1 Samuel 13

¹Saul berumur sekian tahun ketika ia menjadi raja; dua tahun ia memerintah atas Israel.

¹Saul was... years old when he began to reign, and he reigned... and two years over Israel.

²Saul memilih tiga ribu orang dari antara orang Israel; dua ribu orang ada bersama-sama dengan Saul di Mikhmas dan di pegunungan Betel, sedang seribu orang ada bersama-sama dengan Yonatan di Gibea Benyamin, tetapi selebihnya dari rakyat itu disuruhnya pulang, masing-masing ke kemahnya.

²Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

³Yonatan memukul kalah pasukan pendudukan orang Filistin yang ada di Geba; dan hal itu terdengar oleh orang Filistin. Karena itu Saul menyuruh meniup sangkakala di seluruh negeri, sebab pikirnya: "Biarlah orang Ibrani mendengarnya."

³Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."

⁴Demikianlah seluruh orang Israel mendengar kabar, bahwa Saul telah memukul kalah pasukan pendudukan orang Filistin dan dengan demikian orang Israel dibenci oleh orang Filistin. Kemudian dikerahkanlah rakyat itu untuk mengikuti Saul ke Gilgal.

⁴And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.

⁵Adapun orang Filistin telah berkumpul untuk berperang melawan orang Israel. Dengan tiga ribu kereta, enam ribu orang pasukan berkuda dan pasukan berjalan kaki sebanyak pasir di tepi laut mereka bergerak maju dan berkemah di Mikhmas, di sebelah timur Bet-Awen.

⁵And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

⁶Ketika dilihat orang-orang Israel, bahwa mereka terjepit--sebab rakyat memang terdesak--maka larilah rakyat bersembunyi di gua, keluk batu, bukit batu, liang batu dan perigi;

⁶When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

⁷malah ada orang Ibrani yang menyeberangi arungan sungai Yordan menuju tanah Gad dan Gilead, sedang Saul masih di Gilgal dan seluruh rakyat mengikutinya dengan gemetar.

⁷and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

⁸Ia menunggu tujuh hari lamanya sampai waktu yang ditentukan Samuel. Tetapi ketika Samuel tidak datang ke Gilgal, mulailah rakyat itu berserak-serak meninggalkan dia.

⁸He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

⁹Sebab itu Saul berkata: "Bawalah kepadaku korban bakaran dan korban keselamatan itu." Lalu ia mempersembahkan korban bakaran.

⁹So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering.

¹⁰Baru saja ia habis mempersembahkan korban bakaran, maka tampaklah Samuel datang. Saul pergi menyongsongnya untuk memberi salam kepadanya.

¹⁰As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.

¹¹Tetapi kata Samuel: "Apa yang telah kauperbuat?" Jawab Saul: "Karena aku melihat rakyat itu berserak-serak meninggalkan aku dan engkau tidak datang pada waktu yang telah ditentukan, padahal orang Filistin telah berkumpul di Mikhmas,

¹¹Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

¹²maka pikirku: Sebentar lagi orang Filistin akan menyerang aku di Gilgal, padahal aku belum memohonkan belas kasihan TUHAN; sebab itu aku memberanikan diri, lalu mempersembahkan korban bakaran."

¹²I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.' So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering."

¹³Kata Samuel kepada Saul: "Perbuatanmu itu bodoh. Engkau tidak mengikuti perintah TUHAN, Allahmu, yang diperintahkan-Nya kepadamu; sebab sedianya TUHAN mengokohkan kerajaanmu atas orang Israel untuk selama-lamanya.

¹³And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

¹⁴Tetapi sekarang kerajaanmu tidak akan tetap. TUHAN telah memilih seorang yang berkenan di hati-Nya dan TUHAN telah menunjuk dia menjadi raja atas umat-Nya, karena engkau tidak mengikuti apa yang diperintahkan TUHAN kepadamu."

¹⁴But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."

¹⁵Kemudian berangkatlah Samuel dan pergi dari Gilgal ke Gibea Benyamin. Tetapi Saul memeriksa barisan rakyat yang ada bersama-sama dengan dia itu: kira-kira enam ratus orang banyaknya.

¹⁵And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin.And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

¹⁶Saul dan Yonatan, anaknya, dan rakyat yang ada bersama-sama dengan mereka, tinggal di Geba-Benyamin, sedang orang Filistin berkemah di Mikhmas.

¹⁶And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

¹⁷Maka keluarlah orang-orang penjarah dari perkemahan orang Filistin dalam tiga gerombolan: gerombolan yang satu mengambil jalan ke Ofra, ke daerah Syual;

¹⁷And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;

¹⁸gerombolan yang kedua mengambil jalan ke Bet-Horon, dan gerombolan yang satu lagi mengambil jalan ke perbatasan yang menghadap ke lembah Zeboim arah ke padang gurun.

¹⁸another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

¹⁹Seorang tukang besi tidak terdapat di seluruh negeri Israel, sebab orang Filistin berkata: "Jangan-jangan orang Ibrani membuat pedang atau tombak."

¹⁹Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears."

²⁰Jadi semua orang Israel harus pergi kepada orang Filistin untuk mengasah mata bajaknya, beliungnya, kapaknya atau aritnya masing-masing--

²⁰But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,

²¹adapun bayarannya ialah dua pertiga syikal untuk mata bajak dan beliung, dan sepertiga syikal untuk mengasah kapak dan untuk memasang kusa--

²¹and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

²²sehingga pada hari pertempuran itu sebilah pedang atau lembingpun tidak terdapat pada seluruh rakyat yang ada bersama Saul dan Yonatan. Tetapi Saul dan Yonatan, anaknya itu, masih mempunyainya.

²²So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

²³Dan suatu pasukan pengawal orang Filistin telah keluar ke pelintasan gunung di Mikhmas.

²³And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.