1 Samuel 30— comparação

1Quando David e seus homens chegaram a Ziklag no terceiro dia, os amalequitas fizeram uma incursão no Sul e em Ziklag, e atingiram Ziklag e o queimaram com fogo,

2e levaram cativas as mulheres e todos os que estavam nele, tanto pequenos como grandes. Elas não mataram nenhuma, mas as carregaram e seguiram seu caminho.

3Quando David e seus homens chegaram à cidade, eis que ela foi queimada com fogo; e suas esposas, seus filhos e suas filhas foram levados cativos.

4Então Davi e as pessoas que estavam com ele levantaram a voz e choraram até não terem mais poder para chorar.

5As duas esposas de Davi foram levadas cativas, Ahinoam, a Jezreelita, e Abigail, a esposa de Nabal, a Carmelita.

6David estava muito angustiado, pois o povo falava em apedrejá-lo, porque as almas de todo o povo estavam de luto, cada homem por seus filhos e por suas filhas; mas David se fortaleceu em Yahweh seu Deus.

7David disse a Abiathar, o sacerdote, filho de Ahimelech: “Por favor, traga o éfode aqui para mim”.

8David perguntou a Yahweh, dizendo: “Se eu perseguir esta tropa, vou ultrapassá-los?”

9Então David foi, ele e os seiscentos homens que estavam com ele, e veio para o riacho Besor, onde ficaram os que ficaram para trás.

10Mas David perseguiu, ele e quatrocentos homens; pois duzentos ficaram para trás, que estavam tão fracos que não conseguiam atravessar o riacho Besor.

11Encontraram um egípcio no campo, trouxeram-no até Davi, deram-lhe pão e ele comeu; e deram-lhe água para beber.

12Deram-lhe um pedaço de bolo de figos e dois cachos de passas de uva. Quando ele comeu, seu espírito voltou a ele; pois ele não tinha comido pão e não tinha bebido água por três dias e três noites.

13David lhe perguntou: “A quem você pertence? De onde você é?”

14Fizemos uma incursão no Sul dos Cherethites, e no que pertence a Judá, e no Sul de Calebe; e queimamos Ziklag com fogo”.

15David lhe disse: “Você vai me levar até esta tropa?”

16Quando ele o derrubou, eis que estavam espalhados por toda a terra, comendo, bebendo e dançando, por causa de todos os grandes saques que haviam tirado da terra dos filisteus, e da terra de Judá.

17David os atacou desde o crepúsculo até a noite do dia seguinte. Nem um homem deles escapou dali, exceto quatrocentos jovens que montaram em camelos e fugiram.

18David recuperou tudo o que os amalequitas haviam levado, e David salvou suas duas esposas.

19Não lhes faltava nada, nem pequenos nem grandes, nem filhos nem filhas, nem pilhagem, nem nada que eles tivessem levado. David os trouxe a todos de volta.

20David levou todos os rebanhos e os rebanhos, que eles conduziam antes desses outros animais, e disse: “Este é o saque de David”.

21David veio aos duzentos homens, que estavam tão fracos que não puderam seguir David, que também tinham feito para ficar no riacho Besor; e foram ao encontro de David, e das pessoas que estavam com ele. Quando Davi chegou perto do povo, ele os cumprimentou.

22Então todos os homens maus e inúteis daqueles que foram com Davi responderam e disseram: “Porque eles não foram conosco, não lhes daremos nada do saque que recuperamos, exceto a cada homem sua esposa e seus filhos, para que ele os leve embora e parta”.

23Então David disse: “Não o façam, meus irmãos, com aquilo que Javé nos deu, que nos preservou e entregou a tropa que veio contra nós em nossas mãos”.

24Quem o escutará neste assunto? Pois como sua parte é quem vai para a batalha, também sua parte será quem fica com a bagagem. Eles compartilharão da mesma forma”.

25Foi assim desde aquele dia em diante que ele fez dele um estatuto e uma portaria para Israel até os dias de hoje.

26Quando David veio a Ziklag, ele enviou parte do saque aos anciãos de Judá, até mesmo a seus amigos, dizendo: “Eis um presente para você do saque dos inimigos de Javé”.

27Ele enviou para aqueles que estavam em Betel, para aqueles que estavam em Ramoth do Sul, para aqueles que estavam em Jattir,

28para aqueles que estavam em Aroer, para aqueles que estavam em Siphmoth, para aqueles que estavam em Eshtemoa,

29para aqueles que estavam em Racal, aos que estavam nas cidades dos Jerahmeelitas, aos que estavam nas cidades dos quenitas,

30aos que estavam em Hormah, aos que estavam em Borashan, aos que estavam em Athach,

31aos que estavam em Hebron, e a todos os lugares onde o próprio David e seus homens costumavam ficar.

1When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,

2and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way.

3When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

5David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

6David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

7David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

8David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

9So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.

11They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

12They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

13David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.

14We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

15David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

16When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

18David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

19There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back.

20David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”

21David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

22Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart.”

23Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

24Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

25It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

26When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”

27He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,

28to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,

29to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

30to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,

31to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.