1 Samuel 6
1 The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
Setelah tujuh bulan lamanya tabut TUHAN itu ada di daerah orang Filistin,
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.”
maka orang Filistin itu memanggil para imam dan para petenung, lalu berkata kepada mereka: "Apakah yang harus kami lakukan dengan tabut TUHAN itu? Beritahukanlah kepada kami, bagaimana kami harus mengantarkannya kembali ke tempatnya."
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 kata mereka: "Apabila kamu mengantarkan tabut Allah Israel itu, maka janganlah kamu mengantarkannya dengan tangan hampa, melainkan haruslah kamu membayar tebusan salah kepada-Nya; maka kamu akan menjadi sembuh dan kamu akan mengetahui, mengapa tangan-Nya tidak undur dari padamu."
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.
Sesudah itu bertanyalah mereka: "Apakah tebusan salah yang harus kami bayar kepada-Nya?" Jawab mereka: "Menurut jumlah raja-raja kota orang Filistin, lima borok emas dan lima tikus emas, sebab tulah yang sama menimpa kamu sekalian dan raja-raja kotamu.
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 buatlah gambar borok-borokmu dan gambar tikus yang merusak tanahmu, dan sampaikanlah hormatmu kepada Allah Israel. Mungkin Ia akan mengangkat dari padamu, dari pada allahmu dan dari pada tanahmu tangan-Nya yang menekan dengan berat.
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].
Mengapa kamu berkeras hati, sama seperti orang Mesir dan Firaun berkeras hati? Bukankah mereka membiarkan bangsa itu pergi, ketika Ia mempermain-mainkan mereka?
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.
Oleh sebab itu ambillah dan siapkanlah sebuah kereta baru dengan dua ekor lembu yang menyusui, yang belum pernah kena kuk, pasanglah kedua lembu itu pada kereta, tetapi bawalah anak-anaknya kembali ke rumah, supaya jangan mengikutinya lagi.
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 tabut TUHAN, muatkanlah itu ke atas kereta dan letakkanlah benda-benda emas, yang harus kamu bayar kepada-Nya sebagai tebusan salah, ke dalam suatu peti di sisinya. Dan biarkanlah tabut itu pergi.
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: apabila tabut itu mengambil jalan ke daerahnya, ke Bet-Semes, maka Dialah itu yang telah mendatangkan malapetaka yang hebat ini kepada kita. Dan jika tidak, maka kita mengetahui, bahwa bukanlah tangan-Nya yang telah menimpa kita; kebetulan saja hal itu terjadi kepada kita."
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.
Demikianlah diperbuat orang-orang itu. Mereka mengambil dua ekor lembu yang menyusui, dipasangnya pada kereta, tetapi anak-anaknya ditahan di rumah.
11 They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
Mereka meletakkan tabut TUHAN ke atas kereta, juga peti berisi tikus-tikus emas dan gambar benjol-benjol mereka.
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.
Lembu-lembu itu langsung mengikuti jalan yang ke Bet-Semes; melalui satu jalan raya, sambil menguak dengan tidak menyimpang ke kanan atau ke kiri, sedang raja-raja kota orang Filistin itu berjalan di belakangnya sampai ke daerah 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.
Orang-orang Bet-Semes sedang menuai gandum di lembah. Ketika mereka mengangkat muka, maka tampaklah kepada mereka tabut itu, lalu bersukacitalah mereka melihatnya.
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.
Kereta itu sampai ke ladang Yosua, orang Bet-Semes itu, dan berhenti di sana. Di sana ada batu besar. Mereka membelah kayu kereta itu dan mereka mempersembahkan lembu-lembu sebagai korban bakaran kepada TUHAN.
Orang-orang suku Lewi menurunkan tabut TUHAN dengan peti yang ada di sebelahnya, yang di dalamnya ada benda-benda emas itu, lalu menaruhnya di atas batu besar itu, dan pada hari itu orang-orang Bet-Semes mempersembahkan korban bakaran dan korban sembelihan 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 kota orang Filistin melihat hal 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].
Inilah benjol-benjol emas yang dibayar orang Filistin kepada TUHAN sebagai tebusan salah: dari Asdod satu, dari Gaza satu, dari Askelon satu, dari Gat satu, dari Ekron satu;
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].
lagi tikus-tikus emas menurut jumlah segala kota orang Filistin kepunyaan kelima raja kota itu, baik kota-kota yang berkubu maupun dusun-dusun sekitarnya; dan batu besar, yang di atasnya diletakkan mereka tabut TUHAN, di ladang Yosua, orang Bet-Semes itu, adalah saksi sampai hari ini.
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.
Dan Ia membunuh beberapa orang Bet-Semes, karena mereka melihat ke dalam tabut TUHAN; Ia membunuh tujuh puluh orang dari rakyat itu. Rakyat itu berkabung, karena TUHAN telah menghajar mereka dengan dahsyatnya.
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?”
Dan orang-orang Bet-Semes berkata: "Siapakah yang tahan berdiri di hadapan TUHAN, Allah yang kudus ini? Kepada siapakah Ia akan berangkat meninggalkan 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: "Orang Filistin telah mengembalikan tabut TUHAN; datanglah dan angkutlah itu kepadamu."
