Joshua 24
1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
Yosua memanggil para tua-tua, kepala suku, hakim, dan pengatur pasukan dari semua suku bangsa Israel untuk berkumpul di Sikem. Di sana mereka datang menghadap Allah.
2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
Kata Yosua kepada mereka, “Inilah yang dikatakan oleh TUHAN, Allah Israel: Dulu nenek moyang kalian, termasuk Terah, ayah Abraham dan Nahor, tinggal di seberang sungai Efrat dan menyembah dewa-dewa.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
Tetapi Aku mengambil Abraham, leluhur kalian, dari sana. Aku menyuruh dia menjelajahi negeri Kanaan dan membuat keturunannya banyak. Aku memberikan Isak kepadanya,
4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
dan kepada Isak Aku berikan Yakub dan Esau. Aku sudah memberikan kepada Esau pegunungan Seir untuk menjadi miliknya, sedangkan Yakub dan anak-anaknya pergi ke Mesir.
5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.
“Kemudian Aku mengutus Musa dan Harun, lalu mendatangkan berbagai bencana besar kepada bangsa Mesir. Sesudah itu Aku membawa nenek moyang kalian keluar dari Mesir.
6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.
Tetapi waktu mereka sampai di Laut Merah, orang Mesir mengejar mereka dengan kereta perang dan pasukan berkuda.
7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
Ketika mereka berteriak minta tolong kepada-Ku, Aku mendatangkan kegelapan di antara nenek moyang kalian dan pasukan Mesir. Aku juga menenggelamkan pasukan Mesir. Kalian tahu bagaimana mereka sendiri menyaksikan apa yang Aku lakukan di Mesir. Setelah itu mereka lama tinggal di padang belantara.
8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.
“Lalu Aku membawa kalian ke daerah orang Amori di sebelah timur sungai Yordan. Mereka berperang melawan kalian, tetapi Aku membinasakan mereka dan membuat kalian menang supaya kalian bisa menduduki negeri mereka.
9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:
Lalu Balak anak Zipor memerangi kalian. Balak adalah raja negeri Moab. Dia memanggil Bileam anak Beor untuk mengutuk kalian.
10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
Tetapi Aku tidak membiarkan Bileam melakukannya. Sebaliknya, Aku membuat dia memberkati kalian. Dengan demikian Aku menyelamatkan kalian dari Balak.
11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.
“Ketika kalian menyeberangi sungai Yordan dan tiba di Yeriko, penduduk Yeriko berperang melawan kalian, demikian juga bangsa Amori, Feris, Kanaan, Het, Girgasi, Hewi, dan Yebus. Tetapi Aku menyerahkan mereka kepada kalian.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
Aku membuat mereka dan juga kedua raja orang Amori itu begitu ketakutan sehingga mereka lari dari kalian. Kalian menang bukan karena pedang maupun panahmu.
13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
Aku memberikan kepada kalian tanah walaupun bukan kalian yang menggarapnya, dan kota-kota walaupun bukan kalian yang membangunnya. Sekarang kalian tinggal di dalamnya. Aku juga memberikan kepada kalian kebun-kebun anggur dan kebun-kebun zaitun walaupun bukan kalian yang menanamnya, dan kalianlah yang memakan hasilnya.”
14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
Lalu Yosua berkata, “Karena itu kalian harus takut dan hormat kepada TUHAN. Sembahlah Dia dengan tulus dan setia. Musnahkanlah berhala-berhala yang dulu disembah oleh nenek moyangmu di seberang sungai Efrat dan di Mesir. Sembahlah hanya TUHAN saja.
15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Akan tetapi, kalau menurut kalian menyembah TUHAN itu tidak baik, pilihlah pada hari ini siapa yang akan kalian sembah. Apakah kalian mau menyembah dewa-dewa yang dulu disembah nenek moyangmu di seberang sungai Efrat? Atau apakah kalian mau menyembah dewa-dewa yang disembah bangsa Amori, yang negerinya kalian diami ini? Tetapi saya dan seluruh keluarga saya akan mengabdi kepada TUHAN!”
16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
Bangsa itu menjawab, “Kami tidak akan pernah meninggalkan TUHAN untuk menyembah dewa-dewa!
17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
Karena TUHAN Allah kitalah yang sudah membawa kita dan nenek moyang kita keluar dari perbudakan di Mesir. Dialah yang membuat keajaiban-keajaiban besar di depan mata kita. Dia jugalah yang selama ini melindungi kita sepanjang perjalanan ketika kita melewati semua bangsa asing.
18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
TUHAN sudah mengusir semua bangsa dari hadapan kita, termasuk orang Amori yang tinggal di negeri ini. Jadi, kami juga akan menyembah TUHAN, sebab Dialah Allah kita.”
19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Berkatalah Yosua kepada bangsa Israel, “Kalian tidak sanggup mengabdi kepada TUHAN, karena Dia adalah Allah yang kudus dan cemburu. Dia tidak akan bersabar terhadap pelanggaran dan dosamu.
20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Apabila kalian meninggalkan TUHAN dan menyembah dewa-dewa, Dia akan berbalik melawan kalian, walaupun sebelumnya Dia baik kepada kalian. Dia akan mencelakai dan membinasakan kalian.”
21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
Jawab bangsa Israel, “Kami tidak akan meninggalkan TUHAN! Hanya TUHANlah yang akan kami sembah.”
22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
Lalu kata Yosua kepada mereka, “Kalian menjadi saksi bagi dirimu sendiri, bahwa kalian sudah memilih untuk menyembah TUHAN.” Jawab mereka, “Ya, kamilah saksinya!”
23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Kata Yosua, “Kalau begitu, musnahkanlah berhala-berhala yang ada di antara kalian dan mengabdilah kepada TUHAN, Allah Israel, dengan sepenuh hati.”
24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
Jawab bangsa itu kepada Yosua, “Kami akan menyembah TUHAN, Allah kita. Kami akan taat kepada-Nya.”
25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
Pada hari itu di Sikem, Yosua mengadakan perjanjian antara bangsa Israel dengan TUHAN, dan menetapkan hukum serta peraturan-peraturan bagi mereka.
26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
Yosua menulis semuanya itu dalam sebuah kitab hukum Allah. Sebagai peringatan, dia menempatkan sebuah batu besar di bawah pohon besar, di dekat kemah TUHAN.
27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
Kata Yosua kepada bangsa Israel, “Lihatlah, batu ini ada di sini selama perkataan TUHAN disampaikan. Karena itu batu ini menjadi saksi bisu bagi kita, sebagai pengingat agar kalian tidak meninggalkan Allahmu.”
28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
Lalu Yosua menyuruh mereka pulang ke tanah warisannya masing-masing.
29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
Beberapa waktu sesudah itu, Yosua anak Nun, hamba TUHAN itu, meninggal pada umur seratus sepuluh tahun.
30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.
Mereka menguburkannya di tanah warisannya, di Timnat Serah di pegunungan Efraim, di sebelah utara gunung Gaas.
31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.
Bangsa Israel menyembah TUHAN sepanjang hidup Yosua. Sesudah dia meninggal, mereka tetap menyembah TUHAN selama masih ada para tua-tua yang hidup lebih lama daripada Yosua, yaitu mereka yang sudah menyaksikan semua perbuatan TUHAN bagi bangsa Israel.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
Tulang-tulang Yusuf, yang dibawa bangsa Israel keluar dari Mesir, dikuburkan di Sikem, tanah yang dibeli Yakub dengan harga seratus keping perak dari anak-anak Hemor. Hemor adalah ayah Sikem. Tanah ini menjadi warisan bagi keturunan Yusuf.
33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Eleazar anak Harun juga meninggal. Dia dikuburkan di kota Gibea di pegunungan Efraim. Kota itu sudah diberikan kepada Pinehas, anak Eleazar.
