1. Krallar (1. Samuel) 21

¹Davut kalkıp gitti, Yonatan ise kente girdi.

²Davut, Nomba'ya, kâhin Abimelek'in yanına gitti. Abimelek onu karşıladığında dehşete düştü ve ona, "Neden yalnızsın, yanında neden kimse yok?" dedi.

³Davut kâhine şöyle dedi: "Kral bugün bana bir iş buyurdu ve, 'Seni gönderdiğim ve sana buyurduğum bu işi kimse bilmesin' dedi. Adamlarıma da 'Tanrı'nın sadakati' denilen Fellani Alemoni yerinde buluşmayı bildirdim. Şimdi elinin altında ne var? Bana beş somun ekmek ya da ne bulursan ver."

⁴Kâhin Davut'a şöyle yanıt verdi: "Elimde sıradan ekmek yok, sadece kutsal ekmek var; yeter ki adamların kendilerini kadından uzak tutmuş olsunlar, o zaman yiyebilirler."

⁵Davut kâhine yanıt verip şöyle dedi: "Gerçekten de dün ve önceki gün kadınlardan uzak durduk. Yola çıktığımda bütün adamların bedenleri kutsanmıştı; bu yolculuk sıradan olsa bile, bugün kaplarım aracılığıyla kutsanacaktır."

⁶Böylece kâhin Abimelek ona adak ekmeklerini verdi. Çünkü orada RAB'bin huzurundan kaldırılan huzur ekmeklerinden başka ekmek yoktu; bunlar, alındıkları gün yerlerine sıcak ekmek konulmak üzere kaldırılmıştı.

⁷O gün orada Saul'un hizmetkarlarından biri RAB'bin huzurunda neessaran olarak alıkonulmuştu; adı Suriyeli Doek'ti ve Saul'un katırlarını gütmekteydi.

⁸Davut Abimelek'e, "Burada elinin altında bir mızrak ya da kılıç var mı? Çünkü kralın buyruğu çok ivedi olduğundan yanıma ne kılıcımı ne de eşyalarımı alabildim" dedi.

⁹Kâhin, "İşte Ela Vadisi'nde öldürdüğün yabancı Golyat'ın kılıcı burada, bir giysiye sarılı duruyor" dedi, "Eğer onu almak istersen al, çünkü burada ondan başka kılıç yok." Davut, "Onun gibisi yoktur, onu bana ver" dedi.

¹⁰Kâhin kılıcı ona verdi. Davut o gün kalkıp Saul'un önünden kaçtı ve Gat Kralı Anhus'un yanına gitti.

¹¹Anhus'un hizmetkarları ona şöyle dediler: "Ülkenin kralı Davut bu değil mi? Dans eden kadınlar onun için, 'Saul binlercesini öldürdü, Davut ise on binlercesini' diye şarkı söylemiyorlar mıydı?"

¹²Davut bu sözleri yüreğine yazdı ve Gat Kralı Anhus'tan çok korktu.

¹³Onların önünde görünüşünü değiştirdi, o gün deli taklidi yaptı; kentin kapılarını davul gibi çalıyor, elleriyle garip hareketler yapıyor, kapı kanatlarına çarpıyor ve salyası sakalından aşağı akıyordu.

¹⁴Anhus hizmetkarlarına, "İşte, adamın sara nöbeti geçirdiğini görüyorsunuz" dedi, "Onu neden bana getirdiniz?"

¹⁵Benim sara hastasına ihtiyacım mı var ki, karşımda sara nöbeti taklidi yapsın diye bu adamı bana getirdiniz? Bu adam evime girmeyecek!

¹ΚΑΙ ἀνέστη Δαυὶδ καὶ ἀπῆλθε, καὶ ᾿Ιωνάθαν εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν.

²καὶ ἔρχεται Δαυὶδ εἰς Νομβὰ πρὸς ᾿Αβιμέλεχ τὸν ἱερέα. καὶ ἐξέστη ᾿Αβιμέλεχ τῇ ἀπαντήσει αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· τί ὅτι σὺ μόνος καὶ οὐθεὶς μετὰ σοῦ;

³καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ τῷ ἱερεῖ· ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐντέταλταί μοι ῥῆμα σήμερον καὶ εἶπέ μοι· μηδεὶς γνώτω τὸ ρῆμα, περὶ οὗ ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω σε καὶ ὑπὲρ οὗ ἐγὼ ἐντέταλμαί σοι· καὶ τοῖς παιδαρίοις διαμεμαρτύρημαι ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τῷ λεγομένῳ Θεοῦ πίστις, Φελλανὶ ᾿Αλεμωνί· καὶ νῦν εἰ εἰσὶν ὑπὸ τὴν χεῖρά σου πέντε ἄρτοι, δὸς εἰς χεῖρά μου τὸ εὑρεθέν.

⁴καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ἱερεὺς τῷ Δαυίδ, καὶ εἶπεν· οὐκ εἰσὶν ἄρτοι βέβηλοι ὑπὸ τὴν χεῖρά μου, ὅτι ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἄρτοι ἅγιοί εἰσιν· εἰ πεφυλαγμένα τὰ παιδάριά ἐστιν ἀπὸ γυναικός, καὶ φάγεται.

⁵καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Δαυὶδ τῷ ἱερεῖ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀπεσχήμεθα ἐχθὲς καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν· ἐν τῷ ἐξελθεῖν με εἰς ὁδὸν γέγονε πάντα τὰ παιδία ἡγνισμένα, καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ ὁδὸς βέβηλος, διότι ἁγιασθήσεται σήμερον διὰ τὰ σκεύη μου.

⁶καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ᾿Αβιμέλεχ ὁ ἱερεὺς τοὺς ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως, ὅτι οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖ ἄρτος, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἄρτοι τοῦ προσώπου οἱ ἀφῃρημένοι ἐκ προσώπου Κυρίου τοῦ παρατεθῆναι ἄρτον θερμὸν ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἔλαβεν αὐτούς.

⁷καὶ ἐκεῖ ἦν ἓν τῶν παιδαρίων τοῦ Σαοὺλ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ συνεχόμενος νεεσσαρὰν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Δωὴκ ὁ Σύρος νέμων τὰς ἡμιόνους Σαούλ.

⁸καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸς ᾿Αβιμέλεχ· ἰδὲ εἰ ἔστιν ἐνταῦθα ὑπὸ τὴν χεῖρά σου δόρυ ἢ ρομφαία, ὅτι τὴν ρομφαίαν μου καὶ τὰ σκεύη οὐκ εἴληφα ἐν τῇ χειρί μου, ὅτι ἦν τὸ ρῆμα τοῦ βασιλέως κατὰ σπουδήν.

⁹καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ἱερεύς· ἰδοὺ ἡ ρομφαία Γολιὰθ τοῦ ἀλλοφύλου, ὃν ἐπάταξας ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι ᾿Ηλά, καὶ αὐτὴν ἐνειλημμένη ἦν ἐν ἱματίῳ· εἰ ταύτην λήψῃ, σεαυτῷ λαβέ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἑτέρα πάρεξ ταύτης ἐνταῦθα. καὶ εἶπε Δαυίδ· ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἔστιν ὥσπερ αὐτή, δός μοι αὐτήν.

¹⁰καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν αὐτῷ· καὶ ἀνέστη Δαυὶδ καὶ ἔφυγεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐκ προσώπου Σαούλ. Καὶ ἦλθε Δαυὶδ πρὸς ᾿Αγχοῦς βασιλέα Γέθ.

¹¹καὶ εἶπον οἱ παῖδες ᾿Αγχοῦς πρὸς αὐτόν· οὐχὶ οὗτος Δαυὶδ ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς γῆς; οὐχὶ τούτῳ ἐξῆρχον αἱ χορεύουσαι λέγουσαι· ἐπάταξε Σαοὺλ ἐν χιλιάσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ Δαυὶδ ἐν μυριάσιν αὐτοῦ;

¹²καὶ ἔθετο Δαυὶδ τὰ ρήματα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐφοβήθη σφόδρα ἀπὸ προσώπου ᾿Αγχοῦς βασιλέως Γέθ.

¹³καὶ ἠλλοίωσε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ καὶ προσεποιήσατο ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ καὶ ἐτυμπάνιζεν ἐπὶ ταῖς θύραις τῆς πόλεως καὶ παρεφέρετο ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔπιπτεν ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας τῆς πύλης, καὶ τὰ σίελα αὐτοῦ κατέρρει ἐπὶ τὸν πώγωνα αὐτοῦ.

¹⁴καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Αγχοῦς πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ· ἰδοὺ ἴδετε ἄνδρα ἐπίληπτον, ἱνατί εἰσηγάγετε αὐτὸν πρός με;

¹⁵μὴ ἐλαττοῦμαι ἐπιλήπτων ἐγώ, ὅτι εἰσαγηόχατε αὐτὸν ἐπιληπτεύεσθαι πρός με; οὗτος οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς οἰκίαν.

¹And David arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

²And David comes to Nomba to Abimelech the priest: and Abimelech was amazed at meeting him, and said to him, Why [art] thou alone, and nobody with thee?

³And David said to the priest, The king gave me a command to-day, and said to me, Let no one know the matter on which I send thee, and concerning which I have charged thee: and I have charged my servants [to be] in the place that is called, The faithfulness of God, phellani maemoni. And now if there are under thy hand five loaves, give into my hand what is ready.

⁴And the priest answered David, and said, There are no common loaves under my hand, for I have none but holy loaves: if the young men have been kept at least from women, then they shall eat [them].

⁵And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.

⁶So Abimelech the priest gave him the shewbread; for there were no loaves there, but only the presence loaves which had been removed from the presence of the Lord, in order that hot bread should be set on, on the day on which he took them.

⁷And there was there on that day one of Saul’s servants detained before the Lord, and his name [was] Doec the Syrian, tending the mules of Saul.

⁸And David said to Abimelech, See if there is here under thy hand spear or sword, for I have not brought in my hand my sword or my weapons, for the word of the king was urgent.

⁹And the priest said, Behold the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou smotest in the valley of Ela; and it is wrapped in a cloth: if thou wilt take it, take it for thyself, for there is no other except it here. And David said, Behold, there is none like it; give it me.

¹⁰And he gave it him; and David arose, and fled in that day from the presence of Saul: and David came to Anchus king of Geth.

¹¹And the servants of Anchus said to him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? Did not the dancing women begin the song to him, saying, Saul has smitten his thousand, and David his ten thousands?

¹²And David laid up the words in his heart, and was greatly afraid of Anchus king of Geth.

¹³And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.

¹⁴And Anchus said to his servants, Lo! ye see the man [is] mad: why have ye brought him in to me?

¹⁵[Am] I in want of madmen, that ye have brought him in to me to play the madman? He shall not come into the house.