2 Hou Olelesu 18
1 Yuda hina bagade Yihosiafa: de da bagade gaguiwane amola mimogo hamonoba, ea sia: beba: le, ea fi dunu afae da Isala: ili hina bagade A: iha: be ea idiwi lai.
Jehoshaphat became very wealthy and was greatly honored. But then he arranged for one of his family to marry someone from the family of King Ahab [of Israel].
2 Ode mogili gidigili, amalalu Yihosiafa: de da Isala: ili hina bagade A: iha: be ba: la asi. A: iha: be da Yihosiafa: de amola ea sigi misi dunuma nodomusa: , bulamagau amola sibi bagohame medole legele, lolo nasu bagade hamoi. E da Yihosiafa: dema, e da ela Gilia: de soge moilai La: imode moilai bai bagade doagala: la masa: ne fuligala: i.
Several years later, he went down [from Jerusalem] to Samaria to visit Ahab. Ahab welcomed him and the people who had come with him by slaughtering many sheep and cattle [for a feast].
3 Amola A: iha: be da Yihosiafa: dema amane adole ba: i, “Di da ani asili, La: imode doagala: ma: bela: ?” Yihosiafa: de da amane sia: i, “Na da dia momagei defele momagei dagoi, amola na dadi gagui dunu wa: i da momagei dagoi. Ninia da dima gilisimu.
Then he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you [and your army] go with my army to attack Ramoth [city] in [the] Gilead [region]?” Jehoshaphat replied, “My soldiers and I will go to the battle when you tell us to go.”
4 Be hidadea ani da Hina Godema adole ba: la: di.’”
Then he added, “But we should ask Yahweh first, to find out what he wants us to do.”
5 Amaiba: le, A:iha: be da balofede dunu huluane, 400 gomane, ema misa: ne wele, ilima amane adole ba: i, “Na da La: imode doagala: musa: ahoa: ne? O mae ahoa: ne?” Ilia da bu adole i, “Defea! Doagala: ma! Hina Gode da dima hasalasisu imunu!”
So the king of Israel gathered all his 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we go to attack the people of Ramoth [city], or should we not do that?” They replied, “Yes, go [and attack them] because God will enable your army to defeat them.”
6 Be Yihosiafa: de da adole ba: i, “Balofede dunu eno Hina Godema adole ba: ma: ne ganabela: ?”
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of Yahweh here whom we can ask?”
7 A: iha: be da bu adole i, “Afae fawane esala. E da Maiga: ia (Imila egefe). Be na da ema higa: i hodosa. Bai e da nama fa: no misunu hou noga: idafa hamedafa olelesa. E da wadela: i liligi amo fawane ba: la: la.” Yihosiafa: de da bu adole i, “Di da agoane hame sia: mu galu!”
The king of Israel replied, “There is still one man here, whom we can ask to find out what Yahweh wants, his name is Micaiah, the son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never says anything good about me. He always predicts [that] bad [things will happen to me].” Jehoshaphat replied, “King Ahab, you should not say that!”
8 Amalalu, A:iha: be da eagene ouligisu dunuma, Maiga: ia hedolowane lala masa: ne sia: i.
So the king of Israel told one of his officials to summon Micaiah immediately.
9 Hina bagade aduna da elea hina bagade abula ga: newane, ela fisu da: iya, ‘gala: ine’ dadabisu sogebi, Samelia moilai bai bagade gagoi logo holei gadili, esalebe ba: i. Amola balofede dunu huluane da elea midadi, fa: no misunu hou olelelalebe ba: i.
The king of Israel and the king of Judah were sitting there on their thrones, wearing their royal robes. They were at the place where people threshed grain, near the gate of Samaria [city]. All of [Ahab’s] prophets were standing in front of them, predicting what was going to happen.
10 Balofede dunu afae amo Sedegaia (Gina: iana egefe) da ouliga bulamagau ‘hono’ agoai hamone, A:iha: bema amane sia: i, “Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, ‘Goega alia da Silia dunuma gegene, dafawanedafa ili hasalasimu.’”
[One of them whose name was] Zedekiah, the son of Kenaanah, had made from iron something that resembled the horns of a bull. He proclaimed to Ahab, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘With horns [like these], your [army] will keep attacking the army of Syria [like a bull attacks another animal], until you completely destroy them.’”
11 Balofede dunu oda ilia huluane da amo defele sia: i. Ilia da amane sia: i, “La: imode doagala: musa: mogodigili masa! Alia da ili hasalimu. Hina Gode da ili hasalima: ne, alima hasalasu imunu.”
All the other prophets [of Ahab] agreed. They said, “Yes! If you attack Ramoth [city] in [the] Gilead [region], you will be successful, because Yahweh will enable you to defeat them.”
12 Amogalu, eagene ouligisu dunu amo da Maiga: iama misa: ne sia: musa: asi, da ema amane sia: i, “Balofede dunu oda huluane da ba: la: lebeba: le, hina bagade da hasalasima: ne sia: sa. Di amola da amanewane sia: mu da defea.”
The messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Listen to me! All the other prophets are unitedly predicting that the king will be successful [in the battle]. So be sure to agree with them and say that the king’s army will be successful!”
13 Be Maiga: ia da bu adole i, “Hina Gode Esala amo Ea Dioba: le, na da amane ilegele sia: sa! E nama adomu amo fawane, na da bu alofele sia: mu.”
But Micaiah said, “As surely as Yahweh lives, I will tell the king only what Yahweh tells me to say.”
14 E da hina bagade A: iha: be ea midadi doaga: loba, hina bagade da ema amane adole ba: i, “Maiga: ia! Na amola hina bagade Yihosiafa: de ania da La: imode doagala: musa: ahoa: ne? O mae ahoa: ne?” Maiga: ia da bu adole i, “Defea! Doagala: ma! Di da dafawane hasalimu. Hina Gode da dima hasalasisu imunu.”
When Micaiah arrived, the king [of Israel] asked him, “Should we go to attack Ramoth, or not?” Micaiah replied, “Sure, go! Yahweh will enable your army to defeat them!”
15 Be A: iha: be da bu adole i, “Di da Hina Gode Ea Dioba: le nama sia: sea, dafawane sia: fawane sia: ma! Na da amo dima adolala helei.”
But King Ahab [realized that Micaiah was lying, so he] said to Micaiah, “I have told you many times that you must always tell only the truth when you say what Yahweh [has revealed to you]!”
16 Maiga: ia da bu adole i, “Na da Isala: ili dadi gagui wa: i amo sibi wa: i amo da sibi ouligisu dunu hame gala, amo defele agolo sogega afagogoi dagoi, ba: sa. Amola Hina Gode da amane sia: i, ‘Amo dunu da bisilua hame. Ilia da olofole ilia diasuga buhagima: ma!’”
Then Micaiah replied, “[The truth is that in a vision] I saw all the troops of Israel scattered on the mountains. They seemed to be like sheep that did not have a shepherd. And Yahweh said, ‘Their master has been killed. So tell them all to go home peacefully.’”
17 A: iha: be da Yihosiafa: dema amane sia: i, “Na da dima sia: i dagoi. E da nama ba: la: lusu hou olelesea, fa: no misunu hou noga: idafa hamedafa olelesa. E da gugunufinisisu fawane ba: lala.”
Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “I told you that he never predicts that anything good will happen to me! He [always] predicts that bad things will happen to me.”
18 Maiga: ia da eno amane sia: i, “Wali Hina Gode Ea sia: be nabima! Na da Hina Gode amo Hebene ganodini Ea Fisu da: iya esalebe ba: i. Hebene ganodini esalebe a: silibu huluane da Hina Gode ili dadafulili lelefulubi ba: i.
But Micaiah continued, saying, “Listen to what Yahweh showed to me! [In a vision] I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, with all the armies of heaven [standing around him], on his right side and on his left side.
19 Hina Gode da amane adole ba: i, ‘Nowa da A: iha: be enoga medole legema: ne, La: imode moilaiga masa: ne, ema ogogoma: bela: ?’ Hebene esalebe a: silibu, ilia uduligafole sia: dalu.
And Yahweh said, ‘Who can persuade Ahab, the king of Israel, to go to fight against the people of Ramoth, in order that he may be killed there?’ “Some suggested one thing, and others suggested something else.
20 Be a: silibu afae da aliaguda: le, Hina Godema gadenena asili, amane sia: i, ‘Na da ema ogogomu.’
“Finally one spirit, [having received a message from Satan], came to Yahweh and said, ‘I can do it!’ “Yahweh asked him, ‘How will you do it?’
21 Hina Gode da amane adole ba: i, ‘Habodane ogogoma: bela: ?’ A: silibu da bu adole i, ‘Na da asili, A:iha: be ea balofede dunu huluane ilia lafi ganodini ogogosu a: silibu salasimu.’ Hina Gode da amane sia: i, ‘Defea! Ema ogogomusa: masa! Di da ema dafawane didili ogogomu.’”
“The spirit replied, ‘I will go and inspire all of Ahab’s prophets to tell lies.’ Yahweh said, ‘You will be successful; go and do it!’
22 Amo sia: dagomusa: , Maiga: ia da amane sia: i, “Amo hou da doaga: i dagoi. Hina Gode da ilima hamobeba: le, dia balofede dunu da ilia lafidili dima ogogoi. Be Hina Gode Hisu da dima gugunufinisisu imunusa: ilegei dagoi!”
“So now [I tell you that] Yahweh has caused your prophets to lie to you. Yahweh has decided that something terrible will happen to you.”
23 Amalalu, balofede dunu Sedegaia da Maiga: iama asili, ea odagia loboga ba: danoma: nu, ema amane adole ba: i, “Habogala Hina Gode Ea A: silibu da dima sia: musa: , na yolesibala: ?”
Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah walked over to Micaiah and slapped him on his face. He said, “Do you think that Yahweh’s Spirit left me in order to speak to you?”
24 Maiga: ia da bu adole i, “Di da bagia dialebe sesei afae amo ganodini wamoaligimusa: ahoasea, amo dawa: mu.”
Micaiah replied, “You will find out for yourself [to which of us Yahweh’s Spirit has truly spoken] on the day when you go into a room of some house to hide [from the Syrian soldiers]!”
25 Amalalu, hina bagade A: iha: be da ea eagene ouligisu dunu afae ema amane sia: i, “Maiga: ia gagulaligili, amola moilai ouligisu dunu A: mone, amola hina bagade mano Youa: sie, elama oule masa.
King Ahab commanded [his soldiers], “Seize Micaiah and take him to Amon, the governor of this city, and to my son Joash.
26 Ela da e se iasu diasu ganodini hiougili sanasima: ne sia: ma. Amola ema agi amola hano fawane ima: ne sia: ma. Amalalu, na da hahawane bu masea, na da ema adi hamoma: bela: le ba: mu”
Tell them that I have commanded that they should put this man in prison and give him only bread and water. Do not give him anything else to eat until I return safely [from the battle]!”
27 Maiga: ia da ha: giwane amane sia: i, “Di da hahawane buhagisia, Hina Gode da na lafidili hame sia: i, amo dawa: ma!” Amola e eno amane sia: i, “Dilia huluane! Na sia: i amo noga: le nabima!”
Micaiah replied, “If you return safely, [it will be clear that] it was not Yahweh who told me what to say to you!” Then he said [to all those who were standing there], “Do not forget what I have said [to King Ahab]!”
28 Amalalu, Isala: ili hina bagade A: iha: be, amola Yuda hina bagade Yihosiafa: de, ela da La: imode moilai Gilia: de soge ganodini gala, amo doagala: musa: asi.
So the king of Israel and the king of Judah [led their armies] to Ramoth, in [the] Gilead [region].
29 A: iha: be da Yihosiafa: dema amane sia: i, “Ania da gegemusa: ahoanea, na da na da: i afadenemu. Be di da dina: hina bagade abula ga: newane masa.” Amalalu, Isala: ili hina bagade da da: i afadeneiwane, gegemusa: asi.
King Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “I will put on different clothes, [in order that no one will recognize that I am the king.] But you should wear your royal robe.” So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they both went into the battle.
30 Silia hina bagade da musa: ea ‘sa: liode’ ouligisu dunuma, ilia da dunu eno mae dawa: le, Isala: ili hina bagade fawane doagala: ma: ne sia: i.
The King of Syria told his soldiers who were driving the chariots, “Attack only the king of Israel!”
31 Ilia da Yuda hina bagade Yihosiafa: de ba: beba: le, ilia e da Isala: ili hina bagadeyale dawa: i galu. Amaiba: le, ilia da e doagala: musa: sinidigi. Be e da ha: giwane webeba: le,
So when the soldiers who were driving the Syrian chariots saw Jehoshaphat [wearing the royal robes], they thought “He must be the king of Israel!”
32 ilia Yihosiafa: de da Isala: ili hina bagade hame, amo dawa: beba: le, ilia da ema doagala: musa: ahoanu amo yolesi.
So they turned to attack him. But when Jehoshaphat cried out, Yahweh helped him, and they realized that he was not the king of Israel. And God caused them to stop pursuing him.
33 Be Silia dadi gagui dunu afae da udigili dadiga gala: i amomane, sou da hina bagade A: iha: be ea da: igene ga: su amo dibiga ea da: i damana ludi. E da ea ‘sa: liode’ masa: ne efe gagusu dunuma amane wei, “Na da gala: i wea! Sinidigima! Gegesu yolesima!”
But one [Syrian] soldier shot an arrow at Ahab, without knowing that it was Ahab. The arrow struck Ahab between the places where the parts of his armor joined together. Ahab told the driver of his chariot, “Turn the chariot around and take me out of here! I have been [severely] wounded!”
34 Gegesu da gegegena ahoanobawane, hina bagade A: iha: be da ea ‘sa: liode’ da: iya, Silia dadi gagui wa: i amoma ba: le gusuliwane udidili lelebe ba: i. E gala: i amoga maga: me da a: idalobawane, ‘sa: liode’ aligisu fa: i amo dedebole, daeya galu e da bogoi.
The battle continued all that day. Ahab was sitting propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrian soldiers. And late in the afternoon, when the sun was setting, he died.
