2. Krallar (2. Samuel) 12

¹Ve Rab, peygamber Natan'ı Davut'a gönderdi; Natan onun yanına girdi ve ona şöyle dedi: "Bir kentte iki adam vardı, biri zengin ve diğeri yoksul.

²Zengin adamın son derece çok davar ve sığır sürüleri vardı.

³Yoksul adamın ise satın alıp kendisi için sakladığı ve besleyip büyüttüğü tek bir küçük dişi kuzudan başka hiçbir şeyi yoktu; kuzu onunla ve çocuklarıyla birlikte aynı yerde büyüdü, onun ekmeğinden yer, onun kâsesinden içer, onun koynunda uyurdu ve onun için bir kız evlat gibiydi.

⁴Derken zengin adama bir yolcu uğradı; zengin adam, kendisine gelen yabancı yolcuya ikram hazırlamak için kendi davar ve sığır sürülerinden almaya kıyamadı; yoksul adamın dişi kuzusunu aldı ve onu kendisine gelen adam için hazırladı."

⁵Bunun üzerine Davut o adama karşı son derece büyük bir öfkeyle parladı ve Natan'a, "Yaşayan Rab'bin adıyla ant içerim ki, bunu yapan adam kesinlikle ölümün oğludur!" dedi.

⁶"Ve bu işi yaptığı ve acımadığı için, o dişi kuzunun bedelini yedi kat olarak geri ödeyecektir."

⁷Natan Davut'a, "O adam sensin!" dedi, "İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab şöyle diyor: 'Seni İsrail üzerine kral olarak mesheden bendim ve seni Saul'un elinden kurtaran bendim.

⁸Sana efendinin evini verdim, efendinin kadınlarını senin koynuna verdim; sana İsrail ve Yahuda evini de verdim; eğer bu az gelseydi, sana bunlara göre daha fazlasını da eklerdim.

⁹Öyleyse neden Rab'bin sözünü hiçe saydın ve O'nun gözünde kötülük olanı yaptın? Hititli Uriya'yı kılıçla vurdun, karısını kendine eş olarak aldın ve onu Ammon oğullarının kılıcıyla öldürttün.

¹⁰Bu yüzden, beni tamamen hiçe saydığın ve Hititli Uriya'nın karısını kendine eş olmak üzere aldığın için, kılıç senin evinden sonsuza dek uzaklaşmayacaktır.'

¹¹Rab şöyle diyor: 'İşte, kendi evinden senin üzerine felaketler kaldıracağım; senin gözlerinin önünde karılarını alıp senin yakınına vereceğim ve o, bu güneşin önünde karılarınla yatacak.

¹²Çünkü sen bunu gizlice yaptın, ama ben bu işi bütün İsrail'in önünde ve bu güneşin karşısında yapacağım.'"

¹³Davut Natan'a, "Rab'be karşı günah işledim" dedi. Natan da Davut'a, "Rab de senin günahını öteye aktardı, kesinlikle ölmeyeceksin" dedi,

¹⁴"Ancak bu işle Rab'bin düşmanlarını son derece öfkelendirdiğin için, sana doğmuş olan oğul kesinlikle ölümle ölecektir."

¹⁵Sonra Natan evine döndü. Ve Rab, Hititli Uriya'nın karısının Davut'a doğurduğu çocuğu vurdu ve çocuk ağır hastalandı.

¹⁶Davut çocuk için Tanrı'ya yalvardı; oruç tuttu, içeri girip çul içinde yerde yatarak geceyi geçirdi.

¹⁷Evinin ileri gelenleri onu yerden kaldırmak için yanına geldiler, ama o kalkmak istemedi ve onlarla birlikte ekmek yemedi.

¹⁸Yedinci günde çocuk öldü. Davut'un görevlileri çocuğun öldüğünü ona haber vermekten korktular; çünkü, "İşte, çocuk henüz yaşarken onunla konuştuk ama sesimizi dinlemedi" diyorlardı, "Şimdi ona çocuğun öldüğünü nasıl söyleriz? Kendisine bir kötülük yapabilir."

¹⁹Davut görevlilerinin fısıldaştığını fark etti ve çocuğun öldüğünü anladı. Davut görevlilerine, "Çocuk öldü mü?" diye sordu. Onlar da, "Öldü" dediler.

²⁰Bunun üzerine Davut yerden kalktı, yıkandı, güzel kokular süründü ve giysilerini değiştirdi; Rab'bin evine girip tapındı. Sonra kendi evine döndü, yemek istedi; önüne ekmek koydular ve yedi.

²¹Görevlileri ona, "Çocuk için yaptığın bu iş ne anlama geliyor?" dediler, "O henüz yaşarken oruç tuttun, ağladın ve uyanık kaldın; ama çocuk ölünce kalkıp ekmek yedin ve içtin?"

²²Davut şöyle yanıt verdi: "Çocuk henüz yaşarken oruç tutup ağladım; çünkü, 'Kim bilir, belki Rab bana acır da çocuk yaşar' diye düşündüm.

²³Ama şimdi öldü, artık neden oruç tutayım? Onu geri döndürebilir miyim? Ben onun yanına gideceğim, ama o bana geri dönmeyecektir."

²⁴Davut karısı Berşeba'yı avuttu; onun yanına girip onunla yattı; kadın gebe kalıp bir oğul doğurdu ve Davut onun adını Süleyman koydu. Ve Rab onu sevdi.

²⁵Ve peygamber Natan'ın eliyle haber gönderip Rab'bin hatırı için çocuğun adını Yedidi koydu.

²⁶Yoav, Ammon oğullarının kenti Rabba'ya karşı savaşıp kraliyet kentini ele geçirdi.

²⁷Yoav, Davut'a ulaklar gönderip şöyle dedi: "Rabba'da savaştım ve suların kentini ele geçirdim.

²⁸Şimdi halkın geri kalanını topla, kentin karşısında ordugah kur ve onu önce sen ele geçir; yoksa kenti önce ben ele geçiririm de kent benim adımla anılır."

²⁹Bunun üzerine Davut bütün halkı topladı, Rabba'ya gidip savaştı ve kenti ele geçirdi.

³⁰Onların kralı Molkom'un başındaki tacı aldı; ağırlığı bir talant altın ve değerli taşlardan oluşuyordu ve Davut'un başına konuldu; kentten de son derece çok yağma malı çıkardı.

³¹Oradaki halkı dışarı çıkarıp demir testereyle, demir tırmıklarla ve demir baltalarla çalıştırdı, onları tuğla fırınından geçirdi; Ammon oğullarının bütün kentlerine böyle yaptı. Sonra Davut ve bütün halk Yeruşalim'e döndü.

¹ΚΑΙ ἀπέστειλε Κύριος τὸν Νάθαν τὸν προφήτην πρὸς Δαυίδ, καὶ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· δύο ἦσαν ἄνδρες ἐν πόλει μιᾷ, εἷς πλούσιος, καὶ εἷς πένης·

²καὶ τῷ πλουσίῳ ἦν ποίμνια καὶ βουκόλια πολλὰ σφόδρα,

³καὶ τῷ πένητι οὐδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ ἀμνὰς μία μικρά, ἣν ἐκτήσατο καὶ περιεποίησατο καὶ ἐξέθρεψεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἡδρύνθη μετ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ μετὰ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, ἐκ τοῦ ἄρτου αὐτοῦ ἤσθιε καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου αὐτοῦ ἔπινε καὶ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ αὐτοῦ ἐκάθευδε καὶ ἦν αὐτῷ ὡς θυγάτηρ·

⁴καὶ ἦλθε πάροδος τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ πλουσίῳ, καὶ ἐφείσατο λαβεῖν ἐκ τῶν ποιμνίων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν βουκολίων αὐτοῦ τοῦ ποιῆσαι τῷ ξένῳ ὁδοιπόρῳ τῷ ἐλθόντι πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ ἔλαβε τὴν ἀμνάδα τοῦ πένητος καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὴν τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ ἐλθόντι πρὸς αὐτόν.

⁵καὶ ἐθυμώθη ὀργῇ Δαυὶδ σφόδρα τῷ ἀνδρί, καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸς Νάθαν· ζῇ Κύριος, ὅτι υἱὸς θανάτου ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ποιήσας τοῦτο

⁶καὶ τὴν ἀμνάδα ἀποτίσει ἑπταπλασίονα, ἀνθ’ ὧν ὅτι ἐποίησε τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο καὶ περὶ οὗ οὐκ ἐφείσατο.

⁷καὶ εἶπε Νάθαν πρὸς Δαυίδ· σὺ εἶ ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ποιήσας τοῦτο· τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ χρίσας σε εἰς βασιλέα ἐπὶ ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι ἐρρυσάμην σε ἐκ χειρὸς Σαοὺλ

⁸καὶ ἔδωκά σοι τὸν οἶκον τοῦ κυρίου σου καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας τοῦ κυρίου σου ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ σου καὶ ἔδωκά σοι τὸν οἶκον ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ᾿Ιούδα· καὶ εἰ μικρόν ἐστι, προσθήσω σοι κατὰ ταῦτα.

⁹τί ὅτι ἐφαύλισας τὸν λόγον Κυρίου τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ; τὸν Οὐρίαν τὸν Χετταῖον ἐπάταξας ἐν ρομφαίᾳ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ ἔλαβες σεαυτῷ εἰς γυναῖκα καὶ αὐτὸν ἀπέκτεινας ἐν ρομφαίᾳ υἱῶν ᾿Αμμών.

¹⁰καὶ νῦν οὐκ ἀποστήσεται ρομφαία ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου σου ἕως αἰῶνος ἀνθ’ ὧν ὅτι ἐξουδένωσάς με καὶ ἔλαβες τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ Οὐρίου τοῦ Χετταίου τοῦ εἶναί σοι εἰς γυναῖκα.

¹¹τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξεγείρω ἐπὶ σὲ κακὰ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου σου καὶ λήψομαι τὰς γυναῖκάς σου κατ’ ὀφθαλμούς σου καὶ δώσω τῷ πλησίον σου, καὶ κοιμηθήσεται μετὰ τῶν γυναικῶν σου ἐναντίον τοῦ ἡλίου τούτου·

¹²ὅτι σὺ ἐποίησας κρυβῇ, κἀγὼ ποιήσω τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο ἐναντίον παντὸς ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἀπέναντι τοῦ ἡλίου τούτου.

¹³καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ τῷ Νάθαν· ἡμάρτηκα τῷ Κυρίῳ. καὶ εἶπε Νάθαν πρὸς Δαυίδ· καὶ Κύριος παρεβίβασε τὸ ἁμάρτημά σου, οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνῃς·

¹⁴πλὴν ὅτι παροργίζων παρώργισας τοὺς ἐχθροὺς Κυρίου ἐν τῷ ρήματι τούτῳ, καί γε ὁ υἱός σου ὁ τεχθείς σοι θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖται.

¹⁵καὶ ἀπῆλθε Νάθαν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἔθραυσε Κύριος τὸ παιδίον, ὃ ἔτεκεν ἡ γυνὴ Οὐρίου τοῦ Χετταίου τῷ Δαυίδ, καὶ ἠρρώστησε.

¹⁶καὶ ἐζήτησε Δαυὶδ τὸν Θεὸν περὶ τοῦ παιδαρίου, καὶ ἐνήστευσε Δαυὶδ νηστείαν καὶ εἰσῆλθε καὶ ηὐλίσθη ἐν σάκκῳ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

¹⁷καὶ ἀνέστησαν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ ἐγεῖραι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησε καὶ οὐ συνέφαγεν αὐτοῖς ἄρτον.

¹⁸καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ καὶ ἀπέθανε τὸ παιδάριον· καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ δοῦλοι Δαυὶδ ἀναγγεῖλαι αὐτῷ ὅτι τέθνηκε τὸ παιδάριον, ὅτι εἶπαν· ἰδοὺ ἐν τῷ τὸ παιδάριον ἔτι ζῆν ἐλαλήσαμεν πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσε τῆς φωνῆς ἡμῶν· καὶ πῶς εἴπωμεν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὅτι τέθνηκε τὸ παιδάριον; καὶ ποιήσει κακά.

¹⁹καὶ συνῆκε Δαυὶδ ὅτι οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ ψιθυρίζουσι, καὶ ἐνόησε Δαυὶδ ὅτι τέθνηκε τὸ παιδάριον· καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ· εἰ τέθνηκε τὸ παιδάριον; καὶ εἶπαν· τέθνηκε.

²⁰καὶ ἀνέστη Δαυὶδ ἐκ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐλούσατο καὶ ἠλείψατο καὶ ἤλλαξε τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ προσεκύνησεν αὐτῷ· καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ᾔτησεν ἄρτον φαγεῖν καὶ παρέθηκαν αὐτῷ ἄρτον, καὶ ἔφαγε.

²¹καὶ εἶπαν οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ πρὸς αὐτόν· τί τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο, ὃ ἐποίησας ἕνεκα τοῦ παιδαρίου; ἔτι ζῶντος ἐνήστευες καὶ ἔκλαιες καὶ ἠγρύπνεις, καὶ ἡνίκα ἀπέθανε τὸ παιδάριον, ἀνέστης καὶ ἔφαγες ἄρτον καὶ πέπωκας;

²²καὶ εἶπε Δαυίδ· ἐν τῷ τὸ παιδάριον ἔτι ζῆν ἐνήστευσα καὶ ἔκλαυσα, ὅτι εἶπα· τίς οἶδεν εἰ ἐλεήσει με Κύριος καὶ ζήσεται τὸ παιδάριον;

²³καὶ νῦν τέθνηκεν· ἱνατί τοῦτο ἐγὼ νηστεύω; μὴ δυνήσομαι ἐπιστρέψαι αὐτὸν ἔτι; ἐγὼ πορεύσομαι πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἀναστρέψει πρός με.

²⁴καὶ παρεκάλεσε Δαυὶδ Βηρσαβεὲ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὴν καὶ ἐκοιμήθη μετ’ αὐτῆς καὶ συνέλαβε καὶ ἔτεκεν υἱόν, καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Σαλωμών, καὶ Κύριος ἠγάπησεν αὐτόν.

²⁵καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ Νάθαν τοῦ προφήτου, καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ᾿Ιεδεδί, ἕνεκεν Κυρίου.

²⁶Καὶ ἐπολέμησεν ᾿Ιωὰβ ἐν Ῥαββὰθ υἱῶν ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ κατέλαβε τὴν πόλιν τῆς βασιλείας.

²⁷καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ᾿Ιωὰβ ἀγγέλους πρὸς Δαυὶδ καὶ εἶπεν· ἐπολέμησα ἐν Ῥαββὰθ καὶ κατελαβόμην τὴν πόλιν τῶν ὑδάτων·

²⁸καὶ νῦν συνάγαγε τὸ κατάλοιπον τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ παρέμβαλε ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν καὶ προκαταλαβοῦ αὐτήν, ἵνα μὴ προκαταλάβωμαι ἐγὼ τὴν πόλιν καὶ κληθῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπ’ αὐτήν.

²⁹καὶ συνήγαγε Δαυὶδ πάντα τὸν λαὸν καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰς Ῥαββὰθ καὶ ἐπολέμησεν ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ κατελάβετο αὐτήν.

³⁰καὶ ἔλαβε τὸν στέφανον Μολχὸμ τοῦ βασιλέως αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὁ σταθμὸς αὐτοῦ τάλαντον χρυσίου καὶ λίθου τιμίου, καὶ ἦν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς Δαυίδ· καὶ σκῦλα τῆς πόλεως ἐξήνεγκε πολλὰ σφόδρα.

³¹καὶ τὸν λαὸν τὸν ὄντα ἐν αὐτῇ ἐξήγαγε καὶ ἔθηκεν ἐν τῷ πρίονι καὶ ἐν τοῖς τριβόλοις τοῖς σιδηροῖς καὶ ὑποτομεῦσι σιδηροῖς καὶ διήγαγεν αὐτοὺς διὰ τοῦ πλινθείου· καὶ οὕτως ἐποίησε πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσιν υἱῶν ᾿Αμμών. καὶ ἐπέστρεψε Δαυὶδ καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

¹And the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David; and he went in to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.

²And the rich [man] had very many flocks and herds.

³But the poor [man had] only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; and it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

⁴And a traveller came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his flocks and of his herds, to dress for the traveller that came to him; and he took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that came to him.

⁵And David was greatly moved with anger against the man; and David said to Nathan, [As] the Lord lives, the man that did this thing shall surely die.

⁶And he shall restore the lamb seven-fold, because he has not spared.

⁷And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man that has done this. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee to be king over Israel, and I rescued thee out the hand of Saul;

⁸and I gave thee the house of the lord, and the wives of thy lord into thy bosom, and I gave to thee the house of Israel and Juda; and if that had been little, I would have given thee yet more.

⁹Why hast thou set at nought the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? thou hast slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and thou hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

¹⁰Now therefore the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever, because thou has set me at nought, and thou hast taken the wife of Urias the Chettite, to be thy wife.

¹¹Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against thee evil out of thy house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and will give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

¹²For thou didst it secretly, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and before the sun.

¹³And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, And the Lord has put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

¹⁴Only because thou hast given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, thy son also that is born to thee shall surely die.

¹⁵And Nathan departed to his house. And the Lord smote the child, which the wife of Urias the Chettite bore to David, and it was ill.

¹⁶And David enquired of God concerning the child, and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

¹⁷And the elders of his house arose [and went] to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not [rise], nor did he eat bread with them.

¹⁸And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive we spoke to him, and he hearkened not to our voice; and how should we tell him that the child is dead?-- so would he do [himself] harm.

¹⁹And David understood that his servants were whispering, and David perceived that the child was dead: and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is dead.

²⁰Then David rose up from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his raiment, and went into the house of God, and worshipped him; and went into his own house, and called for bread to eat, and they set bread before him and he ate.

²¹And his servants said to him, What [is] this thing that thou hast done concerning the child? while it was yet living thou didst fast, and weep, and watch: and when the child was dead thou didst rise up, and didst eat bread, and drink.

²²And David said, While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child live?

²³But now it is dead, why should I fast thus? shall I be able to bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

²⁴And David comforted Bersabee his wife, and he went in to her, and lay with her; and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his named Solomon, and the Lord loved him.

²⁵And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jededi, for the Lord’s sake.

²⁶And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

²⁷And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbath, and taken the city of waters.

²⁸And now gather the rest of the people, and encamp against the city, and take it beforehand; lest I take the city first, and my name be called upon it.

²⁹And David gathered all the people, and went to Rabbath, and fought against it, and took it.

³⁰And he took the crown of Molchom their king from off his head, and the weight of it was a talent of gold, with precious stones, and it was upon the head of David; and he carried forth very much spoil of the city.

³¹And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.