Buku Lakwamba la Samuyeli 4:1-22
4 Mazu ngaku Samuyeli ngangufika kwa Ayisirayeli wosi.
Pavuli paki, Ayisirayeli anguluta kuti akachiti nkhondu ndi Afilisiti; yiwu angujintha msasa pafupi ndi Ebenezeri, ndipu Afilisiti angujintha msasa ku Afeki.
2 Afilisiti angundanda mumzeri wakunozgeke nkhondu kuti akakumani ndi Ayisirayeli, kweni nkhondu yinguŵayende umampha cha Ayisirayeli ndipu anguthereskeka ndi Afilisiti. Afilisiti angubaya anthulumi pafufupi 4,000 pamalu po achitiyanga nkhondu.
3 Ŵanthu ŵati awere kumsasa, ŵara ŵa Ayisirayeli angukamba kuti: “Ntchifukwa wuli Yehova wazomereza kuti Afilisiti atithereski* msanawale?+ Tiyeni tikato bokosi la phanganu laku Yehova ku Shilo+ kuti lizije pakati pidu, kweniso kuti lizititaski mu manja mwa arwani ŵidu.”
4 Mwaviyo, ŵanthu angutumika kuti aluti ku Shilo. Yiwu anguchinyamuwa bokosi la phanganu laku Yehova wa mizinda, yo waja pampandu waufumu pachanya* pa akerubi.+ Ŵana ŵaŵi aku Eli, Hofini ndi Finihasi+ ŵenga so kweniko ndi bokosi la phanganu laku Chiuta wauneneska.
5 Bokosi la phanganu laku Yehova lati lafika ŵaka mumsasa, Ayisirayeli wosi angudaniriza ukongwa, mwakuti charu chingundengandenga.
6 Afilisiti ŵati avwa kudaniriza angukamba kuti: “Ntchifukwa wuli mumsasa wa Aheberi muvwika chiwawa chikulu?” Pakumaliya, Afilisiti anguziŵa kuti Bokosi laku Yehova laza mumsasa.
7 Afilisiti anguchita mantha ukongwa pakuti akambanga kuti: “Chiuta waza mumsasa!”+ Ndipu angukamba kuti: “Tasokwa isi, chifukwa vinthu va nge ivi vechendachitikepu!
8 Tasokwa isi! Ndiyani yo watitaskengi mu manja mwaku Chiuta wanthazi mwenuyu? Uyu ndi Chiuta yo wangubaya Ayijipiti ndi milili yakupambanapambana muchipululu.+
9 Khwimani mtima ndipu muchiti vinthu nge anthulumi yimwi Afilisiti, kuti muleki kuteŵete Aheberi nge mo yiwu akuteŵetiyani.+ Chitani vinthu nge anthulumi ndipu muchiti nkhondu!”
10 Mwaviyo, Afilisiti anguchita nkhondu ndipu Ayisirayeli anguthereskeka,+ weyosi wanguthaŵiya kuhema laki. Ŵanthu anandi angubayika; kuchigaŵa cha Ayisirayeli, asilikali 30,000 akwenda pasi angubayika.
11 Kweniso Bokosi laku Chiuta linguphangika, ndipu ŵana ŵaŵi aku Eli, Hofini ndi Finihasi angufwa.+
12 Munthu munyaki wa mu fuku laku Benjamini wangutchimbiya kutuwa ku nkhondu ndipu wangufika ku Shilo pa zuŵa lenilo. Iyu wangukeruwa vakuvwala vaki kweniso wangujidiriya fuvu kumutu.+
13 Munthu uyu wati wafika, Eli wanguja pampandu mumphepeti mwa msewu wachilindizga, pakuti mtima waki wambwambwanthiyanga chifukwa cha Bokosi laku Chiuta wauneneska.+ Munthu yo wangusere mutawuni ndi kukamba vo vachitika, ndipu tawuni yosi yingwamba kuliya.
14 Eli wati wavwa kuliya wangufumba kuti: “Kumbi ntchibumuzi wuli cho chivwika?” Munthu mweniyuwa wangutchimbiya ndi kuchikambiya Eli vo vachitika.
15 (Sonu Eli wenga ndi vyaka 98, ndipu masu ngaki ngenga thwanuu, kweni walereskanga cha.)+
16 Munthu yo wangukambiya Eli kuti: “Ini ndatuwa ku nkhondu! Ndipu ndathaŵa msanawale viyo kutuwa ku nkhondu.” Eli wati wavwa venivi wangufumba kuti: “Ntchinthu wuli chachitika mwana wangu?”
17 Munthu yo wangupinga uthenga wangukamba kuti: “Ayisirayeli athaŵa pa masu pa Afilisiti ndipu ŵanthu anandi abayika;+ ŵana ŵinu ŵaŵi nawu, Hofini ndi Finihasi afwa,+ ndipu Bokosi laku Chiuta wauneneska aphanga.”+
18 Wati wazumbuwa ŵaka Bokosi laku Chiuta wauneneska, Eli wanguwa pasi, wanguwiya gonthu kutuliya pampandu wo wenga pafupi ndi geti. Iyu wangufyoka khosi ndipu wangufwiya penipo, pakuti wenga wakukota kweniso wenga mukhomi ukongwa. Eli wanguyeruzga Ayisirayeli kwa vyaka 40.
19 Mkumwana waki, muwolu waku Finihasi wenga ndi nthumbu ndipu pa nyengu iyi wenga pafupi kubala. Wati wavwa kuti Bokosi laku Chiuta wauneneska aphanga kweniso kuti asibweni ŵaki* ndi mulumu waki afwa, wangukotama chifukwa cha urwirwi ndipuso nthumbu yinguyuka mwamabuchibuchi ndipu wangubala.
20 Wachifwa, anthukazi wo anguma nayu pafupi angumukambiya kuti: “Ungawopanga cha, chifukwa wabala mwana munthulumi.” Iyu wanguŵamuka cha kweniso wanguŵikaku maŵanaŵanu cha.*
21 Kweni mwana yo wangumupaska zina lakuti Ikabodi,*+ chifukwa wanguti: “Unkhankhu watuwamu mu Isirayeli ndipu waluta ku ukapolu.”+ Iyu wang’anamuwanga Bokosi laku Chiuta wauneneska lo anguphanga ndipuso vo vinguchitikiya asibweni ŵaki ndi mulumu waki.+
22 Iyu wangukamba kuti: “Unkhankhu watuwamu mu Isirayeli ndipu waluta ku ukapolu, chifukwa Bokosi laku Chiuta wauneneska aphanga.”+
Mazu Ngam'mphata
^ Mazu ngaki chayingu, “Ntchifukwa wuli Yehova watithereska?”
^ Yapa pangafwatulikiya so kuti, “pakati.”
^ Kung’anamuwa awisi a mulumu waki.
^ Pamwenga kuti, “wanguŵikaku mtima waki cha.”
^ Kung’anamuwa kuti, “We Pani Unkhankhu?”
