రాజులు~ మొదటి~ గ్రంథము 18
1 ౧ చాలా రోజులు గడిచిన తరువాత కరువు కాలంలో మూడో సంవత్సరం యెహోవా ఏలీయాతో “నేను భూమ్మీద వాన కురిపిస్తాను. నీవు వెళ్లి అహాబుకు కనబడు” అన్నాడు.
၁ထို့နောက်ကာလအတန်ကြာ၍ မိုးခေါင်ချိန် သုံးနှစ်မျှရှိသောအခါ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ဧလိယအား``သင်သည်သွား၍အာဟပ်မင်း ၏ရှေ့တော်သို့ဝင်လော့။ ငါသည်မိုးကိုရွာ စေတော်မူမည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူသည့်အတိုင်း၊-
၂ဧလိယသည်လည်းသွားလေ၏။ ထိုအချိန်အခါ၌ ရှမာရိပြည်မိုးခေါင်မှု သည် အဆိုးဆုံးအခြေအနေသို့ရောက် လျက်ရှိ၏။-
၃ထို့ကြောင့်အာဟပ်သည်နန်းတော်အုပ်သြဗဒိ ကိုခေါ်တော်မူ၏။ (သြဗဒိသည်ထာဝရ ဘုရားအားအလွန်ကြည်ညိုလေးမြတ်သူ ဖြစ်သဖြင့်၊-
4 ౪ యెజెబెలు యెహోవా ప్రవక్తలను చంపేస్తూ ఉన్నప్పుడు గుహకు యాభై మంది చొప్పున రెండు గుహల్లో వంద మందిని దాచి, అన్నపానాలు ఇచ్చి వారిని పోషించాడు.
၄ထာဝရဘုရား၏ပရောဖက်များကိုယေဇဗေလ သတ်ဖြတ်နေချိန်၌ ပရောဖက်တစ်ရာကိုငါး ဆယ်စီနှစ်စုခွဲ၍ဂူများတွင်ဝှက်ထားပြီးလျှင် အစာရေစာကျွေးမွေးခဲ့၏။-)
5 ౫ అహాబు ఓబద్యాతో “దేశంలోని నీటి ఊటలనూ వాగులనూ చూడడానికి వెళ్ళు. మన గుర్రాలూ కంచర గాడిదలూ చావకుండా వాటికి గడ్డి దొరుకుతుందేమో చూడు. అలా కొన్ని పశువులనైనా దక్కించుకుంటాం” అన్నాడు.
၅အာဟပ်သည်သြဗဒိအား``မြင်းနှင့်လားများ မသေစေခြင်းငှာ မြက်တောတွေ့ကောင်းတွေ့နိုင် ရန်တစ်ပြည်လုံးရှိစမ်းရေတွင်းနှင့်ချောင်းများ ရှိရာအရပ်ရပ်သို့ ငါတို့သွား၍ကြည့်ရှုကြ ကုန်အံ့။'' ဟုဆို၏။-
6 ౬ కాబట్టి వాళ్ళు నీళ్ళ కోసం దేశమంతా తిరగి చూడడానికి బృందాలుగా వెళ్ళారు. అహాబు ఒక్కడే ఒక వైపూ ఓబద్యా మరొక వైపూ వెళ్ళారు.
၆သူတို့နှစ်ဦးသွားရောက်ကြည့်ရမည့်အရပ် များကိုသဘောတူကြပြီးလျှင် တစ်ယောက် တစ်လမ်းစီထွက်သွားကြ၏။
7 ౭ ఓబద్యా దారిలో వెళుతుంటే అనుకోకుండా ఏలీయా ఎదురు పడ్డాడు. ఓబద్యా అతన్ని గుర్తు పట్టి సాష్టాంగ నమస్కారం చేసి “మీరు నా యజమాని ఏలీయా గదా” అని అడిగాడు.
၇ယင်းသို့ထွက်ခွာသွားစဉ်သြဗဒိသည် ဧလိယ နှင့်ရုတ်တရက်တွေ့ဆုံမိလေသည်။ သူသည် ဧလိယကိုမှတ်မိသဖြင့်ဦးညွှတ်ပျပ်ဝပ် ၍``အရှင်သည်အကျွန်ုပ်သခင်ဧလိယပါ လော'' ဟုမေး၏။
၈ဧလိယကလည်း``ဟုတ်ပါသည်။ သင်သည်သင် ၏အရှင်ဘုရင်မင်းမြတ်ထံသို့သွား၍ ဤအရပ် တွင်ငါရှိကြောင်းလျှောက်ထားလော့'' ဟုဆို၏။
9 ౯ అందుకు ఓబద్యా “అహాబు నన్ను చంపేసేలా మీ దాసుడినైన నన్ను అతనికి అప్పగిస్తావా ఏమిటి? నేనేం పాపం చేశాను?
၉သြဗဒိက``အကျွန်ုပ်သည်အဘယ်အမှုကိုပြု မိသည့်အတွက် အရှင်သည်အကျွန်ုပ်အားအာဟပ် မင်း၏လက်တွင်အသတ်ခံရစေရန် ဤသို့ခိုင်း စေတော်မူလိုပါသနည်း။-
10 ౧౦ నీ దేవుడు యెహోవా ప్రాణం తోడు, నిన్ను పట్టుకోవాలని నా యజమాని వార్తాహరులను పంపించని దేశం గానీ రాజ్యం గానీ లేదు. ‘ఏలీయా ఇక్కడ లేడు’ అని ఆ దేశం గానీ రాజ్యం గానీ అంటే వారితో అలా ప్రమాణం చేయించుకునేవాడు.
၁၀မင်းကြီးသည်အရှင့်အားကမ္ဘာပေါ်ရှိနိုင်ငံတကာ တွင်ရှာဖွေစေကြောင်းကို အသက်ရှင်တော်မူသော ထာဝရဘုရားတည်းဟူသောအရှင်၏ဘုရားသခင်ကိုတိုင်တည်၍အကျွန်ုပ်ကျိန်ဆိုပါ၏။ ဤ မည်သောနိုင်ငံတွင်ဧလိယမရှိပါဟုဆိုသော မင်းအား မင်းကြီးကအကယ်ပင်ရှာ၍မတွေ့ ကြောင်းကိုသစ္စာဆိုစေပါ၏။-
၁၁ယခုအရှင်သည်အကျွန်ုပ်အားအာဟပ်မင်း ထံသို့သွား၍ ဤအရပ်တွင်အရှင်ရှိနေ ကြောင်းလျှောက်ထားစေပါ၏။-
12 ౧౨ నేను నీ దగ్గరనుండి వెళ్ళిన వెంటనే యెహోవా ఆత్మ, నాకు తెలియని ప్రదేశానికి నిన్ను తీసుకుపోతాడు. అప్పుడు నేను వెళ్లి అహాబుకు కబురు చెప్పిన తరువాత నీవు అతనికి కనబడకపోతే అతడు నన్ను చంపేస్తాడు. కాబట్టి అలా ఆజ్ఞాపించవద్దు. నీ దాసుడనైన నేను చిన్నప్పటి నుంచి యెహోవాపట్ల భయభక్తులు గలిగిన వాణ్ణి.
၁၂အကယ်၍ထာဝရဘုရား၏ဝိညာဉ်တော် သည်အကျွန်ုပ်ထွက်ခွာသွားသည်နှင့်တစ်ပြိုင် နက် အရှင့်အားအကျွန်ုပ်မသိသည့်အရပ်သို့ ခေါ်ဆောင်သွားခဲ့သော် အကျွန်ုပ်အဘယ်သို့ ပြုရပါမည်နည်း။ ဤအရပ်တွင်အရှင်ရှိ နေကြောင်းမင်းကြီးအားအကျွန်ုပ်လျှောက်ထား ပြီးနောက် မင်းကြီးသည်အရှင်အားမတွေ့ ရပါကအကျွန်ုပ်ကိုသတ်ပါလိမ့်မည်။ အကျွန်ုပ်သည်သူငယ်အရွယ်မှအစပြု ၍ထာဝရဘုရားအားအလွန်ကြည်ညို လေးမြတ်ခဲ့သူဖြစ်ကြောင်းအောက်မေ့ သတိရတော်မူပါ။-
13 ౧౩ యెజెబెలు యెహోవా ప్రవక్తలను చంపేస్తుంటే నేనేం చేశానో నీకు తెలియదా? నేను యెహోవా ప్రవక్తల్లో వందమందిని, గుహకు యాభై మంది చొప్పున దాచి, భోజనం పెట్టి వారిని పోషించాను.
၁၃ထာဝရဘုရား၏ပရောဖက်များကိုယေဇ ဗေလသတ်နေသောအခါ၌ အကျွန်ုပ်သည် ပရောဖက်တစ်ရာကိုငါးဆယ်စီနှစ်စုခွဲ၍ ဂူများတွင်ဝှက်ထားကာ အစာရေစာကျွေး မွေးခဲ့ကြောင်းကိုအရှင်ကြားတော်မမူပါ သလော။-
14 ౧౪ ఇప్పుడు ఏలీయా ఇక్కడున్నాడని నీ యజమానికి చెప్పు అంటున్నావే, అహాబు నన్ను చంపేస్తాడు” అని మనవి చేశాడు.
၁၄သို့ဖြစ်၍အရှင်သည်အဘယ်သို့လျှင် အကျွန်ုပ် အားမင်းကြီးထံသို့စေလွှတ်၍ ဤအရပ်တွင် အရှင်ရှိတော်မူကြောင်းလျှောက်ထားစေနိုင် ပါမည်နည်း။ သူသည်အကျွန်ုပ်အားသတ် ပါလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုဆို၏။
15 ౧౫ అప్పుడు ఏలీయా “ఎవరి సన్నిధిలో నేను నిలుచున్నానో దూతల సైన్యాల అధిపతి అయిన యెహోవా జీవం తోడు, కచ్చితంగా ఈ రోజు నేను అహాబును కలుసుకుంటాను” అన్నాడు.
၁၅ဧလိယက``ငါသည်ယနေ့မင်းကြီး၏ရှေ့တော် သို့ဝင်မည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ငါကိုးကွယ်သောအနန္တ တန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရဘုရားကိုတိုင်တည်၍ ကတိပြုပါ၏'' ဟုဆို၏။
16 ౧౬ కాబట్టి ఓబద్యా అహాబును కలుసుకుని ఈ విషయం తెలియచేశాడు. వెంటనే ఏలీయాను కలుసుకోడానికి అహాబు బయలుదేరాడు.
၁၆ထို့ကြောင့်သြဗဒိသည် အာဟပ်မင်းထံသို့သွား၍ လျှောက်ထားရာ အာဟပ်သည်ဧလိယနှင့်တွေ့ဆုံ ရန်ကြွလာတော်မူ၏။-
၁၇ဧလိယကိုမြင်သောအခါအာဟပ်က``ဣသ ရေလပြည်တွင်ဒုက္ခပေးသူကိုယခုငါတွေ့ ပြီ'' ဟုဆို၏။
18 ౧౮ ఏలీయా “ఇశ్రాయేలు ప్రజలను కష్ట పెట్టేది నేను కాదు, నువ్వూ నీ తండ్రి వంశం వాళ్ళు. మీరు యెహోవా ఆజ్ఞలను పాటించకుండా బయలు విగ్రహాలను అనుసరించారు.
၁၈ဧလိယက``ဒုက္ခပေးသူမှာငါမဟုတ်။ ဒုက္ခပေး သူများမှာသင်နှင့်သင်၏ခမည်းတော်သာလျှင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ သင်သည်ထာဝရဘုရား၏ပညတ် တော်တို့ကိုလွန်ဆန်၍ ဗာလဘုရား၏ရုပ်တု များကိုရှိခိုးဝတ်ပြုလျက်နေပေသည်။-
19 ౧౯ అయితే ఇప్పుడు నీవు ఇశ్రాయేలు వారందరినీ యెజెబెలు పోషిస్తున్న బయలు దేవుడి ప్రవక్తలు 450 మందినీ అషేరాదేవి ప్రవక్తలు 400 మందినీ నా దగ్గరికి కర్మెలు పర్వతానికి పిలిపించు” అన్నాడు.
၁၉ဣသရေလပြည်သူအပေါင်းတို့အားကရ မေလတောင်ထိပ်တွင်ငါနှင့်တွေ့ဆုံကြရန် အမိန့်ပေးပါလော့။ ယေဇဗေလမိဖုရား ထောက်ပံ့ကျွေးမွေးထားသည့်ဗာလပရောဖက် လေးရာ့ငါးဆယ်နှင့်အာရှရဘုရားမ၏ ပရောဖက်လေးရာတို့ကိုလည်းခေါ်ဖိတ်ပါ လော့'' ဟုပြန်ပြော၏။
20 ౨౦ అహాబు ఇశ్రాయేలు వారందరి దగ్గరికి వార్తాహరులను పంపి, ప్రవక్తలను కర్మెలు పర్వతం దగ్గరికి సమకూర్చాడు.
၂၀သို့ဖြစ်၍အာဟပ်သည်ဣသရေလအမျိုး သားအပေါင်းနှင့် ဗာလပရောဖက်တို့ကို ကရမေလတောင်ထိပ်သို့စုရုံးစေတော်မူ၏။-
21 ౨౧ ఏలీయా ప్రజలందరి దగ్గరికి వచ్చి “ఎంతకాలం మీరు రెండు అభిప్రాయాల మధ్య తడబడుతూ ఉంటారు? యెహోవా దేవుడైతే ఆయన్ని అనుసరించండి, బయలు దేవుడైతే వాణ్ణి అనుసరించండి” అని చెప్పాడు. ప్రజలు అతనికి జవాబుగా ఒక మాట కూడా పలకలేదు.
၂၁ဧလိယသည်ထိုလူတို့ထံသို့ချဉ်းကပ်၍``သင် တို့သည်အဘယ်မျှကြာအောင်စိတ်ဇဝေဇဝါ ရှိနေကြပါမည်နည်း။ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ဘုရားအမှန်ဖြစ်လျှင် ကိုယ်တော်အားဝတ်ပြု ကိုးကွယ်ကြလော့။ ဗာလသည်ဘုရားအမှန် ဖြစ်လျှင်မူကားသူ့အားဝတ်ပြုကိုးကွယ် ကြလော့'' ဟုဆို၏။ သို့ရာတွင်လူတို့သည် မည်သို့မျှပြန်၍မပြောကြ။-
22 ౨౨ అప్పుడు ఏలీయా “యెహోవా ప్రవక్తల్లో నేను ఒక్కడినే మిగిలాను. అయితే, బయలు ప్రవక్తలు 450 మంది ఉన్నారు.
၂၂ထိုအခါဧလိယက``ထာဝရဘုရား၏ ပရောဖက်များအနက် ငါတစ်ဦးတည်းကျန် ရှိနေ၏။ ဗာလပရောဖက်များမူကားလေး ရာငါးဆယ်ရှိပေသည်။-
23 ౨౩ మాకు రెండు ఎద్దులు ఇవ్వండి. వాళ్ళు వాటిలో ఒక దాన్ని కోరుకుని దాన్ని ముక్కలు చేసి, కింద నిప్పు పెట్టకుండా కట్టెల మీద ఉంచాలి. రెండవ ఎద్దును నేను సిద్ధం చేసి, కింద నిప్పు పెట్టకుండా దాన్ని కట్టెల మీద పెడతాను.
၂၃နွားလားဥသဘနှစ်ကောင်ကိုယူပြီးလျှင် တစ်ကောင်ကိုထိုသူတို့အားပေးကြလော့။ သူတို့သည်ထိုနွားကိုသတ်၍အပိုင်းပိုင်း ခုတ်ပြီးလျှင်ထင်းများအပေါ်တွင်တင်ထား ကြပါစေ။ သို့ရာတွင်မီးမညှိစေကြနှင့်။ ငါသည်အခြားနွားတစ်ကောင်ကိုထိုနည်း တူပြုမည်။-
24 ౨౪ తరువాత మీరు మీ దేవుడు పేరును బట్టి ప్రార్థన చేయండి. నేను యెహోవా పేరును బట్టి ప్రార్థన చేస్తాను. ఏ దేవుడు కట్టెలు కాల్చి జవాబిస్తాడో ఆయనే దేవుడు” అన్నాడు. ప్రజలంతా “ఆ మాట బాగుంది” అని జవాబిచ్చారు.
၂၄ထို့နောက်ဗာလပရောဖက်တို့သည်မိမိတို့ ဘုရားထံသို့ဆုတောင်းကြစေ။ ငါသည်လည်း ထာဝရဘုရားထံတော်သို့ဆုတောင်းမည်။ ငါတို့အသီးသီးပြုသည့်ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာ ကိုနားညောင်းတော်မူ၍ မီးကိုချပေးတော် မူသောအရှင်သည်ဘုရားအမှန်ဖြစ်၏'' ဟု ဆိုလေသည်။ လူအပေါင်းတို့သည် ဧလိယ၏ပြောကြား ချက်ကိုသဘောတူကြောင်းဟစ်အော်၍ ဖော်ပြကြ၏။
25 ౨౫ అప్పుడు ఏలీయా, బయలు ప్రవక్తలను పిలిచి “మీరు ఎక్కువ మంది ఉన్నారు కాబట్టి మీరే మొదట ఒక ఎద్దును సిద్ధం చేసి మీ దేవుడి పేర ప్రార్థన చేయండి. అయితే కింద నిప్పు పెట్టొద్దు” అన్నాడు.
၂၅ထိုအခါဧလိယသည် ဗာလပရောဖက်တို့ အား``သင်တို့ကအရေအတွက်အားဖြင့်များ သည်ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် နွားတစ်ကောင်ကိုဦးစွာ ယူ၍ပြင်ဆင်ကြလော့။ သင်တို့၏ဘုရားထံ သို့ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာပြုကြလော့။ ထင်းများ ကိုမူမီးမညှိကြနှင့်'' ဟုဆို၏။
26 ౨౬ వారు తమకిచ్చిన ఎద్దును తీసుకు సిద్ధం చేసి, ఉదయం నుంచి మధ్యాహ్నం వరకూ “బయలు దేవుడా, మా ప్రార్థన విను” అంటూ బయలు పేరున ప్రార్థన చేశారు గాని వారికి ఒక్క మాట కూడా జవాబిచ్చేవాడు ఎవడూ లేకపోయారు. వాళ్ళు తాము చేసిన బలిపీఠం దగ్గర చిందులు తొక్కడం మొదలు పెట్టారు.
၂၆သူတို့သည်လည်းမိမိတို့ထံသို့ယူဆောင် လာသောနွားကိုယဇ်ပူဇော်ရန်အတွက် ပြင် ဆင်ကြပြီးလျှင်ဗာလဘုရားထံသို့မွန်း တည့်ချိန်တိုင်အောင်ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာပြု ကြ၏။ သူတို့က``အို ဗာလဘုရား၊ အကျွန်ုပ် တို့၏ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာကိုနားညောင်းတော်မူ ပါ'' ဟုဟစ်အော်ကြပြီးလျှင် မိမိတို့တည် ဆောက်ထားသည့်ယဇ်ပလ္လင်၏ပတ်လည်တွင် ကလျက်နေကြ၏။ သို့ရာတွင်ဗာလဘုရား ထံမှမည်သို့မျှအဖြေမရကြ။
27 ౨౭ మధ్యాహ్నమైనప్పుడు ఏలీయా “వాడు దేవుడు గదా! పెద్దగా కేకలేయండి. వాడు ఒకవేళ పరధ్యానంలో ఉన్నాడేమో! మూత్రవిసర్జనకు వెళ్లాడేమో, ప్రయాణంలో ఉన్నాడేమో! ఒకవేళ నిద్రపోతుంటే లేపాలేమో” అని గేలి చేశాడు.
၂၇မွန်းတည့်ချိန်၌ဧလိယသည်သူတို့အား``သင် တို့သည်ပို၍အသံကျယ်စွာဆုတောင်းကြ လော့။ ဗာလကားဘုရားပေတည်း။ သူသည်ဆင် ခြင်စဉ်စားလျက်သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ တပိုတပါး သွားလျက်သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ ခရီးလွန်၍သော် လည်းကောင်းနေပေမည်။ ထိုသို့မဟုတ်လျှင်လည်း အိပ်လျက်နေကောင်းနေမည်ဖြစ်၍သူ့အား နှိုးရကြမည်'' ဟုပြက်ရယ်ပြု၍ဆို၏။-
28 ౨౮ వారింకా పెద్దగా కేకలేస్తూ రక్తం కారేంత వరకూ తమ అలవాటు ప్రకారం కత్తులతో బాణాలతో తమ దేహాలను కోసుకుంటున్నారు.
၂၈သို့ဖြစ်၍ဗာလပရောဖက်တို့သည်ပို၍အသံ ကျယ်စွာဆုတောင်းလျက် ဋ္ဌလေ့ထုံးစံရှိသည့် အတိုင်းဋ္ဌားနှင့်ဋ္ဌားမြှောင်များဖြင့်သွေးယို စီးလာသည့်တိုင်အောင်ကိုယ်ကိုရှစေကြ လေသည်။-
29 ౨౯ ఈ విధంగా మధ్యాహ్నం నుంచి సాయంత్ర బలి అర్పణ సమయం వరకూ వారు కేకలు వేశారు గానీ వాళ్ళకి ఏ జవాబూ రాలేదు. ఏ దేవుడూ వారి కేకలను పట్టించుకోలేదు.
၂၉သူတို့သည်ညနေစောင်းတိုင်အောင်ကျယ်လောင် စွာဟစ်အော်ကြသော်လည်းအဖြေမရကြ။ မည်သည့်အသံကိုလည်းမကြားရကြ။
30 ౩౦ అప్పుడు ఏలీయా “నా దగ్గరికి రండి” అని ప్రజలతో చెప్పాడు. వారంతా అతని దగ్గరికి వచ్చారు. అతడు పాడైపోయి ఉన్న యెహోవా బలిపీఠాన్ని మరమ్మతు చేశాడు.
၃၀ထို့နောက်ဧလိယကလူတို့အား``ငါ့အနီး သို့လာကြလော့'' ဟုဆိုသဖြင့် လူတို့သည် သူ၏ပတ်လည်သို့လာရောက်စုရုံးကြသော အခါ ဧလိယသည်ဖြိုချထားသည့်ထာဝရ ဘုရား၏ယဇ်ပလ္လင်ကိုပြန်၍ပြုပြင်၏။-
31 ౩౧ “నీ పేరు ఇశ్రాయేలు” అని యెహోవా వాగ్దానం పొందిన యాకోబు వంశపు గోత్రాల లెక్క ప్రకారం ఏలీయా పన్నెండు పెద్ద రాళ్లను తీసుకున్నాడు.
၃၁သူသည်ဣသရေလဟူသောနာမည်ဖြင့် ထာဝရဘုရားသမုတ်တော်မူသူ ယာကုပ်မှ ဆင်းသက်လာသောတစ်ဆယ့်နှစ်နွယ်ကိုရည် စူး၍ကျောက်ဆယ့်နှစ်လုံးကိုယူပြီးလျှင်၊-
32 ౩౨ ఆ రాళ్లతో యెహోవా పేరున ఒక బలిపీఠం కట్టించి, దాని చుట్టూ 20 లీటర్ల నీళ్ళు పట్టేంత లోతుగా కందకమొకటి తవ్వించాడు.
၃၂ထာဝရဘုရားကိုကိုးကွယ်ဝတ်ပြုရန်ယဇ် ပလ္လင်ကိုတည်လေသည်။ ထိုယဇ်ပလ္လင်၏ပတ်လည် ၌ရေလေးဂါလံခန့်ဝင်သည့်မြောင်းကိုတူး၏။-
33 ౩౩ కట్టెలను క్రమంగా పేర్చి ఎద్దును ముక్కలు చేసి ఆ కట్టెల మీద ఉంచాడు. ప్రజలు చూస్తూ ఉంటే “మీరు నాలుగు తొట్ల నిండా నీళ్లు నింపి, దహనబలి పశుమాంసం మీదా కట్టెల మీదా పోయండి” అన్నాడు.
၃၃ထို့နောက်ထင်းကိုယဇ်ပလ္လင်ပေါ်တွင်စီ၍တင် ပြီးနောက် နွားကိုအပိုင်းပိုင်းခုတ်၍ထင်းပေါ်တွင် တင်ထားလေသည်။ သူက``အိုးလေးလုံးကိုရေ အပြည့်ခပ်၍ပူဇော်သကာနှင့်ထင်းပေါ်သို့ လောင်းလော့'' ဟုဆိုသည့်အတိုင်းလူတို့ လောင်းပြီးသောအခါ၊-
34 ౩౪ తరువాత “రెండవ సారి అలాగే చేయండి” అని చెప్పాడు. వారు రెండవ సారి కూడా ఆలాగే చేశారు. “మూడవ సారి కూడా చేయండి” అన్నాడు. వారు మూడవ సారి కూడా అలా చేశారు.
၃၄ဧလိယက``တစ်ဖန်လောင်းဦးလော့'' ဟုဆို၏။ လူတို့သည်နောက်တစ်ကြိမ်လောင်းပြီးသောအခါ ဧလိယက``ထပ်မံ၍လောင်းဦးလော့'' ဟုဆို ပြန်၏။ လူတို့သည်လည်းထပ်မံ၍လောင်းကြ သဖြင့်၊-
၃၅ရေသည်ယဇ်ပလ္လင်ပတ်လည်သို့စီး၍မြောင်း သည်ရေပြည့်လေ၏။
36 ౩౬ సాయంత్ర బలి అర్పణ అర్పించే సమయానికి ఏలీయా ప్రవక్త బలిపీఠం దగ్గరికి వచ్చి “యెహోవా, అబ్రాహాము ఇస్సాకు ఇశ్రాయేలుల దేవా ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల మధ్య నీవు దేవుడవై ఉన్నావనీ నేను నీ సేవకుడనై ఉన్నాననీ నేనిదంతా నీ మాట ప్రకారమే చేశాననీ ఈ రోజు చూపించు.
၃၆ညဥ့်ဦးယံယဇ်ပူဇော်ချိန်ရောက်သောအခါ ပရောဖက်ဧလိယသည်ယဇ်ပလ္လင်အနီးသို့ ချဉ်းကပ်၍``အို အာဗြဟံ၊ ဣဇာက်၊ ယာကုပ်တို့ ၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရဘုရား၊ ကိုယ်တော် သည်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့၏ဘုရား ဖြစ်တော်မူကြောင်းကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ အကျွန်ုပ် သည်ကိုယ်တော်၏အစေခံဖြစ်၍ဤအမှု အရာအလုံးစုံကို ကိုယ်တော်၏အမိန့်တော် အရပြုကြောင်းကိုလည်းကောင်းယနေ့သိ ကြပါစေသော။-
37 ౩౭ యెహోవా, నా ప్రార్థన విను. యెహోవావైన నువ్వే దేవుడవనీ నీవు వారి హృదయాలను మళ్ళీ నీ వైపు తిప్పుతున్నావనీ ఈ ప్రజలకు తెలిసేలా నా ప్రార్థన విను” అన్నాడు.
၃၇အို ထာဝရဘုရား၊ ကိုယ်တော်ထာဝရအရှင် သည် ဘုရားအမှန်ပင်ဖြစ်တော်မူကြောင်းကို လည်းကောင်း၊ ဤသူတို့အားအထံတော်သို့ပြန် လည်ခေါ်ယူလျက်နေတော်မူကြောင်းကိုလည်း ကောင်း ဤလူတို့သိစေခြင်းငှာအကျွန်ုပ်အား ဖြေကြားတော်မူပါ။ ဖြေကြားတော်မူပါ'' ဟု ဆုတောင်းလေ၏။
38 ౩౮ అతడు ఇలా ప్రార్థన చేస్తూ ఉండగా యెహోవా అగ్ని దిగి, దహనబలి పశువునూ కట్టెలనూ రాళ్లనూ మట్టినీ కాల్చి కందకంలోని నీళ్లను ఆర్పేసింది.
၃၈ထာဝရဘုရားသည်မီးကိုချပေးတော်မူသဖြင့် ယဇ်ပူဇော်သကာနှင့်တကွထင်းနှင့်ကျောက်တုံးများ ပါကျွမ်းလောင်သွားသည့်အပြင် မြေကြီးသည်လည်း မီးကျွမ်း၍မြောင်းထဲရှိရေကိုခန်းခြောက်စေ၏။-
39 ౩౯ ప్రజలంతా దాన్ని చూసి సాష్టాంగ నమస్కారం చేసి “యెహోవాయే దేవుడు, యెహోవాయే దేవుడు” అని కేకలు వేశారు.
၃၉ဤအခြင်းအရာကိုမြင်သောအခါ လူတို့သည် မိမိတို့ကိုယ်ကိုမြေပေါ်တွင်လှဲချကာ``ထာဝရ ဘုရားသည်ဘုရားအမှန်ပင်ဖြစ်ပေသည်။ ထာဝရ ဘုရားတစ်ပါးတည်းသာလျှင်ဘုရားအမှန်ဖြစ် ပါသည်တကား'' ဟုကြွေးကြော်ကြကုန်၏။
40 ౪౦ అప్పుడు ఏలీయా “బయలు దేవుడి ప్రవక్తలందర్నీ పట్టుకోండి. ఎవర్నీ వదలొద్దు” అన్నాడు. ప్రజలు వారిని పట్టుకున్నారు. ఏలీయా కీషోను వాగు దగ్గరికి వారిని తీసికెళ్ళి చంపేశాడు.
၄၀ဧလိယက``ဗာလပရောဖက်တို့ကိုဖမ်းဆီးကြ လော့။ တစ်ယောက်မျှထွက်မပြေးစေကြနှင့်'' ဟု အမိန့်ပေး၏။ လူတို့သည်ပရောဖက်အားလုံးကို ဖမ်းဆီး၍ပေးသဖြင့် ဧလိယသည်သူတို့အား ကိရှုန်ချောင်းသို့ထုတ်သွားပြီးလျှင်ကွပ်မျက် လေ၏။
41 ౪౧ ఏలీయా “పెద్ద వాన కురుస్తున్న శబ్దం వస్తున్నది. నీవు వెళ్లి భోజనం చెయ్యి” అని అహాబుతో చెప్పాడు.
၄၁ထို့နောက်ဧလိယသည် အာဟပ်မင်းအား``ယခု သင်သွား၍အစားအစာကိုစားသောက်ပါလော့။ မိုးလာနေသည့်အသံကိုငါကြား၏'' ဟုဆို သဖြင့်၊-
42 ౪౨ అహాబు భోజనం చేయడానికి వెళ్ళాడు గాని, ఏలీయా కర్మెలు పర్వతం ఎక్కి నేలమీద పడి ముఖం మోకాళ్ల మధ్య పెట్టుకున్నాడు.
၄၂အာဟပ်သည်စားသောက်ရန်ထွက်ခွာသွားစဉ် ဧလိယသည်ကရမေလတောင်ထိပ်သို့တက် ပြီးလျှင် မိမိ၏ဒူးနှစ်ခုအကြားတွင်မြေ သို့တိုင်အောင်ဦးညွှတ်ပျပ်ဝပ်လျက်၊-
43 ౪౩ తరువాత అతడు తన సేవకుణ్ణి పిలిచి “నీవు పైకి వెళ్లి సముద్రం వైపు చూడు” అన్నాడు. వాడు మెరక ఎక్కి చూసి “ఏమీ కనబడ్డం లేదు” అన్నాడు. అతడు ఇంకా ఏడు సార్లు “వెళ్లి చూడు” అన్నాడు.
၄၃မိမိ၏အစေခံအား``သင်သွား၍ပင်လယ်သို့ မျှော်ကြည့်လော့'' ဟုဆို၏။ အစေခံသည်သွား၍ကြည့်ရာမှပြန်လာပြီး နောက်``အဘယ်အရာကိုမျှကျွန်တော်မမြင် ပါ'' ဟုပြော၏။ ဧလိယသည်မိမိ၏အစေခံ အား ဤနည်းအတိုင်းခုနစ်ကြိမ်တိုင်တိုင်သွား ၍ကြည့်စေ၏။-
44 ౪౪ ఏడో సారి అతడు చూసి “అదిగో మనిషి చెయ్యంత చిన్న మేఘం, సముద్రం నుంచి పైకి లేస్తూ ఉంది” అన్నాడు. అప్పుడు ఏలీయా “నీవు అహాబు దగ్గరికి వెళ్లి, నీ రథాన్ని సిద్ధ పరచుకో, వానలో చిక్కుకుపోక ముందే వెళ్ళిపో” అని చెప్పమని అతన్ని పంపాడు.
၄၄သတ္တမအကြိမ်၌အစေခံသည်ယင်းသို့သွား ၍ကြည့်ရာမှပြန်လာကာ``လူ၏လက်သဖွယ် သေးငယ်သောမိုးတိမ်ကိုကျွန်တော်မြင်ပါသည်'' ဟုလျှောက်၏။ ဧလိယကမိမိ၏အစေခံအား``သင်သည် အာဟပ်မင်းထံသို့သွားပြီးလျှင်မိုးမဆီး တားမီရထားပေါ်သို့တက်၍ နန်းတော်သို့ ပြန်တော်မူရန်လျှောက်ထားလော့'' ဟုအမိန့် ပေး၏။
45 ౪౫ అంతలోనే ఆకాశం కారుమేఘాలు కమ్మింది. దానికి గాలి తోడైంది. వాన జోరుగా కురిసింది. అహాబు రథమెక్కి యెజ్రెయేలు పట్టణం వెళ్లిపోయాడు.
၄၅အချိန်အနည်းငယ်အတွင်း၌ပင်ကောင်းကင် ပြင်တွင် တိမ်မည်းများအုပ်ဆိုင်းလာပြီးလျှင် လေတိုက်လျက်မိုးသည်းထန်စွာရွာသွန်းလေ၏။ အာဟပ်သည်လည်းရထားပေါ်သို့တက်၍ ယေဇရေလမြို့သို့ထွက်ခွာသွား၏။-
46 ౪౬ అయితే యెహోవా హస్తం ఏలీయా మీద ఉంది. అతడు నడుం బిగించుకుని అహాబు కంటే ముందే పరుగెత్తి యెజ్రెయేలు చేరుకున్నాడు.
၄၆ထာဝရဘုရား၏တန်ခိုးတော်သည်ဧလိယ အပေါ်သို့သက်ရောက်သဖြင့် သူသည်မိမိ၏ ဝတ်လုံကိုခါးတွင်စည်း၍ယေဇရေလမြို့ သို့ရောက်သည့်တိုင်အောင်အာဟပ်၏ရှေ့က ပြေးလေ၏။
