Joshua 1
1 મૂસા યહોવાનો સેવક હતો, નૂનનો પુત્ર યહોશુઆ મૂસાનો મદદનીશ હતો. મૂસાના મૃત્યુ પછી યહોશુઆ સાથે યહોવાએ વાત કરી અને તેણે કહ્યું:
2 “હવે માંરા સેવક મૂસાનું અવસાન થયું છે. તેથી તું ઇસ્રાએલના લોકોનો નેતા છે. તેથી ઇસ્રાએલના બધા લોકોને લઈ અને યર્દન નદીની પેલે પાર હું તને જે દેશ આપું છું ત્યાં જા.
3 મેં મૂસાને વચન આપ્યું હતું કે હું તમને આ જગા આપીશ. જે જમીન તમાંરા પગ નીચે આવશે તે હું તમને આપીશ.
4 હિત્તીઓની બધી ભૂમિ રણ અને લબાનોનથી મહાન નદી યુફ્રેતીસ સુધી અને પશ્ચિમમાં છેક મહાસાગર તમાંરી સીમાંમાં હશે.
5 તું જ્યાં સુધી જીવતો રહીશ ત્યાં સુધી કોઈ તને રોકી શકશે નહિ. હું જેમ મૂસાની સાથે રહેતો હતો. તે જ પ્રમાંણે તારી સાથે પણ હું રહીશ.
6 “યહોશુઆ બળવાન અને હિમ્મતવાન થા. કારણ, તારે આ લોકોને જે દેશ તરફ દોરી જવાના છે જે મેં તેઓના પૂર્વજોની આગળ તેમને આપવા માંટે વચન આપ્યું હતું.
7 તારે તો માંત્ર બળવાન અને હિમ્મતવાન થવાનું છે. અને માંરા સેવક મૂસાએ જે નિયમો તને આપ્યાં તેનું તારે સંપૂર્ણ પાલન કરવાનું છે. જો તું તેને સંપૂર્ણપણે અનુસરીશ તો તું જે કંઈ કરીશ તેમાં સફળ થઈશ. તેનાથી ફરતો નહિ, નહિ ડાબે કે નહિ જમણે.
8 એ નિયમ શાસ્ત્ર તારા મોંમાંથી જાય નહિ પણ રાતદિવસ તારે એનું મનન કરવાનું છે જેથી એમાં જે લખેલું છે તેનું તું કાળજીપૂર્વક પાલન કરી શકે: કારણકે તો જ તું સફળ થશે અને સમૃદ્ધિ પામશે.
9 મેં તને બળવાન અને હિમ્મતવાન થવા આજ્ઞા કરી હતી. તેથી ભયભીત કે નાહિંમ્મત થઈશ નહિ કારણ હું તારો દેવ યહોવા છું. યહોશુઆ જ્યાં ક્યાંય તું જાય છે ત્યાં તારો દેવ, હું તારી સાથે છું.
10 “ત્યારબાદ યહોશુઆએ લોકોના આગેવાનોને આ પ્રમાંણે આજ્ઞા કરી કે,
11 “છાવણીમાં બધે ફરીને લોકોને કહો કે, ‘તમાંરી સાથે લેવા માંટે થોડું ખાવાનું તૈયાર રાખજો કારણકે યર્દન નદી ઓળંગવા માંટે તમને ત્રણ દિવસ લાગશે અને આપણા દેવ યહોવા આપણને વચન આપેલ દેશ આપશે. આપણે ત્યાં જઈશું અને રહીશું!”‘
12 પછી તેણે રૂબેન અને ગાદના કુળસમૂહના સર્વ માંણસોને તથા મનાશ્શાના અર્ધ કુળસમૂહના આગેવાનોને ચેતવણી આપી
13 “યાદ કરો, યહોવાના સેવક મૂસાએ તમને શું કહ્યું હતું, તેણે કહ્યું કે તમાંરા દેવ યહોવા તમને આરામ આપશે. તે તમને આ દેશ આપશે.
14 તમાંરી પત્નીઓ અને બાળકો તે દેશમાં રહી શકે છે કે જે યર્દન નદીની પૂર્વે છે જે દેવે તમને આપી દીધી છે. પણ તમાંરા સૈનિકોએ તેઓની ભૂમિના બીજા ભાગો ધરાવતી વખતે તેમની સાથે યર્દન નદી પાર કરી અને તેઓની સાથે લડાઈ કરવા તેઓના ઇસ્રાએલી ભાઈઓને મદદ કરવી.
15 કે જેથી તેઓ પણ યહોવા તેમને જે ભૂમિ આપી રહ્યા છે તે ધારણ કરી શકે. અને તેઓ પાસે આરામ કરવાનું સ્થાન હશે. તેના પછી તમે પાછા આવી શકો અને યર્દન નદીની પૂર્વની ભૂમિમાં રહી શકો જે યહોવાના સેવક મૂસાએ તમને આપી હતી.”
16 તે લોકોએ યહોશુઆને ઉત્તરમાં જણાવ્યું, “તમે જે આજ્ઞા અમને આપી છે તે અમે પાળીશું અને તમે જયાં મોકલશો ત્યાં જઈશું.”
17 અમે જે રીતે મૂસાની આજ્ઞાને આધીન હતા અને જે પ્રમાંણે તેનું કહ્યું માંનતા હતા, તે જ પ્રમાંણે તમને આધીન રહીશું. ફકત એટલું તમાંરા દેવ યહોવા જેમ મૂસાની સાથે હતા, તેમજ તમાંરી સાથે પણ રહે.
18 કોઈ પણ જે તમાંરી આજ્ઞાને ન અનુસરે અથવા કોઈ પણ જે તમાંરો વિરોધ કરે, તે કોઈ પણ હોય તોપણ તે માંર્યો જાય; એટલું જકે તું બળવાન અને હિમ્મતવાન થા!”
1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it.
12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
15 Until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.
18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3 And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
19 Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.