1. Krallar (1. Samuel) 31

¹Ve yabancılar İsrail'e karşı savaşıyorlardı; İsrail adamları yabancıların önünden kaçtılar ve Gelbue Dağı'nda yaralanarak yere serildiler.

²Yabancılar Saul'u ve oğullarını kıskıvrak sıkıştırdılar; Saul'un oğulları Yonatan'ı, Aminadav'ı ve Melkişa'yı vurup öldürdüler.

³Savaş Saul'un çevresinde iyice ağırlaştı; mızrakçılar ve okçular onu buldu ve o, kaburgalarının altından ağır şekilde yaralandı.

⁴Bunun üzerine Saul, silahlarını taşıyan hizmetkârına, "Kılıcını çek ve beni onunla delip geç" dedi, "Yoksa bu sünnetsizler gelip beni delik deşik edecek ve benimle alay edecekler." Fakat silah taşıyıcısı çok korktuğu için bunu yapmak istemedi; böylece Saul kılıcı alıp üzerine düştü.

⁵Silah taşıyıcısı Saul'un ölmüş olduğunu görünce, kendisi de kendi kılıcının üzerine düştü ve onunla birlikte can verdi.

⁶Böylece Saul, üç oğlu ve silah taşıyıcısı o gün hep birlikte öldüler.

⁷Vadinin öte yakasında ve Şeria'nın ötesinde olan İsrail adamları, İsrail ordusunun kaçtığını, Saul ile oğullarının ölmüş olduğunu görünce kentlerini bırakıp kaçtılar; yabancılar da gelip buralara yerleştiler.

⁸Ertesi gün yabancılar ölüleri soymaya geldiklerinde, Saul ile üç oğlunun Gelbue Dağları'nda yere serilmiş cesetlerini buldular.

⁹Onun başını kesip silahlarını soydular; kendi putlarına ve halka bu müjdeyi duyurmak için onları yabancıların diyarının her yanına gönderdiler.

¹⁰Silahlarını Astarte tapınağına adak olarak koydular, cesedini ise Beytsan suruna çivilediler.

¹¹Galaad bölgesindeki Yabiş sakinleri, yabancıların Saul'a yaptığı bu şeyleri işittiler.

¹²Bunun üzerine bütün yiğit adamlar ayağa kalkıp bütün gece yol aldılar; Saul'un cesedini ve oğlu Yonatan'ın cesedini Beytsan surundan indirip Yabiş'e getirdiler ve onları orada yaktılar.

¹³Kemiklerini alıp Yabiş'teki ekili tarlanın altına gömdüler ve yedi gün boyunca oruç tuttular.

¹ΚΑΙ οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι ἐπολέμουν ἐπὶ ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἔφυγον οἱ ἄνδρες ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐκ προσώπου τῶν ἀλλοφύλων, καὶ πίπτουσι τραυματίαι ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ Γελβουέ.

²καὶ συνάπτουσιν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι τῷ Σαοὺλ καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τύπτουσιν ἀλλόφυλοι τὸν ᾿Ιωνάθαν καὶ τὸν ᾿Αμιναδὰβ καὶ τὸν Μελχισᾶ υἱοὺς Σαούλ.

³καὶ βαρύνεται ὁ πόλεμος ἐπὶ Σαούλ, καὶ εὑρίσκουσιν αὐτὸν οἱ ἀκοντισταί, ἄνδρες τοξόται, καὶ ἐτραυματίσθη εἰς τά ὑποχόνδρια.

⁴καὶ εἶπε Σαοὺλ πρὸς τὸν αἴροντα τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ· σπάσαι τὴν ῥομφαίαν σου καὶ ἀποκέντησόν με ἐν αὐτῇ, μὴ ἔλθωσιν οἱ ἀπερίτμητοι οὗτοι καὶ ἀποκεντήσωσί με καὶ ἐμπαίξωσί μοι. καὶ οὐκ ἐβούλετο ὁ αἴρων τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐφοβήθη σφόδρα· καὶ ἔλαβε Σαοὺλ τὴν ρομφαίαν καὶ ἐπέπεσεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν.

⁵καὶ εἶδεν ὁ αἴρων τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ ὅτι τέθνηκε Σαούλ, καὶ ἐπέπεσε καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τὴν ρομφαίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέθανε μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

⁶καὶ ἀπέθανε Σαοὺλ καὶ οἱ τρεῖς υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ αἴρων τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ κατὰ τὸ αὐτό.

⁷καὶ εἶδον οἱ ἄνδρες ᾿Ισραὴλ οἱ ἐν τῷ πέραν τῆς κοιλάδος καὶ οἱ ἐν τῷ πέραν τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου ὅτι ἔφυγον οἱ ἄνδρες ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ὅτι τέθνηκε Σαοὺλ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταλείπουσι τὰς πόλεις αὐτῶν καὶ φεύγουσι· καὶ ἔρχονται οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ κατοικοῦσιν ἐν αὐταῖς.

⁸καὶ ἐγενήθη τῇ ἐπαύριον ἔρχονται οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι ἐκδιδύσκειν τοὺς νεκροὺς καὶ εὑρίσκουσι τὸν Σαοὺλ καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ πεπτωκότας ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη Γελβουέ.

⁹καί ἀποστρέφουσιν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐξέδυσαν τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποστέλλουσιν αὐτὰ εἰς γῆν ἀλλοφύλων κύκλῳ εὐαγγελίζοντες τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ λαῷ.

¹⁰καὶ ἀνέθηκαν τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ ᾿Ασταρτεῖον καὶ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ κατέπηξαν ἐν τῷ τείχει Βαιθσάν.

¹¹καὶ ἀκούουσιν οἱ κατοικοῦντες ᾿Ιαβὶς τῆς Γαλααδίτιδος ἃ ἐποίησαν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι τῷ Σαούλ·

¹²καὶ ἀνέστησαν πᾶς ἀνὴρ δυνάμεως καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὅλην τὴν νύκτα καὶ ἔλαβον τὸ σῶμα Σαοὺλ καὶ τὸ σῶμα ᾿Ιωνάθαν τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχους Βαιθσὰν καὶ φέρουσιν αὐτοὺς εἰς ᾿Ιαβὶς καὶ κατακαίουσιν αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ.

¹³καὶ λαμβάνουσι τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτῶν καὶ θάπτουσιν ὑπὸ τὴν ἄρουραν τὴν ἐν ᾿Ιαβὶς καὶ νηστεύουσιν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας.

¹And the Philistines fought with Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and they fall down wounded in the mountain in Gelbue.

²And the Philistines press closely on Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisa son of Saul.

³And the battle prevails against Saul, and the shooters with arrows, even the archers find him, and he was wounded under the ribs.

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

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

⁶So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, in that day together.

⁷And the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those beyond Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead; and they leave their cities and flee: and the Philistines come and dwell in them.

⁸And it came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue.

⁹And they turned him, and stripped off his armour, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.

¹⁰And they set up his armour at the temple of Astarte, and they fastened his body on the wall of Baethsam.

¹¹And the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad hear what the Philistines did to Saul.

¹²And they rose up, [even] every man of might, and marched all night, and took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Baethsam; and they bring them to Jabis, and burn them there.

¹³And they take their bones, and bury them in the field that is in Jabis, and fast seven days.