Biblia Sacra: VETUS TESTAMENTUM

1 1 Fuit vir unus de Ramathaimsophim, de monte Ephraim, et nomen ejus Elcana, filius Jeroham, filii Eliu, filii Thohu, filii Suph, Ephrathæus: 2 et habuit duas uxores, nomen uni Anna, et nomen secundæ Phenenna. Fueruntque Phenennæ filii: Annæ autem non erant liberi. 3 Et ascendebat vir ille de civitate sua statutis diebus, ut adoraret et sacrificaret Domino exercituum in Silo.

1 1 There was a man, one from Ramathaim-Zophim, from the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: 2 and he had two wives; the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah. And Peninnah had sons; but Hannah had no children. 3 And that man would go up from his city on the appointed days, to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh.

Erant autem ibi duo filii Heli, Ophni et Phinees, sacerdotes Domini. 4 Venit ergo dies, et immolavit Elcana, deditque Phenennæ uxori suæ, et cunctis filiis ejus et filiabus, partes: 5 Annæ autem dedit partem unam tristis, quia Annam diligebat. Dominus autem concluserat vulvam ejus.

Now there were there two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests of the Lord. Then the day came, and Elkanah sacrificed, and he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions: but to Hannah he gave one portion, grieving, because he loved Hannah. Now the Lord had closed her womb.

6 Affligebat quoque eam æmula ejus, et vehementer angebat, in tantum ut exprobraret quod Dominus conclusisset vulvam ejus: 7 sicque faciebat per singulos annos: cum redeunte tempore ascenderent ad templum Domini, et sic provocabat eam: porro illa flebat, et non capiebat cibum. 8 Dixit ergo ei Elcana vir suus: Anna, cur fles? et quare non comedis?

6 Her rival also afflicted her, and vexed her vehemently, to such an extent that she reproached her because the Lord had closed her womb: 7 and thus she used to do year by year: when, as the season returned, they went up to the temple of the Lord, thus she provoked her; but she wept, and would not take food. 8 Then Elcana her husband said to her: Anna, why do you weep? and why do you not eat?

et quam ob rem affligitur cor tuum? numquid non ego melior tibi sum, quam decem filii?

and for what reason is your heart afflicted? am I not better to you than ten sons?

9 Surrexit autem Anna postquam comederat et biberat in Silo. Et Heli sacerdote sedente super sellam ante postes templi Domini, 10 cum esset Anna amaro animo, oravit ad Dominum, flens largiter, 11 et votum vovit, dicens: Domine exercituum, si respiciens videris afflictionem famulæ tuæ, et recordatus mei fueris, nec oblitus ancillæ tuæ, dederisque servæ tuæ sexum virilem: dabo eum Domino omnibus diebus vitæ ejus, et novacula non ascendet super caput ejus.

9 Then Anna rose after she had eaten and drunk in Shiloh. And Eli the priest, sitting upon the chair before the doorposts of the temple of the Lord, 10 when Anna was with a bitter spirit, prayed to the Lord, weeping copiously, 11 and she vowed a vow, saying: Lord of hosts, if by looking you will look upon the affliction of your handmaid, and will remember me, and not forget your handmaid, and you will give to your servant a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and a razor shall not ascend upon his head.

12 Factum est autem, cum illa multiplicaret preces coram Domino, ut Heli observaret os ejus. 13 Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Æstimavit ergo eam Heli temulentam, 14 dixitque ei: Usquequo ebria eris?

12 Now it came to pass, when she was multiplying prayers before the Lord, that Heli was observing her mouth. 13 But Anna was speaking in her heart, and only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard at all. Therefore Heli reckoned her drunk, 14 and he said to her: How long will you be drunk?

digere paulisper vinum, quo mades. 15 Respondens Anna: Nequaquam, inquit, domine mi: nam mulier infelix nimis ego sum: vinumque et omne quod inebriare potest, non bibi, sed effudi animam meam in conspectu Domini. 16 Ne reputes ancillam tuam quasi unam de filiabus Belial: quia ex multitudine doloris et mœroris mei locuta sum usque in præsens.

digest for a little the wine with which you are drenched. 15 Anna answering: By no means, she said, my lord: for I am a woman exceedingly unfortunate: and wine and everything that can inebriate I have not drunk, but I have poured out my soul in the sight of the Lord. 16 Do not reckon your handmaid as one of the daughters of Belial: for out of the multitude of my pain and grief I have spoken up to the present.

17 Tunc Heli ait ei: Vade in pace: et Deus Israël det tibi petitionem tuam quam rogasti eum. 18 Et illa dixit: Utinam inveniat ancilla tua gratiam in oculis tuis. Et abiit mulier in viam suam, et comedit, vultusque illius non sunt amplius in diversa mutati.

17 Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and may the God of Israel grant to you your petition which you have asked of him. 18 And she said: Would that your handmaid might find grace in your eyes. And the woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no longer altered.

19 Et surrexerunt mane, et adoraverunt coram Domino: reversique sunt, et venerunt in domum suam Ramatha.

And they rose early in the morning, and worshiped before the Lord: and they returned, and came to their house at Ramah.

Cognovit autem Elcana Annam uxorem suam: et recordatus est ejus Dominus. 20 Et factum est post circulum dierum, concepit Anna, et peperit filium: vocavitque nomen ejus Samuel, eo quod a Domino postulasset eum. 21 Ascendit autem vir ejus Elcana, et omnis domus ejus, ut immolaret Domino hostiam solemnem, et votum suum.

But Elkanah knew Hannah his wife: and the Lord remembered her. 20 And it came to pass after the circuit of days, Hannah conceived, and bore a son: and she called his name Samuel, because she had petitioned him from the Lord. 21 But her husband Elkanah went up, and all his house, that he might immolate to the Lord a solemn sacrifice, and his vow.

22 Et Anna non ascendit: dixit enim viro suo: Non vadam donec ablactetur infans, et ducam eum, ut appareat ante conspectum Domini, et maneat ibi jugiter. 23 Et ait ei Elcana vir suus: Fac quod bonum tibi videtur, et mane donec ablactes eum: precorque ut impleat Dominus verbum suum. Mansit ergo mulier, et lactavit filium suum, donec amoveret eum a lacte.

22 And Anna did not ascend: for she said to her husband: I will not go until the infant is weaned, and I will lead him, that he may appear before the sight of the Lord, and may remain there continually. 23 And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seems good to you, and remain until you wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfill his word. Therefore the woman remained, and nursed her son, until she removed him from milk.

24 Et adduxit eum secum, postquam ablactaverat, in vitulis tribus, et tribus modiis farinæ, et amphora vini, et adduxit eum ad domum Domini in Silo. Puer autem erat adhuc infantulus: 25 et immolaverunt vitulum, et obtulerunt puerum Heli. 26 Et ait Anna: Obsecro mi domine, vivit anima tua, domine: ego sum illa mulier, quæ steti coram te hic orans Dominum.

24 And she brought him with her, after she had weaned him, with three bull-calves, and three measures of flour, and an amphora of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh. But the boy was still a little infant: 25 and they immolated the bull-calf, and they offered the boy to Eli. 26 And Anna said: I beseech, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord: I am that woman who stood before you here praying to the Lord.

27 Pro puero isto oravi, et dedit mihi Dominus petitionem meam quam postulavi eum. 28 Idcirco et ego commodavi eum Domino cunctis diebus quibus fuerit commodatus Domino. Et adoraverunt ibi Dominum.

27 For this boy I prayed, and the Lord gave me my petition which I asked of him. 28 Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord, for all the days that he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there.

Et oravit Anna, et ait:

And Anna prayed, and said:

1 Exultavit cor meum in Domino,
et exaltatum est cornu meum in Deo meo ;
dilatatum est os meum super inimicos meos:
quia lætata sum in salutari tuo.
2 Non est sanctus, ut est Dominus,
neque enim est alius extra te,
et non est fortis sicut Deus noster.
3 Nolite multiplicare loqui sublimia gloriantes ;
recedant vetera de ore vestro:
quia Deus scientiarum Dominus est,
et ipsi præparantur cogitationes.

1 My heart has exulted in the Lord,
and my horn has been exalted in my God;
my mouth has been dilated over my enemies:
for I have rejoiced in your salvation.
2 There is none holy like the Lord,
for neither is there another besides you,
and there is no strong one like our God.
3 Do not multiply speaking lofty things, glorying;
let the old things depart from your mouth:
for the Lord is the God of knowledges,
and to him thoughts are prepared.

4 Arcus fortium superatus est,
et infirmi accincti sunt robore.
5 Repleti prius, pro panibus se locaverunt:
et famelici saturati sunt,
donec sterilis peperit plurimos:
et quæ multos habebat filios, infirmata est.
6 Dominus mortificat et vivificat ;
deducit ad inferos et reducit.

4 The bow of the mighty has been overcome,
and the infirm have been girded with vigor.
5 Those formerly full have hired themselves out for bread:
and the famished have been sated,
until the barren has borne many:
and she who had many sons has been enfeebled.
6 The Lord mortifies and vivifies ;
he leads down to the infernal regions and brings back.

7 Dominus pauperem facit et ditat,
humiliat et sublevat.
8 Suscitat de pulvere egenum,
et de stercore elevat pauperem:
ut sedeat cum principibus,
et solium gloriæ teneat.
Domini enim sunt cardines terræ,
et posuit super eos orbem.

7 The Lord makes poor and enriches,
he humbles and lifts up.
8 He raises the needy from the dust,
and from the dung he elevates the poor:
that he may sit with princes,
and hold a throne of glory.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and he has set the world upon them.

9 Pedes sanctorum suorum servabit,
et impii in tenebris conticescent:
quia non in fortitudine sua roborabitur vir.
10 Dominum formidabunt adversarii ejus:
et super ipsos in cælis tonabit.
Dominus judicabit fines terræ,
et dabit imperium regi suo,
et sublimabit cornu christi sui.

9 He will guard the feet of his saints,
and the impious will fall silent in darkness:
for not by his own fortitude shall a man be strengthened.
10 The adversaries of him will fear the Lord:
and over them in the heavens he will thunder.
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth,
and he will give dominion to his king,
and he will exalt the horn of his christ.

11 Et abiit Elcana Ramatha, in domum suam:
puer autem erat minister in conspectu Domini ante faciem Heli sacerdotis.

11 And Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house:
but the boy was ministering in the sight of the Lord before the face of Eli the priest.

12 Porro filii Heli, filii Belial, nescientes Dominum, 13 neque officium sacerdotum ad populum: sed quicumque immolasset victimam, veniebat puer sacerdotis, dum coquerentur carnes, et habebat fuscinulam tridentem in manu sua, 14 et mittebat eam in lebetem, vel in caldariam, aut in ollam, sive in cacabum: et omne quod levabat fuscinula, tollebat sacerdos sibi: sic faciebant universo Israëli venientium in Silo. 15 Etiam antequam adolerent adipem, veniebat puer sacerdotis, et dicebat immolanti: Da mihi carnem, ut coquam sacerdoti: non enim accipiam a te carnem coctam, sed crudam. 16 Dicebatque illi immolans: Incendatur primum juxta morem hodie adeps, et tolle tibi quantumcumque desiderat anima tua.

12 Moreover the sons of Eli, sons of Belial, not knowing the Lord, 13 nor the office of the priests toward the people: but whoever had immolated a victim, the boy of the priest would come, while the meats were being cooked, and he had a small trident-fork in his hand, 14 and he would thrust it into the kettle, or into the caldron, or into the pot, or into the cauldron: and whatever the fork lifted up, the priest would take for himself: thus they used to do to all Israel of those coming to Shiloh. 15 Even before they burned the fat, the boy of the priest would come and say to the one immolating: Give me flesh, that I may cook it for the priest: for I will not take from you cooked flesh, but raw. 16 And the one immolating would say to him: Let the fat be burned first according to the custom today, and take for yourself however much your soul desires.

Qui respondens aiebat ei: Nequaquam: nunc enim dabis, alioquin tollam vi. 17 Erat ergo peccatum puerorum grande nimis coram Domino: quia retrahebant homines a sacrificio Domini.

Who, answering, would say to him: By no means; for now you shall give it, otherwise I will take it by force. 17 Therefore the sin of the young men was exceedingly great before the Lord: because they were drawing men away from the sacrifice of the Lord.

18 Samuel autem ministrabat ante faciem Domini, puer accinctus ephod lineo. 19 Et tunicam parvam faciebat ei mater sua, quam afferebat statutis diebus, ascendens cum viro suo, ut immolaret hostiam solemnem. 20 Et benedixit Heli Elcanæ et uxori ejus: dixitque ei: Reddat tibi Dominus semen de muliere hac, pro fœnore quod commodasti Domino.

18 But Samuel was ministering before the face of the Lord, a boy girded with a linen ephod. 19 And his mother would make for him a little tunic, which she would bring at the appointed days, going up with her husband, that he might immolate a solemn victim. 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife; and he said to him: May the Lord render to you seed from this woman, for the loan which you have lent to the Lord.

Et abierunt in locum suum. 21 Visitavit ergo Dominus Annam, et concepit, et peperit tres filios, et duas filias: et magnificatus est puer Samuel apud Dominum.

And they went into their place. Therefore the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters: and the boy Samuel was magnified before the Lord.

22 Heli autem erat senex valde, et audivit omnia quæ faciebant filii sui universo Israëli, et quomodo dormiebant cum mulieribus quæ observabant ad ostium tabernaculi: 23 et dixit eis: Quare facitis res hujuscemodi quas ego audio, res pessimas, ab omni populo? 24 Nolite, filii mei: non enim est bona fama quam ego audio, ut transgredi faciatis populum Domini. 25 Si peccaverit vir in virum, placari ei potest Deus: si autem in Dominum peccaverit vir, quis orabit pro eo? Et non audierunt vocem patris sui: quia voluit Dominus occidere eos.

22 But Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they were sleeping with the women who were attending at the entrance of the tabernacle: 23 and he said to them: Why do you do things of this sort which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people? 24 Do not, my sons: for the report which I hear is not good, that you make the people of the Lord transgress. 25 If a man sins against a man, God can be appeased for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they did not listen to the voice of their father: because the Lord willed to put them to death.

26 Puer autem Samuel proficiebat atque crescebat, et placebat tam Domino quam hominibus.

26 But the boy Samuel was advancing and growing, and was pleasing both to the Lord and to men.

27 Venit autem vir Dei ad Heli, et ait ad eum: Hæc dicit Dominus: Numquid non aperte revelatus sum domui patris tui, cum essent in Ægypto in domo Pharaonis? 28 Et elegi eum ex omnibus tribubus Israël mihi in sacerdotem, ut ascenderet ad altare meum, et adoleret mihi incensum, et portaret ephod coram me: et dedi domui patris tui omnia de sacrificiis filiorum Israël. 29 Quare calce abjecistis victimam meam, et munera mea quæ præcepi ut offerrentur in templo: et magis honorasti filios tuos quam me, ut comederetis primitias omnis sacrificii Israël populi mei? 30 Propterea ait Dominus Deus Israël: Loquens locutus sum, ut domus tua, et domus patris tui, ministraret in conspectu meo usque in sempiternum.

27 But a man of God came to Eli, and said to him: Thus says the Lord: Was I not openly revealed to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh? 28 And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel for myself as priest, that he might ascend to my altar, and burn incense to me, and carry the ephod before me: and I gave to the house of your father all things from the sacrifices of the sons of Israel. 29 Why have you with the heel spurned my victim, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and have honored your sons more than me, so that you might eat the first-fruits of every sacrifice of Israel, my people? 30 Therefore says the Lord God of Israel: Speaking I have spoken, that your house, and the house of your father, should minister in my sight unto everlasting.

Nunc autem dicit Dominus: Absit hoc a me: sed quicumque glorificaverit me, glorificabo eum: qui autem contemnunt me, erunt ignobiles. 31 Ecce dies veniunt, et præcidam brachium tuum, et brachium domus patris tui, ut non sit senex in domo tua. 32 Et videbis æmulum tuum in templo, in universis prosperis Israël: et non erit senex in domo tua omnibus diebus.

Now, however, says the Lord: Far be this from me: but whoever shall have glorified me, I will glorify him; but those who contemn me shall be ignoble. 31 Behold, days are coming, and I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father’s house, so that there shall not be an old man in your house. 32 And you shall see your rival in the temple, in all the prosperity of Israel: and there shall not be an old man in your house all your days.

33 Verumtamen non auferam penitus virum ex te ab altari meo: sed ut deficiant oculi tui, et tabescat anima tua: et pars magna domus tuæ morietur cum ad virilem ætatem venerit. 34 Hoc autem erit tibi signum, quod venturum est duobus filiis tuis, Ophni et Phinees: in die uno morientur ambo. 35 Et suscitabo mihi sacerdotem fidelem, qui juxta cor meum et animam meam faciet: et ædificabo ei domum fidelem, et ambulabit coram christo meo cunctis diebus.

33 Nevertheless I will not utterly take away a man from you from my altar: but so that your eyes may fail, and your soul may waste away: and a great part of your house will die when it has come to virile age. 34 But this will be to you the sign, what is going to come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in one day both shall die. 35 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to my heart and my soul: and I will build for him a faithful house, and he shall walk before my anointed all the days.

36 Futurum est autem, ut quicumque remanserit in domo tua, veniat ut oretur pro eo, et offerat nummum argenteum, et tortam panis, dicatque: Dimitte me, obsecro, ad unam partem sacerdotalem, ut comedam buccellam panis. 3 1 Puer autem Samuel ministrabat Domino coram Heli, et sermo Domini erat pretiosus in diebus illis: non erat visio manifesta. 2 Factum est ergo in die quadam, Heli jacebat in loco suo, et oculi ejus caligaverant, nec poterat videre: 3 lucerna Dei antequam extingueretur, Samuel dormiebat in templo Domini, ubi erat arca Dei.

36 But it will come to pass that whoever shall have remained in your house will come that prayer may be made for him, and he will offer a silver coin and a cake of bread, and will say: Admit me, I beseech, to one priestly portion, that I may eat a morsel of bread. 3 1 But the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was rare in those days: there was no manifest vision. 2 And it happened on a certain day: Heli was lying in his place, and his eyes had grown dim, and he could not see; 3 before the lamp of God was extinguished, Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

4 Et vocavit Dominus Samuel. Qui respondens, ait: Ecce ego. 5 Et cucurrit ad Heli, et dixit: Ecce ego: vocasti enim me. Qui dixit: Non vocavi: revertere, et dormi.

4 And the Lord called Samuel. Who, responding, said: Here I am. 5 And he ran to Eli, and said: Here I am; for you called me. Who said: I did not call: return, and sleep.

Et abiit, et dormivit. 6 Et adjecit Dominus rursum vocare Samuelem. Consurgensque Samuel, abiit ad Heli, et dixit: Ecce ego, quia vocasti me. Qui respondit: Non vocavi te, fili mi: revertere et dormi.

And he went away, and slept. 6 And the Lord added again to call Samuel. And Samuel, rising up, went to Heli, and said: Here I am, for you called me. Who answered: I did not call you, my son; return and sleep.

7 Porro Samuel necdum sciebat Dominum, neque revelatus fuerat ei sermo Domini. 8 Et adjecit Dominus, et vocavit adhuc Samuelem tertio. Qui consurgens abiit ad Heli, 9 et ait: Ecce ego, quia vocasti me. Intellexit ergo Heli quia Dominus vocaret puerum: et ait ad Samuelem: Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus.

7 Moreover Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord been revealed to him. 8 And the Lord added, and called Samuel yet a third time. And he, rising, went to Heli, 9 and said: Behold, here I am, for you called me. Then Heli understood that the Lord was calling the boy; and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep: and if thereafter he calls you, you shall say: Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.

Abiit ergo Samuel, et dormivit in loco suo. 10 Et venit Dominus, et stetit: et vocavit, sicut vocaverat secundo: Samuel, Samuel. Et ait Samuel: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus.

Therefore Samuel went away, and slept in his place. 10 And the Lord came, and stood, and called, as he had called the second time: Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.

11 Et dixit Dominus ad Samuelem: Ecce ego facio verbum in Israël, quod quicumque audierit, tinnient ambæ aures ejus. 12 In die illa suscitabo adversum Heli omnia quæ locutus sum super domum ejus: incipiam, et complebo. 13 Prædixi enim ei quod judicaturus essem domum ejus in æternum propter iniquitatem, eo quod noverat indigne agere filios suos, et non corripuerit eos.

11 And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel, which whoever shall hear, both his ears will tingle. 12 On that day I will raise up against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will complete. 13 For I fore-declared to him that I would judge his house forever on account of iniquity, in that he knew his sons were acting unworthily, and he did not rebuke them.

14 Idcirco juravi domui Heli quod non expietur iniquitas domus ejus victimis et muneribus usque in æternum.

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of his house shall not be expiated by victims and gifts forever.

15 Dormivit autem Samuel usque mane, aperuitque ostia domus Domini. Et Samuel timebat indicare visionem Heli. 16 Vocavit ergo Heli Samuelem, et dixit: Samuel fili mi? Qui respondens ait: Præsto sum.

15 But Samuel slept until morning, and he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel was afraid to declare the vision to Heli. 16 Therefore Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son? He, answering, said: Here I am.

17 Et interrogavit eum: Quis est sermo, quem locutus est Dominus ad te? oro te ne celaveris me: hæc faciat tibi Deus, et hæc addat, si absconderis a me sermonem ex omnibus verbis quæ dicta sunt tibi. 18 Indicavit itaque ei Samuel universos sermones, et non abscondit ab eo. Et ille respondit: Dominus est: quod bonum est in oculis suis faciat.

17 And he questioned him: What is the word which the Lord has spoken to you? I pray you, do not hide it from me: thus may God do to you, and thus may he add, if you hide from me a word out of all the words that have been spoken to you. 18 Therefore Samuel indicated to him all the words, and did not hide from him. And he responded: He is the Lord: let him do what is good in his eyes.

19 Crevit autem Samuel, et Dominus erat cum eo, et non cecidit ex omnibus verbis ejus in terram. 20 Et cognovit universus Israël, a Dan usque Bersabee, quod fidelis Samuel propheta esset Domini. 21 Et addidit Dominus ut appareret in Silo, quoniam revelatus fuerat Dominus Samueli in Silo juxta verbum Domini.

19 But Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of all his words fell to the ground. 20 And all Israel knew, from Dan unto Beersheba, that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord. 21 And the Lord continued to appear in Shiloh, for the Lord had been revealed to Samuel in Shiloh according to the word of the Lord.

Et evenit sermo Samuelis universo Israëli.

And the word of Samuel came to all Israel.

4 1 Et factum est in diebus illis, convenerunt Philisthiim in pugnam: et egressus est Israël obviam Philisthiim in prælium, et castrametatus est juxta lapidem Adjutorii. Porro Philisthiim venerunt in Aphec, 2 et instruxerunt aciem contra Israël. Inito autem certamine, terga vertit Israël Philisthæis: et cæsa sunt in illo certamine passim per agros, quasi quatuor millia virorum. 3 Et reversus est populus ad castra: dixeruntque majores natu de Israël: Quare percussit nos Dominus hodie coram Philisthiim?

4 1 And it came to pass in those days, the Philistines gathered for battle: and Israel went out to meet the Philistines in war, and encamped near the Stone of Help. But the Philistines came to Aphek, 2 and drew up the battle-line against Israel. And when the contest was joined, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there were struck down in that engagement, scattered through the fields, about four thousand men. 3 And the people returned to the camp: and the elders of Israel said: Why has the Lord struck us today before the Philistines?

afferamus ad nos de Silo arcam fœderis Domini, et veniat in medium nostri, ut salvet nos de manu inimicorum nostrorum. 4 Misit ergo populus in Silo, et tulerunt inde arcam fœderis Domini exercituum sedentis super cherubim: erantque duo filii Heli cum arca fœderis Dei, Ophni et Phinees. 5 Cumque venisset arca fœderis Domini in castra, vociferatus est omnis Israël clamore grandi, et personuit terra.

let us bring to us from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and let it come into our midst, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies. 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth resounded.

6 Et audierunt Philisthiim vocem clamoris, dixeruntque: Quænam est hæc vox clamoris magni in castris Hebræorum? Et cognoverunt quod arca Domini venisset in castra. 7 Timueruntque Philisthiim, dicentes: Venit Deus in castra.

6 And the Philistines heard the sound of the shouting, and they said: What is this sound of great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews? And they recognized that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp. 7 And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God has come into the camp.

Et ingemuerunt, dicentes: 8 Væ nobis: non enim fuit tanta exultatio heri et nudiustertius: væ nobis. Quis nos salvabit de manu deorum sublimium istorum? hi sunt dii, qui percusserunt Ægyptum omni plaga in deserto.

And they groaned, saying: 8 Woe to us: for there was not such exultation yesterday and the day-before-yesterday: woe to us. Who will save us from the hand of these sublime gods? These are the gods who smote Egypt with every plague in the desert.

9 Confortamini, et estote viri, Philisthiim, ne serviatis Hebræis, sicut et illi servierunt vobis: confortamini, et bellate. 10 Pugnaverunt ergo Philisthiim, et cæsus est Israël, et fugit unusquisque in tabernaculum suum: et facta est plaga magna nimis, et ceciderunt de Israël triginta millia peditum. 11 Et arca Dei capta est: duo quoque filii Heli mortui sunt, Ophni et Phinees.

9 Be strengthened, and be men, Philistines, lest you serve the Hebrews, just as they also served you: be strengthened, and wage war. 10 Therefore the Philistines fought, and Israel was struck down, and each fled to his own tent: and there was a very great slaughter, and from Israel fell thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 And the ark of God was captured: moreover, the two sons of Eli died, Hophni and Phinehas.

12 Currens autem vir de Benjamin ex acie, venit in Silo in die illa, scissa veste, et conspersus pulvere caput. 13 Cumque ille venisset, Heli sedebat super sellam contra viam spectans. Erat enim cor ejus pavens pro arca Dei.

12 Now a man of Benjamin, running from the battle line, came to Shiloh on that day, with his garment rent, and his head sprinkled with dust. 13 And when that man had come, Eli was sitting upon a seat, looking toward the road. For his heart was trembling for the Ark of God.

Vir autem ille postquam ingressus est, nuntiavit urbi: et ululavit omnis civitas. 14 Et audivit Heli sonitum clamoris, dixitque: Quis est hic sonitus tumultus hujus? At ille festinavit, et venit, et nuntiavit Heli.

But that man, after he had entered, announced to the city; and the whole city ululated. 14 And Eli heard the sound of the clamor, and he said: What is this sound of this tumult? But he hastened, and came, and announced to Eli.

15 Heli autem erat nonaginta et octo annorum, et oculi ejus caligaverant, et videre non poterat. 16 Et dixit ad Heli: Ego sum qui veni de prælio, et ego qui de acie fugi hodie. Cui ille ait: Quid actum est, fili mi? 17 Respondens autem ille qui nuntiabat: Fugit, inquit, Israël coram Philisthiim, et ruina magna facta est in populo: insuper et duo filii tui mortui sunt, Ophni et Phinees, et arca Dei capta est.

15 But Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes had grown dim, and he could not see. 16 And he said to Eli: I am the one who came from the battle, and I, who fled from the battle line today. To whom he said: What has been done, my son? 17 But the one who was announcing answered: Israel has fled before the Philistines, and a great ruin has been made among the people; moreover both your sons are dead, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of God has been captured.

18 Cumque ille nominasset arcam Dei, cecidit de sella retrorsum juxta ostium, et fractis cervicibus mortuus est. Senex enim erat vir et grandævus: et ipse judicavit Israël quadraginta annis. 19 Nurus autem ejus, uxor Phinees, prægnans erat, vicinaque partui: et audito nuntio quod capta esset arca Dei, et mortuus esset socer suus et vir suus, incurvavit se et peperit: irruerant enim in eam dolores subiti.

18 And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from the seat backward beside the doorway, and with his neck broken he died. For the man was old and very aged; and he himself judged Israel for forty years. 19 But his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near to giving birth; and upon hearing the report that the ark of God had been captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bent herself and gave birth; for sudden pains had rushed upon her.

20 In ipso autem momento mortis ejus, dixerunt ei quæ stabant circa eam: Ne timeas, quia filium peperisti. Quæ non respondit eis, neque animadvertit. 21 Et vocabit puerum Ichabod, dicens: Translata est gloria de Israël, quia capta est arca Dei, et pro socero suo et pro viro suo ; 22 et ait: Translata est gloria ab Israël, eo quod capta esset arca Dei.

20 But at the very moment of her death, those who were standing around her said to her: Do not fear, for you have borne a son. She did not answer them, nor did she take notice. 21 And she named the boy Ichabod, saying: The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God has been captured, and on account of her father-in-law and her husband ; 22 and she said: The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God had been captured.

5 1 Philisthiim autem tulerunt arcam Dei, et asportaverunt eam a lapide Adjutorii in Azotum. 2 Tuleruntque Philisthiim arcam Dei, et intulerunt eam in templum Dagon, et statuerunt eam juxta Dagon. 3 Cumque surrexissent diluculo Azotii altera die, ecce Dagon jacebat pronus in terra ante arcam Domini: et tulerunt Dagon, et restituerunt eum in locum suum.

5 1 But the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it away from the Stone of Help to Azotus. 2 And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon. 3 And when the Azotians had risen at daybreak on the next day, behold, Dagon was lying prone on the ground before the ark of the Lord; and they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

4 Rursumque mane die altera consurgentes, invenerunt Dagon jacentem super faciem suam in terra coram arca Domini: caput autem Dagon, et duæ palmæ manuum ejus abscissæ erant super limen: 5 porro Dagon solus truncus remanserat in loco suo. Propter hanc causam non calcant sacerdotes Dagon, et omnes qui ingrediuntur templum ejus, super limen Dagon in Azoto, usque in hodiernum diem. 6 Aggravata est autem manus Domini super Azotios, et demolitus est eos: et percussit in secretiori parte natium Azotum, et fines ejus.

4 And again, rising early on the next day, they found Dagon lying on his face on the ground before the Ark of the Lord: moreover the head of Dagon, and the two palms of his hands had been cut off upon the threshold: 5 but as for Dagon, only the trunk remained in his place. For this cause the priests of Dagon, and all who enter his temple, do not tread upon the threshold of Dagon in Azotus, up to the present day. 6 Moreover the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he laid them low: and he struck Azotus, and its borders, in the more secret part of the buttocks.

Et ebullierunt villæ et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures et facta est confusio mortis magnæ in civitate. 7 Videntes autem viri Azotii hujuscemodi plagam, dixerunt: Non maneat arca Dei Israël apud nos: quoniam dura est manus ejus super nos, et super Dagon deum nostrum. 8 Et mittentes congregaverunt omnes satrapas Philisthinorum ad se, et dixerunt: Quid faciemus de arca Dei Israël? Responderuntque Gethæi: Circumducatur arca Dei Israël. Et circumduxerunt arcam Dei Israël. 9 Illis autem circumducentibus eam, fiebat manus Domini per singulas civitates interfectionis magnæ nimis: et percutiebat viros uniuscujusque urbis, a parvo usque ad majorem, et computrescebant prominentes extales eorum.

And the villages and fields in the midst of that region boiled over, and mice were born, and there was a confusion of great death in the city. 7 But the men of Azotus, seeing a plague of this sort, said: Let not the ark of the God of Israel stay with us; for heavy is his hand upon us and upon Dagon our god. 8 And sending, they gathered all the satraps of the Philistines to themselves, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And the Gathites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel be led around. And they led around the ark of the God of Israel. 9 But as they were leading it around, the hand of the Lord was upon each city with an exceedingly great slaughter; and he struck the men of every city, from small to great, and their protruding entrails were festering.

Inieruntque Gethæi consilium, et fecerunt sibi sedes pelliceas. 10 Miserunt ergo arcam Dei in Accaron. Cumque venisset arca Dei in Accaron, exclamaverunt Accaronitæ, dicentes: Adduxerunt ad nos arcam Dei Israël ut interficiat nos et populum nostrum.

And the Gethaeans entered into counsel and made for themselves leather seats. 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Accaron. And when the ark of God had come to Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought to us the ark of the God of Israel to slay us and our people.

11 Miserunt itaque et congregaverunt omnes satrapas Philisthinorum: qui dixerunt: Dimittite arcam Dei Israël, et revertatur in locum suum, et non interficiat nos cum populo nostro. 12 Fiebat enim pavor mortis in singulis urbibus, et gravissima valde manus Dei. Viri quoque qui mortui non fuerant, percutiebantur in secretiori parte natium: et ascendebat ululatus uniuscujusque civitatis in cælum.

11 So they sent and gathered all the satraps of the Philistines, who said: Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its place, and let it not kill us together with our people. 12 For there was a terror of death in each city, and the hand of God was very grievous indeed. And the men who had not died were being struck in the more secret part of the buttocks; and the ululation of each city went up to heaven.

6 1 Fuit ergo arca Domini in regione Philisthinorum septem mensibus. 2 Et vocaverunt Philisthiim sacerdotes et divinos, dicentes: Quid faciemus de arca Domini? indicate nobis quomodo remittamus eam in locum suum.

6 1 Therefore the Ark of the Lord was in the region of the Philistines for seven months. 2 And the Philistines called the priests and the diviners, saying: What shall we do concerning the Ark of the Lord? indicate to us how we may remit it to its own place.

Qui dixerunt: 3 Si remittitis arcam Dei Israël, nolite dimittere eam vacuam, sed quod debetis, reddite ei pro peccato, et tunc curabimini: et scietis quare non recedat manus ejus a vobis. 4 Qui dixerunt: Quid est quod pro delicto reddere debeamus ei? Responderuntque illi: 5 Juxta numerum provinciarum Philisthinorum quinque anos aureos facietis, et quinque mures aureos: quia plaga una fuit omnibus vobis, et satrapis vestris. Facietisque similitudines anorum vestrorum, et similitudines murium, qui demoliti sunt terram: et dabitis Deo Israël gloriam, si forte relevet manum suam a vobis, et a diis vestris, et a terra vestra.

They said: 3 If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but what you owe, render to him as a sin-offering, and then you will be healed; and you will know why his hand does not withdraw from you. 4 They said: What is it that we ought to render to him for the offense? And they answered them: 5 According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you shall make five golden tumors and five golden mice, because one plague was upon all of you and your satraps. And you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of the mice that have devastated the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from your gods, and from your land.

6 Quare aggravatis corda vestra, sicut aggravavit Ægyptus et Pharao cor suum? nonne postquam percussus est, tunc dimisit eos, et abierunt? 7 Nunc ergo arripite et facite plaustrum novum unum: et duas vaccas fœtas, quibus non est impositum jugum, jungite in plaustro, et recludite vitulos earum domi.

6 Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharaoh hardened his heart? Was it not after he was struck that he then let them go, and they departed? 7 Now therefore take and make one new cart; and yoke to the cart two cows that have calved, upon which no yoke has been laid; and shut up their calves at home.

8 Tolletisque arcam Domini, et ponetis in plaustro, et vasa aurea quæ exsolvistis ei pro delicto, ponetis in capsellam ad latus ejus: et dimittite eam ut vadat. 9 Et aspicietis: et si quidem per viam finium suorum ascenderit contra Bethsames, ipse fecit nobis hoc malum grande: sin autem, minime: sciemus quia nequaquam manus ejus tetigit nos, sed casu accidit.

8 And you shall take up the ark of the Lord, and you shall place it on the wagon, and the golden vessels which you have paid to him for the trespass, you shall place into a little casket at its side: and release it that it may go. 9 And you shall watch: and if indeed it goes up by the way of its own borders toward Beth-shemesh, he himself has done to us this great evil: but if not, by no means: we shall know that his hand has not touched us at all, but it happened by chance.

10 Fecerunt ergo illi hoc modo: et tollentes duas vaccas quæ lactabant vitulos, junxerunt ad plaustrum, vitulosque earum concluserunt domi. 11 Et posuerunt arcam Dei super plaustrum, et capsellam quæ habebat mures aureos et similitudines anorum. 12 Ibant autem in directum vaccæ per viam quæ ducit Bethsames, et itinere uno gradiebantur, pergentes et mugientes: et non declinabant neque ad dextram neque ad sinistram: sed et satrapæ Philisthiim sequebantur usque ad terminos Bethsames.

10 Therefore they did in this way: and taking two cows that were suckling calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. 11 And they placed the ark of God upon the cart, and the little casket which had the golden mice and the likenesses of the hemorrhoids. 12 But the cows went straight along the road that leads to Bethsames, and they walked in one course, going on and lowing: and they did not turn aside either to the right or to the left: and the satraps of the Philistines followed up to the borders of Bethsames.

13 Porro Bethsamitæ metebant triticum in valle: et elevantes oculos suos, viderunt arcam, et gavisi sunt cum vidissent. 14 Et plaustrum venit in agrum Josue Bethsamitæ, et stetit ibi. Erat autem ibi lapis magnus, et conciderunt ligna plaustri, vaccasque imposuerunt super ea holocaustum Domino.

13 Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and, lifting up their eyes, they saw the ark, and they rejoiced when they had seen it. 14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Bethsamite, and stood there. Now there was there a great stone, and they cut to pieces the wood of the cart, and they placed the cows upon it as a holocaust to the Lord.

15 Levitæ autem deposuerunt arcam Dei, et capsellam quæ erat juxta eam, in qua erant vasa aurea, et posuerunt super lapidem grandem. Viri autem Bethsamitæ obtulerunt holocausta, et immolaverunt victimas in die illa Domino. 16 Et quinque satrapæ Philisthinorum viderunt, et reversi sunt in Accaron in die illa.

15 But the Levites took down the ark of God, and the coffer that was beside it, in which were the golden vessels, and they set them upon the great stone. But the men of Beth-shemesh offered holocausts and sacrificed victims on that day to the Lord. 16 And the five satraps of the Philistines saw it, and returned to Ekron on that day.

17 Hi sunt autem ani aurei quos reddiderunt Philisthiim pro delicto, Domino: Azotus unum, Gaza unum, Ascalon unum, Geth unum, Accaron unum: 18 et mures aureos secundum numerum urbium Philisthiim, quinque provinciarum, ab urbe murata usque ad villam quæ erat absque muro, et usque ad Abelmagnum, super quem posuerunt arcam Domini, quæ erat usque in illum diem in agro Josue Bethsamitis.

17 These are, moreover, the golden hemorrhoids which the Philistines rendered for the trespass, to the Lord: Azotus one, Gaza one, Ascalon one, Geth one, Accaron one: 18 and the golden mice according to the number of the cities of the Philistines, of the five provinces, from the walled city even to the village which was without a wall, and even to Abelmagnum, upon which they placed the ark of the Lord, which was until that day in the field of Joshua the Bethshemite.

19 Percussit autem de viris Bethsamitibus, eo quod vidissent arcam Domini: et percussit de populo septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis. Luxitque populus, eo quod Dominus percussisset plebem plaga magna. 20 Et dixerunt viri Bethsamitæ: Quis poterit stare in conspectu Domini Dei sancti hujus?

19 But he struck down from among the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had seen the Ark of the Lord: and he struck down of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the plebs. And the people lamented, because the Lord had struck the plebs with a great plague. 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said: Who will be able to stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God?

et ad quem ascendet a nobis? 21 Miseruntque nuntios ad habitatores Cariathiarim, dicentes: Reduxerunt Philisthiim arcam Domini: descendite, et reducite eam ad vos. 7 1 Venerunt ergo viri Cariathiarim, et reduxerunt arcam Domini, et intulerunt eam in domum Abinadab in Gabaa: Eleazarum autem filium ejus sanctificaverunt, ut custodiret arcam Domini.

and to whom will it go up from us? 21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord: come down, and bring it back to yourselves. 7 1 Therefore the men of Cariathiarim came, and brought back the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in Gabaa: moreover they consecrated Eleazar, his son, to guard the ark of the Lord.

2 Et factum est, ex qua die mansit arca Domini in Cariathiarim, multiplicati sunt dies (erat quippe jam annus vigesimus), et requievit omnis domus Israël post Dominum. 3 Ait autem Samuel ad universam domum Israël, dicens: Si in toto corde vestro revertimini ad Dominum, auferte deos alienos de medio vestri, Baalim et Astaroth: et præparate corda vestra Domino, et servite ei soli, et eruet vos de manu Philisthiim. 4 Abstulerunt ergo filii Israël Baalim et Astaroth, et servierunt Domino soli.

2 And it came to pass, from the day on which the ark of the Lord remained in Cariathiarim, the days were multiplied (for already it was the twentieth year), and all the house of Israel rested after the Lord. 3 But Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, saying: If with your whole heart you are returning to the Lord, remove the foreign gods from your midst, the Baalim and the Astaroth; and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines. 4 Therefore the sons of Israel removed the Baalim and the Astaroth, and served the Lord alone.

5 Dixit autem Samuel: Congregate universum Israël in Masphath, ut orem pro vobis Dominum. 6 Et convenerunt in Masphath: hauseruntque aquam, et effuderunt in conspectu Domini: et jejunaverunt in die illa atque dixerunt ibi: Peccavimus Domino. Judicavitque Samuel filios Israël in Masphath.

5 But Samuel said: Gather all Israel in Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you. 6 And they assembled in Masphath: and they drew water, and poured it out in the sight of the Lord: and they fasted on that day and said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Masphath.

7 Et audierunt Philisthiim quod congregati essent filii Israël in Masphath, et ascenderunt satrapæ Philisthinorum ad Israël. Quod cum audissent filii Israël, timuerunt a facie Philisthinorum. 8 Dixeruntque ad Samuelem: Ne cesses pro nobis clamare ad Dominum Deum nostrum, ut salvet nos de manu Philisthinorum. 9 Tulit autem Samuel agnum lactentem unum, et obtulit illum holocaustum integrum Domino: et clamavit Samuel ad Dominum pro Israël, et exaudivit eum Dominus.

7 And the Philistines heard that the sons of Israel had been gathered in Masphath, and the satraps of the Philistines went up against Israel. Which when the sons of Israel heard, they were afraid before the face of the Philistines. 8 And they said to Samuel: Do not cease to cry out for us to the Lord our God, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines. 9 But Samuel took one suckling lamb, and offered it as a whole holocaust to the Lord; and Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord hearkened to him.

10 Factum est autem, cum Samuel offerret holocaustum, Philisthiim iniere prælium contra Israël: intonuit autem Dominus fragore magno in die illa super Philisthiim, et exterruit eos, et cæsi sunt a facie Israël. 11 Egressique viri Israël de Masphath, persecuti sunt Philisthæos, et percusserunt eos usque ad locum qui erat subter Bethchar. 12 Tulit autem Samuel lapidem unum, et posuit eum inter Masphath et inter Sen: et vocavit nomen loci illius, Lapis adjutorii. Dixitque: Hucusque auxiliatus est nobis Dominus.

10 Now it came to pass, while Samuel was offering the holocaust, the Philistines entered into battle against Israel; but the Lord thundered with a great crash on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified them, and they were cut down before the face of Israel. 11 And the men of Israel, going out from Mizpah, pursued the Philistines, and struck them as far as the place that was beneath Beth-car. 12 Then Samuel took one stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen; and he called the name of that place, the Stone of Help. And he said: Hitherto the Lord has helped us.

13 Et humiliati sunt Philisthiim, nec apposuerunt ultra ut venirent in terminos Israël. Facta est itaque manus Domini super Philisthæos cunctis diebus Samuelis. 14 Et redditæ sunt urbes quas tulerant Philisthiim ab Israël, Israëli, ab Accaron usque Geth, et terminos suos: liberavitque Israël de manu Philisthinorum, eratque pax inter Israël et Amorrhæum. 15 Judicabat quoque Samuel Israëlem cunctis diebus vitæ suæ: 16 et ibat per singulos annos circuiens Bethel et Galgala et Masphath, et judicabat Israëlem in supradictis locis. 17 Revertebaturque in Ramatha: ibi enim erat domus ejus, et ibi judicabat Israëlem: ædificavit etiam ibi altare Domino.

13 And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not add further to come into the borders of Israel. Therefore the hand of the Lord was upon the Philistines all the days of Samuel. 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron as far as Gath, and their borders; and Israel was delivered from the hand of the Philistines, and there was peace between Israel and the Amorite. 15 And Samuel also judged Israel all the days of his life: 16 and he went each year, going around Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in the aforesaid places. 17 And he would return to Ramah, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel; he also built there an altar to the Lord.

8 1 Factum est autem cum senuisset Samuel, posuit filios suos judices Israël. 2 Fuitque nomen filii ejus primogeniti Joël: et nomen secundi Abia, judicum in Bersabee. 3 Et non ambulaverunt filii illius in viis ejus: sed declinaverunt post avaritiam, acceperuntque munera, et perverterunt judicium. 4 Congregati ergo universi majores natu Israël, venerunt ad Samuelem in Ramatha.

8 1 Now it came to pass that, when Samuel had grown old, he appointed his sons judges over Israel. 2 And the name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of the second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after avarice, and they took gifts and perverted judgment. 4 Therefore all the elders of Israel gathered and came to Samuel at Ramah.

5 Dixeruntque ei: Ecce tu senuisti, et filii tui non ambulant in viis tuis: constitue nobis regem, ut judicet nos, sicut et universæ habent nationes. 6 Displicuit sermo in oculis Samuelis, eo quod dixissent: Da nobis regem, ut judicet nos. Et oravit Samuel ad Dominum.

5 And they said to him: Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways: appoint for us a king, that he may judge us, just as all the nations have. 6 The word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, because they had said: Give us a king, that he may judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

7 Dixit autem Dominus ad Samuelem: Audi vocem populi in omnibus quæ loquuntur tibi: non enim te abjecerunt, sed me, ne regnem super eos. 8 Juxta omnia opera sua quæ fecerunt, a die qua eduxi eos de Ægypto usque ad diem hanc: sicut dereliquerunt me, et servierunt diis alienis, sic faciunt etiam tibi. 9 Nunc ergo vocem eorum audi: verumtamen contestare eos, et prædic eis jus regis, qui regnaturus est super eos.

7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hear the voice of the people in all the things which they speak to you: for not you have they rejected, but me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all their works which they have done, from the day when I led them out of Egypt even to this day: just as they have forsaken me and have served alien gods, so they do also to you. 9 Now therefore hear their voice: nevertheless solemnly attest against them, and proclaim to them the right of the king who is going to reign over them.

10 Dixit itaque Samuel omnia verba Domini ad populum, qui petierat a se regem. 11 Et ait: Hoc erit jus regis, qui imperaturus est vobis: filios vestros tollet, et ponet in curribus suis: facietque sibi equites et præcursores quadrigarum suarum, 12 et constituet sibi tribunos, et centuriones, et aratores agrorum suorum, et messores segetum, et fabros armorum et curruum suorum. 13 Filias quoque vestras faciet sibi unguentarias, et focarias, et panificas.

10 Therefore Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people, who had asked from him a king. 11 And he said: This will be the right of the king who is going to rule over you: your sons he will take, and he will set them on his chariots; and he will make for himself horsemen and forerunners of his four-horse chariots, 12 and he will appoint for himself tribunes, and centurions, and ploughmen of his fields, and reapers of the crops, and smiths for his arms and his chariots. 13 Your daughters also he will make for himself perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.

14 Agros quoque vestros, et vineas, et oliveta optima tollet, et dabit servis suis. 15 Sed et segetes vestras et vinearum reditus addecimabit, ut det eunuchis et famulis suis. 16 Servos etiam vestros, et ancillas, et juvenes optimos, et asinos, auferet, et ponet in opere suo.

14 He will also take your fields, and vineyards, and the best olive-groves, and will give them to his servants. 15 And he will tithe your grain-crops and the revenues of your vineyards, that he may give to his eunuchs and his household servants. 16 Your male-servants also, and maidservants, and your best young men, and asses, he will take away, and he will set them to his work.

17 Greges quoque vestros addecimabit, vosque eritis ei servi. 18 Et clamabitis in die illa a facie regis vestri, quem elegistis vobis: et non exaudiet vos Dominus in die illa, quia petistis vobis regem. 19 Noluit autem populus audire vocem Samuelis, sed dixerunt: Nequaquam: rex enim erit super nos, 20 et erimus nos quoque sicut omnes gentes: et judicabit nos rex noster, et egredietur ante nos, et pugnabit bella nostra pro nobis.

17 He will also tithe your flocks, and you will be slaves to him. 18 And you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you on that day, because you asked for a king for yourselves. 19 But the people did not wish to hear the voice of Samuel, but they said: By no means: for a king will be over us, 20 and we also will be like all the nations: and our king will judge us, and he will go out before us, and he will fight our wars for us.

21 Et audivit Samuel omnia verba populi, et locutus est ea in auribus Domini. 22 Dixit autem Dominus ad Samuelem: Audi vocem eorum, et constitue super eos regem. Et ait Samuel ad viros Israël: Vadat unusquisque in civitatem suam.

21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he spoke them in the ears of the Lord. 22 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hear their voice, and constitute over them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let each go to his own city.

9 1 Et erat vir de Benjamin nomine Cis, filius Abiel, filii Seror, filii Bechorath, filii Aphia, filii viri Jemini, fortis robore. 2 Et erat ei filius vocabulo Saul, electus et bonus: et non erat vir de filiis Israël melior illo: ab humero et sursum eminebat super omnem populum. 3 Perierant autem asinæ Cis patris Saul: et dixit Cis ad Saul filium suum: Tolle tecum unum de pueris, et consurgens vade, et quære asinas.

9 1 And there was a man of Benjamin named Cis, son of Abiel, son of Seror, son of Bechorath, son of Aphia, son of a man of Jemini, strong in might. 2 And he had a son by the name Saul, chosen and good: and there was not a man of the sons of Israël better than he: from the shoulder and upward he stood out above all the people. 3 Now the she-asses of Cis, Saul’s father, had been lost: and Cis said to Saul his son: Take with you one of the boys, and rising up go, and seek the asses.

Qui cum transissent per montem Ephraim 4 et per terram Salisa, et non invenissent, transierunt etiam per terram Salim, et non erant: sed et per terram Jemini, et minime repererunt. 5 Cum autem venissent in terram Suph, dixit Saul ad puerum qui erat cum eo: Veni et revertamur, ne forte dimiserit pater meus asinas, et sollicitus sit pro nobis. 6 Qui ait ei: Ecce vir Dei est in civitate hac, vir nobilis: omne quod loquitur, sine ambiguitate venit.

Who, when they had passed through the mountain of Ephraim 4 and through the land of Salisa, and had not found them, they also passed through the land of Salim, and they were not there: and even through the land of Jemini, and they by no means found them. 5 But when they had come into the land of Suph, Saul said to the boy who was with him: Come, and let us return, lest perhaps my father has given up the asses, and be anxious for us. 6 And he said to him: Behold, a man of God is in this city, a noble man: everything that he speaks comes to pass, without ambiguity.

Nunc ergo eamus illuc, si forte indicet nobis de via nostra, propter quam venimus. 7 Dixitque Saul ad puerum suum: Ecce ibimus: quid feremus ad virum Dei? panis defecit in sitarciis nostris, et sportulam non habemus ut demus homini Dei, nec quidquam aliud.

Now therefore let us go there, if perhaps he may indicate to us about our way, on account of which we have come. 7 And Saul said to his servant: Behold, we will go: what shall we bring to the man of God? the bread has failed in our satchels, and we do not have a basket to give to the man of God, nor anything else.

8 Rursum puer respondit Sauli, et ait: Ecce inventa est in manu mea quarta pars stateris argenti: demus homini Dei, ut indicet nobis viam nostram. 9 (Olim in Israël sic loquebatur unusquisque vadens consulere Deum: Venite, et eamus ad videntem. Qui enim propheta dicitur hodie, vocabatur olim videns.) 10 Et dixit Saul ad puerum suum: Optimus sermo tuus.

8 Again the boy answered Saul and said: Behold, a fourth part of a silver stater has been found in my hand; let us give it to the man of God, that he may indicate to us our way. 9 (Formerly in Israël thus would each one speak when going to consult God: Come, and let us go to the seer. For he who is called prophet today was formerly called seer.) 10 And Saul said to his boy: Your word is best.

Veni, eamus. Et ierunt in civitatem in qua erat vir Dei. 11 Cumque ascenderent clivum civitatis, invenerunt puellas egredientes ad hauriendam aquam, et dixerunt eis: Num hic est videns?

Come, let us go. And they went into the city in which the man of God was. 11 And as they were ascending the slope of the city, they found maidens going out to draw water, and said to them: Is the seer here?

12 Quæ respondentes, dixerunt illis: Hic est: ecce ante te, festina nunc: hodie enim venit in civitatem, quia sacrificium est hodie populi in excelso. 13 Ingredientes urbem, statim invenietis eum antequam ascendat excelsum ad vescendum, neque enim comesurus est populus donec ille veniat: quia ipse benedicit hostiæ, et deinceps comedunt qui vocati sunt. Nunc ergo conscendite, quia hodie reperietis eum.

12 They answered and said to them: He is here: behold, before you; make haste now: for today he has come into the city, because there is a sacrifice today of the people on the high place. 13 Entering the city, you will at once find him before he goes up to the high place to dine; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he himself blesses the sacrifice, and thereafter those who have been called eat. Now therefore go up, because today you will find him.

14 Et ascenderunt in civitatem. Cumque illi ambularent in medio urbis, apparuit Samuel egrediens obviam eis, ut ascenderet in excelsum. 15 Dominus autem revelaverat auriculam Samuelis ante unam diem quam veniret Saul, dicens: 16 Hac ipsa hora quæ nunc est, cras mittam virum ad te de terra Benjamin, et unges eum ducem super populum meum Israël: et salvabit populum meum de manu Philisthinorum, quia respexi populum meum: venit enim clamor eorum ad me. 17 Cumque aspexisset Samuel Saulem, Dominus dixit ei: Ecce vir quem dixeram tibi: iste dominabitur populo meo.

14 And they went up into the city. And while they were walking in the middle of the city, Samuel appeared coming out to meet them, to go up to the high place. 15 But the Lord had revealed to Samuel’s ear one day before Saul came, saying: 16 At this very hour which is now, tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him leader over my people Israel: and he will save my people from the hand of the Philistines, because I have looked upon my people: for their outcry has come to me. 17 And when Samuel had looked upon Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold the man of whom I told you: this one shall rule over my people.

18 Accessit autem Saul ad Samuelem in medio portæ, et ait: Indica, oro, mihi, ubi est domus videntis. 19 Et respondit Samuel Sauli, dicens: Ego sum videns: ascende ante me in excelsum, ut comedatis mecum hodie, et dimittam te mane: et omnia quæ sunt in corde tuo indicabo tibi. 20 Et de asinis quas nudiustertius perdidisti, ne sollicitus sis, quia inventæ sunt.

18 But Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, and said: Indicate, I pray, to me where the house of the seer is. 19 And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer: ascend before me to the high place, that you may eat with me today, and I will dismiss you in the morning: and I will indicate to you all that is in your heart. 20 And as for the asses which you lost the day before yesterday, be not solicitous, for they have been found.

Et cujus erunt optima quæque Israël? nonne tibi et omni domui patris tui? 21 Respondens autem Saul, ait: Numquid non filius Jemini ego sum de minima tribu Israël, et cognatio mea novissima inter omnes familias de tribu Benjamin? quare ergo locutus es mihi sermonem istum?

And whose shall be every best thing of Israel? shall it not be for you and for all the house of your father? 21 But Saul, answering, said: Am I not a son of Jemini, from the least tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the last among all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then have you spoken to me this word?

22 Assumens itaque Samuel Saulem et puerum ejus, introduxit eos in triclinium, et dedit eis locum in capite eorum qui fuerant invitati: erant enim quasi triginta viri. 23 Dixitque Samuel coco: Da partem quam dedi tibi, et præcepi ut reponeres seorsum apud te. 24 Levavit autem cocus armum, et posuit ante Saul. Dixitque Samuel: Ecce quod remansit: pone ante te, et comede, quia de industria servatum est tibi quando populum vocavi.

22 Therefore, taking Saul and his servant, Samuel introduced them into the dining room, and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited: for there were about thirty men. 23 And Samuel said to the cook: Give the portion which I gave you, and commanded you to set aside by you. 24 And the cook lifted the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said: Behold what has been kept back: set it before you, and eat, for by design it has been reserved for you when I called the people.

Et comedit Saul cum Samuele in die illa. 25 Et descenderunt de excelso in oppidum, et locutus est cum Saule in solario: stravitque Saul in solario, et dormivit.

And Saul ate with Samuel on that day. 25 And they went down from the high place into the town, and he spoke with Saul in the solarium: and Saul spread in the solarium, and slept.

26 Cumque mane surrexissent, et jam elucesceret, vocavit Samuel Saulem in solario, dicens: Surge, et dimittam te. Et surrexit Saul: egressique sunt ambo, ipse videlicet, et Samuel. 27 Cumque descenderent in extrema parte civitatis, Samuel dixit ad Saul: Dic puero ut antecedat nos et transeat: tu autem subsiste paulisper, ut indicem tibi verbum Domini. 10 1 Tulit autem Samuel lenticulam olei, et effudit super caput ejus: et deosculatus est eum, et ait: Ecce unxit te Dominus super hæreditatem suam in principem, et liberabis populum suum de manibus inimicorum ejus qui in circuitu ejus sunt.

26 And when they had risen in the morning, and it was already growing light, Samuel called Saul in the solarium, saying: Rise, and I will send you off. And Saul rose; and they both went out, namely he and Samuel. 27 And when they were going down at the extreme part of the city, Samuel said to Saul: Tell the boy to go on before us and pass on; but you, stand still a little, that I may indicate to you the word of the Lord. 10 1 Then Samuel took a small vial of oil and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord has anointed you over his inheritance as prince, and you will free his people from the hands of his enemies who are around him.

Et hoc tibi signum, quia unxit te Deus in principem.

And this is the sign to you, that God has anointed you as prince.

2 Cum abieris hodie a me, invenies duos viros juxta sepulchrum Rachel in finibus Benjamin, in meridie: dicentque tibi: Inventæ sunt asinæ ad quas ieras perquirendas: et intermissis pater tuus asinis, sollicitus est pro vobis, et dicit: Quid faciam de filio meo? 3 Cumque abieris inde, et ultra transieris, et veneris ad quercum Thabor, invenient te ibi tres viri ascendentes ad Deum in Bethel, unus portans tres hædos, et alius tres tortas panis, et alius portans lagenam vini. 4 Cumque te salutaverint, dabunt tibi duos panes, et accipies de manu eorum.

2 When you go away today from me, you will find two men near Rachel’s sepulcher in the borders of Benjamin, in the south: and they will say to you: The asses have been found which you went to seek: and your father, the asses having been set aside, is anxious for you, and says: What shall I do about my son? 3 And when you go on from there, and pass further on, and come to the oak of Tabor, there will find you three men going up to God at Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a flask of wine. 4 And when they have greeted you, they will give you two loaves, and you shall receive from their hand.

5 Post hæc venies in collem Dei, ubi est statio Philisthinorum: et cum ingressus fueris ibi urbem, obvium habebis gregem prophetarum descendentium de excelso, et ante eos psalterium, et tympanum, et tibiam, et citharam, ipsosque prophetantes. 6 Et insiliet in te spiritus Domini, et prophetabis cum eis, et mutaberis in virum alium. 7 Quando ergo evenerint signa hæc omnia tibi, fac quæcumque invenerit manus tua, quia Dominus tecum est.

5 After this you will come to the hill of God, where there is a garrison of the Philistines; and when you have entered the city there, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a cithara, and they themselves prophesying. 6 And the Spirit of the Lord will spring upon you, and you will prophesy with them, and you will be changed into another man. 7 Therefore, when all these signs shall have come to you, do whatever your hand finds, for the Lord is with you.

8 Et descendes ante me in Galgala (ego quippe descendam ad te), ut offeras oblationem, et immoles victimas pacificas: septem diebus expectabis, donec veniam ad te, et ostendam tibi quid facias. 9 Itaque cum avertisset humerum suum ut abiret a Samuele, immutavit ei Deus cor aliud, et venerunt omnia signa hæc in die illa. 10 Veneruntque ad prædictum collem, et ecce cuneus prophetarum obvius ei: et insiluit super eum spiritus Domini, et prophetavit in medio eorum.

8 And you shall go down before me to Gilgal (for I indeed will come down to you), that you may offer an oblation and immolate peace-offerings: for seven days you will wait, until I come to you and show you what you are to do. 9 Therefore, when he had turned his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God changed his heart to another, and all these signs came to pass on that day. 10 And they came to the aforesaid hill, and behold, a band of prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord leapt upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.

11 Videntes autem omnes qui noverant eum heri et nudiustertius quod esset cum prophetis, et prophetaret, dixerunt ad invicem: Quænam res accidit filio Cis? num et Saul inter prophetas? 12 Responditque alius ad alterum, dicens: Et quis pater eorum?

11 And all who had known him yesterday and the day before yesterday, seeing that he was with the prophets and was prophesying, said to one another: What thing has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? 12 And one answered another, saying: And who is their father?

Propterea versum est in proverbium: Num et Saul inter prophetas? 13 Cessavit autem prophetare, et venit ad excelsum. 14 Dixitque patruus Saul ad eum, et ad puerum ejus: Quo abistis?

Therefore it was turned into a proverb: Is even Saul among the prophets? 13 Then he ceased to prophesy, and came to the high place. 14 And Saul’s uncle said to him, and to his boy: Where did you go?

Qui responderunt: Quærere asinas: quas cum non reperissemus, venimus ad Samuelem. 15 Et dixit ei patruus suus: Indica mihi quid dixerit tibi Samuel. 16 Et ait Saul ad patruum suum: Indicavit nobis quia inventæ essent asinæ. De sermone autem regni non indicavit ei quem locutus fuerat ei Samuel.

Who answered: To seek the asses; and when we had not found them, we came to Samuel. And his paternal uncle said to him: Indicate to me what Samuel said to you. And Saul said to his uncle: He indicated to us that the asses had been found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, he did not indicate to him what Samuel had spoken to him.

17 Et convocavit Samuel populum ad Dominum in Maspha: 18 et ait ad filios Israël: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël: Ego eduxi Israël de Ægypto, et erui vos de manu Ægyptiorum, et de manu omnium regum qui affligebant vos. 19 Vos autem hodie projecistis Deum vestrum, qui solus salvavit vos de universis malis et tribulationibus vestris: et dixistis: Nequaquam: sed regem constitue super nos. Nunc ergo state coram Domino per tribus vestras, et per familias.

17 And Samuel convoked the people to the Lord at Maspha: 18 and he said to the sons of Israel: Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I led Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who were afflicting you. 19 But you today have cast off your God, who alone saved you from all your evils and tribulations: and you said: By no means; but constitute a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

20 Et applicuit Samuel omnes tribus Israël, et cecidit sors tribus Benjamin. 21 Et applicuit tribum Benjamin et cognationes ejus, et cecidit cognatio Metri: et pervenit usque ad Saul filium Cis. Quæsierunt ergo eum, et non est inventus.

20 And Samuel brought near all the tribes of Israel, and the lot fell to the tribe of Benjamin. 21 And he brought near the tribe of Benjamin and its kindreds, and the kindred of Metri fell; and it reached to Saul, the son of Kish. Therefore they sought him, and he was not found.

22 Et consuluerunt post hæc Dominum utrumnam venturus esset illuc. Responditque Dominus: Ecce absconditus est domi. 23 Cucurrerunt itaque et tulerunt eum inde: stetitque in medio populi, et altior fuit universo populo ab humero et sursum.

22 And after these things they consulted the Lord whether he would be coming there. And the Lord answered: Behold, he is hidden at home. 23 So they ran and brought him from there; and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was taller than the whole people from the shoulder and upward.

24 Et ait Samuel ad omnem populum: Certe videtis quem elegit Dominus, quoniam non sit similis illi in omni populo. Et clamavit omnis populus, et ait: Vivat rex. 25 Locutus est autem Samuel ad populum legem regni, et scripsit in libro, et reposuit coram Domino: et dimisit Samuel omnem populum, singulos in domum suam.

24 And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see whom the Lord has chosen, that there is none like him in all the people. And all the people cried out and said: Long live the king. 25 Moreover Samuel spoke to the people the law of the kingdom, and he wrote it in a book and deposited it before the Lord; and Samuel dismissed all the people, each to his own house.

26 Sed et Saul abiit in domum suam in Gabaa: et abiit cum eo pars exercitus, quorum tetigerat Deus corda. 27 Filii vero Belial dixerunt: Num salvare nos poterit iste? Et despexerunt eum, et non attulerunt ei munera: ille vero dissimulabat se audire.

26 But Saul also went to his house in Gabaa: and a part of the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched. 27 But the sons of Belial said: Will this one be able to save us? And they despised him, and did not bring him gifts: but he pretended not to hear.

11 1 Et factum est quasi post mensem, ascendit Naas Ammonites, et pugnare cœpit adversum Jabes Galaad. Dixeruntque omnes viri Jabes ad Naas: Habeto nos fœderatos, et serviemus tibi. 2 Et respondit ad eos Naas Ammonites: In hoc feriam vobiscum fœdus, ut eruam omnium vestrum oculos dextros, ponamque vos opprobrium in universo Israël. 3 Et dixerunt ad eum seniores Jabes: Concede nobis septem dies, ut mittamus nuntios ad universos terminos Israël, et si non fuerit qui defendat nos, egrediemur ad te. 4 Venerunt ergo nuntii in Gabaa Saulis: et locuti sunt verba hæc, audiente populo: et levavit omnis populus vocem suam, et flevit.

11 1 And it came to pass, about a month later, Naas the Ammonite went up and began to fight against Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you. 2 And Naas the Ammonite answered them: In this I will strike a covenant with you, that I may gouge out the right eyes of you all, and I will set you as a reproach in all Israel. 3 And the elders of Jabesh said to him: Grant us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel, and if there is no one who will defend us, we will go out to you. 4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the hearing of the people; and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

5 Et ecce Saul veniebat, sequens boves de agro, et ait: Quid habet populus quod plorat? Et narraverunt ei verba virorum Jabes. 6 Et insilivit spiritus Domini in Saul cum audisset verba hæc, et iratus est furor ejus nimis.

5 And behold, Saul was coming, following the oxen from the field, and he said: What ails the people, that they weep? And they recounted to him the words of the men of Jabes. 6 And the Spirit of the Lord leapt upon Saul when he heard these words, and his fury was greatly inflamed.

7 Et assumens utrumque bovem, concidit in frustra, misitque in omnes terminos Israël per manum nuntiorum, dicens: Quicumque non exierit, et secutus fuerit Saul et Samuel, sic fiet bobus ejus. Invasit ergo timor Domini populum, et egressi sunt quasi vir unus. 8 Et recensuit eos in Bezech: fueruntque filiorum Israël trecenta millia, virorum autem Juda triginta millia.

7 And taking up each of the two oxen, he cut them into pieces, and sent them into all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying: Whoever does not come out and follow Saul and Samuel, thus it shall be done to his oxen. Therefore the fear of the Lord seized the people, and they went out as if one man. 8 And he mustered them in Bezek: and there were of the sons of Israel three hundred thousand, and of the men of Judah thirty thousand.

9 Et dixerunt nuntiis qui venerant: Sic dicetis viris qui sunt in Jabes Galaad: Cras erit vobis salus, cum incaluerit sol. Venerunt ergo nuntii, et annuntiaverunt viris Jabes: qui lætati sunt. 10 Et dixerunt: Mane exibimus ad vos: et facietis nobis omne quod placuerit vobis.

9 And they said to the messengers who had come: Thus you shall say to the men who are in Jabesh-gilead: Tomorrow there will be deliverance for you, when the sun has grown hot. So the messengers came and announced to the men of Jabesh; and they rejoiced. 10 And they said: In the morning we will come out to you; and you shall do to us whatever seems good to you.

11 Et factum est, cum dies crastinus venisset, constituit Saul populum in tres partes: et ingressus est media castra in vigilia matutina, et percussit Ammon usque dum incalesceret dies: reliqui autem dispersi sunt, ita ut non relinquerentur in eis duo pariter. 12 Et ait populus ad Samuelem: Quis est iste qui dixit: Saul num regnabit super nos? Date viros, et interficiemus eos.

11 And it came to pass, when the next day had arrived, that Saul constituted the people in three parts: and he entered the midst of the camp at the morning watch, and struck Ammon until the day grew hot: but the rest were scattered, so that two of them were not left together. 12 And the people said to Samuel: Who is this who said: Shall Saul indeed reign over us? Give the men, and we will put them to death.

13 Et ait Saul: Non occidetur quisquam in die hac, quia hodie fecit Dominus salutem in Israël. 14 Dixit autem Samuel ad populum: Venite, et eamus in Galgala, et innovemus ibi regnum. 15 Et perrexit omnis populus in Galgala, et fecerunt ibi regem Saul coram Domino in Galgala, et immolaverunt ibi victimas pacificas coram Domino. Et lætatus est ibi Saul, et cuncti viri Israël nimis.

13 And Saul said: No one shall be killed on this day, because today the Lord has wrought salvation in Israel. 14 But Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and let us renew the kingdom there. 15 And all the people proceeded to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal, and there they immolated peace-offerings before the Lord. And Saul rejoiced there, and all the men of Israel exceedingly.

12 1 Dixit autem Samuel ad universum Israël: Ecce audivi vocem vestram juxta omnia quæ locuti estis ad me, et constitui super vos regem. 2 Et nunc rex graditur ante vos: ego autem senui, et incanui: porro filii mei vobiscum sunt: itaque conversatus coram vobis ab adolescentia mea usque ad hanc diem, ecce præsto sum. 3 Loquimini de me coram Domino, et coram christo ejus, utrum bovem cujusquam tulerim, aut asinum: si quempiam calumniatus sum, si oppressi aliquem, si de manu cujusquam munus accepi: et contemnam illud hodie, restituamque vobis.

12 1 But Samuel said to all Israel: Behold, I have heard your voice according to all the things that you have spoken to me, and I have constituted over you a king. 2 And now the king goes before you: but I have grown old, and have turned gray: moreover my sons are with you: thus I have conducted myself before you from my youth even unto this day, behold I stand ready. 3 Speak concerning me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken the ox of anyone, or the donkey: if I have calumniated anyone, if I have oppressed anyone, if I have taken a gift from anyone’s hand: and I will despise it today, and I will restore it to you.

4 Et dixerunt: Non es calumniatus nos, neque oppressisti, neque tulisti de manu alicujus quippiam. 5 Dixitque ad eos: Testis est Dominus adversum vos, et testis christus ejus in die hac, quia non inveneritis in manu mea quippiam. Et dixerunt: Testis.

4 And they said: You have not calumniated us, nor oppressed, nor have you taken anything from anyone’s hand. 5 And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness on this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they said: Witness.

6 Et ait Samuel ad populum: Dominus, qui fecit Moysen et Aaron, et eduxit patres nostros de terra Ægypti. 7 Nunc ergo state, ut judicio contendam adversum vos coram Domino de omnibus misericordiis Domini quas fecit vobiscum et cum patribus vestris: 8 quomodo Jacob ingressus est in Ægyptum, et clamaverunt patres vestri ad Dominum: et misit Dominus Moysen et Aaron, et eduxit patres vestros de Ægypto, et collocavit eos in loco hoc. 9 Qui obliti sunt Domini Dei sui, et tradidit eos in manu Sisaræ magistri militiæ Hasor, et in manu Philisthinorum, et in manu regis Moab: et pugnaverunt adversum eos.

6 And Samuel said to the people: The Lord, who made Moses and Aaron, and led our fathers out of the land of Egypt. 7 Now therefore stand, that I may contend with you in judgment before the Lord concerning all the mercies of the Lord which he has done with you and with your fathers: 8 how Jacob entered into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord; and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and led your fathers out of Egypt, and settled them in this place. 9 Who forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into the hand of Sisera, the master of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab: and they fought against them.

10 Postea autem clamaverunt ad Dominum, et dixerunt: Peccavimus, quia dereliquimus Dominum, et servivimus Baalim et Astaroth: nunc ergo erue nos de manu inimicorum nostrorum, et serviemus tibi. 11 Et misit Dominus Jerobaal, et Badan, et Jephte, et Samuel, et eruit vos de manu inimicorum vestrorum per circuitum, et habitastis confidenter. 12 Videntes autem quod Naas rex filiorum Ammon venisset adversum vos, dixistis mihi: Nequaquam, sed rex imperabit nobis: cum Dominus Deus vester regnaret in vobis.

10 Afterwards, however, they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baalim and Astaroth: now therefore deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you. 11 And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan, and Jephte, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of your enemies round about, and you dwelt confidently. 12 But seeing that Naas, king of the sons of Ammon, had come against you, you said to me: By no means, but a king shall rule over us: while the Lord your God was reigning in you.

13 Nunc ergo præsto est rex vester, quem elegistis et petistis: ecce dedit vobis Dominus regem. 14 Si timueritis Dominum, et servieritis ei, et audieritis vocem ejus, et non exasperaveritis os Domini, eritis et vos, et rex qui imperat vobis, sequentes Dominum Deum vestrum: 15 si autem non audieritis vocem Domini, sed exasperaveritis sermones ejus, erit manus Domini super vos, et super patres vestros. 16 Sed et nunc state, et videte rem istam grandem quam facturus est Dominus in conspectu vestro.

13 Now therefore your king is present, whom you have chosen and requested: behold, the Lord has given you a king. 14 If you fear the Lord, and serve him, and hear his voice, and do not exasperate the mouth of the Lord, both you and the king who rules over you will be following the Lord your God: 15 but if you will not hear the voice of the Lord, but exasperate his words, the hand of the Lord will be upon you, and upon your fathers. 16 But even now stand, and see this great thing which the Lord is about to do in your sight.

17 Numquid non messis tritici est hodie? invocabo Dominum, et dabit voces et pluvias: et scietis, et videbitis, quia grande malum feceritis vobis in conspectu Domini, petentes super vos regem. 18 Et clamavit Samuel ad Dominum, et dedit Dominus voces et pluvias in illa die.

17 Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will invoke the Lord, and He will give thunders and rains; and you will know and you will see that you have done a great evil to yourselves in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king over you. 18 And Samuel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord gave thunders and rains on that day.

19 Et timuit omnis populus nimis Dominum et Samuelem, et dixit universus populus ad Samuelem: Ora pro servis tuis ad Dominum Deum tuum, ut non moriamur: addidimus enim universis peccatis nostris malum, ut peteremus nobis regem. 20 Dixit autem Samuel ad populum: Nolite timere: vos fecistis universum malum hoc, verumtamen nolite recedere a tergo Domini, sed servite Domino in omni corde vestro. 21 Et nolite declinare post vana, quæ non proderunt vobis, neque eruent vos, quia vana sunt.

19 And all the people feared exceedingly the Lord and Samuel, and the whole people said to Samuel: Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we do not die; for we have added evil to all our sins, in that we asked for ourselves a king. 20 But Samuel said to the people: Do not fear: you have done all this evil; nevertheless do not turn back from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. 21 And do not turn aside after vanities, which will not profit you, nor deliver you, for they are vain.

22 Et non derelinquet Dominus populum suum propter nomen suum magnum: quia juravit Dominus facere vos sibi populum. 23 Absit autem a me hoc peccatum in Dominum, ut cessem orare pro vobis, et docebo vos viam bonam et rectam. 24 Igitur timete Dominum, et servite ei in veritate, et ex toto corde vestro: vidistis enim magnifica quæ in vobis gesserit.

22 And the Lord will not forsake His people on account of His great name: for the Lord has sworn to make you a people for Himself. 23 But far be it from me, to sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you; and I will teach you the good and straight way. 24 Therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth, and with all your heart: for you have seen the magnificent things that He has wrought among you.

25 Quod si perseveraveritis in malitia, et vos et rex vester pariter peribitis.

25 If you persist in malice, both you and your king will perish together.

13 1 Filius unius anni erat Saul cum regnare cœpisset: duobus autem annis regnavit super Israël. 2 Et elegit sibi Saul tria millia de Israël: et erant cum Saul duo millia in Machmas, et in monte Bethel: mille autem cum Jonatha in Gabaa Benjamin: porro ceterum populum remisit unumquemque in tabernacula sua. 3 Et percussit Jonathas stationem Philisthinorum quæ erat in Gabaa. Quod cum audissent Philisthiim, Saul cecinit buccina in omni terra, dicens: Audiant Hebræi. 4 Et universus Israël audivit hujuscemodi famam: Percussit Saul stationem Philisthinorum, et erexit se Israël adversus Philisthiim.

13 1 Saul was a son of one year when he had begun to reign; moreover he reigned for two years over Israel. 2 And Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand in Michmas, and on the mount of Bethel: but a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: moreover he dismissed the rest of the people, each to his own tents. 3 And Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines which was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard this, Saul blew the trumpet in all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear. 4 And all Israel heard such a report: Saul has struck the garrison of the Philistines, and Israel has raised itself against the Philistines.

Clamavit ergo populus post Saul in Galgala. 5 Et Philisthiim congregati sunt ad præliandum contra Israël, triginta millia curruum, et sex millia equitum, et reliquum vulgus, sicut arena quæ est in littore maris plurima. Et ascendentes castrametati sunt in Machmas ad orientem Bethaven.

Therefore the people were called together after Saul in Galgala. 5 And the Philistines were congregated to do battle against Israel, 30,000 chariots, and 6,000 horsemen, and the remaining populace, as numerous as the sand that is on the shore of the sea. And going up, they encamped in Machmas to the east of Bethaven.

6 Quod cum vidissent viri Israël se in arcto positos (afflictus enim erat populus), absconderunt se in speluncis, et in abditis, in petris quoque, et in antris, et in cisternis. 7 Hebræi autem transierunt Jordanem in terram Gad et Galaad.

6 When the men of Israel saw that they were set in straits (for the people was afflicted), they hid themselves in caves, and in hidden places, also among the rocks, and in caverns, and in cisterns. 7 Moreover, the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead.

Cumque adhuc esset Saul in Galgala, universus populus perterritus est qui sequebatur eum. 8 Et expectavit septem diebus juxta placitum Samuelis, et non venit Samuel in Galgala, dilapsusque est populus ab eo. 9 Ait ergo Saul: Afferte mihi holocaustum et pacifica. Et obtulit holocaustum.

And while Saul was still in Gilgal, the whole people that was following him was panic-stricken. 8 And he waited seven days according to Samuel’s appointment, and Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people melted away from him. 9 Therefore Saul said: Bring to me the holocaust and the peace-offerings. And he offered the holocaust.

10 Cumque complesset offerens holocaustum, ecce Samuel veniebat: et egressus est Saul obviam ei ut salutaret eum. 11 Locutusque est ad eum Samuel: Quid fecisti? Respondit Saul: Quia vidi quod populus dilaberetur a me, et tu non veneras juxta placitos dies, porro Philisthiim congregati fuerant in Machmas, 12 dixi: Nunc descendent Philisthiim ad me in Galgala, et faciem Domini non placavi.

10 And when he had completed offering the holocaust, behold, Samuel was coming: and Saul went out to meet him so that he might salute him. 11 And Samuel spoke to him: What have you done? Saul answered: Because I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and you had not come according to the appointed days, moreover the Philistines had been gathered at Machmas, 12 I said: Now the Philistines will come down against me at Galgala, and I have not placated the face of the Lord.

Necessitate compulsus, obtuli holocaustum. 13 Dixitque Samuel ad Saul: Stulte egisti, nec custodisti mandata Domini Dei tui quæ præcepit tibi. Quod si non fecisses, jam nunc præparasset Dominus regnum tuum super Israël in sempiternum: 14 sed nequaquam regnum tuum ultra consurget.

Compelled by necessity, I offered the holocaust. 13 And Samuel said to Saul: You have acted foolishly, and you have not kept the mandates of the Lord your God which he commanded you. If you had not done this, by now the Lord would have prepared your kingdom over Israel in perpetuity: 14 but by no means shall your kingdom rise any further.

Quæsivit Dominus sibi virum juxta cor suum: et præcepit ei Dominus ut esset dux super populum suum, eo quod non servaveris quæ præcepit Dominus.

The Lord has sought for himself a man according to his heart; and the Lord has commanded him to be leader over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded.

15 Surrexit autem Samuel, et ascendit de Galgalis in Gabaa Benjamin. Et reliqui populi ascenderunt post Saul obviam populo, qui expugnabant eos venientes de Galgala in Gabaa, in colle Benjamin. Et recensuit Saul populum qui inventi fuerant cum eo, quasi sexcentos viros.

15 But Samuel rose, and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the people who were assaulting them, coming from Gilgal to Gibeah, on the hill of Benjamin. And Saul mustered the people who had been found with him, about six hundred men.

16 Et Saul et Jonathas filius ejus, populusque qui inventus fuerat cum eis, erat in Gabaa Benjamin: porro Philisthiim consederant in Machmas. 17 Et egressi sunt ad prædandum de castris Philisthinorum tres cunei. Unus cuneus pergebat contra viam Ephra ad terram Sual: 18 porro alius ingrediebatur per viam Beth-horon: tertius autem verterat se ad iter termini imminentis valli Seboim contra desertum.

16 And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people who had been found with them, were in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines had encamped in Michmash. 17 And there went out from the camp of the Philistines three detachments to plunder. One detachment was going toward the way of Ophrah to the land of Shual: 18 moreover another was entering by the way of Beth-horon: but the third had turned toward the route of the border overhanging the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

19 Porro faber ferrarius non inveniebatur in omni terra Israël: caverant enim Philisthiim, ne forte facerent Hebræi gladium aut lanceam. 20 Descendebat ergo omnis Israël ad Philisthiim, ut exacueret unusquisque vomerem suum, et ligonem, et securim, et sarculum. 21 Retusæ itaque erant acies vomerum, et ligonum, et tridentum, et securium, usque ad stimulum corrigendum.

19 Moreover, an iron-smith was not found in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines had taken precautions, lest perhaps the Hebrews might make a sword or a lance. 20 Therefore all Israel would go down to the Philistines, that each might sharpen his own plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his hoe. 21 Thus the edges of the plowshares, and of the mattocks, and of the three-pronged forks, and of the axes, were blunted, even to having the goad set right.

22 Cumque venisset dies prælii, non est inventus ensis et lancea in manu totius populi qui erat cum Saule et Jonatha, excepto Saul et Jonatha filio ejus. 23 Egressa est autem statio Philisthiim, ut transcenderet in Machmas.

22 And when the day of battle had come, there was not found a sword or a spear in the hand of all the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son. 23 And the outpost of the Philistines went out, to cross over into Machmas.

14 1 Et accidit quadam die ut diceret Jonathas filius Saul ad adolescentem armigerum suum: Veni, et transeamus ad stationem Philisthinorum, quæ est trans locum illum. Patri autem suo hoc ipsum non indicavit. 2 Porro Saul morabatur in extrema parte Gabaa sub malogranato, quæ erat in Magron: et erat populus cum eo quasi sexcentorum virorum.

14 1 And it happened on a certain day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to his young armor-bearer: Come, and let us cross over to the station of the Philistines, which is beyond that place. But he did not indicate this very thing to his father. 2 Moreover Saul was lingering at the far edge of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree, which was in Migron: and the people with him were about six hundred men.

3 Et Achias filius Achitob fratris Ichabod filii Phinees, qui ortus fuerat ex Heli sacerdote Domini in Silo, portabat ephod. Sed et populus ignorabat quo isset Jonathas. 4 Erant autem inter ascensus per quos nitebatur Jonathas transire ad stationem Philisthinorum, eminentes petræ ex utraque parte, et quasi in modum dentium scopuli hinc et inde prærupti: nomen uni Boses, et nomen alteri Sene: 5 unus scopulus prominens ad aquilonem ex adverso Machmas, et alter ad meridiem contra Gabaa.

3 And Ahijah, son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas—who had sprung from Eli, priest of the Lord, in Shiloh—was bearing the ephod. But the people also did not know where Jonathan had gone. 4 Now between the ascents by which Jonathan was endeavoring to cross over to the station of the Philistines there were jutting rocks on either side, and cliffs precipitous, as in the fashion of teeth, sheer on this side and that: the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 5 One crag projecting toward the north, opposite Michmash, and the other toward the south, over against Gibeah.

6 Dixit autem Jonathas ad adolescentem armigerum suum: Veni, transeamus ad stationem incircumcisorum horum, si forte faciat Dominus pro nobis: quia non est Domino difficile salvare, vel in multis, vel in paucis. 7 Dixitque ei armiger suus: Fac omnia quæ placent animo tuo: perge quo cupis, et ero tecum ubicumque volueris. 8 Et ait Jonathas: Ecce nos transimus ad viros istos.

6 But Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer: Come, let us cross over to the station of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will act for us, for it is not difficult for the Lord to save, either by many or by few. 7 And his armor-bearer said to him: Do all that pleases your mind: go where you desire, and I will be with you wherever you will. 8 And Jonathan said: Behold, we are crossing over to those men.

Cumque apparuerimus eis, 9 si taliter locuti fuerint ad nos: Manete donec veniamus ad vos: stemus in loco nostro, nec ascendamus ad eos. 10 Si autem dixerint: Ascendite ad nos: ascendamus, quia tradidit eos Dominus in manibus nostris: hoc erit nobis signum. 11 Apparuit igitur uterque stationi Philisthinorum: dixeruntque Philisthiim: En Hebræi egrediuntur de cavernis in quibus absconditi fuerant.

And when we have appeared to them, 9 if they shall have spoken thus to us: Stay until we come to you: let us stand in our place, and let us not go up to them. 10 But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord has delivered them into our hands: this will be a sign for us. 11 Therefore both appeared to the station of the Philistines: and the Philistines said: Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the caverns in which they had been hidden.

12 Et locuti sunt viri de statione ad Jonathan et ad armigerum ejus, dixeruntque: Ascendite ad nos, et ostendemus vobis rem. Et ait Jonathas ad armigerum suum: Ascendamus: sequere me: tradidit enim Dominus eos in manus Israël. 13 Ascendit autem Jonathas manibus et pedibus reptans, et armiger ejus post eum. Itaque alii cadebant ante Jonathan, alios armiger ejus interficiebat sequens eum.

12 And the men from the station spoke to Jonathan and to his arms-bearer, and they said: Come up to us, and we will show you a matter. And Jonathan said to his arms-bearer: Let us go up; follow me; for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel. 13 Then Jonathan went up, crawling with hands and feet, and his arms-bearer after him. And so some were falling before Jonathan, others his arms-bearer, following him, was killing.

14 Et facta est plaga prima qua percussit Jonathas et armiger ejus, quasi viginti virorum in media parte jugeri quam par boum in die arare consuevit. 15 Et factum est miraculum in castris per agros: sed et omnis populus stationis eorum qui ierant ad prædandum, obstupuit, et conturbata est terra: et accidit quasi miraculum a Deo. 16 Et respexerunt speculatores Saul qui erant in Gabaa Benjamin, et ecce multitudo prostrata, et huc illucque diffugiens.

14 And the first slaughter came to be by which Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men, within about half an acre—the portion which a yoke of oxen is accustomed to plow in a day. 15 And a miracle happened in the camp, through the fields; and even all the people of their garrison who had gone out to plunder were astonished, and the earth was confounded: and it occurred as though a miracle from God. 16 And the lookouts of Saul who were in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was prostrate and fleeing hither and thither.

17 Et ait Saul populo qui erat cum eo: Requirite, et videte quis abierit ex nobis. Cumque requisissent, repertum est non adesse Jonathan et armigerum ejus. 18 Et ait Saul ad Achiam: Applica arcam Dei.

17 And Saul said to the people who were with him: Seek out, and see who has gone out from us. And when they had searched, it was found that Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not present. 18 And Saul said to Ahijah: Bring near the ark of God.

(Erat enim ibi arca Dei in die illa cum filiis Israël.) 19 Cumque loqueretur Saul ad sacerdotem, tumultus magnus exortus est in castris Philisthinorum: crescebatque paulatim, et clarius resonabat. Et ait Saul ad sacerdotem: Contrahe manum tuam.

(For the ark of God was there that day with the sons of Israel.) While Saul was speaking to the priest, a great tumult arose in the camp of the Philistines; and it was increasing little by little, and was resonating more clearly. And Saul said to the priest: Draw back your hand.

20 Conclamavit ergo Saul, et omnis populus qui erat cum eo, et venerunt usque ad locum certaminis: et ecce versus fuerat gladius uniuscujusque ad proximum suum, et cædes magna nimis. 21 Sed et Hebræi qui fuerant cum Philisthiim heri et nudiustertius, ascenderantque cum eis in castris, reversi sunt ut essent cum Israël qui erant cum Saul et Jonatha. 22 Omnes quoque Israëlitæ qui se absconderant in monte Ephraim, audientes quod fugissent Philisthæi, sociaverunt se cum suis in prælio.

20 Therefore Saul cried out, and all the people who were with him, and they came as far as the place of the combat: and behold, the sword of each had been turned against his neighbor, and a very great slaughter. 21 But even the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines yesterday and the day before, and had gone up with them into the camp, returned to be with Israel, with those who were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 Likewise all the Israelites who had hidden themselves in the mount Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had fled, joined themselves with their own in the battle.

Et erant cum Saul quasi decem millia virorum. 23 Et salvavit Dominus in die illa Israël: pugna autem pervenit usque ad Bethaven. 24 Et viri Israël sociati sunt sibi in die illa: adjuravit autem Saul populum, dicens: Maledictus vir qui comederit panem usque ad vesperam, donec ulciscar de inimicis meis.

And there were with Saul about ten thousand men. And the Lord saved Israel on that day; moreover the battle reached as far as Bethaven. And the men of Israel were joined together on that day; but Saul adjured the people, saying: “Cursed be the man who shall eat bread until evening, until I have taken vengeance on my enemies.”

Et non manducavit universus populus panem: 25 omneque terræ vulgus venit in saltum, in quo erat mel super faciem agri. 26 Ingressus est itaque populus saltum, et apparuit fluens mel, nullusque applicuit manum ad os suum: timebat enim populus juramentum.

And the whole people did not eat bread: 25 and all the common folk of the land came into the woodland, in which there was honey upon the face of the field. 26 Therefore the people entered the woodland, and flowing honey appeared, and no one put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.

27 Porro Jonathas non audierat cum adjuraret pater ejus populum: extenditque summitatem virgæ quam habebat in manu, et intinxit in favum mellis: et convertit manum suam ad os suum, et illuminati sunt oculi ejus. 28 Respondensque unus de populo, ait: Jurejurando constrinxit pater tuus populum, dicens: Maledictus vir qui comederit panem hodie. (Defecerat autem populus.) 29 Dixitque Jonathas: Turbavit pater meus terram: vidistis ipsi quia illuminati sunt oculi mei, eo quod gustaverim paululum de melle isto: 30 quanto magis si comedisset populus de præda inimicorum suorum, quam reperit?

27 But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he extended the tip of the rod which he had in his hand, and dipped it into a honeycomb: and he turned his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were illuminated. 28 And one of the people answering said: Your father has bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man who shall eat bread today. (But the people had grown faint.) 29 And Jonathan said: My father has troubled the land: you yourselves have seen that my eyes have been illuminated because I have tasted a little of this honey: 30 how much more if the people had eaten of the spoil of their enemies, which they found?

nonne major plaga facta fuisset in Philisthiim? 31 Percusserunt ergo in die illa Philisthæos a Machmis usque in Ajalon.

would not a greater blow have been dealt against the Philistines? 31 Therefore they struck the Philistines on that day from Michmash as far as Aijalon.

Defatigatus est autem populus nimis: 32 et versus ad prædam tulit oves, et boves, et vitulos, et mactaverunt in terra: comeditque populus cum sanguine. 33 Nuntiaverunt autem Sauli dicentes quod populus peccasset Domino, comedens cum sanguine. Qui ait: Prævaricati estis: volvite ad me jam nunc saxum grande.

But the people were exceedingly wearied: 32 and turning to the spoil they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and they slaughtered on the ground: and the people ate with the blood. 33 And they reported to Saul, saying that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood. He said: You have transgressed: roll to me right now a great stone.

34 Et dixit Saul: Dispergimini in vulgus, et dicite eis ut adducat ad me unusquisque bovem suum et arietem, et occidite super istud, et vescimini, et non peccabitis Domino comedentes cum sanguine. Adduxit itaque omnis populus unusquisque bovem in manu sua usque ad noctem: et occiderunt ibi. 35 Ædificavit autem Saul altare Domino, tuncque primum cœpit ædificare altare Domino.

34 And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the crowd, and say to them that each one should bring to me his own ox and his ram, and slaughter upon this, and eat, and you will not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood. So all the people brought, each one his ox in his hand, until night: and they slaughtered there. 35 And Saul built an altar to the Lord, and then for the first time he began to build an altar to the Lord.

36 Et dixit Saul: Irruamus super Philisthæos nocte, et vastemus eos usque dum illucescat mane, nec relinquamus ex eis virum. Dixitque populus: Omne quod bonum videtur in oculis tuis, fac. Et ait sacerdos: Accedamus huc ad Deum.

36 And Saul said: Let us rush upon the Philistines by night, and lay waste to them until the morning grows light, and let us not leave a man of them. And the people said: Do whatever seems good in your eyes. And the priest said: Let us approach God here.

37 Et consuluit Saul Dominum: Num persequar Philisthiim? si trades eos in manus Israël? Et non respondit ei in die illa. 38 Dixitque Saul: Applicate huc universos angulos populi: et scitote, et videte per quem acciderit peccatum hoc hodie.

37 And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? And he did not answer him on that day. 38 And Saul said: Bring here all the chiefs of the people; and know, and see through whom this sin has happened today.

39 Vivit Dominus salvator Israël, quia si per Jonathan filium meum factum est, absque retractione morietur. Ad quod nullus contradixit ei de omni populo. 40 Et ait ad universum Israël: Separamini vos in partem unam, et ego cum Jonatha filio meo ero in parte altera.

39 The Lord, savior of Israel, lives, that if it has been done by Jonathan my son, without retraction he shall die. To which none of all the people contradicted him. 40 And he said to all Israel: Separate yourselves, you into one part, and I with Jonathan my son will be in the other part.

Responditque populus ad Saul: Quod bonum videtur in oculis tuis, fac.

And the people responded to Saul: What seems good in your eyes, do.

41 Et dixit Saul ad Dominum Deum Israël: Domine Deus Israël, da indicium: quid est quod non responderis servo tuo hodie? si in me, aut in Jonatha filio meo, est iniquitas hæc, da ostensionem: aut si hæc iniquitas est in populo tuo, da sanctitatem. Et deprehensus est Jonathas et Saul: populus autem exivit.

41 And Saul said to the Lord God of Israel: Lord God of Israel, give an indication: why is it that you have not answered your servant today? if this iniquity is in me, or in Jonathan my son, give an ostension; or if this iniquity is in your people, give sanctity. And Jonathan and Saul were detected; but the people went out.

42 Et ait Saul: Mittite sortem inter me et inter Jonathan filium meum. Et captus est Jonathas. 43 Dixit autem Saul ad Jonathan: Indica mihi quid feceris.

42 And Saul said: Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. 43 But Saul said to Jonathan: Indicate to me what you have done.

Et indicavit ei Jonathas, et ait: Gustans gustavi in summitate virgæ quæ erat in manu mea, paululum mellis, et ecce ego morior. 44 Et ait Saul: Hæc faciat mihi Deus, et hæc addat, quia morte morieris, Jonatha. 45 Dixitque populus ad Saul: Ergone Jonathas morietur, qui fecit salutem hanc magnam in Israël? hoc nefas est: vivit Dominus, si ceciderit capillus de capite ejus in terram, quia cum Deo operatus est hodie.

And Jonathan indicated to him, and said: Tasting I have tasted on the summit of the rod which was in my hand, a little honey, and behold I am dying. 44 And Saul said: May God do these things to me, and add these, for by death you shall die, Jonathan. 45 And the people said to Saul: Then shall Jonathan die, who has made this great salvation in Israel? this is an impiety: as the Lord lives, if a hair shall fall from his head to the earth, because with God he has wrought today.

Liberavit ergo populus Jonathan, ut non moreretur. 46 Recessitque Saul, nec persecutus est Philisthiim: porro Philisthiim abierunt in loca sua.

Therefore the people delivered Jonathan, so that he would not die. 46 And Saul withdrew, and did not pursue the Philistines: moreover, the Philistines went away to their own places.

47 Et Saul, confirmato regno super Israël, pugnabat per circuitum adversum omnes inimicos ejus, contra Moab, et filios Ammon, et Edom, et reges Soba, et Philisthæos: et quocumque se verterat, superabat. 48 Congregatoque exercitu, percussit Amalec, et eruit Israël de manu vastatorum ejus. 49 Fuerunt autem filii Saul, Jonathas, et Jessui, et Melchisua: et nomina duarum filiarum ejus, nomen primogenitæ Merob, et nomen minoris Michol.

47 And Saul, his kingdom confirmed over Israel, fought on every side against all his enemies—against Moab, and the sons of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned himself, he prevailed. 48 And having assembled the army, he struck Amalek, and delivered Israel out of the hand of its ravagers. 49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua; and the names of his two daughters: the name of the firstborn Merob, and the name of the younger Michol.

50 Et nomen uxoris Saul Achinoam filia Achimaas: et nomen principis militiæ ejus Abner filius Ner, patruelis Saul. 51 Porro Cis fuit pater Saul, et Ner pater Abner, filius Abiel. 52 Erat autem bellum potens adversum Philisthæos omnibus diebus Saul.

50 And the name of Saul’s wife was Achinoam, daughter of Achimaas: and the name of the chief of his soldiery was Abner son of Ner, Saul’s paternal cousin. 51 Moreover, Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, the son of Abiel. 52 And there was powerful war against the Philistines all the days of Saul.

Nam quemcumque viderat Saul virum fortem, et aptum ad prælium, sociabat eum sibi.

For whomever Saul had seen a brave man, and apt for battle, he associated him with himself.

15 1 Et dixit Samuel ad Saul: Me misit Dominus ut ungerem te in regem super populum ejus Israël: nunc ergo audi vocem Domini. 2 Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Recensui quæcumque fecit Amalec Israëli: quomodo restitit ei in via cum ascenderet de Ægypto. 3 Nunc ergo vade, et percute Amalec, et demolire universa ejus: non parcas ei, et non concupiscas ex rebus ipsius aliquid, sed interfice a viro usque ad mulierem, et parvulum atque lactentem, bovem et ovem, camelum et asinum.

15 1 And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel: now therefore hear the voice of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up whatever Amalek did to Israel, how he stood against him on the way when he was going up from Egypt. 3 Now therefore go, and strike Amalek, and demolish all that is his: do not spare him, and do not covet anything from his goods, but slay from man to woman, and infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

4 Præcepit itaque Saul populo, et recensuit eos quasi agnos: ducenta millia peditum, et decem millia virorum Juda. 5 Cumque venisset Saul usque ad civitatem Amalec, tetendit insidias in torrente. 6 Dixitque Saul Cinæo: Abite, recedite, atque descendite ab Amalec, ne forte involvam te cum eo: tu enim fecisti misericordiam cum omnibus filiis Israël, cum ascenderent de Ægypto.

4 Therefore Saul commanded the people, and he numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand infantry, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And when Saul had come as far as the city of Amalek, he laid ambush in the torrent-bed. 6 And Saul said to the Kenite: Go, withdraw, and go down from Amalek, lest perhaps I sweep you away with him; for you showed mercy with all the sons of Israël when they were going up from Egypt.

Et recessit Cinæus de medio Amalec. 7 Percussitque Saul Amalec ab Hevila donec venias ad Sur, quæ est e regione Ægypti. 8 Et apprehendit Agag regem Amalec vivum: omne autem vulgus interfecit in ore gladii.

And the Kenite withdrew from the midst of Amalek. And Saul struck Amalek from Havilah as far as Shur, which is opposite Egypt. And he seized Agag, king of Amalek, alive; but all the common people he killed by the edge of the sword.

9 Et pepercit Saul et populus Agag, et optimis gregibus ovium et armentorum, et vestibus et arietibus, et universis quæ pulchra erant, nec voluerunt disperdere ea: quidquid vero vile fuit et reprobum, hoc demoliti sunt.

And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of sheep and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all the things that were fair, and they were unwilling to destroy them: but whatever was vile and reprobate, this they demolished.

10 Factum est autem verbum Domini ad Samuel, dicens: 11 Pœnitet me quod constituerim Saul regem: quia dereliquit me, et verba mea opere non implevit. Contristatusque est Samuel, et clamavit ad Dominum tota nocte. 12 Cumque de nocte surrexisset Samuel ut iret ad Saul mane, nuntiatum est Samueli eo quod venisset Saul in Carmelum, et erexisset sibi fornicem triumphalem, et reversus transisset, descendissetque in Galgala.

10 Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying: 11 I repent that I have constituted Saul king: because he has forsaken me, and has not fulfilled my words in deed. And Samuel was grieved, and cried out to the Lord all night. 12 And when Samuel had risen in the night to go to Saul in the morning, it was announced to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel, and had set up for himself a triumphal arch, and, having returned, had passed on, and had gone down to Gilgal.

Venit ergo Samuel ad Saul, et Saul offerebat holocaustum Domino de initiis prædarum quæ attulerat ex Amalec. 13 Et cum venisset Samuel ad Saul, dixit ei Saul: Benedictus tu Domino: implevi verbum Domini. 14 Dixitque Samuel: Et quæ est hæc vox gregum, quæ resonat in auribus meis, et armentorum, quam ego audio?

Therefore Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a burnt-offering to the Lord from the first of the spoils which he had brought from Amalek. 13 And when Samuel had come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be you of the Lord: I have fulfilled the word of the Lord. 14 And Samuel said: And what is this sound of the flocks, which resounds in my ears, and of the herds, which I am hearing?

15 Et ait Saul: De Amalec adduxerunt ea: pepercit enim populus melioribus ovibus et armentis ut immolarentur Domino Deo tuo, reliqua vero occidimus. 16 Ait autem Samuel ad Saul: Sine me, et indicabo tibi quæ locutus sit Dominus ad me nocte. Dixitque ei: Loquere.

15 And Saul said: From Amalek they have brought them; for the people spared the best sheep and the herds that they might be immolated to the Lord your God, but the rest we have slain. 16 And Samuel said to Saul: Allow me, and I will indicate to you what the Lord spoke to me in the night. And he said to him: Speak.

17 Et ait Samuel: Nonne cum parvulus esses in oculis tuis, caput in tribubus Israël factus es? unxitque te Dominus in regem super Israël, 18 et misit te Dominus in viam, et ait: Vade, et interfice peccatores Amalec, et pugnabis contra eos usque ad internecionem eorum? 19 Quare ergo non audisti vocem Domini: sed versus ad prædam es, et fecisti malum in oculis Domini? 20 Et ait Saul ad Samuelem: Immo audivi vocem Domini, et ambulavi in via per quam misit me Dominus, et adduxi Agag regem Amalec, et Amalec interfeci.

17 And Samuel said: Was it not when you were small in your own eyes, you were made head among the tribes of Israel? and the Lord anointed you king over Israel, 18 and the Lord sent you on the way, and said: Go, and strike down the sinners, Amalek, and you shall fight against them unto their extermination? 19 Why then did you not listen to the voice of the Lord, but you turned toward the prey, and you did evil in the eyes of the Lord? 20 And Saul said to Samuel: Rather, I did listen to the voice of the Lord, and I walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and I brought Agag, king of Amalek, and Amalek I destroyed.

21 Tulit autem de præda populus oves et boves, primitias eorum quæ cæsa sunt, ut immolet Domino Deo suo in Galgalis.

21 But the people took from the spoil sheep and oxen, the first-fruits of what had been slaughtered, that they might immolate to the Lord their God in Gilgal.

22 Et ait Samuel: Numquid vult Dominus holocausta et victimas, et non potius ut obediatur voci Domini? melior est enim obedientia quam victimæ, et auscultare magis quam offerre adipem arietum. 23 Quoniam quasi peccatum ariolandi est, repugnare: et quasi scelus idololatriæ, nolle acquiescere.

22 And Samuel said: Does the Lord will holocausts and sacrifices, and not rather that the voice of the Lord be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices, and to hearken more than to offer the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of soothsaying, and to be unwilling to acquiesce is as the crime of idolatry.

Pro eo ergo quod abjecisti sermonem Domini, abjecit te Dominus ne sis rex. 24 Dixitque Saul ad Samuelem: Peccavi, quia prævaricatus sum sermonem Domini et verba tua, timens populum, et obediens voci eorum. 25 Sed nunc porta, quæso, peccatum meum, et revertere mecum, ut adorem Dominum.

Therefore, for this reason that you have cast away the word of the Lord, the Lord has cast you away, that you may not be king. 24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the word of the Lord and your words, fearing the people and obeying their voice. 25 But now bear, I pray, my sin, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord.

26 Et ait Samuel ad Saul: Non revertar tecum, quia projecisti sermonem Domini, et projecit te Dominus ne sis rex super Israël. 27 Et conversus est Samuel ut abiret: ille autem apprehendit summitatem pallii ejus, quæ et scissa est. 28 Et ait ad eum Samuel: Scidit Dominus regnum Israël a te hodie, et tradidit illud proximo tuo meliori te. 29 Porro triumphator in Israël non parcet, et pœnitudine non flectetur: neque enim homo est ut agat pœnitentiam. 30 At ille ait: Peccavi: sed nunc honora me coram senioribus populi mei et coram Israël, et revertere mecum, ut adorem Dominum Deum tuum.

26 And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with you, because you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you, that you should not be king over Israel. 27 And Samuel turned to go away; but he seized the hem of his mantle, and it was torn. 28 And Samuel said to him: The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has handed it over to your neighbor, better than you. 29 Moreover, the Triumphator in Israel will not spare, and will not be bent by repentance; for he is not a man that he should repent. 30 But he said: I have sinned; yet now honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.

31 Reversus ergo Samuel secutus est Saulem: et adoravit Saul Dominum.

31 Therefore, having turned back, Samuel followed Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.

32 Dixitque Samuel: Adducite ad me Agag regem Amalec. Et oblatus est ei Agag, pinguissimus et tremens. Et dixit Agag: Siccine separat amara mors?

And Samuel said: Bring to me Agag, the king of Amalek. And Agag was presented to him, very fat and trembling. And Agag said: Is this how bitter death separates?

33 Et ait Samuel: Sicut fecit absque liberis mulieres gladius tuus, sic absque liberis erit inter mulieres mater tua. Et in frustra concidit eum Samuel coram Domino in Galgalis. 34 Abiit autem Samuel in Ramatha: Saul vero ascendit in domum suam in Gabaa.

33 And Samuel said: Just as your sword has made women childless, so childless shall your mother be among women. And Samuel cut him in pieces before the Lord at Gilgal. 34 But Samuel went away to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah.

35 Et non vidit Samuel ultra Saul usque ad diem mortis suæ: verumtamen lugebat Samuel Saulem, quoniam Dominum pœnitebat quod constituisset eum regem super Israël. 16 1 Dixitque Dominus ad Samuelem: Usquequo tu luges Saul, cum ego projecerim eum ne regnet super Israël? Imple cornu tuum oleo, et veni, ut mittam te ad Isai Bethlehemitem: providi enim in filiis ejus mihi regem. 2 Et ait Samuel: Quomodo vadam? audiet enim Saul, et interficiet me. Et ait Dominus: Vitulum de armento tolles in manu tua, et dices: Ad immolandum Domino veni.

35 And Samuel did not see Saul any more until the day of his death; nevertheless Samuel was mourning Saul, because the Lord repented that he had appointed him king over Israel. 16 1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long will you mourn Saul, since I have rejected him, that he should not reign over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and come, that I may send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided for myself a king among his sons. 2 And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and will kill me. And the Lord said: You shall take a heifer from the herd in your hand, and you shall say: I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.

3 Et vocabis Isai ad victimam, et ego ostendam tibi quid facias, et unges quemcumque monstravero tibi. 4 Fecit ergo Samuel sicut locutus est ei Dominus. Venitque in Bethlehem, et admirati sunt seniores civitatis occurrentes ei: dixeruntque: Pacificusne est ingressus tuus?

3 And you shall call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do, and you shall anoint whomever I shall point out to you. 4 Therefore Samuel did as the Lord had spoken to him. And he came to Bethlehem, and the elders of the city, coming to meet him, were astonished, and they said: Is your coming peaceable?

5 Et ait: Pacificus: ad immolandum Domino veni: sanctificamini, et venite mecum ut immolem. Sanctificavit ergo Isai et filios ejus, et vocavit eos ad sacrificium.

5 And he said: Peaceably: I have come to immolate to the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me that I may immolate. Therefore he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and he called them to the sacrifice.

6 Cumque ingressi essent, vidit Eliab, et ait: Num coram Domino est christus ejus? 7 Et dixit Dominus ad Samuelem: Ne respicias vultum ejus, neque altitudinem staturæ ejus: quoniam abjeci eum, nec juxta intuitum hominis ego judico: homo enim videt ea quæ parent, Dominus autem intuetur cor. 8 Et vocavit Isai Abinadab, et adduxit eum coram Samuele.

6 And when they had entered, he saw Eliab, and said: Is his anointed before the Lord? 7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Do not look upon his face, nor the height of his stature: for I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the view of man: for man sees the things which appear, but the Lord looks upon the heart. 8 And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel.

Qui dixit: Nec hunc elegit Dominus. 9 Adduxit autem Isai Samma, de quo ait: Etiam hunc non elegit Dominus. 10 Adduxit itaque Isai septem filios suos coram Samuele: et ait Samuel ad Isai: Non elegit Dominus ex istis.

Who said: Neither has the Lord chosen this one. 9 But Jesse brought in Shammah, of whom he said: Even this one the Lord has not chosen. 10 Therefore Jesse brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel said to Jesse: The Lord has not chosen from these.

11 Dixitque Samuel ad Isai: Numquid jam completi sunt filii? Qui respondit: Adhuc reliquus est parvulus, et pascit oves. Et ait Samuel ad Isai: Mitte, et adduc eum: nec enim discumbemus priusquam huc ille veniat.

11 And Samuel said to Jesse: Are the sons now completed? He answered: There still remains the little one, and he is pasturing the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse: Send, and bring him: for we will not recline before he comes here.

12 Misit ergo, et adduxit eum. Erat autem rufus, et pulcher aspectu, decoraque facie: et ait Dominus: Surge, unge eum: ipse est enim. 13 Tulit ergo Samuel cornu olei, et unxit eum in medio fratrum ejus: et directus est spiritus Domini a die illa in David, et deinceps.

12 Therefore he sent, and brought him. Now he was rufous, and handsome in aspect, and comely of face: and the Lord said: Rise, anoint him: for he is the one. 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of the Lord was directed into David from that day, and thereafter.

Surgensque Samuel abiit in Ramatha.

And, rising, Samuel departed to Ramah.

14 Spiritus autem Domini recessit a Saul, et exagitabat eum spiritus nequam a Domino. 15 Dixeruntque servi Saul ad eum: Ecce spiritus Dei malus exagitat te. 16 Jubeat dominus noster, et servi tui qui coram te sunt quærent hominem scientem psallere cithara, ut quando arripuerit te spiritus Domini malus, psallat manu sua, et levius feras. 17 Et ait Saul ad servos suos: Providete ergo mihi aliquem bene psallentem, et adducite eum ad me. 18 Et respondens unus de pueris, ait: Ecce vidi filium Isai Bethlehemitem scientem psallere, et fortissimum robore, et virum bellicosum, et prudentem in verbis, et virum pulchrum: et Dominus est cum eo. 19 Misit ergo Saul nuntios ad Isai, dicens: Mitte ad me David filium tuum, qui est in pascuis.

14 But the Spirit of the Lord withdrew from Saul, and a wicked spirit from the Lord harassed him. 15 And Saul’s servants said to him: Behold, an evil spirit of God agitates you. 16 Let our lord command, and your servants who are before you will seek a man knowing how to psalm on the cithara, so that when the evil spirit of the Lord seizes you, he may psalm with his hand, and you may bear it more lightly. 17 And Saul said to his servants: Provide then for me someone who psalms well, and bring him to me. 18 And one of the youths answering said: Behold, I have seen a son of Isai, a Bethlehemite, knowing how to psalm, and most strong in might, and a warlike man, and prudent in words, and a handsome man; and the Lord is with him. 19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send to me David your son, who is in the pastures.

20 Tulit itaque Isai asinum plenum panibus, et lagenam vini, et hædum de capris unum, et misit per manum David filii sui Sauli. 21 Et venit David ad Saul, et stetit coram eo: at ille dilexit eum nimis, et factus est ejus armiger. 22 Misitque Saul ad Isai, dicens: Stet David in conspectu meo: invenit enim gratiam in oculis meis.

20 Therefore Isai took an ass full of loaves, and a flagon of wine, and one kid of the goats, and sent them by the hand of David his son to Saul. 21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him exceedingly, and he became his armiger (armor-bearer). 22 And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand in my sight; for he has found grace in my eyes.

23 Igitur quandocumque spiritus Domini malus arripiebat Saul, David tollebat citharam, et percutiebat manu sua, et refocillabatur Saul, et levius habebat: recedebat enim ab eo spiritus malus.

Therefore whenever the Lord’s evil spirit seized Saul, David would take up the cithara and strike it with his hand, and Saul was refreshed and felt it lighter: for the evil spirit would depart from him.

17 1 Congregantes autem Philisthiim agmina sua in prælium, convenerunt in Socho Judæ: et castrametati sunt inter Socho et Azeca in finibus Dommim. 2 Porro Saul et filii Israël congregati venerunt in Vallem terebinthi, et direxerunt aciem ad pugnandum contra Philisthiim. 3 Et Philisthiim stabant super montem ex parte hac, et Israël stabat supra montem ex altera parte: vallisque erat inter eos.

17 1 Now the Philistines, gathering their battle-lines for combat, assembled at Socoh of Judah: and they encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in the borders of Dammim. 2 But Saul and the sons of Israel, having assembled, came into the Valley of the Terebinth, and set their battle-line to fight against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines were standing on the mountain on this side, and Israel was standing on the mountain on the other side: and the valley was between them.

4 Et egressus est vir spurius de castris Philisthinorum nomine Goliath, de Geth, altitudinis sex cubitorum et palmi: 5 et cassis ærea super caput ejus, et lorica squamata induebatur. Porro pondus loricæ ejus, quinque millia siclorum æris erat: 6 et ocreas æreas habebat in cruribus, et clypeus æreus tegebat humeros ejus. 7 Hastile autem hastæ ejus erat quasi liciatorium texentium: ipsum autem ferrum hastæ ejus sexcentos siclos habebat ferri: et armiger ejus antecedebat eum.

4 And a champion man went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, of a height six cubits and a span: 5 and a bronze casque upon his head, and he was clothed in a scaled cuirass. Moreover, the weight of his cuirass was five thousand shekels of bronze: 6 and he had bronze greaves on his legs, and a bronze shield was covering his shoulders. 7 Now the shaft of his spear was like a weavers’ beam; and the iron of his spear had six hundred shekels of iron; and his armor-bearer went before him.

8 Stansque clamabat adversum phalangas Israël, et dicebat eis: Quare venistis parati ad prælium? numquid ego non sum Philisthæus, et vos servi Saul? eligite ex vobis virum, et descendat ad singulare certamen.

8 And standing, he cried out against the phalanxes of Israel, and said to them: Why have you come prepared for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants of Saul? Choose from among you a man, and let him come down to single combat.

9 Si quiverit pugnare mecum, et percusserit me, erimus vobis servi: si autem ego prævaluero, et percussero eum, vos servi eritis, et servietis nobis. 10 Et aiebat Philisthæus: Ego exprobravi agminibus Israël hodie: date mihi virum, et ineat mecum singulare certamen. 11 Audiens autem Saul et omnes Israëlitæ sermones Philisthæi hujuscemodi, stupebant, et metuebant nimis.

9 If he is able to fight with me, and strike me, we shall be servants to you: but if I prevail, and strike him, you will be servants, and you will serve us. 10 And the Philistine said: I have reproached the battle-lines of Israel today: give me a man, and let him enter with me into single combat. 11 But hearing this, Saul and all the Israelites, at such words of the Philistine, were stupefied, and feared exceedingly.

12 David autem erat filius viri Ephrathæi, de quo supra dictum est, de Bethlehem Juda, cui nomen erat Isai, qui habebat octo filios, et erat vir in diebus Saul senex, et grandævus inter viros. 13 Abierunt autem tres filii ejus majores post Saul in prælium: et nomina trium filiorum ejus qui perrexerunt ad bellum, Eliab primogenitus, et secundus Abinadab, tertiusque Samma. 14 David autem erat minimus.

12 But David was the son of an Ephrathite man, of whom it was said above, from Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse, who had eight sons, and the man, in the days of Saul, was old and very aged among men. 13 And his three elder sons went off after Saul into the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the war were, Eliab the firstborn, and the second Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 But David was the youngest.

Tribus ergo majoribus secutis Saulem, 15 abiit David, et reversus est a Saul ut pasceret gregem patris sui in Bethlehem. 16 Procedebat vero Philisthæus mane et vespere, et stabat quadraginta diebus. 17 Dixit autem Isai ad David filium suum: Accipe fratribus tuis ephi polentæ, et decem panes istos, et curre in castra ad fratres tuos, 18 et decem formellas casei has deferes ad tribunum: et fratres tuos visitabis, si recte agant: et cum quibus ordinati sunt, disce.

Therefore, the three elders having followed Saul, 15 David went, and returned from Saul to pasture his father’s flock in Bethlehem. 16 Now the Philistine advanced morning and evening, and stood forth for forty days. 17 Then Jesse said to David his son: Take for your brothers an ephah of parched grain, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers, 18 and these ten small cheeses you shall carry to the tribune: and you shall visit your brothers, to see if they are doing rightly; and learn with whom they have been assigned.

19 Saul autem, et illi, et omnes filii Israël, in Valle terebinthi pugnabant adversum Philisthiim. 20 Surrexit itaque David mane, et commendavit gregem custodi: et onustus abiit, sicut præceperat ei Isai. Et venit ad locum Magala, et ad exercitum, qui egressus ad pugnam vociferatus erat in certamine.

19 Now Saul, and they, and all the sons of Israel, were fighting in the Valley of the Terebinth against the Philistines. 20 Therefore David rose in the morning, and entrusted the flock to a guard: and, laden, he went off, just as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the place Magala, and to the army, which, having gone out to the fight, was shouting in the contest.

21 Direxerat enim aciem Israël, sed et Philisthiim ex adverso fuerant præparati. 22 Derelinquens ergo David vasa quæ attulerat sub manu custodis ad sarcinas, cucurrit ad locum certaminis, et interrogabat si omnia recte agerentur erga fratres suos. 23 Cumque adhuc ille loqueretur eis, apparuit vir ille spurius ascendens, Goliath nomine, Philisthæus de Geth, de castris Philisthinorum: et loquente eo hæc eadem verba audivit David.

21 For Israel had directed the battle-line, and the Philistines too had been prepared opposite. 22 Therefore David, leaving the vessels which he had brought under the hand of the keeper at the baggage, ran to the place of the contest, and kept asking whether all was going rightly with his brothers. 23 And while he was still speaking with them, that spurious man appeared, coming up—Goliath by name, a Philistine of Gath—from the camps of the Philistines; and as he was speaking these same words, David heard.

24 Omnes autem Israëlitæ, cum vidissent virum, fugerunt a facie ejus, timentes eum valde.

24 But all the Israelites, when they had seen the man, fled from before him, fearing him greatly.

25 Et dixit unus quispiam de Israël: Num vidistis virum hunc, qui ascendit? ad exprobrandum enim Israëli ascendit. Virum ergo qui percusserit eum, ditabit rex divitiis magnis, et filiam suam dabit ei, et domum patris ejus faciet absque tributo in Israël. 26 Et ait David ad viros qui stabant secum, dicens: Quid dabitur viro qui percusserit Philisthæum hunc, et tulerit opprobrium de Israël? quis enim est hic Philisthæus incircumcisus, qui exprobravit acies Dei viventis?

25 And a certain one of Israel said: Have you seen this man who has come up? For he has come up to reproach Israel. Therefore the man who strikes him down, the king will enrich with great riches, and he will give him his daughter, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tribute in Israel. 26 And David said to the men who were standing with him, saying: What will be given to the man who strikes this Philistine and takes away the opprobrium from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he has reproached the battle line of the living God?

27 Referebat autem ei populus eumdem sermonem, dicens: Hæc dabuntur viro qui percusserit eum. 28 Quod cum audisset Eliab frater ejus major, loquente eo cum aliis, iratus est contra David, et ait: Quare venisti, et quare dereliquisti pauculas oves illas in deserto? Ego novi superbiam tuam, et nequitiam cordis tui: quia ut videres prælium, descendisti.

27 And the people were reporting back to him the same word, saying: These things will be given to the man who strikes him down. 28 When Eliab his elder brother heard this, as he was speaking with others, he was angry against David, and said: Why have you come, and why have you left those few sheep in the desert? I know your pride, and the iniquity of your heart: for you have come down in order to see the battle.

29 Et dixit David: Quid feci? numquid non verbum est? 30 Et declinavit paululum ab eo ad alium: dixitque eumdem sermonem.

29 And David said: What have I done? Is it not a word? 30 And he turned aside a little from him to another: and he spoke the same word.

Et respondit ei populus verbum sicut prius.

And the people answered him with the same word as before.

31 Audita sunt autem verba quæ locutus est David, et annuntiata in conspectu Saul. 32 Ad quem cum fuisset adductus, locutus est ei: Non concidat cor cujusquam in eo: ego servus tuus vadam, et pugnabo adversus Philisthæum. 33 Et ait Saul ad David: Non vales resistere Philisthæo isti, nec pugnare adversus eum, quia puer es: hic autem vir bellator est ab adolescentia sua. 34 Dixitque David ad Saul: Pascebat servus tuus patris sui gregem, et veniebat leo vel ursus, et tollebat arietem de medio gregis: 35 et persequebar eos, et percutiebam, eruebamque de ore eorum: et illi consurgebant adversum me, et apprehendebam mentum eorum, et suffocabam, interficiebamque eos.

31 But the words which David had spoken were heard, and they were announced in the sight of Saul. 32 And when he had been brought to him, he spoke to him: Let not the heart of anyone sink because of him: I, your servant, will go, and I will fight against the Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David: You are not able to resist this Philistine, nor to fight against him, because you are a boy: but he is a man of war from his adolescence. 34 And David said to Saul: Your servant used to pasture his father’s flock, and a lion or a bear would come, and would take a ram from the midst of the flock: 35 and I pursued them, and I struck them, and I would snatch it from their mouth: and they rose up against me, and I seized their chin, and I choked them and killed them.

36 Nam et leonem et ursum interfeci ego servus tuus: erit igitur et Philisthæus hic incircumcisus quasi unus ex eis. Nunc vadam, et auferam opprobrium populi: quoniam quis est iste Philisthæus incircumcisus, qui ausus est maledicere exercitui Dei viventis? 37 Et ait David: Dominus qui eripuit me de manu leonis, et de manu ursi, ipse me liberabit de manu Philisthæi hujus.

36 For both the lion and the bear I, your servant, have slain: therefore this uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them. Now I will go, and I will take away the opprobrium of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who has dared to curse the army of the living God? 37 And David said: The Lord who delivered me from the hand of the lion, and from the hand of the bear, he himself will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.

Dixit autem Saul ad David: Vade, et Dominus tecum sit. 38 Et induit Saul David vestimentis suis, et imposuit galeam æream super caput ejus, et vestivit eum lorica. 39 Accinctus ergo David gladio ejus super vestem suam, cœpit tentare si armatus posset incedere: non enim habebat consuetudinem.

But Saul said to David: Go, and may the Lord be with you. 38 And Saul clothed David with his garments, and placed a brazen helmet upon his head, and clothed him with a cuirass. 39 Therefore David, girt with his sword over his own garment, began to try whether, being armed, he could go forward: for he was not accustomed.

Dixitque David ad Saul: Non possum sic incedere, quia non usum habeo.

And David said to Saul: I cannot proceed thus, because I do not have the practice.

Et deposuit ea, 40 et tulit baculum suum, quem semper habebat in manibus: et elegit sibi quinque limpidissimos lapides de torrente, et misit eos in peram pastoralem quam habebat secum, et fundam manu tulit: et processit adversum Philisthæum. 41 Ibat autem Philisthæus incedens, et appropinquans adversum David, et armiger ejus ante eum. 42 Cumque inspexisset Philisthæus, et vidisset David, despexit eum. Erat enim adolescens, rufus, et pulcher aspectu.

And he put them off, 40 and he took his staff, which he always had in his hands: and he chose for himself five most limpid stones from the torrent, and sent them into the pastoral pouch which he had with him, and he took the sling in his hand: and he advanced against the Philistine. 41 Now the Philistine was going, and approaching against David, and his armor-bearer before him. 42 And when the Philistine had looked closely and had seen David, he despised him. For he was a youth, ruddy, and fair in aspect.

43 Et dixit Philisthæus ad David: Numquid ego canis sum, quod tu venis ad me cum baculo? Et maledixit Philisthæus David in diis suis: 44 dixitque ad David: Veni ad me, et dabo carnes tuas volatilibus cæli et bestiis terræ. 45 Dixit autem David ad Philisthæum: Tu venis ad me cum gladio, et hasta, et clypeo: ego autem venio ad te in nomine Domini exercituum, Dei agminum Israël quibus exprobrasti 46 hodie, et dabit te Dominus in manu mea, et percutiam te, et auferam caput tuum a te: et dabo cadavera castrorum Philisthiim hodie volatilibus cæli, et bestiis terræ, ut sciat omnis terra quia est Deus in Israël, 47 et noverit universa ecclesia hæc, quia non in gladio nec in hasta salvat Dominus: ipsius enim est bellum, et tradet vos in manus nostras. 48 Cum ergo surrexisset Philisthæus, et veniret, et appropinquaret contra David, festinavit David et cucurrit ad pugnam ex adverso Philisthæi. 49 Et misit manum suam in peram, tulitque unum lapidem, et funda jecit, et circumducens percussit Philisthæum in fronte: et infixus est lapis in fronte ejus, et cecidit in faciem suam super terram.

43 And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that you come to me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods: 44 and he said to David: Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth. 45 But David said to the Philistine: You come to me with sword, and spear, and shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the battle-lines of Israel whom you have reproached today, 46 and the Lord will give you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and I will take your head from you; and I will give the corpses of the camp of the Philistines today to the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that this whole assembly may know that not by sword nor by spear does the Lord save; for the battle is his, and he will deliver you into our hands. 48 Therefore when the Philistine rose up and came and drew near against David, David hastened and ran to the battle to meet the Philistine. 49 And he put his hand into the pouch, and took one stone, and slung it with the sling, and whirling it struck the Philistine in the forehead; and the stone was fixed in his forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.

50 Prævaluitque David adversum Philisthæum in funda et lapide, percussumque Philisthæum interfecit. Cumque gladium non haberet in manu David, 51 cucurrit, et stetit super Philisthæum, et tulit gladium ejus, et eduxit eum de vagina sua: et interfecit eum, præciditque caput ejus. Videntes autem Philisthiim quod mortuus esset fortissimus eorum, fugerunt.

50 And David prevailed against the Philistine with the sling and the stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him. And since David did not have a sword in his hand, 51 he ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it from its sheath; and he killed him, and cut off his head. But the Philistines, seeing that the mightiest of them was dead, fled.

52 Et consurgentes viri Israël et Juda vociferati sunt, et persecuti sunt Philisthæos usque dum venirent in vallem, et usque ad portas Accaron: cecideruntque vulnerati de Philisthiim in via Saraim, et usque ad Geth, et usque ad Accaron. 53 Et revertentes filii Israël postquam persecuti fuerant Philisthæos, invaserunt castra eorum. 54 Assumens autem David caput Philisthæi, attulit illud in Jerusalem: arma vero ejus posuit in tabernaculo suo.

52 And the men of Israel and Judah rose up and shouted, and pursued the Philistines until they came to the valley, and as far as the gates of Ekron; and the wounded of the Philistines fell on the way of Shaaraim, and as far as Gath, and as far as Ekron. 53 And the sons of Israel, returning after they had pursued the Philistines, raided their camp. 54 But David, taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem; and his weapons he placed in his own tent.

55 Eo autem tempore quo viderat Saul David egredientem contra Philisthæum, ait ad Abner principem militiæ: De qua stirpe descendit hic adolescens, Abner? Dixitque Abner: Vivit anima tua, rex, si novi. 56 Et ait rex: Interroga tu, cujus filius sit iste puer.

55 But at that time when Saul had seen David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army: Of what stock does this young man descend, Abner? And Abner said: As your soul lives, O king, I do not know. 56 And the king said: Inquire, you, whose son this boy is.

57 Cumque regressus esset David, percusso Philisthæo, tulit eum Abner, et introduxit coram Saule, caput Philisthæi habentem in manu. 58 Et ait ad eum Saul: De qua progenie es, o adolescens? Dixitque David: Filius servi tui Isai Bethlehemitæ ego sum.

57 And when David had returned, the Philistine having been struck down, Abner took him and brought him in before Saul, he having the head of the Philistine in his hand. 58 And Saul said to him: Of what progeny are you, O youth? And David said: I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

18 1 Et factum est cum complesset loqui ad Saul, anima Jonathæ conglutinata est animæ David, et dilexit eum Jonathas quasi animam suam. 2 Tulitque eum Saul in die illa, et non concessit ei ut reverteretur in domum patris sui. 3 Inierunt autem David et Jonathas fœdus: diligebat enim eum quasi animam suam.

18 1 And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was conglutinated to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him on that day, and did not permit him to return to his father's house. 3 And David and Jonathan entered into a covenant; for he loved him as his own soul.

4 Nam expoliavit se Jonathas tunica qua erat indutus, et dedit eam David, et reliqua vestimenta sua, usque ad gladium et arcum suum, et usque ad balteum. 5 Egrediebatur quoque David ad omnia quæcumque misisset eum Saul, et prudenter se agebat: posuitque eum Saul super viros belli, et acceptus erat in oculis universi populi, maximeque in conspectu famulorum Saul.

4 For Jonathan stripped himself of the tunic with which he was clothed, and gave it to David, and the rest of his garments, even to his sword and his bow, and even to his belt. 5 David also would go out to all whatsoever Saul sent him to, and he conducted himself prudently: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and especially in the sight of the servants of Saul.

6 Porro cum reverteretur percusso Philisthæo David, egressæ sunt mulieres de universis urbibus Israël, cantantes, chorosque ducentes in occursum Saul regis, in tympanis lætitiæ, et in sistris. 7 Et præcinebant mulieres, ludentes, atque dicentes:
Percussit Saul mille,
et David decem millia.

6 Moreover, when David was returning with the Philistine struck down, the women came out from all the cities of Israel, singing and leading choruses to meet King Saul, with tympans of joy, and with sistra. 7 And the women were chanting, dancing, and saying:
Saul has struck down a thousand,
and David ten thousand.

8 Iratus est autem Saul nimis, et displicuit in oculis ejus sermo iste: dixitque: Dederunt David decem millia, et mihi mille dederunt: quid ei superest, nisi solum regnum? 9 Non rectis ergo oculis Saul aspiciebat David a die illa et deinceps. 10 Post diem autem alteram, invasit spiritus Dei malus Saul, et prophetabat in medio domus suæ: David autem psallebat manu sua, sicut per singulos dies.

8 But Saul was exceedingly angry, and this saying was displeasing in his eyes; and he said: They have given to David ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands: what remains to him, except only the kingdom? 9 Therefore Saul was not looking at David with right eyes from that day and thereafter. 10 But on the following day an evil spirit of God invaded Saul, and he was prophesying in the midst of his house; but David was psalming with his hand, as on each day.

Tenebatque Saul lanceam, 11 et misit eam, putans quod configere posset David cum pariete: et declinavit David a facie ejus secundo. 12 Et timuit Saul David, eo quod Dominus esset cum eo, et a se recessisset. 13 Amovit ergo eum Saul a se, et fecit eum tribunum super mille viros: et egrediebatur, et intrabat in conspectu populi.

And Saul was holding a lance, 11 and he threw it, thinking that he could pin David to the wall: and David turned aside from his face a second time. 12 And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and had withdrawn from himself. 13 Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him a tribune over a thousand men: and he would go out and come in in the sight of the people.

14 In omnibus quoque viis suis David prudenter agebat, et Dominus erat cum eo. 15 Vidit itaque Saul quod prudens esset nimis, et cœpit cavere eum. 16 Omnis autem Israël et Juda diligebat David: ipse enim ingrediebatur et egrediebatur ante eos.

14 In all his ways David was acting prudently, and the Lord was with him. 15 Therefore Saul saw that he was very prudent, and he began to beware of him. 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David: for he would enter and go out before them.

17 Dixitque Saul ad David: Ecce filia mea major Merob: ipsam dabo tibi uxorem: tantummodo esto vir fortis, et præliare bella Domini. Saul autem reputabat, dicens: Non sit manus mea in eum, sed sit super eum manus Philisthinorum. 18 Ait autem David ad Saul: Quis ego sum, aut quæ est vita mea, aut cognatio patris mei in Israël, ut fiam gener regis?

17 And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob: her I will give you as a wife: only be a man of valor, and fight the battles of the Lord. But Saul was reckoning, saying: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. 18 And David said to Saul: Who am I, or what is my life, or the kindred of my father in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law?

19 Factum est autem tempus cum deberet dari Merob filia Saul David, data est Hadrieli Molathitæ uxor. 20 Dilexit autem David Michol filia Saul altera. Et nuntiatum est Saul, et placuit ei. 21 Dixitque Saul: Dabo eam illi, ut fiat ei in scandalum, et sit super eum manus Philisthinorum.

19 But when the time came that Merob, Saul’s daughter, should be given to David, she was given as wife to Adriel the Meholathite. 20 And David loved Michol, Saul’s other daughter. And it was announced to Saul, and it pleased him. 21 And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be for him a stumbling-block, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him.

Dixitque Saul ad David: In duabus rebus gener meus eris hodie. 22 Et mandavit Saul servis suis: Loquimini ad David clam me, dicentes: Ecce places regi, et omnes servi ejus diligunt te: nunc ergo esto gener regis. 23 Et locuti sunt servi Saul in auribus David omnia verba hæc. Et ait David: Num parum videtur vobis, generum esse regis?

And Saul said to David: In two things you shall be my son-in-law today. 22 And Saul commanded his servants: Speak to David privately, saying: Behold, you please the king, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king’s son-in-law. 23 And the servants of Saul spoke in the ears of David all these words. And David said: Does it seem to you a small thing, to be the king’s son-in-law?

ego autem sum vir pauper et tenuis. 24 Et renuntiaverunt servi Saul dicentes: Hujuscemodi verba locutus est David. 25 Dixit autem Saul: Sic loquimini ad David: Non habet rex sponsalia necesse, nisi tantum centum præputia Philisthinorum, ut fiat ultio de inimicis regis.

But I am a poor and slight man. 24 And the servants of Saul reported, saying: David has spoken words of this kind. 25 But Saul said: Thus speak to David: The king has no need of sponsals, except only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that vengeance may be wrought upon the king’s enemies.

Porro Saul cogitabat tradere David in manus Philisthinorum. 26 Cumque renuntiassent servi ejus David verba quæ dixerat Saul, placuit sermo in oculis David, ut fieret gener regis. 27 Et post paucos dies surgens David, abiit cum viris qui sub eo erant.

Moreover Saul was contemplating to hand over David into the hands of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants had reported to David the words that Saul had spoken, the word pleased in David’s eyes, that he should become the king’s son-in-law. 27 And after a few days David, rising up, departed with the men who were under him.

Et percussit ex Philisthiim ducentos viros, et attulit eorum præputia et annumeravit ea regi, ut esset gener ejus. Dedit itaque Saul ei Michol filiam suam uxorem. 28 Et vidit Saul, et intellexit quod Dominus esset cum David.

And he struck down of the Philistines 200 men, and brought their foreskins and counted them out to the king, that he might be his son‑in‑law. Therefore Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. 28 And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David.

Michol autem filia Saul diligebat eum. 29 Et Saul magis cœpit timere David: factusque est Saul inimicus David cunctis diebus. 30 Et egressi sunt principes Philisthinorum.

But Michal, the daughter of Saul, loved him. 29 And Saul began to fear David more; and Saul became an enemy to David all his days. 30 And the princes of the Philistines went out.

A principio autem egressionis eorum, prudentius se gerebat David quam omnes servi Saul, et celebre factum est nomen ejus nimis.

And from the beginning of their going out, David conducted himself more prudently than all the servants of Saul, and his name became exceedingly celebrated.

19 1 Locutus est autem Saul ad Jonathan filium suum, et ad omnes servos suos, ut occiderent David. Porro Jonathas filius Saul diligebat David valde: 2 et indicavit Jonathas David, dicens: Quærit Saul pater meus occidere te: quapropter observa te, quæso, mane: et manebis clam, et absconderis. 3 Ego autem egrediens stabo juxta patrem meum in agro, ubicumque fueris: et ego loquar de te ad patrem meum, et quodcumque videro, nuntiabo tibi.

19 1 Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. Moreover Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David exceedingly: 2 and Jonathan indicated to David, saying: My father Saul seeks to kill you; wherefore, keep yourself, I beg, in the morning; and you will stay secretly, and hide yourself. 3 But I, going out, will stand beside my father in the field where you are; and I will speak about you to my father, and whatever I observe, I will announce to you.

4 Locutus est ergo Jonathas de David bona ad Saul patrem suum: dixitque ad eum: Ne pecces rex in servum tuum David, quia non peccavit tibi, et opera ejus bona sunt tibi valde. 5 Et posuit animam suam in manu sua, et percussit Philisthæum, et fecit Dominus salutem magnam universo Israëli: vidisti, et lætatus es. Quare ergo peccas in sanguine innoxio, interficiens David, qui est absque culpa? 6 Quod cum audisset Saul, placatus voce Jonathæ, juravit: Vivit Dominus, quia non occidetur.

4 Therefore Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father: and he said to him: Do not sin, O king, against your servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and his works are very good toward you. 5 And he put his soul in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and the Lord made a great salvation for all Israel: you saw it, and you rejoiced. Why therefore do you sin against innocent blood, putting to death David, who is without fault? 6 When Saul had heard this, appeased by Jonathan’s voice, he swore: The Lord lives, for he shall not be killed.

7 Vocavit itaque Jonathas David, et indicavit ei omnia verba hæc: et introduxit Jonathas David ad Saul, et fuit ante eum sicut fuerat heri et nudiustertius. 8 Motum est autem rursum bellum: et egressus David, pugnavit adversum Philisthiim: percussitque eos plaga magna, et fugerunt a facie ejus. 9 Et factus est spiritus Domini malus in Saul: sedebat autem in domo sua, et tenebat lanceam: porro David psallebat manu sua.

7 Jonathan therefore called David, and told him all these words: and Jonathan brought David in to Saul, and he was before him as he had been yesterday and the day before. 8 Now war was again set in motion: and David went out and fought against the Philistines: and he struck them with a great blow, and they fled from before his face. 9 And an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul: now he was sitting in his house, and he was holding a spear: but David was playing with his hand.

10 Nisusque est Saul configere David lancea in pariete, et declinavit David a facie Saul: lancea autem casso vulnere perlata est in parietem, et David fugit, et salvatus est nocte illa.

10 And Saul strove to transfix David with the spear into the wall, and David turned aside from the face of Saul: but the spear, the stroke being vain, was borne through into the wall, and David fled, and was saved on that night.

11 Misit ergo Saul satellites suos in domum David, ut custodirent eum, et interficeretur mane. Quod cum annuntiasset David Michol uxor sua, dicens: Nisi salvaveris te nocte hac, cras morieris: 12 deposuit eum per fenestram. Porro ille abiit et aufugit, atque salvatus est.

11 Therefore Saul sent his attendants to David’s house, to keep watch over him, and that he might be killed in the morning. When Michal his wife had announced this to David, saying: Unless you save yourself this night, tomorrow you will die: 12 she let him down through the window. Then he went away and fled, and was saved.

13 Tulit autem Michol statuam, et posuit eam super lectum, et pellem pilosam caprarum posuit ad caput ejus, et operuit eam vestimentis. 14 Misit autem Saul apparitores, qui raperent David: et responsum est quod ægrotaret. 15 Rursumque misit Saul nuntios ut viderent David, dicens: Afferte eum ad me in lecto, ut occidatur.

13 But Michol took a statue and set it upon the bed, and she put a hairy goatskin at its head, and covered it with garments. 14 Then Saul sent apparitors to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick. 15 And again Saul sent messengers to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be killed.

16 Cumque venissent nuntii, inventum est simulacrum super lectum, et pellis caprarum ad caput ejus. 17 Dixitque Saul ad Michol: Quare sic illusisti mihi, et dimisisti inimicum meum ut fugeret? Et respondit Michol ad Saul: Quia ipse locutus est mihi: Dimitte me, alioquin interficiam te.

16 When the messengers had come, the simulacrum was found upon the bed, and a goats’ skin at his head. 17 And Saul said to Michal: Why have you thus mocked me, and sent away my enemy that he might flee? And Michal answered Saul: Because he himself spoke to me: Send me away, otherwise I will kill you.

18 David autem fugiens salvatus est, et venit ad Samuel in Ramatha, et nuntiavit ei omnia quæ fecerat sibi Saul: et abierunt ipse et Samuel, et morati sunt in Najoth. 19 Nuntiatum est autem Sauli a dicentibus: Ecce David in Najoth in Ramatha. 20 Misit ergo Saul lictores, ut raperent David: qui cum vidissent cuneum prophetarum vaticinantium, et Samuelem stantem super eos, factus est etiam spiritus Domini in illis, et prophetare cœperunt etiam ipsi.

18 But David, fleeing, escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and announced to him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went away, and they stayed in Najoth. 19 And it was told to Saul by those saying: Behold, David is in Najoth in Ramatha. 20 Therefore Saul sent lictors to seize David: who, when they saw the band of prophets vaticinating, and Samuel standing over them, the Spirit of the Lord also came upon them, and they too began to prophesy.

21 Quod cum nuntiatum esset Sauli, misit et alios nuntios: prophetaverunt autem et illi. Et rursum misit Saul tertios nuntios: qui et ipsi prophetaverunt. Et iratus iracundia Saul, 22 abiit etiam ipse in Ramatha, et venit usque ad cisternam magnam quæ est in Socho, et interrogavit, et dixit: In quo loco sunt Samuel et David?

21 When this had been announced to Saul, he also sent other messengers; and they too prophesied. And again Saul sent third messengers; and they also themselves prophesied. And Saul, enraged with wrath, 22 went himself also to Ramatha, and came as far as the great cistern which is in Socho; and he inquired, and said: In what place are Samuel and David?

Dictumque est ei: Ecce in Najoth sunt in Ramatha. 23 Et abiit in Najoth in Ramatha, et factus est etiam super eum spiritus Domini, et ambulabat ingrediens, et prophetabat usque dum veniret in Najoth in Ramatha. 24 Et expoliavit etiam ipse se vestimentis suis, et prophetavit cum ceteris coram Samuele, et cecidit nudus tota die illa et nocte.

And it was said to him: Behold, they are in Najoth in Ramatha. 23 And he went to Najoth in Ramatha, and the Spirit of the Lord also came upon him, and he walked on as he went, and he prophesied until he came to Najoth in Ramatha. 24 And he too stripped himself of his garments, and prophesied with the others before Samuel, and fell naked all that day and night.

Unde et exivit proverbium: Num et Saul inter prophetas?

Whence also the proverb went out: Is Saul also among the prophets?

20 1 Fugit autem David de Najoth, quæ est in Ramatha, veniensque locutus est coram Jonatha: Quid feci? quæ est iniquitas mea, et quod peccatum meum in patrem tuum, quia quærit animam meam? 2 Qui dixit ei: Absit, non morieris: neque enim faciet pater meus quidquam grande vel parvum, nisi prius indicaverit mihi: hunc ergo celavit me pater meus sermonem tantummodo?

20 1 But David fled from Najoth, which is in Ramatha, and coming he spoke before Jonatha: What have I done? what is my iniquity, and what is my sin against your father, that he seeks my life? 2 Who said to him: Far be it; you will not die: for my father will do nothing great or small unless he has first made it known to me: has my father therefore concealed this word from me—only this?

nequaquam erit istud. 3 Et juravit rursum Davidi. Et ille ait: Scit profecto pater tuus quia inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, et dicet: Nesciat hoc Jonathas, ne forte tristetur.

by no means shall this be. 3 And he swore again to David. And he said: Your father certainly knows that I have found grace in your eyes, and he will say: Let Jonathan not know this, lest perhaps he be saddened.

Quinimmo vivit Dominus, et vivit anima tua, quia uno tantum (ut ita dicam) gradu ego morsque dividimur. 4 Et ait Jonathas ad David: Quodcumque dixerit mihi anima tua, faciam tibi. 5 Dixit autem David ad Jonathan: Ecce calendæ sunt crastino, et ego ex more sedere soleo juxta regem ad vescendum: dimitte ergo me ut abscondar in agro usque ad vesperam diei tertiæ. 6 Si respiciens requisierit me pater tuus, respondebis ei: Rogavit me David ut iret celeriter in Bethlehem civitatem suam, quia victimæ solemnes ibi sunt universis contribulibus suis.

Nay rather, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because by only one step (so to speak) I and death are divided. 4 And Jonathan said to David: Whatever your soul shall have said to me, I will do for you. 5 But David said to Jonathan: Behold, the Calends are tomorrow, and I, by custom, am wont to sit beside the king to dine; therefore let me go, that I may hide in the field until the evening of the third day. 6 If your father, looking, should seek me, you shall answer him: David asked me that he might go quickly to Bethlehem, his city, because solemn sacrifices are there for all his fellow-tribesmen.

7 Si dixerit: Bene: pax erit servo tuo. Si autem fuerit iratus, scito quia completa est malitia ejus. 8 Fac ergo misericordiam in servum tuum, quia fœdus Domini me famulum tuum tecum inire fecisti: si autem est iniquitas aliqua in me, tu me interfice, et ad patrem tuum ne introducas me. 9 Et ait Jonathas: Absit hoc a te: neque enim fieri potest, ut si certe cognovero completam esse patris mei malitiam contra te, non annuntiem tibi.

7 If he says: Good: there will be peace for your servant. But if he is angry, know that his malice has been completed. 8 Therefore show mercy to your servant, for you have made me, your servant, enter into a covenant of the Lord with you: but if there is any iniquity in me, kill me yourself, and do not bring me to your father. 9 And Jonathan said: Far be this from you: for it cannot be that, if indeed I shall surely have come to know that my father’s malice against you is complete, I should not announce it to you.

10 Responditque David ad Jonathan: Quis renuntiabit mihi, si quid forte responderit tibi pater tuus dure de me?

10 And David answered Jonathan: Who will report back to me, if perhaps your father should answer you harshly about me?

11 Et ait Jonathas ad David: Veni, et egrediamur foras in agrum. Cumque exissent ambo in agrum, 12 ait Jonathas ad David: Domine Deus Israël, si investigavero sententiam patris mei crastino vel perendie, et aliquid boni fuerit super David, et non statim misero ad te, et notum tibi fecero, 13 hæc faciat Dominus Jonathæ, et hæc addat. Si autem perseveraverit patris mei malitia adversum te, revelabo aurem tuam, et dimittam te, ut vadas in pace, et sit Dominus tecum, sicut fuit cum patre meo.

11 And Jonathan said to David: Come, and let us go out into the field. And when they had both gone out into the field, 12 Jonathan said to David: O Lord God of Israel, if I shall have investigated the decision of my father tomorrow or the day after, and there is anything good toward David, and I do not immediately send to you and make it known to you, 13 may the Lord do thus to Jonathan, and thus add. But if my father’s malice shall persist against you, I will disclose to your ear, and I will send you away, that you may go in peace, and may the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

14 Et si vixero, facies mihi misericordiam Domini: si vero mortuus fuero, 15 non auferes misericordiam tuam a domo mea usque in sempiternum, quando eradicaverit Dominus inimicos David, unumquemque de terra: auferat Jonathan de domo sua, et requirat Dominus de manu inimicorum David. 16 Pepigit ergo Jonathas fœdus cum domo David: et requisivit Dominus de manu inimicorum David. 17 Et addidit Jonathas dejerare David, eo quod diligeret illum: sicut enim animam suam, ita diligebat eum.

14 And if I shall live, you will do to me the mercy of the Lord: but if I shall have died, 15 you shall not take away your mercy from my house unto the sempiternal, when the Lord will have eradicated the enemies of David, each one from the earth: let Jonathan be taken away from his house, and let the Lord require it from the hand of the enemies of David. 16 Jonathan therefore struck a covenant with the house of David: and the Lord required it from the hand of the enemies of David. 17 And Jonathan added to make David swear, because he loved him: for as his own soul, so he loved him.

18 Dixitque ad eum Jonathas: Cras calendæ sunt, et requireris: 19 requiretur enim sessio tua usque perendie. Descendes ergo festinus, et venies in locum ubi celandus es in die qua operari licet, et sedebis juxta lapidem cui nomen est Ezel. 20 Et ego tres sagittas mittam juxta eum, et jaciam quasi exercens me ad signum.

18 And Jonathan said to him: Tomorrow is the Calends, and you will be missed: 19 for your seat will be missed until the day after tomorrow. Therefore you shall go down in haste, and you shall come to the place where you are to be concealed on the day on which it is permitted to work, and you shall sit beside the stone whose name is Ezel. 20 And I will shoot three arrows beside it, and I will cast as if practicing at a mark.

21 Mittam quoque et puerum, dicens ei: Vade, et affer mihi sagittas. 22 Si dixero puero: Ecce sagittæ intra te sunt, tolle eas: tu veni ad me, quia pax tibi est, et nihil est mali, vivit Dominus. Si autem sic locutus fuero puero: Ecce sagittæ ultra te sunt: vade in pace, quia dimisit te Dominus.

21 I will also send the boy, saying to him: Go, and bring me the arrows. 22 If I say to the boy: Behold, the arrows are on this side of you, take them: you, come to me, for peace is yours, and there is nothing evil; the Lord lives. But if I speak thus to the boy: Behold, the arrows are beyond you: go in peace, for the Lord has sent you away.

23 De verbo autem quod locuti sumus ego et tu, sit Dominus inter me et te usque in sempiternum.

23 But concerning the word which you and I have spoken, may the Lord be between me and you unto forever.

24 Absconditus est ergo David in agro, et venerunt calendæ, et sedit rex ad comedendum panem. 25 Cumque sedisset rex super cathedram suam (secundum consuetudinem) quæ erat juxta parietem, surrexit Jonathas, et sedit Abner ex latere Saul: vacuusque apparuit locus David. 26 Et non est locutus Saul quidquam in die illa: cogitabat enim quod forte evenisset ei, ut non esset mundus, nec purificatus.

24 Therefore David was hidden in the field, and the Calends came, and the king sat to eat bread. 25 And when the king had sat upon his chair (according to custom), which was beside the wall, Jonathan rose, and Abner sat at Saul’s side: and David’s place appeared empty. 26 And Saul said nothing on that day: for he was thinking that perhaps it had befallen him not to be clean, nor purified.

27 Cumque illuxisset dies secunda post calendas, rursus apparuit vacuus locus David. Dixitque Saul ad Jonathan filium suum: Cur non venit filius Isai nec heri nec hodie ad vescendum? 28 Responditque Jonathas Sauli: Rogavit me obnixe ut iret in Bethlehem, 29 et ait: Dimitte me, quoniam sacrificium solemne est in civitate, unus de fratribus meis accersivit me: nunc ergo si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, vadam cito, et videbo fratres meos.

27 And when the second day after the calends had dawned, again the place of David appeared empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son: Why has the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to eat? 28 And Jonathan answered Saul: He earnestly asked me that he might go to Bethlehem, 29 and said: Dismiss me, for there is a solemn sacrifice in the city; one of my brothers has summoned me. Now therefore, if I have found favor in your eyes, I will go quickly, and I will see my brothers.

Ob hanc causam non venit ad mensam regis. 30 Iratus autem Saul adversum Jonathan, dixit ei: Fili mulieris virum ultro rapientis, numquid ignoro quia diligis filium Isai in confusionem tuam, et in confusionem ignominiosæ matris tuæ? 31 Omnibus enim diebus quibus filius Isai vixerit super terram, non stabilieris tu, neque regnum tuum. Itaque jam nunc mitte, et adduc eum ad me: quia filius mortis est.

For this cause he did not come to the king’s table. 30 But Saul, angered against Jonathan, said to him: Son of a woman who wantonly seizes a man, do I not know that you love the son of Jesse to your confusion, and to the confusion of your ignominious mother? 31 For all the days that the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Therefore now at once send, and bring him to me; for he is a son of death.

32 Respondens autem Jonathas Sauli patri suo, ait: Quare morietur? quid fecit? 33 Et arripuit Saul lanceam ut percuteret eum.

32 Then Jonathan, answering to Saul his father, said: Why will he die? what has he done? 33 And Saul seized a spear to strike him.

Et intellexit Jonathas quod definitum esset a patre suo, ut interficeret David. 34 Surrexit ergo Jonathas a mensa in ira furoris, et non comedit in die calendarum secunda panem. Contristatus est enim super David, eo quod confudisset eum pater suus.

And Jonathan understood that it had been determined by his father to kill David. 34 Therefore Jonathan rose from the table in furious wrath, and he did not eat bread on the second day of the new moon. For he was grieved over David, because his father had put him to shame.

35 Cumque illuxisset mane, venit Jonathas in agrum juxta placitum David, et puer parvulus cum eo. 36 Et ait ad puerum suum: Vade, et affer mihi sagittas quas ego jacio. Cumque puer cucurrisset, jecit aliam sagittam trans puerum. 37 Venit itaque puer ad locum jaculi quod miserat Jonathas: et clamavit Jonathas post tergum pueri, et ait: Ecce ibi est sagitta porro ultra te. 38 Clamavitque iterum Jonathas post tergum pueri, dicens: Festina velociter, ne steteris.

35 And when morning had dawned, Jonathan came into the field according to David’s agreement, and a little boy with him. 36 And he said to his boy: Go, and bring me the arrows which I am casting. And when the boy had run, he cast another arrow beyond the boy. 37 The boy therefore came to the place of the missile which Jonathan had sent; and Jonathan cried behind the boy’s back, and said: Behold, there is the arrow farther beyond you. 38 And Jonathan cried again behind the boy’s back, saying: Hasten swiftly, do not stand.

Collegit autem puer Jonathæ sagittas, et attulit ad dominum suum: 39 et quid ageretur, penitus ignorabat, tantummodo enim Jonathas et David rem noverant. 40 Dedit ergo Jonathas arma sua puero, et dixit ei: Vade, et defer in civitatem. 41 Cumque abiisset puer, surrexit David de loco qui vergebat ad austrum, et cadens pronus in terram, adoravit tertio: et osculantes se alterutrum, fleverunt pariter, David autem amplius.

The boy of Jonathan gathered the arrows and brought them to his lord; 39 and what was being done he utterly did not know, for only Jonathan and David knew the matter. 40 Therefore Jonathan gave his arms to the boy and said to him: Go, and carry them into the city. 41 And when the boy had gone, David rose from the place which looked toward the south, and falling face-down to the earth, he prostrated himself a third time; and kissing one another, they wept together, but David the more.

42 Dixit ergo Jonathas ad David: Vade in pace: quæcumque juravimus ambo in nomine Domini, dicentes: Dominus sit inter me et te, et inter semen meum et semen tuum usque in sempiternum. 43 Et surrexit David, et abiit: sed et Jonathas ingressus est civitatem. 21 1 Venit autem David in Nobe ad Achimelech sacerdotem: et obstupuit Achimelech, eo quod venisset David.

42 So Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: whatever we have sworn, both of us, in the name of the Lord, saying: May the Lord be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed unto everlasting. 43 And David rose and went away; and Jonathan also entered the city. 21 1 But David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech was astounded, because David had come.

Et dixit ei: Quare tu solus, et nullus est tecum? 2 Et ait David ad Achimelech sacerdotem: Rex præcepit mihi sermonem, et dixit: Nemo sciat rem propter quam missus es a me, et cujusmodi præcepta tibi dederim: nam et pueris condixi in illum et illum locum. 3 Nunc ergo si quid habes ad manum, vel quinque panes, da mihi, aut quidquid inveneris.

And he said to him: Why are you alone, and no one is with you? 2 And David said to Achimelech the priest: The king has enjoined upon me a word, and said: Let no one know the matter on account of which you have been sent by me, and what sort of precepts I have given to you; for I have appointed for the youths to such-and-such a place. 3 Now therefore, if you have anything at hand, even five loaves, give to me, or whatever you find.

4 Et respondens sacerdos ad David, ait illi: Non habeo laicos panes ad manum, sed tantum panem sanctum: si mundi sunt pueri, maxime a mulieribus? 5 Et respondit David sacerdoti, et dixit ei: Equidem, si de mulieribus agitur: continuimus nos ab heri et nudiustertius quando egrediebamur, et fuerunt vasa puerorum sancta. Porro via hæc polluta est, sed et ipsa hodie sanctificabitur in vasis.

4 And the priest, answering to David, said to him: I have not lay loaves at hand, but only holy bread: if the youths are clean, especially from women? 5 And David answered the priest, and said to him: Indeed, if it is a matter of women: we have kept ourselves from yesterday and the day-before-yesterday when we were going out, and the vessels of the youths have been holy. Moreover, this way is defiled, but even it today will be sanctified in the vessels.

6 Dedit ergo ei sacerdos sanctificatum panem: neque enim erat ibi panis, nisi tantum panes propositionis, qui sublati fuerant a facie Domini, ut ponerentur panes calidi. 7 Erat autem ibi vir quidam de servis Saul in die illa, intus in tabernaculo Domini: et nomen ejus Doëg Idumæus, potentissimus pastorum Saul. 8 Dixit autem David ad Achimelech: Si habes hic ad manum hastam aut gladium?

6 Therefore the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, except only the breads of the proposition, which had been removed from before the Lord, that hot breads might be set out. 7 Now there was there a certain man of the servants of Saul on that day, inside in the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg the Idumaean, the most powerful of Saul’s shepherds. 8 And David said to Ahimelech: Do you have here at hand a spear or a sword?

quia gladium meum et arma mea non tuli mecum: sermo enim regis urgebat. 9 Et dixit sacerdos: Ecce hic gladius Goliath Philisthæi, quem percussisti in Valle terebinthi: est involutus pallio post ephod: si istum vis tollere, tolle: neque enim hic est alius absque eo. Et ait David: Non est huic alter similis: da mihi eum.

for I did not take my sword and my arms with me: for the king’s word was urgent. 9 And the priest said: Behold, here is the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck in the Valley of the Terebinth: it is wrapped in a cloak behind the ephod: if you wish to take that one, take it: for indeed there is no other here besides it. And David said: There is none like it: give it to me.

10 Surrexit itaque David, et fugit in die illa a facie Saul: et venit ad Achis regem Geth. 11 Dixeruntque servi Achis ad eum cum vidissent David: Numquid non iste est David rex terræ? nonne huic cantabant per choros, dicentes:

10 Therefore David arose and fled on that day from before the face of Saul, and he came to Achish, king of Gath. 11 And the servants of Achish, when they had seen David, said to him: Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in choruses, saying:

Percussit Saul mille, et David decem millia?

Saul has struck a thousand, and David ten thousand?

12 Posuit autem David sermones istos in corde suo, et extimuit valde a facie Achis regis Geth. 13 Et immutavit os suum coram eis, et collabebatur inter manus eorum: et impingebat in ostia portæ, defluebantque salivæ ejus in barbam. 14 Et ait Achis ad servos suos: Vidistis hominem insanum: quare adduxistis eum ad me? 15 an desunt nobis furiosi, quod introduxistis istum, ut fureret me præsente?

12 But David set these words in his heart, and was greatly afraid before the face of Achis, king of Geth. 13 And he altered his countenance before them, and kept collapsing in their hands: and he was striking against the doors of the gate, and his saliva was flowing down upon his beard. 14 And Achis said to his servants: You see the man is insane: why have you brought him to me? 15 Do we lack madmen, that you have introduced this fellow, that he might rave in my presence?

hiccine ingredietur domum meam?

Shall this fellow enter my house?

22 1 Abiit ergo David inde, et fugit in speluncam Odollam. Quod cum audissent fratres ejus, et omnis domus patris ejus, descenderunt ad eum illuc. 2 Et convenerunt ad eum omnes qui erant in angustia constituti, et oppressi ære alieno, et amaro animo: et factus est eorum princeps, fueruntque cum eo quasi quadringenti viri.

22 1 So David went away thence, and fled into the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard, they went down to him thither. 2 And all who were set in distress, and oppressed by debt, and of bitter spirit, gathered to him; and he became their prince, and there were with him about four hundred men.

3 Et profectus est David inde in Maspha, quæ est Moab: et dixit ad regem Moab: Maneat, oro, pater meus et mater mea vobiscum, donec sciam quid faciat mihi Deus. 4 Et reliquit eos ante faciem regis Moab: manseruntque apud eum cunctis diebus quibus David fuit in præsidio. 5 Dixitque Gad propheta ad David: Noli manere in præsidio: proficiscere, et vade in terram Juda.

3 And David set out from there to Maspha, which is Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let, I pray, my father and my mother remain with you, until I know what God will do for me. 4 And he left them before the face of the king of Moab: and they stayed with him all the days during which David was in the stronghold. 5 And Gad the prophet said to David: Do not remain in the stronghold: set out, and go into the land of Judah.

Et profectus est David, et venit in saltum Haret. 6 Et audivit Saul quod apparuisset David, et viri qui erant cum eo. Saul autem cum maneret in Gabaa, et esset in nemore quod est in Rama, hastam manu tenens, cunctique servi ejus circumstarent eum, 7 ait ad servos suos qui assistebant ei: Audite nunc, filii Jemini: numquid omnibus vobis dabit filius Isai agros et vineas, et universos vos faciet tribunos et centuriones? 8 quoniam conjurastis omnes adversum me, et non est qui mihi renuntiet, maxime cum et filius meus fœdus inierit cum filio Isai.

And David set out, and came into the forest of Hareth. 6 And Saul heard that David had appeared, and the men who were with him. But Saul, while he was staying in Gabaa, and was in the grove which is in Rama, holding a spear in his hand, and all his servants standing around him, 7 said to his servants who were standing by him: Hear now, sons of Benjamin: will the son of Jesse give to all of you fields and vineyards, and will he make you all tribunes and centurions? 8 for you have all conspired against me, and there is no one to report back to me, especially since even my son has entered into a covenant with the son of Jesse.

Non est qui vicem meam doleat ex vobis, nec qui annuntiet mihi: eo quod suscitaverit filius meus servum meum adversum me, insidiantem mihi usque hodie.

There is no one among you who grieves for my plight, nor who announces to me: that my son has raised up my servant against me, lying in ambush for me even to this day.

9 Respondens autem Doëg Idumæus, qui assistebat, et erat primus inter servos Saul: Vidi, inquit, filium Isai in Nobe apud Achimelech filium Achitob sacerdotem. 10 Qui consuluit pro eo Dominum, et cibaria dedit ei: sed et gladium Goliath Philisthæi dedit illi. 11 Misit ergo rex ad accersendum Achimelech sacerdotem filium Achitob, et omnem domum patris ejus, sacerdotum qui erant in Nobe, qui universi venerunt ad regem.

9 But Doeg the Idumaean, answering, who was standing by and was first among the servants of Saul: I saw, said he, the son of Jesse in Nob with Ahimelech, son of Ahitub, the priest. 10 He consulted the Lord for him, and gave him provisions; and even the sword of Goliath the Philistine he gave to him. 11 Therefore the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob, who all came to the king.

12 Et ait Saul ad Achimelech: Audi, fili Achitob. Qui respondit: Præsto sum, domine. 13 Dixitque ad eum Saul: Quare conjurastis adversum me, tu et filius Isai, et dedisti ei panes et gladium, et consuluisti pro eo Deum, ut consurgeret adversum me, insidiator usque hodie permanens?

12 And Saul said to Ahimelech: Hear, son of Ahitub. He replied: I stand ready, lord. 13 And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, and you gave him loaves and a sword, and you consulted God for him, that he might rise up against me, remaining a lier-in-wait even to this day?

14 Respondensque Achimelech regi, ait: Et quis in omnibus servis tuis sicut David, fidelis, et gener regis, et pergens ad imperium tuum, et gloriosus in domo tua? 15 num hodie cœpi pro eo consulere Deum? absit hoc a me: ne suspicetur rex adversus servum suum rem hujuscemodi, in universa domo patris mei: non enim scivit servus tuus quidquam super hoc negotio, vel modicum vel grande.

14 And Achimelech, answering the king, said: And who among all your servants is like David—faithful, and the king’s son-in-law, and proceeding at your command, and glorious in your house? 15 Did I today begin to consult God for him? Far be this from me: let not the king suspect against his servant a matter of this kind, in all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing about this business, either small or great.

16 Dixitque rex: Morte morieris Achimelech, tu et omnis domus patris tui. 17 Et ait rex emissariis qui circumstabant eum: Convertimini, et interficite sacerdotes Domini, nam manus eorum cum David est: scientes quod fugisset, et non indicaverunt mihi. Noluerunt autem servi regis extendere manus suas in sacerdotes Domini.

16 And the king said: You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house. 17 And the king said to the emissaries who were standing around him: Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David; knowing that he had fled, and they did not make it known to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to stretch out their hands against the priests of the Lord.

18 Et ait rex ad Doëg: Convertere tu, et irrue in sacerdotes. Conversusque Doëg Idumæus, irruit in sacerdotes, et trucidavit in die illa octoginta quinque viros vestitos ephod lineo. 19 Nobe autem civitatem sacerdotum percussit in ore gladii, viros et mulieres, et parvulos et lactentes, bovemque, et asinum, et ovem in ore gladii.

18 And the king said to Doeg: Turn, you, and rush upon the priests. And Doeg the Idumaean, having turned, rushed upon the priests, and on that day butchered eighty-five men clothed with a linen ephod. 19 But Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword—men and women, and little ones and sucklings, and ox, and donkey, and sheep—with the edge of the sword.

20 Evadens autem unus filius Achimelech filii Achitob, cujus nomen erat Abiathar, fugit ad David, 21 et annuntiavit ei quod occidisset Saul sacerdotes Domini. 22 Et ait David ad Abiathar: Sciebam in die illa quod cum ibi esset Doëg Idumæus, procul dubio annuntiaret Sauli: ego sum reus omnium animarum patris tui. 23 Mane mecum: ne timeas: si quis quæsierit animam meam, quæret et animam tuam, mecumque servaberis.

20 But one son of Achimelech, son of Achitob, escaping, whose name was Abiathar, fled to David, 21 and announced to him that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord. 22 And David said to Abiathar: I knew on that day that, when Doëg the Idumaean was there, without doubt he would announce it to Saul: I am guilty for all the lives of your father. 23 Stay with me: do not fear: if anyone seeks my life, he will seek your life also, and with me you will be kept safe.

23 1 Et annuntiaverunt David, dicentes: Ecce Philisthiim oppugnant Ceilam et diripiunt areas. 2 Consuluit ergo David Dominum, dicens: Num vadam, et percutiam Philisthæos istos? Et ait Dominus ad David: Vade, et percuties Philisthæos, et Ceilam salvabis.

23 1 And they announced to David, saying: Behold, the Philistines are attacking Ceila and are plundering the threshing floors. 2 Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and strike these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and you shall strike the Philistines, and you shall save Ceila.

3 Et dixerunt viri qui erant cum David ad eum: Ecce nos hic in Judæa consistentes timemus: quanto magis si ierimus in Ceilam adversum agmina Philisthinorum? 4 Rursum ergo David consuluit Dominum. Qui respondens, ait ei: Surge, et vade in Ceilam: ego enim tradam Philisthæos in manu tua.

3 And the men who were with David said to him: Behold, we who are here in Judea, remaining, are afraid: how much more if we go into Ceilah against the hosts of the Philistines? 4 Therefore David again consulted the Lord. And he, answering, said to him: Arise, and go into Ceilah: for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.

5 Abiit ergo David et viri ejus in Ceilam, et pugnavit adversum Philisthæos: et abegit jumenta eorum, et percussit eos plaga magna: et salvavit David habitatores Ceilæ. 6 Porro eo tempore quo fugiebat Abiathar filius Achimelech ad David in Ceilam, ephod secum habens descenderat.

5 Therefore David went, and his men, to Ceila, and he fought against the Philistines; and he drove off their pack-animals, and struck them with a great blow; and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila. 6 Moreover, at the time when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech was fleeing to David at Ceila, he had come down, having the ephod with him.

7 Nuntiatum est autem Sauli quod venisset David in Ceilam: et ait Saul: Tradidit eum Deus in manus meas, conclususque est introgressus urbem, in qua portæ et seræ sunt. 8 Et præcepit Saul omni populo ut ad pugnam descenderet in Ceilam, et obsideret David et viros ejus. 9 Quod cum David rescisset quia præpararet ei Saul clam malum, dixit ad Abiathar sacerdotem: Applica ephod.

7 Now it was announced to Saul that David had come into Ceila: and Saul said: God has delivered him into my hands, and he is shut in, having entered a city in which there are gates and bars. 8 And Saul commanded all the people to go down to battle to Ceila, and to besiege David and his men. 9 And when David had learned that Saul was secretly preparing evil for him, he said to Abiathar the priest: Bring near the ephod.

10 Et ait David: Domine Deus Israël, audivit famam servus tuus, quod disponat Saul venire in Ceilam, ut evertat urbem propter me: 11 si tradent me viri Ceilæ in manus ejus? et si descendet Saul, sicut audivit servus tuus? Domine Deus Israël, indica servo tuo.

10 And David said: Lord God of Israel, your servant has heard the report that Saul is disposing to come to Ceila, to overturn the city on my account: 11 will the men of Ceila hand me over into his hand? And will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Lord God of Israel, indicate to your servant.

Et ait Dominus: Descendet. 12 Dixitque David: Si tradent me viri Ceilæ, et viros qui sunt mecum, in manus Saul? Et dixit Dominus: Tradent.

And the Lord said: He will come down. 12 And David said: Will the men of Keilah deliver me, and the men who are with me, into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver.

13 Surrexit ergo David et viri ejus quasi sexcenti, et egressi de Ceila, huc atque illuc vagabantur incerti: nuntiatumque est Sauli quod fugisset David de Ceila, et salvatus esset: quam ob rem dissimulavit exire. 14 Morabatur autem David in deserto in locis firmissimis, mansitque in monte solitudinis Ziph, in monte opaco: quærebat eum tamen Saul cunctis diebus, et non tradidit eum Deus in manus ejus. 15 Et vidit David quod egressus esset Saul ut quæreret animam ejus.

13 Therefore David arose, and his men, about six hundred, and having gone out from Keilah, they were wandering hither and thither uncertainly: and it was announced to Saul that David had fled from Keilah, and had been saved: for which reason he refrained from going out. 14 But David stayed in the desert in very strong places, and he remained on the mountain of the wilderness of Ziph, on the shady mountain: nevertheless Saul was seeking him every day, and God did not deliver him into his hand. 15 And David saw that Saul had gone out to seek his life.

Porro David erat in deserto Ziph in silva. 16 Et surrexit Jonathas filius Saul, et abiit ad David in silvam, et confortavit manus ejus in Deo: dixitque ei: 17 Ne timeas: neque enim inveniet te manus Saul patris mei, et tu regnabis super Israël, et ego ero tibi secundus: sed et Saul pater meus scit hoc. 18 Percussit ergo uterque fœdus coram Domino: mansitque David in silva, Jonathas autem reversus est in domum suam.

Moreover David was in the wilderness of Ziph, in the forest. 16 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the forest, and strengthened his hands in God: and he said to him: 17 Do not fear: for the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will reign over Israel, and I will be second to you: but even Saul my father knows this. 18 Therefore each struck a covenant before the Lord: and David stayed in the forest, but Jonathan returned to his own house.

19 Ascenderunt autem Ziphæi ad Saul in Gabaa, dicentes: Nonne ecce David latitat apud nos in locis tutissimis silvæ, in colle Hachila, quæ est ad dexteram deserti? 20 Nunc ergo, sicut desideravit anima tua ut descenderes, descende: nostrum autem erit ut tradamus eum in manus regis. 21 Dixitque Saul: Benedicti vos a Domino, quia doluistis vicem meam.

19 But the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying: Behold, is not David lurking among us in the most secure places of the forest, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the right hand of the desert? 20 Now therefore, as your soul has desired that you should descend, descend: but it shall be ours to deliver him into the hand of the king. 21 And Saul said: Blessed be you by the Lord, because you have grieved on my behalf.

22 Abite ergo, oro, et diligentius præparate, et curiosius agite, et considerate locum ubi sit pes ejus, vel quis viderit eum ibi: recogitat enim de me, quod callide insidier ei. 23 Considerate, et videte omnia latibula ejus in quibus absconditur: et revertimini ad me ad rem certam, ut vadam vobiscum. Quod si etiam in terram se abstruserit, perscrutabor eum in cunctis millibus Juda.

22 Go therefore, I pray, and prepare more diligently, and act more curiously, and consider the place where his foot is, or who has seen him there: for he is thinking about me, that I cunningly lie in ambush for him. 23 Consider, and see all his hiding-places in which he is concealed: and return to me with a sure matter, that I may go with you. But if he has even hidden himself in the very ground, I will scrutinize him in all the thousands of Judah.

24 At illi surgentes abierunt in Ziph ante Saul: David autem et viri ejus erant in deserto Maon, in campestribus ad dexteram Jesimon. 25 Ivit ergo Saul et socii ejus ad quærendum eum. Et nuntiatum est David: statimque descendit ad petram, et versabatur in deserto Maon: quod cum audisset Saul, persecutus est David in deserto Maon.

24 But they, rising up, went away in Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the plains to the right of Jeshimon. 25 Therefore Saul and his associates went to seek him. And it was announced to David: and at once he went down to the rock, and was moving about in the desert of Maon: which when Saul had heard, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

26 Et ibat Saul ad latus montis ex parte una: David autem et viri ejus erant in latere montis ex parte altera. Porro David desperabat se posse evadere a facie Saul: itaque Saul et viri ejus in modum coronæ cingebant David et viros ejus, ut caperent eos. 27 Et nuntius venit ad Saul, dicens: Festina, et veni, quoniam infuderunt se Philisthiim super terram.

26 And Saul was going on the side of the mountain on the one part; but David and his men were on the side of the mountain on the other part. Moreover David was despairing that he could escape from the face of Saul: and so Saul and his men, in the manner of a crown, were encircling David and his men, so that they might seize them. 27 And a messenger came to Saul, saying: Hasten, and come, because the Philistines have poured themselves upon the land.

28 Reversus est ergo Saul desistens persequi David, et perrexit in occursum Philisthinorum: propter hoc vocaverunt locum illum, Petram dividentem.

28 Therefore Saul returned, desisting from pursuing David, and went to meet the Philistines: on account of this they called that place the Rock of Division.

24 1 Ascendit ergo David inde: et habitavit in locis tutissimis Engaddi. 2 Cumque reversus esset Saul, postquam persecutus est Philisthæos, nuntiaverunt ei, dicentes: Ecce David in deserto est Engaddi. 3 Assumens ergo Saul tria millia electorum virorum ex omni Israël, perrexit ad investigandum David et viros ejus, etiam super abruptissimas petras, quæ solis ibicibus perviæ sunt.

24 1 Therefore David went up from there: and he dwelt in the safest places of Engaddi. 2 And when Saul had returned, after he had pursued the Philistines, they reported to him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi. 3 Therefore Saul, taking three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, went to search out David and his men, even over the most precipitous rocks, which are passable only to the ibexes.

4 Et venit ad caulas ovium, quæ se offerebant vianti: eratque ibi spelunca, quam ingressus est Saul ut purgaret ventrem: porro David et viri ejus in interiore parte speluncæ latebant. 5 Et dixerunt servi David ad eum: Ecce dies de qua locutus est Dominus ad te: Ego tradam tibi inimicum tuum, ut facias ei sicut placuerit in oculis tuis. Surrexit ergo David, et præcidit oram chlamydis Saul silenter.

4 And he came to the sheepfolds, which presented themselves to the traveler: and there was a cave there, which Saul entered to purge his belly; but David and his men were hiding in the inner part of the cave. 5 And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day of which the Lord spoke to you: I will deliver your enemy to you, that you may do to him as shall have pleased in your eyes. Then David arose, and cut off the hem of Saul’s cloak silently.

6 Post hæc percussit cor suum David, eo quod abscidisset oram chlamydis Saul. 7 Dixitque ad viros suos: Propitius sit mihi Dominus, ne faciam hanc rem domino meo, christo Domini, ut mittam manum meam in eum: quia christus Domini est. 8 Et confregit David viros suos sermonibus, et non permisit eos ut consurgerent in Saul: porro Saul exsurgens de spelunca, pergebat cœpto itinere.

6 After these things David’s heart was stricken, because he had cut off the hem of Saul’s cloak. 7 And he said to his men: May the Lord be propitious to me, that I should not do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him; for he is the Lord’s anointed. 8 And David restrained his men with words, and did not permit them to rise up against Saul: but Saul, rising from the cave, went on with the journey he had begun.

9 Surrexit autem et David post eum: et egressus de spelunca, clamavit post tergum Saul, dicens: Domine mi rex. Et respexit Saul post se: et inclinans se David pronus in terram adoravit, 10 dixitque ad Saul: Quare audis verba hominum loquentium: David quærit malum adversum te? 11 Ecce hodie viderunt oculi tui quod tradiderit te Dominus in manu mea in spelunca: et cogitavi ut occiderem te, sed pepercit tibi oculus meus: dixi enim: Non extendam manum meam in dominum meum, quia christus Domini est. 12 Quin potius pater mi, vide, et cognosce oram chlamydis tuæ in manu mea: quoniam cum præscinderem summitatem chlamydis tuæ, nolui extendere manum meam in te: animadverte, et vide, quoniam non est in manu mea malum, neque iniquitas, neque peccavi in te: tu autem insidiaris animæ meæ ut auferas eam.

9 And David also rose after him: and going out of the cave, he cried after Saul’s back, saying: My lord king. And Saul looked back behind him: and David, bowing himself, prostrate to the ground, did obeisance, 10 and said to Saul: Why do you listen to the words of men speaking: David seeks evil against you? 11 Behold today your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you into my hand in the cave: and I thought to kill you, but my eye spared you: for I said: I will not stretch forth my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed. 12 Nay rather, my father, see, and recognize the hem of your cloak in my hand: since when I cut off the edge of your cloak, I was unwilling to stretch out my hand against you: mark, and see, that there is not in my hand evil, nor iniquity, nor have I sinned against you: but you lie in wait for my soul to take it away.

13 Judicet Dominus inter me et te, et ulciscatur me Dominus ex te: manus autem mea non sit in te. 14 Sicut et in proverbio antiquo dicitur: Ab impiis egredietur impietas: manus ergo mea non sit in te. 15 Quem persequeris, rex Israël? quem persequeris? canem mortuum persequeris, et pulicem unum. 16 Sit Dominus judex, et judicet inter me et te: et videat, et judicet causam meam, et eruat me de manu tua.

13 Let the Lord judge between me and you, and may the Lord avenge me on you; but let my hand not be against you. 14 As also it is said in an ancient proverb: From the impious will impiety go forth; therefore let my hand not be against you. 15 Whom are you pursuing, O king of Israel? whom are you pursuing? you are pursuing a dead dog, and a single flea. 16 Let the Lord be judge, and let him judge between me and you; and let him see, and judge my cause, and deliver me from your hand.

17 Cum autem complesset David loquens sermones hujuscemodi ad Saul, dixit Saul: Numquid vox hæc tua est, fili mi David? Et levavit Saul vocem suam, et flevit: 18 dixitque ad David: Justior tu es quam ego: tu enim tribuisti mihi bona, ego autem reddidi tibi mala. 19 Et tu indicasti hodie quæ feceris mihi bona: quomodo tradiderit me Dominus in manum tuam, et non occideris me. 20 Quis enim cum invenerit inimicum suum, dimittet eum in via bona?

17 But when David had completed speaking words of this kind to Saul, Saul said: Is this your voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept: 18 and he said to David: You are more just than I: for you have bestowed good things upon me, but I have rendered evil things to you. 19 And today you have indicated what good things you have done to me: how the Lord has delivered me into your hand, and you did not kill me. 20 For who, when he has found his enemy, will let him go on a good way?

sed Dominus reddat tibi vicissitudinem hanc pro eo quod hodie operatus es in me. 21 Et nunc quia scio quod certissime regnaturus sis, et habiturus in manu tua regnum Israël: 22 jura mihi in Domino, ne deleas semen meum post me, neque auferas nomen meum de domo patris mei. 23 Et juravit David Sauli. Abiit ergo Saul in domum suam: et David et viri ejus ascenderunt ad tutiora loca.

but may the Lord render to you this requital for what today you have wrought upon me. 21 And now, since I know that you will most certainly reign, and will have in your hand the kingdom of Israel: 22 swear to me by the Lord, that you will not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from my father’s house. 23 And David swore to Saul. Saul therefore went away to his house: and David and his men went up to safer places.

25 1 Mortuus est autem Samuel, et congregatus est universus Israël, et planxerunt eum, et sepelierunt eum in domo sua in Ramatha. Consurgensque David descendit in desertum Pharan. 2 Erat autem vir quispiam in solitudine Maon, et possessio ejus in Carmelo, et homo ille magnus nimis: erantque ei oves tria millia, et mille capræ: et accidit ut tonderetur grex ejus in Carmelo.

25 1 But Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered, and they lamented him, and they buried him in his house at Ramatha. And David, rising up, went down into the desert of Pharan. 2 Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possession was in Carmel, and that man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that his flock was being shorn in Carmel.

3 Nomen autem viri illius erat Nabal. Et nomen uxoris ejus Abigail: eratque mulier illa prudentissima, et speciosa: porro vir ejus durus, et pessimus, et malitiosus: erat autem de genere Caleb. 4 Cum ergo audisset David in deserto quod tonderet Nabal gregem suum, 5 misit decem juvenes, et dixit eis: Ascendite in Carmelum, et venietis ad Nabal, et salutabitis eum ex nomine meo pacifice.

3 The name, moreover, of that man was Nabal. And the name of his wife was Abigail: and that woman was most prudent and beautiful: but her husband was hard, and most wicked, and malicious: moreover he was of the stock of Caleb. 4 Therefore when David had heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his flock, 5 he sent ten youths, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and you shall come to Nabal, and you shall greet him in my name peaceably.

6 Et dicetis: Sit fratribus meis et tibi pax, et domui tuæ pax, et omnibus, quæcumque habes, sit pax. 7 Audivi quod tonderent pastores tui, qui erant nobiscum in deserto: numquam eis molesti fuimus, nec aliquando defuit quidquam eis de grege, omni tempore quo fuerunt nobiscum in Carmelo. 8 Interroga pueros tuos, et indicabunt tibi.

6 And you shall say: Let there be peace to my brothers and to you, and peace to your house, and to all things whatsoever you have, let there be peace. 7 I have heard that your shepherds were shearing, who were with us in the desert: we were never troublesome to them, nor at any time did anything of the flock fail them, all the time that they were with us in Carmel. 8 Ask your servants, and they will tell you.

Nunc ergo inveniant pueri tui gratiam in oculis tuis: in die enim bona venimus: quodcumque invenerit manus tua, da servis tuis, et filio tuo David. 9 Cumque venissent pueri David, locuti sunt ad Nabal omnia verba hæc ex nomine David: et siluerunt. 10 Respondens autem Nabal pueris David, ait: Quis est David?

Now therefore let your young men find favor in your eyes: for on a good day we have come: whatever your hand may find, give to your servants, and to your son David. 9 And when David’s young men had come, they spoke to Nabal all these words in the name of David: and they were silent. 10 But Nabal, answering David’s young men, said: Who is David?

et quis est filius Isai? hodie increverunt servi qui fugiunt dominos suos. 11 Tollam ergo panes meos, et aquas meas, et carnes pecorum quæ occidi tonsoribus meis, et dabo viris quos nescio unde sint?

and who is the son of Jesse? today the servants who flee their masters have increased. Shall I then take my breads, and my waters, and the meats of the flocks which I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to men whom I know not whence they are?

12 Regressi sunt itaque pueri David per viam suam, et reversi venerunt, et nuntiaverunt ei omnia verba quæ dixerat. 13 Tunc ait David pueris suis: Accingatur unusquisque gladio suo. Et accincti sunt singuli gladiis suis, accinctusque est et David ense suo: et secuti sunt David quasi quadringenti viri: porro ducenti remanserunt ad sarcinas.

12 So the young men of David returned by their road, and, having come back, they came and announced to him all the words that he had spoken. 13 Then David said to his young men: Let each one gird on his sword. And each was girded with his sword, and David also was girded with his own sword: and about 400 men followed David; but 200 remained with the baggage.

14 Abigail autem uxori Nabal nuntiavit unus de pueris suis, dicens: Ecce David misit nuntios de deserto, ut benedicerent domino nostro: et aversatus est eos. 15 Homines isti boni satis fuerant nobis, et non molesti: nec quidquam aliquando periit omni tempore quo fuimus conversati cum eis in deserto: 16 pro muro erant nobis tam in nocte quam in die, omnibus diebus quibus pavimus apud eos greges. 17 Quam ob rem considera, et recogita quid facias: quoniam completa est malitia adversum virum tuum, et adversum domum tuam, et ipse est filius Belial, ita ut nemo possit ei loqui.

14 But one of her servants reported to Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying: Behold, David sent messengers from the desert to bless our master; and he turned them away. 15 These men had been quite good to us, and not troublesome: nor did anything ever go missing the whole time we were conversant with them in the desert: 16 they were to us as a wall both by night and by day, all the days that we pastured the flocks near them. 17 Therefore consider, and take thought what you should do: for malice is completed against your husband and against your house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no one can speak to him.

18 Festinavit igitur Abigail, et tulit ducentos panes, et duos utres vini, et quinque arietes coctos, et quinque sata polentæ, et centum ligaturas uvæ passæ, et ducentas massas caricarum, et posuit super asinos: 19 dixitque pueris suis: Præcedite me: ecce ego post tergum sequar vos: viro autem suo Nabal non indicavit. 20 Cum ergo ascendisset asinum, et descenderet ad radices montis, David et viri ejus descendebant in occursum ejus: quibus et illa occurrit. 21 Et ait David: Vere frustra servavi omnia quæ hujus erant in deserto, et non periit quidquam de cunctis quæ ad eum pertinebant: et reddidit mihi malum pro bono.

18 Therefore Abigail hastened, and took two hundred loaves, and two wineskins of wine, and five cooked rams, and five seahs of polenta, and a hundred bundles of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and set them upon asses: 19 and she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow you behind; but she did not tell her husband Nabal. 20 And when therefore she had mounted the ass, and was descending to the roots of the mountain, David and his men were coming down to meet her; and she met them. 21 And David said: Truly in vain have I kept safe all that was his in the desert, and nothing has perished of all that belonged to him: and he has repaid me evil for good.

22 Hæc faciat Deus inimicis David, et hæc addat, si reliquero de omnibus quæ ad ipsum pertinent usque mane mingentem ad parietem.

22 Thus may God do to the enemies of David, and thus add, if I leave until morning, of all that pertain to him, even one who urinates against the wall.

23 Cum autem vidisset Abigail David, festinavit, et descendit de asino, et procidit coram David super faciem suam, et adoravit super terram, 24 et cecidit ad pedes ejus, et dixit: In me sit, domine mi, hæc iniquitas: loquatur, obsecro, ancilla tua in auribus tuis, et audi verba famulæ tuæ. 25 Ne ponat, oro, dominus meus rex cor suum super virum istum iniquum Nabal: quoniam secundum nomen suum stultus est, et stultitia est cum eo: ego autem ancilla tua non vidi pueros tuos, domine mi, quos misisti. 26 Nunc ergo, domine mi, vivit Dominus, et vivit anima tua, qui prohibuit te ne venires in sanguinem, et salvavit manum tuam tibi: et nunc fiant sicut Nabal inimici tui, et qui quærunt domino meo malum. 27 Quapropter suscipe benedictionem hanc, quam attulit ancilla tua tibi domino meo, et da pueris qui sequuntur te dominum meum.

23 But when Abigail had seen David, she hastened, and descended from the donkey, and fell before David upon her face, and bowed in adoration upon the ground, 24 and fell at his feet, and said: Upon me be, my lord, this iniquity: let, I beseech, your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant-maid. 25 Let not, I pray, my lord the king set his heart upon this wicked man, Nabal: for according to his name he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, your handmaid, did not see your servants, my lord, whom you sent. 26 Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, who has prohibited you from coming into bloodshed, and has saved your hand for you: so now let your enemies be as Nabal, and those who seek evil for my lord. 27 Wherefore receive this benediction, which your handmaid has brought to you, my lord, and give it to the youths who follow you, my lord.

28 Aufer iniquitatem famulæ tuæ: faciens enim faciet Dominus tibi domino meo domum fidelem, quia prælia Domini, domine mi, tu præliaris: malitia ergo non inveniatur in te omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ. 29 Si enim surrexerit aliquando homo persequens te, et quærens animam tuam, erit anima domini mei custodita quasi in fasciculo viventium apud Dominum Deum tuum: porro inimicorum tuorum anima rotabitur, quasi in impetu et circulo fundæ. 30 Cum ergo fecerit Dominus tibi domino meo omnia quæ locutus est bona de te, et constituerit te ducem super Israël, 31 non erit tibi hoc in singultum, et in scrupulum cordis domino meo, quod effuderis sanguinem innoxium, aut ipse te ultus fueris: et cum benefecerit Dominus domino meo, recordaberis ancillæ tuæ. 32 Et ait David ad Abigail: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël, qui misit hodie te in occursum meum, et benedictum eloquium tuum, 33 et benedicta tu, quæ prohibuisti me hodie ne irem ad sanguinem, et ulciscerer me manu mea. 34 Alioquin vivit Dominus Deus Israël, qui prohibuit me ne malum facerem tibi: nisi cito venisses in occursum mihi, non remansisset Nabal usque ad lucem matutinam mingens ad parietem. 35 Suscepit ergo David de manu ejus omnia quæ attulerat ei, dixitque ei: Vade pacifice in domum tuam: ecce audivi vocem tuam, et honoravi faciem tuam.

28 Remove the iniquity of your handmaid: for doing, indeed, the Lord will make for you, my lord, a faithful house, because the battles of the Lord, my lord, you fight: therefore let malice not be found in you all the days of your life. 29 For if at any time a man should arise persecuting you and seeking your soul, the soul of my lord shall be guarded as if in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the soul of your enemies shall be whirled, as in the rush and circle of a sling. 30 Therefore when the Lord shall have done for you, my lord, all the good things that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you duke over Israel, 31 this shall not be to you for a sob and a scruple of heart, my lord, that you have poured out innocent blood, or that you yourself have avenged yourself: and when the Lord shall have done good to my lord, you will remember your handmaid. 32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me, and blessed be your discourse, 33 and blessed be you, who have restrained me today that I should not go to bloodshed, and avenge myself by my own hand. 34 Otherwise, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from doing evil to you: unless you had quickly come to meet me, there would not have remained to Nabal, until the morning light, anyone pissing against the wall. 35 David therefore received from her hand all that she had brought to him, and he said to her: Go in peace to your house: behold, I have listened to your voice, and I have honored your person.

36 Venit autem Abigail ad Nabal: et ecce erat ei convivium in domo ejus quasi convivium regis, et cor Nabal jucundum: erat enim ebrius nimis: et non indicavit ei verbum pusillum aut grande usque mane. 37 Diluculo autem cum digessisset vinum Nabal, indicavit ei uxor sua verba hæc: et emortuum est cor ejus intrinsecus, et factus est quasi lapis. 38 Cumque pertransissent decem dies, percussit Dominus Nabal, et mortuus est.

36 But Abigail came to Nabal: and behold, there was for him a banquet in his house, like a banquet of a king, and Nabal’s heart was jocund: for he was exceedingly drunk: and she did not indicate to him a word, small or great, until morning. 37 At daybreak, however, when Nabal had digested the wine, his wife indicated to him these words: and his heart died within him, and he became as if stone. 38 And when ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

39 Quod cum audisset David mortuum Nabal, ait: Benedictus Dominus, qui judicavit causam opprobrii mei de manu Nabal, et servum suum custodivit a malo, et malitiam Nabal reddidit Dominus in caput ejus. Misit ergo David, et locutus est ad Abigail, ut sumeret eam sibi in uxorem. 40 Et venerunt pueri David ad Abigail in Carmelum, et locuti sunt ad eam, dicentes: David misit nos ad te, ut accipiat te sibi in uxorem.

39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my opprobrium from the hand of Nabal, and has guarded his servant from evil, and the Lord has returned the malice of Nabal upon his head. Therefore David sent and spoke to Abigail, that he might take her to himself as wife. 40 And the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David has sent us to you, that he may take you to himself as wife.

41 Quæ consurgens, adoravit prona in terram, et ait: Ecce famula tua sit in ancillam, ut lavet pedes servorum domini mei. 42 Et festinavit, et surrexit Abigail, et ascendit super asinum, et quinque puellæ ierunt cum ea, pedissequæ ejus, et secuta est nuntios David: et facta est illi uxor. 43 Sed et Achinoam accepit David de Jezraël: et fuit utraque uxor ejus.

41 She, rising up, bowed herself prostrate to the ground, and said: Behold, let your handmaid be as a maidservant, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. 42 And she hastened, and Abigail arose, and mounted upon an ass, and five girls went with her, her handmaids, and she followed the messengers of David: and she became his wife. 43 But David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel: and both were his wives.

44 Saul autem dedit Michol filiam suam, uxorem David, Phalti filio Lais, qui erat de Gallim.

44 But Saul gave Michol his daughter, the wife of David, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was from Gallim.

26 1 Et venerunt Ziphæi ad Saul in Gabaa, dicentes: Ecce David absconditus est in colle Hachila, quæ est ex adverso solitudinis. 2 Et surrexit Saul, et descendit in desertum Ziph, et cum eo tria millia virorum de electis Israël, ut quæreret David in deserto Ziph. 3 Et castrametatus est Saul in Gabaa Hachila, quæ erat ex adverso solitudinis in via: David autem habitabat in deserto.

26 1 And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying: Behold, David is hidden on the hill of Hachilah, which is opposite the wilderness. 2 And Saul arose and went down into the desert of Ziph, and with him three thousand men of the elect of Israel, to seek David in the desert of Ziph. 3 And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which was opposite the wilderness, on the way: but David was dwelling in the desert.

Videns autem quod venisset Saul post se in desertum, 4 misit exploratores, et didicit quod illuc venisset certissime. 5 Et surrexit David clam, et venit ad locum ubi erat Saul: cumque vidisset locum in quo dormiebat Saul, et Abner filius Ner, princeps militiæ ejus, et Saulem dormientem in tentorio, et reliquum vulgus per circuitum ejus, 6 ait David ad Achimelech Hethæum, et Abisai filium Sarviæ fratrem Joab, dicens: Quis descendet mecum ad Saul in castra? Dixitque Abisai: Ego descendam tecum.

Seeing, however, that Saul had come after him into the desert, 4 he sent scouts, and learned most certainly that he had come there. 5 And David rose secretly, and came to the place where Saul was; and when he had seen the place in which Saul was sleeping, and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, and Saul sleeping in the tent, and the rest of the people in a circuit around him, 6 David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying: Who will descend with me to Saul into the camp? And Abishai said: I will descend with you.

7 Venerunt ergo David et Abisai ad populum nocte, et invenerunt Saul jacentem et dormientem in tentorio, et hastam fixam in terra ad caput ejus: Abner autem et populum dormientes in circuitu ejus. 8 Dixitque Abisai ad David: Conclusit Deus inimicum tuum hodie in manus tuas: nunc ergo perfodiam eum lancea in terra semel, et secundo opus non erit. 9 Et dixit David ad Abisai: Ne interficias eum: quis enim extendet manum suam in christum Domini, et innocens erit?

7 Therefore David and Abishai came to the people by night, and they found Saul lying and sleeping in the tent, and the spear fixed in the ground at his head: but Abner and the people were sleeping around him. 8 And Abishai said to David: God has delivered your enemy today into your hands: now therefore let me pierce him with the lance into the ground once, and there will be no need a second time. 9 And David said to Abishai: Do not kill him: for who will stretch out his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be innocent?

10 Et dixit David: Vivit Dominus, quia nisi Dominus percusserit eum, aut dies ejus venerit ut moriatur, aut in prælium descendens perierit: 11 propitius sit mihi Dominus ne extendam manum meam in christum Domini. Nunc igitur tolle hastam quæ est ad caput ejus, et scyphum aquæ, et abeamus. 12 Tulit igitur David hastam, et scyphum aquæ qui erat ad caput Saul, et abierunt: et non erat quisquam qui videret, et intelligeret, et evigilaret, sed omnes dormiebant, quia sopor Domini irruerat super eos.

10 And David said: As the Lord lives, for unless the Lord strike him, or his day come that he die, or going down into battle he perish: 11 may the Lord be propitious to me, that I not stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. Now therefore take the spear that is at his head, and the cup of water, and let us go. 12 Then David took the spear, and the cup of water that was at Saul’s head, and they went away: and there was no one who saw, or understood, or awoke, but all were sleeping, because a slumber of the Lord had rushed upon them.

13 Cumque transisset David ex adverso, et stetisset in vertice montis de longe, et esset grande intervallum inter eos, 14 clamavit David ad populum, et ad Abner filium Ner, dicens: Nonne respondebis, Abner? Et respondens Abner, ait: Quis es tu, qui clamas, et inquietas regem? 15 Et ait David ad Abner: Numquid non vir tu es? et quis alius similis tui in Israël? quare ergo non custodisti dominum tuum regem?

13 And when David had passed over to the opposite side, and stood on the summit of the mountain from afar, and there was a great interval between them, 14 David cried out to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying: Will you not answer, Abner? And Abner answering said: Who are you, who cry out and disturb the king? 15 And David said to Abner: Are you not a man? and who else is like you in Israel? why then did you not guard your lord the king?

ingressus est enim unus de turba ut interficeret regem dominum tuum. 16 Non est bonum hoc, quod fecisti: vivit Dominus, quoniam filii mortis estis vos, qui non custodistis dominum vestrum, christum Domini: nunc ergo vide ubi sit hasta regis, et ubi sit scyphus aquæ qui erat ad caput ejus.

for one from the crowd entered to kill the king, your lord. 16 This is not good, what you have done: as the Lord lives, you are sons of death, you who did not guard your lord, the Lord’s Anointed: now therefore see where the king’s spear is, and where the cup of water is that was at his head.

17 Cognovit autem Saul vocem David, et dixit: Numquid vox hæc tua, fili mi David? Et ait David: Vox mea, domine mi rex. 18 Et ait: Quam ob causam dominus meus persequitur servum suum?

17 But Saul recognized the voice of David, and said: Is this your voice, my son David? And David said: It is my voice, my lord the king. 18 And he said: For what cause does my lord persecute his servant?

quid feci? aut quod est malum in manu mea? 19 Nunc ergo audi, oro, domine mi rex, verba servi tui: si Dominus incitat te adversum me, odoretur sacrificium: si autem filii hominum, maledicti sunt in conspectu Domini qui ejecerunt me hodie ut non habitem in hæreditate Domini, dicentes: Vade, servi diis alienis.

What have I done? or what evil is in my hand? 19 Now therefore hear, I pray, my lord the king, the words of your servant: if the Lord incites you against me, let a sacrifice be pleasing; but if it is the sons of men, accursed are they before the Lord who have ejected me today so that I should not dwell in the inheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve alien gods.

20 Et nunc non effundatur sanguis meus in terram coram Domino: quia egressus est rex Israël ut quærat pulicem unum, sicut persequitur perdix in montibus. 21 Et ait Saul: Peccavi: revertere, fili mi David: nequaquam enim ultra tibi malefaciam, eo quod pretiosa fuerit anima mea in oculis tuis hodie: apparet enim quod stulte egerim, et ignoraverim multa nimis. 22 Et respondens David, ait: Ecce hasta regis: transeat unus de pueris regis, et tollat eam.

20 And now let not my blood be poured out upon the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel has gone out to seek a single flea, just as one pursues a partridge in the mountains. 21 And Saul said: I have sinned: return, my son David: for by no means will I do you ill any more, because my soul has been precious in your eyes today: for it is apparent that I have acted foolishly, and have been exceedingly ignorant of very many things. 22 And David, answering, said: Behold the king’s spear: let one of the king’s young men pass over and take it.

23 Dominus autem retribuet unicuique secundum justitiam suam et fidem: tradidit enim te Dominus hodie in manum meam, et nolui extendere manum meam in christum Domini. 24 Et sicut magnificata est anima tua hodie in oculis meis, sic magnificetur anima mea in oculis Domini, et liberet me de omni angustia. 25 Ait ergo Saul ad David: Benedictus tu, fili mi David: et quidem faciens facies, et potens poteris.

23 But the Lord will retribute to each according to his justice and faithfulness: for the Lord delivered you today into my hand, and I was unwilling to stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. 24 And just as your life has been magnified today in my eyes, so may my life be magnified in the eyes of the Lord, and may he deliver me from every distress. 25 Then Saul said to David: Blessed are you, my son David: and indeed you will surely do, and you will surely prevail.

Abiit autem David in viam suam, et Saul reversus est in locum suum. 27 1 Et ait David in corde suo: Aliquando incidam una die in manus Saul: nonne melius est ut fugiam, et salver in terra Philisthinorum, ut desperet Saul, cessetque me quærere in cunctis finibus Israël? fugiam ergo manus ejus. 2 Et surrexit David, et abiit ipse, et sexcenti viri cum eo, ad Achis filium Maoch regem Geth.

But David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. 27 1 And David said in his heart: Some day I shall fall one day into the hands of Saul; is it not better that I flee and be saved in the land of the Philistines, so that Saul may despair and cease to seek me in all the borders of Israel? I will therefore escape from his hand. And David arose, and he went—he himself, and six hundred men with him—to Achish, son of Maoch, king of Gath.

3 Et habitavit David cum Achis in Geth, ipse et viri ejus: vir et domus ejus: et David, et duæ uxores ejus, Achinoam Jezrahelitis, et Abigail uxor Nabal Carmeli. 4 Et nuntiatum est Sauli quod fugisset David in Geth, et non addidit ultra quærere eum. 5 Dixit autem David ad Achis: Si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, detur mihi locus in una urbium regionis hujus, ut habitem ibi: cur enim manet servus tuus in civitate regis tecum?

3 And David dwelt with Achish in Gath, he and his men: a man and his household: and David, and his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel. 4 And it was announced to Saul that David had fled to Gath, and he added no more to seek him. 5 But David said to Achish: If I have found grace in your eyes, let a place be given to me in one of the cities of this region, that I may dwell there: for why does your servant remain in the city of the king with you?

6 Dedit itaque ei Achis in die illa Siceleg: propter quam causam facta est Siceleg regum Juda usque in diem hanc. 7 Fuit autem numerus dierum quibus habitavit David in regione Philisthinorum, quatuor mensium.

6 Achis therefore gave him Siceleg on that day; for which cause Siceleg came to belong to the kings of Judah unto this day. 7 Now the number of the days in which David dwelt in the region of the Philistines was four months.

8 Et ascendit David et viri ejus, et agebant prædas de Gessuri, et de Gerzi, et de Amalecitis: hi enim pagi habitabantur in terra antiquitus, euntibus Sur usque ad terram Ægypti. 9 Et percutiebat David omnem terram, nec relinquebat viventem virum et mulierem: tollensque oves, et boves, et asinos, et camelos, et vestes, revertebatur, et veniebat ad Achis. 10 Dicebat autem ei Achis: In quem irruisti hodie?

8 And David went up, and his men, and they were driving off plunder from the Geshurites, and from the Girzites, and from the Amalekites: for these villages were inhabited in the land from of old, as one goes to Shur, as far as the land of Egypt. 9 And David would strike all the land, and he left alive neither man nor woman: and taking sheep, and oxen, and donkeys, and camels, and garments, he would return, and he came to Achis. 10 But Achis would say to him: Against whom did you rush in today?

Respondebat David: Contra meridiem Judæ, et contra meridiem Jerameel, et contra meridiem Ceni. 11 Virum et mulierem non vivificabat David, nec adducebat in Geth, dicens: Ne forte loquantur adversum nos: Hæc fecit David: et hoc erat decretum illi omnibus diebus quibus habitavit in regione Philisthinorum. 12 Credidit ergo Achis David, dicens: Multa mala operatus est contra populum suum Israël: erit igitur mihi servus sempiternus.

David answered: Against the south of Judah, and against the south of Jerameel, and against the south of the Kenite. 11 David would not make man or woman live, nor did he bring them to Geth, saying: Lest perhaps they speak against us: This did David: and this was a decree for himself all the days that he dwelt in the region of the Philistines. 12 Therefore Achis believed David, saying: He has wrought many evils against his own people Israel: therefore he will be a servant to me forever.

28 1 Factum est autem in diebus illis, congregaverunt Philisthiim agmina sua, ut præpararentur ad bellum contra Israël: dixitque Achis ad David: Sciens nunc scito quoniam mecum egredieris in castris, tu et viri tui. 2 Dixitque David ad Achis: Nunc scies quæ facturus est servus tuus. Et ait Achis ad David: Et ego custodem capitis mei ponam te cunctis diebus.

28 1 Now it came to pass in those days, the Philistines gathered their battle-lines, to be prepared for war against Israel: and Achish said to David: Know now, for certain, that you shall go out with me in the camp, you and your men. 2 And David said to Achish: Now you shall know what your servant will do. And Achish said to David: And I will set you as the guardian of my head all the days.

3 Samuel autem mortuus est, planxitque eum omnis Israël, et sepelierunt eum in Ramatha urbe sua. Et Saul abstulit magos et hariolos de terra. 4 Congregatique sunt Philisthiim, et venerunt, et castrametati sunt in Sunam: congregavit autem et Saul universum Israël, et venit in Gelboë. 5 Et vidit Saul castra Philisthiim, et timuit, et expavit cor ejus nimis.

3 But Samuel had died, and all Israel lamented him, and they buried him in Ramah, his city. And Saul removed the magicians and the soothsayers from the land. 4 And the Philistines were gathered together, and came, and encamped in Shunem: and Saul also gathered all Israel, and came to Gilboa. 5 And Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, and he feared, and his heart was greatly terrified.

6 Consuluitque Dominum, et non respondit ei neque per somnia, neque per sacerdotes, neque per prophetas. 7 Dixitque Saul servis suis: Quærite mihi mulierem habentem pythonem, et vadam ad eam, et sciscitabor per illam. Et dixerunt servi ejus ad eum: Est mulier pythonem habens in Endor.

6 And he consulted the Lord, and he did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets. 7 And Saul said to his servants: Seek for me a woman having a pythonic spirit, and I will go to her, and I will inquire through her. And his servants said to him: There is a woman having a pythonic spirit in Endor.

8 Mutavit ergo habitum suum, vestitusque est aliis vestimentis, et abiit ipse, et duo viri cum eo: veneruntque ad mulierem nocte, et ait illi: Divina mihi in pythone, et suscita mihi quem dixero tibi. 9 Et ait mulier ad eum: Ecce, tu nosti quanta fecerit Saul, et quomodo eraserit magos et hariolos de terra: quare ergo insidiaris animæ meæ, ut occidar? 10 Et juravit ei Saul in Domino, dicens: Vivit Dominus, quia non eveniet tibi quidquam mali propter hanc rem.

8 Therefore he changed his habit, and was clothed with other garments, and he went, he himself, and two men with him: and they came to the woman by night, and he said to her: Divine for me by the python, and bring up for me whom I shall tell you. 9 And the woman said to him: Behold, you know what Saul has done, and how he has erased the magicians and the soothsayers from the land: why then do you lay snares for my soul, that I may be killed? 10 And Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying: The Lord lives, that nothing evil shall befall you on account of this matter.

11 Dixitque ei mulier: Quem suscitabo tibi? Qui ait: Samuelem mihi suscita. 12 Cum autem vidisset mulier Samuelem, exclamavit voce magna, et dixit ad Saul: Quare imposuisti mihi?

11 And the woman said to him: Whom shall I raise up for you? He said: Raise up Samuel for me. 12 But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a great voice, and said to Saul: Why have you imposed upon me?

tu es enim Saul. 13 Dixitque ei rex: Noli timere: quid vidisti? Et ait mulier ad Saul: Deos vidi ascendentes de terra.

for you are Saul. 13 And the king said to her: Do not fear: what did you see? And the woman said to Saul: I saw gods ascending from the earth.

14 Dixitque ei: Qualis est forma ejus? Quæ ait: Vir senex ascendit, et ipse amictus est pallio. Et intellexit Saul quod Samuel esset, et inclinavit se super faciem suam in terra, et adoravit.

14 And he said to her: What is his form? She said: An old man is ascending, and he himself is wrapped in a mantle. And Saul understood that it was Samuel, and he inclined himself upon his face to the ground, and worshiped.

15 Dixit autem Samuel ad Saul: Quare inquietasti me ut suscitarer? Et ait Saul: Coarctor nimis: siquidem Philisthiim pugnant adversum me, et Deus recessit a me, et exaudire me noluit neque in manu prophetarum, neque per somnia: vocavi ergo te, ut ostenderes mihi quid faciam. 16 Et ait Samuel: Quid interrogas me, cum Dominus recesserit a te, et transierit ad æmulum tuum?

15 But Samuel said to Saul: Why have you disquieted me, that I should be raised up? And Saul said: I am hard-pressed exceedingly; since indeed the Philistines are fighting against me, and God has withdrawn from me, and has been unwilling to hear me, neither by the hand of the prophets nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you might show me what I should do. 16 And Samuel said: Why do you inquire of me, when the Lord has withdrawn from you and has passed over to your rival?

17 Faciet enim tibi Dominus sicut locutus est in manu mea, et scindet regnum tuum de manu tua et dabit illud proximo tuo David: 18 quia non obedisti voci Domini, neque fecisti iram furoris ejus in Amalec: idcirco quod pateris, fecit tibi Dominus hodie. 19 Et dabit Dominus etiam Israël tecum in manus Philisthiim: cras autem tu et filii tui mecum eritis: sed et castra Israël tradet Dominus in manus Philisthiim. 20 Statimque Saul cecidit porrectus in terram: extimuerat enim verba Samuelis, et robur non erat in eo, quia non comederat panem tota die illa.

17 For the Lord will do to you just as he spoke by my hand, and he will rend your kingdom from your hand and give it to your neighbor David: 18 because you did not obey the voice of the Lord, nor did you execute the rage of his fury against Amalek: therefore the Lord has done to you today what you are suffering. 19 And the Lord will also give Israel with you into the hands of the Philistines: moreover, tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and even the camp of Israel the Lord will deliver into the hands of the Philistines. 20 And at once Saul fell stretched out upon the ground: for he was terrified at the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, because he had not eaten bread all that day.

21 Ingressa est itaque mulier illa ad Saul (conturbatus enim erat valde), dixitque ad eum: Ecce obedivit ancilla tua voci tuæ, et posui animam meam in manu mea: et audivi sermones tuos, quos locutus es ad me. 22 Nunc igitur audi et tu vocem ancillæ tuæ, et ponam coram te buccellam panis, ut comedens convalescas, et possis iter agere. 23 Qui renuit, et ait: Non comedam. Coëgerunt autem eum servi sui et mulier, et tandem audita voce eorum surrexit de terra, et sedit super lectum.

21 Therefore the woman entered to Saul (for he was very much disturbed), and she said to him: Behold, your handmaid has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hand; and I have heard your words which you spoke to me. 22 Now therefore do you also hear the voice of your handmaid, and I will set before you a morsel of bread, that by eating you may recover, and be able to make the journey. 23 But he refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and the woman compelled him, and at length, having heard their voice, he rose from the ground and sat upon the bed.

24 Mulier autem illa habebat vitulum pascualem in domo, et festinavit, et occidit eum: tollensque farinam, miscuit eam, et coxit azyma, 25 et posuit ante Saul et ante servos ejus. Qui cum comedissent, surrexerunt, et ambulaverunt per totam noctem illam. 29 1 Congregata sunt ergo Philisthiim universa agmina in Aphec: sed et Israël castrametatus est super fontem qui erat in Jezrahel.

24 But that woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she hastened and killed it; and taking flour, she mixed it and baked unleavened bread, 25 and set it before Saul and before his servants. And when they had eaten, they rose up and walked through that whole night. 29 1 Therefore all the armies of the Philistines were gathered at Aphek; but Israel also encamped by the spring that was in Jezreel.

2 Et satrapæ quidem Philisthiim incedebant in centuriis et millibus: David autem et viri ejus erant in novissimo agmine cum Achis. 3 Dixeruntque principes Philisthiim ad Achis: Quid sibi volunt Hebræi isti? Et ait Achis ad principes Philisthiim: Num ignoratis David, qui fuit servus Saul regis Israël, et est apud me multis diebus, vel annis, et non inveni in eo quidquam ex die qua transfugit ad me usque ad diem hanc?

2 And the satraps of the Philistines were advancing by hundreds and by thousands; but David and his men were in the rearmost battle-line with Achish. 3 And the princes of the Philistines said to Achish: What do these Hebrews mean? And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you not know David, who was the servant of Saul, king of Israel, and has been with me for many days, even years, and I have found nothing in him from the day he defected to me up to this day?

4 Irati sunt autem adversus eum principes Philisthiim, et dixerunt ei: Revertatur vir iste, et sedeat in loco suo in quo constituisti eum, et non descendat nobiscum in prælium, ne fiat nobis adversarius, cum præliari cœperimus: quomodo enim aliter poterit placare dominum suum, nisi in capitibus nostris? 5 Nonne iste est David, cui cantabant in choris, dicentes:

4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry against him, and they said to him: Let this man return, and let him sit in his place in which you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us into battle, lest he become an adversary to us when we begin to fight; for how otherwise will he be able to placate his lord, if not with our heads? 5 Is not this David, to whom they were singing in choruses, saying:

Percussit Saul in millibus suis, et David in decem millibus suis?

Has Saul struck in his thousands, and David in his ten thousands?

6 Vocavit ergo Achis David, et ait ei: Vivit Dominus, quia rectus es tu, et bonus in conspectu meo: et exitus tuus, et introitus tuus mecum est in castris: et non inveni in te quidquam mali ex die qua venisti ad me usque in diem hanc: sed satrapis non places. 7 Revertere ergo, et vade in pace, et non offendas oculos satraparum Philisthiim. 8 Dixitque David ad Achis: Quid enim feci, et quid invenisti in me servo tuo, a die qua fui in conspectu tuo usque in diem hanc, ut non veniam et pugnem contra inimicos domini mei regis?

6 Therefore Achis called David, and said to him: As the Lord lives, for you are upright, and good in my sight: and your going out and your coming in is with me in the camp: and I have not found in you anything evil from the day you came to me until this day: but you do not please the satraps. 7 Therefore return, and go in peace, and do not offend the eyes of the satraps of the Philistines. 8 And David said to Achis: For what have I done, and what have you found in me your servant, from the day I was in your sight until this day, that I should not come and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

9 Respondens autem Achis, locutus est ad David: Scio quia bonus es tu in oculis meis, sicut angelus Dei: sed principes Philisthinorum dixerunt: Non ascendet nobiscum in prælium. 10 Igitur consurge mane tu, et servi domini tui qui venerunt tecum: et cum de nocte surrexeritis, et cœperit dilucescere, pergite. 11 Surrexit itaque de nocte David, ipse et viri ejus, ut proficiscerentur mane, et reverterentur ad terram Philisthiim: Philisthiim autem ascenderunt in Jezrahel.

9 But Achish answering, spoke to David: I know that you are good in my eyes, like an angel of God: but the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us into battle. 10 Therefore rise early, you and the servants of your lord who came with you: and when you have gotten up in the night, and it begins to grow light, go on your way. 11 So David rose in the night, he and his men, to set out in the morning, and to return to the land of the Philistines: but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

30 1 Cumque venissent David et viri ejus in Siceleg die tertia, Amalecitæ impetum fecerant ex parte australi in Siceleg, et percusserant Siceleg, et succenderant eam igni. 2 Et captivas duxerant mulieres ex ea, a minimo usque ad magnum: et non interfecerant quemquam, sed secum duxerant, et pergebant itinere suo. 3 Cum ergo venissent David et viri ejus ad civitatem, et invenissent eam succensam igni, et uxores suas, et filios suos et filias, ductas esse captivas, 4 levaverunt David et populus qui erat cum eo voces suas, et planxerunt donec deficerent in eis lacrimæ. 5 Siquidem et duæ uxores David captivæ ductæ fuerant, Achinoam Jezrahelites, et Abigail uxor Nabal Carmeli.

30 1 And when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack from the southern quarter against Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and had burned it with fire. 2 And they had led away captive the women from it, from the least to the greatest; and they had not killed anyone, but had led them with themselves, and were going on their way. 3 Therefore when David and his men came to the city, and found it burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been led away captive, 4 David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices, and lamented until the tears failed in them. 5 Indeed, even the two wives of David had been led away captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail, wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

6 Et contristatus est David valde: volebat enim eum populus lapidare, quia amara erat anima uniuscujusque viri super filiis suis et filiabus: confortatus est autem David in Domino Deo suo.

6 And David was very much saddened: for the people wanted to stone him, because the soul of each man was bitter over his sons and daughters: but David was comforted in the Lord his God.

7 Et ait ad Abiathar sacerdotem filium Achimelech: Applica ad me ephod. Et applicavit Abiathar ephod ad David. 8 Et consuluit David Dominum, dicens: Persequar latrunculos hos, et comprehendam eos, an non?

7 And he said to Abiathar the priest, son of Achimelech: Apply to me the ephod. And Abiathar applied the ephod to David. 8 And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I pursue these brigands, and shall I apprehend them, or not?

Dixitque ei Dominus: Persequere: absque dubio enim comprehendes eos, et excuties prædam. 9 Abiit ergo David, ipse et sexcenti viri qui erant cum eo, et venerunt usque ad torrentem Besor: et lassi quidam substiterunt. 10 Persecutus est autem David ipse, et quadringenti viri: substiterant enim ducenti, qui lassi transire non poterant torrentem Besor.

And the Lord said to him: Pursue; for without doubt you will apprehend them, and you will recover the prey. 9 So David went, he himself and 600 men who were with him, and they came as far as the torrent Besor; and certain men, weary, stayed behind. 10 But David himself pursued, and 400 men: for 200 had stayed behind, who, being weary, were not able to cross the torrent Besor.

11 Et invenerunt virum ægyptium in agro, et adduxerunt eum ad David: dederuntque ei panem ut comederet, et biberet aquam, 12 sed et fragmen massæ caricarum, et duas ligaturas uvæ passæ. Quæ cum comedisset, reversus est spiritus ejus, et refocillatus est: non enim comederat panem, neque biberat aquam, tribus diebus et tribus noctibus. 13 Dixit itaque ei David: Cujus es tu? vel unde? et quo pergis?

11 And they found an Egyptian man in the field, and brought him to David: and they gave him bread to eat, and to drink water, 12 and also a fragment of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten these, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: for he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, for three days and three nights. 13 Therefore David said to him: Whose are you? or whence? and whither are you going?

Qui ait: Puer ægyptius ego sum, servus viri Amalecitæ: dereliquit autem me dominus meus, quia ægrotare cœpi nudiustertius. 14 Siquidem nos erupimus ad australem plagam Cerethi, et contra Judam, et ad meridiem Caleb, et Siceleg succendimus igni. 15 Dixitque ei David: Potes me ducere ad cuneum istum?

He said: I am an Egyptian youth, a servant of an Amalekite man: but my master abandoned me, because I began to be ill the day before yesterday. 14 Indeed we made a raid upon the southern region of the Cherethites, and against Judah, and to the south of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire. 15 And David said to him: Can you lead me to that band?

Qui ait: Jura mihi per Deum quod non occidas me, et non tradas me in manus domini mei, et ego ducam te ad cuneum istum. Et juravit ei David. 16 Qui cum duxisset eum, ecce illi discumbebant super faciem universæ terræ comedentes et bibentes, et quasi festum celebrantes diem, pro cuncta præda et spoliis quæ ceperant de terra Philisthiim et de terra Juda.

He said: Swear to me by God that you will not kill me, and that you will not hand me over into the hands of my lord, and I will lead you to that band. And David swore to him. 16 And when he had led him, behold, they were reclining upon the face of the whole land, eating and drinking, and as if celebrating a feast-day, on account of all the booty and spoils which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

17 Et percussit eos David a vespere usque ad vesperam alterius diei, et non evasit ex eis quisquam, nisi quadringenti viri adolescentes, qui ascenderant camelos et fugerant. 18 Eruit ergo David omnia quæ tulerant Amalecitæ, et duas uxores suas eruit. 19 Nec defuit quidquam a parvo usque ad magnum, tam de filiis quam de filiabus, et de spoliis, et quæcumque rapuerant: omnia reduxit David.

17 And David struck them from evening until the evening of the next day, and none of them escaped, except 400 young men who had mounted camels and fled. 18 Therefore David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and he recovered his two wives. 19 And nothing was lacking, from small to great, both of sons and of daughters, and of the spoils, and whatever they had carried off: David brought back all.

20 Et tulit universos greges et armenta, et minavit ante faciem suam: dixeruntque: Hæc est præda David.

20 And he took all the flocks and herds, and drove them before his face; and they said: This is David's booty.

21 Venit autem David ad ducentos viros qui lassi substiterant, nec sequi potuerant David, et residere eos jusserat in torrente Besor: qui egressi sunt obviam David et populo qui erat cum eo. Accedens autem David ad populum, salutavit eos pacifice. 22 Respondensque omnis vir pessimus et iniquus de viris qui ierant cum David, dixit: Quia non venerunt nobiscum, non dabimus eis quidquam de præda quam eruimus: sed sufficiat unicuique uxor sua et filii: quos cum acceperint, recedant. 23 Dixit autem David: Non sic facietis, fratres mei, de his quæ tradidit nobis Dominus, et custodivit nos, et dedit latrunculos qui eruperant adversum nos, in manus nostras: 24 nec audiet vos quisquam super sermone hoc: æqua enim pars erit descendentis ad prælium, et remanentis ad sarcinas, et similiter divident.

21 But David came to the two hundred men who, weary, had halted, nor had been able to follow David, and he had ordered them to remain at the torrent Besor: who went out to meet David and the people who were with him. But David, approaching the people, greeted them peaceably. 22 And every wicked and iniquitous man from among the men who had gone with David answered and said: Because they did not come with us, we will not give them anything of the prey which we have recovered: but let each one’s own wife and sons suffice: which, when they have taken, let them depart. 23 But David said: You shall not do so, my brothers, concerning the things which the Lord has delivered to us, and has guarded us, and has given the brigands who had burst forth against us into our hands: 24 nor shall anyone hearken to you concerning this word: for equal shall be the share of the one going down to the battle and of the one remaining by the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

25 Et factum est hoc ex die illa et deinceps, constitutum et præfinitum, et quasi lex in Israël usque in diem hanc. 26 Venit ergo David in Siceleg, et misit dona de præda senioribus Juda proximis suis, dicens: Accipite benedictionem de præda hostium Domini: 27 his qui erant in Bethel, et qui in Ramoth ad meridiem, et qui in Jether, 28 et qui in Aroër, et qui in Sephamoth, et qui in Esthamo, 29 et qui in Rachal, et qui in urbibus Jerameel, et qui in urbibus Ceni, 30 et qui in Arama, et qui in lacu Asan, et qui in Athach, 31 et qui in Hebron, et reliquis qui erant in his locis in quibus commoratus fuerat David, ipse et viri ejus.

25 And it came to pass from that day and thereafter, it was established and pre-defined, and as a law in Israel unto this day. 26 Therefore David came to Ziklag, and sent gifts from the booty to the elders of Judah, his neighbors, saying: Receive a blessing from the booty of the Lord’s enemies: 27 to those who were in Bethel, and who were in Ramoth to the south, and who were in Jether, 28 and who were in Aroer, and who were in Sephamoth, and who were in Eshtemoa, 29 and who were in Rachal, and who were in the cities of Jerahmeel, and who were in the cities of the Kenites, 30 and who were in Arama, and who were in the lake of Asan, and who were in Athach, 31 and who were in Hebron, and to the rest who were in those places in which David had sojourned, he himself and his men.

31 1 Philisthiim autem pugnabant adversum Israël: et fugerunt viri Israël ante faciem Philisthiim, et ceciderunt interfecti in monte Gelboë. 2 Irrueruntque Philisthiim in Saul et in filios ejus, et percusserunt Jonathan, et Abinadab, et Melchisua filios Saul: 3 totumque pondus prælii versum est in Saul, et consecuti sunt eum viri sagittarii, et vulneratus est vehementer a sagittariis. 4 Dixitque Saul ad armigerum suum: Evagina gladium tuum, et percute me: ne forte veniant incircumcisi isti, et interficiant me, illudentes mihi. Et noluit armiger ejus: fuerat enim nimio terrore perterritus.

31 1 But the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel fled before the face of the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philistines rushed upon Saul and upon his sons, and struck down Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua, the sons of Saul: 3 and the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul, and the archers overtook him, and he was wounded very grievously by the archers. 4 And Saul said to his armor-bearer: Unsheathe your sword, and strike me, lest perhaps these uncircumcised come and kill me, mocking me. And his armor-bearer would not: for he had been overawed by excessive terror.

Arripuit itaque Saul gladium, et irruit super eum. 5 Quod cum vidisset armiger ejus, videlicet quod mortuus esset Saul, irruit etiam ipse super gladium suum, et mortuus est cum eo. 6 Mortuus est ergo Saul, et tres filii ejus, et armiger illius, et universi viri ejus in die illa pariter. 7 Videntes autem viri Israël qui erant trans vallem et trans Jordanem, quod fugissent viri Israëlitæ, et quod mortuus esset Saul et filii ejus, reliquerunt civitates suas, et fugerunt: veneruntque Philisthiim, et habitaverunt ibi.

Then Saul seized the sword and rushed upon it. 5 When his armor-bearer saw this—namely, that Saul was dead—he too rushed upon his own sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men together on that day. 7 But the men of Israel who were across the valley and across the Jordan, seeing that the Israelites had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, abandoned their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt there.

8 Facta autem die altera, venerunt Philisthiim ut spoliarent interfectos, et invenerunt Saul et tres filios ejus jacentes in monte Gelboë. 9 Et præciderunt caput Saul, et spoliaverunt eum armis: et miserunt in terram Philisthinorum per circuitum, ut annuntiaretur in templo idolorum, et in populis. 10 Et posuerunt arma ejus in templo Astaroth, corpus vero ejus suspenderunt in muro Bethsan. 11 Quod cum audissent habitatores Jabes Galaad, quæcumque fecerant Philisthiim Saul, 12 surrexerunt omnes viri fortissimi, et ambulaverunt tota nocte, et tulerunt cadaver Saul, et cadavera filiorum ejus, de muro Bethsan: veneruntque Jabes Galaad, et combusserunt ea ibi: 13 et tulerunt ossa eorum, et sepelierunt in nemore Jabes, et jejunaverunt septem diebus.

8 But on the next day, the Philistines came to despoil the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa. 9 And they cut off Saul’s head, and stripped him of his arms; and they sent throughout the land of the Philistines in a circuit, to have it announced in the temple of idols, and among the peoples. 10 And they placed his arms in the temple of Ashtaroth, but his body they hung on the wall of Beth-shan. 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard whatever the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all the very valiant men rose up, and walked all night, and took the corpse of Saul, and the corpses of his sons, from the wall of Beth-shan: and they came to Jabesh-gilead, and burned them there: 13 and they took their bones, and buried them in the grove of Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.