1 Samuel 30

1 When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire, 2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way. 3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive. 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. 5 David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6 David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. 7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod here to me."

Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?"

He answered him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all."

9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor. 11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. 12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights. 13 David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?"

He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick. 14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?"

He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. 17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. 18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. 19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back. 20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David’s plunder."

21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them. 22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, "Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart."

23 Then David said, "Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. 24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike." 25 It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies." 27 He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir, 28 to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa, 29 to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites, 30 to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach, 31 to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

Te Pakanga ki ngā Amareki

1 Ā, nō ka tae a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata ki Tikiraka i te toru o ngā rā, nā, kua huaki ngā Amareki ki te tonga, ki Tikiraka anō. Patua ana a Tikiraka e rātou, tahuna ake ki te ahi; 2 whakaraua ana hoki e rātou ngā wāhine me ngā mea o reira, te iti, te rahi; kīhai i whakamatea tētahi, engari i kāhakina atu, ā, haere ana i tō rātou ara. 3 Heoi, i te taenga o Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata ki te pā, kua oti te tahu ki te ahi, ā, kua whakaraua atu ā rātou wāhine, ā rātou tama, ā rātou tamāhine. 4 Kātahi ka puaki te reo o Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata, tangi ana rātou, ā, kāhore noa ō rātou kaha ki te tangi. 5 I riro whakarau anō ngā wāhine tokorua a Rāwiri, a Ahinoama o Ietereere, rāua ko Apikaira wahine a Nāpara o Karamere. 6 Nā, mamae rawa a Rāwiri, nō te mea i kupukupu te nuinga kia ākina ia ki te kōhatu; i mamae hoki te ngākau o te iwi katoa, o tērā, o tērā, ki ā rātou tama, ki ā rātou tamāhine. Ko Rāwiri ia i whakapakari i a ia i roto i a Ihowā, i tōna Atua.

7 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Apiātara tohunga, tama a Ahimereke, "Tēnā, maua mai te epora ki ahau." Nā, maua ana te epora e Apiātara ki a Rāwiri. 8 Nā, ka ui a Rāwiri ki a Ihowā, ka mea, "Ki te whai ahau i tēnei taua e mau rānei rātou i ahau?"

Nā, ka mea ia, "Whāia; ka mau pū hoki rātou i a koe, ā, ka riro katoa mai āu i a koe."

9 Heoi, haere ana a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata e ono rau, kua tae ki te awa, ki Pehoro, ki te wāhi i noho ai te hunga i mahue iho. 10 Otiia whai tonu ana a Rāwiri rātou ko ngā tāngata e whā rau; e rua hoki ngā rau i noho; i ruha rawa hoki, tē whiti ai i te awa, i Pehoro.

11 Nā, ka tūpono atu rātou ki tētahi tangata o Īhipa i te pārae, ā, kawea ana ia ki a Rāwiri. Nā, ka hoatu he taro māna, ā, kai ana ia; i whakainu anō rātou i a ia ki te wai. 12 I hoatu anō e rātou tētahi wāhi o te keke piki me ētahi tautau karepe e rua. Nā, ka kai ia, ā, ka hoki tōna wairua ki a ia; e toru hoki ngā rā, e toru ngā pō ōna kīhai nei ia i kai i te kai, kīhai i inu i te wai.

13 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a ia, "Nā wai koe? Nō hea hoki koe?"

Anō rā ko ia, "He tamaiti ahau nō Īhipa, he pononga nā tētahi Amareki; i whakarērea hoki ahau e tōku ariki, he pānga nōku e te mate ka toru ēnei rā. 14 I huakina e mātou te tonga o ngā Kereti, me te wāhi i a Hūrā, me te tonga o Karepe; i tahuna anō e mātou a Tikiraka ki te ahi."

15 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a ia, "E taea rānei ahau te kawe e koe ki raro ki te ope rā?"

Anō rā ko ia, "Oati mai ki ahau ki te Atua hoki, e kore ahau e whakamatea e koe, e kore e tukua ki ngā ringa o tōku rangatira, ā, ka kawea koe e ahau ki raro ki taua ope."

16 Ā, nō tāna kawenga i a ia ki raro, kua wawā noa atu rātou ki te mata o te whenua katoa, e kai ana, e inu ana, e kanikani ana, mō ngā taonga nui katoa, taonga parakete, i riro i a rātou i te whenua o ngā Pirihitini, i te whenua hoki o Hūrā. 17 Nā, patua iho rātou e Rāwiri i te pūaotanga ā taea noatia te ahiahi o te aonga ake. Kīhai hoki tētahi o rātou i mawhiti, heoi anō ko ētahi taitamariki e whā rau i eke ki ngā kāmera, ā, rere ana. 18 I riro anō hoki i a Rāwiri ngā mea katoa i tangohia e ngā Amareki; i riro anō i a Rāwiri āna wāhine tokorua. 19 Kīhai hoki i ngaro tētahi o ā rātou mea; te iti, te rahi, ngā tama, ngā tamāhine, ngā taonga parakete, ngā mea katoa i tangohia e rātou; i hoki katoa mai i a Rāwiri. 20 I mau anō i a Rāwiri ngā hipi katoa me ngā kāhui; ā, ka ārahina e rātou i mua i ērā atu kararehe, i mea, "Ko te taonga parakete tēnei a Rāwiri."

21 Ā, ka tae a Rāwiri ki ngā tāngata e rua rau i ruha nei, kīhai nei i aru i a Rāwiri, i meinga rā kia noho ki te awa, ki Pehoro. Ka puta rātou ki te whakatau i a Rāwiri, ki te whakatau hoki i te iwi i a ia; ā, ka tata a Rāwiri ki aua tāngata, ka oha ia ki a rātou. 22 Kātahi ka oho ake te hunga kino katoa, ngā tāngata o Periara i roto i te hunga i haere tahi rātou ko Rāwiri, ka mea, "Kīhai rātou i haere tahi tātou, nā, e kore e hoatu ki a rātou ētahi o ngā taonga i riro mai i a tātou. Heoi anō, ko te wahine me ngā tamariki a tēnei, a tēnei, nā, mā rātou e ārahi atu, e haere."

23 Kātahi a Rāwiri ka mea, "Kaua e pēnā, e ōku tēina, ki tā Ihowā i hōmai ai ki a tātou; nāna nei hoki tātou i tiaki, ā, hōmai ana e ia ki ō tātou ringa taua ope i haere ake rā ki a tātou. 24 Ko wai hoki hei whakarongo ki tēnei mea a koutou? Ko te wāhi hoki a te tangata i haere ki te whawhai kia rite ki te wāhi a te tangata i noho ki ngā mea; kia rite tonu te wāhi mā rātou." 25 Nā, waiho tonu iho e ia tēnā hei tikanga, hei ritenga mō Īharaira nō taua rangi ā tuku iho ki tēnei rā.

26 Ā, i te taenga o Rāwiri ki Tikiraka, ka tonoa e ia ētahi o ngā taonga ki ngā kaumātua o Hūrā, ki ōna hoa, ā, ka mea, "Tēnā tētahi manaaki mō koutou nō ngā taonga a ngā hoariri o Ihowā"; 27 ki ngā tāngata hoki o Pētēre, ki o Rāmoto ki te tonga, ki ērā hoki i Iatiri; 28 ki o Aroere, ki o Hipimoto, ki o Ehetemoa, 29 ki o Rakara, ki o ngā pā o ngā Ierameeri, ki o ngā pā o ngā Keni; 30 ki o Horema, ki o Korahana, ki o Ataka, 31 ki o Heperona, ki o ngā wāhi katoa i hāereere ai a Rāwiri rātou ko āna tāngata.