1 Samuel 22

1 David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men. 3 David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out to you, until I know what God will do for me." 4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. 5 The prophet Gad said to David, "Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah."

Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

6 Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. 7 Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds? 8 Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?"

9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king. 12 Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub."

He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

13 Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?"

14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house? 15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more."

16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house." 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!"

Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. 20 One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. 21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests.

22 David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house. 23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. You will be safe with me."

Te Patunga o ngā Tohunga

1 Nā, ka haere atu a Rāwiri i reira, ā, rere ana ki te ana o Aturama. Ā, ka rongo ōna tuākana, me te whare katoa o tōna pāpā, nā, ka haere ki reira, ki a ia. 2 I huihui anō ki a ia ngā tāngata katoa e pēhia ana e te aha, e te aha, me ngā tāngata i a rātou nei ētahi taonga tārewa, me ngā tāngata katoa e mamae ana te ngākau. Ā, ko ia hei rangatira mō rātou, tata tonu ki te whā rau ngā tāngata i piri ki a ia.

3 Nā, ka haere atu a Rāwiri i reira ki Mihipa o Moapa, ka mea ki te kīngi o Moapa, "Tukua tōku pāpā me tōku whaea kia haere mai ki a koutou, kia mōhio rā anō ahau ki tā te Atua e mea ai ki ahau." 4 Nā, ka kawea rāua e ia ki te aroaro o te kīngi o Moapa, ā, noho ana rāua ki a ia i ngā rā katoa i noho ai a Rāwiri i te pourewa.

5 Nā, ka mea a Kara poropiti ki a Rāwiri, "Kaua e noho ki te pourewa, whakatika, haere ki te whenua o Hūrā." Nā, ka haere a Rāwiri, ā, noho ana i te nehenehe i Harete.

Ka Patua e Haora ngā Tohunga o Nopo

6 Ā, nō te rongonga o Haora kua kitea a Rāwiri rātou ko ōna hoa, nā, i Kipea a Haora e noho ana, i raro i tētahi rākau, i Rama, me tāna tao i tōna ringa, me te tū āna tāngata katoa i tōna taha. 7 Ka mea a Haora ki āna tāngata e tū ana i tōna taha, "Whakarongo mai ki ahau, e ngā Pineamini; e hōmai rānei e te tama a Hehe he māra ki a koutou katoa, he kāri wāina, e meinga rānei koutou katoa e ia hei rangatira mano, hei rangatira rau. 8 I whakatenetene mai ai koutou ki ahau; ā, kāhore tētahi hei whakaatu ki ahau i te whakaritenga kawenata a tāku tama rāua ko te tama a Hehe. Kāhore tētahi o koutou e pōuri mōku, e whāki rānei ki ahau, nā tāku tama i whakatūtehu tāku tangata ki ahau, kia whanga puku, pēnei me tēnei ināianei?"

9 Kātahi ka oho mai ko Roeke Ēromi, he kaitohutohu nō ngā tāngata a Haora, ka mea, "I kite ahau i te tama a Hehe e haere ana ki Nopo, ki a Ahimereke tama a Ahitupu. 10 Nā, uia ana e tērā he tikanga māna i a Ihowā; i hoatu anō e ia he ō mōna; ko te hoari hoki a Koriata Pirihitini i hoatu anō e ia ki a ia."

11 Kātahi te kīngi ka unga tāngata atu hei karanga i te tohunga, i a Ahimereke tama a Ahitupu rātou ko te whare katoa o tōna pāpā, i ngā tohunga e noho ana i Nopo, ā, ka haere katoa mai rātou ki te kīngi.

12 Nā, ka mea a Haora, "Whakarongo mai, e te tama a Ahitupu."

Ā, ka mea tērā, "Tēnei ahau, e tōku ariki."

13 Anō rā ko Haora ki a ia, "He aha kōrua ko te tama a Hehe i whakatenetene mai ai ki ahau, ā, hoatu ana e koe he taro māna, he hoari, uia ana anō e koe he tikanga māna i te Atua, kia whakatika mai ai ia ki ahau whanga ai; koia anō tēnei ināianei?"

14 Nā, ka utu a Ahimereke ki te kīngi, ka mea, "Ha, ko wai o āu tāngata katoa hei rite mō Rāwiri te pono? Ko te hunaonga hoki ia a te kīngi, e haere ana i tāu ngare, e whakahōnoretia ana hoki i roto i tōu whare? 15 Nō tēnei rā koia i tīmata ai ahau ki te ui mea māna i te Atua? Kāhore rāpea! Kaua tētahi mea e whakairia mai e te kīngi ki tāna pononga, ki tētahi rānei o te whare o tōku pāpā. Kāhore hoki tāu pononga i mōhio ki tētahi aha o tēnei, ahakoa iti, ahakoa rahi."

16 Nā, ka mea te kīngi, "Ko te mate anake mōu, e Ahimereke, mōu, mō te whare katoa anō o tōu pāpā."

17 Nā, ka mea te kīngi ki ngā kaitiaki e tū ana i tōna taha, "Tahuri atu, whakamatea ngā tohunga a Ihowā; he mea ko ō rātou ringa anō kei a Rāwiri; i mōhio hoki rātou e rere ana ia, ā, kīhai i whakaatu mai ki ahau."

Otiia kīhai i pai ngā tāngata a te kīngi kia totoro atu ō rātou ringa, kia rere ki runga ki ngā tohunga a Ihowā.

18 Nā, ka mea te kīngi ki a Roeke, "Tahuri atu, e rere ki runga ki ngā tohunga." Nā, tahuri ana a Roeke Ēromi, ā, rere ana ki runga ki ngā tohunga, ā, e waru tekau mā rima ngā tāngata i patua e ia i taua rā, he hunga kākahu i te epora rīnena. 19 I patua anō hoki e ia a Nopo, te pā o ngā tohunga, ki te mata o te hoari, te tāne, te wāhine, ngā tamariki, ngā mea ngote ū, ngā kau, ngā kāihe, ngā hipi, ki te mata o te hoari.

20 Nā, i mawhiti tētahi o ngā tama a Ahimereke tama a Ahitupu, tōna ingoa ko Apiātara; ā, rere ana ki te whai i a Rāwiri. 21 Ā, nā Apiātara i kōrero ki a Rāwiri tā Haora patunga i ngā tohunga a Ihowā. 22 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Apiātara, "I mōhio anō ahau i taua rā i a Roeke Ēromi i konā, ka whakaaturia e ia ki a Haora. Nāku i mate ai ngā tāngata katoa o te whare o tōu pāpā. 23 E noho koe ki ahau, kaua e wehi; ko te tangata hoki e whai ana i te mate mōku, e whai ana i te mate mōu; nā, kei ahau nei koe, ka tiakina koe."