1 Intussen is aan Dawid meegedeel en gesê: Kyk, die Filistyne veg teen Keh¡la, en hulle plunder die dorsvloere.
2 Toe raadpleeg Dawid die HERE en vra: Sal ek gaan en daardie Filistyne verslaan? En die HERE sê vir Dawid: Gaan en verslaan die Filistyne en verlos Keh¡la.
3 Maar die manne van Dawid sê vir hom: Kyk, hier in Juda is ons al bevrees, hoeveel te meer dan as ons na Keh¡la trek teen die slagordes van die Filistyne?
4 Toe raadpleeg Dawid die HERE nog weer, en die HERE het hom geantwoord en gesê: Maak klaar, trek af na Keh¡la, want Ek gee die Filistyne in jou hand.
5 Daarom het Dawid met sy manne na Keh¡la getrek en teen die Filistyne geveg en hulle vee weggedrywe en 'n groot slag onder hulle geslaan. So het Dawid dan die inwoners van Keh¡la verlos.
7 Daarop kry Saul berig dat Dawid in Keh¡la gekom het, en Saul sê: God het hom in my hand oorgelewer, want hy het homself opgesluit deurdat hy in 'n stad met poorte en grendels ingegaan het.
8 Daarom het Saul al die manskappe vir die geveg opgeroep om af te trek na Keh¡la ten einde Dawid en sy manne in te sluit.
9 Toe Dawid gewaar dat Saul onheil teen hom beraam, sê hy aan die priester Abjatar: Bring die skouerkleed nader.
10 En Dawid sê: HERE, God van Israel, u kneg het verseker gehoor dat Saul na Keh¡la wil trek om die stad om my ontwil te verwoes.
11 Sal die burgers van Keh¡la my in sy hand uitlewer? Sal Saul afkom soos u kneg verneem het? HERE, God van Israel, gee u kneg dit tog te kenne! Toe antwoord die HERE: Hy sal afkom.
12 Daarop sê Dawid: Sal die burgers van Keh¡la my en my manne in die hand van Saul uitlewer? En die HERE antwoord: Hulle sal uitlewer.
13 En Dawid het klaargemaak met sy manne, omtrent ses honderd man -- hulle het uit Keh¡la uitgetrek en rondgetrek waar hulle maar kon. Toe Saul berig ontvang dat Dawid uit Keh¡la ontsnap het, het hy opgehou om uit te trek.
14 En Dawid het gebly in die woestyn, in die bergvestings, ook op die gebergte in die woestyn Sif; en Saul het hom aldae gesoek, maar God het hom nie in sy hand oorgegee nie.
15 Maar Dawid het bemerk dat Saul uittrek om sy lewe te soek. Dawid was naamlik in die woestyn Sif, in Hores.
16 Daarop het Jonatan, die seun van Saul, hom klaargemaak en na Dawid in Hores gegaan. En hy het hom bemoedig in God
17 en vir hom gesê: Vrees nie, want die hand van Saul, my vader, sal jou nie vind nie, maar jy sal koning word oor Israel, en ek sal die tweede onder jou wees; en my vader Saul weet dit ook goed.
18 Toe sluit hulle twee 'n verbond voor die aangesig van die HERE; en Dawid het in Hores gebly, maar Jonatan het na sy huis gegaan.
19 Daarna het daar Sifiete opgegaan na Saul, na G¡bea, en gesê: Steek Dawid hom nie weg by ons in die bergvestings, in Hores, op die heuwel Hag¡la wat suid van die wildernis lê nie?
20 En is dit nou na u hartelus om af te kom, o koning, kom dan af, en ons sal sorg om hom in die hand van die koning uit te lewer.
21 En Saul sê: Mag julle geseënd wees deur die HERE, omdat julle medelyde met my gehad het.
22 Gaan tog heen, maak verder klaar en ondersoek en bekyk die plek waar sy spoor is, wie hom daar gesien het; want aan my is gesê dat hy baie listig is.
23 Daarom, bekyk en ondersoek al die skuilplekke waar hy hom wegsteek, en kom verseker na my terug, dan sal ek met julle saamgaan; en as hy in die land is, sal ek hom opspoor onder al die geslagte van Juda.
24 En hulle het klaargemaak en voor Saul uit na Sif gegaan, terwyl Dawid en sy manne in die woestyn Maon was, in die Vlakte suid van die wildernis.
25 Toe Saul met sy manne trek om hom te soek, is dit aan Dawid geboodskap; daarom het hy afgetrek na die rots en in die woestyn Maon gebly. Maar Saul het dit gehoor en Dawid agternagejaag, die woestyn Maon in.
26 En Saul het aan hierdie kant van die berg getrek, maar Dawid met sy manne was aan die ander kant van die berg. En toe Dawid in angs vlug om van Saul weg te kom, terwyl Saul en sy manne Dawid en sy manne omsingel om hulle te vang,
27 kom daar 'n boodskapper by Saul en sê: Maak gou en kom, want die Filistyne het 'n inval in die land gedoen.
28 Daarop het Saul omgedraai en Dawid nie meer agternagejaag nie, maar die Filistyne tegemoetgetrek. Daarom noem hulle daardie plek Rots van Skeiding.
1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.
2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.
3 And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
4 Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.
5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.
6 Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.
7 And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.
8 And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.
9 And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.
10 Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.
11 And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.
12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.
13 Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.
14 And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.
15 And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.
16 And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God;
17 And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.
18 And the two of them made an agreement before the Lord: and David went on living in Horesh, and Jonathan went back to his house.
19 Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?
20 So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.
21 And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me.
22 Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit.
23 So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.
24 And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.
25 And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.
26 And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.
27 But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.
28 So turning back from going after David, Saul went against the Philistines: so that place was named Sela-hammah-lekoth.