UDavide wazi ukuthi uSawule umenze okubi ngasese; wathi ku-Abiyathara umpristi: “Letha ingubo yamahlombe.”
UDavide wazi ukuthi uSawule uceba okubi ngaye; wathi ku-Abiyathara umpristi: “Letha ingubo yamahlombe.”
UDavide wayazi ukuthi uSawule uceba okubi ngaye; wathi ku-Abhiyathara, umphristi: “Letha ingubo yamahlombe.”
Umpristi uAbiyathara wathi enkosini: “Hamba uye e-Anathoti ensimini yakho; ngoba ufanelwe ukufa, kodwa kangiyikukubulala ngalesisikhathi, ngoba wawuthwele umtshokotsho weNkosi uJehova phambi kukaDavida ubaba, langoba wawucindezelwe kukho konke ubaba ayecindezelwe ngakho.
Ngibize, ngiyakukuphendula, ngikubonise izinto ezinkulu nezinamandla ongazaziyo.
Ngoba abantwana bakwa-Israyeli bayohlala izinsuku eziningi bengenankosi, bengenasikhulu, bengenamhlatshelo, bengenasithombe esibaziweyo, bengenasembatho sehlombe, bengenazithixo zasendlini.
Kumelwe ame phambi kuka-Eleyazare umpristi oyobuza kuye ngokwesahlulelo se-Urimi phambi kukaJehova; ngezwi lakhe bayakuphuma, futhi ngezwi lakhe bayakungena, yena nabo bonke abantwana bakwa-Israyeli kanye naye, yebo yonke inhlangano.
Sebekunanzelele lokho, babalekela eListra leDerbe, imizi yeLikawoniya, lezabelo ezizingelezeleyo.
Kodwa iqhinga labo laziwa nguSawuli. Bawalinda amasango imini nobusuku ukuba bambulale.
Yingakho babuza futhi kuJehova mayelana nokuthi lowo muntu usazoza yini lapho. Wathi uJehova: Bheka, wacasha phakathi kwezinto.
USawule wayesethi ku-Ahiya: “Letha lapha umphongolo kaNkulunkulu. Ngoba umphongolo kaNkulunkulu wawukubantwana bakwa-Israyeli ngaleso sikhathi.
Kwaphunyuka enye yamadodana ka-Ahimeleki indodana ka-Ahithubi ogama layo lingu-Abiyathara, yabaleka emva kukaDavide.
UDavide wathi: “Jehova Nkulunkulu ka-Israyeli, inceku yakho izwile nokuzwile ukuthi uSawule ufuna ukuza eKehila ukuba achithe umuzi ngenxa yami.
Lapho u-Abiyathara indodana ka-Ahimeleki ebaleka ngemva kukaDavide eKehila, wehla ephethe indwangu ehlombe esandleni sakhe.
USawule wabiza bonke abantu ukuba balwe, behlele eKehila, bavimbezele uDavide nabantu bakhe.
UDavide wayesethi ku-Abiyathara, umpristi, indodana ka-Ahimeleki, ngilethe lapha ingubo yamahlombe. U-Abiyathara wayeselethela uDavide khona ingubo yamahlombe.