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1 ౧ రాజు తన మనస్సు అబ్షాలోము పైనే పెట్టుకుని ఉన్నాడని సెరూయా కుమారుడు యోవాబు గ్రహించాడు.
၁ဇေရုယာ၏သားယွာဘသည် အဗရှလုံကို ဒါဝိဒ်မင်းလွန်စွာလွမ်းဆွတ်တသလျက်နေ ကြောင်းသိ၏။-
2 ౨ తెకోవ పట్టణం నుండి ఒక తెలివిగల స్త్రీని పిలిపించాడు. ఆమెతో “చాలాకాలం నుండి ఏడుస్తూ ఉన్నట్టు నటించు, విలాప దుస్తులు వేసుకో. నూనె రాసుకోకుండా ఎంతోకాలంగా విచారంగా ఉన్నట్టు నటిస్తూ
၂ထို့ကြောင့်သူသည်တေကောမြို့နေအသိ အလိမ္မာရှိသူအမျိုးသမီးတစ်ယောက်ကို အခေါ်ခိုင်းပြီးလျှင် ထိုအမျိုးသမီးအား``သင် သည်ငိုကြွေးမြည်တမ်းဟန်ပြုလော့။ ဝမ်းနည်း ပူဆွေးသည့်အနေဖြင့်ဝတ်စား၍ခေါင်းမဖီး ဘဲ ကာလကြာမြင့်စွာငိုကြွေးမြည်တမ်းနေ သူအမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးကဲ့သို့ပြုမူလော့။-
3 ౩ నీవు రాజు దగ్గరికి వెళ్ళి నేను చెప్పిన విధంగా రాజును వేడుకో” అని చెప్పాడు.
၃ထိုနောက်ဘုရင်၏ထံတော်သို့သွား၍ငါပြော သည့်အတိုင်းလျှောက်ထားလော့'' ဟုဆိုပြီး နောက်မင်းကြီးအားမည်သို့လျှောက်ထားရ မည်ကိုသင်ကြားပေး၏။
4 ౪ అప్పుడు ఆ తెకోవ స్త్రీ రాజు దగ్గరికి వచ్చింది. రాజుకు సాగిలపడి సమస్కారం చేసి “రాజా, నన్ను కాపాడు” అంది.
၄ထိုအမျိုးသမီးသည်ဘုရင့်ထံသို့သွား၍ ပျပ်ဝပ်ရှိခိုးလျက်``အရှင်မင်းကြီးကျွန်တော် မအားကယ်တော်မူပါ'' ဟုလျှောက်၏။
5 ౫ రాజు “నీకేం ఇబ్బంది కలిగింది?” అని అడిగాడు. ఆమె “నా భర్త చనిపోయాడు. విధవరాలిని.
၅မင်းကြီးက``သင်သည်အဘယ်အရာကို အလိုရှိသနည်း'' ဟုမေးတော်မူလျှင်၊ အမျိုးသမီးက``ကျွန်တော်မသည်ဆင်းရဲ သူမုဆိုးမဖြစ်ပါ၏။ ကျွန်တော်မ၏ခင်ပွန်း သည်သေပါပြီ။-
6 ౬ నీ దాసిని, నాకు ఇద్దరు కొడుకులు ఉన్నారు. వారు పొలంలో వాదులాడుకుని కొట్టుకున్నారు. వారిని విడదీసేవారు ఎవ్వరూ లేకపోవడంతో వారిలో ఒకడు రెండవవాణ్ణి కొట్టి చంపాడు.
၆ကျွန်တော်မတွင်သားနှစ်ယောက် ရှိပါ၏။ တစ်နေ့ သောအခါသူတို့သည်ဖျန်ဖြေပေးမည့်သူတစ် ဦးတစ်ယောက်မျှမရှိသည့်လယ်ကွင်းထဲ၌ရန် ဖြစ်ကြသဖြင့် တစ်ယောက်ကအခြားတစ် ယောက်ကိုသတ်ဖြတ်လိုက်ပါ၏။-
7 ౭ నా రక్త సంబంధులందరూ నీ దాసిని నామీదికి వచ్చి, ‘తన సోదరుణ్ణి చంపినవాణ్ణి అప్పగించు. వాడు తన సోదరుని ప్రాణం తీసినందుకు మేము వాణ్ణి చంపి వాడికి హక్కు లేకుండా చేస్తాము’ అంటున్నారు. ఈ విధంగా వారు నా భర్త పేరట భూమిపై ఉన్న హక్కును, కుటుంబ వారసత్వాన్ని లేకుండా చేయబోతున్నారు” అని రాజుతో చెప్పింది.
၇သို့ဖြစ်၍အရှင်၊ ယခုအခါကျွန်တော်မ၏ ဆွေမျိုးတို့သည်ကျွန်တော်မအားရန်ဘက်ပြု ကာ ကျွန်တော်မ၏သားငယ်ကိုသူ၏အစ်ကို အားသတ်သည့်အတွက်သေစားသေစေရန် အပ်ရမည်ဟုတောင်းဆိုနေကြပါ၏။ ဤ အတိုင်းသာထိုသူတို့ပြုကြပါမူကျွန် တော်မ၏နောက်ဆုံးမျှော်လင့်အားထားရာ သားတစ်ယောက်မျှကျန်ရှိတော့မည်မဟုတ် ပါ။ ကျွန်တော်မခင်ပွန်း၏မျိုးဆက်သည် လည်းပြတ်သွားပါလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုလျှောက် လေ၏။
8 ౮ అప్పుడు రాజు “నువ్వు నీ ఇంటికి వెళ్ళు. నీ గురించి ఆజ్ఞ జారీ చేస్తాను” అని చెప్పాడు.
၈မင်းကြီးက``ဤအမှုကိုငါဆောင်ရွက်ပေး မည်။ သင်အိမ်သို့ပြန်လော့'' ဟုဆိုလျှင်၊
9 ౯ అప్పుడు ఆ తెకోవ స్త్రీ “నా యజమానివైన రాజా, ఈ విషయంలో రాజుకు, రాజు సింహాసనానికి ఎలాంటి దోషం తగలకూడదు, అది నామీదా, నా కుటుంబం మీదా ఉండుగాక” అని రాజుతో అన్నది. అప్పుడు
၉အမျိုးသမီးက``အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ အရှင် အဘယ်သို့ပင်ပြုသည်မဆိုကျွန်တော်မ နှင့်မိသားစုတို့အပေါ်အပြစ်ရောက်ပါ စေသော။ အရှင်နှင့်အရှင့်ဆွေတော်မျိုးတော် တို့သည်အပြစ်ကင်းကြပါစေသော'' ဟု လျှောက်၏။
10 ౧౦ రాజు “ఎవడైనా ఈ విషయంలో నీకేమైనా ఇబ్బంది కలిగిస్తే వాణ్ణి నా దగ్గరికి తీసుకురా. ఇక వాడు నీకు అడ్డు రాడు” అని ఆమెతో చెప్పాడు.
၁၀မင်းကြီးက``အကယ်၍သင့်အားခြိမ်းခြောက် သူရှိလျှင်သူ့အားငါ့ထံသို့ခေါ်ခဲ့လော့။ သူ သည်သင့်ကိုနောက်တစ်ဖန်မနှောင့်ယှက်ရ'' ဟု ဆို၏။
11 ౧౧ అప్పుడు ఆమె “హత్యకు ప్రతిగా హత్య చేసేవాడు నా కుమారుడికి ఏ హానీ తలపెట్టకుండా ఉండేలా రాజవైన నువ్వు నీ దేవుడైన యెహోవాను ప్రార్థించు” అని మనవి చేసింది. అప్పుడు రాజు “యెహోవా మీద ఒట్టు, నీ కొడుకు తలవెంట్రుకల్లో ఒక్కటి కూడా నేలపై పడదు” అని చెప్పాడు.
၁၁အမျိုးသမီးကလည်း``အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ ကျွန် တော်မ၏သားကြီးအတွက်လက်စားချေရန် ကြံစည်နေကြသောဆွေမျိုးတို့သည် ကျွန်တော် မ၏သားငယ်ကိုသတ်ခြင်းအားဖြင့် ပိုမိုကြီး လေးသည့်ရာဇဝတ်မှုကိုမပြုကြစေရန် အရှင်၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရဘုရားအား ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာပြုတော်မူပါ'' ဟုလျှောက်၏။ ထိုအခါဒါဝိဒ်က``သင်၏သားငယ်သည်စိုး စဉ်းမျှဘေးဥပဒ်မဖြစ်စေရန် အသက်ရှင် တော်မူသောထာဝရဘုရားကိုတိုင်တည်၍ ငါကတိပြု၏'' ဟုဆို၏။
12 ౧౨ అప్పుడు ఆ స్త్రీ “నా యజమానివైన నీతో ఇంకొక మాట చెప్పుకోడానికి నీ దాసిని, నాకు దయచేసి అనుమతి ఇవ్వండి” అంది. రాజు “ఏమిటో చెప్పు” అన్నప్పుడు.
၁၂အမျိုးသမီးက``အရှင်မင်းကြီးကျွန်တော် မအားစကားတစ်ခွန်းထပ်မံလျှောက်ထား ခွင့်ပြုတော်မူပါ'' ဟုတောင်းပန်သောအခါ၊ မင်းကြီးက``လျှောက်လော့'' ဟုဆို၏။
13 ౧౩ ఆ స్త్రీ “రాజు తాను చెప్పిన మాట ప్రకారం తన సొంతమనిషినే తిరిగి రానివ్వకుండా దోషం చేసిన వాడవుతున్నాడు. దేవుని ప్రజలైన వారికి వ్యతిరేకంగా నువ్వు ఎందుకు ఇలా చేస్తున్నావు?
၁၃အမျိုးသမီးက``အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ အရှင်သည် ဘုရားသခင်၏လူမျိုးတော်အား အဘယ် ကြောင့်မတရားပြုတော်မူပါသနည်း။ ပြည် နှင်ဒဏ်သင့်သူသားတော်ကိုပြန်လာခွင့်ပေး တော်မမူသဖြင့် အရှင်သည်ယခုပင်မိန့်ကြား တော်မူခဲ့သည့်စကားအရ မိမိကိုယ်ကို ပြန်၍အပြစ်ဒဏ်သင့်စေတော်မူပါပြီ။-
14 ౧౪ మనమంతా చనిపోతాం, మనం నేలపై ఒలికిపోయి తిరిగి ఎత్తలేని నీళ్లలాగా ఉన్నాం. దేవుడు ప్రాణాలు తీయడు. వెళ్ళగొట్టిన వారు తనకు దూరంగా కాకుండా ఉండేలా ఆయన మార్గం చూపుతాడు.
၁၄ကျွန်တော်မတို့အားလုံးပင်သေရကြမည့် သူများဖြစ်ပါ၏။ ကျွန်တော်မတို့သည်မြေ ပေါ်သို့ဖိတ်ကျသွားသောရေနှင့်တူပါ၏။ ယင်းရေကိုနောက်တစ်ဖန်ကျုံး၍မယူနိုင် တော့ပါ။ ဘုရားသခင်ပင်လျှင်သေသူကို ပြန်၍ရှင်စေတော်မမူပါ။ သို့ရာတွင်ဘုရင် သည်ပြည်နှင်ဒဏ်သင့်သူတစ်ဦးကိုပြန် လည်ခေါ်ယူနိုင်ပါ၏။-
15 ౧౫ మావాళ్ళు నన్ను భయపెట్టారు కాబట్టి నేను దీన్ని గురించి నా ఏలికవైన నీతో మాట్లాడాలని వచ్చాను. రాజు తన దాసిని, నా విన్నపం ఆలకించి,
၁၅အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ အရှင့်ထံသို့ကျွန်တော် မလာရောက်လျှောက်ထားရသည့်အကြောင်း မှာ လူတို့သည်ကျွန်တော်မအားခြိမ်းခြောက် ကြသောကြောင့်ဖြစ်ပါ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ကျွန် တော်မ၏ပြန်ကြားချက်အတိုင်းပြုတော် မူလိမ့်မည်ဟုမျှော်လင့်လျက်ကျွန်တော်မ သည်အရှင့်အားလျှောက်ထားရသော်ကောင်း အံ့ဟုတစ်ကိုယ်တည်းပြောဆိုနေမိပါ၏။-
16 ౧౬ దేవుని స్వాస్థ్యం అనుభవించకుండా నన్నూ, నా కొడుకునీ అంతం చేయాలని చూసేవారి చేతిలో నుండి నన్ను కాపాడతాడని అనుకొన్నాను.
၁၆မင်းကြီးသည်ကျွန်တော်မ၏သားကိုသတ် ၍မိမိလူမျိုးတော်အား ဘုရားသခင်ပေး တော်မူသည့်ပြည်မှပယ်ရှားရန်ကြိုးစား သူတို့၏လက်မှကျွန်တော်မကိုကယ်တော် မူမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းကျွန်တော်မသည်တွေး တောမိပါ၏။-
17 ౧౭ నా ఏలికవైన నువ్వు చెప్పిన మాట నీ దాసినైన నాకు సమాధానకరంగా ఉంటుందని భావిస్తున్నాను. ఏలినవాడవైన నీకు నీ దేవుడైన యెహోవా తోడుగా ఉన్నాడు కనుక నువ్వు దేవదూత లాగా మంచి చెడులను వివేచించగలవు” అంది.
၁၇အရှင်မင်းကြီးသည်ဘုရားသခင်၏ကောင်း ကင်တမန်ကဲ့သို့ ကောင်းမကောင်းကိုပိုင်းခြား သိမြင်တော်မူပါ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ကျွန်တော်မ သည်အရှင်၏ကတိတော်အတိုင်း အသက် ချမ်းသာရာရလိမ့်မည်ဟုတစ်ကိုယ်တည်း ပြောဆိုနေမိပါ၏။ အရှင်၏ဘုရားသခင် ထာဝရဘုရားသည်အရှင်နှင့်အတူရှိ တော်မူပါစေသော'' ဟုလျှောက်၏။
18 ౧౮ అప్పుడు రాజు “నేను నిన్ను అడిగే విషయం ఎంతమాత్రం దాచిపెట్టకుండా నాకు చెప్పు” అని ఆ స్త్రీతో అన్నాడు. ఆమె “నా యజమానివైన రాజా, ఏమిటో అడుగు” అంది.
၁၈မင်းကြီးက``သင့်အားမေးခွန်းတစ်ခုကိုငါ မေးမည်။ သင်သည်မှန်သည့်အတိုင်းပွင့်လင်း စွာဖြေကြားရမည်'' ဟုဆိုသော်၊ အမျိုးသမီးက``အရှင်မင်းကြီးမေးလိုရာ မေးတော်မူပါ'' ဟုလျှောက်၏။
19 ౧౯ రాజు “ఇదంతా యోవాబు నీకు చెప్పి పంపాడా?” అని అడిగాడు. అప్పుడు ఆమె ఇలా చెప్పింది “నా ఏలికవైన రాజా, నీ మీద ఒట్టు, చెప్పినదంతా తప్పకుండా గ్రహించడానికి నా యజమానివైన నీలాంటి రాజు తప్ప ఇంకెవ్వరూ లేరు. నీ సేవకుడు యోవాబు ఈ మాటలన్నిటినీ నీ దాసినైన నాకు నేర్పించాడు.
၁၉မင်းကြီးက``ဤသို့ငါ့အားလျှောက်ထားရန် သင့်အားစေခိုင်းသူမှာယွာဘပေလော'' ဟု မေးတော်မူ၏။ အမျိုးသမီးက``အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ အရှင်၏မေး ခွန်းကိုဖြေကြားရန်လွှဲဖယ်၍မဖြစ်နိုင်ကြောင်း ကျွန်တော်မကျိန်ဆိုလျှောက်ထားပါ၏။ မည်သို့ ပြုရမည်ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ မည်သို့လျှောက်ထား ရမည်ကိုလည်းကောင်း သင်ကြားပေးသူမှာ ကိုယ်တော့်ကျွန်ယွာဘပင်ဖြစ်ပါ၏။-
20 ౨౦ జరుగుతున్న పరిస్థితులను మార్చడానికి నీ సేవకుడు యోవాబు ఇలా చేశాడు. ఈ లోకంలో సమస్తాన్నీ గ్రహించడానికి నా రాజువైన నువ్వు దేవదూతలకుండే జ్ఞానం ఉన్నవాడవు.”
၂၀သူသည်ယင်းသို့ပြုရခြင်းမှာဤအမှု၏ အခြေအနေကိုပြောင်းလဲစေရန်ပင်ဖြစ် ပါ၏။ အရှင်မင်းကြီးသည်ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကောင်းကင်တမန်ကဲ့သို့ ဉာဏ်ပညာရှိ၍ဖြစ် ပျက်သည့်အမှုအရာမှန်သမျှကိုသိတော် မူပါ၏'' ဟုလျှောက်ထား၏။
21 ౨౧ అప్పుడు రాజు యోవాబును పిలిచి “విను, నువ్వు చెప్పినది నేను అంగీకరించాను” అని చెప్పి,
၂၁ထိုနောက်မင်းကြီးသည်ယွာဘအား``သင်အလို ရှိသည့်အတိုင်းပြုရန်ငါဆုံးဖြတ်ပြီးပြီ။ ထို သူငယ်အဗရှလုံကိုသွား၍ခေါ်လော့'' ဟု မိန့်တော်မူ၏။
22 ౨౨ “యువకుడైన అబ్షాలోమును రప్పించండి” అని ఆజ్ఞ ఇచ్చాడు. అప్పుడు యోవాబు సాష్టాంగపడి నమస్కారం చేసి రాజును కీర్తించాడు. “రాజువైన నువ్వు నీ దాసుడనైన నా మనవి అంగీకరించినందుకు నా ఏలికవైన నీ ద్వారా నేను అనుగ్రహం పొందానని నాకు తెలిసింది” అని చెప్పి, గెషూరుకు వెళ్లి
၂၂ယွာဘသည်ဒါဝိဒ်၏ရှေ့တော်၌ပျပ်ဝပ်ပြီး လျှင်``အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ အရှင့်အားဘုရားသခင် ကောင်းချီးပေးတော်မူပါစေသော။ အရှင်သည် အကျွန်ုပ်အားနှစ်သက်တော်မူကြောင်းယခု အကျွန်ုပ်သိရှိရပါပြီ။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆို သော်အရှင်သည်အကျွန်ုပ်ပန်ကြားသည့် အတိုင်းပြုတော်မူသောကြောင့်ဖြစ်ပါ၏'' ဟုလျှောက်လေ၏။-
23 ౨౩ అబ్షాలోమును యెరూషలేముకు వెంటబెట్టుకుని వచ్చాడు.
၂၃ထိုနောက်သူသည်ထ၍ဂေရှုရမြို့သို့သွား၍ အဗရှလုံအားယေရုရှလင်မြို့သို့ပြန်လည် ခေါ်ခဲ့၏။-
24 ౨౪ అయితే రాజు “అతడు నాకు ఎదుట పడక తన ఇంటికి వెళ్ళిపోవాలి” అని చెప్పాడు. అబ్షాలోము రాజుకు తన ముఖం చూపించకుండా తన ఇంటికి వెళ్ళిపోయాడు.
၂၄သို့ရာတွင်မင်းကြီးသည်အဗရှလုံအား နန်းတော်တွင်း၌နေထိုင်ခွင့်မပြုရန်အမိန့် ထုတ်ဆင့်တော်မူ၏။ မင်းကြီးက``ငါသည်သူ့ ကိုမတွေ့မမြင်လို'' ဟုဆို၏။ ထို့ကြောင့် အဗရှလုံသည်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အိမ်တော်တွင်နေ ထိုင်ရသော်လည်းမင်းကြီး၏ရှေ့တော်သို့ ဝင်ရောက်ခွင့်မရချေ။
25 ౨౫ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులందరిలో అబ్షాలోము అంతటి అందమైనవాడు ఎవ్వరూ లేరు. అరికాలు మొదలు నడినెత్తి వరకూ అతనిలో ఎలాంటి లోపమూ లేదు.
၂၅ဣသရေလပြည်တွင်ရုပ်ရည်ချောမောမှု ကြောင့်အဗရှလုံကဲ့သို့ ထင်ပေါ်ကျော်ကြား သူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်မျှမရှိ။ သူသည်ဦး ခေါင်းမှခြေဖျားတိုင်ခြောက်ပြစ်ကင်းသူ ဖြစ်၏။-
26 ౨౬ అతడు ఏడాదికొకసారి తన తలవెంట్రుకలు కత్తిరిస్తూ ఉంటాడు. ఆ వెంట్రుకల బరువు ఆనాటి కొలతను బట్టి దాదాపు రెండు కిలోగ్రాముల బరువు ఉండేది.
၂၆သူ၏ဆံပင်သည်အလွန်ကောင်း၍ရှည်လွန်း လေးလွန်းသဖြင့် ယင်းကိုတစ်နှစ်လျှင်တစ် ကြိမ်ဖြတ်ပစ်ရလေသည်။ ဖြတ်လိုက်သည့် ဆံပင်သည်တော်ဝင်စံမီအလေးချိန်အား ဖြင့်ငါးပေါင်ခန့်ရှိ၏။-
27 ౨౭ అబ్షాలోముకు ముగ్గురు కొడుకులు, ఒక కూతురు ఉన్నారు. అతని కూతురి పేరు తామారు. ఆమె అత్యంత సౌందర్యవతి.
၂၇အဗရှလုံတွင်သားသုံးယောက်နှင့်တာမာမည် သောသမီးတစ်ယောက်ရှိ၏။ ထိုအမျိုးသမီး သည်အလွန်အဆင်းလှ၏။
28 ౨౮ అబ్షాలోము రాజును చూడకుండా పూర్తిగా రెండేళ్ళు యెరూషలేములోనే ఉండిపోయాడు.
၂၈အဗရှလုံသည်မင်းကြီး၏ရှေ့တော်သို့မဝင် ရဘဲ ယေရုရှလင်မြို့တွင်နှစ်နှစ်ပတ်လုံးနေ ထိုင်လေသည်။-
29 ౨౯ రాజు దగ్గరికి యోవాబును పంపించడానికి అబ్షాలోము అతనికి కబురు పంపాడు. అయితే యోవాబు రాలేదు. రెండవసారి అతణ్ణి పిలిపించినప్పటికీ అతడు రాలేదు. అబ్షాలోముకు కోపం వచ్చింది.
၂၉သူသည်ယွာဘအားမိမိ၏အတွက်မင်းကြီး ထံစေလွှတ်လိုသဖြင့်ခေါ်စေရာ ယွာဘသည် မလာဘဲနေ၏။ နောက်တစ်ကြိမ်ခေါ်စေသော် လည်းယွာဘမလာဘဲနေပြန်၏။-
30 ౩౦ తన పనివారిని పిలిచి “యోవాబు పొలం నా పొలం దగ్గరే ఉన్నది గదా. అతని పొలంలో యవల పంట కోతకు వచ్చి ఉంది. మీరు వెళ్లి ఆ పంటను తగలబెట్టండి” అని చెప్పాడు. అబ్షాలోము పనివాళ్ళు ఆ పంటలు తగలబెట్టారు.
၃၀ထို့ကြောင့်အဗရှလုံသည်မိမိ၏အစေခံ တို့အား``ကြည့်လော့၊ ယွာဘ၏လယ်သည်ငါ့ လယ်နှင့်ကပ်လျက်နေ၏။ ထိုလယ်တွင်မုယော စပါးခင်းများရှိ၏။ ယင်းတို့ကိုမီးရှို့ပစ် လော့'' ဟုဆိုလျှင်အစေခံတို့သည်ထို လယ်ကိုသွား၍မီးရှို့ကြ၏။
31 ౩౧ ఇది తెలిసిన యోవాబు అబ్షాలోము ఇంటికి వచ్చి “నీ పనివాళ్ళు నా పంటలు ఎందుకు తగలబెట్టారు?” అని అడిగాడు.
၃၁ယွာဘသည်အဗရှလုံ၏အိမ်သို့သွား၍``အရှင် ၏အစေခံတို့သည်အဘယ်ကြောင့်အကျွန်ုပ်၏ လယ်ကိုမီးရှို့ကြပါသနည်း'' ဟုမေး၏။
32 ౩౨ అబ్షాలోము యోవాబుతో ఇలా అన్నాడు “గెషూరు నుండి నేను రావడంవల్ల ఉపయోగం ఏమిటి? నేను అక్కడే ఉండడం మంచిదని నీ ద్వారా రాజుకు చెప్పించడానికి నీకు కబురు పంపాను. నేను రాజును కలుసుకోవాలి. నాలో ఏమైనా నేరం కనిపిస్తే రాజు నాకు మరణశిక్ష విధించవచ్చు” అన్నాడు.
၃၂အဗရှလုံက``ငါ့အတွက်လျှောက်ထားပေးရန် သင့်အားဘုရင့်ထံသို့စေလွှတ်လိုသဖြင့် အခေါ် ခိုင်းခဲ့ပါ၏။ ငါသည်အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဂေရှုရမြို့ မှထွက်ခွာ၍ဤအရပ်သို့လာရောက်မိပါသ နည်း။ ထိုမြို့တွင်နေရသည်ကငါ့အတွက်ပို ၍ပင်ကောင်းမည်။ ဘုရင်နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံခွင့်ရရန် ငါ့အတွက်စီစဉ်ပေးစေလိုပါသည်။ အကယ် ၍ငါ့မှာအပြစ်ရှိခဲ့လျှင်မင်းကြီးသည်ငါ့ ကိုအဆုံးစီရင်တော်မူပါစေ'' ဟုယွာဘ အားပြော၏။
33 ౩౩ అప్పుడు యోవాబు రాజు దగ్గరికి వచ్చి ఆ విషయం రాజుకు చెప్పినప్పుడు, రాజు అబ్షాలోమును పిలిపించాడు. అతడు రాజు దగ్గరికి వచ్చి రాజు ముందు సాష్టాంగపడి నమస్కారం చేశాడు. రాజు అబ్షాలోమును దగ్గరికి తీసుకుని ముద్దు పెట్టుకున్నాడు.
၃၃သို့ဖြစ်၍ယွာဘသည်မင်းကြီးထံသို့သွား၍ ထိုအကြောင်းကိုလျှောက်ထား၏။ မင်းကြီးသည် အဗရှလုံအားအခေါ်ခိုင်းသဖြင့် အဗရှလုံ သည်လာရောက်၍ရှေ့တော်၌ဦးညွှတ်ပျပ်ဝပ် လေ၏။ မင်းကြီးသည်သူ့အားနမ်းရှုပ်လေ၏။