1 राजा 15

1 अबियाम यहूदाका नयाँ राजा भए। नाबातका छोरा यारोबामले इस्राएलमा शासन गर्दा अठारहऔं वर्षमा यस्तो भयो।

2 अबियामले यरूशलेममा तीन वर्ष शासन गरे। उनकी आमाको नाउँ माका थियो। तिनी अब्शालोमकी छोरी थिइन्।

3 उनले त्यस्तैं सबै पापका कामहरू गरे जस्तो उनका पिताले गरेका थिए। अबियाम परमप्रभु आफ्नो परमेश्वर प्रति विश्वासी थिएनन्। यसकारण उनी आफ्नो हजूरबा दाऊद जस्तो विश्वासी थिएनन्।

4 दाऊदको खातिर परमप्रभुले उसलाई एउटा सन्तान यरूशलेमा दिनुभयो। परमप्रभुले दाऊदका सन्तानलाई यरूशलेममाथि शासन गर्न दिनुभयो अनि यसलाई रक्षा गर्ने प्रतिज्ञा गर्नु भयो।

5 दाऊदले सँधै नै सही काम गरे जो परमप्रभुले चाहानु हुन्थ्यो। उनले सँधै नै परमप्रभुको आदेश पालन गरे। एक पटक दाऊदले परमप्रभुको आदेश पालन गरेनन् जुन समयमा दाऊदले हित्ती उरीयाहको विरोधमा पाप गरेका थिए।

6 रहबाम र यारोबामको बिचमा युद्ध अबियामको जीवन भरी नै चलिरह्यो।

7 अबियामले जे काम गरे सबै नै ‘यहूदाका राजाहरूको इतिहासको’ पुस्तकमा लेखिएको छ।अबियाम राजा भएको समयमा अबियाम र यरोबामबीच युद्ध भइरह्यो।

8 जब अबियामको मृत्यु भयो उसलाई दाऊदको शहरमा गाडियो। अबियामको छोरा आसा नयाँ राजा भए।

9 इस्राएलमा यारोबाम राजा भएको बिसौं वर्षमा आसा यहूदाका राजा भए।

10 आसाले यरूशलेममा 41 वर्ष शासन गरे। उनकी हजूरआमाको नाउँ “माका” थियो। अनि “माका” अब्शालोमकी छोरी थिइन्।

11 आसाले आफ्ना पिता-पुर्खा दाऊदले गरे जस्तैं परमप्रभुले जे स्वीकृत गर्नु भएको थियो त्यो कामहरू मात्र गरे।

12 त्यस समयमा यस्ता मानिसहरू थिए जो आफ्नो शरीर यौनका लागि बेचेर अरू देवताहरूको सेवा गर्दथे। आसाले ती मानिसहरूलाई देश छोड्न वाध्य गराए। आसाले ती मूर्तिहरू पनि हटाए जो उनका पुर्खाहरूले बनाएका थिए।

13 आसाले उसको आमा माकालाई पनि रानीको पदबाट हटाईदिए। माकाले अशेरा देवीको पूजा गर्न घृणित खाम्बाहरू बनाएकी थिइन्। आसाले ती खाम्बाहरू ढालिदिए अनि तिनीहरूलाई किदरोन बेंसीमा जलाईदिए।

14 उसले अग्ला ठाउँको पूजास्थानहरू भत्काएनन् तर उनी आफ्नो जीवनभरी परमप्रभु प्रति सम्पूर्ण हृदयले विश्वासी रहे।

15 आसा र उनका पिताले परमेश्वरलाई केही चीजहरू दिए। तिनीहरूले सुन, चाँदी र अरू चीजहरूको उपहार दिए। आसाले ती सबै चीजहरू मन्दिरमा राखे।

16 राजा आसा यहूदाका राजा भएको समयमा उनी सधैं इस्राएलका राजा बाशाको विरोधमा लडिरहेको हुन्थे।

17 इस्राएलका राजा बाशा यहूदाको विरूद्धमा लडे। बाशाले उसका मानिसहरूलाई आसाको देश यहूदा जाने देखि रोक्न चाहन्थे। यसकारण उनले रामा शहरलाई साह्रै सुदृढ बनाए।

19 आसाले यो संदेश पठाए, “मेरा पिता र तिम्रा पिता माझ शान्ति सम्झौता भएको थियो। अहिले म तिमीसित शान्ति सम्झौता गर्न चाहन्छु। म तिम्रो लागि सुन-चाँदीको उपहार पठाइरहेको छु। इस्राएलका राजा बाशासित कृपया शान्ति सम्झौता भंग गर्नुहोस जसले गर्दा ऊ मेरो देशबाट बाहिर जानेछ अनि हामी लाई अलग छोड्नेछ।”

21 बाशाले यी आक्रामणको बारेमा सुने। यसकारण उनले रामालाई सुदृढ बनाउन छोडिदिए। उनले त्यो शहर त्याग गरे अनि तिर्सातिर फर्किए।

22 तब राजा आसाले यहूदाका जम्मै मानिसहरूलाई आदेश दिए। कसैलाई पनि माफी भएन। तिनीहरू रामा गए अनि सबै ढुङ्गा र काठहरू बोके जसद्वारा बाशा त्यो शहरलाई सुदृढ बनाउँदै थिए। तिनीहरूले ती सामानहरू बिन्यामीनको भूमिमा गेबा अनि मिस्पा पुर्याए। तब राजा आसाले ती दुइ शहरहरूलाई अझै दरिलो बनाए।

24 तिनी मरे अनि उनलाई उनका पुर्खा दाऊदको शहरमा गाडियो। तब आसाका छोरा यहोशापात उनीपछि नयाँ राजा भए।

25 आसाको शासनकालको दोस्रो वर्षमा यारोबामका छोरा नादाब इस्राएलका राजा भए। नादाबले इस्राएलमा दुइ वर्ष शासन गरे।

26 नादाबले परमप्रभुले जे नराम्रो सम्झे त्यही गरे। उनले पापका कामहरू त्यसरी गरे जसरी उनका पिता यारोबामले गरेका थिए। यारोबामले पनि इस्राएल मानिसहरूलाई पाप गर्न लगाए।

27 बाशा अहियाहका छोरा थिए। तिनीहरू इस्साकार कुस समूहका थिए। बाशाले राजा नादाबलाई मार्ने योजना बनाए। नादाबको शासनकालमा सम्पूर्ण इस्राएल गिब्बतोन शहर को विरूद्ध लडिरहेको थियो। यो एउटा पलिश्तीहरूको शहर थियो। त्यस ठाउँमा बाशाले नादाबलाई मारे।

28 आसा यहूदाका राजा भएको समय तेस्रो वर्षमा यो घटना भयो। अनि आशा इस्राएलका अर्का राजा भए।

29 बाशा जब नयाँ राजा भए, उनले यारोबामको परिवारको प्रत्येक सदस्यलाई मारे। बाशाले यारोबामको परिवारको कसैलाई पनि जिउँदो छोेडेनन्। परमप्रभुले जसरी हुनुपर्छ भन्नुभएको थियो यो घट्ना त्यसरी नै भयो। परमप्रभुले शीलोबाट आफ्नो सेवक अहियाह मार्फत भन्नुभएको थियो।

30 यस्तो भयो किन यारोबामले धेरै पापका कामहरू गरेका थिए। अनि यारोबामले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई धेरै पाप गर्न लगाए। यारोबामले परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वरलाई रीस उठाए।

31 अरू कार्यहरू जे जति नादाबले गरे इस्राएलका ‘राजाहरूको इतिहासको’ पुस्तकमा लेखिएको छ।

32 बाशाले इस्राएलमा शासन गरेको समयमा उनी यहूदाका राजा आशाको विरोधमा युद्ध गरिरहेकाथिए।

33 आसाले यहूदामा शासन गरेको तेस्रो वर्षमा अहियाहका छोरा बाशा इस्राएलका राजा भए। बाशाले तिर्सामा 24 वर्ष शासन गरे।

34 तर बाशाले त्यही सब कामहरू गरे जसलाई परमप्रभुले भूल कामहरू थिए भनि भनेको थियो। उनले पनि ती पापहरू गरे जो यारोबामले गरेको थियो। यारोबामले पनि इस्राएलीहरूलाई पाप गर्न लगाए।

1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.

4 Nevertheless for David’s sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.

16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.

26 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.