1 Samuel 31
1 Later, the Philistines again fought against the Israelis. The Israelis ran away from them, and (many Israelis were killed/the Philistines killed many Israelis) on Gilboa Mountain.
Филистимляне же воевали с Израильтянами, и побежали мужи Израильские от Филистимлян и пали пораженные на горе Гелвуе.
2 The Philistines caught up with Saul and his three sons, and they killed [all three of] his sons, Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua.
И догнали Филистимляне Саула и сыновей его, и убили Филистимляне Ионафана, и Аминадава, и Малхисуа, сыновей Саула.
3 The fighting was very fierce around Saul. When the Philistine (archers/men with bows and arrows) caught up with Saul, they wounded him badly [with their arrows].
И битва против Саула сделалась жестокая, и стрелки из луков поражали его, и он очень изранен был стрелками.
4 Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, “Take out your sword and kill me with it, in order that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me [while I am dying].” But the man who was carrying Saul’s weapons was terrified, and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. [The sword pierced his body and he died].
И сказал Саул оруженосцу своему: обнажи твой меч и заколи меня им, чтобы не пришли эти необрезанные и не убили меня и не издевались надо мною. Но оруженосец не хотел, ибо очень боялся. Тогда Саул взял меч свой и пал на него.
5 When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
Оруженосец его, увидев, что Саул умер, и сам пал на свой меч и умер с ним.
6 So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul’s weapons, all died on that same day.
Так умер в тот день Саул и три сына его, и оруженосец его, а также и все люди его вместе.
7 When the Israeli people on the north side of the [Jezreel] Valley and on the east side of the Jordan [River] heard that the Israeli army had run away and that Saul and his sons had died, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and occupied their towns.
Израильтяне, жившие на стороне долины и за Иорданом, видя, что люди Израильские побежали и что умер Саул и сыновья его, оставили города свои и бежали, а Филистимляне пришли и засели в них.
8 The next day, when the Philistines came to take away the weapons of the dead [Israeli soldiers], they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Gilboa Mountain.
На другой день Филистимляне пришли грабить убитых, и нашли Саула и трех сыновей его, павших на горе Гелвуйской.
9 They cut off Saul’s head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land, to proclaim the news, in the temple where they kept their idols, and to the other people, [that their army had killed Saul].
И отсекли ему голову, и сняли с него оружие и послали по всей земле Филистимской, чтобы возвестить о сем в капищах идолов своих и народу;
10 They put Saul’s weapons in the temple of [their goddess] Astarte. They also fastened the bodies of Saul [and his sons] to the wall [that surrounded] Beth-Shan [city].
и положили оружие его в капище Астарты, а тело его повесили на стене Беф-Сана.
11 When the people who lived in Jabesh in [the] Gilead [region] heard what the Philistines had done to Saul’s corpse,
И услышали жители Иависа Галаадского о том, как поступили Филистимляне с Саулом,
12 all their bravest soldiers walked all night to Beth-Shan. They took the corpses of Saul and his sons down from the city wall, and they took them back to Jabesh and burned the corpses there.
и поднялись все люди сильные, и шли всю ночь, и взяли тело Саула и тела сыновей его со стены Беф-Сана, и пришли в Иавис, и сожгли их там;
13 They took the bones and buried them under a [big] tamarisk tree. Then they (fasted/abstained from eating food) for seven days.
и взяли кости их, и погребли под дубом в Иависе, и постились семь дней.
