2 Samuel 21
1 I Davids tid kom tri store uår etter kvarandre. Då gjorde David spursmål til Herren um det. Herren svara: «På Saul og hans hus kvilar blodskuld, av di han drap gibeonitarne.»
In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
2 Kongen kalla då til seg Gibeon-mennerne og tala med deim. Gibeonitarne var ikkje israelitar, men var ei atterleiva av amoritarne. Endå Israels-borni hadde gjort eiden sin til deim, hadde Saul vore so ihuga for Israels-borni og for Juda, at han freista tyna deim.
Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives: )
3 David spurde no gibeonitarne: «Kva kann eg gjera for dykk? Korleis kann eg sona brotet, so de vil velsigna Herrens arvlut?»
So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?
4 Gibeonitarne svara: «Ikkje sylv og gull krev me av Saul og hans hus. Og ikkje hev me lov å drepa nokon mann i Israel.» Han spurde: «Kva ynskjer det då eg skal gjera for dykk?»
And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not a question of silver and gold between us and Saul or his family; and it is not in our power to put to death any man in Israel. And he said, Say, then, what am I to do for you?
5 Dei svara kongen: «Den mannen som vilde tyna oss og tenktest rydja oss ut, so me ikkje lenger skulde få halda oss nokon stad innanfor Israels landskil,
And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,
6 av hans etterkomarar må det gjeva oss sju mann, og me vil leggja deim på stegl for Herrens augo i Sauls Gibea, han som Herren valde ut.» Kongen sagde: «De skal eg gjera.»
Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.
7 Kongen sparde Mefiboset Jonatansson, soneson åt Saul, for skuld den eiden ved Herren som David og Jonatan Saulsson hadde svore einannan.
But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.
8 Derimot tok kongen dei tvo sønerne Armoni og Mefiboset som Saul hadde fenge med Rispa Ajadotter, og dei fem sønerne som Adriel Barzillaison frå Mehola hadde fenge med Mikal Saulsdotter.
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 Deim gav han yver til gibeonitarne. Og dei lagde deim på stegl på fjellet for Herrens augo. Dei fekk sin bane alle sju på ein gong. Det var dei fyrste skurddagarne, då byggskurden tok til, at dei let livet.
And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.
10 Rispa Ajadotter tok syrgjebunaden sin og breidde ut uppå fjellet frå skurdonni tok til, og til dess det strøymde regn yver deim frå himmelen. Ho let ikkje fuglarne under himmelen slå ned på deim um dagen, heller ikkje villdyri frå marki um natti.
And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
11 Då David spurde det Rispa Ajadotter, fylgjekona åt Saul, hadde gjort,
And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.
12 drog David av stad og let henta beini etter Saul og Jonatan, son hans, hjå borgarne i Jabes i Gilead. Dei hadde i løynd teke liki frå torget i Bet-San, der som filistarane hadde hengt deim upp då dei hadde slege Saul på Gilboa.
And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:
13 Då han fekk ført beini etter Saul og Jonatan, son hans, upp derifrå, sanka dei i hop beini etter deim som var lagde på stegl,
And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.
14 og gravlagde deim saman med beini etter Saul og Jonatan, son hans, i Benjaminslandet, i Sela, i gravi åt Kis, far hans. Dei gjorde alt det kongen baud. Og etterpå det vende Gud sin nåde til landet.
And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.
15 Det vart krig millom filistarane og Israel att. David drog ned med tenarane sine; og dei slost med filistarane. Men David trøytna.
And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:
16 Jisbo-Benob, ein ætting av Rafa - han hadde eit spjot som vog tri hundrad lodd kopar, og han hadde spent um seg eit nytt sverd - han tenktest drepa David.
And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.
17 Men Abisai Serujason hjelpte kongen og gav filistaren banehogg. Då svor Davids menner ein eid til honom, og sagde: «Du må aldri meir draga ut med oss i strid. Elles kann Israels lampa slokna.»
But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.
18 So hende det sidan at det stod ein bardage med filistarane ved Gob. Då slo husatiten Sibbekai Saf av Rafa-ætti.
Now after this there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Saph, one of the offspring of the Rephaim.
19 Då det endå ein gong stod eit slag mot filistarane ved Gob, gav Elhanan, son åt Ja’are-Orgim frå Betlehem, Goliat frå Gat banehogg, han som hadde eit spjotskaft so stort som ein vevbom.
And again there was war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan, the son of Jair the Beth-lehemite, put to death Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.
20 Då det vart eit slag att ved Gat, var der ein storvaksen mann som hadde seks fingrar på kvar hand og seks tær på kvar fot, fire og tjuge til saman. Han var ogso utstokken frå Rafa-ætti.
And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.
21 Han svivyrde Israels-mennerne. Jonatan, son åt Simea, bror åt David, gav honom difor banehugg.
And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.
22 Desse fire var ætta frå Rafa i Gat. Og dei fall for David og mennerne hans.
These four were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; and they came to their end by the hands of David and his servants.
