న్యాయాధిపతులు 12
1 ౧ ఎఫ్రాయిమీయులు సమకూడి “నువ్వు ఉత్తరదిక్కుకు వెళ్లి అమ్మోనీయులతో యుద్ధం చెయ్యడానికి బయలుదేరినప్పుడు నీతో కలిసి వెళ్ళడానికి మమ్మల్ని ఎందుకు పిలవలేదు? నువ్వు కాపురముంటున్న నీ ఇంటిని అగ్నితో కాల్చేస్తాం” అని యెఫ్తాతో అన్నారు.
၁ဧဖရိမ်အမျိုးသားတို့သည်စစ်တိုက်ရန်ပြင် ဆင်ကြ၏။ သူတို့သည်ယော်ဒန်မြစ်ကိုဖြတ် ကျော်ကာဇာဖုန်မြို့သို့ချီသွားပြီးလျှင် ယေဖသအား``သင်တို့သည်ငါတို့ကိုမခေါ် ဘဲအဘယ်ကြောင့်အမ္မုန်အမျိုးသားတို့အား ချီတက်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပါသနည်း။ သင်ရှိရာ သင်၏အိမ်ကိုငါတို့မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးပစ်မည်'' ဟုပြော၏။
2 ౨ యెఫ్తా “నాకు, నా ప్రజలకు అమ్మోనీయులతో పెద్ద కలహం వచ్చినప్పుడు నేను మిమ్మల్ని పిలిచాను గాని మీరు వాళ్ళ చేతుల్లోనుంచి నన్ను రక్షించలేదు. మీరు నన్ను రక్షించకపోవడం చూసి
၂သို့ရာတွင်ယေဖသက``ငါနှင့်ငါ၏လူတို့ သည်အမ္မုန်အမျိုးသားတို့နှင့်ပြင်းပြင်းထန် ထန်ခိုက်ရန်ဖြစ်ခဲ့ကြ၏။ ငါသည်သင်တို့ကို ခေါ်သော်လည်း ငါတို့အားထိုသူတို့လက်မှ သင်တို့မကယ်ဘဲနေခဲ့ကြသည်။-
3 ౩ నా ప్రాణం అరచేతిలో పెట్టుకుని అమ్మోనీయులతో యుద్ధం చెయ్యడానికి వెళ్ళాను. అప్పుడు యెహోవా నాకు వాళ్ళ మీద జయం ఇచ్చాడు. అయితే నాతో పోట్లాడటానికి ఈ రోజు మీరెందుకు వచ్చారు?” అన్నాడు.
၃ယင်းသို့ငါတို့အားသင်တို့ကယ်ကြမည့် ပုံမပေါ်သောအခါ ငါသည်အသက်စွန့်၍ အမ္မုန်အမျိုးသားတို့အားတိုက်ခိုက်ရန်ချီ သွားခဲ့ရပါသည်။ ထာဝရဘုရားကလည်း ငါ့အားသူတို့၏အပေါ်၌အောင်ပွဲခံစေ တော်မူ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍အဘယ်ကြောင့်သင် သည်ယခုငါ့အားလာရောက်တိုက်ခိုက် ပါသနည်း'' ဟုပြန်ပြော၏။-
4 ౪ అప్పుడు యెఫ్తా గిలాదు వారందర్నీ పోగు చేసుకుని ఎఫ్రాయిమీయులతో యుద్ధం చేశాడు. గిలాదువాళ్ళు ఎఫ్రాయిమీయుల మీద దాడి చేశారు. ఎందుకంటే వాళ్ళు “ఎఫ్రాయిమీయులకు మనష్శే గోత్రికులకు మధ్య గిలాదువారైన మీరు-ఎఫ్రాయిమీయులకు మొహం చాటేసి పారిపోయారు” అన్నారు.
၄ထိုနောက်ယေဖသသည်ဂိလဒ်သူရဲအပေါင်း တို့ကိုစုရုံးစေလျက် ဧဖရိမ်အမျိုးသား တို့အားတိုက်ခိုက်လေသည်။ (ဧဖရိမ်ပြည် နှင့်မနာရှေပြည်တွင်နေထိုင်သောဂိလဒ် ပြည်သားတို့သည် သစ္စာဖောက်၍ဧဖရိမ် ပြည်မှထွက်သွားသူများဟူ၍စွပ်စွဲ ပြောဆိုခဲ့သတည်း။-)
5 ౫ ఎఫ్రాయిమీయులతో యుద్ధం చెయ్యడానికి గిలాదువాళ్ళు యొర్దాను దాటే రేవులను పట్టుకొన్నప్పుడు, పారిపోతున్న ఎఫ్రాయిమీయుల్లో ఎవరన్నా “నన్ను దాటనివ్వండి” అని అడిగితే గిలాదువాళ్ళు “నువ్వు ఎఫ్రాయిమీయుడవా” అని అతన్ని అడిగారు.
၅ဧဖရိမ်ပြည်သားတို့မလွတ်မြောက်နိုင်စေ ရန်ဂိလဒ်ပြည်သားတို့သည် ယော်ဒန်မြစ် တစ်ဘက်ကမ်းသို့ကူးဖြတ်နိုင်သည့်နေ ရာရှိသမျှကိုသိမ်းထားကြ၏။-
6 ౬ అందుకతను “కాదు” అంటే, వాళ్ళు అతన్ని చూసి “షిబ్బోలెత్” అనే మాట పలకమన్నారు. అతడు పలకలేక “సిబ్బోలెత్” అని పలికితే, వాళ్ళు అతన్ని పట్టుకుని యొర్దాను రేవుల దగ్గర చంపేశారు. ఆ సమయంలో ఎఫ్రాయిమీయుల్లో నలభై రెండు వేల మంది చనిపోయారు.
၆ဧဖရိမ်ပြည်သားတစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်သည် ထွက်မြောက်နိုင်ရန် မြစ်ကိုဖြတ်ကူးခွင့်တောင်း ခံသည့်အခါတိုင်းဂိလဒ်ပြည်သားတို့ က``သင်သည်ဧဖရိမ်ပြည်သားလော'' ဟု မေးစစ်၏။ ``မဟုတ်ပါ'' ဟုဆိုလျှင်``ရှိဗော လက်'' ဟူသောစကားကိုဆိုစေ၏။ သို့ရာ တွင်အကယ်၍ထိုသူသည်စကားကို ပီသစွာမပြောနိုင်ဘဲ``သိဗောလက်'' ဟု ဆိုခဲ့သော်သူ့အားဖမ်းဆီး၍ယော်ဒန် မြစ်ကူးရာအရပ်၌သတ်ကြသည်။ ထို စစ်ပွဲ၌ဧဖရိမ်ပြည်သားလေးသောင်း နှစ်ထောင်ကျဆုံးရကြလေသည်။
7 ౭ యెఫ్తా ఆరు సంవత్సరాలు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులకు న్యాయాధిపతిగా ఉన్నాడు. గిలాదువాడైన యెఫ్తా చనిపోయినప్పుడు, గిలాదు పట్టణాల్లో ఒక దానిలో అతన్ని పాతిపెట్టారు.
၇ယေဖသသည်ဣသရေလပြည်သူတို့ အားခြောက်နှစ်မျှခေါင်းဆောင်ပြီးနောက် ကွယ်လွန်သော် သူ၏ရုပ်အလောင်းကိုဂိလဒ် ပြည်ရှိသူ၏ဌာနေမြို့တွင်သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ကြ၏။
၈ယေဖသကွယ်လွန်ပြီးနောက်ဣသရေလ လူမျိုးအား ခေါင်းဆောင်သူမှာဗက်လင်မြို့ သားဣဗဇန်ဖြစ်၏။ သူ၌သားသုံးဆယ် နှင့်သမီးသုံးဆယ်ရှိ၏။-
9 ౯ అతనికి ముప్ఫైమంది కొడుకులు, ముప్ఫైమంది కూతుళ్ళు ఉన్నారు. అతడు ఆ కూతుళ్ళను తన వంశంలో చేరనివారికిచ్చి, తన వంశంలో చేరని ముప్ఫైమంది కన్యలను తన కొడుకులకు పెళ్లి చేశాడు. అతడు ఏడు సంవత్సరాలు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులకు అధిపతిగా ఉన్నాడు.
၉သူသည်မိမိ၏သမီးတို့အားမိမိသား ချင်းစုဝင်မဟုတ်သူများနှင့်ထိမ်းမြား ပေး၍ မိမိသားများအားမိမိသားချင်း စုဝင်မဟုတ်သောအမျိုးသမီးများ နှင့်ထိမ်းမြားပေးလေသည်။ ဣဗဇန်သည် ဣသရေလအမျိုးအားခုနစ်နှစ်မျှ ခေါင်းဆောင်ရပြီးနောက်၊-
၁၀ကွယ်လွန်သော်သူ၏ရုပ်အလောင်းကို ဗက်လင်မြို့တွင်သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ကြ၏။
11 ౧౧ అతని తరువాత జెబూలూనీయుడైన ఏలోను ఇశ్రాయేలీయులకు అధిపతి అయ్యాడు. అతడు పది సంవత్సరాలు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులకు అధిపతిగా ఉన్నాడు.
၁၁ဣဗဇန်ကွယ်လွန်ပြီးနောက် ဇာဗုလုန်မြို့သား ဧလုန်သည်ဆယ်နှစ်မျှ ဣသရေလလူမျိုး၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်ဖြစ်လာ၏။-
၁၂ထိုနောက်သူသည်ကွယ်လွန်သော်သူ၏ရုပ် အလောင်းကို ဇာဗုလုန်နယ်မြေရှိအာဇလုန် မြို့၌သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ကြလေသည်။-
၁၃ဧလုန်ကွယ်လွန်ပြီးနောက်ပိရသုန်မြို့နေဟိ လေလ၏သားအာဗဒုန်သည် ဣသရေလ လူမျိုးကိုခေါင်းဆောင်ရ၏။-
14 ౧౪ అతనికి నలభైమంది కొడుకులు, ముప్ఫై మంది మనుమలు ఉన్నారు. వాళ్ళు డెబ్భై గాడిదపిల్లలు ఎక్కి తిరిగేవాళ్ళు. అతడు ఎనిమిది సంవత్సరాలు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులకు అధిపతిగా ఉన్నాడు.
၁၄သူ၌မြည်းတစ်ကောင်စီစီးနင်းသောသား လေးဆယ်နှင့်မြေးသုံးဆယ်ရှိ၏။ အာဗဒုန် သည်ဣသရေလလူမျိုးကိုရှစ်နှစ်မျှ ခေါင်းဆောင်ပြီးလျှင်၊-
15 ౧౫ పిరాతోనీయుడైన హిల్లేలు కొడుకు అబ్దోను చనిపోయినప్పుడు ఎఫ్రాయిము దేశంలో అమాలేకీయుల మన్యంలో ఉన్న పిరాతోనులో పాతిపెట్టారు.
၁၅ကွယ်လွန်သော်သူ၏ရုပ်အလောင်းကိုအာ မလက်တောင်ကုန်းဒေသ၊ ဧဖရိမ်နယ်ရှိ ပိရသုန်မြို့၌သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ကြ၏။
