సమూయేలు~ మొదటి~ గ్రంథము 9
1 ౧ బెన్యామీను గోత్రానికి చెందిన కీషు అనే ధనవంతుడు ఉండేవాడు. కీషు తండ్రి అబీయేలు. అబీయేలు తండ్రి సేరోరు. సేరోరు తండ్రి బెకోరతు. బెకోరతు తండ్రి అఫీయా.
၁ဗင်္ယာမိန်အနွယ်ဝင်လူတစ်ယောက်ရှိ၏။ သူ၏ နာမည်မှာကိရှဖြစ်၏။ သူ့အဖသည်အဗျေလ၊ အဖိုးကားဇေရော်ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည်အာဖိသား ချင်းစုဝင်ဖြစ်သောဗေခေါရတ်အိမ်ထောင်စု မှဆင်းသက်လာသူတည်း။ ကိရှသည်ချမ်းသာ ကြွယ်ဝ၍သြဇာတိက္ကမရှိသူတစ်ယောက် ဖြစ်ပေသည်။-
2 ౨ కీషుకు సౌలు అనే ఒక కొడుకు ఉన్నాడు. అతడు చాలా అందమైన యువకుడు. ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల్లో అతణ్ణి మించిన అందగాడు లేడు. అతడు భుజాలపై నుండి ఇతరుల కంటే ఎత్తయినవాడు.
၂သူ့မှာရှောလုနာမည်တွင်သောသားတစ် ယောက်ရှိ၏။ ထိုသားသည်ပျိုရွယ်၍အဆင်း လှ၏။ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားရှိသမျှ တို့ထက်အရပ်တစ်ပေမျှပို၍မြင့်၏။ အဆင်းလည်းပို၍လှ၏။
3 ౩ సౌలు తండ్రి కీషుకు చెందిన గాడిదలు తప్పిపోయినపుడు కీషు తన కొడుకు సౌలును పిలిచి “మన పనివాళ్ళలో ఒకణ్ణి వెంటబెట్టుకుని వెళ్ళి గాడిదలను వెదుకు” అని చెప్పాడు.
၃ကိရှသည်မိမိ၏မြည်းအချို့ပျောက်သွား သဖြင့် ရှောလုအား``အစေခံတစ်ယောက်ကို ခေါ်ပြီးလျှင်မြည်းတို့ကိုလိုက်ရှာပါလော့'' ဟုဆို၏။-
4 ౪ అతడు వెళ్ళి ఎఫ్రాయిము కొండలన్నీ తిరిగి షాలిషా దేశంలో వెతికినా అవి కనబడలేదు. తరువాత వారు షయలీము దేశం దాటి తిరిగినప్పటికీ అవి కనబడలేదు. బెన్యామీనీయుల దేశంలో వెతికినప్పటికీ అవి కనబడలేదు.
၄သူတို့နှစ်ယောက်သည်ဧဖရိမ်တောင်ပိုင်း အရပ်နှင့် ရှလိရှဒေသတစ်လျှောက်တွင် ရှာဖွေကြသော်လည်းမြည်းများကိုမတွေ့ ကြ။ သို့ဖြစ်၍သူတို့သည်ရှာလိမ်ဒေသ တစ်လျှောက်တွင်ရှာကြ၏။ သို့ရာတွင်မြည်း တို့သည်ထိုအရပ်တွင်မရှိ။ ထိုနောက်သူ တို့သည်ဗင်္ယာမိန်နယ်တွင်လိုက်၍ရှာကြ၏။ ဤအရပ်တွင်လည်းမြည်းတို့ကိုမတွေ့ ကြ။-
5 ౫ అప్పుడు వారు సూపు దేశానికి వచ్చినప్పుడు “మనం వెనక్కు వెళ్ళిపోదాం, గాడిదలను గూర్చి బాధపడ వద్దు. మా నాన్న మనకోసం ఎదురు చూస్తుంటాడు” అని సౌలు తనతో ఉన్న పనివాడితో అన్నప్పుడు,
၅သူတို့သည်ဇုဖဒေသသို့ရောက်ရှိကြ သောအခါ ရှောလုကသူ၏အစေခံ အား``ငါတို့အိမ်သို့ပြန်ကြစို့။ သို့မဟုတ် ပါမူငါ၏အဖသည်မြည်းတို့အတွက် စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်မည့်အစားငါတို့အတွက် စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်လိမ့်မည်'' ဟုဆို၏။
6 ౬ వాడు “ఈ ఊర్లో దేవుని మనిషి ఒకడు ఉన్నాడు, అతడు చాలా గొప్పవాడు, అతడు ఏది చెపితే అది జరుగుతుంది. మనం ఎటు వెళ్ళాలో ఆ దారి అతడు మనకు చెబుతాడేమో, అతని దగ్గరకి వెళ్ళి అడుగుదాం రండి” అని చెప్పాడు.
၆အစေခံက``ဆိုင်းငံ့ပါဦး။ ဤမြို့တွင်သူတော် စင်တစ်ဦးရှိပါ၏။ သူပြောသမျှစကားတို့ သည်အမှန်ပင်ဖြစ်ပျက်လာသဖြင့် သူ့အား လူတို့ရိုသေလေးစားကြပါ၏။ အကျွန်ုပ်တို့ သူ့ထံကိုသွားကြပါစို့။ မြည်းများအား အဘယ်အရပ်တွင်ရှာရမည်ကိုသူသည် အကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားဖော်ပြကောင်းဖော်ပြနိုင် ပါလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုဆို၏။
7 ౭ అప్పుడు సౌలు “మనం వెళ్లేటప్పుడు అతనికి ఏమి తీసుకు వెళ్ళాలి? మన దగ్గర ఉన్న భోజన పదార్దాలు అన్నీ అయిపోయాయి. ఆ దేవుని మనిషికి బహుమానంగా ఇవ్వడానికి మన దగ్గర ఏమీ లేదు కదా! మన దగ్గర ఏం ఉన్నాయి?” అని తన పనివాణ్ణి అడిగాడు.
၇ရှောလုက``ထိုသူထံကိုသွားလျှင်ငါတို့ အဘယ်အရာကိုပေးလှူရပါမည်နည်း။ ငါ တို့တွင်ပါသမျှသောအစားအစာလည်း ကုန်ချေပြီ။ ငါတို့မှာသူ့အားပေးစရာ ဘာမျှမရှိ'' ဟုဆို၏။
8 ౮ వాడు సౌలుతో “అయ్యా, వినండి. నా దగ్గర పావు తులం వెండి ఉంది, మనకు దారి చెప్పినందుకు దాన్ని ఆ దైవజనునికి ఇస్తాను” అన్నాడు.
၈အစေခံက``အကျွန်ုပ်မှာငွေတစ်မတ်သာရှိ ပါသည်။ ထိုငွေကိုသူ့အားပေးနိုင်ပါသည်။ ထို အခါသူသည်မြည်းများအဘယ်အရပ်တွင် ရှိသည်ကို အကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားပြောပြပါလိမ့် မည်'' ဟုပြန်ပြော၏။
9 ౯ ఇప్పుడు ప్రవక్తగా ఉన్నవాడిని గతంలో దీర్ఘదర్శి అని పిలిచేవాడు. ఇదివరకూ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు ఎవరైనా దేవుని నుండి ఏదైనా విషయం తెలుసుకోవాలని ఆశించి వెళ్లే సమయంలో “మనం దీర్ఘదర్శి దగ్గరకి వెళ్దాం పదండి” అని చెప్పుకోవడం పరిపాటి.
၉ရှောလုကလည်း``ကောင်းပြီ။ ငါတို့သွားကြစို့'' ဟုဆို၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍သူတို့သည်သူတော်စင်နေ ထိုင်ရာမြို့သို့သွားကြ၏။ မြို့တည်ရာတောင်ကုန်း ကိုတက်၍သွားကြစဉ် သူတို့သည်လမ်းတွင်ရေ ခပ်ရန်လာသောအမျိုးသမီးကလေးအချို့နှင့် တွေ့သဖြင့်``ထိုမြို့ထဲ၌ရှေ့ဖြစ်ကိုဟောနိုင်သူ ရှိပါ၏လော'' ဟုမေးမြန်းစုံစမ်းကြ၏။ (ထိုခေတ်အခါကပရောဖက်အားရှေးဖြစ်ကို ဟောနိုင်သူဟုခေါ်ဝေါ်ကြ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍လူ တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်သည်ထာဝရဘုရားထံ လျှောက်ထားမေးမြန်းလိုသောအခါ``ရှေ့ဖြစ် ကိုဟောနိုင်သူထံသို့ငါတို့သွားကြကုန် အံ့'' ဟုဆိုလေ့ရှိသတည်း။)
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11 ౧౧ వారు దైవజనుడు ఉండే ఊరికి బయలుదేరారు. ఊరిలోకి వెళ్తుండగా నీళ్లు తోడుకోవడానికి వచ్చిన యువతులు వారికి ఎదురుపడినప్పుడు “ఇక్కడ దీర్ఘదర్శి ఉన్నాడా?” అని అడిగారు.
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12 ౧౨ అందుకు వారు “ఇదిగో అతడు ఈ దగ్గరలోనే ఉన్నాడు. తొందరగా వెళ్ళి కలుసుకోండి. ఈ రోజే అతడు ఊర్లోకి వచ్చాడు. ఈ రోజే ఉన్నత స్థలం లో ప్రజల పక్షంగా బలి అర్పిస్తాడు.
၁၂အမျိုးသမီးကလေးများကလည်း``ရှိပါ သည်။ အမှန်မှာသူသည်သင်တို့မလာမီ ကလေးကမှရောက်ရှိလာပါသည်။ သင်တို့ မြန်မြန်သွားလျှင်သူ့ကိုမီပါလိမ့်မည်။ သင် တို့မြို့ထဲကိုဝင်လျှင်ဝင်ချင်းသူ့အားတွေ့ ရှိပါလိမ့်မည်။ လူတို့သည်တောင်ကုန်းပေါ် ရှိယဇ်ပလ္လင်တွင်ပူဇော်သကာဆက်သကြ မည်ဖြစ်၍ ထိုသူသည်မြို့သို့ယနေ့ရောက် ရှိလာခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ သူမရောက်မချင်း ဖိတ်ခေါ်ထားသောသူတို့သည်စားသောက်ကြ လိမ့်မည်မဟုတ်ပါ။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော် သူသည်ယဇ်ကောင်ကိုဦးစွာကောင်းချီးပေး ရမည်ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်ဖြစ်ပါ၏။ ထိုကြောင့် သင်တို့သည်မြို့ထဲသို့ဝင်လျှင်ဝင်ချင်း ထိုသူတောင်ထိပ်သို့စားသောက်ရန်မတက် မီသူ့အားတွေ့ရကြပါလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုဆို၏။-
13 ౧౩ మీరు ఊర్లోకి వెళ్ళగానే అతడు భోజనం చేయడానికి కొండ ప్రాంతానికి వెళ్లక ముందే మీరు అతణ్ణి కలుసుకోవచ్చు. అతడు వచ్చేంత వరకూ ప్రజలు భోజనం చేయరు, అతడు బలిని ఆశీర్వదించిన తరువాతే పిలిచిన వారు భోజనం చేస్తారు. మీరు త్వరగా వెళ్ళండి, అతణ్ణి కలుసుకోడానికి ఇదే సరైన సమయం.” అని చెప్పారు.
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၁၄သို့ဖြစ်၍ရှောလုနှင့်အစေခံတို့သည်မြို့ သို့သွားကြ၏။ သူတို့သည်မြို့ထဲသို့ဝင်မည် အပြုတွင် ဝတ်ပြုကိုးကွယ်ရာဌာနသို့ထွက် ခွာ၍လာနေသောရှမွေလကိုတွေ့ကြ၏။
၁၅ရှောလုရောက်မလာမီတစ်နေ့၌ရှမွေလ အား ထာဝရဘုရားက၊-
16 ౧౬ ఎందుకంటే “నా ప్రజల విన్నపం నాకు చేరింది. నేను వారిని పట్టించుకొంటున్నాను. కాబట్టి ఫిలిష్తీయుల చేతిలోనుండి నా ప్రజలను విడిపించడానికి నా ప్రజలైన ఇశ్రాయేలీయులపై అతణ్ణి రాజుగా అభిషేకించడానికి రేపు ఇదే సమయానికి నేను బెన్యామీను దేశంలో నుండి ఒక వ్యక్తిని నీ దగ్గరికి రప్పిస్తాను.”
၁၆``နက်ဖြန်ဤအချိန်လောက်၌ဗင်္ယာမိန်အနွယ် ဝင်လူတစ်ယောက်ကို သင့်ထံသို့ငါစေလွှတ် လိုက်မည်။ သူ့အားဣသရေလအမျိုးသား တို့၏ဘုရင်အဖြစ်ဘိသိက်ပေးလော့။ သူသည် ငါ၏လူမျိုးတော်ကိုဖိလိတ္တိအမျိုးသား တို့၏ဘေးမှကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်လိမ့်မည်။ ငါသည်မိမိလူမျိုးတော်၏ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခကို မြင်ရပြီ။ သူတို့ဟစ်အော်၍အကူအညီ တောင်းခံသံများကိုလည်းကြားရပြီ'' ဟု မိန့်တော်မူ၏။
17 ౧౭ సౌలు సమూయేలుకు కనబడినప్పుడు, యెహోవా “ఇతడే నేను నీతో చెప్పిన వ్యక్తి. ఇతడే నా ప్రజలను పరిపాలిస్తాడు” అని అతనితో చెప్పాడు.
၁၇ရှောလုကိုရှမွေလတွေ့မြင်ချိန်၌ထာဝရ ဘုရားက``သင့်အားငါဖော်ပြခဲ့သောသူ ကားဤသူပင်ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည်ငါ၏လူမျိုး တော်ကိုအုပ်စိုးရလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။-
18 ౧౮ సౌలు పురద్వారంలో సమూయేలును కలుసుకుని “దీర్ఘదర్శి ఉండేది ఎక్కడ? దయచేసి నాకు చూపించండి” అని అడిగినప్పుడు,
၁၈ထိုနောက်ရှောလုသည်မြို့တံခါးအနီးရှိ ရှမွေလထံသို့ချဉ်းကပ်၍``ရှေ့ဖြစ်ကိုဟော နိုင်သူသည်အဘယ်အရပ်မှာနေပါသနည်း။ အကျွန်ုပ်အားပြောပြပါလော့'' ဟုတောင်း ပန်၏။
19 ౧౯ సమూయేలు సౌలును చూసి “నేనే దీర్ఘదర్శిని. కొండ ప్రాంతానికి వెళ్ళండి, ఈరోజు మీరు నాతో కలసి భోజనం చెయ్యాలి. రేపు నీ సందేహం తీర్చి నేను నిన్ను పంపిస్తాను.
၁၉ရှမွေလက``ရှေ့ဖြစ်ကိုဟောနိုင်သူသည် ငါ ပင်ဖြစ်၏။ ဝတ်ပြုကိုးကွယ်ရာဌာနတော် သို့ငါ၏ရှေ့မှသွားလော့။ သင်တို့နှစ်ယောက် စလုံး ယနေ့ငါနှင့်အတူစားသောက်ရကြ မည်။ နက်ဖြန်နံနက်၌ငါသည်သင်တို့၏မေး ခွန်းရှိသမျှကိုဖြေကြားပြီးနောက် သင် တို့အားအိမ်သို့ပြန်စေမည်။-
20 ౨౦ మూడు రోజుల క్రితం తప్పిపోయిన నీ గాడిదలను గూర్చి విచారించవద్దు, అవి దొరికాయి. ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల ఇష్టం ఎవరి పైన ఉంది? నీపైనా, నీ తండ్రి సంతానం పైనే కదా” అన్నాడు.
၂၀လွန်ခဲ့သောသုံးရက်ကပျောက်ဆုံးခဲ့သည့် မြည်းများအတွက် ကိုမူမစိုးရိမ်နှင့်။ ယင်း တို့ကိုပြန်၍တွေ့ရှိပြီးဖြစ်၏။ သို့ရာတွင် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့ လွန်စွာလိုလား တောင့်တနေသူကားအဘယ်သူနည်း။ သင် နှင့်သင့်အဖ၏အိမ်ထောင်စုပင်မဟုတ် လော'' ဟုပြန်ပြော၏။
21 ౨౧ అప్పుడు సౌలు “నేను బెన్యామీను గోత్రానికి చెందినవాణ్ణి కదా. నా గోత్రం ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల గోత్రాల్లో అల్పమైనది కదా. నా కుటుంబం బెన్యామీను గోత్రపు వారందరిలో అల్పులు కదా? నాతో ఈ విధంగా ఎందుకు మాట్లాడుతున్నావు?” అన్నాడు.
၂၁ရှောလုက``အကျွန်ုပ်သည် ဗင်္ယာမိန်အနွယ်ဝင် ဖြစ်ပါ၏။ ထိုသားချင်းစုသည်ဣသရေလ အမျိုးတွင်အသေးငယ်ဆုံးဖြစ်ပါ၏။ အ ကျွန်ုပ်၏အိမ်ထောင်စုသည်လည်း ထိုသားချင်း စုတွင်အသိမ်ငယ်ဆုံးဖြစ်ပါ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ အရှင်သည်အဘယ်ကြောင့်အကျွန်ုပ်အား ဤသို့မိန့်တော်မူပါသနည်း'' ဟုလျှောက်၏။
22 ౨౨ అయితే సమూయేలు సౌలును, అతని పనివాణ్ణి భోజనపు గదిలోకి వెంటబెట్టుకుని వెళ్ళి తాను పిలిచిన ముప్ఫై మంది ఉన్న మొదటి వరుసలో వారిని కూర్చోబెట్టి
၂၂ထိုနောက်ရှမွေလသည် ရှောလုနှင့်သူ၏ အစေခံကိုဧည့်ခန်းသို့ခေါ်သွားပြီးလျှင် ဧည့်သည်စုစုပေါင်းသုံးဆယ်ထိုင်လျက်နေ သောစားပွဲထိပ်တွင်နေရာချထားပေး၏။-
၂၃ရှမွေလကစားတော်ကဲအား``သင့်အားသီး သန့်ထားရှိရန် ငါမှာကြားထားသည့်အမဲ သားတုံးကိုယူခဲ့လော့'' ဟုဆို၏။-
24 ౨౪ అ వంటవాడు తొడ ఎముకను, దానిపైన ఉన్న మాంసాన్ని తీసుకువచ్చి సౌలుకు వడ్డించాడు. సమూయేలు సౌలుతో ఇలా అన్నాడు. “చూడు, మనం కలుసుకొనే సమయం కోసం దాచిపెట్టిన దాన్ని నీకు వడ్డించాను. పిలిచిన వాళ్ళు వచ్చినప్పటినుంచి దీన్ని ఈ సందర్భానికి నీ కోసం ఉంచాలని నేను వంటవాడితో చెప్పాను” అన్నాడు. ఆ రోజు సౌలు సమూయేలుతో కలసి భోజనం చేశాడు.
၂၄သို့ဖြစ်၍စားတော်ကဲသည်လက်ရွေးစင်ပေါင် တစ်ပေါင်ကိုယူလာပြီးလျှင် ရှောလု၏ရှေ့တွင် ချထားလေ၏။ ရှမွေလက``ဤအရာကား သင်၏အတွက်သီးသန့်ဖယ်ထားသောအသား ဖြစ်၏။ ယူ၍စားလော့။ ငါဖိတ်ခေါ်ထားသူတို့ နှင့်အတူယခုအချိန်၌သင်စားရန်ဤ အသားကိုငါဖယ်ထားခဲ့၏'' ဟုဆို၏။ ထို့ကြောင့်ရှောလုသည် ထိုနေ့၌ရှမွေလနှင့် အတူစားသောက်လေ၏။-
၂၅သူတို့သည်ဝတ်ပြုကိုးကွယ်ရာဌာနမှမြို့ သို့ပြန်၍ဆင်းသွားကြသောအခါ ရှောလု အတွက်အိမ်ခေါင်မိုးပေါ်တွင် အိပ်ရာတစ်ခုကိုခင်းပေးကြ၏။-
26 ౨౬ తరువాతి రోజు తెల్లవారుజామున సమూయేలు “నేను నీకు వీడ్కోలు చెప్పడానికి మిద్దెమీదికి రా” అని సౌలును పిలవగా సౌలు లేచాడు. తరువాత వారిద్దరూ బయలుదేరి
၂၆ရှောလုသည်လည်းအိပ်ရာတွင်အိပ်လေ၏။ အရုဏ်တက်ချိန်၌ရှမွေလသည်အိမ်ခေါင်မိုးထက် တွင်ရှိသောရှောလုအား``ထလော့။ သင်အိမ်ပြန်ရန် ခရီးလမ်းသို့ငါပို့ဆောင်ပေးအံ့'' ဟုအော်၍ပြော သောအခါရှောလုသည်အိပ်ရာမှထလေ၏။ ထို နောက်သူနှင့်ရှမွေလတို့သည်အတူတကွထွက် သွားကြ၏။-
27 ౨౭ ఊరి చివరకూ వస్తుండగా సమూయేలు సౌలుతో “నీ పనివాణ్ణి మనకంటే ముందుగా వెళ్ళమని చెప్పు. దేవుడు నీతో చెప్పమన్నది నేను నీకు తెలియజేసేవరకూ నువ్వు ఇక్కడే ఆగిపో” అని చెప్పగా సౌలు పనివాణ్ణి ముందుగా పంపివేశాడు.
၂၇သူတို့သည်မြို့စွန်မြို့ဖျားသို့ရောက်သောအခါ ရှမွေလသည်ရှောလုအား``သင်၏အစေခံကိုငါ တို့ရှေ့ကသွားနှင့်ရန်ပြောကြားလော့'' ဟုဆို၏။ အစေခံသည်လည်းသွားနှင့်၏။ ထိုအခါရှမွေလ က``ဤတွင်ခေတ္တရပ်နားလော့။ ထာဝရဘုရား၏ အမိန့်တော်ကိုသင့်အားငါဖော်ပြပေအံ့'' ဟု ဆို၏။
