1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Zaidi ya hayo Ahithofeli akamwambia Absalomu, Niache nichague watu kumi na mbili elfu, nami nitaondoka na kumfuatia Daudi usiku huu;
2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
nami nitamshambulia wakati atakaokuwa amechoka, na mikono yake imekuwa dhaifu, nami nitamtia hofu; na watu wote walio pamoja naye watakimbia; nami nitampiga mfalme peke yake;
3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
na hao watu wote nitawarejeza kwako; mtu yule umtafutaye ni kana kwamba wamerudi wote; na hivyo watu wote watakuwa katika amani.
4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Shauri hili likawa jema machoni pa Absalomu, na machoni pa wazee wote wa Israeli.
5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
Ndipo Absalomu akasema, Basi, mwiteni Hushai, Mwarki, naye, tukasikie atakayosema yeye pia.
6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
Basi Hushai alipofika kwa Absalomu, Absalomu akamwambia, akasema, Ahithofeli amesema hivi; je! Tufanye kama alivyosema? Kama sivyo, sema maneno yako.
7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
Hushai akamwambia Absalomu, Shauri hili alilolitoa Ahithofeli si jema wakati huu.
8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Hushai akafuliza kusema, Wamjua baba yako na watu wake, ya kuwa ni watu mashujaa hawa, nao wana uchungu katika mioyo yao, kama dubu aliyenyang'anywa watoto wake nyikani; tena baba yako ni mtu wa vita, hatalala pamoja na watu wake.
9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
Angalia, amefichwa sasa katika shimo, au penginepo; kisha itakuwa, watakapoanguka baadhi yao mwanzo, kila mtu atakayesikia, atasema, Kuna machinjo katika watu wanaofuatana na Absalomu.
10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
Basi hata yeye aliye shujaa, mwenye moyo kama moyo wa simba, atayeyuka kabisa; maana Israeli wote wanajua ya kuwa baba yako ni shujaa, na ya kuwa watu wale walio pamoja naye ni mashujaa.
11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
Kwa hiyo shauri langu ni hili, Waisraeli wote toka Dani mpaka Beer-sheba wakusanyike kwako, kama mchanga wa bahari kwa wingi; na wewe uende vitani mwenyewe.
12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
Hivyo tutamfikia mahali po pote atakapoonekana, na kumwangukia kama vile umande uangukavyo juu ya nchi; wala hatutaacha hata mmoja wao, yeye na watu wote walio pamoja naye.
13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
Tena, ikiwa amejitia katika mji uwao wote, basi Israeli wote wataleta kamba, na kuuendea mji ule, nasi tutaukokota mpaka mtoni, wala halitaonekana huko hata jiwe dogo moja la mawe yake.
14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
Naye Absalomu na watu wote wa Israeli wakasema, Shauri la Hushai, Mwarki, ni jema kuliko shauri la Ahithofeli. Kwa maana Bwana alikuwa amekusudia kulivunja shauri jema la Ahithofeli, ili Bwana alete mabaya juu ya Absalomu.
15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
Ndipo Hushai akawaambia Sadoki na Abiathari, makuhani, Ahithofeli amempa Absalomu na wazee wa Israeli mashauri kadha wa kadha; na mimi nimetoa mashauri kadha wa kadha.
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
Basi sasa pelekeni habari upesi kamwambieni Daudi ya kwamba, Usilale usiku huu karibu na vivuko vya jangwani; bali usikose kuvuka; asije akamezwa mfalme, na watu wote walio pamoja naye.
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
Basi Yonathani na Ahimaasi walikuwa wakikaa karibu na Enrogeli; na mjakazi mmoja alikuwa akienda na kuwapa habari; nao huenda kumwambia mfalme Daudi; maana ilikuwa lazima wasionekane wakiingia mjini.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
Lakini kijana mmoja aliwaona, akamwambia Absalomu; basi wakaenda wote wawili kwa haraka, wakafika Bahurimu, nyumbani kwa mtu aliyekuwa na kisima uani mwake; wakashuka ndani yake.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
Na mwanamke akatwaa kifuniko akakiweka juu ya mdomo wa kile kisima, akaanika ngano iliyotwangwa juu yake; wala halikujulikana neno lo lote.
20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them , they returned to Jerusalem.
Nao watumishi wa Absalomu wakamwendea yule mwanamke mle nyumbani; wakasema, Wako wapi Yonathani na Ahimaasi? Yule mwanamke akawaambia, Wamevuka kijito cha maji. Basi walipokwisha kuwatafuta wasiwaone, wakarudi Yerusalemu.
21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
Kisha ikawa, baada ya kuondoka kwao, wale wakatoka kisimani, wakaenda wakamwarifu mfalme Daudi; wakamwambia Daudi, Ondokeni, mkavuke maji haya upesi; maana ndivyo alivyotoa shauri Ahithofeli juu yenu.
22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
Ndipo Daudi, na watu wote waliokuwa pamoja naye, wakaondoka, wakavuka Yordani; na kulipopambazuka hakubaki mmojawapo wao asiyevuka Yordani.
23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Naye Ahithofeli alipoona ya kuwa shauri lake halikufuatwa, akatandika punda wake, akaondoka, akaenda nyumbani kwake, mjini mwake, akaitengeneza nyumba yake, akajisonga; akafa, akazikwa kaburini mwa babaye.
24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
Basi Daudi akaja Mahanaimu. Naye Absalomu akauvuka Yordani yeye na watu wote wa Israeli pamoja naye.
25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
Naye Absalomu akamweka Amasa awe juu ya jeshi mahali pa Yoabu. Basi huyo Amasa alikuwa mwana wa mtu, jina lake Yetheri, Mwishmaeli, aliyeingia kwa Abigali, binti Nahashi, nduguye Seruya, mamaye Yoabu.
26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
Israeli na Absalomu wakapiga kambi katika nchi ya Gileadi.
27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
Ikawa, Daudi alipofika Mahanaimu, Shobi, mwana wa Nahashi wa Raba, wa wana wa Amoni, na Makiri, mwana wa Amieli wa Lo-debari, na Barzilai, Mgileadi wa Rogelimu,
28 brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn , and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse ,
wakaleta magodoro, na mabakuli, na vyungu, na ngano, na shayiri, na unga, na bisi, na kunde, na dengu,
29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
na asali, na siagi, na kondoo, na samli ya ng'ombe, wapate kula Daudi na watu waliokuwa pamoja naye; kwani walisema, Watu hao waona njaa, tena wamechoka, nao wana kiu huku nyikani.
