1 Kings 2

1 जब दाऊद के मरने का समय निकट आया, तब उसने अपने पुत्र सुलैमान से कहा,

2 कि मैं लोक की रीति पर कूच करने वाला हूँ इसलिये तू हियाव बांधकर पुरुषार्थ दिखा।

3 और जो कुछ तेरे परमेश्वर यहोवा ने तुझे सौंपा है, उसकी रक्षा करके उसके मार्गों पर चला करना और जैसा मूसा की व्यवस्था में लिखा है, वैसा ही उसकी विधियों तथा आज्ञाओं, और नियमों, और चितौनियों का पालन करते रहना; जिस से जो कुछ तू करे और जहां कहीं तू जाए, उस में तू सफल होए;

4 और यहोवा अपना वह वचन पूरा करे जो उसने मेरे विषय में कहा था, कि यदि तेरी सन्तान अपनी चाल के विषय में ऐसे सावधान रहें, कि अपने सम्पूर्ण हृदय और सम्पूर्ण प्राण से सच्चाई के साथ नित मेरे सम्मुख चलते रहें तब तो इस्राएल की राजगद्दी पर विराजने वाले की, तेरे कुल परिवार में घटी कभी न होगी।

5 फिर तू स्वयं जानता है, कि सरूयाह के पुत्र योआब ने मुझ से क्या क्या किया! अर्थात उसने नेर के पुत्र अब्नेर, और येतेर के पुत्र अमासा, इस्राएल के इन दो सेनापतियों से क्या क्या किया। उसने उन दोनों को घात किया, और मेल के समय युद्ध का लोहू बहाकर उस से अपनी कमर का कमरबन्द और अपने पावों की जूतियां भिगो दीं।

6 इसलिये तू अपनी बुद्धि से काम लेना और उस पक्के बाल वाले को अधोलोक में शांति से उतरने न देना।

7 फिर गिलादी बर्जिल्लै के पुत्रों पर कृपा रखना, और वे तेरी मेज पर खाने वालों में रहें, क्योंकि जब मैं तेरे भाई अबशालोम के साम्हने से भागा जा रहा था, तब उन्होंने मेरे पास आकर वैसा ही किया था।

8 फिर सुन, तेरे पास बिन्यामीनी गेरा का पुत्र बहूरीमी शिमी रहता है, जिस दिन मैं महनैम को जाता था उस दिन उसने मुझे कड़ाई से शाप दिया था पर जब वह मेरी भेंट के लिये यरदन को आया, तब मैं ने उस से यहोवा की यह शपथ खाई, कि मैं तुझे तलवार से न मार डालूंगा।

9 परन्तु अब तू इसे निदॉष न ठहराना, तू तो बुद्धिमान पुरुष है; तुझे मालूम होगा कि उसके साथ क्या करना चाहिये, और उस पक्के बाल वाले का लोहू बहाकर उसे अधोलोक में उतार देना।

10 तब दाऊद अपने पुरखाओं के संग सो गया और दाऊदमुर में उसे मिट्टी दी गई।

11 दाऊद ने इस्राएल पर चालीस वर्ष राज्य किया, सात वर्ष तो उसने हब्रोन में और तैंतीस वर्ष यरूशलेम में राज्य किया था।

12 तब सुलैमान अपने पिता दाऊद की गद्दी पर विराजमान हुआ और उसका राज्य बहुत दृढ़ हुआ।

13 और हग्गीत का पुत्र अदोनिय्याह, सुलैमान की माता बतशेबा के पास आया, और बतशेबा ने पूछा, क्या तू मित्रभाव से आता है?

14 उसने उत्तर दिया, हां, मित्रभाव से! फिर वह कहने लगा, मुझे तुझ से एक बात कहनी है। उसने कहा, कह!

15 उसने कहा, तुझे तो मालूम है कि राज्य मेरा हो गया था, और समस्त इस्राएली मेरी ओर मुंह किए थे, कि मैं राज्य करूं; परन्तु अब राज्य पलटकर मेरे भाई का हो गया है, क्योंकि वह यहोवा की ओर से उसको मिला है।

16 इसलिये अब मैं तुझ से एक बात मांगता हूँ, मुझ से नाही न करना उसने कहा, कहे जा।

17 उसने कहा, राजा सुलैमान तुझ से नाही न करेगा; इसलिये उस से कह, कि वह मुझे शूनेमिन अबीशग को ब्याह दे।

18 बतशेबा ने कहा, अच्छा, मैं तेरे लिये राजा से कहूंगी।

19 तब बतशेबा अदोनिय्याह के लिये राजा सुलैमान से बातचीत करने को उसके पास गई, और राजा उसकी भेंट के लिये उठा, और उसे दण्डवत् करके अपने सिंहासन पर बैठ गया: फिर राजा ने अपनी माता के लिये एक सिंहासन रख दिया, और वह उसकी दाहिनी ओर बैठ गई।

20 तब वह कहने लगी, मैं तुझ से एक छोटा सा वरदान मांगती हूँ इसलिये मुझ से नाही न करना, राजा ने कहा, हे माता मांग; मैं तुझ से नाही न करूंगा।

21 उसने कहा, वह शूनेमिन अबीशग तेरे भाई अदोनिय्याह को ब्याह दी जाए।

22 राजा सुलैमान ने अपनी माता को उत्तर दिया, तू अदोनिय्याह के लिये शूनेमिन अबीशग ही को क्यो मांगती है? उसके लिये राज्य भी मांग, क्योंकि वह तो मेरा बड़ा भाई है, और उसी के लिये क्या! एब्यातार याजक और सरूयाह के पुत्र योआब के लिये भी मांग।

23 और राजा सुलैमान ने यहोवा की शपथ खाकर कहा, यदि अदोनिय्याह ने यह बात अपने प्राण पर खेलकर न कही हो तो परमेश्वर मुझ से वैसा ही क्या वरन उस से भी अधिक करे।

24 अब यहोवा जिसने मुझे स्थिर किया, और मेरे पिता दाऊद की राजगद्दी पर विराजमान किया है और अपने वचन के अनुसार मेरे घर बसाया है, उसके जीपन की शपथ आज ही अदोनिय्याह मार डाला जाएगा।

25 और राजा सुलैमान ने यहोयादा के पुत्र बनायाह को भेज दिया और उसने जा कर, उसको ऐसा मारा कि वह मर गया।

26 और एब्यातार याजक से राजा ने कहा, अनातोत में अपनी भूमि को जा; क्योंकि तू भी प्राणदण्ड के योग्य है। आज के दिन तो मैं तुझे न मार डालूंगा, क्योंकि तू मेरे पिता दाऊद के साम्हने प्रभु यहोवा का सन्दूक उठाया करता था; और उन सब दु:खों में जो मेरे पिता पर पड़े थे तू भी दु:खी था।

27 और सुलैमान ने एब्यातार को यहोवा के याजक होने के पद से उतार दिया, इसलिये कि जो वचन यहोवा ने एली के वंश के विषय में शीलो में कहा था, वह पूरा हो जाए।

28 इसका समाचार योआब तक पहुंचा; योआब अबशालोम के पीछे तो नहीं हो लिया था, परन्तु अदोनिय्याह के पीछे हो लिया था। तब योआब यहोवा के तम्बू को भाग गया, और वेदी के सींगों को पकड़ लिया।

29 जब राजा सुलैमान को यह समाचार मिला, कि योआब यहोवा के तम्बू को भाग गया है, और वह वेदी के पास है, तब सुलैमान ने यहोयादा के पुत्र बनायाह को यह कहकर भेज दिया, कि तू जा कर उसे मार डाल।

30 तब बनायाह ने यहोवा के तम्बू के पास जा कर उस से कहा, राजा की यह आज्ञा है, कि निकल आ। उसने कहा, नहीं, मैं यहीं मर जाऊंगा। तब बनायाह ने लौटकर यह सन्देश राजा को दिया कि योआब ने मुझे यह उत्तर दिया।

31 राजा ने उस से कहा, उसके कहने के अनुसार उसको मार डाल, और उसे मिट्टी दे; ऐसा करके निर्दोषों का जो खून योआब ने किया है, उसका दोष तू मुझ पर से और मेरे पिता के घराने पर से दूर करेगा।

32 और यहोवा उसके सिर वह खून लौटा देगा क्योंकि उसने मेरे पिता दाऊद के बिना जाने अपने से अधिक धमीं और भले दो पुरुषों पर, अर्थात इस्राएल के प्रधान सेनापति नेर के पुत्र अब्नेर और यहूदा के प्रधान सेनापति येतेर के पुत्र अमासा पर टूटकर उन को तलवार से मार डाला था।

33 यों योआब के सिर पर और उसकी सन्तान के सिर पर खून सदा तक रहेगा, परन्तु दाऊद और उसके वंश और उसके घराने और उसके राज्य पर यहोवा की ओर से शांति सदैव तक रहेगी।

34 तब यहोयादा के पुत्र बनायाह ने जा कर योआब को मार डाला; और उसको जंगल में उसी के घर में मिट्टी दी गई।

35 तब राजा ने उसके स्थान पर यहोयादा के पुत्र बनायाह को प्रधान सेनापति ठहराया; और एब्यातार के स्थान पर सादोक याजक को ठहराया।

36 और राजा ने शिमी को बुलवा भेजा, और उस से कहा, तू यरूशलेम में अपना एक घर बनाकर वहीं रहना: और नगर से बाहर कहीं न जाना।

37 तू निश्चय जान रख कि जिस दिन तू निकल कर किद्रोन नाले के पार उतरे, उसी दिन तू नि:सन्देह मार डाला जाएगा, और तेरा लोहू तेरे ही सिर पर पड़ेगा।

38 शिमी ने राजा से कहा, बात अच्छी है; जैसा मेरे प्रभु राजा ने कहा है, वैसा ही तेरा दास करेगा। तब शिमी बहुत दिन यरूशलेम में रहा।

39 परन्तु तीन वर्ष के व्यतीत होने पर शिमी के दो दास, गत नगर के राजा माका के पुत्र आकीश के पास भाग गए, और शिमी को यह समाचार मिला, कि तेरे दास गत में हैं।

40 तब शिमी उठ कर अपने गदहे पर काठी कसकर, अपने दास को ढूंढ़ने के लिये गत को आकीश के पास गया, और अपने दासों को गत से ले आया।

41 जब सुलैमान राजा को इसका समाचार मिला, कि शिमी यरूशलेम से गत को गया, और फिर लौट आया है,

42 तब उसने शिमी को बुलवा भेजा, और उस से कहा, क्या मैं ने तुझे यहोवा की शपथ न खिलाई थी? और तुझ से चिता कर न कहा था, कि यह निश्चय जान रख कि जिस दिन तू निकल कर कहीं चला जाए, उसी दिन तू नि:सन्देह मार डाला जाएगा? और क्या तू ने मुझ से न कहा था, कि जो बात मैं ने सुनी, वह अच्छी है?

43 फिर तू ने यहोवा की शपथ और मेरी दृढ़ आज्ञा क्यों नहीं मानी?

44 और राजा ने शिमी से कहा, कि तू आप ही अपने मन में उस सब दुष्टता को जानता है, जो तू ने मेरे पिता दाऊद से की थी? इसलिये यहोवा तेरे सिर पर तेरी दुष्टता लौटा देगा।

45 परन्तु राजा सुलैमान धन्य रहेगा, और दाऊद का राज्य यहोवा के साम्हने सदैव दृढ़ रहेगा।

46 तब राजा ने यहोयादा के पुत्र बनायाह को आज्ञा दी, और उसने बाहर जा कर, उसको ऐसा मारा कि वह भी मर गया। और सुलैमान के हाथ में राज्य दृढ़ हो गया।

1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

4 That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.

15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the Lord.

16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

19 Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.

21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

23 Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

24 Now therefore, as the Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.

34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.

37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.

43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.

46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:

34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.