Numbers 14
1 तब सारी मण्डली चिल्ला उठी; और रात भर वे लोग रोते ही रहे।
2 और सब इस्त्राएली मूसा और हारून पर बुड़बुड़ाने लगे; और सारी मण्डली उसने कहने लगी, कि भला होता कि हम मिस्र ही में मर जाते! वा इस जंगल ही में मर जाते!
3 और यहोवा हम को उस देश में ले जा कर क्यों तलवार से मरवाना चाहता है? हमारी स्त्रियां और बालबच्चे तो लूट में चलें जाएंगे; क्या हमारे लिये अच्छा नहीं कि हम मिस्र देश को लौट जाएं?
4 फिर वे आपस में कहने लगे, आओ, हम किसी को अपना प्रधान बना लें, और मिस्र को लौट चलें।
5 तब मूसा और हारून इस्त्राएलियों की सारी मण्डली के साम्हने मुंह के बल गिरे।
6 और नून का पुत्र यहोशू और यपुन्ने का पुत्र कालिब, जो देश के भेद लेने वालों में से थे, अपने अपने वस्त्र फाड़कर,
7 इस्त्राएलियों की सारी मण्डली से कहने लगे, कि जिस देश का भेद लेने को हम इधर उधर घूम कर आए हैं, वह अत्यन्त उत्तम देश है।
8 यदि यहोवा हम से प्रसन्न हो, तो हम को उस देश में, जिस में दूध और मधु की धाराएं बहती हैं, पहुंचाकर उसे हमे दे देगा।
9 केवल इतना करो कि तुम यहोवा के विरुद्ध बलवा न करो; और न तो उस देश के लोगों से डरो, क्योंकि वे हमारी रोटी ठहरेंगे; छाया उनके ऊपर से हट गई है, और यहोवा हमारे संग है; उन से न डरो।
10 तब सारी मण्डली चिल्ला उठी, कि इन को पत्थरवाह करो। तब यहोवा का तेज सब इस्त्राएलियों पर प्रकाशमान हुआ॥
11 तब यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, वे लोग कब तक मेरा तिरस्कार करते रहेंगे? और मेरे सब आश्चर्यकर्म देखने पर भी कब तक मुझ पर विश्वास न करेंगे?
12 मैं उन्हें मरी से मारूंगा, और उनके निज भाग से उन्हें निकाल दूंगा, और तुझ से एक जाति उपजाऊंगा जो उन से बड़ी और बलवन्त होगी।
13 मूसा ने यहोवा से कहा, तब तो मिस्री जिनके मध्य में से तू अपनी सामर्थ्य दिखाकर उन लोगों को निकाल ले आया है यह सुनेंगे,
14 और इस देश के निवासियों कहेंगे। उन्होंने तो यह सुना है, कि तू जो यहोवा है इन लोगों के मध्य में रहता है; और प्रत्यक्ष दिखाई देता है, और तेरा बादल उनके ऊपर ठहरा रहता है, और तू दिन को बादल के खम्भे में, और रात को अग्नि के खम्भे में हो कर इनके आगे आगे चला करता है।
15 इसलिये यदि तू इन लोगों को एक ही बार में मार डाले, तो जिन जातियों ने तेरी कीर्ति सुनी है वे कहेंगी,
16 कि यहोवा उन लोगों को उस देश में जिसे उसने उन्हें देने की शपथ खाई थी पहुंचा न सका, इस कारण उसने उन्हें जंगल में घात कर डाला है।
17 सो अब प्रभु की सामर्थ्य की महिमा तेरे इस कहने के अनुसार हो,
18 कि यहोवा कोप करने में धीरजवन्त और अति करूणामय है, और अधर्म और अपराध का क्षमा करनेवाला है, परन्तु वह दोषी को किसी प्रकार से निर्दोष न ठहराएगा, और पूर्वजों के अधर्म का दण्ड उनके बेटों, और पोतों, और परपोतों को देता है।
19 अब इन लोगों के अधर्म को अपनी बड़ी करूणा के अनुसार, और जैसे तू मिस्र से ले कर यहां तक क्षमा करता रहा है वैसे ही अब भी क्षमा कर दे।
20 यहोवा ने कहा, तेरी बिनती के अनुसार मैं क्षमा करता हूं;
21 परन्तु मेरे जीवन की शपथ सचमुच सारी पृथ्वी यहोवा की महिमा से परिपूर्ण हो जाएगी;
22 उन सब लोगों ने जिन्होंने मेरी महिमा मिस्र देश में और जंगल में देखी, और मेरे किए हुए आश्चर्यकर्मों को देखने पर भी दस बार मेरी परीक्षा की, और मेरी बातें नहीं मानी,
23 इसलिये जिस देश के विषय मैं ने उनके पूर्वजों से शपथ खाई, उसको वे कभी देखने न पाएंगे; अर्थात जितनों ने मेरा अपमान किया है उन में से कोई भी उसे देखने न पाएगा।
24 परन्तु इस कारण से कि मेरे दास कालिब के साथ और ही आत्मा है, और उसने पूरी रीति से मेरा अनुकरण किया है, मैं उसको उस देश में जिस में वह हो आया है पहुंचाऊंगा, और उसका वंश उस देश का अधिकारी होगा।
25 अमालेकी और कनानी लोग तराई में रहते हैं, सो कल तुम घूमकर प्रस्थान करो, और लाल समुद्र के मार्ग से जंगल में जाओ॥
26 फिर यहोवा ने मूसा और हारून से कहा,
27 यह बुरी मण्डली मुझ पर बुड़बुड़ाती रहती है, उसको मैं कब तक सहता रहूं? इस्त्राएली जो मुझ पर बुड़बुड़ाते रहते हैं, उनका यह बुड़बुड़ाना मैं ने तो सुना है।
28 सो उन से कह, कि यहोवा की यह वाणी है, कि मेरे जीवन की शपथ जो बातें तुम ने मेरे सुनते कही हैं, नि:सन्देह मैं उसी के अनुसार तुम्हारे साथ व्यवहार करूंगा।
29 तुम्हारी लोथें इसी जंगल में पड़ी रहेंगी; और तुम सब में से बीस वर्ष की वा उससे अधिक अवस्था के जितने गिने गए थे, और मुझ पर बुड़बुड़ाते थे,
30 उस में से यपुन्ने के पुत्र कालिब और नून के पुत्र यहोशू को छोड़ कोई भी उस देश में न जाने पाएगा, जिसके विषय मैं ने शपथ खाई है कि तुम को उस में बसाऊंगा।
31 परन्तु तुम्हारे बालबच्चे जिनके विषय तुम ने कहा है, कि ये लूट में चले जाएंगे, उन को मैं उस देश में पहुंचा दूंगा; और वे उस देश को जान लेंगे जिस को तुम ने तुच्छ जाना है।
32 परन्तु तुम लोगों की लोथें इसी जंगल में पड़ी रहेंगी।
33 और जब तक तुम्हारी लोथें जंगल में न गल जाएं तक तक, अर्थात चालीस वर्ष तक, तुम्हारे बालबच्चे जंगल में तुम्हारे व्यभिचार का फल भोगते हुए चरवाही करते रहेंगे।
34 जितने दिन तुम उस देश का भेद लेते रहे, अर्थात चालीस दिन उनकी गिनती के अनुसार, दिन पीछे उस वर्ष, अर्थात चालीस वर्ष तक तुम अपने अधर्म का दण्ड उठाए रहोगे, तब तुम जान लोगे कि मेरा विरोध क्या है।
35 मैं यहोवा यह कह चुका हूं, कि इस बुरी मण्डली के लोग जो मेरे विरुद्ध इकट्ठे हुए हैं उसी जंगल में मर मिटेंगे; और नि:सन्देह ऐसा ही करूंगा भी।
36 तब जिन पुरूषों को मूसा ने उस देश के भेद लेने के लिये भेजा था, और उन्होंने लौटकर उस देश की नामधराई करके सारी मण्डली को कुड़कुड़ाने के लिये उभारा था,
37 उस देश की वे नामधराई करने वाले पुरूष यहोवा के मारने से उसके साम्हने मर गथे।
38 परन्तु देश के भेद लेने वाले पुरूषों में से नून का पुत्र यहोशू और यपुन्ने का पुत्र कालिब दोनों जीवित रहे।
39 तब मूसा ने ये बातें सब इस्त्राएलियों को कह सुनाईं और वे बहुत विलाप करने लगे।
40 और वे बिहान को सवेरे उठ कर यह कहते हुए पहाड़ की चोटी पर चढ़ने लगे, कि हम ने पाप किया है; परन्तु अब तैयार हैं, और उस स्थान को जाएंगे जिसके विषय यहोवा ने वचन दिया था।
41 तब मूसा ने कहा, तुम यहोवा की आज्ञा का उल्लंघन क्यों करते हो? यह सफल न होगा।
42 यहोवा तुम्हारे मध्य में नहीं है, मत चढ़ो, नहीं तो शत्रुओं से हार जाओगे।
43 वहां तुम्हारे आगे अमालेकी और कनानी लोग हैं, सो तुम तलवार से मारे जाओगे; तुम यहोवा को छोड़कर फिर गए हो, इसलिये वह तुम्हारे संग नहीं रहेगा।
44 परन्तु वे ढिठाई करके पहाड़ की चोटी पर चढ़ गए, परन्तु यहोवा की वाचा का सन्दूक, और मूसा, छावनी से न हटे।
45 अब अमालेकी और कनानी जो उस पहाड़ पर रहते थे उन पर चढ़ आए, और होर्मा तक उन को मारते चले आए॥
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16 Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35 I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
42 Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.