5 UDavide wanduluka kunye namadoda akhe, baya kuwahlasela amaFilistiya. Babulala amaFilistiya amaninzi, bathimba nemihlambi yawo. Waba ke uyihlangule njalo loo dolophu uDavide.
6 Ekubalekeleni kwakhe kuDavide eKehila uAbhiyatare unyana ka-Ahimeleki wafika esiphethe *isidanga.
7 Zafika kuSawule iindaba zokuba uDavide waya eKehila. Wavakala esithi: “Unikelwe nguThixo kum uDavide lo. Uzikhonkxile ngokwakhe ngokuya kungena kwidolophu enamasango atshixwayo.”
8 Watsho eqokelela umkhosi wakhe wonke uSawule, ukuba aye kuvingcela uDavide namadoda akhe apho eKehila.
9 Zafika kuDavide iindaba zokuba uSawule uceba ukwenza ububi kuye, waza wathi kuAbhiyatare: “Yiza nesidanga.”
10 Ubuze *kuNdikhoyo ke uDavide wenjenje: “Ndikhoyo, Thixo kaSirayeli, ndiva kusithiwa ngenene uSawule uzimisele ukuza kuyihlasela ayitshabalalise iKehila ngenxa yam.
11 Ndixelele, mna sicaka sakho, ndiyakubongoza, ngaba angandinikezela kuSawule amadoda amakhulu alapha? Ngaba ngenene uSawule uza kuza njengoko amarhe esitsho?”UNdikhoyo waphendula wathi: “Uza kuza.”