2 Samuel 16
1 दाऊद चोटी पर से थोड़ी दूर बढ़ गया था, कि मपीबोशेत का कर्मचारी सीबा एक जोड़ी, जीन बान्धे हुए गदहों पर दो सौ रोटी, किशमिश की एक सौ टिकिया, धूपकाल के फल की एक सौ टिकिया, और कुप्पी भर दाखमधु, लादे हुए उस से आ मिला।
2 राजा ने सीबा से पूछा, इन से तेरा क्या प्रयोजन है? सीबा ने कहा, गदहे तो राजा के घराने की सवारी के लिये हैं, और रोटी और धूपकाल के फल जवानों के खाने के लिये हैं, और दाखमधु इसलिये है कि जो कोई जंगल में थक जाए वह उसे पीए।
3 राजा ने पूछा, फिर तेरे स्वामी का बेटा कहां है? सीबा ने राजा से कहा, वह तो यह कहकर यरूशलेम में रह गया, कि अब इस्राएल का घराना मुझे मेरे पिता का राज्य फेर देगा।
4 राजा ने सीबा से कहा, जो कुछ मपीबोशेत का था वह सब तुझे मिल गया। सीबा ने कहा, प्रणाम; हे मेरे प्रभु, हे राजा, मुझ पर तेरे अनुग्रह की दृष्टि बनी रहे।
5 जब दाऊद राजा बहूरीम तक पहुंचा, तब शाऊल का एक कुटुम्बी वहां से निकला, वह गेरा का पुत्र शिमी नाम का था; और वह कोसता हुआ चला आया।
6 और दाऊद पर, और दाऊद राजा के सब कर्मचारियों पर पत्थर फेंकने लगा; और शूरवीरों समेत सब लोग उसकी दाहिनी बाई दोनों ओर थे।
7 और शिमी कोसता हुआ यों बकता गया, कि दूर हो खूनी, दूर हो ओछे, निकल जा, निकल जा!
8 यहोवा ने तुझ से शाऊल के घराने के खून का पूरा पलटा लिया है, जिसके स्थान पर तू राजा बना है; यहोवा ने राज्य को तेरे पुत्र अबशालोम के हाथ कर दिया है। और इसलिये कि तू खूनी है, तू अपनी बुराई में आप फंस गया।
9 तब सरूयाह के पुत्र अबीशै ने राजा से कहा, यह मरा हुआ कुत्ता मेरे प्रभु राजा को क्यों शाप देने पाए? मुझे उधर जा कर उसका सिर काटने दे।
10 राजा ने कहा, सरूयाह के बेटो, मुझे तुम से क्या काम? वह जो कोसता है, और यहोवा ने जो उस से कहा है, कि दाऊद को शाप दे, तो उस से कौन पूछ सकता, कि तू ने ऐसा क्यों किया?
11 फिर दाऊद ने अबीशै और अपने सब कर्मचारियों से कहा, जब मेरा निज पुत्र भी मेरे प्राण का खोजी है, तो यह बिन्यामीनी अब ऐसा क्यों न करें? उसको रहने दो, और शाप देने दो; क्योंकि यहोवा ने उस से कहा है।
12 कदाचित यहोवा इस उपद्रव पर, जो मुझ पर हो रहा है, दृष्टि करके आज के शाप की सन्ती मुझे भला बदला दे।
13 तब दाऊद अपने जनों समेत अपना मार्ग चला गया, और शिमी उसके साम्हने के पहाड़ की अलंग पर से शाप देता, और उस पर पत्थर और धूलि फेंकता हुआ चला गया।
14 निदान राजा अपने संग के सब लोगों समेत अपने ठिकाने पर थका हुआ पहुंचा; और वहां विश्राम किया।
15 अबशालोम सब इस्राएली लोगों समेत यरूशलेम को आया, और उसके संग अहीतोपेल भी आया।
16 जब दाऊद का मित्र एरेकी हूशै अबशालोम के पास पहुंचा, तब हूशै ने अबशालोम से कहा, राजा चिरंजीव रहे! राजा चिरंजीव रहे!
17 अबशालोम ने उस से कहा, क्या यह तेरी प्रीति है जो तू अपने मित्र से रखता है? तू अपने मित्र के संग क्यों नहीं गया?
18 हूशै ने अबशालोम से कहा, ऐसा नहीं; जिस को यहोवा और वे लोग, क्या वरन सब इस्राएली लोग चाहें, उसी का मैं हूं, और उसी के संग मैं रहूंगा।
19 और फिर मैं किसकी सेवा करूं? क्या उसके पुत्र के साम्हने रहकर सेवा न करूं? जैसा मैं तेरे पिता के साम्हने रहकर सेवा करता था, वैसा ही तेरे साम्हने रहकर सेवा करूंगा।
20 तब अबशालोम ने अहीतोपेल से कहा, तुम लोग अपनी सम्मति दो, कि क्या करना चाहिये?
21 अहीतोपेल ने अबशालोम से कहा, जिन रखेलियों को तेरा पिता भवन की चौकसी करने को छोड़ गया, उनके पास तू जा; और जब सब इस्राएली यह सुनेंगे, कि अबशालोम का पिता उस से घिन करता है, तब तेरे सब संगी हियाव बान्धेंगे।
22 सो उसके लिये भवन की छत के ऊपर एक तम्बू खड़ा किया गया, और अबशालोम समस्त इस्राएल के देखते अपने पिता की रखेलियों के पास गया।
23 उन दिनों जो सम्मति अहीतोपेल देता था, वह ऐसी होती थी कि मानो कोई परमेश्वर का वचन पूछ लेता हो; अहीतोपेल चाहे दाऊद को चाहे अबशलोम को, जो जो सम्मति देता वह ऐसी ही होती थी।
1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
3 And the king said, And where is thy master’s son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
8 The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.
12 It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.
13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
15 And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.
17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father’s presence, so will I be in thy presence.
20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
3 And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.