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Yô-ap Chuaq Ngê Yỗn Ap-salôm Píh Chu Loah

¹Yô-ap con niang Sê-ruya dáng puo Davĩt sanhữ lứq Ap-salôm. ²Ngkíq án ớn noau pỡq coâiq muoi noaq mansễm rangoaiq tễ vil Tacua. Tữ mansễm ki toâq, Yô-ap atỡng án neq: “Mới táq nan tanúh, sớp tampâc tanúh, cớp chỗi saráh sóc, táq samoât cũai tanúh khoiq dũn chơ. ³Moâm ki, cóq mới pỡq ramóh puo cớp pai santoiq riang cứq ễ atỡng mới.”
Chơ Yô-ap atỡng máh santoiq án ễq mansễm ki pai. ⁴Mansễm ki pỡq ramóh puo Davĩt; án pũp cucốh yám noap cớp pai neq: “Puo hếq ơi! Sễq anhia chuai hếq nứng!”
⁵Puo Davĩt blớh án: “Mới bữn ŏ́c ntrớu?”
Án ta‑ỡi neq: “Hếq la cán cumai cadĩt lứq; cayac hếq khoiq cuchĩt chơ. ⁶Achuaih ơi! Hếq bữn bar lám con samiang. Ma bữn muoi tangái, bar lám con nâi ralỗih pỡ sarái, mŏ ŏ́q cũai caryoah alới. Án ca a‑ễm toân cachĩt ai án. ⁷Sanua, máh sễm ai hếq chíl níc hếq, cớp alới yỗn hếq chiau con hếq ca noâng tamoong yỗn alới. Tỗp alới ễ cachĩt án dŏq carláh dỡq yỗn ai án ca khoiq cuchĩt. Khân alới táq ngkíq, hếq ŏ́q con loâng. Alới ễ pupứt ŏ́c hếq ngcuang, cớp alới tỡ yỗn hếq bữn con tŏ́ng dŏq pláih loah mpoaq án.”
⁸Puo ta‑ỡi: “Pỡq, mới chu! Cứq toâp ễ chuai mới tễ ranáq nâi.”
⁹Ma mansễm tễ vil Tacua pai neq: “Puo ơi! Khân anhia táq ngkíq, hếq cớp dống sũ hếq roap bữm tễ ŏ́c lôih ki. Ma anhia cớp dống sũ anhia, ki tỡ bữn lôih ntrớu.”
¹⁰Puo ta‑ỡi: “Khân bữn cũai canứh mới, ki yỗn mới dững án toâq ramóh cứq. Chơ án tỡ bữn táq túh noâng mới.”
¹¹Mansễm ki pai ễn neq: “Puo hếq ơi! Sễq anhia câu sễq tễ Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu anhia, dŏq chuai hếq! Chỗi yỗn sễm ai hếq ca nhêng salĩq tễ ranáq carláh dỡq bữn cachĩt con samiang hếq ca noâng tamoong.”
Puo Davĩt ta‑ỡi: “Cứq sễq parkhán nhơ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ ca tamoong mantái níc, lứq samoât muoi ntreh sóc tâng plỡ con samiang mới la tỡ bữn pứt mŏ!”
¹²Chơ mansễm ki pai ễn: “Puo hếq ơi! Hếq sễq pai tữm muoi ŏ́c ễn.”
Puo ta‑ỡi: “Âu, mới pai!”
¹³Chơ mansễm ki pai neq: “Nŏ́q anhia táq ranáq tỡ pĩeiq chóq cũai proai Yiang Sursĩ? Anhia toâp catáng tỡ yỗn con samiang anhia ca khoiq lúh la píh chu loah. Ngkíq santoiq anhia khoiq pai tếq loah tỗ anhia bữm. ¹⁴Dũ náq cũai la cóq cuchĩt. Lứq samoât, nheq tữh hái cỡt samoât dỡq pardáih tâng cloong cutễq, tỡ bữn noau têq parỗm ĩt loah dỡq ki. Yiang Sursĩ tỡ bữn pupứt dỡi tamoong cũai, ma án yỗn án ca noau táh bữn píh chu loah.⚓ ¹⁵Ma sanua, puo ơi! Hếq pai máh santoiq ngkíq adớh, yuaq bữn cũai canứh ễ táq hếq. Chơ hếq chanchớm neq: Khân hếq atỡng anhia, cŏh lơ têq anhia rachuai hếq. ¹⁶Cŏh lơ anhia tamứng cớp chuai hếq yỗn vớt tễ cũai chuaq ngê ễ cachĩt hếq cớp con hếq, yỗn hếq pứt tễ cutễq Yiang Sursĩ chiau yỗn proai án. ¹⁷Achuaih ơi! Hếq dáng ống anhia toâp têq aliam hếq, yuaq puo la ariang ranễng Yiang Sursĩ, têq cayoah ranáq o cớp ranáq lôih. Sễq Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, ỡt níc cớp anhia!”
¹⁸Chơ puo Davĩt ta‑ỡi án: “Cứq yoc ễ blớh mới muoi ramứh; cóq mới atỡng ŏ́c lứq.”
Mansễm ki ta‑ỡi: “Puo hếq ơi! Sễq mơi anhia blớh.”
¹⁹Davĩt blớh án: “Yô-ap ớn mới táq ranáq nâi, pĩeiq tỡ?”
Án ta‑ỡi puo Davĩt: “Puo ơi! Hếq sễq thễ dũan samoât samơi lứq, hếq tỡ têq viaq tễ santoiq anhia blớh. Pĩeiq, Yô-ap án ca taniap máh tahan anhia ớn hếq táq, cớp án ớn hếq pai. ²⁰Yô-ap táq dũ ramứh la ễq ranáq nâi cỡt o. Puo hếq ơi! Anhia la cũai rangoaiq ariang ranễng Yiang Sursĩ. Lứq samoât, anhia dáng nheq máh ranáq khoiq cỡt tâng cruang nâi.”
²¹Vớt ki, puo Davĩt pai chóq Yô-ap neq: “Cứq ễ táq ariang mới yoc. Pỡq, mới pỡq coâiq Ap-salôm con samiang póng ki, yỗn án píh chu loah.”
²²Yô-ap pũp asễng yám noap choâng moat Davĩt, cớp pai neq: “Puo ơi! Sễq Yiang Sursĩ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn anhia. Sanua, hếq dáng raloaih la anhia bũi pahỡm cớp hếq, yuaq anhia ta‑ỡi ariang hếq sễq.”
²³Chơ, Yô-ap yuor tayứng cớp loŏh pỡq chu vil Kê-sur, pỡq coâiq Ap-salôm yỗn chu loah pỡ vil Yaru-salem. ²⁴Ma Davĩt patâp tỡ yỗn Ap-salôm pỡq chu dống toâr án ỡt, cớp án pai neq: “Cứq tỡ ễq hữm án.”
Yuaq ngkíq, Ap-salôm ỡt níc tâng dống án bữm, cớp án tỡ bữn yỗn puo hữm án.

Ap-salôm Ra‑o Loah Cớp Puo Davĩt

²⁵Nheq tữh cũai tễ tỗp I-sarel tỡ bữn noau thán riang o ariang Ap-salôm; án ŏ́q dếh bân ễ tếq, noap tễ plỡ toau toâq ayững. ²⁶Sóc án pũ lứq; muoi cumo muoi chữ án cứt. Toâq án cứt sóc, án cân ntâng clữi bar ki-lô puai canân puo. ²⁷Ap-salôm bữn con samiang pái náq, con mansễm muoi noaq, ramứh niang Tamar. Niang Tamar roâp riang lampéng o lứq.
²⁸Ap-salôm ỡt tâng vil Yaru-salem bar cumo, ma án tỡ bữn hữm roâp puo Davĩt. ²⁹Chơ án ớn cũai pỡq coâiq Yô-ap, cỗ án ễ ớn Yô-ap pỡq ramóh puo; ma Yô-ap tỡ bữn toâq. Chơ án ớn cũai pỡq coâiq sĩa Yô-ap; ma Yô-ap tỡ bữn toâq sĩa. ³⁰Ngkíq yuaq Ap-salôm pai chóq máh cũai táq ranáq án neq: “Anhia nhêng chu tíh! Sarái Yô-ap cheq lứq cớp sarái cứq. Saro bali la cốc tháng. Pỡq, anhia pỡq chŏ́ng tarŏ́h táh chíq saro bali án.”
Chơ máh cũai táq ranáq án pỡq chŏ́ng nheq saro bali ki. ³¹Yô-ap pỡq toâp chu dống Ap-salôm cớp blớh neq: “Nŏ́q máh cũai táq ranáq mới chŏ́ng nheq saro bali cứq?”
³²Ap-salôm ta‑ỡi: “Cỗ tian mới tỡ bữn toâq bo cứq ớn cũai pỡq coâiq mới. Cứq ễq mới pỡq ramóh puo Davĩt, cớp blớh án chuai cứq neq: ‘Cứq dễq tễ vil Kê-sur, chơ toâq ỡt loah pỡ ntốq nâi táq ntrớu? Khân cứq ỡt pỡ ki, la o hỡn tễ ỡt ntốq nâi!’ Sanua cứq yoc mới chuaq rana yỗn cứq bữn mut ramóh puo. Khân cứq táq lôih, yỗn án toâp cachĩt cứq.”
³³Ngkíq, Yô-ap pỡq ramóh puo Davĩt, cớp atỡng puo máh santoiq Ap-salôm khoiq pai. Moâm ki puo Davĩt ớn cũai pỡq coâiq Ap-salôm toâq ramóh án. Chơ Ap-salôm toâq, cớp pũp cucốh yám noap puo; puo Davĩt roap chỗm, kĩau, cớp hũn hĩt án hỡ.

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Absalom Returns to Jerusalem

¹So Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was concerned ⚓about Absalom. ²And Joab sent to ⚓Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, ⚓and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead. ³Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab ⚓put the words in her mouth.
⁴And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she ⚓fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, ⚓“Help, O king!”
⁵Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?”
And she answered, ⚓“Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead. ⁶Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him. ⁷And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him ⚓for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”
⁸Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”
⁹And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, let⚓the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, ⚓and the king and his throne be guiltless.”
¹⁰So the king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore.”
¹¹Then she said, “Please let the king remember the Lord your God, and do not permit ⚓the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son.”
And he said, ⚓“As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”
¹²Therefore the woman said, “Please, let your maidservant speak another word to my lord the king.”
And he said, “Say on.”
¹³So the woman said: “Why then have you schemed such a thing against ⚓the people of God? For the king speaks this thing as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring ⚓his banished one home again. ¹⁴For we ⚓will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not ⚓take away a life; but He ⚓devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him. ¹⁵Now therefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maidservant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant. ¹⁶For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the ⚓inheritance of God.’ ¹⁷Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for ⚓as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in ⚓discerning good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’ ”
¹⁸Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you.”
And the woman said, “Please, let my lord the king speak.”
¹⁹So the king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answered and said, “As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. For your servant Joab commanded me, and ⚓he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant. ²⁰To bring about this change of affairs your servant Joab has done this thing; but my lord is wise, ⚓according to the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that is in the earth.”
²¹And the king said to Joab, “All right, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom.”
²²Then Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself, and thanked the king. And Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant.” ²³So Joab arose ⚓and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. ²⁴And the king said, “Let him return to his own house, but ⚓do not let him see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but did not see the king’s face.

David Forgives Absalom

²⁵Now in all Israel there was no one who was praised as much as Absalom for his good looks. ⚓From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. ²⁶And when he cut the hair of his head—at the end of every year he cut it because it was heavy on him—when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels according to the king’s standard. ²⁷⚓To Absalom were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of beautiful appearance.
²⁸And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, ⚓but did not see the king’s face. ²⁹Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. And when he sent again the second time, he would not come. ³⁰So he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
³¹Then Joab arose and came to Absalom’s house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
³²And Absalom answered Joab, “Look, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, so that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” ’ Now therefore, let me see the king’s face; but ⚓if there is iniquity in me, let him execute me.”
³³So Joab went to the king and told him. And when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king. Then the king ⚓kissed Absalom.