1 Kings 12
1 All [HYP] the people of [northern] Israel went to Shechem [city] in order to appoint Rehoboam to be their king. So Rehoboam also went there.
Isala: ili ga (north) fi dunu huluane da Lihouboua: me hina bagade hamomusa: , Siegeme moilaiga gilisila misi. Lihouboua: me da amoga asi.
2 When Jeroboam, who was still in Egypt, heard about that, he returned from Egypt [to Israel].
Be Yelouboua: me (Niba: de egefe-e da Soloumaneba: le Idibidi sogega hobea: i) e da amo hou nababeba: le, Idibidi soge fisili, buhagi.
3 The [leaders of the northern tribes] summoned him, and they went together [to talk] to Rehoboam. They said to him,
Isala: ili ga (north) fi huluane da e ilima misa: ne sia: na asi. Amalalu, ilia da gilisili Lihouboua: mema asili, amane sia: i,
4 “Your father [Solomon] forced us to work very hard [MET] for him. If you (lighten these loads/do not force us to work that hard), and if you charge us less taxes than we were paying to him, we will serve you [faithfully].”
“Dia ada Soloumane da ninima gasa fili hamobeba: le, ninia dioi bagade nabasu. Di da amo gasa fili olelesu hou fisili, amola ninia dioi hagilisisia, amola nini asabole esaloma: ne hamosea, ninia da dima molole fa: no bobogemu.”
5 He replied, “Go away, and come back three days from now [and I will give you my answer].” So those leaders and Jeroboam left.
Lihouboua: me da bu adole i, “Eso udiana esalu, bu masea, na da dilima bu adole imunu.” Amaiba: le, ilia da fisili asi.
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the older men who had advised his father Solomon while he was still living. He asked them, “What shall I say to answer those men?”
Hina bagade Lihouboua: me da asigilai dunu (amo da musa: ea ada Soloumane ea fada: i sia: fidisu dunu) ilima amane adole ba: i, “Dilia adi dawa: bela: ? Na da amo dunuma adi adole ima: bela: ?”
7 They replied, “If you want to serve your people well, speak kindly to those men when you reply to them. If you do that, your people will always serve you faithfully.”
Ilia amane adole i, “Di da amo dunu fi noga: le fidimusa: dawa: sea, di ilia adole ba: su amoma asigiwane bu adole ima. Amasea ilia da eso huluane dima molole hawa: hamomu.”
8 But he ignored what the older men advised him to do. Instead, he consulted the younger men who had grown up with him, who were now (his advisors/the ones who told him what would be good to do).
Be Lihouboua: me da asigilai dunu, ilia fada: i sia: hame nabi. Be amomane e da ayeligi dunu e ili gilisili asigilai, ilia sia: fawane nabi. Bai e da ayeligi dunu ili amo ea fada: i sia: fidisu dunu hamoi.
9 He said to them, “What should I say to the men who are asking me to reduce the [work and taxes] that my father required from them?”
E da ilima amane adole ba: i, “Dilia da nama adi hamoma: ne sia: sala: ? Amo dunu ilia da nama, ilia asabole esaloma: ne hamoma: ne sia: daha. Na da ilima adi sia: ma: bela: ?”
10 They replied, “This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
Ilia da bu adole i, “Di ilima amane adole ima, ‘Dilia da na ada da gasa fili hamosu dawa: sala: ? Hame mabu! Na lobo sogo fonobahadi ea defei da na ada ea buluga: su dedei amo baligisa.’
11 What I mean is that my father required you [to work hard and pay high taxes]. But I will make those loads heavier. [It was as though] my father whipped you, but [it will be as though] I will whip you with whips that have pieces of metal in them.’”
Amola ilima eno adole ima, ‘Dafawane! Na ada da dili dioi bagade nabima: ne hamoi. Be na da dioi bagade baligili dilima imunu. Na ada da dili fegasu efe amoga fai. Be na da fegasu efe bagadedafa amoga dili famu!’”
12 So three days later, Jeroboam and all the leaders came to Rehoboam again, as he had told them to do.
Eso udiana baligili, Yelouboua: me amola dunu huluane, hina bagade Lihouboua: me ea hamoma: ne sia: i defele, ema sinidigi.
13 The king ignored the advice of the older men and spoke harshly to the Israeli leaders.
Lihouboua: me da asigilai dunu ilia fada: i sia: mae dawa: le, dunu huluane ilima gasa fili sia: i.
14 [He told them what the younger men had advised.] He said, “My father put heavy burdens [of work and taxes] on you, but I will put heavier burdens on you. [It was as though] he beat you with whips, but I will beat you with whips that have pieces of metal in them!”
E da ayeligi ilia fada: i sia: defele sia: i. E amane sia: i. “Dilia da na ada da gasa fili hamosu dawa: sala: ? Hame mabu! Na lobo sogo fonobahadi ea gadugagi defei da na ada ea buluga: su gadugagi defei amo baligisa. Dafawane! Na ada da dili dioi bagade nabima: ne hamoi. Be na da dioi bagade baligili dilima imunu. Na ada da dili fegasu efe amoga fai. Be na da bulamagau sesema: ne fegasu efe bagadedafa amoga dili famu!’”
15 So the king did not pay any attention to the Israeli leaders. But this happened in order that what Yahweh wanted would occur, what he had told the prophet Ahijah about Jeroboam [becoming king of the ten tribes].
Hina Gode Ea hanaiga, hou amo E da Siailou balofede dunu Abaidia ea lafidili amo Yelouboua: me (Niba: de egefe) ema sia: i, amo doaga: i dagoi ba: i. Hina bagade Lihouboua: me da dunu fi ilima gasa fili hamoi, amo ea bai da goea.
16 When the Israeli leaders realized that the king did not pay any attention to what they said, they shouted, “We do not [RHQ] want anything to do with this descendant of King David! We will not pay attention to what this grandson of Jesse says! You people of Israel, let’s go home! As for this descendant of David [MTY], he can rule his own kingdom [MTY]!” So the Israeli leaders returned to their homes.
Dunu huluane da hina bagade da ilia sia: nabimu higa: i, amo ba: beba: le, ilia da amane halale sia: i, “Da: ibidi amola ea sosogo fi fisiagama! Ilia da nini hamedafa fidisu! Isala: ili dunu! Ninia da afia: la: di! Lihouboua: me hisu ouligima: ma!” Isala: ili dunu da amanewane odoga: i.
17 And [after that, ] the [only Israeli] people whom Rehoboam ruled over were those who lived in the territory of [the tribe of] Judah.
Amola Lihouboua: me da dunu fi Yuda soge ganodini, amo fawane ouligimu ba: i.
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram [to talk to the Israeli people]. Adoniram was the man who supervised [all the men who were] forced to work [for Rehoboam]. But the Israeli people killed him by throwing stones at him. When that happened, King Rehoboam quickly got in his chariot and escaped to Jerusalem.
Amalalu, hina bagade Lihouboua: me da udigili sesei hawa: hamosu dunu ilia ouligisu dunu A: dounaila: me amo Isala: ili dunuma asunasi. Be ilia da e igiga gala: le legei. Amo ba: beba: le, Lihouboua: me da ea ‘sa: liode’ amo da: iya fila heda: le, Yelusaleme moilai bai bagadega hobeale asi.
19 Ever since that time, the people of [the northern tribes of] Israel have been rebelling against the descendants [MTY] of [King] David.
Amo eso fa: no, Isala: ili ga (north) fi dunu da Da: ibidi ea ouligisu sosogo fi ilima lelele esalu.
20 When the Israeli people heard that Jeroboam had returned [from Egypt], they invited him to come to a meeting, and there they appointed him to be the king of Israel. Only the people of the tribes of Judah [and Benjamin] continued to be loyal to [the kings descended from King] [MTY] David.
Isala: ili dunu, Yelouboua: me da Idibidiga esalu buhagi, amo nababeba: le, ilia da e ilia gilisili fada: i sia: su amoga misa: ne hiougi. Amola ilia da e Isala: ili hina bagade hamoi. Be Yuda fi dunu, ilia fawane da Da: ibidi ea fi ilima fa: no bobogei.
21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes [MTY] of Judah and Benjamin. He wanted them to fight against the northern tribes of [MTY] Israel [and defeat them], in order that he could [rule all the tribes of] his kingdom again.
Lihouboua: me da Yelusaleme moilai bai bagadega doaga: loba, e da baligili noga: i dadi gagui dunu 180,000 agoane, amo Yuda amola Bediamini fi ilima gilisi. E da gegene, bu ga (north) Isala: ili fi ili bu ouligimusa: dawa: i.
22 But God spoke to the prophet Shemaiah and said this to him:
Be Gode da ba: la: lusu dunu (balofede) Siema: ia ema amane sia: i,
23 “Go and tell this to [Solomon’s son] Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the people from the northern tribe who live in Judah:
“Lihouboua: me amola Yuda amola Bediamini fi dunu huluane ilima amane sia: sima,
24 ‘Yahweh says that you must not go to fight against your own relatives, the people of Israel. All of you must go home. What has happened is what Yahweh wanted to happen.’” [So Shemaiah went and told that to them, ] and they all paid attention to what Yahweh had commanded them to do, and they went home.
‘Dilia fidafa Isala: ili dunu mae doagala: ma! Dilia huluane diasuga masa! Hou da wali doaga: i amo da Na hanaiga doaga: i.” Ilia huluane da Hina Gode Ea hamoma: ne sia: i nabi dagoi, amola ilia diasuga buhagi.
25 Then Jeroboam’s workers built [walls around] Shechem [city] in the hilly area [where the descendants] of Ephraim [lived], and he ruled from there for a while. He and his workers then left there and went to Peniel [town], and they built walls around that town.
Isala: ili hina bagade Yelouboua: me da Siegeme moilai Ifala: ime agolo sogega dialu, amo gagili sali, amola amo ganodini fonobahadi esalu. Amalalu, e da amo soge fisili, asili, Beniuele moilai gagili sali.
26 Then Jeroboam said to himself, “If my people [continue to] go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Yahweh at the temple there, soon they will again become loyal to Rehoboam, the king of Judah [DOU], and they will kill me.”
E da hisu amane dawa: i, “Na fi dunu da Yelusaleme moilai bai bagadega amo Hina Godema Debolo diasu ganodini gobele salimusa: ahoasea, ilia da sinidigili, hina bagade Lihouboua: mema fa: no bobogele, na fane legemu.”
28 So he consulted [his advisors, and then he did what they suggested]. He [told his workers to] make gold [statues of] two calves. Then he said to the people, “You have been going to Jerusalem [to worship] for a long time. It is a big trouble for you to continue going there. You people of Israel, look! These statues are the gods that brought our [ancestors] up from Egypt! [So you can worship these, here!]”
E da amo dawa: lalu, bulamagau mano gawali aduna gouliga hahamoi. E da ea fi dunuma amane sia: i, “Dilia da Godema nodone sia: ne gadomusa: , Yelusalemega afufulala helebe. Isala: ili dunu! Dilia ‘gode’ da dili Idibidi sogega fisili masa: ne, guiguda oule misi da goea!”
29 He [told his workers to] place one of the statues in Bethel [city in the south] and one in Dan [city in the north].
E da gouliga hamoi bulamagau gawali mano afae Bedele moilaiga bugisi amola eno Da: ne sogega bugisi.
30 So [what Jeroboam did caused] the people [to] sin. Some of them went and worshiped the calf at Bethel, and others went and worshiped the other calf at Dan.
Amaiba: le, Isala: ili fi dunu da Bedele amola Da: ne amoga nodone sia: ne gadomusa: ahoanebeba: le, wadela: le bagade hamoi.
31 [Moses had declared that only men from the tribe of Levi would be priests, but] Jeroboam also told his workers to build shrines on hilltops, and then he appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to be priests.
Amolawane, Yelouboua: me da nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi bagohame amo agolo da: iya hahamosu. Amola, ea Lifai fi dunu hame, amo gobele salasu hawa: hamoma: ne udigili ilelegei.
32 He also appointed Adonijah and two priests, Elishama and Jehoram. They had a celebration at the end of October, like the celebration [of Living in Temporary Shelters] that occurred in Judah [each year]. On the altar [that they built] in Bethel, he offered sacrifices to the gold statues of calves that they had made, and he stationed the priests there at the shrines that his workers had built.
Yelouboua: me ea sia: beba: le, Isala: ili dunu da eso 15 amola oubi godoane amoga Yuda sogega dunu fi ilia lolo nabe amo defele, lolo nasu hamoi. E da gouliga hamoi bulamagau gawali, amo ea hamoi liligi, amoma nodone sia: ne gadomusa: , Bedele oloda da: iya gobele salasu hamoi. Amola gobele salasu dunu amo da nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi e hamoi amoga hawa: hamonanu, amo huluanema e da ili Bedele moilaiga esaloma: ne sia: i.
33 Jeroboam went up to that altar on that day in October which he himself had chosen. There on that altar he burned incense [to be a sacrifice]. And he declared that the people should celebrate that festival [on that same day every year].
E da eso 15 amola oubi godoane amo ilegele, Bedele moilaiga asili, oloda da: iya gobele salasu hamoi. E da amanewane, Isala: ili fi dunu ilia hahawane lolo nasu, hisu da ilegei.
