शास्ते 2
1 १ परमेश्वराचा दूत गिलगालाहून वर बोखीमास चढून आला आणि तो म्हणाला, “मी तुम्हाला मिसरातून काढले आणि तुमच्या पूर्वजांना शपथेवर देऊ केलेल्या देशात आणले; तुमच्याशी केलेला माझा करार मी कधी मोडणार नाही;
Yahweh [appeared in the form of] an angel [and] went up from Gilgal to [a place that was later called] Bokim. He said [to the Israeli people], “I brought your [ancestors] up here from Egypt. I led them into this land that I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said to them, ‘The agreement that I made with you, as for me, I will never (break it/say that it is ended).
2 २ तुम्ही या देशात राहणाऱ्यांशी काही करार करू नका; तुम्ही त्यांच्या वेद्या मोडून टाका, असे मी तुम्हाला सांगितले होते, पण तुम्ही माझी वाणी ऐकली नाही. तुम्ही हे काय केले?
But as for you, you must never make a peace agreement with the people who live in this land. You must tear down the altars [where they make sacrifices to idols].’ But you have not obeyed me.
3 ३ आणि म्हणून मी देखील म्हणालो, मी कनानी लोकांस तुमच्यासमोरून घालवून देणार नाही; पण ते तुमच्या कुशीला काट्यासारखे होतील आणि त्यांचे देव तुम्हाला पाश होतील.”
So now, I am telling you that I will not expel [your enemies] as you advance. They will be like thorns in your sides. And [they] will try to trap you [by making you worship] their idols.”
4 ४ परमेश्वराचा दूत जेव्हा सर्व इस्राएल लोकांस हे शब्द बोलला, तेव्हा त्यांनी मोठा आक्रोश केला आणि रडले
After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 ६ जेव्हा यहोशवाने लोकांस निरोप देऊन पाठवून दिले तेव्हा इस्राएलाचे लोक देश आपल्या मालकीचा करून घ्यायला प्रत्येकजण आपल्या वतनास गेले.
After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
7 ७ यहोशवाच्या सर्व दिवसात, आणि यहोशवाच्या मरणानंतर जिवंत राहिलेल्या ज्या वडील लोकांनी परमेश्वराने इस्राएलासाठी केलेली महान कामे पाहिली होती त्यांच्या सर्व दिवसात लोकांनी परमेश्वराची सेवा केली.
They served Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive, and as long as the elders, those who had seen all the great things that Yahweh had done for Israel, were alive.
Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
9 ९ एफ्राइमाच्या डोंगराळ प्रदेशातील गाश डोंगराच्या उत्तरेस तिम्नाथ-हेरेस येथे त्यांच्या वतनाच्या सीमेवर त्यांनी त्यास पुरले.
They buried his body in the area he had received [from Moses], at Timnath-Serah, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Gaash Mountain.
10 १० ती सर्व पिढी पूर्वजांना मिळाल्यानंतर जी दुसरी पिढी उदयास आली तिला परमेश्वराची आणि त्याने इस्राएलासाठी केलेल्या कामाची ओळख नव्हती.
After all the people died who lived at the same time as Joshua [EUP], a group of people grew up who did not know Yahweh, and did not know what great things he had done for the Israeli people.
They did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They worshiped [idols that represented the god] Baal and the goddess Astarte. They worshiped [DOU] the various gods that the people-groups around them worshiped. They stopped worshiping Yahweh, the God their ancestors worshiped, the one who had brought their ancestors out of Egypt. That caused Yahweh to be very angry.
12 १२ आपल्या पूर्वजांचा देव जो परमेश्वर, ज्याने त्यांना मिसर देशातून बाहेर आणले त्याचा त्यांनी त्याग केला व अन्य लोकांच्या देवांच्या नादी लागले, आणि त्यांच्या पाया पडले. त्यांनी परमेश्वरास क्रोधाविष्ट केले.
14 १४ इस्राएलावर परमेश्वराचा कोप भडकला, त्याने त्यांना लुटणाऱ्यांच्या हवाली केले, त्यांनी त्यांची मालमत्ता लुटली; त्याने त्यांना त्यांच्या आसपासच्या शत्रूंच्या हाती गुलाम म्हणून विकले, म्हणून त्यांचा आपल्या शत्रूंसमोर टिकाव लागेना.
So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them.
15 १५ परमेश्वराने त्यांना शपथपूर्वक सांगितल्याप्रमाणे जेथे इस्राएल लढण्यास जात तेथे त्यांच्याविरुद्ध परमेश्वराचा हात पडून त्यांचा पराभव होई आणि ते फार संकटात पडत.
Whenever the Israelis went to fight [their enemies], Yahweh [MTY] was opposing them, and allowed their enemies to defeat them, just as he had promised he would do. So the Israelis were greatly distressed.
Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
17 १७ तरी ते आपल्या न्यायाधीशांचे ऐकत नसत; ते व्यभिचारी बुद्धीने अन्य देवांच्या मागे लागले आणि त्यांची उपासना केली. त्यांचे पूर्वज परमेश्वराच्या आज्ञा पाळून ज्या मार्गाने चालले होते तो त्यांनी त्वरीत सोडून दिला आणि त्यांनी आपले पूर्वज करत असत तसे केले नाही.
But the Israelis still would not pay attention to their leaders. Instead, they went to the idols, [acting like] prostitutes [who gave themselves to men who were not their husbands] [MET], and they worshiped those idols. They were not like their ancestors. Their ancestors obeyed what Yahweh commanded, but their descendants quickly stopped behaving as their ancestors had behaved.
18 १८ परमेश्वर जेव्हा त्यांच्यासाठी न्यायाधीश उभे करी तेव्हा त्या न्यायाधीशाबरोबर परमेश्वर असे आणि त्या न्यायाधीशाच्या सर्व दिवसात तो त्यांना त्यांच्या शत्रूंच्या हातून बचावीत असे; कारण त्यांच्यावर जुलूम करणारे व त्यांना गांजणारे यांच्यामुळे ते कण्हत असत; म्हणून देवाला त्यांची दया येई.
Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He helped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer.
19 १९ पण न्यायाधीश मरण पावला म्हणजे ते पुन्हा उलटून अन्य देवांची सेवा करीत व उपासना करीत व आपल्या पूर्वजांपेक्षा अधिक बिघडत. ते आपला दुराचार व दुराग्रह सोडीत नसत.
But after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all [LIT] the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do.
20 २० तेव्हा इस्राएलावर परमेश्वराचा कोप भडकून तो म्हणाला, “मी या राष्ट्राच्या पूर्वजांशी केलेला करार ह्याने मोडला आहे आणि माझी वाणी ऐकली नाही;
So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do.
21 २१ म्हणून यहोशवाच्या मृत्यू वेळी उरलेल्या राष्ट्रांपैकी कोणालाही मी देखील येथून पुढे त्यांच्या समोरून घालवून देणार नाही;
So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
22 २२ पण त्यांच्याकरवी मी इस्राएलाची परीक्षा करीन आणि त्यांच्या पूर्वजांनी परमेश्वराचे जसे मार्ग पाळले तसे ते चालतात की नाही हे मी पाहीन.”
I will use them to test the Israeli people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did.”
23 २३ म्हणून परमेश्वराने त्या राष्ट्रांना घालवून देण्याची घाई केली नाही, त्यांना राहू दिले आणि त्यांना यहोशवाच्या हाती दिले नाही.
Yahweh had allowed those people-groups to stay in that land. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua [and his men] to defeat them.
