2 Samuel 17

1 Ahitofel sagde med Absalom: «Lat meg velja ut tolv tusund mann, so vil eg leggja i veg og forfylgja David alt i natt!

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

2 So kjem eg brått yver honom og skræmer honom medan han er trøytt og veik. Då vil alle folki hans taka til rømings. So drep eg kongen medan han er åleine.

And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

3 So skal eg føra alt folket attende til deg; for um det gjeng so med den mannen du søkjer, er det som alle kjem attende; heile folket vil halda fred.»

And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

4 Absalom og alle dei øvste i Israel lika godt den rådi.

And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.

5 Like vel sagde Absalom: «Ropa ogso arkiten Husai inn! so fær me ogso høyra kva han råder til.»

Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.

6 Då Husai kom inn til Absalom, sagde Absalom til honom: «So og so hev Ahitofel sagt. Skal me fylgja hans råd? I anna fall, kva meiner du?»

And when Hushai came, Absalom said to him, This is what Ahithophel has said: are we to do as he says? if not, what is your suggestion?

7 Husai svara Absalom: «Den rådi Ahitofel hev gjeve denne gongen, er ikkje god.

And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.

8 Du kjenner far din og folki hans, » sagde Husai, «du veit dei er fullgode stridsfolk. Og hug-rame er dei no som ei binna dei hev teke ungarne frå ute i marki. Far din er krigsmann, veit du: han let ikkje folki leggja seg til kvile um natti.

Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

9 No hev han visseleg løynt seg i einkvan helleren eller einkvar annan staden. Skulde då sume av våre folk falla i fyrstningi, so vil det koma ut at det hev vore stort mannefall millom folki som fylgde Absalom.

But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.

10 Då vil jamvel den djervaste heiltupp missa modet, um han så hadde mod som ei løva. For heile Israel veit at far din er ei kjempa, og at fylgjesveinarne hans er djerve karar.

Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

11 Difor er det mi råd, at du stemner saman til deg heile Israel frå Dan til Be’erseba, so tallrikt som sanden attmed havet. Og sjølv lyt du draga med i striden.

But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

12 Når me so finn honom einkvan staden, kvar helst det no er, so fell me yver honom som doggi fell på marki. Då skal det ikkje verta ein einaste att av honom og alle fylgjesveinarne hans.

Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

13 Ja, um han so søkjer inn i ei borg, so vil heile Israel leggja reip ikring henne og draga henne ned i dalen, til dess det bid ikkje minste steinen att i henne.»

And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.

14 Då sagde Absalom og alle Israels-mennerne: «Rådi åt arkiten Husai er betre enn Ahitofels råd.» For Herren laga det so at den gode rådi hans Ahitofel vart um inkjes. For Herren vilde føra ulukke yver Absalom.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

15 Husai melde til prestarne Sadok og Abjatar: «Den og den rådi gav Ahitofel åt Absalom og dei øvste i Israel. Men den og den rådi gav eg.

Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.

16 Skunda dykk og send bod til David med det ordet: «Natta ikkje yver attmed ferjestaderne i øydemarki i natt, men gakk yver Jordan! Elles kann kongen og alle folki hans verta tynte.»»

So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.

17 Jonatan og Ahima’as heldt seg attmed En-Rogel. Dit kom jamt ei tenestgjenta med melding til deim; og so bar dei meldingi til David. Dei våga ikkje visa seg i byen.

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.

18 Men ein unggut gådde deim og melde det til Absalom. Då skunda dei seg burt båe, og kom heim til ein mann i Bahurim. Han hadde ein brunn på garden sin. I den steig dei ned.

But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.

19 So tok kona hans og breidde eit tæpe yver brunn-opet, og strådde gryn uppå, so ingen gådde noko.

And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.

20 Då tenarane åt Absalom kom inn i huset til kona og spurde etter Ahima’as og Jonatan, svara ho: «Dei gjekk yver den vesle bekken der.» Dei leita, men fann inkje, og snudde so heim att til Jerusalem.

And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.

21 Då dei hadde fare sin veg, steig dei hine upp or brunnen, og gjekk med meldingi til kong David. Dei sagde til David: «Skunda deg, far yver vatnet! den og den rådi hev Ahitofel gjeve um dykk.»

Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.

22 David braut upp med alle fylgjesveinarne sine; og dei gjekk yver Jordan. Um morgonen då dagen rann, vanta det ikkje ein einaste. Alle var komne yver Jordan.

So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

23 Då Ahitofel såg at dei ikkje fylgde rådi hans, sala han asnet sitt, steig uppå og reid heim til sin by. Og då han hadde skila for seg, hengde han seg. Det var hans bane. Han vart gravlagd i gravi åt far sin.

Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.

24 David var komen til Mahanajim då Absalom med alle Israels-mennerne gjekk yver Jordan.

And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

25 Absalom hadde sett Amasa til øvste herhovding i staden for Joab. Amasa var son åt ein jizre’elit ved namn Jitra, som hadde halde seg med Abigal, dotter til Nahas, syster til Seruja, mor åt Joab.

And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

26 Israel og Absalom lægra seg i Gileadlandet.

And Israel and Absalom put up their tents in the land of Gilead.

27 Då David kom til Mahanajim, hadde Sobi Nahasson frå Rabba i Ammonitarlandet og Makir Ammielsson frå Lo-Debar, og Barzillai, ein Gileads-mann frå Rogelim,

Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

28 ført dit sengjer, skåler og kruskjerald. Og kveite, bygg, mjøl, steikte aks, baunor, linsor,

Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

29 honning, tjukkmjølk, sauer og mjølk-ost hadde dei med seg til mat åt David og folket hans. For dei tenkte: «Folki hev vorte svoltne, trøytte og tyrste i øydemarki.»

And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.