دوم سموئیل 17

۱ 1 و اخیتوفل به ابشالوم گفت: «مرا اذن بده که دوازده هزار نفر را برگزیده، برخیزم و شبانگاه داود را تعاقب نمایم.

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Allow me to choose 12,000 men, and I will leave [with them] tonight to pursue David.

۲ 2 پس در حالتی که او خسته و دستهایش سست است بر اورسیده، او را مضطرب خواهم ساخت و تمامی قومی که همراهش هستند، خواهند گریخت، وپادشاه را به تنهایی خواهم کشت.

We will attack him while he is tired and discouraged, and cause him to be very frightened. All the soldiers who are with him will run away. We will kill only the king.

۳ 3 و تمامی قوم را نزد تو خواهم برگردانید زیرا شخصی که او رامی طلبی مثل برگشتن همه است، پس تمامی قوم در سلامتی خواهند بود.»

Then we will bring back all his soldiers to you, like [SIM] a (bride/woman comes to her husband when she is married). You are wanting to kill only one man; so the other people will not be harmed.”

۴ 4 و این سخن در نظرجمیع مشایخ اسرائیل پسند آمد.

Absalom and all the Israeli leaders [who were with him] thought that what Ahithophel said would be good to do.

۵ 5 و ابشالوم گفت: «حوشای ارکی را نیزبخوانید تا بشنویم که او چه خواهد گفت.»

But Absalom said, “Summon Hushai also, and we will hear what he suggests.”

۶ 6 وچون حوشای نزد ابشالوم آمد، ابشالوم وی راخطاب کرده، گفت: «اخیتوفل بدین مضمون گفته است، پس تو بگو که بر‌حسب رای او عمل نماییم یا نه.»

So when Hushai arrived, Absalom told him what Ahithophel had suggested. Then he asked Hushai, “What do you think we should do? If you do not think that we should do what Ahithophel suggests, tell us [what you think that we should do].”

۷ 7 حوشای به ابشالوم گفت: «مشورتی که اخیتوفل این مرتبه داده است، خوب نیست.»

Hushai replied, “This time what Ahithophel has suggested is not good advice.

۸ 8 و حوشای گفت: «می‌دانی که پدرت ومردانش شجاع هستند و مثل خرسی که بچه هایش را در بیابان گرفته باشند، در تلخی جانند، و پدرت مرد جنگ آزموده است، و شب را در میان قوم نمی ماند.

You know that your father and the men who are with him are strong soldiers, and that now they are very angry, like [SIM] a mother bear whose cubs have been stolen from her. Furthermore, your father knows how to fight because he has fought in many battles. He will not stay with his troops during the night.

۹ 9 اینک او الان درحفره‌ای یا جای دیگر مخفی است، و واقع خواهد شد که چون بعضی از ایشان در ابتدابیفتند، هر کس که بشنود خواهد گفت: در میان قومی که تابع ابشالوم هستند، شکستی واقع شده است.

Right now he is probably already hiding in one of the pits, or in some other place. [If his soldiers start to attack your soldiers, and] if they kill some of them, whoever hears about that will say ‘Many of the soldiers with Absalom have been killed!’

۱۰ 10 و نیز شجاعی که دلش مثل دل شیرباشد، بالکل گداخته خواهد شد، زیرا جمیع اسرائیل می‌دانند که پدر تو جباری است ورفیقانش شجاع هستند.

Then your other soldiers, even if they are as fearless [SIM, IDM] as lions, they will become very afraid. Do not forget that everyone in Israel knows that your father is a great/strong soldier, and that the soldiers who are with him are also very brave/courageous.

۱۱ 11 لهذا رای من این است که تمامی اسرائیل از دان تا بئرشبع که مثل ریگ کناره دریا بی‌شمارند، نزد تو جمع شوند، وحضرت تو همراه ایشان برود.

“So what I suggest is that you summon all the Israeli soldiers, from Dan [in the far north] to Beersheba [in the far south]. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore [HYP]. And then you yourself lead us into the battle.

۱۲ 12 پس در مکانی که یافت می‌شود بر او خواهیم رسید، و مثل شبنمی که بر زمین می‌ریزد بر او فرود خواهیم آمد، و از او و تمامی مردانی که همراه وی می‌باشند، یکی هم باقی نخواهد ماند.

We will find [your father], wherever he is, and we will attack him [from all sides], like [SIM] dew covers all the ground. And neither he nor any of the soldiers who are with him will survive.

۱۳ 13 و اگر به شهری داخل شود، آنگاه تمامی اسرائیل طنابهابه آن شهر خواهند‌آورد و آن شهر را به نهرخواهند کشید تا یک سنگ ریزه‌ای هم در آن پیدانشود.»

If he escapes into some city, all our soldiers will bring ropes and pull that city down into the valley. As a result, not one stone will be left there [on top of the hill where that city was]!”

۱۴ 14 پس ابشالوم و جمیع مردان اسرائیل گفتند: «مشورت حوشای ارکی از مشورت اخیتوفل بهتر است.» زیرا خداوند مقدر فرموده بود که مشورت نیکوی اخیتوفل را باطل گرداند تا آنکه خداوند بدی را بر ابشالوم برساند.

Absalom and all the other Israeli men [who were with him] said, “What Hushai suggests is better than what Ahithophel suggested.” The reason that happened was that Yahweh had determined that if they would accept the good advice that Ahithophel had given them, [they would have been able to defeat/kill David]. But [as a result of their doing what Hushai suggested], Yahweh would cause a disaster to happen to Absalom.

۱۵ 15 و حوشای به صادوق و ابیاتار کهنه گفت: «اخیتوفل به ابشالوم و مشایخ اسرائیل چنین و چنان مشورت داده، و من چنین و چنان مشورت داده‌ام.

Then Hushai told the two priests, Zadok and Abiathar, what both he and Ahithophel had suggested to Absalom and the Israeli leaders.

۱۶ 16 پس حال به زودی بفرستید و داود رااطلاع داده، گویید: امشب در کناره های بیابان توقف منما بلکه به هر طوری که توانی عبور کن، مبادا پادشاه و همه کسانی که همراه وی می‌باشند، بلعیده شوند.»

Then he said to them, “Send [a message] quickly to David. Tell him to not stay at the place where people walk across the river, near the desert. Instead, he and his soldiers must cross [the Jordan River] immediately, in order that they will not be killed/wiped out.”

۱۷ 17 و یوناتان و اخیمعص نزد عین روجل توقف می‌نمودند و کنیزی رفته، برای ایشان خبرمی آورد، و ایشان رفته، به داود پادشاه خبرمی رسانیدند، زیرا نمی توانستند به شهر داخل شوند که مبادا خویشتن را ظاهر سازند.

[The priest’s two sons, ] Jonathan and Ahimaaz, were waiting at En-Rogel [Spring], outside Jerusalem. They did not [dare to] enter the city, because if someone saw them, [he would report it to Absalom]. [While they were at En-Rogel, ] a female servant [of the two priests] would frequently go to them and report to them [what was happening], and then they would go and report it to King David.

۱۸ 18 اماغلامی ایشان را دیده، به ابشالوم خبر داد، و هردوی ایشان به زودی رفته، به خانه شخصی دربحوریم داخل شدند و در حیاط او چاهی بود که در آن فرود شدند.

But a young man saw them, and went and reported it to Absalom. [They found out what the young man had done, ] so both of them left quickly and went to stay in the house of a man in Bahurim. That man had a well in his courtyard; so the two men went down into the well [to hide].

۱۹ 19 و زن، سرپوش چاه راگرفته، بر دهنه‌اش گسترانید و بلغور بر آن ریخت. پس چیزی معلوم نشد.

The man’s wife took a cloth/mat and covered the well, and scattered grain on top of it in order that no one would know [that two men were hiding inside it].

۲۰ 20 و خادمان ابشالوم نزدآن زن به خانه درآمده، گفتند: «اخیمعص ویوناتان کجایند؟» زن به ایشان گفت: «از نهر آب عبور کردند.» پس چون جستجو کرده، نیافتند، به اورشلیم برگشتند.

Some of Absalom’s soldiers [found out where the two men had gone. So they] went to the house, and asked the woman, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” She replied, “They crossed the river.” So the soldiers [crossed the river and] searched for them. But they could not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

۲۱ 21 و بعد از رفتن آنها، ایشان از چاه برآمدند ورفته، داود پادشاه را خبر دادند و به داود گفتند: «برخیزید و به زودی از آب عبور کنید، زیرا که اخیتوفل درباره شما چنین مشورت داده است.»

After they had gone, the two men came out of the well and went and reported to King David [what had happened and] what Ahithophel had suggested. Then they said to him, “Cross the river quickly!”

۲۲ 22 پس داود و تمامی قومی که همراهش بودند، برخاستند و از اردن عبور کردند و تا طلوع فجریکی باقی نماند که از اردن عبور نکرده باشد.

So David and all his soldiers quickly started to cross the Jordan [River], and by dawn they had all crossed to the other side.

۲۳ 23 اما چون اخیتوفل دید که مشورت او بجاآورده نشد، الاغ خود را بیاراست و برخاسته، به شهر خود به خانه‌اش رفت و برای خانه خودتدارک دیده، خویشتن را خفه کرد و مرد و او را در قبر پدرش دفن کردند.

When Ahithophel realized that Absalom was not going to do what he suggested, he put a saddle on his donkey and returned to his own town. He gave [to his family] instructions about his possessions, and then he hanged himself [because he knew that Absalom would be defeated and that he would be considered a traitor and be killed]. His body was buried in the tomb where his ancestors [had been buried].

۲۴ 24 اما داود به محنایم آمد و ابشالوم از اردن گذشت و تمامی مردان اسرائیل همراهش بودند.

David [and his soldiers] arrived at Mahanaim. And Absalom [and all his Israeli soldiers] also crossed the Jordan [River].

۲۵ 25 و ابشالوم، عماسا را به‌جای یوآب به‌سرداری لشکر نصب کرد، و عماسا پسر شخصی مسمی به یترای اسرائیلی بود که نزد ابیجایل، دخترناحاش، خواهر صرویه، مادر یوآب درآمده بود.

Absalom had appointed [his cousin] Amasa to be the commander of his army, instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Jether, a descendant of Ishmael. Amasa’s mother was Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab’s mother Zeruiah.

۲۶ 26 پس اسرائیل و ابشالوم در زمین جلعاد اردوزدند.

Absalom and his Israeli soldiers set up their tents in [the] Gilead [region].

۲۷ 27 و واقع شد که چون داود به محنایم رسید، شوبی ابن ناحاش از ربت بنی عمون و ماکیر بن عمیئیل از لودبار و برزلائی جلعادی از روجلیم،

When David [and his soldiers] arrived at Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah [city] in the Ammon area, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-Debar [city], and Barzillai from Rogelim [town] in [the] Gilead [region]

۲۸ 28 بسترها و کاسه‌ها و ظروف سفالین و گندم وجو و آرد و خوشه های برشته و باقلا و عدس ونخود برشته،

brought sleeping mats, bowls, clay pots, barley, wheat flour, parched grain, beans, and lentils to them.

۲۹ 29 و عسل و کره و گوسفندان و پنیرگاو برای خوراک داود و قومی که همراهش بودندآوردند، زیرا گفتند که قوم در بیابان گرسنه وخسته و تشنه می‌باشند.

They brought honey and curds, sheep, and some cream/cheese for David and his soldiers to eat. They knew that David and his soldiers would be hungry and tired and thirsty [from marching] in the desert.