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1 ၁ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်ဖျက်ဆီးရ မည့်ပစ္စည်းတစ်စုံတစ်ခုကိုမျှမယူရဟူ သော ထာဝရဘုရား၏တားမြစ်ချက်ကို အာခန်ဆိုသူသည်မနာခံသဖြင့် ထာဝရ ဘုရားသည်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့ အားပြင်းစွာသောအမျက်တော်ထွက်တော် မူ၏။ (အာခန်သည်ယုဒအနွယ်ဝင်ဇေရ မိသားစုထဲမှဇာဗဒိ၏မြေး၊ ကာမိ၏ သားဖြစ်သည်။)
౧శాపానికి గురైన దాన్ని నాశనం చేసే విషయంలో ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు అపనమ్మకంగా ప్రవర్తించారు. యూదాగోత్రంలో జెరహు మునిమనుమడు, జబ్ది మనుమడు, కర్మీ కుమారుడు, ఆకాను నాశనం చేయాల్సిన వస్తువుల్లో కొన్నిటిని సొంతానికి తీసుకున్నాడు. కాబట్టి యెహోవా ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల మీద కోపగించాడు.
2 ၂ ယောရှုသည်ဗေသလမြို့အရှေ့ဘက်၊ ဗေသ ဝင်မြို့အနီးတွင်တည်ရှိသောအာဣမြို့ အခြေအနေကိုထောက်လှမ်းရန် လူအချို့ တို့ကိုယေရိခေါမြို့မှစေလွှတ်လိုက်လေ သည်။-
౨యెహోషువ “మీరు వెళ్లి దేశాన్ని వేగు చూడండి” అని చెప్పి బేతేలుకు తూర్పున బేతావెను దగ్గర ఉన్న హాయి అనే పట్టణానికి యెరికో నుండి గూఢచారులను పంపాడు.
3 ၃ သူတို့သည်ယင်းသို့ထောက်လှမ်းပြီးနောက် ယောရှုထံသို့ပြန်လာပြီးလျှင်``အာဣမြို့ ကိုအကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံးချီတက်တိုက်ခိုက် ရန်မလိုပါ။ လူနှစ်ထောင်သုံးထောင်ခန့်စေ လွှတ်လျှင်လုံလောက်ပါ၏။ စစ်တပ်တစ်တပ် လုံးစေလွှတ်ရန်မလိုအပ်ပါ။ ထိုမြို့သည် မြို့ကြီးမဟုတ်ပါ'' ဟူ၍ပြန်ကြားကြ လေသည်။-
౩వారు వెళ్లి, హాయి పట్టణాన్ని వేగు చూసి యెహోషువ దగ్గరికి తిరిగి వచ్చి “ప్రజలందరినీ పంపించకు, రెండు మూడు వేలమంది వెళ్లి హాయిని పట్టుకోవచ్చు, అందరూ ప్రయాసపడి అక్కడికి వెళ్లనక్కరలేదు, హాయి ప్రజలు కొద్దిమందే ఉన్నారు” అన్నారు.
4 ၄ ထို့ကြောင့်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားသုံးထောင် ခန့်သည် မြို့ကိုချီတက်တိုက်ခိုက်ကြ၏။ သို့ ရာတွင်စစ်ရေးနိမ့်သဖြင့်ဆုတ်ခွာခဲ့ရ လေသည်။-
౪కాబట్టి సుమారు మూడు వేలమంది సైనికులు అక్కడికి వెళ్ళారు గాని వారు హాయి ప్రజల ముందు నిలవలేక పారిపోయారు.
5 ၅ အာဣမြို့သားတို့သည်မြို့တံခါးမှကျောက် ကျင်းများရှိရာအရပ်သို့တိုင်အောင် ဣသ ရေလအမျိုးသားတို့နောက်သို့လိုက်၍တိုက် ခိုက်ကြရာတောင်ကုန်းအဆင်း၌ ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားသုံးဆယ့်ခြောက်ယောက်ခန့်ကို သတ်ဖြတ်လိုက်ကြလေသည်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်အလွန် စိတ်ပျက်အားလျော့ကြကုန်၏။
౫హాయి ప్రజలు వారిలో ముప్ఫై ఆరుగురిని చంపేశారు. అదీ కాకుండా వారి పట్టణ ద్వారం దగ్గర నుండి షేబారీము వరకూ తరిమి మోరాదులో వారిని చంపేశారు. కాబట్టి ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల గుండెలు కరిగి నీరైపోయాయి.
6 ၆ ယောရှုနှင့်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားခေါင်း ဆောင်တို့သည်ဝမ်းနည်းစိတ်ပျက်လျက် မိမိ တို့၏အဝတ်များကိုဆုတ်ဖြဲ၍ ထာဝရ ဘုရား၏ပဋိညာဉ်သေတ္တာတော်ရှေ့တွင်ဝမ်း နည်းသည့်အနေဖြင့် မိမိတို့၏ဦးခေါင်း ပေါ်မှာမြေမှုန့်တင်လျက်ညဦးတိုင်အောင် ပျပ်ဝပ်လျက်နေကြ၏။-
౬యెహోషువ తన బట్టలు చింపుకున్నాడు. అతడూ ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల పెద్దలూ సాయంకాలం వరకూ యెహోవా మందసం ముందు నేలమీద ముఖాలు మోపి తలల మీద దుమ్మెత్తి పోసుకొంటూ
7 ၇ ယောရှုက``အို အရှင်ထာဝရဘုရား၊ အကျွန်ုပ် တို့ကိုအဘယ်ကြောင့်ယော်ဒန်မြစ်ကိုဖြတ် ကူးစေတော်မူပါသနည်း။ အာမောရိအမျိုး သားတို့လက်သို့အပ်ရန်လော။ သေကြေပျက်စီး စေရန်လော။ အကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည်ယော်ဒန်မြစ်တစ် ဘက်ကမ်း၌သာနေထိုင်ခဲ့လျှင်ကောင်းပါ မည်။-
౭“అయ్యో, ప్రభూ, యెహోవా, మమ్మల్ని నాశనం చేయడానికీ అమోరీయుల చేతికి అప్పగించడానికీ ఈ ప్రజలను యొర్దాను నదిని ఎందుకు దాటించావు? మేము యొర్దాను అవతల నివసించడమే మేలు కదా.
8 ၈ အို ထာဝရဘုရား၊ ဣသရေလအမျိုး သားတို့သည်ရန်သူများထံမှနောက်သို့ ဆုတ်ပြေးလာရပြီဖြစ်ခြင်းကြောင့် အကျွန်ုပ် သည်မည်သို့ပြောရပါမည်နည်း။-
౮ప్రభూ, కనికరించు, ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు తమ శత్రువులను ఎదుర్కోలేక వెన్ను చూపినందుకు నేనేమి చెప్పాలి?
9 ၉ ခါနာန်အမျိုးသားမှစ၍ဤပြည်ရှိလူ အပေါင်းတို့သည် ထိုသတင်းကိုကြားသဖြင့် အကျွန်ုပ်တို့ကိုဝိုင်း၍ တစ်ယောက်မျှမကျန် အောင်သတ်ဖြတ်ကြပါလိမ့်မည်။ ထိုအခါ ကိုယ်တော်၏ဘုန်းတန်ခိုးတော်ကို လူတို့ အထင်မသေးကြစေခြင်းငှာမည်သို့ ပြုတော်မူပါမည်နည်း'' ဟုလျှောက်ထား လေ၏။
౯కనానీయులు, ఈ దేశ ప్రజలంతా ఇది విని, మమ్మల్ని చుట్టుముట్టి మా పేరు భూమి మీద ఉండకుండాా తుడిచి పెట్టేస్తారు. అప్పుడు ఘనమైన నీ నామం కోసం నువ్వు ఏం చేస్తావు” అని ప్రార్థించారు.
10 ၁၀ ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ယောရှုအား``ထလော့။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်မြေပေါ်တွင်ပျပ်ဝပ်၍နေ သနည်း။-
౧౦అప్పుడు యెహోవా యెహోషువతో ఇలా అన్నాడు “లే, ఎందుకు ఇక్కడ నేల మీద ముఖం మోపుకున్నావు?
11 ၁၁ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်အပြစ် ကူးလွန်ခဲ့ကြပြီ။ သူတို့သည်ငါပေးသော အမိန့်ကိုမလိုက်နာကြ။ သူတို့သည်ဖျက် ဆီးပစ်ရမည့်ပစ္စည်းအချို့ကိုသိမ်းယူထား ကြပြီ။ ထိုပစ္စည်းများကိုခိုးယူ၍မုသား ပြောဆိုလျက်မိမိတို့၏ပစ္စည်းများနှင့် ရောနှောထားကြပြီ။-
౧౧ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు పాపం చేశారు. నేను వారితో చేసిన నిబంధనను ఉల్లంఘించారు. శపితమైన దాన్ని కొంత దొంగిలించి, తమ సామానులో దాన్ని పెట్టుకున్నారు. ఆ పాపాన్ని కప్పిపుచ్చారు.
12 ၁၂ ထိုကြောင့်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည် ရန်သူများကိုယှဉ်ပြိုင်၍မတိုက်နိုင်ကြ။ သူ တို့ကိုယ်တိုင်ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းခံရမည့်သူများ ဖြစ်၍ ရန်သူများထံမှဆုတ်ခွာခဲ့ရကြ၏။ သင်တို့ကိုမယူရဟုငါပညတ်သော်လည်း သင်တို့ယူထားသောပစ္စည်းများကိုဖျက်ဆီး မပစ်လျှင် ငါသည်သင်တို့နှင့်အတူရှိတော် မူမည်မဟုတ်။-
౧౨కాబట్టి ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు తమ శత్రువుల ముందు నిలవలేరు. వారు తమకు తామే నాశనానికి గురయ్యారు కాబట్టి తమ శత్రువులకు వెన్నుచూపించారు. శాపగ్రస్తమైన వాటిని మీ మధ్య ఉండకుండాా నిర్మూలం చేస్తే తప్ప నేను మీతో ఉండను.
13 ၁၃ ထလော့၊ လူတို့ကိုသန့်စင်ခြင်းဝတ်ပြုစေ ပြီးလျှင် နက်ဖြန်နေ့၌ငါ၏ရှေ့တော်သို့ ဝင်ရန်အသင့်ရှိကြစေ။ ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရ ဘုရား ဤသို့မိန့်တော်မူကြောင်းပြောကြား လော့။ `ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားအပေါင်း တို့၊ ဖျက်ဆီးပစ်ရမည်ဟုငါပညတ်ထား သောပစ္စည်းအချို့သင်တို့တွင်ရှိ၏။ ထိုပစ္စည်း များကိုသင်တို့မဖျက်ဆီးသမျှကာလ ပတ်လုံးသင်တို့သည်ရန်သူများကိုမခံ မရပ်နိုင်။-
౧౩నీవు వెళ్లి వారితో ఇలా చెప్పు, ‘రేపు ఉదయం మిమ్మల్ని మీరు పరిశుద్ధపరచుకోండి, ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల దేవుడు యెహోవా చెప్పేదేమంటే, ఇశ్రాయేలీయులారా, మీ మధ్య శాపగ్రస్తమైనదొకటి ఉంది, మీరు దాన్ని మీ మధ్య ఉండకుండా నిర్మూలం చేసేవరకూ మీ శత్రువుల ముందు మీరు నిలబడలేరు.’
14 ၁၄ သို့ဖြစ်၍နက်ဖြန်နေ့နံနက်၌သင်တို့သည် အနွယ်အလိုက်ထွက်လာကြရမည်။ မဲကျ သောအနွယ်သည်သားချင်းစုအလိုက်ရှေ့ သို့ထွက်လာရမည်။ မဲကျသောမိသားစု သည်တစ်ဦးချင်းရှေ့သို့ထွက်လာရမည်။-
౧౪ఉదయాన యెహోవా సూచించిన ప్రకారం మీ గోత్రాలు, వంశాలు, కుటుంబాల వారీగా పురుషులు ఒక్కొక్కరు వరుసగా యెహోవా దగ్గరికి రావాలి.
15 ၁၅ ထိုနောက်ဖျက်ဆီးရမည့်ပစ္စည်းခိုးသူဟု မဲကျသူသည် ငါ၏ပဋိညာဉ်ကိုချိုးဖျက် ၍ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့အား အရှက် တကွဲအကျိုးနည်းဖြစ်စေသောကြောင့်သူ နှင့်တကွသူ၏မိသားစုကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ သူပိုင်သမျှသောပစ္စည်းများကိုလည်းကောင်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးပစ်ရမည်' '' ဟုမိန့်ကြား တော်မူ၏။
౧౫అప్పుడు శాపానికి గురైనది ఎవరి దగ్గర దొరుకుతుందో అతన్నీ అతని వాళ్ళందరినీ అగ్నితో కాల్చివేయాలి. ఎందుకంటే అతడు యెహోవా నిబంధన మీరి ఇశ్రాయేలులో దుష్కార్యం చేశాడు” అని చెప్పాడు.
16 ၁၆ နောက်တစ်နေ့နံနက်စောစောတွင်ယောရှုသည် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့အား အနွယ် အလိုက်ရှေ့တော်သို့ထွက်စေရာယုဒ အနွယ်မဲကျလေ၏။-
౧౬కాబట్టి యెహోషువ ఉదయాన్నే లేచి ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను వారి గోత్రాల వరుసలో రప్పించినప్పుడు యూదాగోత్రం పట్టుబడింది.
17 ၁၇ ယုဒအနွယ်မှသားချင်းစုတို့ရှေ့တော်သို့ ထွက်လာသောအခါ ဇေရသားချင်းစုမဲကျ လေ၏။ ဇေရသားချင်းစုမှမိသားစုများ ရှေ့တော်သို့ထွက်စေရာဇာဗဒိမိသားစုကို မဲကျလေ၏။-
౧౭యూదా వంశాన్ని రప్పించినప్పుడు జెరహీయుల వంశం పట్టుబడింది. జెరహీయుల వంశాన్ని ఒక్కొక్కరిని రప్పించినప్పుడు జబ్ది దొరికాడు.
18 ၁၈ ဇာဗဒိ၏မိသားစုမှတစ်ဦးချင်းရှေ့တော် သို့ထွက်လာစေသည့်အခါ အာခန်ဆိုသူ မဲကျလေ၏။ သူသည်ကာမိ၏သား၊ ဇာဗဒိ ၏မြေးဖြစ်သည်။-
౧౮అతడినీ అతని ఇంటివారిని పురుషుల వరుస ప్రకారం రప్పించినప్పుడు యూదా గోత్రంలో జెరహు మునిమనుమడూ జబ్ది మనుమడూ కర్మీ కుమారుడూ అయిన ఆకాను దొరికాడు.
19 ၁၉ ယောရှုကသူ့အား``ငါ့သား၊ ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရ ဘုရားရှေ့တော်တွင်မှန်ရာကိုပြော၍ဝန်ခံ လော့။ သင်ပြုခဲ့သည့်အမှုကိုမထိမ်မချန် ဘဲငါ့အားထုတ်ဖော်ပြောကြားလော့'' ဟု ဆိုလေ၏။
౧౯అప్పుడు యెహోషువ ఆకానుతో “నా కుమారా, ఇశ్రాయేలు దేవుడు యెహోవాకు మహిమ కలిగేలా, ఆయన ముందు ఏదీ దాచకుండా ఒప్పుకో, నీవు చేసినదాన్ని నాకు చెప్పు” అని అన్నాడు.
20 ၂၀ ထိုအခါအာခန်က``အကျွန်ုပ်သည်ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရ ဘုရားအားပြစ်မှားမိခဲ့ကြောင်းဝန်ခံပါ သည်။-
౨౦అందుకు ఆకాను యెహోషువతో “ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల దేవుడు యెహోవాకు విరోధంగా నేను పాపం చేసింది నిజమే.
21 ၂၁ အကျွန်ုပ်တို့သိမ်းယူခဲ့သောပစ္စည်းများထဲ တွင်လှပသောဗာဗုလုန်ဝတ်ရုံ၊ ငွေချိန်ငါး ပေါင်ခန့်နှင့်အချိန်တစ်ပေါင်ကျော်ခန့်ရှိ သောရွှေချောင်းကိုတွေ့ရ၍ လိုချင်မက်မော လှသဖြင့်ယူမိပါသည်။ အကျွန်ုပ်၏တဲထဲ တွင်ငွေကိုအောက်ဆုံး၌ထား၍မြှုပ်ထား ပါသည်'' ဟုယောရှုအားလျှောက်ထားလေ၏။
౨౧దోపుడు సొమ్ములో ఒక మంచి షీనారు పైవస్త్రాన్నీ, రెండువందల తులాల వెండినీ, యాభై తులాల బరువైన ఒక బంగారు కమ్మీనీ చూసి ఆశపడి వాటిని తీసుకున్నాను. అదిగో, వాటిని నా డేరా మధ్య నేలలో పాతిపెట్టాను. ఆ వెండి కూడా దాని కింద ఉంది” అని తాను చేసిన దాన్ని ఒప్పుకున్నాడు.
22 ၂၂ ထိုအခါယောရှုသည်လူအချို့ကိုစေခိုင်း သဖြင့် သူတို့သည်အာခန်၏တဲသို့ပြေးသွား ကြ၏။ တဲအတွင်း၌အာခန်ထုတ်ဖော်ပြောပြ သည့်အတိုင်းဖျက်ဆီးရမည့်ပစ္စည်းများကို တွေ့ရကြလေသည်။-
౨౨అప్పుడు యెహోషువ దూతలను పంపినప్పుడు వారు అతని డేరా దగ్గరికి పరుగెత్తి చూశారు. వారు ఆ వస్తువులనూ వాటి కింద ఆ వెండినీ కనుక్కున్నారు.
23 ၂၃ သူတို့သည်ထိုပစ္စည်းများကိုယောရှုနှင့်ဣသ ရေလအမျိုးသားအပေါင်းတို့ထံသို့ယူဆောင် ခဲ့၍ ထာဝရဘုရား၏ရှေ့တော်တွင်ချထား ကြသည်။-
౨౩కాబట్టి వారు డేరా మధ్య నుండి వాటిని తీసుకు యెహోషువ దగ్గరకూ ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల దగ్గరకూ తెచ్చి యెహోవా సన్నిధిలో పోశారు.
24 ၂၄ ယောရှုနှင့်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားအပေါင်း တို့သည်အာခန်နှင့်တကွငွေ၊ ဝတ်ရုံနှင့်ရွှေ ချောင်းကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ သူ၏သားသမီးများ၊ သိုး၊ နွား၊ မြည်း၊ တဲနှင့်သူပိုင်ပစ္စည်းရှိသမျှ တို့ကိုလည်းကောင်းဒုက္ခချိုင့်ဝှမ်းသို့ခေါ် ဆောင်သွားကြလေသည်။-
౨౪తరువాత యెహోషువ, ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు అందరూ జెరహు కుమారుడు ఆకానునూ, ఆ వెండినీ పైవస్త్రాన్నీ, బంగారు కమ్మీనీ, ఆకాను కుమారులనూ, కుమార్తెలనూ, ఎద్దులనూ, గాడిదలనూ, మందనూ, డేరానూ, అతనికి కలిగిన సమస్తాన్నీ పట్టుకుని ఆకోరు లోయలోకి తీసుకొచ్చారు.
25 ၂၅ ယောရှုကအာခန်အား``သင်သည်အဘယ် ကြောင့်ငါတို့အားဒုက္ခရောက်စေသနည်း။ ယခုထာဝရဘုရားသည်သင့်အားဒုက္ခ ရောက်စေတော်မူမည်'' ဟုဆိုလေ၏။ ထိုနောက် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားအပေါင်းတို့သည် အာခန်ကိုကျောက်ခဲဖြင့်ပစ်၍သတ်ကြ၏။ သူ၏မိသားစုကိုလည်းကျောက်ခဲဖြင့်ပစ် ၍သတ်ပြီးလျှင် သူ၏ပစ္စည်းများနှင့်အတူ မီးရှို့လိုက်ကြ၏။-
౨౫అప్పుడు యెహోషువ “నీవెందుకు మమ్మల్ని బాధపెట్టావు? ఈ రోజు యెహోవా నిన్ను బాధిస్తాడు” అనగానే ఇశ్రాయేలీయులంతా అతణ్ణి రాళ్లతో చావగొట్టారు.
26 ၂၆ သူ၏အလောင်းပေါ်တွင်ကျောက်ခဲပုံကြီး ကိုပုံထားကြ၏။ ထိုကျောက်ပုံကြီးကို ယနေ့တိုင်အောင်တွေ့မြင်နိုင်သည်။ ထိုအဖြစ် အပျက်ကိုအစွဲပြု၍ထိုအရပ်ကို`ဒုက္ခ ချိုင့်ဝှမ်း' ဟုယနေ့တိုင်ခေါ်တွင်ကြသည်။ ထိုအခါထာဝရဘုရားသည်အမျက် တော်ပြေလေ၏။
౨౬తరువాత ఆ వస్తువులనూ రాళ్ళతో కొట్టి అగ్నితో కాల్చి వాటి మీద రాళ్లను పెద్ద కుప్పగా వేశారు. అది ఈ రోజు వరకూ ఉంది. అప్పుడు యెహోవా తన కోపోద్రేకాన్ని విడిచిపెట్టాడు. అందుచేత ఇప్పటి వరకూ ఆ చోటికి “ఆకోరు లోయ” అని పేరు.