1 Samuelova 6
1 Kovčeg Jahvin bijaše sedam mjeseci u zemlji Filistejaca.
And the Ark of YHWH is in the field of the Philistines [for] seven months,
2 Tada Filistejci sazvaše svećenike i vrače i zapitaše ih: “Što da radimo s Kovčegom Jahvinim? Poučite nas kako da ga pošaljemo natrag na njegovo mjesto.”
and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, “What do we do to the Ark of YHWH? Let us know with what we send it to its place.”
3 Oni odgovoriše: “Ako hoćete vratiti Kovčeg Boga Izraelova, ne šaljite ga natrag prazna nego uza nj pošaljite i naknadnicu. Tada ćete se izliječiti i znat ćete zašto se njegova ruka nije okrenula od vas.”
And they say, “If you are sending the Ark of the God of Israel away, you do not send it away empty; for you certainly send back a guilt-offering to Him; then you are healed, and it has been known to you why His hand does not turn aside from you.”
4 Oni zapitaše: “Kakvu naknadnicu treba da mu pošaljemo?” Oni odgovoriše: “Prema broju filistejskih knezova, pet zlatnih čireva i pet zlatnih štakora, jer je ista nevolja na vama i na vašim knezovima.
And they say, “What [is] the guilt-offering which we send back to Him?” And they say, “The number of the princes of the Philistines—five golden lumps, and five golden muroids—for one plague [is] to you all, and to your princes,
5 Načinite, dakle, likove svojih čireva i likove svojh štakora, koji vam zatiru zemlju, i dajte slavu Bogu Izraelovu. Možda će dignuti ruku svoju od vas, od vaših bogova i od vaše zemlje.
and you have made images of your lumps, and images of your muroids that are corrupting the land, and have given glory to the God of Israel; it may be [that] He lightens His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land;
6 Zašto hoćete da vam srce otvrdne kao što je bilo otvrdnulo Egipćanima i faraonu? Kad ih je Bog pritisnuo, nisu li ih onda pustili da odu?
and why do you harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Do they not—when He has rolled Himself on them—send them away, and they go?
7 Pripremite sada jedna nova kola i uzmite dvije krave dojilice koje još nisu nosile jarma: upregnite krave u kola, a njihovu telad odvedite natrag u staju.
And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling cows, on which a yoke has not gone up, and you have bound the cows in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house,
8 Tada ćete uzeti Kovčeg Jahvin i staviti ga na kola. Zlatne predmete koje mu prinosite kao žrtvu naknadnicu stavit ćete u kovčežić kraj njega i tako neka pođe.
and you have taken the Ark of YHWH, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which you have returned to Him—a guilt-offering—you put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it has gone;
9 Zatim gledajte: ako krene prema svome kraju, put Bet Šemeša, onda je sigurno da nam je on zadao ovo veliko zlo; ako li ne krene tako, znat ćemo da nas nije udarila njegova ruka, nego da nam se to dogodilo slučajno.”
and you have seen if it goes up the way of its own border, to Beth-Shemesh—He has done this great evil to us; and if not, then we have known that His hand has not come against us; it has been an accident to us.”
10 Ljudi učiniše tako: uzeše dvije krave dojilice i upregoše ih u kola, a njihovu telad zadržaše u staji.
And the men do so, and take two suckling cows, and bind them in the cart, and they shut up their young ones in the house;
11 Kovčeg Jahvin staviše na kola i kovčežić sa zlatnim štakorima i s likovima svojih čireva.
and they place the Ark of YHWH on the cart, and the coffer, and the golden muroids, and the images of their lumps.
12 Krave udariše ravno cestom prema Bet Šemešu i jednako su išle istim putem, mukale su idući, a nisu skretale ni desno ni lijevo. Filistejski knezovi pratili su ih do granice Bet Šemeša.
And the cows go straight in the way, on the way to Beth-Shemesh, they have gone in one highway, going and lowing, and have not turned aside right or left; and the princes of the Philistines are going after them to the border of Beth-Shemesh.
13 Stanovnici Bet Šemeša upravo su bili zabavljeni žetvom pšenice u dolini. Digavši oči, ugledaše Kovčeg i potrčaše mu s veseljem u susret.
And the Beth-Shemeshites are reaping their wheat-harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and see the Ark, and rejoice to see [it].
14 Kad su kola stigla na polje Jošue iz Bet Šemeša, zaustaviše se. Ondje bijaše velik kamen. Tada iscijepaše drvo od kola i prinesoše krave kao žrtvu paljenicu Jahvi.
And the cart has come into the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite, and stands there, and there [is] a great stone, and they cleave the wood of the cart, and they have caused the cows to ascend [as] a burnt-offering to YHWH.
15 Leviti bijahu skinuli Kovčeg Jahvin i kovčežić što je bio kraj njega i u kojem su bili zlatni predmeti i sve bijahu stavili na onaj veliki kamen. Stanovnici Bet Šemeša prinosili su toga dana žrtve paljenice i klali žrtve klanice Jahvi.
And the Levites have taken down the Ark of YHWH, and the coffer which [is] with it, in which [are] the vessels of gold, and place [them] on the great stone; and the men of Beth-Shemesh have caused burnt-offerings to ascend and sacrifice sacrifices in that day to YHWH;
16 Kad je to vidjelo pet filistejskih knezova, vratiše se u Ekron isti dan.
and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and return [to] Ekron, on that day.
17 A ovo je pet zlatnih čireva što su ih Filistejci poslali kao žrtvu naknadnicu Jahvi: za Ašdod jedan, za Gazu jedan, za Aškelon jedan, za Gat jedan, za Ekron jedan.
And these [are] the golden lumps which the Philistines have sent back—a guilt-offering to YHWH: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;
18 A zlatnih je štakora bilo toliko koliko svih gradova filistejskih, u svih pet kneževina, od utvrđenih gradova do otvorenih sela. Svjedok je veliki kamen na koji su položili Kovčeg Jahvin i koji još i danas stoji na polju Jošue iz Bet Šemeša.
and the golden muroids—the number of all the cities of the Philistines, for the five princes, from the fortified city even to a village of the open place, and to the great stone [[or great meadow]] on which they placed the Ark of YHWH—[are] in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite to this day.
19 Sinovi Jekonijini nisu se radovali sa stanovnicima Bet Šemeša kad su vidjeli Kovčeg Jahvin. Zato je Jahve pobio sedamdeset ljudi među njima. Narod je tugovao zbog toga što ga je Jahve tako teško iskušao.
And He strikes among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the Ark of YHWH, indeed, He strikes seventy men [out] of fifty thousand men [[or fifty thousand and seventy men]] among the people; and the people mourn, because YHWH struck among the people [with] a great striking.
20 Tada ljudi u Bet Šemešu rekoše: “Tko bi mogao opstati pred Jahvom, ovim Svetim Bogom? Kome će otići sada od nas?”
And the men of Beth-Shemesh say, “Who is able to stand before YHWH, this holy God? And to whom does He go up from us?”
21 I poslaše poslanike stanovnicima Kirjat Jearima i poručiše im: “Filistejci su vratili Kovčeg Jahvin. Dođite i odnesite ga sebi.”
And they send messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have sent back the Ark of YHWH; come down, take it up with you.”
