1. Tarihler 10

¹Ve yabancılar İsrail'e karşı savaştılar; İsrailliler yabancıların önünden kaçtılar ve Gilboa Dağı'nda yaralılar olarak düştüler.

²Yabancılar Saul'un ve oğullarının peşine düştüler; ve yabancılar Saul'un oğulları Yonatan'ı, Aminadav'ı ve Melhişua'yı vurdular.

³Savaş Saul için ağırlaştı; okçular onu yaylarla ve acılarla buldular ve o da yaylar yüzünden büyük acı çekti.

⁴Saul kendi silahlarını taşıyana, "Büyük kılıcını çek ve onunla beni sapla, yoksa bu sünnetsizler gelip benimle alay ederler," dedi. Ama silahlarını taşıyan bunu yapmak istemedi, çünkü çok korkuyordu. Bunun üzerine Saul büyük kılıcı alıp üzerine düştü.

⁵Silahlarını taşıyan, Saul'un öldüğünü görünce kendisi de kendi büyük kılıcının üzerine düştü ve öldü.

⁶Böylece Saul ve üç oğlu o gün öldü; ve onun bütün ev halkı bir arada can verdi.

⁷Vadide bulunan bütün İsrail adamları, İsrail'in kaçtığını, Saul ile oğullarının öldüğünü görünce kentlerini bırakıp kaçtılar; yabancılar gelip bu kentlere yerleştiler.

⁸Ertesi gün yabancılar yaralıları soymaya geldiklerinde, Saul ile oğullarının Gilboa Dağı'nda düşmüş cesetlerini buldular.

⁹Onu soydular, başını ve silahlarını alıp kendi putlarına ve halka müjdeyi duyurmak için yabancıların ülkesinin her yanına gönderdiler.

¹⁰Silahlarını kendi tanrılarının tapınağına koydular, başını ise Dagon'un tapınağına yerleştirdiler.

¹¹Gilead'da yaşayanların hepsi, yabancıların Saul'a ve İsrail oğullarına yaptığı her şeyi duydular.

¹²Gilead'dan bütün güçlü adamlar harekete geçip Saul'un cesedini ve oğullarının cesetlerini aldılar; onları Yaveş'e getirdiler, kemiklerini Yaveş'teki meşe ağacının altına gömdüler ve yedi gün oruç tuttular.

¹³Böylece Saul, Rab'bin sözünü tutmayarak Tanrı'ya karşı işlediği yasa dışılıkları yüzünden öldü; çünkü Saul danışmak amacıyla bir medyuma başvurmuştu ve peygamber Samuel ona cevap vermişti.

¹⁴Rab'be yönelmedi; bu yüzden Rab onu öldürdü ve krallığı İşay oğlu Davut'a devretti.

¹ΚΑΙ ἀλλόφυλοι ἐπολέμησαν πρὸς τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἔφυγον ἀπὸ προσώπου ἀλλοφύλων, καὶ ἔπεσον τραυματίαι ἐν ὄρει Γελβουέ.

²καὶ κατεδίωξαν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι ὀπίσω Σαοὺλ καὶ ὀπίσω τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπάταξαν ἀλλόφυλοι τὸν ᾿Ιωνάθαν καὶ τὸν ᾿Αμιναδὰβ καὶ τὸν Μελχισουὲ υἱοὺς Σαούλ.

³καὶ ἐβαρύνθη ὁ πόλεμος ἐπὶ Σαούλ, καὶ εὗρον αὐτὸν οἱ τοξόται ἐν τόξοις καὶ πόνοις, καὶ ἐπόνεσεν ἀπὸ τῶν τόξων.

⁴καὶ εἶπε Σαοὺλ τῷ αἴροντι τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ· σπάσαι τὴν ῥομφαίαν σου καὶ ἐκκέντησόν με ἐν αὐτῇ, μὴ ἔλθωσιν οἱ ἀπερίτμητοι οὗτοι καὶ ἐμπαίξωσί μοι. καὶ οὐκ ἐβούλετο ὁ αἴρων τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐφοβεῖτο σφόδρα· καὶ ἔλαβε Σαοὺλ τὴν ρομφαίαν καὶ ἐπέπεσεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν.

⁵καὶ εἶδεν ὁ αἴρων τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἀπέθανε Σαούλ, καὶ ἔπεσε καί γε αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τὴν ρομφαίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέθανε.

⁶καὶ ἀπέθανε Σαοὺλ καὶ τρεῖς υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ πᾶς ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀπέθανε.

⁷καὶ εἶδε πᾶς ἀνὴρ ᾿Ισραὴλ ὁ ἐν τῷ αὐλῶνι ὅτι ἔφυγεν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ὅτι ἀπέθανε Σαοὺλ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κατέλιπον τὰς πόλεις αὐτῶν καὶ ἔφυγον· καὶ ἦλθον οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐν αὐταῖς.

⁸καὶ ἐγένετο τῇ ἑπομένῃ καὶ ἦλθον ἀλλόφυλοι τοῦ σκυλεύειν τοὺς τραυματίας καὶ εὗρον τὸν Σαοὺλ καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ πεπτωκότας ἐν τῷ ὄρει Γελβουέ.

⁹καὶ ἐξέδυσαν αὐτὸν καὶ ἔλαβον τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέστειλαν εἰς γῆν ἀλλοφύλων κύκλῳ τοῦ εὐαγγελίσασθαι τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ λαῷ·

¹⁰καὶ ἔθηκαν τὰ σκεύη αὐτῶν ἐν οἴκῳ θεοῦ αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθηκαν ἐν οἴκῳ Δαγών.

¹¹καὶ ἤκουσαν πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες Γαλαὰδ ἅπαντα, ἃ ἐποίησαν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι τῷ Σαοὺλ καὶ υἱῷ ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹²καὶ ἠγέρθησαν ἐκ Γαλαὰδ πᾶς ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς καὶ ἔλαβον τὸ σῶμα Σαοὺλ καὶ τὸ σῶμα τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤνεγκαν αὐτὰ εἰς ᾿Ιαβὶς καὶ ἔθαψαν τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὴν δρῦν ἐν ᾿Ιαβὶς καὶ ἐνήστευσαν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας.

¹³καὶ ἀπέθανε Σαοὺλ ἐν ταῖς ἀνομίαις αὐτοῦ, αἷς ἠνόμησε τῷ Θεῷ κατὰ τὸν λόγον Κυρίου, διότι οὐκ ἐφύλαξεν· ὅτι ἐπηρώτησε Σαοὺλ ἐν τῶ ἐγγαστριμύθῳ τοῦ ζητῆσαι, καὶ ἀπεκρίνατο αὐτῷ Σαμουὴλ ὁ προφήτης·

¹⁴καὶ οὐκ ἐζήτησε Κύριον, καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐπέστρεψε τὴν βασιλείαν τῷ Δαυὶδ υἱῷ ᾿Ιεσσαί.

¹Now the Philistines warred against Israel; and they fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelbue.

²And the Philistines pursued after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisue, sons of Saul.

³And the battle prevailed against Saul, and the archers hit him with bows and arrows, and they were wounded of the bows.

⁴And Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and pierce me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mock me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid: so Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

⁵And his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, and he also fell upon his sword.

⁶So Saul died, and his three sons on that day, and all his family died at the same time.

⁷And all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, and they left their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

⁸And it came to pass on the next [day] that the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his sons fallen on mount Gelbue.

⁹And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim the glad tidings to their idols, and to the people.

¹⁰And they put their armour in the house of their god, and they put his head in the house of Dagon.

¹¹And all the dwellers in Galaad heard of all that the Philistines had done to Saul and to Israel.

¹²And all the mighty men rose up from Galaad, and they took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabis, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabis, and fasted seven days.

¹³So Saul died for his transgressions, wherein he transgressed against God, against the word of the Lord, forasmuch as he kept [it] not, because Saul enquired of a wizard to seek [counsel], and Samuel the prophet answered him:

¹⁴and he sought not the Lord: so he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.