Mukanda wa kumpala wa Samuele
13 Saule baadi na bipua . . . pabafikile bu nfumu a Isalele, na aye nkukunkusha munda mua bipua bibidi. 2 Saule basanguile balume 3 000 ba mu Isalele, balume 2 000 ba kuabadi babaadi na Saule ku Mikemashe na ku nsenga ya ku miengie ya Betele. Na balume 1 000 babaadi na Yonatane ku Gibeya a Benyamine. Aye nkulungula bantu babashadile bua kualukiila mu tushibo tuabo tua mapema. 3 Akupu Yonatane bayipayile kisaka kia basalayi kia bena Filistine kibaadi ku Geba, na bena Filistine abo nkupusha wawa muanda. Saule nkuelesha mpungi muiumbo dioso dishima p’aye kuamba’shi: “Bena Ebelu bapushe!” 4 Bena Isalele boso babapushishe uno mukandu’shi: “Saule mmuipee kisaka kia basalayi kia bena Filistine, na binobino Isalele bafiki bu kintu kibutete kui bena Filistine.” Biabia babayitanyine muilo buaudia kulonda Saule ku Gilegale.
5 Bena Filistine namu babaadi bebungie pamune bua kulua na bena Isalele, babaadi na matempu a ngoshi 3 000 na bantu bakaamine pa mpunda 6 000 na basalayi bebungi nka bu lusenga lua ku kiese kia Kalunga; abakaamiine abo nkutuula kishalelo kiabo ku Mikemashe dia kutunduka nguba kua Bete-awene. 6 Na bantu ba mu Isalele babamuene’shi babaadi mu lukalakashi, muanda babaadi bebafinakashe bi bukopo; biabia bantu babayile mu kufuama mu mbuebue, mu mena, mu mabue, mu mashibo e muushi mua nsenga na mu biina bia mema. 7 Bangi bena Ebelu babasabukile mpa na Yordane, benda muiumbo dia Gade na Gileade. Kadi Saule baadi ki ku Gilegale, na bantu boso babaadi abamulondo babaadi abasuusu bua moo. 8 Batungunukile na kutengiela munda mua mafuku musambobidi mpa nka na pabakumbene nsaa ibaadi Samuele mutshibe, anka Samuele tabaadi mufikie ku Gilegale na bantu bababangile kupalakana. 9 Nfudiilo a bioso Saule bambile’shi: “Ntumineyi mulambu wa kushiika kaalo na milambu ya butaale.” Na aye nkulambula mulambu wa kushiika kaalo.
10 Kadi, anka aye kiapudisha kulambula mulambu wa kushiika kaalo, Samuele bafikile. Biabia Saule bayile bua kufumankana naye na kumusema. 11 Paapa Samuele nkuamba’shi: “A kibokitshi nkinyi?” Saule nkualuula’shi: “Mmonanga’shi muilo ukuete kukatuka kuandi, na obe tue mufikie pa nsaa itshibibue, na’shi bena Filistine abebunganga pamune ku Mikemashe. 12 Ndio ami nkuiakuila’shi: ‘Binobino bena Filistine abafiki kuno kuandi mu kunduisha ku Gilegale, na ntshi mukimbe bukuashi kui Yehowa, biabia ami nkumona’shi abitungu ntushe mulambu wa kushiika kaalo.”
13 Paapa Samuele nkulungula Saule’shi: “Bokitshi mianda bu muntu shi na binangu! Tue mukookiele muiya ubaadi Yehowa Efile Mukulu oobe mukupe. Su bodia kuiukookiela, Yehowa badia kunyingisha bufumu bobe kui bena Isalele bua loso. 14 Anka binobino, bufumu bobe t’abukayisha, Yehowa akasangula muntu asankisha eshimba diaye, na Yehowa akamutuulu bu nfumu pa muilo waye muanda tue mukookiele bibaadi Yehowa mukutumine eyi.”
15 Samuele nkukatuka ku Gilegale aye nkukaamina ku Gibeya a Benyamine, na Saule babadikile bantu; bantu babaadi bashale naye babaadi bafikie ku 600. 16 Saule, muana aaye Yonatane, na bantu babaadi bashale nabo, babaadi bashalele mu Geba a Benyamine, bena Filistine babaadi batuule kishalelo kiabo ku Mikemashe. 17 Bisaka bisatu bia basalayi bibaadi abituuku mu kishalelo kia bena Filistine. Kisaka kimune kibaadi akiyila muishinda dia ku Ofra ku eumbo dia Shuwale; 18 Kingi kisaka kibaadi akiyila muishinda dia Bete-orone na kisaka kia kasatu kibaadi akiyila muishinda adiende mpa na ku mikalo i kunundu ku’ebanda dia Seboime dia ku kabaaka.
19 Mu kiakia kipungo, takubaadi nsendue su ngumune mu eumbo dioso dia Isalele, muanda bena Filistine abaadi bambe’shi: “T’abitungu’shi bena Ebelu bekitshiine mpete ya ngoshi sunga milumbu nya.” 20 Na bena Isalele boso babaadi abende kui bena Filistine buabadia kunoonesha nkasu yabo, mpiki yabo, tubengiele tuabo na mpete yabo ya kuumbula nayo. 21 Babaadi abafutu pime* umune bua kunoonesha nkasu, mpiki, nkanya ya meno asatu, tubengiele, na bua kulumbuula mutshi wi na nsongo ya kiamo w’abaludikaa nao ngombe. 22 Nyi buakinyi muifuku dia ngoshi takubaadi muntu su ngumune a ku bantu babaadi na Saule na Yonatane baadi na lupete lua ngoshi sunga mulumbu; anka penda Saule na muana aaye Yonatane nyi babaadi na bina ngoshi.
23 Aku namu kisaka kia basalayi ba bena Filistine kibafikile kiayimana pa lupongo lua ku Mikemashe.