1 Kings 14
1 त्यस बेला यारोबामको छोरा अबिया साह्रै बिरामी भएको थियो।
2 यारोबामले आफ्नी पत्नीलाई भने, “शीलोमा जाऊ। अगमवक्ता अहियाहसँग भेट गर। अहियाह त्यो मानिस हो जसले भनेको थियो, म इस्राएलको राजा हुनेछु। आफ्नो लुगाहरू यसरी लगाऊ कि मानिसहरूले तिमी मेरी पत्नी हौ भनेर थाह नपाउन्।
3 अगमवक्तालाई दशवटा रोटीहरू, केही केक र एक घैलो मह देऊ। तब उनको छोरालाई के हुन्छ भनी सोध अगमवक्ता अहियाहले तिमीलाई बताउनेछन्।”
4 यसकारण राजाकी पत्नीले त्यही गरिन् उनले जे भनेका थिए। तिनी शीलो गइन्। तिनी अगमवक्ता अहियाहको घर गइन्। अहियाह धेरै बूढा थिए अनि अंन्धो भएका थिए।
5 तर परमप्रभुले उनलाई भने, “यारोबामकी पत्नी आफ्नो छोराको विषयमा सोध्न आउँदैछिन्। ऊ साह्रै बीमार छ।” परमप्रभुले अहियाहलाई बताउनुभयो उसले के भन्नु पर्छ भनेर?यारोबामकी पत्नी अहियाहको घरमा आई। तिनी भेष बदली गरेर आएकी थिइन्।
6 अहियाहले उनलाई ढोकामा आएको सुने। यसकारण अहियाहले भने, “आऊ, यारोबामकी पत्नी। किन तिमी मानिसहरूलाई अरू केही सोच्न लगाउँदै छौ? तिम्रो लागि म सित केही अशुभ समाचारहरू छन्।
7 फर्केर जाऊ अनि यारोबामलाई भन, इस्राएलका परमप्रभुले यही भन्नु भएको छ परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ, ‘यारोबाम, मैले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको माझबाट तिमीलाई माथि उठाएँ। मैंले तिमीलाई मेरा मानिसहरूको शासक बनाएँ।
8 दाऊदको परिवारले इस्राएलमा शासन गरिरहेको थियो। तर मैंले तिनीहरूबाट राज्य लिएँ अनि तिमीलाई दिएँ। तर तिमी मेरा सेवक दाऊद जस्ता छैनौ। उसले सधैं नै मेरो आदेशहरू पालन गर्यो। उसले मलाई सम्पूर्ण हृदयले अनुसरण गर्यो। उसले ती कुराहरू गरे जुन मैंले ठीक सम्झें।
9 तर तिम्रा पापहरू पहिलेका शासकहरूका भन्दा धेरै छन्। तिमीले तिम्रो आफ्नै निम्ति अन्य देवताहरूका मूर्ति बनायौ अनि यस द्वारा तिमीहरूले मलाई एकदमै क्राोधित बनायौ, तिमीहरूले मलाई तिमीहरूको पीठ पछि राखेका छौ।
10 यसकारण, यारोबाम, म तिम्रो परिवारमाथि बिपत्ति ल्याउने छु। म तिम्रो परिवारका सबै पुरूष मानिसहरू, चाहे तिनीहरू तिम्रा नाताका हुन अथवा नोकरहरू मारिदिनेछु। आगोमा गोबर बले झैं म तिम्रो परिवारलाई सम्पूर्ण रूपले सर्वनाश गर्नेछु।
11 शहरमा तिम्रो परिवारको कोही पनि मर्दा त्यसलाई कुकुरले खानेछ। तिम्रो परिवारको कोही व्यक्ति चऊरमा मरेको खण्डमा उसलाई चराहरूले खाने छन्। यी सबै कुराहरू परमप्रभुले बोल्नु भएको हो।”‘
12 तब अगमवक्ता अहियाहले यारोवामकी पत्नीलाई भने। उनले भने, “अब तिमी घर जाऊ। तिमी शहरमा प्रवेश गर्ने बित्तिकै, तिम्रो छोरो मर्नेछ।
13 सम्पूर्ण इस्राएल उसको लागि रूनेछ अनि उसलाई गाडीने छ। यारोबामको परिवारमा तिम्रो छोरो मात्र यस्तो मानिस हुनेछ जसलाई चाहिं गाडीने छ। यस्तो किन भयो भने ऊ मात्र यारोबामको परिवारमा यस्तो मानिस हो जसले इस्राएलका परमप्रभु परमेश्वरलाई प्रसन्न पारेकोछ।
14 परमेश्वरले इस्राएलमा नयाँ राजा राख्नु हुनेछ। त्यस नयाँ राजाले यारोबामको परिवारलाई नष्ट पार्नेछ। यो घटना चाँडै नै हुनेछ।
15 तब परमप्रभुले इस्राएललाई हिर्काउनु हुनेछ। इस्राएलका मानिसहरू भयभीत हुनेछन्। तिनीहरू पानीको अग्लो-अग्लो घाँस जस्तैं काम्नेछन्। परमप्रभुले इस्राएलीहरूलाई त्यो असल भूमिबाट निकाल्नु हुनेछन जो तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूलाई दिनु भएको थियो। उनले तिनीहरूलाई यूफ्रेटिस नदीको पारि तितर-बितर पारिदिनुहुनेछ। यो यस्तो घटना हुनेछ किनभने परमप्रभु मानिसहरूसँग रिसाउनु भएकोछ। किनकि तिनीहरूले पवित्र खामाहरू निर्माण गरे।
16 यारोबामले पाप गरे अनि यारोबामले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई पाप गर्न लगाए। यसकारण परमप्रभुले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई पराजित गराउनु हुन्छ।”
17 यारोबामकी पत्नी तिर्साको शहरमा फर्केर गइन्। तिनी तिनको घरमा पस्न साथ साथै तिनका छोराको मृत्यु भयो।
18 सबै इस्राएलीहरूले उसलाई गाडे अनि उसका लागि रोए। यो घटना त्यसरी नै भयो जसरी परमप्रभुले हुन्छ भन्नुभएको थियो। परमप्रभुले आफ्नो सेवक अगमवक्ता अहियाहलाई यी कुराहरू भन्न प्रयोग गर्नु भएको थियो।
19 राजा यारोबामले अरू धेरै कामहरू गरेका थिए। उनले युद्धहरू लेडे अनि जनगणमाथि शासन गरिरहे। उनले गरेको सबै कामहरू ‘इस्राएलका राजाहरूको इतिहासको पुस्तकमा’ लेखिएका छन्।
20 यारोबामले 22वर्ष सम्म राजाको रूपमा शासन गरे। तब तिनी मरे अनि उनलाई उनका पुर्खाहरूसँगै गाडियो। उनीपछि उनका छोरा नादाब नयाँ राजा भए।
21 त्यस समयमा सुलेमानका छोरा रहबाम यहूदाका राजा भए। तिनी 41 वर्षका थिए। रहबामले यरूशलेम शहरमा 17 वर्षसम्म शासन गरे। यो त्यही शहर हो जसमा परमप्रभुले सम्मानगर्न चाहनुभएको थियो। उहाँले इस्राएलका सबै शहरहरू मध्ये यस शहरलाई चुन्नु भएको थियो। रहबामकी आमा नाउँ थिइन्। तिनी अम्मोनी स्त्री थिइन्।
22 यहूदाका मानिसहरूले परमप्रभुको विरूद्ध पाप गरे अनि परमप्रभुलाई ईष्यालु बनाए। यी मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूको पिता-पुर्खाहरूले भन्दा धेरै पाप गरे।
23 मानिसहरूले अग्ला ठाउँहरू, ढुङ्गाका स्मारकहरू अनि अपवित्र स्तम्भहरू बनाए। तिनीहरूले ती चीजहरू प्रत्येक अग्ला पहाड अनि हरियो रूखतल बनाए।
24 त्यस भूमिमा पुरूष वेश्यालय भवनहरू पनि थिए। मानिसहरूले राष्ट्रमा जम्मै घृणित कर्महरू गरिरहेका थिए जसको लागि परमप्रभुले तिनीहरू भन्दा अघिका मानिसहरूलाई खेद्नु भएको थियो। यसकारण यहूदाका मानिसहरूले धेरै भूल कामहरू गरे। तिनीहरूभन्दा अघि त्यस भूमिमा बस्ने मानिसहरूले त्यस्तैं नै नराम्रो काम गरे। अनि परमेश्वरले ती मानिसहरूबाट भूमि फिर्ता लिनुभयो अनि त्यसलाई इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई दिनुभयो।
25 रहबामको शासनकालको पाँचौ वर्षमा मिश्रका राजा शीशकले यरूशलेमको विरोधमा आक्रामण गरे।
26 शीशकले परमप्रभुको मन्दिर र राजाको महलबाट ढिकुटि लगे। तिनीहरूले सुनका ढालहरू पनि लगे, जो सुलेमानले बनाएका थिए।
27 यसकारण रहबामले ती ठाउँहरूमा राख्न धेरै ढालहरू बनाए। तर यी ढालहरू काँसाका थिए, सुनका थिएनन्। उनले महलको ढोकामा रक्षाकालागि राखिएका मानिसहरूलाई ढालहरू दिए।
28 हरेक समय राजा परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा जाँदा रक्षकहरू उनीसँग जाने गर्दथे। तिनीहरू ढाल बोक्नेगर्दथे। जब तिनीहरू काम पूरा गरिसक्थे, रक्षक कक्षको भित्तामा ढालहरू राख्नेगर्दथे।
29 राजा रहबामले जे कामहरू गरे त्यो सबै ‘यहूदाका राजाहरूको इतिहासको पुस्तकमा’ लिखित छ।
30 रहबाम र यारोबाम सधैं नै एका अर्कासँग युद्ध गरिरहन्थे।
31 रहबामको मृत्यु भयो अनि उनलाई पिता-पुर्खाहरू सँगै नै गाडियो। उनलाई उनका पिता-पुर्खाहरूको चिहानमा दाऊदको शहरमा गाडियो। उनकी आमा ‘नामा’ थिइन्। तिनी एक जना अम्मोनी थिइन्। रहबामका छोरा अबियाम उनको मृत्यु पछि राजा भए।
1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
5 And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it.
12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15 For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.
28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
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.