.
Da sa Saul: Kom hit til mig med brennofferet og takkofferne! Og så ofret han brennofferet.
10 And when the burned offering was ended, Samuel came; and Saul went out to see him and to give him a blessing.
Men da han vel hadde ofret brennofferet, da kom Samuel, og Saul gikk ut imot ham for å hilse på ham.
11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;
Da sa Samuel: Hvad har du gjort? Saul svarte: Da jeg så at folket spredte sig og forlot mig, og du ikke kom til den fastsatte tid, og filistrene samlet sig ved Mikmas.
12 I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.
så tenkte jeg: Nu drar filistrene ned mot mig til Gilgal, og jeg har ennu ikke bønnfalt Herren, og jeg tok mot til mig og ofret brennofferet.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.
Da sa Samuel til Saul: Du har båret dig dårlig at, du har ikke holdt det bud som Herren din Gud gav dig; ellers hadde Herren nu stadfestet ditt kongedømme over Israel for all tid.
14 But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.
Men nu skal ditt kongedømme ikke stå ved makt; Herren har søkt sig ut en mann efter sitt hjerte, og ham har Herren utsett til fyrste over sitt folk; for du har ikke holdt hvad Herren bød dig.
15 Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war, and they came from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: and Saul took the number of the people who were with him, about six hundred men.
Så gjorde Samuel sig rede og drog fra Gilgal op til Gibea i Benjamin, og Saul mønstret de folk han hadde hos sig - omkring seks hundre mann.
16 And Saul, with Jonathan his son and the people who were with them, was waiting in Geba in the land of Benjamin: but the tents of the Philistines were in Michmash.
Og Saul og hans sønn Jonatan og de folk som de hadde hos sig, lå i Geba i Benjamin, og filistrene hadde leiret sig ved Mikmas.
17 And three bands of men came out from the Philistines to make an attack; one band went by the road which goes to Ophrah, into the land of Shual:
Da drog det en flokk ut av filistrenes leir for å herje; den var delt i tre hoper; den ene hop tok veien til Ofra, til Sual-bygden,
18 And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.
og den annen hop tok veien til Bet-Horon, og den tredje hop tok veien til den bygd som rager op over Sebo'im-dalen bortimot ørkenen.
19 Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:
Dengang fantes det ikke en smed i hele Israels land; for filistrene tenkte som så: Hebreerne kunde ellers gjøre sig sverd eller spyd.
20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;
Og hele Israel måtte gå ned til filistrene for å få smidd sine plogjern og sine hakker, sine økser og sine plogskjær,
21 For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.
og når eggen var sløvet på plogskjærene og hakkene og grepene og øksene, eller for å få en pigg påsatt.
22 So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
Således gikk det til at på den dag da striden stod, fantes det ikke sverd eller spyd hos nogen av alle de folk som var med Saul og Jonatan; bare Saul og hans sønn Jonatan hadde disse våben.
23 And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash.
Filistrenes forpost rykket frem til Mikmas-skaret.
