న్యాయాధిపతులు 21
1 ౧ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు మిస్పాలో సమావేశమై “మనలో ఎవరూ మన కుమార్తెలను బెన్యామీనీయులకు వివాహానికి ఇవ్వకూడదు” అని శపథం చేశారు.
၁မိဇပါမြို့၌စုရုံးစဉ်အခါကဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့သည် ထာဝရဘုရားအား``ဗင်္ယာ မိန်အမျိုးသားတစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်ကိုမျှအကျွန်ုပ် တို့၏သမီးနှင့်လက်ထပ်ထိမ်းမြားခွင့်ပြုမည် မဟုတ်ပါ'' ဟုကျိန်ဆိုကတိပြုခဲ့ကြ၏။-
၂သို့ဖြစ်၍ယခုဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့ သည်ဗေသလမြို့သို့သွား၍ ဘုရားသခင် ၏ရှေ့တော်၌ညနေချမ်းအချိန်တိုင်အောင် ထိုင်လျက်၊-
3 ౩ “యెహోవా, ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల దేవా, ఈ రోజున ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల్లో ఒక గోత్రం లేకుండా పోయింది. ఇశ్రాయేలుకు ఇది ఎందుకు జరిగింది” అంటూ ఎంతో ఏడ్చారు.
၃``အို ဣသရေလလူမျိုး၏ဘုရားသခင် ထာဝရဘုရား၊ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဤသို့ဖြစ် ရပါသနည်း။ ဗင်္ယာမိန်အနွယ်သည်ဣသ ရေလလူမျိုးမှအဘယ်ကြောင့်ပျောက်ကွယ် ရပါတော့မည်နည်း'' ဟုပြင်းပြစွာဟစ် အော်ငိုကြွေးလျှောက်ထားကြ၏။
၄နောက်တစ်နေ့နံနက်စောစော၌လူတို့သည် ထ၍ ထိုအရပ်တွင်ယဇ်ပလ္လင်တစ်ခုကိုတည် ဆောက်ကာ မိတ်သဟာယယဇ်နှင့်မီးရှို့ရာ ယဇ်တို့ကိုပူဇော်ကြ၏။-
5 ౫ అప్పుడు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు “ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల గోత్రాలన్నిటిలో మిస్పాలో యెహోవా ఎదుట జరిగిన సమావేశానికి రాకుండా ఉన్నదెవరు” అంటూ వాకబు చేసారు. ఎందుకంటే అలాంటి వారికి కచ్చితంగా మరణ శిక్ష విధించాలని శపథం చేశారు.
၅သူတို့က``ဣသရေလလူမျိုးအနွယ်အပေါင်း တို့အနက်မိဇပါမြို့ရှိ ထာဝရဘုရား၏ ရှေ့တော်သို့မလာမရောက်ဘဲနေခဲ့သည့်လူ စုရှိပါသလော'' ဟုမေးမြန်းကြ၏။ (အဘယ် ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်မိဇပါမြို့ထာဝရဘုရား ထံတော်သို့မလာမရောက်ဘဲနေသောသူ သည်သေဒဏ်ခံစေဟုကျိန်ဆိုကတိပြု ခဲ့ကြသောကြောင့်ဖြစ်၏။-)
6 ౬ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు తమ సోదరులైన బెన్యామీనీయులను గూర్చి పశ్చాత్తాపపడి ఇలా చెప్పుకున్నారు “ఈ రోజున ఒక ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల గోత్రం అంతరించి పోయింది.
၆ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်မိမိတို့ ၏ညီများဖြစ်သော ဗင်္ယာမိန်အနွယ်ဝင်တို့ အတွက်ဝမ်းနည်းကြေကွဲလျက်``ယနေ့ပင် လျှင်ဣသရေလအမျိုးအနွယ်အပေါင်း တို့အနက်တစ်နွယ်ကိုဆုံးရှုံးရလေပြီ။-
7 ౭ మిగిలిన వారికి ఎవరికీ మన కూతుళ్ళను పెళ్ళికి ఇవ్వకూడదని యెహోవా పేరుమీద శపథం చేశాం కదా, ఇప్పుడు మిగిలిన వారికి భార్యలు ఎవరు చూస్తారు? ఇక వారి విషయంలో మనం ఏం చేయగలం?”
၇ကျန်ရှိနေသေးသောဗင်္ယာမိန်အမျိုးသား တို့အတွက်မယားများရရှိနိုင်ရန် ငါတို့ အဘယ်သို့ပြုကြရပါမည်နည်း။ ငါတို့ သမီးများကိုသူတို့နှင့်ထိမ်းမြားခြင်းမပြု ဟုထာဝရဘုရားကိုတိုင်တည်၍ငါတို့ သစ္စာဆိုပြီးလေပြီ'' ဟုဆိုကြ၏။
8 ౮ వారు ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల గోత్రాల్లో యెహోవా ఎదుట మిస్పాలో జరిగిన సమావేశానికి రానిది ఎవరు, అని విచారించినప్పుడు
၈မိဇပါမြို့၌စုရုံးရာသို့ဣသရေလ အမျိုးအနွယ်များထဲမှ မလာမရောက် သောလူစုရှိပါသလောဟုစုံစမ်းကြ သောအခါ ဂိလဒ်ပြည်ယာဗက်မြို့မှမည် သူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်မျှမလာမရောက် ကြောင်းကိုသိရှိရကြလေသည်။-
9 ౯ యాబేష్గిలాదునుండి సైన్యంలోకి ఎవరూ రాలేదని తెలిసింది. ప్రజలంతా అక్కడ జన గణనలో చేరినప్పుడు యాబేష్గిలాదు నివాసుల్లో ఒక్కడు కూడా అక్కడ లేడు.
၉တပ်မတော်မှနာမည်ခေါ်စာရင်းကောက်ယူ သောအခါ ဂိလဒ်ပြည်ယာဗက်မြို့မှလူ တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်မျှမပါဝင်ပေ။-
10 ౧౦ కాబట్టి సమాజపు వారు ధైర్యవంతులైన పన్నెండు వేలమంది మనుషులను యాబేష్గిలాదు మీద దాడి చేసి అక్కడ స్త్రీలూ, పిల్లలతో సహా అందర్నీ చంపమనే ఆదేశంతో పంపించారు.
၁၀မိဇပါမြို့၌စုဝေးသောသူအပေါင်းတို့ က၊ မိမိတို့တွင်ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိအရှိဆုံးလူ တစ်သောင်းနှစ်ထောင်အား``သင်တို့သွား၍ အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့်ကလေးများအပါ အဝင်ယာဗတ်မြို့သားအပေါင်းတို့အား သုတ်သင်ပစ်ကြလော့။ ယောကျာ်းနှင့်အပျို စင်မဟုတ်သောအမျိုးသမီးမှန်သမျှ ကိုသတ်ဖြတ်ပစ်ကြရမည်'' ဟုအမိန့် ပေးစေလွှတ်လိုက်လေသည်။-
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12 ౧౨ యాబేష్గిలాదు నివాసుల్లో పురుష సాంగత్యం తెలియని నాలుగు వందలమంది స్త్రీలను వాళ్ళు చూసారు. వాళ్ళను కనాను దేశంలోని షిలోహు లో ఉన్న సైన్యం శిబిరానికి తీసుకు వచ్చారు.
၁၂ထိုသူတို့သည်ယာဗက်မြို့သားများအနက် အပျိုစင်လေးရာကိုတွေ့ရှိသဖြင့် သူတို့ အားရှိလောမြို့တပ်စခန်းသို့ခေါ်ဆောင် ခဲ့ကြ၏။ ရှိလောမြို့သည်ခါနာန်ပြည်တွင် ရှိသတည်း။
၁၃ထိုနောက်စုဝေးသောသူအပေါင်းတို့က ရိမ္မုန် ကျောက်ရှိဗင်္ယာမိန်အမျိုးသားတို့ထံသို့ စစ်ပြေငြိမ်းရန် ကမ်းလှမ်းချက်သတင်းကို ပေးပို့လိုက်ကြ၏။-
14 ౧౪ ఆ సమయంలో బెన్యామీనీయులు తిరిగి వచ్చారు. యాబేష్గిలాదు నుండి తీసుకు వచ్చిన స్త్రీలను వారికిచ్చి పెళ్ళిళ్ళు చేశారు. అయితే ఆ స్త్రీలు వాళ్లకు సరిపోలేదు.
၁၄ဗင်္ယာမိန်အမျိုးသားတို့သည်ပြန်လာကြ သောအခါ အခြားဣသရေလအမျိုးတို့ ကမိမိတို့မသတ်ဘဲထားသည့် ယာဗက်မြို့ သူအမျိုးသမီးတို့ကိုပေးအပ်လိုက်လေ သည်။ သို့ရာတွင်ထိုအမျိုးသမီးအရေ အတွက်မှာထိုသူတို့အတွက်လုံလောက် မှုမရှိချေ။
15 ౧౫ యెహోవా ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల గోత్రాల్లో లోపం కలగ చేశాడని ప్రజలంతా బెన్యామీనీయులను గూర్చి పశ్చాత్తాపపడ్డారు.
၁၅ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဣသရေလအမျိုး အနွယ်တို့၏စည်းလုံးမှုကိုပျက်ပြားစေ တော်မူပြီဖြစ်၍ လူတို့သည်ဗင်္ယာမိန်အမျိုး သားများအတွက်ဝမ်းနည်းကြလေသည်။-
16 ౧౬ సమాజంలో ప్రముఖులు ప్రధానులు బెన్యామీను గోత్రంలో స్త్రీలు నశించి పోవడం చూసి “మిగిలిన వారికి మనం భార్యలను ఎక్కడనుండి తీసుకు రావాలి” అని మధన పడ్డారు.
၁၆သို့ဖြစ်၍ခေါင်းဆောင်တို့က``ဗင်္ယာမိန်အနွယ် ဝင်အမျိုးသမီးများမရှိကြတော့ပေ။ ကျန် ရှိနေသေးသည့်အမျိုးသားများအတွက် အဘယ်သို့လျှင် မယားများကိုငါတို့ရှာ ဖွေပေးရပါမည်နည်း။-
17 ౧౭ “ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల్లోనుండి ఒక గోత్రం అంతరించి పోకుండా బెన్యామీనీయుల్లో తప్పించుకున్న వారికి వారసులు ఉండాలి” అన్నారు.
၁၇ဣသရေလတစ်ဆယ့်နှစ်မျိုးရှိသည့် အနက်တစ်မျိုးပျောက်ကွယ်၍မသွား စေအပ်။-
18 ౧౮ “ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల్లో ఎవరైనా సరే, తన కూతుర్ని బెన్యామీనీయుడికి ఇస్తే వాణ్ణి నాశనం చేయాలని శపథం చేశాం. కాబట్టి మన కూతుళ్ళను వారికిచ్చి పెళ్ళి చేయకూడదు,” అని చెప్పుకున్నారు.
၁၈သို့ရာတွင်ငါတို့သည်မိမိတို့၏သမီးများ နှင့်သူတို့အားထိမ်းမြားစုံဖက်ခွင့်လည်းမ ပြုနိုင်။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်ယင်းသို့စုံဖက် ရန်ခွင့်ပြုသူသည် ငါတို့၏ကျိန်စာသင့်မည် ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်တည်း'' ဟုဆွေးနွေးတိုင်ပင် ကြလေသည်။
19 ౧౯ కాబట్టి వాళ్ళు బెన్యామీనీయులతో ఇలా అన్నారు “చూడండి, బేతేలుకు ఉత్తర దిక్కున బేతేలు నుండి షెకెముకు వెళ్ళే రాజమార్గానికి తూర్పున ఉన్న లెబోనాకు దక్షిణ దిక్కున ఉన్న షిలోహు లో ప్రతి సంవత్సరం యెహోవాకు పండగ జరుగుతుంది.
၁၉ထိုနောက်သူတို့သည်ရှိလောမြို့၌နှစ်စဉ် ကျင်းပမြဲဖြစ်သော ထာဝရဘုရား၏ပွဲ တော်ကျရောက်တော့မည်ကိုသတိရကြ ၏။ (ရှိလောမြို့သည်ဗေသလမြို့၏မြောက် ဘက်၊ လေဗောနမြို့၏တောင်ဘက်၊ ဗေသလ မြို့မှရှေခင်မြို့သို့သွားသောလမ်းအရှေ့ ဘက်၌တည်ရှိသတည်း။-)
20 ౨౦ మీరు వెళ్లి ద్రాక్షతోటల్లో చాటున దాక్కుని ఉండండి. షిలోహు నుండి స్త్రీలు నాట్యమాడటానికి బయటకు వస్తారు.
၂၀သူတို့ကဗင်္ယာမိန်အမျိုးသားတို့အား``သင် တို့သည်စပျစ်ဥယျာဉ်များသို့သွား၍ ပုန်း အောင်း၍၊-
21 ౨౧ ద్రాక్షతోటల్లో నుండి వేగంగా బయటకు వచ్చి మీలో ప్రతి ఒక్కడూ ఒక్కో షిలోహు అమ్మాయిని పట్టుకుని భార్యగా చేసుకోడానికి మీ బెన్యామీనీయుల దేశానికి పారిపొండి.
၂၁စောင့်ဆိုင်းနေကြလော့။ ရှိလောမြို့သူတို့သည် ပွဲခံအံ့သောငှာကခုန်လျက်လာကြလိမ့် မည်။ ထိုအခါစပျစ်ဥယျာဉ်များမှထွက်၍ သင်တို့နှင့်အိမ်ထောင်ဖက်ပြုရန်နှစ်သက် ရာအမျိုးသမီးကိုဗင်္ယာမိန်ပြည်သို့ဖမ်း ဆီးခေါ်ဆောင်သွားကြလော့။-
22 ౨౨ ఆ తరువాత ఆ అమ్మాయిల తండ్రులు గానీ సోదరులు గానీ మా దగ్గరికి వచ్చి వాదిస్తే మేము వారితో ‘మీరు కాస్త మా పట్ల దయ చూపండి. యుద్ధం కారణంగా వాళ్ళలో ప్రతి వాడికీ పెళ్ళి చేసుకోడానికి స్త్రీలు దొరకలేదు. కాబట్టి ఆ స్త్రీలను ఉండనివ్వండి. మీ అంతట మీరే వాళ్ళను పెళ్లికివ్వలేదు కాబట్టి శపథం విషయంలో మీరు నిరపరాధులు అవుతారు’ అని చెబుతాము” అన్నారు.
၂၂အကယ်၍သူတို့၏ဖခင်များသို့မဟုတ် မောင်များကလာရောက်ကန့်ကွက်လျှင် သင် တို့သည်သူတို့အား`ထိုအမျိုးသမီးတို့ကို ငါတို့အားသိမ်းပိုက်ခွင့်ပြုပါ။ အဘယ်ကြောင့် ဆိုသော်ငါတို့သည်သင်တို့အားတိုက်ခိုက်၍ သူတို့ကိုသိမ်းယူခြင်းမဟုတ်သောကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထိုမှတစ်ပါးသူတို့ကိုငါတို့ အားပေးစားသူမှာသင်တို့မဟုတ်သဖြင့် သင်တို့သည်မိမိတို့၏ကတိသစ္စာကိုချိုး ဖောက်ရာမရောက်ပါ' ဟုပြန်ပြောကြ လော့'' ဟူ၍မှာထားကြ၏။
23 ౨౩ బెన్యామీనీయులు సరిగ్గా అలాగే చేసి నాట్యమాడుతున్న స్త్రీలలో నుండి తమకు కావలసిన స్త్రీలను పట్టుకుని తమకు భార్యలుగా తీసుకు వెళ్ళారు. తమ వారసత్వ స్థలానికి వెళ్ళి అక్కడ పట్టణాలను కట్టి వాటిలో నివసించారు.
၂၃ဗင်္ယာမိန်အမျိုးသားတို့သည်လည်းယင်းသို့ မှာထားသည့်အတိုင်းပြု၍ ကခုန်လျက်လာ ကြသောအမျိုးသမီးတို့အား ကိုယ်စီကိုယ် ငှရွေးယူဖမ်းဆီးခေါ်ဆောင်၍မိမိတို့နယ် မြေသို့ပြန်ပြီးလျှင်မိမိတို့၏မြို့များကို ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ကာနေထိုင်ကြလေ၏။-
24 ౨౪ ఆ తరువాత ఇశ్రాయేలీయులలో ప్రతివాడూ అక్కడనుండి తమ తమ గోత్రాలుండే ప్రాంతాలకూ, తమ కుటుంబాల దగ్గరకూ వారసత్వ భూమికీ వెళ్ళి పోయారు.
၂၄တစ်ချိန်တည်းမှာပင်အခြားဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့သည် မိမိတို့၏အမျိုးအနွယ်၊ အိမ်ထောင်စုနှင့်အိုးအိမ်ရှိရာအရပ်အသီး သီးသို့ပြန်လည်ထွက်ခွာသွားကြကုန်၏။
25 ౨౫ ఆ రోజుల్లో ఇశ్రాయేలీయులకు ఒక రాజు అంటూ లేడు. ప్రతి వాడూ తన ఇష్టం చొప్పున ప్రవర్తిస్తూ ఉన్నారు.
၂၅ထိုခေတ်အခါကဣသရေလလူမျိုးတွင် ရှင်ဘုရင်မရှိသေးချေ။ လူတိုင်းပင်မိမိ အလိုရှိသည်အတိုင်းပြုသတည်း။ တရားသူကြီးမှတ်စာပြီး၏။
