1 Samuel 20

1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

2 He said to him, "Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

4 Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you."

5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. 6 If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’ 7 If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him. 8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?"

9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?"

10 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?"

11 Jonathan said to David, "Come! Let’s go out into the field." They both went out into the field. 12 Jonathan said to David, "By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you? 13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you as he has been with my father. 14 You shall not only show me the loving kindness of Yahweh while I still live, that I not die; 15 but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when Yahweh has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth." 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, "Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies."

17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 18 Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 19 When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel. 20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark. 21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come, for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives. 22 But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for Yahweh has sent you away. 23 Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever."

24 So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food. 25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean."

27 On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?"

28 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. 29 He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table."

30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!"

32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. 34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

35 In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. 36 He said to his boy, "Run, find now the arrows which I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 37 When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, "Isn’t the arrow beyond you?" 38 Jonathan cried after the boy, "Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!" Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. 39 But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. 40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, "Go, carry them to the city."

41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most. 42 Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

Te Hoatanga o Rāwiri me Honatana

1 Nā, ka rere a Rāwiri i Naioto o Rama, ā, ka tae, ka kōrero ki a Honatana, "I aha ahau? He aha tōku hē? He aha hoki tōku hara i te aroaro o tōu pāpā, i whai ai ia kia whakamatea ahau?"

2 Nā, ka mea tērā ki a ia, "Kāhore rāpea, e kore koe e mate. Nanā, e kore e meatia e tōku pāpā tētahi mea, nui, iti rānei; ki te kāhore e whakakitea mai e ia ki ahau; ā, he aha tēnei mea e hunā ai e tōku pāpā i ahau? Ehara tēnā."

3 Nā, ka oati anō a Rāwiri, ka mea, "E tino mōhio ana tōu pāpā kua manakohia ahau e koe; koia ia i mea ai, ‘Kei mōhiotia tēnei e Honatana, kei pōuri ia.’ Otiia, e ora ana a Ihowā, e ora ana hoki tōu wairua, he hīkoinga kotahi noa ko te mate mōku."

4 Kātahi a Honatana ka mea ki a Rāwiri, "He aha nei te mea e hiahiatia ana e tōu wairua, ka meatia tonutia e ahau māu."

5 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Honatana, "Nanā, āpōpō ka kōwhiti te marama, ā, ko te tikanga kia noho tahi ai ahau me te kīngi ki te kai; nā, tukua ahau kia haere, kia piri ai ahau ki te pārae ā te ahiahi rā anō o te toru o ngā rā. 6 Ki te ui ia tōu pāpā mō tōku ngaro, ko reira koe ka kī atu, ‘I tono kaha a Rāwiri ki ahau kia tukua ia kia rere ki tōna pā, ki Pēterehema; kei reira hoki te patunga tapu o te tau mā te hapū katoa.’ 7 Ki te pēnei mai tāna kī, ‘E pai ana!’ Ka mau te rongo ki tāu pononga; e nui rawa ia tōna riri, kātahi koe ka mōhio kua takoto te kino i a ia. 8 Nā reira, kia pai tāu mahi ki tāu pononga, nāu nei hoki i mea tāu pononga kia uru taua ki tā Ihowā kawenata. Otiia ki te mea he kino tōku, māu ahau e whakamate; kia kawea atu hoki ahau e koe ki tōu pāpā hei aha?"

9 Nā, ka mea a Honatana, "Kaua tēnā e meatia ki a koe; engari ki te mōhio kau ahau kua takoto i tōku pāpā kia whakapākia he kino ki a koe, e kore ianei e kōrerotia e ahau ki a koe?"

10 Kātahi a Rāwiri ka mea ki a Honatana, "Mā wai e kōrero ki ahau, ki te pakeke te kupu e whakahokia e tōu pāpā ki a koe?"

11 Anō rā ko Honatana ki a Rāwiri, "Haere mai, tāua ka haere ki te pārae." Nā, haere ana rāua tokorua ki te pārae.

12 Nā, ka mea a Honatana ki a Rāwiri, "Ko Ihowā, ko te Atua o Īharaira, hei kaititiro; māku e rapu te whakaaro o tōku pāpā i tēnei wā pea āpōpō, i te toru rānei o ngā rā; ki te mea he pai mō Rāwiri, e kore ianei ahau e tuku tonu atu, e whakaatu ki a koe? 13 Kia meatia tēnei e Ihowā ki a Honatana, me ētahi atu mea; pēnā he kino tā tōku pāpā e pai ai mōu, ā, ka kore ahau e whakaatu ki a koe, ka tuku i a koe kia haere i runga i te rangimārie; ā, kia noho a Ihowā ki a koe kia pērā me ia i noho ki tōku pāpā. 14 Ā, kaua anō e waiho i tōku oranga anake tāu whakaputa i tō Ihowā aroha ki ahau, kia kaua ahau e mate; 15 kauaka anō hoki e hautopea atu tōu aroha ki tōku whare ā ake ake; kauaka rawa, ina hautopea atu e Ihowā ngā hoariri katoa o Rāwiri i te mata o te whenua."

16 Heoi, ka whakarite kawenata a Honatana ki te whare o Rāwiri, ka mea, "Kia rapu utu anō a Ihowā i te ringa o ngā hoariri o Rāwiri." 17 Ā, i mea a Honatana kia oati anō a Rāwiri; he aroha hoki nōna ki a ia; i aroha hoki ia ki a ia, me te mea ko te aroha ki tōna wairua ake.

18 Kātahi a Honatana ka mea ki a ia, "Āpōpō te kōwhiti ai te marama; ā, ka kitea tōu ngaromanga, ka takoto kau hoki tōu nohoanga. 19 Ā, ka toru ōu rā e noho ana, kia hohoro tōu haere ki raro, ā, ka tae ki te wāhi i piri ai koe i te rā i kōrerotia ai, ā, ka noho ki te taha o Ētere kōhatu. 20 Ā, māku e kōpere ētahi pere kia toru ki tōna taha, ānō e kōpere ana ki tētahi kōperenga pere. 21 Nā, ka tono ahau i te tamaiti, ‘Tīkina, rapua ngā pere.’ Ki te mea atu ahau ki te tamaiti, ‘Nei nā ngā pere, kei tēnei taha ōu, tīkina mai,’ kātahi koe ka haere mai; e mau ana hoki te rongo ki a koe, kāhore hoki he rawa, e ora ana a Ihowā. 22 Ki te pēnei ia tāku kī atu ki te tamaiti, ‘Nā, ko ngā pere, kei tua atu i a koe,’ kātahi koe ka haere atu; he mea tono hoki koe nā Ihowā. 23 Nā, ko tēnei mea i kōrerotia nei e tāua, nanā, kei waenganui i a tāua a Ihowā ā ake ake."

24 Heoi, piri ana a Rāwiri ki te pārae; ā, i te kōwhititanga o te marama ka noho te kīngi ki te kai. 25 Ā, i te noho te kīngi ki tōna nohoanga ō mua iho, ki te nohoanga i te pakitara; i whakatika anō hoki a Honatana, ā, ka noho a Āpanēre ki te taha o Haora; nā, e takoto kau ana tō Rāwiri wāhi. 26 Ahakoa rā kīhai i puaki tētahi kupu a Haora i taua rā; i mea hoki ia, "Kua pā tētahi mea ki a ia, kāhore anō kia kore noa tōna poke; inā kāhore anō kia kore noa tōna poke." 27 Nā, i te aonga ake, arā i te rua o ngā rā o te marama, e takoto kau ana anō tō Rāwiri wāhi. Nā, ka mea a Haora ki tāna tama, ki a Honatana, "Nā te aha te tama a Hehe tē haere mai ai ki te kai inanahi, ināianei?"

28 Nā, ka utua e Honatana ki a Haora, "I tono kaha a Rāwiri ki ahau kia tukua ia kia haere ki Pēterehema; 29 i mea mai hoki ia, ‘Tukua ahau kia haere, he patunga tapu hoki tā tō mātou hapū i taua pā; nā tōku tuakana pū anō hoki ahau i poroaki mai. Nā, ki te mea kua manakohia ahau e koe, tukua ahau kia rere atu kia kite i ōku tuākana.’ Koia ia tē haere mai ai ki te tēpu a te kīngi."

30 Ko te tino muranga o te riri o Haora ki a Honatana, ka mea ki a ia, "E te tama a te wahine parori kē, tutū! Kāhore rānei ahau i te mōhio kua tango koe i te tama a Hehe, hei mea whakamā ki a koe tonu, hei mea whakamā hoki ki te hahaketanga o tōu whaea? 31 I ngā rā katoa e ora ai te tama a Hehe ki runga ki te whenua, e kore koe e tū, me tōu rangatiratanga. Nā, tonoa kia tīkina ia ki ahau, kua tino takoto hoki te mate mōna."

32 Nā, ka whakahoki a Honatana ki tōna pāpā, ka mea ki a ia, "Kia whakamatea ia mō te aha? I aha ia?" 33 Nā, ko te werohanga a Haora i te tao ki a ia, hei patu mōna. Kātahi a Honatana ka mōhio kua takoto i tōna pāpā te mate mō Rāwiri.

34 Heoi, ka whakatika atu a Honatana i te tēpu, mura tonu hoki tōna riri, kīhai anō i kai i te rua o ngā rā o te marama; i pōuri hoki ia mō Rāwiri, mōna i meinga e tōna pāpā kia whakamā.

35 Nā, i te ata ka haere a Honatana ki te pārae i te wā i whakaritea ki a Rāwiri, rāua ko tētahi tamaiti nohinohi. 36 Nā, ka mea ia ki taua tamaiti, "Rere atu ki te rapu i ngā pere e kōperea atu ana e ahau." Ko te rerenga atu o te tamaiti, nā, kōperea atu ana e ia he pere ki kō noa atu i a ia. 37 Ā, nō te taenga atu o te tamaiti ki te wāhi i te pere i kōperea nei e Honatana, ka karanga a Honatana i muri i te tamaiti, ka mea, "Kāhore iana te pere i kō atu i a koe nā?" 38 Nā, ka karanga anō a Honatana i muri i taua tamaiti, "Kia kakama, kia hohoro, kaua e tū." Nā, kohikohia ana ngā pere e te tamaiti a Honatana, ā, haere mai ana ki tōna rangatira. 39 Otiia kīhai tētahi mea i mōhiotia e taua tamaiti; engari a Honatana rāua ko Rāwiri, i mōhio rāua ki tōna tikanga. 40 Nā, ka hoatu e Honatana āna patu ki tāna tamaiti, ka mea ki a ia, "Haere, kawea atu ki te pā."

41 Ā, nō te haerenga o taua tamaiti, nā, ka whakatika mai a Rāwiri i te taha ki te tonga, ā, ka tāpapa ki te whenua, e toru hoki ōna pikonga iho. Nā, ka kihi rāua i a rāua, ka tangi hoki tētahi ki tētahi, ā, rahi noa ake tā Rāwiri.

42 Nā, ka mea a Honatana ki a Rāwiri, "Haere i runga i te rangimārie. Kua oati nei hoki tāua i runga i te ingoa o Ihowā, kua mea tāua, ‘Hei waenganui a Ihowā i a tāua hei waenganui hoki i ōku uri, i ōu uri mō ake tonu atu.’ " Nā, whakatika ana ia, ā, haere ana; ko Honatana hoki i haere ki te pā.