UBaba Wethu Ukhetha UDavida Ukuba Yinkosi
USamuweli uya eBhetlehema esaba, adlule emadodaneni ayisikhombisa ahlaba umxhwele, ngoba uBaba wethu ubheka inhliziyo. Omncane kunabo bonke ubizwa evela ezimvini, agcotshwe. UMoya wehlela uDavide ngamandla, ushiye uSawule, obese eqasha uDavide ukuba amshayele ihabhu lapho ehlushwa.
16 1UBaba wethu wathi kuSamuweli: “Koze kube nini umlilela uSawule, lokhu ngimlahlile ukuba abe yinkosi kwa-Israyeli na? Gcwalisa uphondo lwakho ngamafutha; hamba, ngikuthuma ku-Jese waseBhetlehema—ngizikhethele inkosi phakathi kwamadodana akhe.” a a v1 Uphondo lwamafutha luyisigubhu olwenziwe ngophondo lwesilwane, olusetshenziselwa ukuthwala amafutha okugcoba.
2USamuweli wathi: “Ngingahamba kanjani? Uma uSawule ekuzwa lokhu, uzongibulala.” UBaba wethu wathi: “Thatha ithokazi lenkomo uhambe nalo, uthi, ‘Ngize ukuzohlabela uBaba.’
3Mema uJese emhlatshelweni; mina ngizokutshengisa ukuthi wenzeni. Ngigcobele lowo engizokubizela igama lakhe.”
4USamuweli wenza njengokusho kukaBaba wethu waya eBhetlehema. Amalunga awo amhlangabeza ethuthumela, abuza: “Uza ngokuthula na?”
5Wathi: “Ngokuthula. Ngize ukuzohlabela uBaba wethu. Zingcweliseni nize nami emhlatshelweni.” Wayesengcwelisa uJese namadodana akhe, wababizela emhlatshelweni. 6Kwathi sebefikile, uSamuweli wabona u-Eliyabi wacabanga wathi: “Ngempela lo unguye ogcotshiweyo kaBaba wethu!”
7Kodwa uBaba wethu watshela uSamuweli wathi: “Ungabheki isimo sakhe sangaphandle noma ubude bakhe; ngimlahlile. Abantu ababoni njengoba ngibona mina—babheka okungaphandle, kodwa mina, uBaba wakho, ngibheka inhliziyo.”
8USamuweli wabe esebiza u-Abhinadaba, wamedlulisa phambi kukaSamuweli. Kodwa uSamuweli wathi: “Nalo uBaba wethu akamkhethanga.” 9UJese wabe esedlulisa uShama. Kodwa uSamuweli wathi: “Nalo uBaba wethu akamkhethanga.” 10UJese wedlulisa amadodana ayisikhombisa phambi kukaSamuweli, kodwa uSamuweli wathi: “UBaba wethu akabakhethanga laba.” 11USamuweli wabuza uJese: “Onke amadodana akho alapha na?” UJese wathi: “Kusele omncane kunabo bonke, owalusa izimvu.” USamuweli wathi: “Thumela ambizwe. Ngeke sihlale phansi engakafiki.”
12UJese wathumela wamletha—wayebomvana enempilo, enamehlo amahle, emuhle. UBaba wethu wayesethi: “Sukuma, umgcobe; nguye lo.”
13USamuweli wathatha uphondo lwamafutha wamgcoba phakathi kwabafowabo, kusukela kulolo suku kuya phambili uMoya kaBaba wethu wehlela phezu kukaDavida ngamandla. USamuweli wayesemuka waya eRama.
UDavida Ungena Enkonzweni Yenkosi
14UMoya kaBaba wethu wawusemukile uSawule, futhi umoya olimazayo ovela kuBaba wethu wawumhlupha. b b v14 Ngisho nomoya olimazayo usebenza ngemvume kaBaba wethu kuphela; lapha ususa isivikelo sakhe kuSawule ekwahluleleni, nakuba yena uqobo engasilo sona isisusa sobubi. 15Izinceku zikaSawule zathi kuye: “Bheka, umoya olimazayo ovela kuBaba wethu uyakuhlupha. 16Inkosi yethu mayiyale izinceku zayo ezilapha ukuba zifune umuntu oliqeqebana ekushayeni ihabhu. Lapho umoya olimazayo ovela kuBaba wethu wehlela phezu kwakho, uzoshaya, wena uzosinda.”
17Ngakho uSawule wathi ezincekwini zakhe: “Ngifuneleni umuntu oshaya kahle nimlethe kimi.”
18Enye inceku yaphendula yathi: “Ngibone indodana ka-Jese waseBhetlehema eshaya kahle—inesibindi, iyiqhawe, ikhuluma kahle, inhle, futhi uBaba wethu unayo.”
19USawule wathumela izithunywa ku-Jese, wathi: “Ngithumele uDavida indodana yakho, osezimvini.”
20UJese wathwalisa imbongolo isinkwa, nesigubhu sewayini, nezinyane lembuzi, wakuthumela kuSawule ngendodana yakhe uDavida. 21UDavida wafika kuSawule wangena enkonzweni yakhe. USawule wamthanda kakhulu, uDavida waba ngumthwali wezikhali zakhe. 22USawule wathumela ku-Jese wathi: “UDavida makahlale enkonzweni yami, ngokuba uthole umusa kimi.” 23Njalo lapho umoya olimazayo ovela kuBaba wethu wehlela phezu kukaSawule, uDavida wayeshaya ihabhu. USawule wayezizwa ekhululekile engcono, umoya omubi umshiye.
