1 Samweli
13: 1 Sawuli yima ingoma umwaka umwe; amaze gutegeka imyaka ibiri hejuru ya Isiraheli,
13: 2 Sawuli amutoranya abantu ibihumbi bitatu ba Isiraheli; aho ibihumbi bibiri
hamwe na Sawuli i Mikashi no ku musozi wa Beteli, kandi igihumbi bari kumwe
Yonatani i Gibeya wa Benyamini: n'abandi bantu yohereje bose
umuntu ku ihema rye.
3 Yonatani akubita ibirindiro by'Abafilisitiya bari i Geba, kandi
Abafilisitiya barabyumva. Sawuli avuza impanda muri byose
igihugu, kivuga ngo: Abaheburayo bumve.
4 Isiraheli yose yumva bavuga ko Sawuli yakubise ibirindiro by'Uwiteka
Abafilisitiya, kandi ko Isiraheli nayo yari ifite ikizira Uwiteka
Abafilisitiya. Abantu bahamagazwa nyuma ya Sawuli bajya i Gilugali.
Abafilisitiya bateranira hamwe kugira ngo barwane na Isiraheli,
amagare ibihumbi mirongo itatu, nabanyamafarasi ibihumbi bitandatu, nabantu nku
umucanga uri ku nkombe y'inyanja ari benshi: barazamuka, kandi
yashinze i Michmash, iburasirazuba kuva Bethaven.
13: 6 Abisiraheli babonye ko bari mu kaga, (ku bantu
bababaye,) noneho abantu bihisha mu buvumo, no muri
ibihuru, no mu bitare, no ahantu hirengeye, no mu byobo.
7 Abaheburayo bamwe bambuka Yorodani bajya mu gihugu cya Gadi na Galeyadi.
Naho Sawuli we yari akiri i Gilugali, abantu bose baramukurikira
guhinda umushyitsi.
Ahamara iminsi irindwi, nk'uko Samweli yabigenje
yashyizweho: ariko Samweli ntabwo yaje i Giligali; abantu baratatana
kuri we.
9: 9 Sawuli aramubwira ati: "Nzanira hano ituro ryoswa, n'amaturo y'amahoro."
Atamba ituro ryoswa.
13:10 Kandi akimara kurangiza gutanga ituro
ituro ryoswa, dore Samweli yaje; Sawuli asohoka kumusanganira, ibyo
ashobora kumuramutsa.
13:11 Samweli ati: "Wakoze iki?" Sawuli aravuga ati: "Kubera ko nabibonye."
abantu banyanyagiye kuri njye, kandi ko utaje muri Uwiteka
iminsi yashizweho, kandi Abafilisitiya bateranira hamwe
Michmash;
13:12 Ni cyo cyatumye mvuga nti: Abafilisitiya bazamanuka kuri njye i Gilugali,
kandi sinasabye Uwiteka: Nihatiye
nuko, atanga igitambo cyoswa.
13:13 Samweli abwira Sawuli ati: "Wakoze ubupfu, ntiwabitse."
itegeko ry'Uwiteka Imana yawe, yagutegetse: kugeza ubu
Uwiteka yaba yarashinze ubwami bwawe kuri Isiraheli ubuziraherezo.
13:14 Ariko ubu ubwami bwawe ntibuzakomeza: Uwiteka yamushakiye umuntu
akurikije umutima we, kandi Uwiteka yamutegetse kuba umutware
ubwoko bwe, kuko utubahirije ibyo Uhoraho yategetse
wowe.
13:15 Samweli arahaguruka, amujyana i Gilugali kugera i Gibeya wa Benyamini.
Sawuli abara abantu bari kumwe na we, bagera kuri batandatu
abagabo ijana.
13:16 Sawuli, n'umuhungu we Yonatani, n'abantu bari kumwe na bo
Babaga i Gibeya y'i Benyamini, ariko Abafilisitiya bakambika
Michmash.
Abasahuzi basohoka mu nkambi y'Abafilisitiya batatu
ibigo: isosiyete imwe yahindukiriye inzira igana Ophrah, yerekeza
igihugu cya Shual:
13:18 Irindi tsinda rihindukirira inzira i Bethoroni: irindi tsinda
ahindukirira inzira y'umupaka ureba mu kibaya cya Zeboim
yerekeza mu butayu.
13:19 Nta mucuzi wabonetse mu gihugu cyose cya Isiraheli, kuko ari Uhoraho
Abafilisitiya baravuze bati: "Kugira ngo Abaheburayo batagira inkota cyangwa amacumu:
20 Abisiraheli bose baramanuka bajya mu Bafilisitiya, kugira ngo bakarishe buri wese
umuntu umugabane we, na coulter we, ishoka, na mattock.
13:21 Nyamara bari bafite dosiye ya matto, na coulters, na Uwiteka
amahwa, no kumashoka, no gukarisha imigozi.
Ku munsi w'intambara, nta nkota ihari
cyangwa icumu ryabonetse mu ntoki z'umuntu uwo ari we wese wari kumwe na Sawuli kandi
Yonatani: ariko hamwe na Sawuli hamwe na Yonatani umuhungu we.
Abasirikare b'Abafilisitiya barasohoka bajya mu nzira ya Mikashi.