Sie Chronicle 13
1 Tokosra David el pwapa yurin captain lun un mwet mweun lal — elos su kol fin tausin ac elos su kol fin foko.
[One day] David talked with all his army officers. Some of them were commanders of 100 soldiers and some were commanders of 1,000 soldiers.
2 Na el fahkak nu sin mwet Israel nukewa, “Fin wo suwos, ac fin ou lungse lun LEUM GOD lasr, lela kut in sulkakinelik nu sin mwet nukewa wiasr, ac nu sin mwet tol ac mwet Levi in acn elos muta we, tuh elos in toeni yorosr in acn se inge.
Then he summoned the other Israeli leaders and said to all of them, “If it seems to you to be a good thing for us to do, and if it is what Yahweh our God wants, let’s send a message to our fellow Israelis in all the areas of our country, including the priests and [other] descendants of Levi who are living among them in their towns and in the nearby pasturelands, to come and join us,
3 Na kut fah som ac folokonma Tuptup in Wuleang lun God lasr, ma kut tuh pilesrala ke pacl Saul el tokosra ah.”
because we want to bring the Sacred Chest of our God back to us. While Saul [was the king], we did not go to God’s presence to ask him what we should do.”
4 Mwet uh elos insewowo ac insese nu ke nunak se inge.
All the people agreed with David, because they all thought that it was the right thing to do.
5 Ouinge David el eisani mwet nukewa in Israel, mutawauk in acn eir ke masrol nu Egypt, fahla nwe ke sun Innek In Utyak Nu Hamath nu epang, tuh elos in use Tuptup in Wuleang liki acn Kiriath Jearim nu Jerusalem.
So David gathered all the Israeli people, from the Shihor [River] in Egypt to Lebo-Hamath [town in the north, and told them that he wanted them] to [help] bring the Sacred Chest of God [back to Jerusalem] from Kiriath-Jearim [city].
6 Na David ac mwet uh som nu ke siti Baalah (su pangpang pac Kiriath Jearim) in facl Judah, tuh elos in eisla Tuptup in Wuleang lun God, su Inen LEUM GOD simla oan kac, ac tron lal oan fin posohksok lun cherub lukwa ah.
David went with all the Israeli people to Baalah [town], which is [another name for] Kiriath-Jearim, to get the Sacred Chest. [The people believed that] God ruled from between the statues of winged creatures that was above the lid of the Sacred Chest [MTY].
7 Elos eisla Tuptup in Wuleang liki lohm sel Abinadab ac filiya fin soko mwe wiwa sasu. Uzzah ac Ahio pa us mwe wiwa soko uh.
The people put the Sacred Chest on a new cart and transported it from Abinadab’s house. Uzzah and Ahio were guiding [the oxen that were pulling the cart].
8 Ke pacl se inge David ac mwet nukewa elos onsrosro ke kuiyalos nufon in akfulatye God. Elos on ac srital ke mwe on inge: harp, drum, cymbal, ac trumpet.
David and all the Israeli people were celebrating in God’s presence with all their strength. They were singing and [playing] lyres, harps, tambourines, and cymbals, and [blowing] trumpets.
9 Ke elos tuku sun nien kulkul wheat in acn Chidon, cow ma ul mwe wiwa uh tukulkulyak, ac Uzzah el saplakla ac sruokya Tuptup in Wuleang.
But when David’s men came to the place where Kidon threshed grain, the oxen stumbled. So Uzzah reached out with his hand to prevent the Sacred Chest from falling off the cart.
10 In kitin pacl ah, LEUM GOD El mulat sel Uzzah, ac unilya ke sripen el kahlye Tuptup sac. El misa insacn ye mutun God.
Yahweh immediately became very angry with Uzzah, and he caused Uzzah to suddenly die there because he had put his hand on the Sacred Chest, [and Yahweh had commanded that only the descendants of Levi who help the priests should touch the Sacred Chest].
11 Ke ma inge acn sac pangpang Perez Uzzah in pacl sac me. David el arulana toasr lah LEUM GOD. El sang kaiyuk nu sel Uzzah ke kasrkusrak.
David was angry because Yahweh had punished [MTY] Uzzah. And now that place [where Uzzah died] is called ‘The Punishment of Uzzah’.
12 Ke ma inge David el sangeng sin God ac fahk, “Inge nga ac usla fuka Tuptup in Wuleang tuh in wiyu?”
That day, David was afraid of God. He asked [himself], “(How can I bring God’s Sacred Chest to my [city]?/I am afraid to bring God’s Sacred Chest to my [city].)” [RHQ]
13 Ke ma inge David el tia us Tuptup sac in welul nu Jerusalem, a el filiya in lohm sin sie mwet pangpang Obed Edom, in siti Gath.
So the men with David did not take the Sacred Chest to Jerusalem. Instead, they took it to the house of Obed-Edom, who was from Gath [city].
14 Tuptup sac oanna we ke malem tolu, ac LEUM GOD El akinsewowoye sou lal Obed Edom ac ma lal nukewa.
The Sacred Chest stayed with Obed-Edom’s family in his house for three months. And [during that time] Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s family and everything that he owned.
