1 Samuel 13

1Havia já Saul reinado um ano; e reinado que houve dois anos sobre Israel, 2Escolheu-se logo três mil de Israel: os dois mil estiveram com Saul em Micmás e no monte de Betel, e os mil estiveram com Jônatas em Gibeá de Benjamim; e enviou a todo o outro povo cada um a suas tendas. 3E Jônatas feriu a guarnição dos filisteus que havia no morro, e ouviram-no os filisteus. E fez Saul tocar trombetas por toda a terra, dizendo: Ouçam os hebreus. 4E todo Israel ouviu o que se dizia: Saul feriu a guarnição dos filisteus; e também que Israel se tornou detestável aos filisteus. E juntou-se o povo sob o comando de Saul em Gilgal. 5Então os filisteus se juntaram para lutar com Israel, trinta mil carros, e seis mil cavalos, e povo quando a areia que está à beira do mar em multidão; e subiram, e assentaram acampamento em Micmás, ao oriente de Bete-Áven. 6Mas os homens de Israel, vendo-se postos em apuros, (porque o povo estava em dificuldades), escondeu-se o povo em covas, em fossos, em penhascos, em rochas e em cisternas. 7E alguns dos hebreus passaram o Jordão à terra de Gade e de Gileade: e Saul se estava ainda em Gilgal, e todo o povo ia atrás dele tremendo. 8E ele esperou sete dias, conforme ao prazo que Samuel havia dito; mas Samuel não vinha a Gilgal, e o povo se lhe desertava. 9Então disse Saul: Trazei-me holocausto e sacrifícios pacíficos. E ofereceu o holocausto. 10E quando ele acabava de fazer o holocausto, eis que Samuel que vinha; e Saul lhe saiu a receber para saudar-lhe. 11Então Samuel disse: Que fizeste? E Saul respondeu: Porque vi que o povo se me ia, e que tu não vinhas ao prazo dos dias, e que os filisteus estavam juntos em Micmás, 12Disse-me: Os filisteus descerão agora contra mim a Gilgal, e eu não implorei o favor do SENHOR. Esforcei-me pois, e ofereci holocausto. 13Então Samuel disse a Saul: Loucamente fizeste; não guardaste o mandamento do SENHOR teu Deus, que ele te havia intimado; porque agora o SENHOR teria confirmado teu reino sobre Israel para sempre. 14Mas agora teu reino não será durável: o SENHOR buscou para si homem segundo seu coração, ao qual o SENHOR mandou que seja líder sobre seu povo, porquanto tu não guardaste o que o SENHOR te mandou. 15E levantando-se Samuel, subiu de Gilgal a Gibeá de Benjamim. E Saul contou a gente que se achava com ele, como seiscentos homens. 16Então Saul e Jônatas seu filho, e o povo que com eles se achava, ficaram em Gibeá de Benjamim: mas os filisteus haviam posto seu acampamento em Micmás. 17E saíram do acampamento dos filisteus em saque três esquadrões. O um esquadrão tirou pelo caminho de Ofra até a terra de Sual. 18O outro esquadrão marchou até Bete-Horom, e o terceiro esquadrão marchou até a região que está voltada ao vale de Zeboim até o deserto. 19E em toda a terra de Israel não se achava ferreiro; porque os filisteus haviam dito: Para que os hebreus não façam espada ou lança. 20E todos os de Israel desciam aos filisteus cada qual a amolar sua relha, sua enxada, seu machado, ou seu sacho, 21E cobravam certo preço pelas relhas, pelas enxadas, e pelas forquilhas, e outro para afiar os machados, e as aguilhadas. 22Assim aconteceu que o dia da batalha não se achou espada nem lança em mão de algum de todo o povo que estava com Saul e com Jônatas, exceto Saul e Jônatas seu filho, que as tinham. 23E a guarnição dos filisteus saiu ao desfiladeiro de Micmás.

1Saul reigned a year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, 2Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. 3Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!” 4All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal. 5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. 6When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits. 7Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 8He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel: but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 9Saul said, “Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering. 10It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. 11Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash; 12therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.” 13Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever. 14But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.” 15Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. 16Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. 17The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; 18and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. 19Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears”; 20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle; 21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads. 22So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. 23The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

1Saul was een jaar in zijn regering geweest, en het tweede jaar regeerde hij over Israel. 2Toen verkoos zich Saul drie duizend mannen uit Israel; en er waren bij Saul twee duizend te Michmas en op het gebergte van Beth-El, en duizend waren er bij Jonathan te Gibea-Benjamins; en het overige des volks liet hij gaan, een iegelijk naar zijn tent. 3Doch Jonathan sloeg de bezetting der Filistijnen, die te Geba was, hetwelk de Filistijnen hoorden. Daarom blies Saul met de bazuin in het ganse land, zeggende: Laat het de Hebreen horen. 4Toen hoorde het ganse Israel zeggen: Saul heeft de bezetting der Filistijnen geslagen, en ook is Israel stinkende geworden bij de Filistijnen. Toen werd het volk samengeroepen achter Saul, naar Gil-gal. 5En de Filistijnen werden verzameld om te strijden tegen Israel, dertig duizend wagens, en zes duizend ruiters, en volk in menigte als het zand, dat aan den oever der zee is; en zij togen op, en legerden zich te Michmas, tegen het oosten van Beth-Aven. 6Toen de mannen van Israel zagen, dat zij in nood waren (want het volk was benauwd), zo verborg zich het volk in de spelonken, en in de doornbossen, en in de steenklippen, en in de vestingen, en in de putten. 7De Hebreen nu gingen over de Jordaan in het land van Gad en Gilead. Toen Saul nog zelf te Gilgal was, zo kwam al het volk bevende achter hem. 8En hij vertoefde zeven dagen, tot den tijd, dien Samuel bestemd had. Als Samuel te Gilgal niet opkwam, zo verstrooide het volk van hem. 9Toen zeide Saul: Brengt tot mij herwaarts een brandoffer, en dankofferen; en hij offerde brandoffer. 10En het geschiedde, toen hij geeindigd had het brandoffer te offeren, ziet, zo kwam Samuel; en Saul ging uit hem tegemoet, om hem te zegenen. 11Toen zeide Samuel: Wat hebt gij gedaan? Saul nu zeide: Omdat ik zag, dat zich het volk van mij verstrooide, en gij op den bestemden tijd der dagen niet kwaamt, en de Filistijnen te Michmas vergaderd waren, 12Zo zeide ik: Nu zullen de Filistijnen tot mij afkomen te Gilgal, en ik heb het aangezicht des HEEREN niet ernstelijk aangebeden, zo dwong ik mijzelven, en heb brandoffer geofferd. 13Toen zeide Samuel tot Saul: Gij hebt zottelijk gedaan; gij hebt het gebod van den HEERE, uw God, niet gehouden, dat Hij u geboden heeft; want de HEERE zou nu uw rijk over Israel bevestigd hebben tot in eeuwigheid. 14Maar nu zal uw rijk niet bestaan. De HEERE heeft Zich een man gezocht naar Zijn hart, en de HEERE heeft hem geboden een voorganger te zijn over Zijn volk, omdat gij niet gehouden hebt, wat u de HEERE geboden had. 15Toen maakte zich Samuel op, en hij ging op van Gilgal naar Gibea-Benjamins; en Saul telde het volk, dat bij hem gevonden werd, omtrent zeshonderd man. 16En Saul en zijn zoon Jonathan, en het volk, dat bij hen gevonden was, bleven te Gibea-Benjamins; maar de Filistijnen waren te Michmas gelegerd. 17En de verdervers gingen uit het leger der Filistijnen, in drie hopen; de ene hoop keerde zich op den weg naar Ofra, naar het land Sual; 18En een hoop keerde zich naar den weg van Beth-horon; en een hoop keerde zich naar den weg der landpale, die naar het dal Zeboim naar de woestijn uitziet. 19En er werd geen smid gevonden in het ganse land van Israel; want de Filistijnen hadden gezegd: Opdat de Hebreen geen zwaard noch spies maken. 20Daarom moest gans Israel tot de Filistijnen aftrekken, opdat een iegelijk zijn ploegijzer, of zijn spade, of zijn bijl, of zijn houweel scherpen liet. 21Maar zij hadden tandige vijlen tot hun houwelen, en tot hun spaden, en tot de drietandige vorken, en tot de bijlen, en tot het stellen der prikkelen. 22En het geschiedde ten dage des strijds, dat er geen zwaard noch spies gevonden werd in de hand van het ganse volk, dat bij Saul en bij Jonathan was; doch bij Saul en bij Jonathan, zijn zoon, werden zij gevonden. 23En der Filistijnen leger toog naar den doortocht van Michmas.