1 Samuel 23

1 David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?"

Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

3 David’s men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."

5 David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

6 When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

7 Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars." 8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men. 9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." 10 Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant."

Yahweh said, "He will come down."

12 Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?"

Yahweh said, "They will deliver you up."

13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there. 14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand. 15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.

16 Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God. 17 He said to him, "Don’t be afraid, for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also." 18 They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods and Jonathan went to his house.

19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand."

21 Saul said, "You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me. 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. 26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them. 27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!" 28 So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.*23:28 "Sela Hammahlekoth" means "rock of parting".

29 David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

Ka Whakaorangia e Rāwiri te Kāinga o Keira

1 Nā, ka kōrerotia te kōrero ki a Rāwiri, "Nanā, kei te whawhai ngā Pirihitini ki Keira, ā, e pāhua ana i ngā patunga wīti." 2 Nā reira i ui ai a Rāwiri ki a Ihowā, i mea ai, "Me haere rānei ahau ki te patu i ēnei Pirihitini?"

Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Rāwiri, "Haere, patua ngā Pirihitini, whakaorangia hoki a Keira."

3 Nā, ka mea ngā tāngata a Rāwiri ki a ia, "Nanā, e wehi nei tātou i konei i Hūrā, ā tērā noa ake ki te haere ki Keira, ki ngā taua a ngā Pirihitini."

4 Kātahi a Rāwiri ka ui anō ki a Ihowā; ā, ka whakahokia mai te kōrero e Ihowā ki a ia, "Whakatika, haere ki raro, ki Keira; kua hoatu hoki ngā Pirihitini e ahau ki tōu ringa." 5 Nā, haere ana a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata ki Keira, ā, whawhai ana ki ngā Pirihitini, ā, āia mai ana e ia ā rātou kararehe, patua iho hoki rātou, he nui te parekura. Nā, whakaorangia ana ngā tāngata o Keira e Rāwiri.

6 Nā, i te rerenga o Apiātara tama a Ahimereke ki a Rāwiri ki Keira, i maua mai e ia tētahi epora i tōna ringa. 7 Ā, ka kōrerotia ki a Haora, kua tae a Rāwiri ki Keira, ā, ka mea a Haora, "Kua tukua mai ia e te Atua ki tōku ringa; ka tūtakina nei hoki ia ki roto, i a ia ka tomo nei ki te pā whai tatau, whai tūtaki." 8 Nā, ka karangatia te iwi katoa e Haora ki te whawhai, kia haere ki raro, ki Keira, ki te whakapae i a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata.

9 Nā, kua mōhio a Rāwiri e whakatakoto puku ana a Haora i te kino mōna; ā, ka mea ia ki a Apiātara tohunga, "Kawea mai te epora." 10 Kātahi a Rāwiri ka mea, "E Ihowā e te Atua o Īharaira, kua tino rongo tāu pononga e mea ana a Haora kia haere mai ki Keira ki te whakangaro i te pā, he mea mōku. 11 Tērā rānei e tukua ahau e ngā tāngata o Keira ki tōna ringa? E haere mai rānei a Haora, e pērā rānei me tā tāu pononga i rongo ai? E Ihowā, e te Atua o Īharaira, tēnā rā, whakaaturia mai ki tāu pononga."

Nā, ka mea a Ihowā, "Ka haere mai anō ia."

12 Anō rā ko Rāwiri, "Tērā rānei ngā tāngata o Keira e tuku i a mātou, ko āku tāngata ki te ringa o Haora?"

Nā, ka mea a Ihowā, "Ka tuku anō."

13 Kātahi a Rāwiri ka whakatika, rātou ko āna tāngata me te mea e ono rau ā haere atu ana i Keira; i haere rātou i tā rātou haere noa atu. Ā, kōrerotia ki a Haora kua rere atu a Rāwiri i Keira, nā, kīhai ia i haere atu.

Ko Rāwiri kei roto i te Whenua Pukepuke

14 Nā, ka noho a Rāwiri ki te koraha, ki ngā pourewa, ka noho ki te whenua pukepuke i te koraha o Tiwhi. Ā, rapua ana ia e Haora i ngā rā katoa; otiia kīhai ia i tukua e te Atua ki tōna ringa.

15 Nā, kua kite a Rāwiri kua puta mai a Haora, e whai ana kia whakamatea ia; i te koraha anō hoki o Tiwhi a Rāwiri, i roto i te ngahere. 16 Nā, ka whakatika a Honatana tama a Haora, ā, haere ana ki a Rāwiri ki te ngahere, ā, whakakahangia ana e ia tōna ringa i roto i te Atua. 17 I mea hoki ia ki a ia, "Kaua e wehi; e kore hoki te ringa o Haora, o tōku pāpā e pono ki a koe; ā, ko koe anō hei kīngi mō Īharaira, ko ahau hoki ki muri i a koe; e mōhiotia ana anō tēnei e Haora, e tōku pāpā." 18 Nā, whakarite kawenata ana rāua i te aroaro o Ihowā; ā, noho ana a Rāwiri i te ngahere, ko Honatana hoki i haere ki tōna whare.

19 Kātahi ngā Tiwhi ka haere ki a Haora ki Kipea, ka mea, "He teka ianei kei te piri a Rāwiri i roto i a mātou, i ngā pourewa i te ngahere i Maunga Hakira, i te taha ki te tonga o Hehimono?" 20 Nā, tēnā rā, e te kīngi, kua hiahia rawa nei hoki tōu ngākau ki te haere ki raro; haere ake, ā, mā mātou te tuku i a ia ki te ringa o te kīngi.

21 Nā, ka mea a Haora, "Kia manaakitia koutou e Ihowā; mō koutou i aroha ki ahau. 22 Nā, haere, whakatikaia rawatia, kia mōhiotia, kia kitea, tōna wāhi e hāereere ai, i kitea hoki ia e wai ki reira; e kōrerotia ana hoki ki ahau he tūpato rawa ia. 23 Tirohia iho, kia mōhio hoki ki ngā piringa katoa e piri ai ia, ka hoki mai ai ki ahau inā tino tika, ā, ka haere tahi atu tātou. Nā, ki te mea kei te whenua nei ia, māku ia e rapu atu i roto i ngā mano katoa o Hūrā."

24 Nā, whakatika ana rātou, haere ana ki Tiwhi ki mua i a Haora; i te koraha ia o Maono a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata, i te mānia i te tonga o Hehimono. 25 Nā, ka haere a Haora rātou ko āna tāngata ki te rapu i a ia. Ā, ka kōrerotia ki a Rāwiri, nā, ka haere atu ia ki raro, ki tētahi kāmaka, ā, noho ana i te koraha o Maono. Ā, ka rongo a Haora, nā, ka whāia e ia a Rāwiri i te koraha o Maono.

26 Nā, i tēnei taha o te maunga a Haora e haere ana, i tērā taha hoki o te maunga a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata; ā, ka hohoro a Rāwiri te haere atu i te wehi i a Haora; e karapotia ana hoki a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata e Haora rātou ko āna tāngata, kia hopukia. 27 Otiia ko te taenga mai o te karere ki a Haora hei mea, "Kia hohoro te haere mai; kua huaki mai hoki ngā Pirihitini ki te whenua." 28 Heoi, ka hoki atu a Haora i te whai i a Rāwiri, ā, haere ana ki te whawhai ki ngā Pirihitini; nā reira i huaina ai te ingoa o tērā wāhi, ko te Kōhatu o ngā Wehewehenga. 29 Nā, haere atu ana a Rāwiri i reira, ā, noho ana i ngā pourewa i Enekeri.