२ शमूएल 14

1 राजाको हृदयमा अब्शालोमलाई भेट्ने इच्‍छा जागेछ भनी सरूयाहका छोरा योआबले बुझे ।

When Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart longed for Absalom,

2 योआबले तकोमा खबर पठाए र एउटा बुद्धिमानी स्‍त्रीलाई तिनीकहाँ ल्याउन लगाए । तिनले उनलाई भने, “कृपया तिमी शोकमा परेको बहाना गर र शोकको लुगा लगाऊ । आफूलाई तेल नलगाऊ, तर मरेको मानिसको निम्ति लामो समयदेखि शोकमा परेकी स्‍त्रीजस्तो होऊ ।

he sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, "Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave as a woman who has been mourning for the dead a long time.

3 अनि राजाकहाँ जाऊ र तिनलाई मैले बताएको कुरामा बारेमा बताऊ ।” यसरी उनले राजालाई भन्‍नुपर्ने कुरा योआबले उनलाई भने ।

Go in to the king and say this to him." Then Joab told her what to say.

4 तकोकी ती स्‍त्रीले राजासँग कुरा गर्दा, उनले आफ्‍नो अनुहार भुईंमा घोप्‍टो पारिन् र भनिन्, “हे महाराजा, मलाई सहायता गर्नुहोस् ।”

And the woman of Tekoa went to the king, and she bowed down with her face to the ground and showed respect, and said, "Help, O king."

5 राजाले उनलाई भने, “के खराबी भयो?” उनले जवाफ दिइन्, “सत्य कुराचहिं म एउटी विधवा हुँ र मेरा पति मरिसकेका छन् ।

And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she replied, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

6 म तपाईंको दासीका दुई जना छोरा थिए र तिनीहरू खेतमा एक-आपसमा झगडा गरे र तिनीहरूलाई छुट्टाउने त्‍यहाव कोही पनि थिएन । एउटाले अर्कोलाई प्रहार गर्‍यो र त्यसलाई मार्‍यो ।

And your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

7 सारा कुल नै तपाईंको दासीको विरुद्धमा उठेका छन् र तिनीहरू भन्छन्, 'आफ्नो भाइलाई प्रहार गर्ने मानिसलाई हाम्रो हातमा सुम्प, ताकि त्यसले मारेको आफ्नो भाइको जीवनको निम्ति मूल्य चुकाउन हामी त्यसलाई मार्न सकौँ ।' यसरी तिनीहरूले उत्तराधिकार पनि नष्‍ट पार्ने छन् । यसरी मैले छोडेको बलिरहेको भुङ्‍ग्रोलाई तिनीहरूले निभाउने छन् र तिनीहरूले मेरो पतिको निम्ति पृथ्वीको सहतमा न नाम न त सन्तान नै छोड्ने छन् ।

Look, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Give us the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed.' Thus they would eliminate also the heir and the one ember I have left will be extinguished, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.

8 राजाले ती स्‍त्रीलाई भने, “आफ्नो घर जाऊ र तिम्रो निम्ति केही कुरा गर्न म आदेश दिने छु ।”

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to the king, my lord, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your servant said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

9 तकोकी महिलाले राजालाई जवाफ दिइन्, “हे मेरो मालिक महाराजा, सारा दोष म र मेरो पिताको घरानामाथि परोस् । महाराजा र उहाँको सिंहासन दोषरहित होस् ।

For the king will hear and deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who is seeking to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of YHWH.

10 राजाले जवाफ दिए, “कसैले तिमीलाई कुनै कुरा भन्यो भने त्यसलाई मकहाँ लेऊ र त्यसले तिमीलाई फेरि छुने छैन ।”

Then your servant said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May YHWH, your God, be with you.'"

11 उनले भनिन्, “महाराजाले परमप्रभु आफ्‍ना परमेश्‍वरलाई सम्झनुभएको होस्, ताकि रगतको बदला लिनेले अब उसो नाश गर्ने छैन ताकि तिनीहरूले मेरो छोरालाई नाश गर्ने छैनन् । राजाले जवाफ दिए, “जस्तो परमप्रभु जीवित हुनुहुन्छ, तिम्रो छोराको शिरको एउटा कपाल पनि भुईंमा खस्‍ने छैन ।

Then the king said, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

12 अनि ती स्‍त्रीले भनिन्, “कृपया आफ्नो दासीलाई महाराजासँग अरू एउटा कुरा गर्न दिनुहोस् ।” तिनले भने, “भन ।”

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless."

13 त्यसैले ती स्‍त्रीले भनिन्, “तपाईंले परमश्‍वरका मानिसहरूका विरुद्धमा किन यस्तो कुरा गर्नुभएको छ? राजाले यसो भन्‍नुहुँदा उहाँ कुनै दोषी व्यक्‍तिजस्तै हुनुहुन्छ, किनभने राजाले आफ्नो निर्वासित छोरालाई फिर्ता ल्याउनुभएको छैन ।

The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."

14 किनकि हामी सबै नै मर्नुपर्छ र हामी जमिनमा पोखिएको पानीजस्तै छौं, जसलाई फेरि जम्‍मा पार्न सकिंदैन । तर परमेश्‍वरल जीवन लिनुहुने छैन । बरु, उहाँले धपाइएकाहरूलाई पुनर्स्थापना गर्ने कुनै उपाय खोज्नुहुन्छ ।

Then she said, "Please let the king remember YHWH your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As YHWH lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."

15 अब यो देखेर म मेरो मालिक राजासँग यो कुरा गर्न आएको छु, किनभने मानिसहरूले मलाई भयभीत तुल्याएका छन् । तपाईंको दासीले मनमनै भनिन्, 'म अब महाराजासित कुरा गर्ने छु । सायद महाराजाले आफ्नो दासीको बन्ती पुरा गरिदिनुहुने छ ।

Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

16 सायद महाराजाले मेरो बिन्‍ती सुन्‍नुहुने छ र परमेश्‍वरले हामीलाई दिनुभएको उत्तराधिकारबाट म र मेरो छोरोलाई नष्‍ट पार्ने मानिसहरूको हातबाट मुक्‍त गर्नुहुने छ ।'

The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of YHWH? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his exiled one.

17 त्यसपछि तपाईंकी दासीले प्रार्थना गरिन्, 'हे परमप्रभु, मेरो मालिक महाराजाका वचनले मलाई मुक्‍त गर्नुभएको होस्, किनकि मेरो मालिक असल र खराब छुट्याउनला परमश्‍वरको स्वर्गदूतजस्तै हुनुहुन्छ ।' परमप्रभु तपाईंको परमेश्‍वर तपाईंसँग हुनुभएको होस् ।”

For your son is dead, and as water spilled on the ground can't be gathered up again, so he can't bring his life back again. But it seems sensible to the king to keep his exiled one away from him."

18 अनि राजाले जवाफ दिए र ती स्‍त्रीलाई भने, “मैले तिमीलाई सोध्‍ने कुनै पनि कुरा मबाट नलुकाऊ ।” ती स्‍त्रीले जवाफ दिइन्, “हे मेरा मालिक महाराजा भन्‍नहोस् ।”

Then the king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."

19 राजाले भने, “के यी सबै कुराको पछाडी योआबको हात छैन र?” ती स्‍त्रीले जवाफ दिइन्, “जस्तो तपाईं मेरो मालिक महाराजा जीवित हुनुहुन्छ, मेरो मालिक महाराजाले भन्‍नुभएको कुराबाट कोही पनि दाया वा बाँया लाग्‍न सक्दैन । तपाईंकी दासीले बोलेको यी कुराहरू भन्‍न मलाई आज्ञा गर्ने र बताउने तपाईंको दास योआब नै थिए ।

So the king said, "Did Joab put you up to all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who had me do this, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.

20 तपाईंको दास योआबले जे भइरहेको छ त्यसको प्रवाहलाई परिवर्तन गर्न यसो गरेका हुन् । मेरो मालिक परमेश्‍वरको स्वर्गदूतजस्तै बुद्धिमान हुनुहुन्छ र मुलुकमा भइरहेका हरेक कुरा जान्‍नुहुन्छ ।”

Your servant Joab did this in order to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of an angel of God for knowing things in the land."

21 राजाले योआबलाई भने, “हेर, म यो गर्ने छु । तब जाऊ र त्‍यो जवान अब्शालोमलाई फर्काएर ल्‍याऊ ।”

Then the king said to Joab, "Look now, I have done according to your word. Go, bring back the young man Absalom."

22 त्यसैले योआबले राजाप्रति आदर र कृतज्ञता प्रकट गर्न भुईंमा घोप्‍टो परे । योआबले भने, “राजाले आफ्नो दासको बिन्ती पुरा गर्नुभएकोमा मैले मेरा मालिक महाराजा तपाईंको दृष्‍टिमा निगाह पाएको छु भनी मैले आज थाहा पायो ।”

Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground, and blessed the king. And Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."

23 त्यसैले योआब उठे, गशूरमा गए र अब्शालोमलाई यरूशलेममा फिर्ता ल्याए ।

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

24 राजाले भने, “ऊ आफ्नै गरमा फर्कोस्, तर उसले मेरो मुख हेर्न नआओस् ।” त्यसैले अब्शालोम आफ्नै घरमा गए तर राजाको मुख देखेनन् ।

The king said, "He must return to his own house, but he must not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and did not see the king's face.

25 सारा इस्राएलमा नै आफ्नो सुन्दरताको निम्ति प्रशंसा गरिएको व्यक्‍ति अब्शालोमभन्दा अरू थिएन । तिनको शिरदेखि पाउसम्म नै तिनमा कुनै खोट थिएन ।

Moreover, Absalom – in Israel no one was so much admired as he for his fine appearance. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

26 जब तिनले हरेक वर्षको अन्‍तमा गह्रौं भएको हुनाले आफ्नो कपाल काट्थे, तब तिनले आफ्नो कपाल तौलन्थे । यो लगभग दुई सय शेकेल हुन्थो, जसलाई राजाको मानकअनुसारको तौलद्वरा नापिन्‍थ्‍यो।

When he cut the hair of his head – now it was at the end of every year that he cut it, because it became too heavy, therefore he cut it – he weighed the hair of his head at one hundred shekels by the king's weight.

27 अब्शालोमका तीन छोरा र एक छोरी थिए, जसको नाउँ तामार थियो । तिनी सुन्दरी महिला थिइन ।

To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.

28 अब्शालोम राजाको मुख नहेरिकन नै पुरा दुई वर्ष यरूशलेममा बसे ।

Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he did not see the king's face.

29 त्यसपछि अब्शालोमले आफूलाई राजाकहाँ पठाउनलाई योआबलाई बोलाए, तर योआब तिनीकहाँ आएनन् । यसैले अब्शालोमले दोस्रो पटक खबर पठाए, तर योआब अझै आएनन् ।

Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

30 त्यसैले अब्शालोमले आफ्ना सेवकहरूलाई भने, “हेर, योआबको खेत मेरो खतको छेउमै छ र त्यहाँ उसको जौ छ । जाऊ र त्‍यसलाई आगो लगाइदेऊ ।” अनि अब्शालोमका सेवकहरूले त्यो खेतमा आगो लगाइदिए ।

Therefore he said to his servants, "Look, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." Absalom's servants set the field on fire. And the servants of Joab came to him with their clothes rent, and they said to him, "The servants of Absalom have set the field on fire."

31 अनि योआब उठे र अब्शालोमको घरमा तिनीकहाँ आए र तिनलाई भने, “तिम्रा सेवकहरूले मेरो खेतमा किन आगो लगाइदिएका छन्?”

Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"

32 अब्शालोमले योआबलाई जवाफ दिए, “हेर, मैले तिमीकहाँ यसो भनेर खबर पठाएँ, 'यहाँ आऊ, ताकि तिमीलाई राजाकहाँ म यसो भन्‍नलाई पठाउन सकूँ’ । ‘म गशूरबाट किन आएँ? मलाई त अझै त्यहाँ हुनु नै असल हुन्‍छ। यसकारण अब म राजाको मुख हेर्न पाऊँ र म दोषी छु भने तिनले नै मलाई मारुन् ।'”

And Absalom answered Joab, "Look, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there. Now therefore let me appear before the king. If I am guilty, put me to death.'"

33 त्यसैले योआब राजाकहाँ गए र तिनलाई भने । जब राजाले अब्शालोमलाई बोलाए, तब तिनी राजाकहाँ आए र राजाको सामु भुईंमा निहुरिए र राजाले अब्शालोमलाई चुम्बन गरे ।

So Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. And he came to the king and bowed himself with his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.