1 Samuel 21

1 Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?" 2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’ 3 Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available."

4 The priest answered David, and said, "I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women."

5 David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?" 6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

8 David said to Ahimelech, "Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste."

9 The priest said, "Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here."

David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

10 David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. 11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying,

‘Saul has slain his thousands,

and David his ten thousands’?"

12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13 He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard. 14 Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me? 15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?"

Ka Rere atu a Rāwiri i a Haora

1 Kātahi ka tae a Rāwiri ki Nopo ki te tohunga ki a Ahimereke, ā, wiri ana a Ahimereke i te tūtakitanga ki a Rāwiri, ā, ka mea ki a ia, "He aha koe i haere mai ai, tōu kotahi, kāhore nā hoki ōu hoa?"

2 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki te tohunga, ki a Ahimereke, "He mea i whakahaua ai ahau e te kīngi; i mea mai hoki ia ki ahau, ‘Kei mōhiotia e tētahi he kupu o te take ka tonoa atu nei koe e ahau, i whakahaua atu nei koe e ahau.’ Nā, ko ngā tāngata, kei te wāhi i kīia e ahau mō rātou. 3 Nā, he aha kei raro i tōu ringa? Hōmai ētahi taro ki tōku ringa, kia rima; ētahi atu mea rānei kei konei."

4 Nā, ka utu te tohunga ki a Rāwiri, ka mea, "Kāhore he taro noa i tōku ringa; engari tēnei te taro tapu; ki te mea rāia kāhore i tata ngā tāngata ki te wahine."

5 Nā, ka whakahoki a Rāwiri ki te tohunga, ka mea ki a ia, "He pono kīhai tētahi wahine i tukua kia tata ki a mātou i ēnei rā e toru; nōku i haere mai nei e tapu ana anō ngā mea o ngā tamariki, ahakoa rā he haere noa tēnei; tērā noa atu ia te tapu ināianei o ō rātou mea." 6 Nā, ka hoatu te mea tapu e te tohunga ki a ia; kāhore hoki o reira taro, heoi anō ko te taro aroaro, i tangohia nei i te aroaro o Ihowā, kia whakatakotoria ai he taro mahana i te rā i tangohia ai.

7 Nā, i reira tētahi o ngā tāngata a Haora i taua rā, e whakawarea ana ki te aroaro o Ihowā, ko tōna ingoa ko Roeke Ēromi, ko te mea tino nui o ngā kaitiaki hipi a Haora.

8 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Ahimereke, "Kāhore ianei i konei i raro i tōu ringa tētahi tao, hoari rānei? Kīhai hoki i maua mai e ahau tāku hoari me āku patu, he mea whakapōtatutatu hoki te take a te kīngi."

9 Anō rā ko te tohunga, "Ko te hoari a Koriata, a te Pirihitini, i patua nā e koe ki te raorao o Eraha; nanā, koia tēnei he mea takai ki te kākahu i muri o te epora. Ki te tangohia tēnā e koe māu, tangohia; kāhore atu hoki, ko tēnā anake."

Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri, "Kāhore ōna rite, hōmai ki ahau."

Ko Rāwiri kei Kata

10 Kātahi a Rāwiri ka whakatika, ā, rere ana i taua rā anō i te wehi i a Haora, ā tae tonu atu ki a Ākihi kīngi o Kāta. 11 Nā, ka mea ngā tāngata a Ākihi ki a ia, "Ehara ianei tēnei i a Rāwiri, i te kīngi o te whenua? Kīhai ianei rātou i waiata mōna, tētahi ki tētahi i roto i ngā kanikani, i mea:

‘Nā Haora āna mano i patu,

nā Rāwiri ko āna tekau mano’?"

12 Nā, mau tonu iho ēnei kupu i te ngākau o Rāwiri, ā, nui atu tōna wehi i a Ākihi kīngi o Kāta. 13 Nā, ka whakaahua kē ia ki tō rātou aroaro, ā, ka whakahaurangi i a ia i roto i a rātou; ka haehae hoki i ngā tatau o te kūwaha, ā, ka tuku i tōna hūhare kia tārere iho ki tōna kumikumi.

14 Kātahi a Ākihi ka mea ki āna tāngata, "Nanā, kua kite koutou i te tangata nei e haurangi ana; he aha i kawea mai ai ki ahau? 15 He onge nō āku tāngata haurangi i kawea mai ai tēnei e koutou hei mahi i ngā mahi a te haurangi ki ahau? Me uru mai koia tēnei tāhake ki tōku whare?"