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1 ౧ యెహోవా దూత గిల్గాలు నుంచి బయలుదేరి బోకీముకు వచ్చి ఇలా అన్నాడు “నేను మిమ్మల్ని ఐగుప్తులో నుంచి రప్పించి, మీ పితరులకు ప్రమాణం చేసిన దేశానికి మిమ్మల్ని చేర్చాను. మీతో చేసిన నిబంధన నేనెప్పుడూ నిరర్ధకం చేయను.
၁ထာဝရဘုရား၏ကောင်းကင်တမန်သည် ဂိလဂါလမြို့မှဗောခိမ်မြို့သို့သွား၍ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့အား``ငါသည် သင်တို့ကိုအီဂျစ်ပြည်မှထုတ်ဆောင်ပြီးလျှင် သင်တို့ဘိုးဘေးတို့အားငါကတိပြုခဲ့သည့် ပြည်သို့ပို့ဆောင်ပေးခဲ့၏။ ငါသည်သင်တို့နှင့် ပြုသည့်ပဋိညာဉ်ကိုအဘယ်အခါ၌မျှ ဖျက်လိမ့်မည်မဟုတ်။-
2 ౨ మీరు ఈ దేశవాసులతో సంధి చేసుకోకూడదని, వాళ్ళ బలిపీఠాలు విరుగగొట్టాలని ఆజ్ఞ ఇచ్చాను గాని మీరు నా మాట వినలేదు.
၂သင်တို့သည်ဤပြည်တွင်နေထိုင်သူတို့နှင့် အဘယ်သို့မျှပဋိညာဉ်မပြုရ။ ထိုသူ တို့၏ယဇ်ပလ္လင်များကိုဖြိုချရကြမည် ဟုသင်တို့အားငါမိန့်မှာခဲ့၏။ သို့ရာတွင် သင်တို့သည်ငါ၏အမိန့်ကိုမနာခံကြ။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဤသို့ပြုဘိသနည်း။-
3 ౩ మీరు చేసిందేమిటి? కాబట్టి నేను మీ ముంగిట్లో నుంచి వాళ్ళని వెళ్లగొట్టను. వాళ్ళు మీ పక్కలో బల్లేలుగా ఉంటారు. వాళ్ళ దేవుళ్ళు మీకు ఉరిగా ఉంటారని చెప్తున్నాను.”
၃သို့ဖြစ်၍သင်တို့ရှေ့သို့ချီတက်ကြသော အခါ ငါသည်ဤသူတို့ကိုထွက်ပြေးစေလိမ့် မည်မဟုတ်ဟု သင်တို့အားယခုငါဆို၏။ သူ တို့သည်သင်တို့၏ရန်သူများဖြစ်ကြလိမ့် မည်။ သင်တို့အတွက်သူတို့၏ဘုရားများ သည်ထောင်ချောက်သဖွယ်ဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမြွက်ဆိုလေသည်။-
4 ౪ యెహోవా దూత ఇశ్రాయేలీయులందరితో ఈ మాటలు చెప్పినప్పుడు
၄ဤသို့ကောင်းကင်တမန်မြွက်ဆိုပြီးသော အခါ၌ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားအပေါင်း တို့သည်ငိုကြွေးကြကုန်၏။-
5 ౫ ప్రజలు బిగ్గరగా ఏడ్చారు. కాబట్టి ఆ చోటికి బోకీము అని పేరు పెట్టారు. అక్కడ వాళ్ళు యెహోవాకు హోమబలి అర్పించారు.
၅ထို့ကြောင့်ဤအရပ်ကိုဗောခိမ်မြို့ဟုခေါ်ဝေါ် သမုတ်သတည်း။ သူတို့သည်ထိုအရပ်တွင် ထာဝရဘုရားအားယဇ်ပူဇော်ကြ၏။
6 ౬ యెహోషువ ప్రజలను అక్కడ నుంచి సాగనంపినప్పుడు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు ఆ ప్రదేశాన్ని స్వాధీనం చేసుకోడానికి వాళ్ళకు కేటాయించిన స్థలాలకు వెళ్లారు.
၆ယောရှုသည်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့ အား လူတိုင်းပင်မိမိတို့ဝေစုကျရာမြေ ယာကိုသိမ်းယူရန်ထွက်သွားစေ၏။-
7 ౭ యెహోషువ బ్రతికిన కాలమంతటిలోనూ, యెహోషువ తరువాత కాలంలోనూ ఇంకా బ్రతికి ఉండి ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల కోసం యెహోవా చేసిన కార్యాలన్నిటిని చూసిన పెద్దల రోజుల్లోనూ ప్రజలు యెహోవాను సేవిస్తూ ఉన్నారు.
၇ယောရှုအသက်ရှင်လျက်ရှိနေသမျှကာလ ပတ်လုံးဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည် ထာဝရဘုရားအားကိုးကွယ်ကြ၏။ ယောရှု ကွယ်လွန်ပြီးသည့်နောက်၌ပင်လျှင်ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့အတွက်ထာဝရဘုရားပြု တော်မူသောကြီးမြတ်သည့်အမှုတော်တို့ကို မိမိတို့ကိုယ်တိုင်တွေ့မြင်ခဲ့ရသူခေါင်း ဆောင်များအသက်ရှင်လျက်ရှိနေသမျှ ကာလပတ်လုံး လူတို့သည်ဆက်လက်၍ ထာဝရဘုရားအားကိုးကွယ်ကြသေး၏။-
8 ౮ నూను కుమారుడు, యెహోవా దాసుడు అయిన యెహోషువ నూట పది సంవత్సరాల వయస్సులో చనిపోయినప్పుడు అతనికి స్వాస్థ్యంగా వచ్చిన ప్రదేశం సరిహద్దులో ఉన్న తిమ్నత్సెరహులో ప్రజలు అతణ్ణి పాతిపెట్టారు.
၈ထာဝရဘုရား၏အစေခံ၊ နုန်၏သား ယောရှုသည်အသက်တစ်ရာ့တစ်ဆယ်ရှိ သော်ကွယ်လွန်လေသည်။-
9 ౯ అది ఎఫ్రాయిమీయుల ఎడారిలో గాయషు కొండకు ఉత్తరం దిక్కున ఉంది.
၉သူ၏အလောင်းကိုဂါရှာကုန်းမြောက်ဘက်၊ ဧဖရိမ်တောင်ကုန်းဒေသရှိတိမနတ်ဿေရ မြို့၊ သူပိုင်မြေတွင်သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ကြ၏။-
10 ౧౦ ఆ తరం వారంతా తమ తమ పితరుల దగ్గరికి చేరారు. వారి తరువాత యెహోవానుగాని, ఆయన ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల కోసం చేసిన కార్యాలను గాని తెలియని తరం ఒకటి మొదలయ్యింది.
၁၀ယောရှု၏ခေတ်ကလူအပေါင်းတို့သည်ကွယ် လွန်သွားကြသဖြင့် နောက်တစ်ခေတ်လူတို့သည် ထာဝရဘုရားကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ဣသရေလ လူမျိုးအတွက်ကိုယ်တော်ပြုမူခဲ့သောအမှု တော်တို့ကိုလည်းကောင်းမေ့လျော့၍သွား ကြကုန်၏။
11 ౧౧ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు యెహోవా దృష్టిలో పాపం చేసి, బయలు దేవుళ్ళను పూజించారు.
၁၁ထိုအခါ၌ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည် ထာဝရဘုရားအားပြစ်မှားကာဗာလ ဘုရားများကိုကိုးကွယ်ကြလေသည်။-
12 ౧౨ ఐగుప్తుదేశంలో నుంచి వాళ్ళను రప్పించిన తమ పితరుల దేవుడైన యెహోవాను విడిచిపెట్టి ఇతర దేవుళ్ళను అనుసరించి, వాళ్ళ చుట్టూ ఉండే ఆ ప్రజల దేవుళ్ళకు సాగిలపడి, యెహోవాకు కోపం పుట్టించారు.
၁၂သူတို့သည်မိမိတို့ဘိုးဘေးများ၏ဘုရားသခင်၊ မိမိတို့ကိုအီဂျစ်ပြည်မှထုတ်ဆောင် ခဲ့တော်မူသောဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရဘုရား အား ကိုးကွယ်မှုမပြုကြတော့ဘဲမိမိတို့ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်မှ လူတို့ကိုးကွယ်သောဘုရား များကိုကိုးကွယ်ကြလေသည်။ သူတို့သည် ထိုဘုရားများရှေ့တွင်ဦးညွှတ်ကြသဖြင့် ထာဝရဘုရားအမျက်တော်ကိုထွက်စေ ကြလေသည်။-
13 ౧౩ వాళ్ళు యెహోవాను విడిచిపెట్టి బయలును అష్తారోతు దేవతను పూజించారు.
၁၃သူတို့သည်ထာဝရဘုရားအားကိုးကွယ်မှု ကိုစွန့်၍ ဗာလဘုရားများနှင့်အာရှတရက် ဘုရားများကိုရှိခိုးကြ၏။-
14 ౧౪ కాబట్టి యెహోవా కోపాగ్ని ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల మీద రాజుకుంది. ఆయన వారిని దోపిడీగాళ్ళకు అప్పగించాడు. వాళ్ళు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను దోచుకున్నారు. తమ చుట్టూ ఉన్న శత్రువుల చేతికి ఆయన వారిని అప్పగించాడు కాబట్టి వారు తమ శత్రువులను ఎదిరించలేకపోయారు.
၁၄သို့ဖြစ်၍ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့ကိုပြင်းစွာအမျက်ထွက်တော် မူသဖြင့် ရန်သူတို့ကိုသူတို့အားလုယက် တိုက်ခိုက်ရန်အခွင့်ပြုတော်မူ၏။ ကိုယ်တော် သည်ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ရှိရန်သူတို့ကို ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့အားနှိမ်နင်းအောင်မြင်ခွင့် ပေးတော်မူသဖြင့် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသား တို့သည်မိမိတို့ကိုယ်ကိုကာကွယ်နိုင်စွမ်း မရှိကြတော့ချေ။-
15 ౧౫ వారు యుద్ధానికి ఎటు వెళ్ళినా సరే, ఆయన ప్రమాణపూర్వకంగా చెప్పినట్టుగానే వారు ఓడిపోయేలా యెహోవా హస్తం వారికీ విరోధంగా ఉంది. వాళ్లకు ఘోర బాధ కలిగింది.
၁၅သူတို့တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သည့်အခါတိုင်းကိုယ်တော် သည် မိမိမိန့်မြွက်တော်မူခဲ့သည်အတိုင်းသူ တို့အားအရေးနိမ့်စေတော်မူသဖြင့် သူ တို့သည်အတိဒုက္ခရောက်ရကြလေသည်။
16 ౧౬ అటు తరువాత యెహోవా వాళ్ళ కోసం న్యాయాధిపతులను పుట్టించాడు. దోచుకొనేవాళ్ళ చేతిలో నుంచి వీళ్ళు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను రక్షించారు. అయినా ఇస్రాయేల్ ప్రజ ఆ న్యాయాధిపతుల మాట వినలేదు.
၁၆ထိုအခါထာဝရဘုရားသည်သူတို့အား လုယက်တိုက်ခိုက်သူတို့၏လက်မှကယ်ဆယ် မည့်ခေါင်းဆောင်များကိုပေါ်ထွန်းစေတော် မူ၏။-
17 ౧౭ వాళ్ళ పితరులు యెహోవా ఆజ్ఞలు అనుసరించి నడిచిన మార్గం నుంచి వీళ్ళు త్వరగా తొలగిపోయి, వ్యభిచారంతో సమానంగా ఇతర దేవుళ్ళకు తమను తాము అప్పగించుకుని పూజించారు. తమ పితరులు దేవుని ఆజ్ఞలు అనుసరించినట్టు వాళ్ళు అనుసరించలేదు.
၁၇သို့ရာတွင်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့ကမူ ထိုခေါင်းဆောင်တို့၏စကားကိုနားမထောင် ကြ။ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်ထာဝရ ဘုရားအား သစ္စာဖောက်၍အခြားဘုရားများ ကိုကိုးကွယ်ကြ၏။ သူတို့သည်ထာဝရဘုရား ၏ပညတ်တော်တို့ကိုဘိုးဘေးများစောင့်ထိန်း ခဲ့ကြသကဲ့သို့မစောင့်ထိန်းကြတော့ပေ။-
18 ౧౮ వారి శత్రువులు వారిని బాధించగా, ఆ మూలుగులు యెహోవా విని, జాలిపడి, వారి కోసం న్యాయాధిపతులను పుట్టించాడు. ఆయన ఆ న్యాయాధిపతులకు తోడై ఉండి, ఒక్కొక్క న్యాయాధిపతి బ్రతికిన కాలమంతా వాళ్ళ శత్రువుల చేతిలో నుంచి ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను రక్షించాడు.
၁၈ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဣသရေလအမျိုး သားခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦးကိုပေါ်ထွန်းစေသည့် အခါတိုင်း ထိုသူအသက်ရှင်သမျှကာလ ပတ်လုံးသူ့ကိုကူမတော်မူ၍ သူတို့ကိုရန် သူတို့လက်မှကယ်ဆယ်တော်မူသည်။ သူတို့ သည်ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခနှင့်ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း ကိုခံရ၍ညည်းညူကြသောအခါထာဝရ ဘုရားသည်သူတို့အားကရုဏာတော်ကို ပြတော်မူပေသည်။-
19 ౧౯ ఒక్కొక్క న్యాయాధిపతి చనిపోయినప్పుడెల్లా వాళ్ళు వెనక్కు తిరిగి ఇతర దేవుళ్ళను అనుసరిస్తూ, పూజిస్తూ, వాటికి సాగిలపడుతూ ఉండేవారు. వారు అలా తమ క్రియల్లోగాని, తమ మూర్ఖ ప్రవర్తనలోగాని దేనినీ విడిచిపెట్టకుండా వాళ్ళ పూర్వికుల కంటే ఇంకా భ్రష్టులై పోయారు.
၁၉သို့ရာတွင်သူတို့သည်မိမိတို့၏ခေါင်းဆောင် ကွယ်လွန်သွားသောအခါ၌မူ ဒုံရင်းသို့ပြန် လည်ဆိုက်ရောက်ကြလျက် ယခင်လူမျိုးဆက် မှလူတို့ထက်ပင်ပိုမိုဆိုးရွားစွာပြုမူကျင့် ကြံတတ်ကြ၏။ အခြားဘုရားများကိုကိုး ကွယ်ကာ မိမိတို့၏ဆိုးညစ်သည့်လမ်းစဉ်ကို လိုက်မြဲလိုက်ကြကုန်သည်။-
20 ౨౦ కాబట్టి యెహోవా కోపాగ్ని ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల మీద రగిలినప్పుడు ఆయన ఇలా అన్నాడు “ఈ ప్రజలు తమ పితరులతో నేను ఏర్పాటు చేసిన వాగ్దానంలోని షరతులు మీరి, నా మాట వినలేదు గనక,
၂၀ထိုအခါထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဣသရေလ လူမျိုးအား လွန်စွာအမျက်ထွက်တော်မူ၍``ဤ လူမျိုးသည်ငါ့စကားကိုနားမထောင်။ စောင့် ထိန်းရန်အတွက်သူတို့၏ဘိုးဘေးများအား ငါပေးအပ်ခဲ့သည့်ပဋိညာဉ်ကိုချိုးဖောက် ကြ၏။-
21 ౨౧ నేను నియమించిన షరతులు అనుసరించి వాళ్ళ పితరులు నడిచినట్టు వీళ్ళు కూడా యెహోవా షరతులు అనుసరించి నడుస్తారో లేదో ఆ జాతుల వలన ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను పరీక్షింఛి చూస్తాను.
၂၁ထို့ကြောင့်ယောရှုကွယ်လွန်စဉ်အခါကပင် ဤပြည်တွင်ကျန်ရှိနေသေးသည့်အဘယ် လူမျိုးကိုမျှငါနှင်ထုတ်တော့မည်မဟုတ်။-
22 ౨౨ అందుకని యెహోషువ చనిపోయిన కాలంలో మిగిలిన శత్రుజాతుల్లో ఏ జనాంగాన్నీ వాళ్ళ దగ్గర నుంచి నేను వెళ్లగొట్టను.”
၂၂ဤဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည် ငါ၏ လမ်းစဉ်ကိုသူတို့ဘိုးဘေးများလိုက်လျှောက် ခဲ့ကြသကဲ့သို့ လိုက်လျှောက်မည်မလိုက်လျှောက် မည်ကိုသိရှိစေရန် ငါသည်ဤပြည်ရှိလူမျိုး တို့ကိုအသုံးပြုမည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။-
23 ౨౩ ఈ కారణంగానే యెహోవా ఆ జనాంగాన్ని యెహోషువ చేతికి అప్పగించకుండా, వెంటనే వెళ్లగొట్టకుండా వాళ్ళను ఉండనిచ్చాడు.
၂၃သို့ဖြစ်၍ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ထိုလူမျိုး တို့အား ထိုပြည်၌ပင်ဆက်လက်နေထိုင်ခွင့်ပြု တော်မူ၏။ ကိုယ်တော်သည်ယောရှုအားထိုသူ တို့အပေါ်၌အောင်ပွဲခံခွင့်ပေးတော်မမူ။ ယောရှုကွယ်လွန်ပြီးသောအခါ၌လည်းသူ တို့အားအဆောတလျင်နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်းကို ပြုတော်မမူ။