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Dawid, Nabal Laih Anŭn HʼAbigail

¹Hlak anŭn, Samuêl tơĭ pran laih, tui anŭn abih bang ƀing Israel pơƀut glaĭ laih anŭn čŏk hia kơ ñu; gơñu dơ̱r gơ̆ amăng anih Ramah, jing plei gơ̆ pô.
Giŏng anŭn, Dawid hăng ƀing tơhan ñu đuaĭ nao pơ tơdron ha̱r Maôn yơh. ²Hơmâo sa čô mơnuih pơdrŏng biă mă amăng tring Maôn anŭn yuakơ hơmâo pưk sang đang hơma amăng anih Karmel anŭn. Ñu hơmâo sa-rơbâo drơi bơbe laih anŭn klâo-rơbâo drơi triu; ñu hlak yuă blâo khul triu ƀơi anih Karmel. ³Anăn ñu jing Nabal laih anŭn anăn bơnai ñu jing HʼAbigail. Bơnai ñu jing đah kơmơi rơgơi laih anŭn hiam bơnai, samơ̆ rơkơi ñu jing mơnuih mơ̆ng djuai Kaleb, jing pô khăng akŏ laih anŭn juăt pơmĭn sat amăng bruă ñu ngă.
⁴Tơdang Dawid hlak dŏ amăng tơdron ha̱r, ñu hơmư̆ Nabal hlak yuă blâo triu. ⁵Tui anŭn, ñu pơkiaŏ nao pluh čô hlak ai laih anŭn pơtă kơ ƀing gơñu tui anai, “Nao bĕ pơ Nabal ƀơi anih Karmel adih laih anŭn pơhiăp: Dawid mơit tơlơi tơña bla anai kơ ih. ⁶Laĭ bĕ kơ ñu tui anai, ‘Kwưh kiăng kơ ih hơdip sui! Kwưh tơlơi hiam drơi jan kơ ih laih anŭn kơ sang anŏ ih! Laih anŭn tơlơi hiam drơi jan kơ abih bang lŏm kơ ih!
⁷“ ‘Ră anai kâo hơmư̆ truh mông yuă blâo triu laih. Tơdang ƀing wai triu ih dŏ hăng ƀing gơmơi, ƀing gơmơi ƀu ngă sat kơ ƀing gơ̆ ôh; laih anŭn amăng abih hrơi mông ƀing gơñu dŏ ƀơi anih Karmel, ƀing gơñu ƀu hơmâo pơrơngiă hĭ hơget gơnam lŏm kơ ƀing gơñu ôh. ⁸Tơña bĕ ƀing ding kơna ih laih anŭn ƀing gơñu či ruai kơ ih yơh. Hơnŭn yơh, pơmơak bĕ kơ ƀing hlak ai kâo, yuakơ ƀing gơmơi rai ƀơi hrơi phet. Rơkâo ih pha brơi bĕ kơ ƀing tơhan kâo anai, jing ƀing kar hăng ding kơna ih, laih anŭn kơ Dawid, jing pô kar hăng ană ih, hơdôm gơnam ih dưi hơduah hơmâo kơ ƀing gơñu.’ ”
⁹Tơdang ƀing ding kơna Dawid truh laih, ƀing gơñu laĭ hăng Nabal tơlơi pơhiăp anŭn amăng anăn Dawid. Giŏng anŭn, ƀing gơñu dŏ tơguan yơh kơ tơlơi Nabal laĭ glaĭ.
¹⁰Nabal laĭ glaĭ kơ ƀing ding kơna Dawid tui anai, “Hlơi jing pô Dawid anŭn lĕ? Hlơi jing ană đah rơkơi Yisai anŭn lĕ? Hơmâo lu biă mă yơh ƀing ding kơna čơlah đuaĭ hĭ mơ̆ng khua gơñu rơnŭk anai. ¹¹Yua hơget kâo khŏm mă ƀañ tơpŭng kâo, ia mơñum kâo laih anŭn añăm mơnơ̆ng kâo hơmâo pơdjai laih kơ ƀing ding kơna yuă blâo triu kâo, laih anŭn pha brơi kơ ƀing mơnuih rai mơ̆ng anih arăng ƀu thâo ôh anŭn lĕ?”
¹²Ƀing ding kơna Dawid đuaĭ glaĭ yơh. Tơdang ƀing gơñu truh laih, ƀing gơñu ruai glaĭ rĭm boh hiăp Nabal pơhiăp anŭn. ¹³Dawid laĭ kơ ƀing tơhan ñu tui anai, “Băk đao gih bĕ!” Tui anŭn, ƀing gơñu băk đao gơñu laih anŭn Dawid ăt băk mă đao ñu mơ̆n. Hơmâo kơplăh wăh pă̱-rơtuh čô nao hrŏm hăng Dawid, tơdang anŭn dua-rơtuh čô dŏ glaĭ wai khul gơnam djru.
¹⁴Sa čô amăng ƀing ding kơna ruai glaĭ kơ bơnai Nabal, jing HʼAbigail, tui anai, “Dawid pơkiaŏ rai ƀing ding kơna ñu rai mơ̆ng tơdron ha̱r kiăng pơhiăp kơkuh hăng khua ta, samơ̆ khua ta pơhiăp djik djak kơ ƀing gơ̆. ¹⁵Samơ̆ ƀing mơnuih anŭn ngă hiam kơ ƀing gơmơi biă mă. Ƀing gơñu ƀu ngă sat kơ ƀing gơmơi ôh laih anŭn amăng abih hrơi mông ƀing gơmơi tơbiă nao wai jĕ ƀing gơñu, ƀu hơmâo hlô mơnơ̆ng pă ôh rơngiă hĭ. ¹⁶Hrơi mlam ƀing gơñu jing kar hăng bơnư̆ yơh pơgang jum dar ƀing gơmơi tơdang ƀing gơmơi wai triu gơmơi jĕ ƀing gơñu. ¹⁷Ră anai, pơmĭn bĕ kơ tơlơi anai laih anŭn hơduah bĕ hơdôm tơlơi ih dưi ngă, yuakơ tơlơi răm rai hlak rai ƀơi khua ta laih anŭn ƀơi abih bang sang anŏ ñu mơ̆n. Ñu jing sa čô mơnuih sat ƀai biă mă tơl ƀu hơmâo hlơi pô ôh dưi pơhiăp hăng ñu.”
¹⁸HʼAbigail ƀu dŏ tơguan dơ̆ng tah. Ñu mă dua-rơtuh tơlŏ ƀañ tơpŭng, dua klĭ ia boh kơƀâo, añăm rơma drơi triu arăng hơmâo pơdjai laih, rơma hơnŏng pơdai hơna, sa-rơtuh boh ƀañ boh kơƀâo, dua-rơtuh boh ƀañ boh hra laih anŭn yŏng pioh ƀơi rŏng khul aseh glai. ¹⁹Giŏng anŭn, ñu laĭ kơ ƀing ding kơna ñu tui anai, “Nao hlâo kơ kâo bĕ kiăng kơ bưp ñu laih anŭn kâo či đuaĭ tui ƀing gih yơh.” Samơ̆ ñu ƀu laĭ pơthâo kơ rơkơi ñu Nabal ôh.
²⁰Tơdang ñu đĭ rai aseh glai ñu găn nao pơ khul bŏl čư̆, Dawid hăng ƀing tơhan ñu ăt trŭn rai anăp nao pơ gơ̆ mơ̆n, tui anŭn yơh gơ̆ bưp ƀing Dawid yơh. ²¹Dawid phrâo laĭ laih tui anai, “Anŭn jing sa tơlơi đôč đač yơh, abih bang tơlơi kâo wai lăng brơi kơ dram gơnam pô anŭn amăng tơdron ha̱r, tơl ƀu hơmâo sa drơi hlô pă ôh rơngiă hĭ. Ñu hơmâo kla glaĭ laih kơ kâo tơlơi sat pơala brơi kơ tơlơi hiam kâo ngă. ²²Rơkâo kơ Ơi Adai pơrăm hĭ Dawid kơtang kơtĭt, tơdah ƀơi mơguah kâo pioh hơdip sa čô đah rơkơi amăng abih bang ƀing lŏm kơ pô sat anŭn dŏ hơdip!”
²³Tơdang HʼAbigail ƀuh Dawid, ñu ječ ameč trŭn mơ̆ng aseh glai anŭn laih anŭn bon kơkuh ƀơi anăp Dawid hăng ƀô̆ mơta ñu sŏ̱ lŏn. ²⁴Ñu bon ƀơi tơkai Dawid laih anŭn laĭ tui anai, “Ơ khua kâo, brơi bĕ tơlơi ƀuăh anŭn kơnơ̆ng lê̆ ƀơi hơjăn kâo đôč yuakơ hơdôm tơlơi rơkơi kâo hơmâo ngă laih. Brơi bĕ kâo, ding kơna ih anai, pơhiăp hăng ih laih anŭn hơmư̆ bĕ hơget tơlơi kâo, ding kơna ih anai, khŏm pơhiăp. ²⁵Rơkâo kơ ih anăm lăng kơ mơnuih sat ƀai Nabal anŭn ôh. Ñu kơnơ̆ng hrup hăng anăn ñu pô đôč, anăn ñu jing mlŭk, laih anŭn ñu hơmâo tơlơi mlŭk yơh. Bơ kơ kâo, ding kơna ih anai, kâo ƀu ƀuh ôh ƀing ding kơna ih pơkiaŏ nao.”
²⁶Ñu laĭ dơ̆ng tui anai, “Ră anai yuakơ Yahweh hơmâo răk wai laih ih, Ơ khua kâo hơi, mơ̆ng tơlơi tuh drah laih anŭn mơ̆ng tơlơi rŭ nua kơ ih pô hăng tơngan ih pô, kâo ƀuăn hăng Yahweh hơdip laih anŭn hăng ih, kwưh kiăng kơ Yahweh pơkơhma̱l hĭ abih bang ƀing rŏh ayăt ih laih anŭn abih ƀing hlơi kiăng pơrai hĭ ih, jing hĭ hrup tơlơi Ñu či pơkơhma̱l hĭ Nabal anŭn yơh. ²⁷Laih anŭn rơkâo kơ ih mă bĕ gơnam brơi pơyơr anai, jing gơnam kâo, ding kơna ih anai, hơmâo ba rai laih kơ ih hăng pha brơi bĕ kơ ƀing mơnuih đuaĭ tui ih. ²⁸Rơkâo ih pap brơi bĕ tơlơi rơgao hơnơ̆ng kâo, ding kơna ih anai, yuakơ Yahweh či pơkơjăp sang anŏ ih hlŏng lar, yuakơ ih blah khul tơlơi pơblah Yahweh. Anăm brơi arăng hơduah ƀuh tơlơi soh sat ih ôh amăng abih hrơi ih dŏ hơdip. ²⁹Wơ̆t tơdah hlơi pô hlak kiaŏ mă ih kiăng pơrai hĭ tơlơi hơdip ih, Yahweh Ơi Adai ih yơh či brơi tơlơi kơjăp hơđơ̆ng amăng rơnŭk ƀing hơdip. Samơ̆ tơlơi hơdip ƀing rŏh ayăt ih, Ñu či bluh pơđuaĭ hĭ kar hăng boh pơtâo suar đuaĭ hĭ mơ̆ng hrĕ wŏt yơh. ³⁰Tơdang Yahweh hơmâo pơgiŏng hĭ laih kơ ih abih bang tơlơi hiam klă Ñu hơmâo ƀuăn laih hăng ih, laih anŭn hơmâo ruah mă laih ih jing khua wai lăng abih bang ƀing Israel, ³¹ih ƀu či hơƀlơ̆k glaĭ ôh amăng pran jua ih kơ tơlơi tuh drah ƀôdah tơlơi rŭ nua kơ ih pô ƀu tŭ yua. Laih anŭn tơdang Yahweh hơmâo dui ba laih ih dưi jing hĭ, hơdơr kơ kâo đa.”
³²Dawid laĭ kơ HʼAbigail tui anai, “Bơni hơơč kơ Yahweh Ơi Adai ƀing Israel, jing Pô hơmâo ba rai laih ih hrơi anai kiăng kơ bưp kâo. ³³Kwưh kiăng ih hơmâo tơlơi bơni hiam kơ tơlơi ih phat kơđi anŭn laih anŭn kơ tơlơi pơgăn hĭ kâo mơ̆ng tơlơi ngă tuh drah hrơi anai kiăng rŭ nua kơ kâo pô hăng tơngan kâo pô. ³⁴Rơngiao kơ tơlơi anai, kâo ƀuăn hăng Yahweh Ơi Adai ƀing Israel hơdip jing Pô hơmâo pơgăn hĭ laih kâo mơ̆ng tơlơi ngă sat kơ ih, tơdah ih ƀu rai tañ ôh kiăng kơ bưp kâo, sĭt ƀu hơmâo ôh sa čô đah rơkơi pă lŏm kơ Nabal dưi dŏ hơdip truh kơ mơguah.”
³⁵Giŏng anŭn, Dawid mă tŭ mơ̆ng tơngan gơ̆ hơdôm gơnam gơ̆ hơmâo ba rai laih hăng laĭ tui anai, “Glaĭ bĕ pơ sang hăng tơlơi rơnŭk rơno̱m. Kâo hơmâo hơmư̆ laih tơlơi pơhiăp ih laih anŭn pha brơi laih tơlơi ih rơkâo.”
³⁶Tơdang HʼAbigail glaĭ pơ Nabal, ñu hlak dŏ amăng sang pơkra gơnam ƀơ̆ng huă prŏng kar hăng sa čô pơtao. Ñu hlak hơ̆k mơak laih anŭn măt biă mă. Tui anŭn, HʼAbigail ƀu ruai kơ ñu ôh tơl mơguah. ³⁷Giŏng anŭn, amăng mơguah, tơdang Nabal abih măt laih, bơnai ñu ruai glaĭ abih bang khul tơlơi anŭn, tui anŭn hơtai boh ñu ruă rơwen jing khăng hĭ kar hăng boh pơtâo yơh. ³⁸Pluh hrơi tơdơi kơ anŭn, Yahweh taih Nabal tui anŭn ñu djai hĭ yơh.
³⁹Tơdang Dawid hơmư̆ Nabal djai laih, ñu laĭ tui anai, “Bơni hơơč kơ Yahweh jing Pô djă̱ pioh tơlơi tơpă hơnơ̆ng kơ kâo samơ̆ pơkơdơ̆ng glaĭ hăng Nabal yơh yuakơ djik djak laih kơ kâo. Ñu hơmâo pơkơ̆ng hĭ ding kơna Ñu anai mơ̆ng bruă soh laih anŭn ba nao laih tơlơi soh Nabal lê̆ glaĭ ƀơi akŏ ñu pô.” Giŏng anŭn, Dawid mơit hiăp nao kơ HʼAbigail, rơkâo kơ gơ̆ kiăng jing bơnai ñu. ⁴⁰Ƀing ding kơna ñu nao pơ anih Karmel laih anŭn pơhiăp hăng HʼAbigail tui anai, “Dawid hơmâo pơkiaŏ rai laih ƀing gơmơi kiăng ba glaĭ ih jing hĭ bơnai ñu.”
⁴¹Ñu bon kơkuh ƀô̆ mơta ñu sŏ̱ lŏn laih anŭn laĭ tui anai, “Kâo yơh anai, jing ding kơna đah kơmơi ih, prap pre kiăng kơ mă bruă kơ ih laih anŭn kiăng kơ rao tơkai ƀing ding kơna ih, jing khua kâo yơh.” ⁴²HʼAbigail tañ mơtam đĭ ƀơi aseh glai laih anŭn hơmâo rơma čô ƀing ding kơna đah kơmơi ñu nao hrŏm djru ñu; ƀing gơñu nao hrŏm hăng ƀing ding kơna Dawid laih anŭn HʼAbigail jing hĭ bơnai Dawid yơh. ⁴³Dawid ăt dŏ kơ HʼAhinôam mơnuih Yizreel; tui anŭn abih dua gơñu jing bơnai Dawid. ⁴⁴Samơ̆ Saul brơi hĭ ană dra ñu HʼMikal, bơnai Dawid, dŏ kơ Paltiêl ană đah rơkơi Lais, jing mơnuih mơ̆ng tring Gallim.⚓

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David, Nabal and Abigail

¹Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.⚓
²A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. ³His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.
⁴While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. ⁵So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. ⁶Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!
⁷“ ‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. ⁸Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.’ ”
⁹When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.
¹⁰Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. ¹¹Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
¹²David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. ¹³David said to his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.
¹⁴One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. ¹⁵Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. ¹⁶Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. ¹⁷Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”
¹⁸Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs⚓ of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁹Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
²⁰As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. ²¹David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. ²²May God deal with David,⚓ be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
²³When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. ²⁴She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. ²⁵Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. ²⁶And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal. ²⁷And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.
²⁸“Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. ²⁹Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. ³⁰When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, ³¹my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”
³²David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. ³³May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. ³⁴Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”
³⁵Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”
³⁶When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak. ³⁷Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone. ³⁸About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
³⁹When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.”
Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. ⁴⁰His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
⁴¹She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” ⁴²Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife. ⁴³David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives. ⁴⁴But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel⚓ son of Laish, who was from Gallim.