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Dawudi Asenga mu Bafirisuuti

27 Dawudi n’afumiitiriza mu mutima gwe ng’agamba nti, “Luliba lumu Sawulo n’anzita. Ekisinga obulungi kwe kuddukira mu nsi y’Abafirisuuti. Awo nno Sawulo anaalekeraawo okunnoonyeza mu Isirayiri, era bwe ntyo bwe nzija okumuwona.”

(A)Awo Dawudi n’abasajja lukaaga ne basitula ne bagenda eri kabaka Akisi mutabani wa Mawoki ow’e Gaasi. (B)Dawudi n’abasajja be ne basenga mu Gaasi ewa Akisi, buli musajja ne nnyumba ye yonna, ne Dawudi n’abakyala be bombi, Akinoamu Omuyezuleeri ne Abbigayiri Omukalumeeri, nnamwandu wa Nabali. Awo Sawulo bwe yategeezebwa nga Dawudi yaddukira e Gaasi n’alekeraawo okumunoonya.

Awo Dawudi n’agamba Akisi nti, “Obanga ndabye ekisa mu maaso go, wabeewo ekifo ekiba kimpebwa mu kimu ku bibuga ebitonotono, ntuule eyo. Lwaki omuweereza wo abeera naawe mu kibuga ekikulu eky’obwakabaka?”

(C)Awo ku lunaku olwo, Akisi n’amuwa Zikulagi, era kyekyava kibeera ekibuga kya bakabaka ba Yuda, n’okutuusa leero. (D)Dawudi n’abeera mu nsi ey’Abafirisuuti okumala omwaka gumu n’emyezi ena. (E)Mu bbanga eryo, Dawudi n’abasajja be ne bambuka ne balumba Abagesuli, n’Abagiruzi, n’Abamaleki. Okuva edda n’edda abo be bantu abaabeeranga mu nsi eyo okuva e Suuli okutuuka e Misiri. (F)Dawudi buli lwe yalumbanga ekitundu, teyalekangawo musajja newaakubadde omukazi, naye yatwalanga endiga, n’ente, endogoyi n’eŋŋamira, n’engoye; n’oluvannyuma n’addayo eri Akisi.

10 (G)Awo Akisi yamubuuzanga nti, “Leero walumbye wa?” Dawudi yaddangamu nti, “Ebukiikaddyo obwa Yuda,” oba nti, “Ebukiikaddyo obw’Abayerameeri[a],” oba nti, “Ebukiikaddyo obw’Abakeeni[b].” 11 Teyalekangawo musajja newaakubadde omukazi nga mulamu okubaleeta e Gaasi, kubanga yalowooza nti, “Bakyayinza okutuloopa, nga boogera nti, ‘Dawudi akola kino na kino.’ ” Era eyo ye yali ng’empisa ye, ebbanga lyonna lye yabeera mu nsi ey’Abafirisuuti. 12 Akisi ne yeesiga Dawudi, n’ayogera mu mutima gwe nti, “Alabika yeetamiddwa abantu be Abayisirayiri, kale kyanaava afuuka omuweereza wange emirembe gyonna.”

Footnotes

  1. 27:10 Abayerameeri baali bazzukulu ba Yuda nga bava mu Kezulooni (1By 2:9, 25, 26)
  2. 27:10 Laba mu Bal 4:11

David Among the Philistines

27 But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

So David and the six hundred men(A) with him left and went(B) over to Achish(C) son of Maok king of Gath. David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives:(D) Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal. When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

So on that day Achish gave him Ziklag,(E) and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since. David lived(F) in Philistine territory a year and four months.

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,(G) the Girzites and the Amalekites.(H) (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur(I) and Egypt.) Whenever David attacked an area, he did not leave a man or woman alive,(J) but took sheep and cattle, donkeys and camels, and clothes. Then he returned to Achish.

10 When Achish asked, “Where did you go raiding today?” David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah” or “Against the Negev of Jerahmeel(K)” or “Against the Negev of the Kenites.(L) 11 He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, “They might inform on us and say, ‘This is what David did.’” And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory. 12 Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious(M) to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.(N)

27 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.

12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.