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Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still restricted because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.
They were equipped with bows, using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and to shoot arrows from the bow; they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin.
The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite,
From the Gadites there came over to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.
Перешли к Давиду в его укрепление в пустыне и некоторые из гадитян. Это были отважные и опытные воины, умеющие обращаться со щитом и копьем. Лица их были, как у львов и быстры они были, как газели в горах.
These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.
Это они переправились через реку Иордан в первый месяц, когда она выходит из берегов, и обратили в бегство всех, кто жил в долинах к востоку и к западу.
David went out to meet them, and said to them, “If you come peacefully to me to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and decide.”
Давид вышел навстречу и сказал им: — Если вы пришли с миром, чтобы помогать мне, я готов объединиться с вами. Но если вы пришли, чтобы предать меня моим врагам, когда мои руки чисты от насилия, то пусть Бог наших отцов увидит и рассудит.
Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who was the chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, And with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to him who helps you; Indeed, your God helps you!” Then David received them and made them captains of the band.
From Manasseh also some defected to David when he was about to go to battle with the Philistines against Saul. But they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines after consultation sent him away, saying, “At the cost of our heads he may defect to his master Saul.”
Когда Давид пошел с филистимлянами воевать против Саула, к нему перешли некоторые из рода Манассии. (Давид и его люди не помогали филистимлянам, потому что их правители, посоветовавшись, отослали его прочь. Они сказали: «Если он перейдет к своему господину Саулу, то это нам будет стоить головы».)
As he went to Ziklag there defected to him from Manasseh: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands who belonged to Manasseh.
Когда Давид возвращался в Циклаг, из рода Манассии к нему перешли: Аднах, Иозавад, Иедиаел, Михаил, Иозавад, Элигу и Циллетай — тысяченачальники манассиян.
Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.
из рода Иссахара, людей разумных, которые знали, что и когда надлежало делать Израилю, — 200 вождей со всеми своими родственниками, следующими по их слову.
Of Zebulun, there were 50,000 who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David with an undivided heart.
From the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.
All these, being men of war who could draw up in battle formation, came to Hebron with a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one mind to make David king.
Все эти воины боевым строем пришли в Хеврон исполненные воли сделать Давида царем над всем Израилем. И все остальные израильтяне единодушно решили сделать Давида царем.
Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.
А также их соседи, даже такие, как роды Иссахара, Завулона и Неффалима, приходили с ослами, верблюдами, мулами и волами, нагруженными едой. Еды — муки, инжира, изюма, вина, масла, мяса крупного и мелкого скота — было в изобилии, потому что в Израиле царила радость.