1 शमूएल 4
1 और शमूएल का वचन सारे इस्राएल के पास पहुंचा। और इस्राएली पलिश्तियों से युद्ध करने को निकले; और उन्होंने तो एबेनेजेर के आस-पास छावनी डाली, और पलिश्तियों ने अपेक में छावनी डाली।
2 तब पलिश्तियों ने इस्राएल के विरुद्ध पांति बान्धी, और जब घमासान युद्ध होने लगा तब इस्राएली पलिश्तियों से हार गए, और उन्होंने कोई चार हजार इस्राएली सेना के पुरूषों को मैदान ही में मार डाला।
3 और जब वे लोग छावनी में लौट आए, तब इस्राएल के वृद्ध लोग कहने लगे, कि यहोवा ने आज हमें पलिश्तियों से क्यों हरवा दिया है? आओ, हम यहोवा की वाचा का सन्दूक शीलो से मांग ले आएं, कि वह हमारे बीच में आकर हमें शत्रुओं के हाथ से बचाए।
4 तब उन लोगों ने शीलो में भेज कर वहां से करूबों के ऊपर विराजने वाले सेनाओं के यहोवा की वाचा का सन्दूक मंगा लिया; और परमेश्वर की वाचा के सन्दूक के साथ एली के दोनों पुत्र, होप्नी और पिनहास भी वहां थे।
5 जब यहोवा की वाचा का सन्दूक छावनी में पहुंचा, तब सारे इस्राएली इतने बल से ललकार उठे, कि भूमि गूंज उठी।
6 इस ललकार का शब्द सुनकर पलिश्तियों ने पूछा, इब्रियों की छावनी में ऐसी बड़ी ललकार का क्या कारण है? तब उन्होंने जान लिया, कि यहोवा का सन्दूक छावनी में आया है।
7 तब पलिश्ती डरकर कहने लगे, उस छावनी में परमेश्वर आ गया है। फिर उन्होंने कहा, हाय! हम पर ऐसी बात पहिले नहीं हुई थी।
8 हाय! ऐसे महाप्रतापी देवताओं के हाथ से हम को कौन बचाएगा? ये तो वे ही देवता हैं जिन्होंने मिस्रियों पर जंगल में सब प्रकार की विपत्तियां डाली थीं।
9 हे पलिश्तियों, तुम हियाव बान्धो, और पुरूषार्थ जगाओ, कहीं ऐसा न हो कि जैसे इब्री तुम्हारे आधीन हो गए वैसे तुम भी उनके आधीन हो जाओ; पुरूषार्थ करके संग्राम करो।
10 तब पलिश्ती लड़ाई के मैदान में टूट पड़े, और इस्राएली हार कर अपने अपने डेरे को भागने लगे; और ऐसा अत्यन्त संहार हुआ, कि तीस हजार इस्राएली पैदल खेत आए।
11 और परमेश्वर का सन्दूक छीन लिया गया; और एली के दोनों पुत्र, होप्नी और पीनहास, भी मारे गए।
12 तब एक बिन्यामीनी मनुष्य ने सेना में से दौड़कर उसी दिन अपने वस्त्र फाड़े और सिर पर मिट्टी डाले हुए शीलो में पहुंचा।
13 वह जब पहुंचा उस समय एली, जिसका मन परमेश्वर के सन्दूक की चिन्ता से थरथरा रहा था, वह मार्ग के किनारे कुर्सी पर बैठा बाट जोह रहा था। और ज्योंही उस मनुष्य ने नगर में पहुंचकर वह समाचार दिया त्योंही सारा नगर चिल्ला उठा।
14 चिल्लाने का शब्द सुनकर एली ने पूछा, ऐसे हुल्लड़ और हाहाकार मचने का क्या कारण है? और उस मनुष्य ने जट जा कर एली को पूरा हाल सुनाया।
15 एली तो अट्ठानवे वर्ष का था, और उसकी आंखें धुन्धली पड़ गई थीं, और उसे कुछ सूझता न था।
16 उस मनुष्य ने एली से कहा, मैं वही हूं जो सेना में से आया हूं; और मैं सेना से आज ही भाग आया। वह बोला, हे मेरे बेटे, क्या समाचार है?
17 उस समाचार देने वाले ने उत्तर दिया, कि इस्राएली पलिश्तियों के साम्हने से भाग गए हैं, और लोगों का बड़ा भयानक संहार भी हुआ है, और तेरे दोनों पुत्र होप्नी और पीनहास भी मारे गए, और परमेश्वर का सन्दूक भी छीन लिया गया है।
18 ज्योंही उसने परमेश्वर के सन्दूक का नाम लिया त्योंही एली फाटक के पास कुर्सी पर से पछाड़ खाकर गिर पड़ा; और बूढ़े और भारी होने के कारण उसकी गर्दन टूट गई, और वह मर गया। उसने तो इस्राएलियों का न्याय चालीस वर्ष तक किया था।
19 उसकी बहू पीनहास की स्त्री गर्भवती थी, और उसका समय समीप था। और जब उसने परमेश्वर के सन्दूक के छीन लिए जाने, और अपने ससुर और पति के मरने का समाचार सुना, तब उसको जच्चा का दर्द उठा, और वह दुहर गई, और उसके एक पुत्र उत्पन्न हुआ।
20 उसके मरते मरते उन स्त्रियों ने जो उसके आस पास खड़ी थीं उस से कहा, मत डर, क्योंकि तेरे पुत्र उत्पन्न हुआ है। परन्तु उसने कुछ उत्तर न दिया, और न कुछ ध्यान दिया।
21 और परमेश्वर के सन्दूक के छीन लिए जाने और अपने ससुर और पति के कारण उसने यह कहकर उस बालक का नाम ईकाबोद रखा, कि इस्राएल में से महिमा उठ गई!
22 फिर उसने कहा, इस्राएल में से महिमा उठ गई है, क्योंकि परमेश्वर का सन्दूक छीन लिया गया है॥
1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.
7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
8 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.