1 Samuel 6
1 The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
Setelah Peti Perjanjian TUHAN berada di Filistin tujuh bulan lamanya,
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.”
orang Filistin memanggil para imam dan para tukang sihir lalu bertanya, "Peti Perjanjian TUHAN itu harus kita apakan? Jika kita kembalikan ke tempatnya, bagaimana caranya?"
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.”
Lalu jawab mereka, "Peti Perjanjian Allah Israel itu jangan kamu kembalikan begitu saja, tetapi harus disertai hadiah untuk tebusan dosamu. Dengan demikian kamu akan disembuhkan, dan kamu akan tahu mengapa Allah Israel itu terus-menerus menghukum kamu."
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.
"Tebusan apa yang harus kita berikan kepada-Nya?" tanya orang-orang itu. Jawab para imam itu, "Lima benjolan emas dan lima tikus emas, sesuai dengan jumlah raja-raja Filistin. Bukankah bencana berupa benjol-benjol dan tikus juga yang telah menimpa kamu semua, baik rakyat maupun raja?
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.
Jadi, kamu harus membuat tiruan dari benjol-benjol dan dari tikus yang sedang mengganas di negerimu. Dengan demikian kamu memberi penghormatan kepada Allah Israel. Mungkin Dia akan berhenti menghukum kamu, dan dewa-dewa serta tanahmu.
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].
Apa gunanya kamu berkeras kepala seperti raja dan orang Mesir dahulu? Jangan lupa bagaimana Allah mempermain-mainkan mereka, sampai mereka jera dan orang Israel itu mereka biarkan meninggalkan Mesir.
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.
Sebab itu, siapkanlah sebuah pedati yang baru dengan dua ekor sapi yang sedang menyusui, dan yang belum pernah dipakai untuk menarik pedati. Pasanglah kedua sapi itu pada pedati, dan giringlah anak-anak sapi itu kembali ke dalam kandang.
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.
Kemudian, ambillah Peti Perjanjian TUHAN, naikkanlah ke atas pedati, dan letakkan di sebelahnya kotak yang berisi benda-benda emas yang harus kamu persembahkan kepada-Nya sebagai tebusan dosamu. Biarlah pedati dan sapi itu berjalan dengan sendirinya.
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.”
Perhatikanlah jalannya; jika Peti Perjanjian itu dibawa ke arah negerinya sendiri, yaitu kota Bet-Semes, itu berarti bahwa Allah orang Israellah yang telah mendatangkan celaka yang hebat itu kepada kita. Tetapi jika pedati itu tidak menuju ke sana, kita akan tahu bahwa musibah itu bukan dari Allah Israel, melainkan kebetulan saja."
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.
Orang-orang itu menurut; mereka mengambil dua ekor sapi yang sedang menyusui, lalu dipasang pada pedati, sedangkan anak-anak sapi itu dikurung di dalam kandang.
11 They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
Lalu Peti Perjanjian itu dinaikkan ke atas pedati, juga kotak yang berisi tikus emas dan tiruan benjol-benjol itu.
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.
Sapi-sapi itu berjalan langsung ke arah Bet-Semes; binatang itu melenguh sambil berjalan terus, tanpa menyimpang ke kiri atau ke kanan dari jalan raya. Kelima raja Filistin itu terus mengikutinya sampai ke perbatasan Bet-Semes.
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.
Pada waktu itu penduduk Bet-Semes sedang panen gandum di lembah. Ketika mereka melihat Peti Perjanjian itu, dengan gembira mereka menyongsongnya.
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.
Pedati itu berhenti di dekat sebuah batu besar di ladang Yosua, seorang penduduk Bet-Semes. Penduduk kota itu membelah-belah kayu pedati itu lalu memotong kedua ekor sapi itu untuk kurban bakaran kepada TUHAN.
Kemudian orang-orang Lewi menurunkan Peti Perjanjian TUHAN dan kotak yang berisi benda-benda emas itu, lalu meletakkannya di atas batu besar itu. Sesudah itu penduduk Bet-Semes mempersembahkan kurban bakaran dan kurban-kurban lainnya kepada TUHAN.
16 The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
Ketika kelima raja Filistin itu melihat semuanya itu pulanglah mereka ke Ekron pada hari itu juga.
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].
Dengan demikian orang Filistin sudah mengirim kepada TUHAN persembahan penebus dosa untuk penduduk lima kota yang diperintah oleh lima raja Filistin. Kota-kota itu ialah: Asdod, Gaza, Askelon, Gat dan Ekron. Di antaranya ada yang berbenteng, ada yang tidak. Setiap kota itu mengirim satu benjolan emas dan satu tikus emas. Bukti dari kejadian itu ialah batu besar tempat mereka meletakkan Peti Perjanjian TUHAN. Sampai hari ini pun batu itu masih ada di ladang Yosua, orang Bet-Semes itu.
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].
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.
Tetapi karena orang-orang Bet-Semes itu menjenguk ke dalam Peti Perjanjian TUHAN, tujuh puluh orang di antara mereka dibunuh oleh TUHAN. Lalu rakyat berkabung sebab TUHAN menimpa mereka dengan musibah yang begitu besar.
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?”
Lalu penduduk Bet-Semes berkata, "Siapakah yang bisa tahan di hadapan TUHAN, Allah Yang Suci itu? Ke manakah peti itu harus kita antarkan supaya jauh dari kita?"
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!”
Lalu mereka mengirim utusan kepada penduduk Kiryat-Yearim dengan pesan sebagai berikut, "Orang Filistin telah mengembalikan Peti Perjanjian TUHAN. Datanglah dan bawalah peti itu ke tempatmu."
