న్యాయాధిపతులు 7
1 ౧ యెరుబ్బయలు, (అంటే గిద్యోను) అతనితో ఉన్నవారంతా తెల్లవారే లేచి హరోదు బావి దగ్గరికి వచ్చినప్పుడు లోయలో ఉన్న మోరె కొండకు ఉత్తరంగా మిద్యానీయుల శిబిరం కనబడింది.
၁တစ်နေ့သ၌ဂိဒေါင်နှင့်တကွသူနှင့်ပါလာ သောလူအပေါင်းတို့သည်နံနက်စောစောထ ၍ ဟာရုတ်စမ်းအနီး၌တပ်ချကြ၏။ မိဒျန် အမျိုးသားတို့၏တပ်စခန်းသည်သူတို့ ၏မြောက်ဘက်မောရတောင်ကုန်းအနီးရှိ ချိုင့်ထဲ၌ရှိသတည်း။
2 ౨ యెహోవా గిద్యోనుతో “నీతో ఉన్నవారు ఎక్కువ మంది. నేను వాళ్ల చేతికి మిద్యానీయులను అప్పగించడం తగదు. ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు, ‘నా కండబలమే నాకు రక్షణ కలుగజేసింది’ అనుకుని తమను తామే గొప్ప చేసుకోవచ్చు.
၂ထာဝရဘုရားကဂိဒေါင်အား``သင်နှင့် အတူပါလာသောလူတို့သည်အရေအတွက် အားဖြင့်များလွန်းသဖြင့် သူတို့အားမိဒျန် အမျိုးသားတို့အပေါ်အောင်မြင်ခွင့်ကိုငါ မပေးလို။ အကယ်၍ပေးခဲ့သော်သူတို့သည် မိမိတို့၏စွမ်းရည်ဖြင့်အောင်ပွဲရသည်ဟု ထင်မှတ်ကာငါ့ကျေးဇူးကိုမသိဘဲနေ ကြလိမ့်မည်။-
3 ౩ కాబట్టి నువ్వు, ‘భయపడి, వణుకుతున్న వాడెవడైనా ఉంటే తొందరగా గిలాదు కొండ విడిచి తిరిగి వెళ్లిపోవాలి’ అని ప్రజలందరూ వినేలా ప్రకటించు” అని చెప్పాడు. అప్పుడు ప్రజల్లోనుంచి ఇరవై రెండు వేలమంది తిరిగి వెళ్లిపోయారు.
၃သို့ဖြစ်၍`ကြောက်လန့်သူမှန်သမျှမိမိတို့ အိမ်သို့ပြန်ကြပါ။ ငါတို့မူကားဤဂိလဒ် တောင်တွင်နေရစ်မည်' ဟုလူတို့အားကြေညာ လော့'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။ ထိုအခါလူပေါင်း နှစ်သောင်းနှစ်ထောင်တို့သည်ပြန်သွားကြ၏။ လူတစ်သောင်းမူကားနေရစ်ကြလေသည်။
4 ౪ ఇంకా అక్కడ పదివేలమంది ఉన్నారు. యెహోవా “ఈ ప్రజలు ఇంకా ఎక్కువమందే. నీళ్ల దగ్గరికి వాళ్లను దిగేలా చెయ్యి. అక్కడ నీ కోసం వాళ్ల సంఖ్య తగ్గిస్తాను. ‘ఇతను నీతో కలిసి వెళ్ళాలి’ అని ఎవరి గురించి చెబుతానో అతడు నీతో కలిసి వెళ్ళాలి. ‘ఇతడు నీతో కలిసి వెళ్లకూడదు’ అని ఎవరి గురించి చెప్తానో అతడు వెళ్ళకూడదు” అని గిద్యోనుతో చెప్పాడు.
၄ထိုနောက်ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဂိဒေါင်အား ``ကျန်ရှိနေသူတို့မှာများလွန်းသေးသည်။ သူတို့အားရေဆိပ်သို့ခေါ်သွားလော့။ ထို အရပ်တွင်သူတို့ကိုသင့်အတွက်ငါလူနှစ်စု ခွဲ၍ပေးမည်။ အကယ်၍ဤမည်သောသူသည် သင်နှင့်အတူလိုက်ရမည်ဟုငါဆိုလျှင် ထို သူသည်သင်နှင့်လိုက်ရမည်။ အကယ်၍ဤ မည်သောသူသည်သင်နှင့်အတူမလိုက်ရ ဟုငါဆိုလျှင်မူကား ထိုသူသည်သင်နှင့် မလိုက်ရ'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။-
5 ౫ అతడు నీళ్ల దగ్గరికి ఆ ప్రజలను దిగేలా చేసినప్పుడు యెహోవా “కుక్క తాగినట్టు తన నాలుకతో నీళ్ళు తాగిన వాణ్ణి, నీళ్ళు తాగడానికి మోకాళ్ళు వంచిన వాణ్ణి, వేరువేరుగా ఉంచు” అని గిద్యోనుతో చెప్పాడు.
၅ဂိဒေါင်သည်လူတို့ကိုရေဆိပ်သို့ခေါ်ဆောင် သွားပြီးနောက် ထာဝရဘုရားက``ထိုသူတို့ တွင်ရေကိုခွေးကဲ့သို့လျှာနှင့်လျက်သောက် သောသူများနှင့် ဒူးထောက်၍သောက်သောသူ များကိုနှစ်စုခွဲလော့'' ဟုဂိဒေါင်အားမိန့် တော်မူ၏။-
6 ౬ చేత్తో నోటికందించుకుని నీళ్ళు తాగినవాళ్ళు మూడు వందల మంది. మిగిలిన వాళ్ళందరు నీళ్లు తాగడానికి మోకాళ్ళు వంచినవాళ్ళే.
၆ရေကိုလက်ခုပ်ဖြင့်ယူပြီးလျှင်လျှာနှင့် လျက်သောက်သောလူအရေအတွက်မှာ သုံးရာရှိ၍ ကျန်သောသူတို့မူကားဒူး ထောက်၍ရေကိုသောက်သူများဖြစ်ကြ၏။-
7 ౭ అప్పుడు యెహోవా “చేత్తో నోటికందించుకుని నీళ్ళు తాగిన మూడు వందల మనుషుల ద్వారా మిమ్మల్ని రక్షిస్తాను. మిద్యానీయుల మీద జయం ఇస్తాను. తక్కిన ప్రజలందరూ తమ తమ ప్రాంతాలకు వెళ్ళొచ్చు” అని గిద్యోనుతో చెప్పాడు.
၇ထာဝရဘုရားက``ငါသည်ရေကိုလျှာ ဖြင့်လျက်သောက်သောသူသုံးရာအားဖြင့် သင့်ကိုကယ်ဆယ်၍မိဒျန်အမျိုးသား တို့အပေါ်၌အောင်ပွဲခံစေမည်။ အခြား သူအပေါင်းတို့ကိုအိမ်သို့ပြန်ရန်ပြော ကြားလော့'' ဟုဂိဒေါင်အားမိန့်တော် မူ၏။-
8 ౮ ఎంపిక చేసిన ప్రజలు వెళ్లిపోయినవారి ఆహారం, బూరలు తీసుకున్నారు. యెహోషువా ప్రజలందరినీ వాళ్ళ గుడారాలకు పంపివేశాడు. కాని ఆ మూడువందల మందిని అక్కడే ఉంచుకున్నాడు. మిద్యానీయుల శిబిరం అతనికి దిగువ భాగంలో లోయలో ఉంది.
၈သို့ဖြစ်၍ဂိဒေါင်သည်ရိက္ခာနှင့်တံပိုး ခရာရှိသမျှကို ယူထားသောလူသုံးရာ မှတစ်ပါးအခြားဣသရေလအမျိုး သားအပေါင်းတို့ကိုအိမ်သို့ပြန်စေ၏။ မိဒျန်အမျိုးသားများ၏တပ်စခန်းမှာ အနိမ့်ပိုင်းချိုင့်ထဲတွင်ရှိသတည်း။
9 ౯ ఆ రాత్రి యెహోవా అతనితో ఇలా అన్నాడు “నువ్వు లేచి ఆ శిబిరం మీదికి వెళ్ళు. దాని మీద నీకు జయం ఇస్తాను.
၉ထိုည၌ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဂိဒေါင် အား``ထ၍သူတို့၏တပ်စခန်းကိုတိုက် ခိုက်လော့။ သင့်အားအောင်ပွဲကိုငါပေးမည်။-
၁၀သို့ရာတွင်အကယ်၍သင်သည်သူတို့အား တိုက်ခိုက်ရန်ကြောက်လန့်နေပါမူ သင်၏ အစေခံဖုရကိုခေါ်၍ထိုတပ်စခန်းသို့ သွားလော့။-
11 ౧౧ ఆ శిబిరంలో ఉన్నవాళ్ళు చెప్పుకుంటున్న దాన్ని వినిన తరువాత నువ్వు ఆ శిబిరంలోకి దిగి వెళ్ళడానికి నీకు ధైర్యం వస్తుంది” అని చెప్పినప్పుడు, అతడు, అతని పనివాడైన పూరా ఆ శిబిరంలో బయట కాపలా వాళ్ళున్న చోటికి వెళ్ళారు.
၁၁သူတို့ပြောဆိုနေကြသောစကားကိုသင် ကြားသိရလိမ့်မည်။ ထိုအခါသင်သည်တိုက် ခိုက်ရန်ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိကိုရလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမိန့် တော်မူ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ဂိဒေါင်သည်မိမိအစေ ခံဖုရနှင့်အတူ ရန်သူ့တပ်စခန်းအစွန် နားသို့သွားလေသည်။-
12 ౧౨ మిద్యానీయులు, అమాలేకీయులు, తూర్పుప్రాంతాల వాళ్ళు లెక్కకు మిడతల్లా ఆ మైదానంలో పోగై ఉన్నారు. వాళ్ల ఒంటెలు సముద్ర తీరంలో ఉన్న యిసుక రేణువుల్లా లెక్కకు మించి ఉన్నాయి.
၁၂မိဒျန်အမျိုးသား၊ အာမလက်အမျိုးသား၊ သဲကန္တာရနေလူမျိုးတို့သည်ကျိုင်းကောင် အုပ်ကြီးသဖွယ်ချိုင့်၌အိပ်နေကြ၏။ သူ တို့၏ကုလားအုတ်များသည်သမုဒ္ဒရာ ကမ်းခြေရှိသဲလုံးနှင့်အမျှများသတည်း။
13 ౧౩ గిద్యోను దిగి వచ్చినప్పుడు, ఒకడు తాను కనిన కలను మరో సైనికుడికి చెప్తూ “నాకొక కలొచ్చింది. బార్లీ రొట్టె ఒకటి మిద్యానీయుల శిబిరంలోకి దొర్లి, ఒక గుడారానికి తాకి, దాన్ని పడగొట్టి తలకిందులు చేయగా ఆ గుడారం కూలిపోయింది” అన్నాడు.
၁၃ဂိဒေါင်ရောက်ရှိလာချိန်၌လူတစ်ယောက် သည် မိမိမြင်မက်သည့်အိပ်မက်အကြောင်း ကိုမိတ်ဆွေတစ်ဦးအားပြောပြလျက်နေ၏။ ထိုသူက``မုယောမုန့်ပြားတစ်ချပ်သည်ငါ တို့တပ်စခန်းထဲသို့လိမ့်ဝင်လာပြီးလျှင် တဲရှင်တစ်ခုနှင့်တိုက်မိသဖြင့်ထိုတဲရှင် သည်ပြိုလဲပြားချပ်၍သွားသည်ကိုငါ အိပ်မက်မြင်မက်ပါသည်'' ဟုဆိုလေသည်။
14 ౧౪ అందుకు అతని స్నేహితుడు “అది ఇశ్రాయేలీయుడు యోవాషు కొడుకు గిద్యోను ఖడ్గమే తప్ప మరొకటి కాదు. దేవుడు మిద్యానీయుల మీద, ఈ శిబిరం మీద, అతనికి జయం ఇస్తున్నాడు” అని జవాబిచ్చాడు.
၁၄ထိုမိတ်ဆွေကလည်း``ထိုမုန့်ပြားသည်ဣသ ရေလအမျိုးသားယောရှ၏သားဖြစ်သူ ဂိဒေါင်၏ဋ္ဌားပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ မုန့်ပြားသည် အခြားအနက်အဋ္ဌိပ္ပါယ်ကိုမဆောင်နိုင် ရာ။ ဘုရားသခင်သည်သူ့အားမိဒျန် အမျိုးနှင့် ငါတို့တပ်တစ်ခုလုံးအပေါ်၌ အောင်ပွဲခံစေတော်မူလေပြီ'' ဟုဆို၏။
15 ౧౫ గిద్యోను ఆ కల, దాని భావం విన్నప్పుడు, అతడు యెహోవాకు నమస్కారం చేసి ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల శిబిరంలోకి తిరిగి వెళ్లి “లెండి, యెహోవా మిద్యానీయుల సైన్యం మీద మీకు జయం ఇచ్చాడు” అని చెప్పి,
၁၅ထိုသူ၏အိပ်မက်နှင့်ယင်း၏အနက်အဋ္ဌိပ္ပါယ် ကိုကြားသိရသောအခါဂိဒေါင်သည်ဒူး ထောက်၍ ထာဝရဘုရားအားကိုးကွယ်၏။ ထိုနောက်ဣသရေလတပ်စခန်းသို့ပြန် ပြီးလျှင်``ထကြ၊ ထာဝရဘုရားသည်သင် တို့အားမိဒျန်တပ်အပေါ်၌အောင်ပွဲခံ စေတော်မူလေပြီ'' ဟုဆို၏။-
16 ౧౬ ఆ మూడు వందలమందిని మూడు గుంపులుగా చేశాడు. ఒక్కొక్కరి చేతికి ఒక బూర, ఒక ఖాళీ కుండ, ఆ కుండలో ఒక దివిటీని ఇచ్చి, వాళ్లతో ఇలా అన్నాడు “నన్ను చూసి, నేను చేసినట్టు చేయండి.
၁၆သူသည်မိမိတပ်သားသုံးရာကိုသုံးစုခွဲ ပြီးနောက် လူတိုင်းအားမီးရှူးတိုင်ပါသော အိုးတစ်လုံးနှင့်တံပိုးခရာတစ်ခုကိုပေး ၏။-
၁၇ထိုနောက်သူတို့အား``ရန်သူတပ်စခန်းအစွန် သို့ငါရောက်ရှိလာသောအခါ သင်တို့သည် ငါ့ကိုကြည့်၍ငါပြုသည့်အတိုင်းပြုကြ လော့။-
18 ౧౮ నేను, నాతో ఉన్నవాళ్ళందరు బూరలను ఊదేటప్పుడు మీరు కూడా ఆ శిబిరం చుట్టూ బూరలు ఊదుతూ, ‘యెహోవాకు, గిద్యోనుకు, జయం’ అని కేకలు వెయ్యాలి” అని చెప్పాడు.
၁၈ငါနှင့်ငါ၏လူစုတံပိုးခရာမှုတ်သော အခါသင်တို့သည်လည်း စခန်းပတ်လည်၌ တံပိုးခရာများကိုမှုတ်ပြီးလျှင်`ထာဝရ ဘုရားနှင့်ဂိဒေါင်အတွက်' ဟူ၍ကြွေး ကြော်ကြလော့'' ဟုမှာထားလေသည်။
19 ౧౯ కాబట్టి, అర్దరాత్రి కాపలా కాసేవారు కాపలా సమయం మారుతూ ఉన్నప్పుడు, గిద్యోను, అతనితో ఉన్న వందమంది, శిబిరం చివరకూ వెళ్లి, బూరలు ఊది, వాళ్ళ చేతుల్లో ఉన్న కుండలు పగులగొట్టారు.
၁၉ဂိဒေါင်နှင့်သူ၏တပ်သားတစ်ရာတို့သည် ရန်သူ့တပ်စခန်းအစွန်သို့ သန်းခေါင်အချိန် မတိုင်မီအစောင့်ကင်းလဲပြီးစအခါ၌ ရောက်ရှိလာကြ၏။ ထိုအခါသူတို့သည် တံပိုးခရာမှုတ်၍ မိမိတို့ကိုင်ဆောင်ထား သောအိုးတို့ကိုခွဲပစ်လိုက်ကြ၏။-
20 ౨౦ అలా ఆ మూడు గుంపులవాళ్ళు బూరలు ఊదుతూ ఆ కుండలు పగులగొట్టి, ఎడమ చేతుల్లో దివిటీలు, కుడి చేతుల్లో ఊదడానికి బూరలు పట్టుకుని “యెహోవా ఖడ్గం, గిద్యోను ఖడ్గం” అని కేకలు వేశారు.
၂၀အခြားတပ်သားနှစ်စုသည်လည်းဤနည်း တူပင်ပြုကြ၏။ သူတို့အားလုံးပင်ဘယ် လက်ဖြင့်မီးရှူးတိုင်ကိုကိုင်၍ ညာလက်ဖြင့် တံပိုးခရာကိုကိုင်ထားကြလေသည်။ ထို နောက်``ထာဝရဘုရားနှင့်ဂိဒေါင်၏ဋ္ဌား'' ဟူ၍ကြွေးကြော်ကြ၏။-
21 ౨౧ వాళ్లలో ప్రతివాడూ తన స్థలం లో శిబిరం చుట్టూ నిలబడి ఉన్నప్పుడు ఆ సైనికులు అందరూ కేకలు వేస్తూ పారిపోయారు.
၂၁သူတို့သည်ရန်သူ့တပ်စခန်းပတ်လည်၌ အသီးသီးမိမိတို့နေရာ၌ရပ်နေကြ၏။ ထိုအခါရန်သူတပ်တစ်တပ်လုံးပင်လျှင် အော်ဟစ်ထွက်ပြေးကြလေသည်။-
22 ౨౨ ఆ మూడు వందలమంది బూరలు ఊదినప్పుడు యెహోవా, ఆ శిబిరం అంతటిలో ప్రతి వాని కత్తి తన ప్రక్కన ఉన్న వాని మీదకి తిప్పాడు. ఆ సైన్యం సెరేరాతు వైపు ఉన్న బేత్షిత్తా వరకూ, తబ్బాతు దగ్గర ఉన్న ఆబేల్మెహోలా తీరం వరకూ పారిపోయినప్పుడు,
၂၂ဂိဒေါင်၏တပ်သားတို့တံပိုးခရာများကို မှုတ်ကြစဉ်အခါ၌ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ရန်သူတို့အားအချင်းချင်းဋ္ဌားလက်နက် ဖြင့်တိုက်ခိုက်စေတော်မူ၏။ သူတို့သည်ဇေရ ရတ်အရပ်သို့ဦးတည်လျက်ဗက်ရှိတ္တမြို့သို့ တိုင်အောင်လည်းကောင်း၊ တဗ္ဗတ်မြို့အနီးအာ ဗေလမဟောလမြို့သို့တိုင်အောင်လည်း ကောင်းထွက်ပြေးကြလေသည်။
23 ౨౩ నఫ్తాలి గోత్రంలో నుంచి, ఆషేరు గోత్రంలో నుంచి, మనష్షే గోత్రమంతటిలో నుంచి, పిలుచుకు వచ్చిన ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు కలిసి మిద్యానీయులను తరిమారు.
၂၃ထိုအခါနဿလိနှင့်အာရှာအနွယ်ဝင် တို့ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ မနာရှေဒေသနှစ်ပိုင်း စလုံးမှလူတို့ကိုလည်းကောင်းဆင့်ခေါ် လိုက်ရာ သူတို့သည်မိဒျန်အမျိုးသားတို့ ကိုလိုက်လံတိုက်ခိုက်ကြ၏။-
24 ౨౪ గిద్యోను ఎఫ్రాయిమీయుల ఎడారి ప్రాంతం అంతటా వేగులను పంపి “మిద్యానీయులను ఎదుర్కోడానికి రండి. బేత్బారా వరకూ వాగులను, యొర్దాను నది, వాళ్లకంటే ముందుగా స్వాధీనం చేసుకోండి” అని ముందే చెప్పాడు కాబట్టి ఎఫ్రాయిమీయులంతా కూడుకుని బేత్బారా వరకూ వాగులను యొర్దానును స్వాధీనపరచుకున్నారు.
၂၄ဂိဒေါင်သည်ဧဖရိမ်တောင်ကုန်းဒေသအရပ် ရပ်သို့စေတမန်များကိုလွှတ်၍``မိဒျန်အမျိုး သားတို့အားတိုက်ခိုက်ရန်ဆင်းခဲ့ကြလော့။ ယော်ဒန်မြစ်ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ဗက်ဗာရရွာတိုင် အောင်ရှိသမျှသောချောင်းငယ်တို့ကိုလည်း ကောင်း ထိုသူတို့မကူးမဖြတ်နိုင်စေရန်သိမ်း ယူကြလော့'' ဟုမှာကြားလိုက်၏။ ဧဖရိမ် အနွယ်ဝင်အပေါင်းတို့သည်စုရုံးပြီးလျှင် ယော်ဒန်မြစ်နှင့်ဗက်ဗာရရွာအထိချောင်း ငယ်ရှိသမျှတို့ကိုသိမ်းယူကြ၏။-
25 ౨౫ వాళ్ళు మిద్యాను అధిపతులైన ఓరేబు జెయేబు అనే ఇద్దరిని పట్టుకుని, ఓరేబు బండమీద ఓరేబును చంపారు. జెయేబు ద్రాక్షల తొట్టి దగ్గర జెయేబును చంపి, మిద్యానీయులను తరుముకుంటూ వెళ్ళారు. ఓరేబు, జెయేబుల తలలు యొర్దాను అవతల ఉన్న గిద్యోను దగ్గరికి తెచ్చారు.
၂၅သူတို့သည်မိဒျန်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်နှစ်ဦးဖြစ်သော သြရဘနှင့်ဇေဘတို့ကိုလက်ရဖမ်းမိသ ဖြင့် သြရဘအားသြရဘကျောက်၌လည်း ကောင်း၊ ဇေဘကိုဇေဘစပျစ်သီးနယ်ရာ အရပ်၌လည်းကောင်းကွပ်မျက်လိုက်ကြ လေသည်။ သူတို့သည်မိဒျန်အမျိုးသား တို့နောက်သို့ဆက်လက်လိုက်လံကြပြီး နောက် သြရဘနှင့်ဇေဘတို့၏ဦးခေါင်း ကိုယော်ဒန်မြစ်အရှေ့ဘက်ကမ်းသို့ရောက် ရှိနေသောဂိဒေါင်၏ထံသို့ယူဆောင်ခဲ့ ကြ၏။
