1 Samuel 6
1 The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
I NA malama ehiku i noho ai ka pahu o Iehova ma ka aina o ko Pilisetia.
2 Then they summoned their priests and their (diviners/men who practice rituals to find out what would happen in the future). They asked them, “What should we do with the sacred chest of Yahweh? Tell us how we should send it back to its own land.”
Kahea aku la ko Pilisetia i na kahuna, a me ka poe kilokilo, i aku la, Heaha ka makou e hana aku ai i ka pahu o Iehova? E hoike mai ia makou, me ke aha la makou e lawe aku ai ia mea ma kona wahi?
3 Those men replied, “Send with it an offering [to show Yahweh that you know that you are] guilty [for having captured the chest], in order that the plague will stop. If you do that, and then if you are healed, you will know that Yahweh is the one who caused you to experience the plague.”
I mai la lakou, Ina e lawe aku oukou i ka pahu o ke Akua o ka Iseraela, mai lawe nele aku; aka, e hoihoi aku me ka mohaihala nona: alaila e hoolaia oukou, a e hoikeia hoi ia oukou ka mea i lawe ole ia aku ai kona lima mai o oukou aku.
4 The people of Philistia asked, “What kind of offering should we send?” The men replied, “Make five gold models of the tumors on your skin, and five gold models of rats. Make five of each because that is the same number as the number of your kings, and because the plague has struck both you people and your five kings.
Ninau aku la lakou, Heaha ka mohaihala a makou e hoihoi aku ai nona? I mai la lakou, Elima puupuu koko gula, elima iole gula, ma ka helu ana o na haku o ko Pilisetia: no ka mea, hookahi no mai maluna o lakou a pau, a maluna hoi o ko oukou mau haku.
5 Make models that represent the rats and the tumors that are ruining your land. Make them in order to honor the god of the Israeli people. If you do that, perhaps he will stop punishing [IDM] you, and your gods, and your land.
No ia mea, e hana oukou i na kii no ko oukou puupuu koko, a me na kii no ko oukou iole, nana i hana ino ka aina; a e hoonani aku oukou i ke Akua o ka Iseraela: malia paha e hoomama mai ia i kona lima mai luna ae o oukou, a me ko oukou mau akua, a me ko oukou aina.
6 Do not be [RHQ] stubborn [IDM] like the Egyptians and their king were. [They did not do what the Israelis’ god told them to do, so he punished them]. After the Israelis’ god finished punishing them very severely, they were glad to allow the Israelis to leave their country [RHQ].
No ke aha la oukou, e hoopaakiki nei i ko oukou naau, e like me ko Aigupita, a me Parao i hoopaakiki ai i ko lakou naau? Ia ia i hana mana ai iwaena o lakou, aole anei ia i kuu aku ia lakou, a hele lakou?
7 “So you must build a new cart. Then get two cows that have very recently given birth to calves. They must be cows that have never been hitched to a cart [MTY]. Hitch those cows to the new cart, and take the calves away from their mothers.
No ia mea, e hana oukou i kaa hou, a lawe i na bipiwahine waiu elua, aole i kau ka auamo maluna o laua, a e nakii i na bipi ma ke kaa, a e lawe i ka laua mau keiki mai o laua aku la:
8 Put the Israelis’ god’s sacred chest on the cart. Also put in the cart the five gold models of the tumors on your skin and the five gold models of rats. Put them in a small box alongside the sacred chest. They will be an offering to show that you know that you deserved to be punished [for capturing the sacred chest]. Then send [the cows] down the road, [pulling] the cart.
A e lawe aku oukou i ka pahu o Iehova, a kau maluna o ke kaa, a e hahao i na mea gula a oukou e hoihoi aku i mohaihala nona maloko o kahi pahu ma ka aoao; a e hoouna aku oukou ia mea, i hele aku ia.
9 [Watch the cart as the cows pull it]. If they pull it to Beth-Shemesh [town] in Israel, we will know that it was the Israelis’ god who caused us to experience this plague. But if they do not take it there, we will know that it was not the god [MTY] of the Israelis who has punished us. We will know that it just happened.”
A e nana oukou, ina paha e pii aku ia ma ke ala o kona mokuna, i Betesemesa, alaila, ua hana mai ia i keia ino nui no kakou: aka, i ole. alaila e ike kakou, aole kona lima i hahau mai ia kakou; ua hiki wale mai ia mea ia kakou.
10 So the people did what the priests and men who predicted what would happen in the future told them to do. They [made] a cart [and] hitched two cows to it. They took the calves from their mothers.
A hana aku la na kanaka pela; a lawe aku la i na bipiwahine waiu elua, a nakii ia laua ma ke kaa, a hoopaa lakou i ka laua mau keiki maloko o ka hale.
11 They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
Kau aku la lakou i ka pahu o Iehova maluna o ke kaa, a i kekahi pahu me na iole gula, a me na kii o ko lakou puupuu koko.
12 Then the cows started walking, and they went straight toward Beth-Shemesh. They stayed on the road, and were mooing all the time. They did not turn to the left or to the right. The five kings of the Philistia area followed the cows until they reached the edge of Beth-Shemesh.
A hele pololei aku la na bipi ma ke ala e hiki ai i Betesemesa, ma ke ala loa ka hele ana, a hele laua me ka uwo ana, aole laua i huli ae ma ka akau, aole hoi ma ka hema; a hele na haku o ko Pilisetia mahope o laua, a hiki i ka mokuna o Betesemesa.
13 At that time, the people of Beth-Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley [outside the city]. [When the cows came along the road], they looked up and saw the sacred chest. They were extremely happy to see it.
A e oki ana ko Betesemesa i ka lakou palaoa ma ke awawa: alawa ae la ko lakou maka iluna, a ike aku la i ka pahu, a olioli lakou i ka ike ana aku.
14 The cows pulled the cart into the field of a man named Joshua, and they stopped alongside a large rock. Several men from the tribe of Levi lifted from the cart the sacred chest and the box containing the gold models of the rats and the tumors, and they put them all on the large rock. Then the people smashed the cart and kindled a fire with the wood [from which the cart had been made]. They slaughtered the cows and burned their bodies/carcasses on the fire to be an offering for Yahweh that would be completely burned. That day the people of Beth-Shemesh offered to Yahweh [many] sacrifices that were completely burned, and [other] sacrifices.
A hele aku la ke kaa maloko o ka mahinaai o Iosua no Betesemesa, a ku malaila; a malaila ka pohaku nui; a wawahi lakou i ka laau o ke kaa, a kaumaha aku la lakou i na bipi i mohaikuni ia Iehova.
Lawe mai la na Levi i ka pahu o Iehova, a me kekahi pahu i waiho pu ai me ia me na mea gula maloko, a kau aku la ia mea maluna o ka pohaku nui; a kaumaha aku na kanaka o Betesemesa i na mohaikuni, a ia la, kaumaha aku la no hoi lakou i na mohai ia Iehova.
16 The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
A ike aku la na haku elima o ko Pilisetia ia mea, hoi aku la lakou ma Ekerona ia la.
17 The five gold models of tumors that they sent to be an offering to Yahweh to show that they knew that they deserved to be punished were gifts from [those five kings who were rulers of] Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron [cities].
Eia na puupuu koko gula a ko Pilisetia i hoihoi aku ai i mohaihala ia Iehova: no Asedoda kekahi, no Gaza kekahi, no Asekelona kekahi, no Gata kekahi, no Ekerona kekahi;
18 The models of the five gold rats were gifts from the people of those five cities and the surrounding towns. The large rock at Beth-Shemesh, on which the [men of the tribe of Levi] set the sacred chest, is still there in the field that belonged to Joshua. When people see it, they remember [what happened there].
A me na iole gula e like me ka helu ana o na kulanakauhale no na haku elima o ko Pilisetia, na kulanakauhale pa pohaku, a me na kauhale papu a hiki i ua pohaku nui o Abela, kahi a lakou i kau ai i ka pahu o Iehova; a ilaila ua pohaku la ma ka mahinaai o Iosua no Betesemesa, a hiki i keia la.
19 But seventy men from Beth-Shemesh looked into Yahweh’s sacred chest, and because of that, Yahweh caused them to die. Then the people mourned very much because Yahweh punished [IDM] those men like that.
A luku mai ia i na kanaka o Betesemesa, no ka mea, ua nana lakou iloko o ka pahu o Iehova, luku mai ia i na kanaka, he kanalima no tausani, a he kanahiku kanaka ia. Auwe na kanaka, no ka Iehova pepehi ana mai i na kanaka me ka luku nui.
20 They said, “No one [RHQ] can (resist the power of/stand in the presence of) Yahweh, our holy God, [and remain alive]! Where can we send the sacred chest?”
I ae la na kanaka o Betesemesa, Owai la ka mea hiki ke ku imua o Iehova keia Akua Hemolele? A ia wai la oia e hele aku mai o kakou aku?
21 They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-Jearim [city] to tell them, “The people of Philistia have returned Yahweh’s sacred chest to us! Come here and take it away!”
Hoouna aku la lakou i na elele i na kanaka o Kiriatiarima, i aku la, Ua hoihoi mai ko Pilisetia i ka pahu o Iehova; e iho mai oukou e lawe aku ia io oukou la.
