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Tavi nyob Antulaa hab Mixape

¹Tavi kuj tswv hov ntawd moog nyob huv lub qhov tsua Antulaa. Thaus nwg cov tijlaug hab nwg txwv tsev tuabneeg suavdawg tau nov tej xuv hov puab kuj moog cuag nwg hov ntawd. ²Txhua tug kws raug kev txom nyem hab txhua tug kws tshuav nuj tshuav nqe hab txhua tug kws tsw txaus sab kuj sau zog tuaj nrug nwg nyob. Nwg ua puab tug thawj. Muaj tuabneeg tuaj nrug nwg nyob kwvlaam plaub puas leej.
³Tavi kuj tawm hov ntawd moog rua lub moos Mixape huv Mau‑a tebchaws. Nwg has rua Mau‑a tug vaajntxwv tas, “Thov ca kuv nam kuv txwv nrug koj nyob moog txug thaus kuv paub tas Vaajtswv yuav ua le caag rua kuv.” ⁴Tes nwg txawm tseg nwg nam nwg txwv nrug Mau‑a tug vaajntxwv nyob mas ob tug nrug vaajntxwv nyob moog taag swjhawm kws Tavi nyob huv lub chaw ruaj khov. ⁵Mas Kab kws yog xwbfwb cev Vaajtswv lug has rua Tavi tas, “Koj tsw xob nyob huv qhov chaw ruaj khov nuav koj ca le moog rua huv Yuta tebchaws.” Tavi txhad tawm moog nyob lub haav zoov Helej.

Xa‑u tua cov pov thawj huv lub moos Nau

⁶Xa‑u nov tas muaj tuabneeg pum Tavi hab cov tuabneeg kws nrug Tavi ua ke. Thaus hov Xa‑u nyob quas tsawg huv lub moos Kinpe‑a huv qaab tsob ntoo tamalis sau lub pov roob tuav rawv raab muv, nwg cov tub teg tub taw suavdawg sawv vej vog nwg. ⁷Xa‑u has rua cov tub teg tub taw kws sawv vej vog nwg tas, “Mej cov tuabneeg Npeeyamee ca le noog kuv has. Yexi tug tub yuav muab teb hab vaaj txwv maab rua mej txhua tug lov? Nwg yuav tsaa mej txhua tug ua thawj kaav ib txheeb leej ib puas leej lov, ⁸mej suavdawg txawm xaav faav xeeb rua kuv? Thaus kuv tug tub nrug Yexi tug tub cog lug sws raug zoo hov tsw muaj leejtwg yuav qha rua kuv paub le. Mej cov tsw muaj ib tug yuav hlub kuv le, hab tsw qha rua kuv paub tas kuv tug tub tshaum kuv tug qhev tawm tsaam kuv, tog nrhw kuv kev yaam le naj nub nwgnuav.” ⁹Ntau‑e kws yog tuabneeg Entoo kws sawv ze Xa‑u cov tub teg tub taw txhad teb tas, “Kuv pum Yexi tug tub tuaj rua ntawm lub moos Nau tuaj cuag Ahithu tug tub Ahimelej, ¹⁰mas Ahimelej nug Yawmsaub rua nwg hab pub mov rua nwg noj hab pub Kaulia kws yog tuabneeg Filixatee raab ntaaj rua nwg lawm.”
¹¹Mas vaajntxwv txawm tso tuabneeg moog hu pov thawj Ahimelej kws yog Ahithu tug tub hab nwg txwv tsev tuabneeg suavdawg kws ua pov thawj huv lub moos Nau kuas tuaj, mas suavdawg txhad tuaj cuag vaajntxwv. ¹²Mas Xa‑u has tas, “Ahithu tug tub ca le noog kuv has.” Nwg teb tas, “Kuv tug tswv kuv nyob ntawm nuav 'os.” ¹³Mas Xa‑u has rua nwg tas, “Ua caag koj yuav nrug Yexi tug tub faav xeeb rua kuv, tsua qhov kws koj muab mov hab ntaaj rua nwg hab nug Vaajtswv rua nwg, mas nwg txhad tawm tsaam kuv tog nrhw kuv yaam le naj nub nwgnuav.”
¹⁴Mas Ahimelej teb vaajntxwv tas, “Taag nrho koj cov tub teg tub taw sub nyim muaj ib tug twg yuav npuab koj yaam le koj tug vauv Tavi kws ua thawj kaav cov tub rog kws tsom kwm koj hab muaj meej huv koj vaaj koj tsev. ¹⁵Nub nua yog thawj zag kws kuv thov nug Yawmsaub rua nwg lov? Tsw yog. Thov vaajntxwv tsw xob muab ib yaam daabtsw lug rau txem rua kuv kws yog koj tug qhev lossws rua kuv txwv tsev tuabneeg. Tsua qhov koj tug qhev yeej tsw paub zaaj nuav ib nyuas qhov le tsw has ntau los tsawg.” ¹⁶Vaajntxwv has rua Ahimelej tas, “Koj yuav tuag tag tag le, koj hab koj txwv tsev tuabneeg suavdawg yuav tuag xwb.” ¹⁷Mas vaajntxwv has rua cov tub rog kws sawv vej vog nwg tas, “Muab Yawmsaub cov pov thawj nuav tua pov tseg, tsua qhov puab txhais teg nrug Tavi nyob, puab yeej paub tas Tavi tswv lawm kuas puab tsw qha rua kuv paub.” Tassws cov tub teg tub taw tsw kaam nqeg teg tua Yawmsaub cov pov thawj.
¹⁸Mas vaajntxwv txhad has rua Ntau‑e tas, “Koj ca le nqeg teg tua cov pov thawj.” Mas Ntau‑e kws yog tuabneeg Entoo txhad moog tua cov pov thawj mas nub hov nwg tua cov kws naav lub tsho efauj⚓ ntaub maag yim caum tswb leeg. ¹⁹Nwg xuas ntaaj tua lub moos Nau kws yog cov pov thawj lub moos, tsw has quaspuj quasyawg hab tej mivnyuas yau hab mivnyuas kws noj mig hab tej nyuj tej neeg luav hab tej yaaj huvsw.
²⁰Tassws Ahimelej ib tug tub kws yog Ahithu xeeb ntxwv hu ua Anpiyatha tswv dim hab lawv Tavi qaab moog. ²¹Mas Anpiyatha has rua Tavi tas, “Xa‑u muab Yawmsaub cov pov thawj tua taag lawm.” ²²Tavi has rua Anpiyatha tas, “Nub hov thaus Ntau‑e kws yog tuabneeg Entoo nyob hov ntawd kuv yeej paub tas nwg yuav qha rua Xa‑u xwb xwb le. Yog tim kuv mas koj txwv tsev tuabneeg suavdawg txhad le tuag. ²³Ca le nrug kuv nyob tsw xob ntshai le tsua qhov yog tug kws xaav tua koj los kuj xaav tua kuv hab. Koj ca le nrug kuv nyob txhad le tso sab plhuav.”

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David’s Four Hundred Men

¹David therefore departed from there and ⚓escaped ⚓to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. ²⚓And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about ⚓four hundred men with him.
³Then David went from there to Mizpah of ⚓Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come here with you, till I know what God will do for me.” ⁴So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
⁵Now the prophet ⚓Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go to the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

Saul Murders the Priests

⁶When Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered—now Saul was staying in ⚓Gibeah under a tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants standing about him— ⁷then Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse ⚓give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds? ⁸All of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that ⚓my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is not one of you who is sorry for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.”
⁹Then answered ⚓Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, “I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to ⚓Ahimelech the son of ⚓Ahitub. ¹⁰⚓And he inquired of the Lord for him, ⚓gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
¹¹So the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob. And they all came to the king. ¹²And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub!”
He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
¹³Then Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day?”
¹⁴So Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as⚓faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house? ¹⁵Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much.”
¹⁶And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all ⚓your father’s house!” ¹⁷Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king ⚓would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord. ¹⁸And the king said to Doeg, “You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests, and ⚓killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod. ¹⁹⚓Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep—with the edge of the sword.
²⁰⚓Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, ⚓escaped and fled after David. ²¹And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the Lord’s priests. ²²So David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of all the persons of your father’s house. ²³Stay with me; do not fear. ⚓For he who seeks my life seeks your life, but with me you shall be safe.”