Yosua 24

1 Yosua memanggil para tua-tua, kepala suku, hakim, dan pengatur pasukan dari semua suku bangsa Israel untuk berkumpul di Sikem. Di sana mereka datang menghadap Allah.

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

2 Kata Yosua kepada mereka, “Inilah yang dikatakan oleh TUHAN, Allah Israel: Dulu nenek moyang kalian, termasuk Terah, ayah Abraham dan Nahor, tinggal di seberang sungai Efrat dan menyembah dewa-dewa.

And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelled on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

3 Tetapi Aku mengambil Abraham, leluhur kalian, dari sana. Aku menyuruh dia menjelajahi negeri Kanaan dan membuat keturunannya banyak. Aku memberikan Isak kepadanya,

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

4 dan kepada Isak Aku berikan Yakub dan Esau. Aku sudah memberikan kepada Esau pegunungan Seir untuk menjadi miliknya, sedangkan Yakub dan anak-anaknya pergi ke Mesir.

And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

5 “Kemudian Aku mengutus Musa dan Harun, lalu mendatangkan berbagai bencana besar kepada bangsa Mesir. Sesudah itu Aku membawa nenek moyang kalian keluar dari Mesir.

I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

6 Tetapi waktu mereka sampai di Laut Merah, orang Mesir mengejar mereka dengan kereta perang dan pasukan berkuda.

And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red sea.

7 Ketika mereka berteriak minta tolong kepada-Ku, Aku mendatangkan kegelapan di antara nenek moyang kalian dan pasukan Mesir. Aku juga menenggelamkan pasukan Mesir. Kalian tahu bagaimana mereka sendiri menyaksikan apa yang Aku lakukan di Mesir. Setelah itu mereka lama tinggal di padang belantara.

And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you dwelled in the wilderness a long season.

8 “Lalu Aku membawa kalian ke daerah orang Amori di sebelah timur sungai Yordan. Mereka berperang melawan kalian, tetapi Aku membinasakan mereka dan membuat kalian menang supaya kalian bisa menduduki negeri mereka.

And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelled on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

9 Lalu Balak anak Zipor memerangi kalian. Balak adalah raja negeri Moab. Dia memanggil Bileam anak Beor untuk mengutuk kalian.

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

10 Tetapi Aku tidak membiarkan Bileam melakukannya. Sebaliknya, Aku membuat dia memberkati kalian. Dengan demikian Aku menyelamatkan kalian dari Balak.

But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

11 “Ketika kalian menyeberangi sungai Yordan dan tiba di Yeriko, penduduk Yeriko berperang melawan kalian, demikian juga bangsa Amori, Feris, Kanaan, Het, Girgasi, Hewi, dan Yebus. Tetapi Aku menyerahkan mereka kepada kalian.

And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

12 Aku membuat mereka dan juga kedua raja orang Amori itu begitu ketakutan sehingga mereka lari dari kalian. Kalian menang bukan karena pedang maupun panahmu.

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow.

13 Aku memberikan kepada kalian tanah walaupun bukan kalian yang menggarapnya, dan kota-kota walaupun bukan kalian yang membangunnya. Sekarang kalian tinggal di dalamnya. Aku juga memberikan kepada kalian kebun-kebun anggur dan kebun-kebun zaitun walaupun bukan kalian yang menanamnya, dan kalianlah yang memakan hasilnya.”

And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you built not, and you dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive groves which you planted not do you eat.

14 Lalu Yosua berkata, “Karena itu kalian harus takut dan hormat kepada TUHAN. Sembahlah Dia dengan tulus dan setia. Musnahkanlah berhala-berhala yang dulu disembah oleh nenek moyangmu di seberang sungai Efrat dan di Mesir. Sembahlah hanya TUHAN saja.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve you the LORD.

15 Akan tetapi, kalau menurut kalian menyembah TUHAN itu tidak baik, pilihlah pada hari ini siapa yang akan kalian sembah. Apakah kalian mau menyembah dewa-dewa yang dulu disembah nenek moyangmu di seberang sungai Efrat? Atau apakah kalian mau menyembah dewa-dewa yang disembah bangsa Amori, yang negerinya kalian diami ini? Tetapi saya dan seluruh keluarga saya akan mengabdi kepada TUHAN!”

And if it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

16 Bangsa itu menjawab, “Kami tidak akan pernah meninggalkan TUHAN untuk menyembah dewa-dewa!

And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

17 Karena TUHAN Allah kitalah yang sudah membawa kita dan nenek moyang kita keluar dari perbudakan di Mesir. Dialah yang membuat keajaiban-keajaiban besar di depan mata kita. Dia jugalah yang selama ini melindungi kita sepanjang perjalanan ketika kita melewati semua bangsa asing.

For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:

18 TUHAN sudah mengusir semua bangsa dari hadapan kita, termasuk orang Amori yang tinggal di negeri ini. Jadi, kami juga akan menyembah TUHAN, sebab Dialah Allah kita.”

And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelled in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

19 Berkatalah Yosua kepada bangsa Israel, “Kalian tidak sanggup mengabdi kepada TUHAN, karena Dia adalah Allah yang kudus dan cemburu. Dia tidak akan bersabar terhadap pelanggaran dan dosamu.

And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

20 Apabila kalian meninggalkan TUHAN dan menyembah dewa-dewa, Dia akan berbalik melawan kalian, walaupun sebelumnya Dia baik kepada kalian. Dia akan mencelakai dan membinasakan kalian.”

If you forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he has done you good.

21 Jawab bangsa Israel, “Kami tidak akan meninggalkan TUHAN! Hanya TUHANlah yang akan kami sembah.”

And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD.

22 Lalu kata Yosua kepada mereka, “Kalian menjadi saksi bagi dirimu sendiri, bahwa kalian sudah memilih untuk menyembah TUHAN.” Jawab mereka, “Ya, kamilah saksinya!”

And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

23 Kata Yosua, “Kalau begitu, musnahkanlah berhala-berhala yang ada di antara kalian dan mengabdilah kepada TUHAN, Allah Israel, dengan sepenuh hati.”

Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel.

24 Jawab bangsa itu kepada Yosua, “Kami akan menyembah TUHAN, Allah kita. Kami akan taat kepada-Nya.”

And the people said to Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

25 Pada hari itu di Sikem, Yosua mengadakan perjanjian antara bangsa Israel dengan TUHAN, dan menetapkan hukum serta peraturan-peraturan bagi mereka.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

26 Yosua menulis semuanya itu dalam sebuah kitab hukum Allah. Sebagai peringatan, dia menempatkan sebuah batu besar di bawah pohon besar, di dekat kemah TUHAN.

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

27 Kata Yosua kepada bangsa Israel, “Lihatlah, batu ini ada di sini selama perkataan TUHAN disampaikan. Karena itu batu ini menjadi saksi bisu bagi kita, sebagai pengingat agar kalian tidak meninggalkan Allahmu.”

And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness to you, lest you deny your God.

28 Lalu Yosua menyuruh mereka pulang ke tanah warisannya masing-masing.

So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance.

29 Beberapa waktu sesudah itu, Yosua anak Nun, hamba TUHAN itu, meninggal pada umur seratus sepuluh tahun.

And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

30 Mereka menguburkannya di tanah warisannya, di Timnat Serah di pegunungan Efraim, di sebelah utara gunung Gaas.

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

31 Bangsa Israel menyembah TUHAN sepanjang hidup Yosua. Sesudah dia meninggal, mereka tetap menyembah TUHAN selama masih ada para tua-tua yang hidup lebih lama daripada Yosua, yaitu mereka yang sudah menyaksikan semua perbuatan TUHAN bagi bangsa Israel.

And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.

32 Tulang-tulang Yusuf, yang dibawa bangsa Israel keluar dari Mesir, dikuburkan di Sikem, tanah yang dibeli Yakub dengan harga seratus keping perak dari anak-anak Hemor. Hemor adalah ayah Sikem. Tanah ini menjadi warisan bagi keturunan Yusuf.

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

33 Eleazar anak Harun juga meninggal. Dia dikuburkan di kota Gibea di pegunungan Efraim. Kota itu sudah diberikan kepada Pinehas, anak Eleazar.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.