2 Samuel · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
2 Samuel 3 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Hubo una larga guerra entre los del bando de Saúl y los del bando de David. El bando de David se fortalecía, mientras que el de Saúl se debilitaba.
1 Now there was a long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
2 Los hijos de David nacidos en Hebrón fueron: Amnón (primogénito), cuya madre fue Ahinoam de Jezreel;
2 Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
3 Queliab (segundo), cuya madre fue Abigail, viuda de Nabal, de Carmel; Absalón (tercero), cuya madre fue Maaca, hija del rey Talmai, de Gesur;
3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4 Adonías (cuarto), cuya madre fue Haguit; Sefatías (quinto), cuya madre fue Abital;
4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
5 Itream (sexto), cuya madre fue Egla, esposa de David. Esos fueron los hijos que le nacieron a David en Hebrón.
5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
6 Abner había estado fortaleciendo su posición entre los partidarios de la dinastía de Saúl durante la guerra entre los del bando de Saúl y los del bando de David.
6 While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
7 Saúl tenía una concubina llamada Rizpa, hija de Aia. Un día Isboset acusó a Abner, diciendo: “¿Por qué te has acostado con la concubina de mi padre?” .
7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
8 Abner se enfadó mucho ante la acusación de Isboset. “¿Acaso soy un cabeza de perro que se pone del lado de Judá?” , respondió. “Hasta el día de hoy he sido leal a tu dinastía, a tu padre Saúl y a sus hermanos y amigos. No te he traicionado con David. ¡Pero ahora te atreves a acusarme de pecar con esta mujer!
8 Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s house, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
9 ¡Que Dios me castigue severamente si no ayudo a David a cumplir lo que el Señor le ha prometido!
9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him:
10 Entregaré el reino de la dinastía de Saúl y ayudaré a establecer el gobierno de David sobre Israel y Judá, desde Dan hasta Beerseba”.
10 to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
11 Isboset no se atrevió a decirle nada más a Abner porque le tenía miedo.
11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.
12 Entonces Abner envió mensajeros para que hablaran en su nombre con David, diciéndole: “Después de todo ¿a quién pertenece el país? Haz un acuerdo conmigo, y puedes estar seguro de que estaré de tu lado para que todo Israel te siga”.
12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you to bring all Israel around to you.”
13 “Bien”, respondió David, “haré un acuerdo contigo. Pero tengo una condición: No te veré a menos que traigas a la hija de Saúl, Mical, cuando vengas”.
13 David said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”
14 Entonces David envió mensajeros para decirle a Isboset, hijo de Saúl: “Devuélveme a mi mujer Mical; pagué por ella una dote de cien prepucios filisteos”.
14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
15 Isboset envió a buscarla y se la quitó a su marido Paltiel, hijo de Laish.
15 Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, Paltiel the son of Laish.
16 Su marido la siguió hasta la ciudad de Bahurim, llorando mientras iba. Entonces Abner le ordenó: “¡Vuelve a casa!”. Así que se fue a su casa.
16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
17 Abner habló con los ancianos de Israel y les dijo: “Hace tiempo que quieren tener a David como rey.
17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
18 Ahora es el momento de hacerlo, porque el Señor le prometió a David: ‘Por medio de mi siervo David voy a salvar a mi pueblo Israel de los filisteos y de todos sus enemigos’”.
18 Now then do it! For Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’”
19 Abner también habló con la gente de Benjamín y fue a Hebrón para comunicarle a David todo lo que los israelitas y toda la tribu de Benjamín habían decidido hacer.
19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin; and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.
20 Abner fue con veinte de sus hombres a ver a David a Hebrón, y David les preparó un banquete.
20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
21 Entonces Abner le dijo a David: “Déjame ir inmediatamente y convocar a todo Israel para una reunión con mi señor el rey, para que se pongan de acuerdo contigo y puedas gobernar todo lo que quieras”. Entonces David envió a Abner sano y salvo.
21 Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
22 Poco después, Joab y los hombres de David regresaron de una incursión, trayendo consigo una gran cantidad de botín. Sin embargo, Abner no estaba con David en Hebrón porque éste ya lo había enviado sano y salvo en paz.
22 Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
23 Cuando Joab y todo el ejército que lo acompañaba llegaron, le dijeron: “Abner, hijo de Ner, vino a ver al rey, quien lo envió sano y salvo”.
23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”
24 Joab fue a ver al rey y le preguntó: “¿Qué crees que estás haciendo? Aquí está Abner, que ha venido a verte. ¿Por qué motivo lo enviaste por el camino? ¡Ahora se ha escapado limpiamente!
24 Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?
25 ¿Te da cuenta de que Abner, hijo de Ner, vino a engañarte, a espiar los movimientos de tu ejército y a averiguar todo lo que haces?”
25 You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
26 Cuando Joab salió de la presencia de David, envió mensajeros tras Abner. Lo encontraron en el pozo de Sira y lo trajeron de vuelta, pero David no sabía nada al respecto.
26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.
27 Cuando Abner regresó a Hebrón, Joab lo llevó aparte a la puerta de la ciudad, como si fuera a hablar con él en privado. Pero Joab lo apuñaló en el vientre, matándolo en venganza por haber matado a Asael, el hermano de Joab.
27 When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.
28 Y cuando David se enteró de esto, dijo: “¡Yo y mi reino somos totalmente inocentes ante el Señor en lo que respecta a la muerte de Abner, hijo de Ner!
28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
29 Que la culpa de su muerte caiga sobre Joab y su familia. Que los descendientes de Joab siempre tengan a alguien que tenga llagas, o lepra, o esté lisiado o que lo maten a espada, o que se muera de hambre”.
29 Let it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
30 (Por eso Joab y su hermano Abisai mataron a Abner, porque éste había matado a su hermano Asael durante la batalla de Gabaón).
30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31 Entonces David les ordenó a Joab y a todos los que estaban allí: “Rasguen sus ropas, pónganse silicio y hagan duelo por Abner”. El mismo rey David siguió el cuerpo mientras lo llevaban a la tumba.
31 David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
32 Enterraron a Abner en Hebrón, y el rey lloró a gritos ante la tumba, junto con todo el pueblo.
32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
33 El rey cantó este lamento por Abner: “¿Merecía Abner morir como un criminal?
33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
34 Sus manos no estaban atadas, sus pies no tenían grilletes. Pero al igual que la víctima de un asesino, tú también fuiste asesinado”. Todo el pueblo lloró aún más por él.
34 Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.
35 Entonces la gente se acercó a David y trataron de persuadirlo para que comiera algo durante el día. Pero David hizo un juramento, diciendo: “¡Que Dios me castigue severamente si como pan o cualquier otra cosa antes de la puesta del sol!”
35 All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
36 Todos vieron esto y pensaron que era lo correcto, de la misma manera que pensaban que todo lo que hacía el rey era lo correcto.
36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
37 Ese día todos en Judá y en todo Israel se dieron cuenta de que David no había ordenado el asesinato de Abner.
37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
38 Entonces el rey dijo a sus oficiales: “¿No reconocen que hoy ha caído en Israel un comandante y un hombre verdaderamente grande?
38 The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?
39 En este momento soy débil, a pesar de haber sido ungido como rey, y estos hombres, los hijos de Sarvia, son demasiado poderosos para mí. Pero que el Señor pague al hombre malo según el mal que haya hecho”.
39 I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abital
A wife of David who bore his fifth son, Shephatiah, in Hebron.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Chronicles 3:3
Absalom
David's handsome son who avenged Tamar, rebelled against his father, and briefly seized the throne.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 15-18
Adonijah
A son of David who tried to claim the throne ahead of Solomon in David's final days.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1-2
Aiah
Named as the father of Rizpah, Saul's concubine.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 21:8
Amnon
David's firstborn son, who wronged his half-sister Tamar and was killed by Absalom in revenge.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 13
Chileab
David's second son, born to Abigail, who is named but scarcely mentioned afterward.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:3; 1 Chronicles 3:1
David
The shepherd who became Israel's greatest king and a man after God's own heart.
Cited in the guide: 1 Sam. 16 - 1 Kings 2; 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chron. 2:15; Matt. 1:6
Eglah
A wife of David who bore his sixth son, Ithream, in Hebron.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:5; 1 Chronicles 3:3
Haggith
A wife of David who bore his fourth son, Adonijah, in Hebron.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5; 1 Kings 1:11
Ithream
David's sixth son, born in Hebron to David's wife Eglah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:5; 1 Chronicles 3:3
Joab
Son of Zeruiah and commander of David's army, who killed Abner and Amasa, besieged Rabbah, killed Absalom in the oak, and carried out David's census.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 2:13; 2 Samuel 3:27; 2 Samuel 12:26
Laish
Named as the father of Palti (Paltiel), to whom Saul gave Michal; Palti is described as being from Gallim.
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 25:44; 2 Samuel 3:15
Maacah
Daughter of King Talmai of Geshur, who bore David his third son, Absalom, in Hebron.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:3; 1 Chronicles 3:2
Paltiel
Palti son of Laish, from Gallim, to whom Saul gave his daughter Michal; he followed her weeping to Bahurim when Ish-bosheth took her from him for David.
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 25:44; 2 Samuel 3:15
Rizpah
Saul's concubine, the daughter of Aiah, who bore Saul two sons and, after they were hanged by the Gibeonites, guarded their bodies from the birds and beasts from the harvest until…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 21:10
Shephatiah
David's fifth son, born in Hebron to Abital.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Chronicles 3:3
Talmai
King of Geshur and father of David's wife Maacah, to whom Absalom fled after killing Amnon and with whom he stayed three years.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 13:37; 1 Chronicles 3:2
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Kings 14:30; Job 8:7; Proverbs 4:18–19; 2 Samuel 2:17; Ephesians 6:12
- 2 1 Chronicles 3:1–4; 1 Samuel 25:42–43; 2 Samuel 13:1–29; Genesis 49:3–4
- 3 1 Samuel 27:8; 1 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Samuel 13:20–28; 2 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 13:37–38
- 4 1 Kings 2:13–25; 1 Kings 1:5–18
- 6 2 Samuel 2:8–9; Isaiah 8:9–10; Matthew 12:30; 2 Chronicles 25:8; Joel 3:9–13
- 7 2 Samuel 21:8–11; 2 Samuel 12:8; 2 Samuel 16:21–22; 1 Kings 2:21–22; 1 Kings 2:17
- 8 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:9; 1 Samuel 15:28; Deuteronomy 23:18; 2 Samuel 5:2
- 9 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Kings 19:2; Ruth 1:17; 1 Samuel 28:17; 1 Chronicles 12:23
- 10 Judges 20:1; 1 Samuel 3:20; 2 Samuel 17:11; 2 Samuel 24:2; 1 Kings 4:25
- 12 1 Chronicles 12:38–40; 2 Samuel 5:1–3; Psalm 62:9; 2 Samuel 19:6; Luke 16:5–8
- 13 Genesis 43:3; 1 Chronicles 15:29; Genesis 44:23; 1 Samuel 19:11–17; 1 Samuel 18:20–28
- 14 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 18:25; 2 Samuel 2:10
- 15 1 Samuel 25:44
- 16 2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 19:16; 1 Kings 2:8; 2 Samuel 17:18; Proverbs 9:17–18
- 18 1 Samuel 15:28; Psalm 89:19–23; 1 Samuel 9:16; Psalm 89:3–4; 2 Samuel 3:9
- 19 1 Chronicles 12:29; 1 Samuel 10:20–21; Psalm 68:27
- 20 Genesis 26:30; Esther 1:3; Genesis 31:54
- 21 2 Samuel 3:12; 1 Kings 11:37; 2 Samuel 3:10; Philippians 2:21; Psalm 20:4
- 24 2 Samuel 19:5–7; 2 Samuel 3:39; 2 Samuel 3:8; John 18:35; Numbers 23:11
- 25 Isaiah 37:28; Numbers 27:17; Deuteronomy 28:6; Psalm 121:8; 1 Samuel 29:4–6
- 26 Proverbs 27:4–6; Proverbs 26:23–26
- 27 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Samuel 20:9–10; 1 Kings 2:32; Deuteronomy 27:24; Jeremiah 41:6–7
- 28 Numbers 35:33; Exodus 21:12; Genesis 4:10; Genesis 9:6; Deuteronomy 21:1–9
- 29 2 Samuel 1:16; Psalm 109:8–19; 1 Kings 2:31–34; Acts 28:4; 2 Kings 5:1
- 30 Acts 28:4; 2 Samuel 2:19–23; Proverbs 28:17
- 31 Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 1:2; 2 Samuel 1:11; Joshua 7:6; Judges 11:35
- 32 Proverbs 24:17; Job 31:28; 2 Samuel 1:12; 1 Samuel 30:4; 2 Samuel 18:33
- 33 2 Chronicles 35:25; Luke 12:19–20; 2 Samuel 1:17; 2 Samuel 13:12–13; Ecclesiastes 2:15–16
- 34 Judges 16:21; Hosea 6:9; Psalm 107:10–11; Job 24:14; 2 Samuel 1:12
- 35 2 Samuel 1:12; 2 Samuel 12:17; Ruth 1:17; Jeremiah 16:7; Ezekiel 24:17
- 36 Mark 7:37; Mark 15:11–13; Psalm 62:9; 2 Samuel 15:6; 2 Samuel 15:13
- 38 Job 32:9; 1 Samuel 14:50–51; 2 Samuel 3:12; 2 Samuel 2:8
- 39 Psalm 28:4; Psalm 101:8; 1 Kings 2:33–34; 2 Timothy 4:14; Proverbs 25:5
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences