1E indo-se Davi dali escapou-se à cova de Adulão; o qual quando ouviram seus irmãos e toda a casa de seu pai, vieram ali a ele. 2E juntaram-se com ele todos os afligidos, e todo aquele que estava endividado, e todos os que se achavam em amargura de espírito, e foi feito capitão deles: e teve consigo como quatrocentos homens. 3E foi-se Davi dali a Mispá de Moabe, e disse ao rei de Moabe: Eu te rogo que meu pai e minha mãe estejam convosco, até que saiba o que Deus fará de mim. 4Trouxe-os, pois, à presença do rei de Moabe, e habitaram com ele todo aquele tempo que Davi esteve na fortaleza. 5E Gade profeta disse a Davi: Não fiques nesta fortaleza, parte-te, e vai-te à terra de Judá. E Davi se partiu, e veio ao bosque de Herete. 6E ouviu Saul como havia aparecido Davi, e os que estavam com ele. Estava então Saul em Gibeá debaixo de uma árvore em Ramá, e tinha sua lança em sua mão, e todos os seus criados estavam em derredor dele. 7E disse Saul a seus criados que estavam em derredor dele: Ouvi agora, filhos de Benjamim: O filho de Jessé também dará a todos vós terras e vinhas, e vos fará a todos comandantes de mim e comandantes de cem, 8Que todos vós conspirastes contra mim, e não há quem me revele ao ouvido como meu filho fez aliança com o filho de Jessé, nem alguém de vós que se condoa de mim, e me revele como meu filho levantou meu servo contra mim, para que me prepare ciladas, como ele hoje faz? 9Então Doegue edomita, que era superior entre os servos de Saul, respondeu e disse: Eu vi ao filho de Jessé que veio a Nobe, a Aimeleque filho de Aitube; 10O qual consultou por ele ao SENHOR, e deu-lhe provisão, e também lhe deu a espada de Golias o filisteu. 11E o rei enviou pelo sacerdote Aimeleque filho de Aitube, e por toda a casa de seu pai, os sacerdotes que estavam em Nobe: e todos vieram ao rei. 12E Saul lhe disse: Ouve agora, filho de Aitube. E ele disse: Eis-me aqui, senhor meu. 13E disse-lhe Saul: Por que conspirastes contra mim, tu e o filho de Jessé, quando tu lhe deste pão e espada, e consultaste por ele a Deus, para que se levantasse contra mim e me armasse cilada, como o faz hoje dia? 14Então Aimeleque respondeu ao rei, e disse: E quem entre todos teus servos é tão fiel como Davi, genro também do rei, e que vai por teu mandado, e é ilustre em tua casa? 15Comecei eu desde hoje a consultar por ele a Deus? Longe seja de mim: não impute o rei coisa alguma a seu servo, nem a toda a casa de meu pai; porque teu servo nenhuma coisa sabe deste negócio, grande nem pequena. 16E o rei disse: Sem dúvida morrerás, Aimeleque, tu e toda a casa de teu pai. 17Então disse o rei à gente de sua guarda que estava ao redor dele: Voltai-vos e matai aos sacerdotes do SENHOR; porque também a mão deles é com Davi, pois sabendo eles que fugia, não o revelaram a mim. Mas os servos do rei não quiseram estender suas mãos para matar os sacerdotes do SENHOR. 18Então disse o rei a Doegue: Volta tu, e arremete contra os sacerdotes. E revolvendo-se Doegue edomita, arremeteu contra os sacerdotes, e matou naquele dia oitenta e cinco homens que vestiam éfode de linho. 19E a Nobe, cidade dos sacerdotes, pôs à espada: tanto a homens como a mulheres, meninos e mamantes, bois e asnos e ovelhas, tudo à espada. 20Mas um dos filhos de Aimeleque filho de Aitube, que se chamava Abiatar, escapou, e fugiu-se a Davi. 21E Abiatar noticiou a Davi como Saul havia matado os sacerdotes do SENHOR. 22E disse Davi a Abiatar: Eu sabia que estando ali aquele dia Doegue o edomita, ele o havia de fazer saber a Saul. Eu dei ocasião contra todas as pessoas da casa de teu pai. 23Fica-te comigo, não temas: quem buscar minha vida, buscará também a tua: bem que comigo tu estarás seguro.
1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. 3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.” 4He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. 5The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth. 6Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. 7Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, 8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?” 9Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.” 11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. 12Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.” 13Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?” 14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? 15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.” 16The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.” 17The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. 18The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. 20One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. 21Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests. 22David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house. 23Stay with me, don’t be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard.”
1Toen ging David van daar, en ontkwam in de spelonk van Adullam. En zijn broeders hoorden het, en het ganse huis zijns vaders, en kwamen derwaarts tot hem af. 2En tot hem vergaderde alle man, die benauwd was, en alle man, die een schuldeiser had, en alle man, wiens ziel bitterlijk bedroefd was, en hij werd tot overste over hen; zodat bij hem waren omtrent vierhonderd mannen. 3En David ging van daar naar Mizpa der Moabieten; en hij zeide tot den koning der Moabieten: Laat toch mijn vader en mijn moeder bij ulieden uitgaan, totdat ik weet, wat God mij doen zal. 4En hij bracht hen voor het aangezicht van den koning der Moabieten; en zij bleven bij hem al de dagen, die David in de vesting was. 5Doch de profeet Gad zeide tot David: Blijf in de vesting niet, ga heen, en ga in het land van Juda. Toen ging David heen, en hij kwam in het woud Chereth. 6En Saul hoorde, dat David bekend geworden was, en de mannen, die bij hem waren. Saul nu zat op een heuvel onder het geboomte te Rama, en hij had zijn spies in zijn hand, en al zijn knechten stonden bij hem. 7Toen zeide Saul tot zijn knechten, die bij hem stonden: Hoort toch, gij, zonen van Jemini, zal ook de zoon van Isai u altegader akkers en wijnbergen geven? Zal hij u allen tot oversten van duizenden, en oversten van honderden stellen? 8Dat gij u allen tegen mij verbonden hebt, en niemand voor mijn oor openbaart, dat mijn zoon een verbond gemaakt heeft met den zoon van Isai; en niemand is onder ulieden, dien het wee doet van mijnentwege, en die het voor mijn oor openbaart; want mijn zoon heeft mijn knecht tegen mij opgewekt, tot een lagenlegger, gelijk het te dezen dage is. 9Toen antwoordde Doeg, de Edomiet, die bij de knechten van Saul stond, en zeide: Ik zag den zoon van Isai, komende te Nob, tot Achimelech, den zoon van Ahitub; 10Die den HEERE voor hem vraagde, en gaf hem teerkost; hij gaf hem ook het zwaard van Goliath, den Filistijn. 11Toen zond de koning heen, om den priester Achimelech, den zoon van Ahitub, te roepen, en zijns vaders ganse huis, de priesters, die te Nob waren; en zij kwamen allen tot den koning. 12En Saul zeide: Hoor nu, gij, zoon van Ahitub! En hij zeide: Zie, hier ben ik, mijn heer! 13Toen zeide Saul tot hem: Waarom hebt gijlieden samen u tegen mij verbonden, gij en de zoon van Isai, mits dat gij hem gegeven hebt brood en het zwaard, en God voor hem gevraagd, dat hij zou opstaan tegen mij tot een lagenlegger, gelijk het te dezen dage is? 14En Achimelech antwoordde den koning en zeide: Wie is toch onder al uw knechten getrouw als David, en des konings schoonzoon, en voortgaande in uw gehoorzaamheid, en is eerlijk in uw huis? 15Heb ik heden begonnen God voor hem te vragen? Dat zij verre van mij, de koning legge op zijn knecht geen ding, noch op het ganse huis mijns vader; want uw knecht heeft van al deze dingen niet geweten, klein noch groot. 16Doch de koning zeide: Achimelech, gij moet den dood sterven, gij en het ganse huis uws vaders. 17En de koning zeide tot de trawanten, die bij hem stonden: Wendt u, en doodt de priesters des HEEREN, omdat hun hand ook met David is, en omdat zij geweten hebben, dat hij vluchtte, en hebben het voor mijn oren niet geopenbaard. Doch de knechten des konings wilden hun hand niet uitsteken, om op de priesters des HEEREN aan te vallen. 18Toen zeide de koning tot Doeg: Wend gij u, en val aan op de priesters. Toen wendde zich Doeg, de Edomiet, en hij viel aan op de priesters, en doodde te dien dage vijf en tachtig mannen, die den linnen lijfrok droegen. 19Hij sloeg ook Nob, de stad dezer priesters, met de scherpte des zwaards, van den man tot de vrouw, van de kinderen tot de zuigelingen, zelfs de ossen en ezels, en de schapen, sloeg hij met de scherpte des zwaards. 20Doch een der zonen van Achimelech, den zoon van Ahitub, ontkwam, wiens naam was Abjathar; die vluchtte David na. 21En Abjathar boodschapte het David, dat Saul de priesteren des HEEREN gedood had. 22Toen zeide David tot Abjathar: Ik wist wel te dien dage, toen Doeg, de Edomiet, daar was, dat hij het voorzeker Saul zou te kennen geven; ik heb oorzaak gegeven tegen al de zielen van uws vaders huis. 23Blijf bij mij; vrees niet; want wie mijn ziel zoeken zal, die zal uw ziel zoeken; maar gij zult met mij in bewaring zijn.
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