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1 Књига Самуилова 6
New Serbian Translation

Ковчег Господњи враћен Израиљу

6 Ковчег Господњи је био седам месеци у земљи Филистејаца.

2 Позову Филистејци свештенике и гатаре и упитају их: „Шта да радимо са Ковчегом Господњим? Кажите нам како да га пошаљемо на његово место.“

3 Они одговорише: „Ако ћете слати натраг Ковчег Бога Израиљева, не шаљите га празна. Вратите га са жртвом за преступ. Тада ћете оздравити и сазнати зашто се његова рука није одвратила од вас.“

4 Они упиташе: „С каквом жртвом за преступ да га вратимо?“

Они рекоше: „Пет златних чирева и пет златних мишева, према броју филистејских кнезова, јер је иста пошаст ударила вас и ваше кнезове. 5 Направите, дакле, ликове ваших чирева и мишева који затиру земљу, и дајте славу Богу Израиљеву, не би ли се његова рука макнула од вас, од ваших богова и од ваше земље. 6 Зашто да отврднете срца као што су Египћани и фараон отврдли своја срца? Кад их је Бог ударио, нису ли их пустили, те су отишли?

7 А сада начините нова кола и узмите две краве дојилице које нису носиле јарам. Упрегните краве у кола а њихову телад одведите од њих кући. 8 Затим узмите Ковчег Господњи и ставите га на кола, а предмете од злата, које му враћате као жртву за преступ ставите у ковчежић поред њега. Онда га пошаљите нека иде. 9 Ако видите да иде према своме месту, горе у Вет-Семес, то нам је он учинио ово велико зло, а ако не пође, знаћемо да нас то није ударила његова рука, него нам се ово догодило случајно.“

10 Ураде они тако. Доведу две краве дојилице, упрегну их у кола а њихову телад задрже кући. 11 Ковчег Господњи ставе на кола заједно с ковчежићем у коме су били златни мишеви и ликови њихових чирева. 12 Краве су кренуле право према Вет-Семесу. Ишле су једним путем и мукале, не скрећући ни десно ни лево. Филистејски кнезови су их пратили све то границе Вет-Семеса.

13 А мештани Вет-Семеса жели су пшеницу у долини. Подигавши поглед угледали су Ковчег, па су се радовали што га виде. 14 Кола су дошла у поље Исуса Ветсемешанина, и зауставила се код једног великог камена. Тада су исцепали дрва од кола, па су принели краве као свеспалницу Господу. 15 Левити су спустили Ковчег Господњи, а ковчежић са предметима од злата су ставили на онај велики камен. Тог су дана становници Вет-Семеса приносили Господу жртве свеспалнице и друге жртве. 16 Петорица филистејских кнезова су то видели, па су се истог дана вратили у Акарон.

17 Ово су златни чиреви што су их Филистејци вратили као жртву за преступ, за Господа: један за Азот, један за Газу, један за Аскалон, један за Гат, и један за Акарон. 18 Златних мишева је било према броју свих филистејских градова који су припадали петорици филистејских кнезова, од утврђених градова до неограђених села. Велики камен на пољу Исуса Ветсемешанина на који су положили Ковчег Господњи стоји тамо све до данас.

19 Али Господ поби неке од људи из Вет-Семеса, њих седамдесет[a], јер су погледали у Ковчег Господњи. Народ је плакао зато што га је Господ ударио великом погибијом.

20 На то су Вет-Семешани рекли: „Ко може опстати пред Господом, овим светим Богом? Коме ће Ковчег отићи одавде?“ 21 Тада су послали гласнике становницима Киријат-Јарима и поручили им: „Филистејци су вратили Ковчег Господњи. Дођите и узмите га к себи.“

Footnotes

  1. 6,19 У већини јеврејских манускрипата и Септуагинти пише Седамдесет људи, педесет хиљада људи, што уводи нејасноћу у превод.
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1 Samuel 6
New English Translation

The Philistines Return the Ark

6 When the ark of the Lord had been in the land[a] of the Philistines for seven months,[b] 2 the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.”

3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of[c] the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand has not been removed from you.” 4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”

They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders. 5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice[d] that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land.[e] 6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did?[f] When God[g] treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?[h] 7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart, and take their calves from them back to their stalls. 8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way. 9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

10 So the men did as instructed.[i] They took two cows that had calves and harnessed the cows to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls. 11 They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the chest, the gold mice, and the images of the sores. 12 Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along that route, bellowing[j] more and more;[k] they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.

13 Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight. 14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord. 15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. 16 The five leaders of the Philistines watched what was happening and then returned to Ekron on the same day.

17 These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord—one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. 18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel.[l] They positioned the ark of the Lord on a rock until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.

19 But the Lord[m] struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 of[n] the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow. 20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark[o] go up from here?”

21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”

Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:1 tn Heb “field.”
  2. 1 Samuel 6:1 tc The LXX adds “and their land swarmed with mice.”
  3. 1 Samuel 6:3 tc The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord.”
  4. 1 Samuel 6:5 tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”
  5. 1 Samuel 6:5 tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”
  6. 1 Samuel 6:6 tn Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”
  7. 1 Samuel 6:6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  8. 1 Samuel 6:6 tn Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”
  9. 1 Samuel 6:10 tn Heb “and the men did so.”
  10. 1 Samuel 6:12 tn Most translations have “low” (ASV, ESV, KJV, NASB, NIV, NLV, Amplified, etc.), or “moo” (CEV, CEB). The verb גָּעָה (gaʿah) is rare (only here and Job 6:5) but cognate languages suggest a loud sound (e.g. Syriac “to scream” Ugaritic “to roar,” see HALOT 199). sn The behavior of the cows demonstrates God’s sovereignty. If the cows are “mooing” contentedly, it suggests that God essentially took over their wills or brains, and they walked along, forgetting their calves entirely, and focused on their new and unaccustomed task as if long trained for it. If they are “bellowing,” the picture suggests that they know they are leaving their calves and are protesting in discontent. But they are divinely driven (by unseen angelic cattle prods?) against their wills.
  11. 1 Samuel 6:12 tn The Hebrew has two infinitive absolutes ‏הָלֹךְ וְגָעוֹ (halok vegaʿo) walking and bellowing. In such a pairing, the infinitive ‏הָלֹךְ (halok) often indicates going on more and more (increasing) in the activity mentioned by the other infinitive. Cf. Gen 26:13; 1 Sam 14:19).
  12. 1 Samuel 6:18 tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”
  13. 1 Samuel 6:19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  14. 1 Samuel 6:19 tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.
  15. 1 Samuel 6:20 tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.
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