1 Kings 13
1 One day a prophet, obeying what Yahweh commanded him to do, went from Judah [north] to Bethel. He arrived there right at the time that Jeroboam was standing at the altar, ready to burn incense.
| یک روز وقتی یربعام پادشاه کنار مذبح بیت‌ئیل ایستاده بود تا قربانی کند، یک نبی که به دستور خداوند از یهودا آمده بود به او نزدیک شد. |
2 Saying what Yahweh told him to say, the prophet shouted, “This is what Yahweh says [about this] altar [APO]: ‘I want you to know that [some day] a descendant [MTY] of King David will be born. His name will be Josiah, and he will come here. He will slaughter at this altar the priests who are burning incense for sacrifices on the hills [in this area], and he will burn the bones of dead people on this altar.’” [APO]
| او به فرمان خداوند خطاب به مذبح گفت: «ای مذبح، ای مذبح، خداوند می‌فرماید که پسری به نام یوشیا در خاندان داوود متولد می‌شود و کاهنان بتخانه‌ها را که در اینجا بخور می‌سوزانند، روی تو قربانی می‌کند و استخوانهای انسان روی آتش تو می‌سوزاند!» |
3 Then the prophet also said, “This is what will prove to you that Yahweh has said this: This altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be scattered.’”
| سپس اضافه کرد: «این مذبح شکافته خواهد شد و خاکسترش به اطراف پراکنده خواهد گردید تا بدانید آنچه می‌گویم از جانب خداوند است!» |
4 When King Jeroboam heard the prophet say that, he pointed his finger at him and said to his servants, “Seize that man!” But immediately the king’s arm became paralyzed/stiff, with the result that he could not move it.
| یربعام پادشاه وقتی سخنان نبی را که به ضد مذبح بیت‌ئیل گفته بود شنید، دست خود را به طرف او دراز کرده دستور داد او را بگیرند. ولی دست پادشاه همان‌طور که دراز شده بود، خشک شد به طوری که نتوانست دست خود را حرکت بدهد! |
5 And the altar immediately split apart, and the ashes spilled out [on the ground], which is what the prophet said that Yahweh [MTY] had predicted would happen.
| در این موقع، مذبح هم شکافته شد و خاکستر آن به اطراف پراکنده شد، درست همان‌طور که آن نبی به فرمان خداوند گفته بود. |
6 Then the king said to the prophet, “Please pray that Yahweh will be merciful to me and heal my arm!” So the prophet prayed, and Yahweh completely healed the king’s arm.
| یربعام پادشاه به آن نبی گفت: «تمنا دارم دعا کنی و از خداوند، خدای خود بخواهی دست مرا به حالت اول برگرداند.» پس او نزد خداوند دعا کرد و دست پادشاه به حالت اول برگشت. |
7 Then the king said to the prophet, “Come home with me and eat some food. And I will also give you a reward [for what you have done]!”
| آنگاه پادشاه به نبی گفت: «به کاخ من بیا و خوراک بخور. می‌خواهم به تو پاداشی بدهم.» |
8 But the prophet replied, “Even if you would [promise to] give me half of everything that you own [MTY], I will not go with you, and I will not eat or drink anything with you here,
| ولی آن نبی به پادشاه گفت: «اگر حتی نصف کاخ سلطنتی خود را به من بدهی همراه تو نمی‌آیم. در اینجا نه نان می‌خورم و نه آب می‌نوشم؛ |
9 because Yahweh commanded me not to eat or drink anything here. He also commanded me not to return home on the road on which I came here.”
| زیرا خداوند به من فرموده که تا وقتی در اینجا هستم نه نان بخورم و نه آب بنوشم و حتی از راهی که آمده‌ام به یهودا برنگردم!» |
10 So he started to return home, but he did not go on the road on which he came to Bethel. He went on a different road.
| پس او از راه دیگری رهسپار یهودا شد. |
11 At that time there was an old man living in Bethel who was a prophet. His sons came and told him what the prophet [from Judah] had done there on that day, and they also told him what the prophet had said to the king.
| در آن زمان در شهر بیت‌ئیل نبی پیری زندگی می‌کرد. پسرانش دربارهٔ نبی تازه وارد به او خبر دادند و گفتند که چه کرده و به پادشاه چه گفته است. |
12 Their father said, “On which road did he go?” So his sons showed him the road on which the prophet from Judah had gone [when he left Bethel].
| نبی پیر پرسید: «او از کدام راه رفت؟» پسرانش راهی را که آن نبی رفته بود، به پدرشان نشان دادند. |
13 Then he said to his sons, “Put a saddle on my donkey.” So they did that, and he got on the donkey.
| پیرمرد گفت: «زود الاغ مرا آماده کنید!» پسران او الاغ را برایش حاضر کردند و او سوار شده، |
14 He went along the road to (find/catch up with) the prophet from Judah. He found him sitting under an oak tree. He said to him, “Are you the prophet who came from Judah?” He replied, “Yes, I am.”
| به دنبال آن نبی رفت و او را زیر یک درخت بلوط نشسته یافت. پس از او پرسید: «آیا تو همان نبی یهودا هستی؟» جواب داد: «بله، خودم هستم.» |
15 The old prophet said to him, “Come home with me and eat some food.”
| نبی پیر به او گفت: «همراه من به خانه‌ام بیا تا با هم خوراکی بخوریم.» |
16 He replied, “No, I am not allowed to go with you into your house, or to eat or drink anything with you,
| اما او در جواب گفت: «نه، من نمی‌توانم بیایم، چون خداوند به من دستور داده که در بیت‌ئیل چیزی نخورم و ننوشم و حتی از آن راهی که آمده‌ام به خانه برنگردم.» |
17 because Yahweh told me, ‘Do not eat or drink anything here, and do not return home on the road on which you came.’”
18 Then the old prophet said to him, “I also am a prophet, like you are. Yahweh sent an angel to tell me that I should take you home with me and give you some food and drink.” But the old man was lying [when he said that].
| پیرمرد به او گفت: «من هم مثل تو نبی هستم و فرشته‌ای از جانب خداوند پیغام داده که تو را پیدا کنم و با خود به خانه ببرم و به تو نان و آب بدهم.» اما او دروغ می‌گفت. |
19 But because of what the old prophet said, the prophet from Judah returned with him to his home and ate some food and drank some water with him.
| پس آن دو با هم به شهر برگشتند و او در خانهٔ آن نبی پیر خوراک خورد. |
20 While they were sitting at the table, Yahweh spoke to the old man.
| در حالی که آنها هنوز بر سر سفره بودند پیغامی از جانب خداوند به آن نبی پیر رسید |
21 Then he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You have disobeyed him, and you have not done what he commanded you to do.
| و او هم به نبی یهودا گفت: «خداوند می‌فرماید که چون از دستور او سرپیچی کردی و در جایی که به تو گفته بود نان نخوری و آب ننوشی، نان خوردی و آب نوشیدی، بنابراین جنازهٔ تو در گورستان اجدادت دفن نخواهد شد!» |
22 Instead, you have come back here and had things to eat and drink in a place where he commanded you not to do that. As a result, you will be killed, and your body will not be buried in the grave where your ancestors are buried.’”
23 When they had finished eating, the old man put a saddle on the donkey for the prophet from Judah, [and the prophet from Judah left].
| بعد از صرف غذا، نبی پیر، الاغ نبی یهودا را آماده کرد |
24 But as he was going, a lion met him and killed him. The prophet’s corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was also standing beside the corpse.
| و او را روانهٔ سفر نمود؛ ولی در بین راه، شیری به او برخورد و او را درید. کسانی که از آن راه می‌گذشتند، جنازهٔ نبی یهودا را در وسط راه و شیر و الاغ را ایستاده در کنار او دیدند. پس به بیت‌ئیل که نبی پیر در آن زندگی می‌کرد، آمدند و به مردم خبر دادند. |
25 Some men passed by and were surprised to see the corpse on the road and the lion standing next to the corpse. So they went into Bethel and reported what they had seen.
26 When the old man who had brought the prophet from Judah to his home heard about it, he said, “That is the prophet who disobeyed what Yahweh told him to do! That is why Yahweh allowed the lion to attack him and kill him. That is what Yahweh said would happen!”
| وقتی این خبر به گوش نبی پیر رسید او گفت: «این جنازهٔ آن نبی است که از فرمان خداوند سرپیچی کرد. پس خداوند هم آن شیر را فرستاد تا او را بدرد. او مطابق کلام خداوند کشته شد.» |
27 Then he said to his sons, “Put a saddle on my donkey.” So they did that.
| بعد او به پسران خود گفت: «زود الاغ مرا آماده کنید.» آنها الاغش را آماده کردند. |
28 Then he rode on the donkey and found the prophet’s corpse on the road, and his donkey and the lion were still standing there alongside the corpse. But the lion had not eaten any of the flesh of the prophet and had not attacked the donkey.
| او رفت و جنازهٔ آن نبی را پیدا کرد و دید که شیر و الاغ هنوز در کنار جسد ایستاده‌اند. شیر نه جسد را خورده بود و نه الاغ را. |
29 The old man picked up the corpse of the prophet and put it on his donkey and brought it back to Bethel, in order to mourn for him and to bury his corpse.
| پس جنازه را روی الاغ گذاشت و به شهر آورد تا برایش سوگواری کرده، او را دفن نماید. |
30 He buried the prophet’s corpse in the grave where other people in his family [had been buried]. Then he and his sons mourned for him, saying, “[We are very sorry], my brother!”
| او جنازهٔ نبی یهودا را در قبرستان خاندان خود دفن کرد. بعد برای او ماتم گرفته، گفتند: «ای برادر… ای برادر…» |
31 After they had buried him, the old man said to his sons, “When I die, bury my corpse in the grave where we buried the prophet from Judah. Lay my corpse next to his corpse.
| آنگاه نبی پیر به پسران خود گفت: «وقتی من مُردم، در همین قبر دفنم کنید تا استخوانهای من در کنار استخوانهای این نبی بماند. |
32 [And do not forget what he said, because] the things that Yahweh told him to say about the altar in Bethel, and about the shrines on the hills in the towns in Samaria, will surely happen.”
| هر چه او به فرمان خداوند دربارهٔ مذبح بیت‌ئیل و بتخانه‌های شهرهای سامره گفت، به‌یقین واقع خواهد شد.» |
33 But King Jeroboam still did not turn away from continuing to do evil things. Instead, he appointed more priests [who were not descended from Levi]. Anyone who wanted to be a priest, he appointed to be a priest, in order that he could offer sacrifices on the hills.
| و اما یربعام، پادشاه اسرائیل، با وجود اخطار نبی یهودا از راه بد خود برنگشت و همچنان برای بتخانه‌های خود از میان مردم عادی کاهن تعیین می‌کرد، به طوری که هر که می‌خواست کاهن شود یربعام او را به کاهنی منصوب می‌کرد. |
34 Because he committed that sin, [a few years later] God got rid of most of Jeroboam’s descendants and did not allow them to become kings of Israel.
| این گناه یربعام بود که سرانجام به نابودی تمام خاندان او منجر شد. |
