1 Samwela 4:1-22
4 Kabiji byambo bya kwa Samwela byafikile ku bena Isalela bonse.
Kepo bena Isalela bayile na kulwa na bena Filishitiya; bakatebelejile kwipi na Ebeneza, kabiji bena Filishitiya batebelejile ku Afeki.
2 Bena Filishitiya betanchikile kulwa na bena Isalela, bino ino nkondo yatamine bingi kabiji bena Isalela bebashinjile ku bena Filishitiya, baipayile banabalume nobe 4,000 konka ko balwijilenga.
3 Bashilikale byo babwelele ku kampu, bakulumpe ba bena Isalela baambile’mba: “Mambo ka Yehoba o etulekela kuba’mba bena Filishitiya betushinde* lelo?+ Twayai ku Shilo tukasende jikwachi ja lulayañano lwa Yehoba,+ pa kuba’mba jikale ne atweba ne kwitupokolola mu maboko a balwanyi betu.”
4 Onkao mambo, bantu batumine banabalume ku Shilo, ne abo bakasendele jikwachi ja lulayañano lwa Yehoba wa mabumba, yenka waikala peulu* ya bakelubi.+ Baana babiji ba kwa Eli, abo ba Hofini ne Finease+ nabo bajinga konka pamo na jikwachi ja lulayañano lwa Lesa wa kine.
5 Jikwachi ja lulayañano lwa Yehoba byo jafikiletu mu kampu, bena Isalela bonse batatwile kubijika kya kuba ne ntanda yonse yasunkena.
6 Bena Filishitiya byo baumvwine kiwowo, baambile’mba: “Mambo ka mu kampu wa Bahebelu o mwaubila kiwowo?” Kepo bayukile’mba Jikwachi ja Yehoba jafika mu kampu.
7 Bena Filishitiya baumvwine moyo, mambo baambile’mba: “Lesa waiya mu kampu!”+ Kabiji baambile’mba: “Bintu bitutamina, mambo kintu kya uno mutundu kikyangye kumwekapo kala!
8 Bintu bitutamina! Ñanyi usakwitupokolola mu kuboko kwa uno Lesa wa bulume? Uno ye Lesa waipayile bena Ijipita bavula bingi mu kiselebwa.+
9 Anweba bena Filishitiya, chinchikai ne kwikala nobe banabalume, pa kuba’mba mukabule kwingijilanga Bahebelu byonkatu byo bemwingijila.+ Ikalai nobe banabalume ne kulwa!”
10 Onkao mambo, bena Filishitiya balwile na bena Isalela ne kushinda bena Isalela,+ ne abo pa muntu pa muntu banyemejile ku matente abo awu ku wanji awu ku wanji. Bo baipayile bavujile bingi; ku lubaji lwa bena Isalela, bashilikale benda panshi 30,000, bafwile.
11 Kabiji Jikwachi ja Lesa bejangachile, ne baana babiji ba kwa Eli abo ba Hofini ne Finease bafwile.+
12 Mwanamulume mwina Benjamina wanyemeneko ku nkondo wafikile mu Shilo pa jonkaja juba ne bivwalo byanji saka byatabauka ne maloba ku mutwe.+
13 Uno mwanamulume byo afikile, Eli waikele pa kipona kwapela jishinda saka akenkenta, mambo muchima wanji wabambilenga na mambo a Jikwachi ja Lesa wa kine.+ Uno mwanamulume watwelele mu muzhi na kubulañana kyamwekele, ne bantu bonse mu muzhi batendekele kujila mabingo.
14 Eli byo aumvwine mabingo, washikishe’mba: “Nanchi akyo kiwowo kyatala mu ka?” Ponkapotu awa yenka mwanamulume wapelawizhizhe kwiya na kumubuula Eli kyamwekele.
15 (Eli wajinga na myaka 98, kabiji watajile kulutwe, bino kechi wamwenenga ne.)+
16 Kepo awa mwanamulume aambijile Eli amba: “Yami nafuma ku nkondo! Lelo jino, nanyematu ku nkondo.” Ponkapo aye wamushikishe’mba: “Mwanami, ki ka kyamweka?”
17 Awa waletele sawakya wakumbwile’mba: “Bena Isalela banyema bena Filishitiya, kabiji bantu bebepaya bingi;+ ne baana benu babiji, ba Hofini ne Finease bafwa,+ kabiji baangata Jikwachi ja Lesa wa kine.”+
18 Byo atongweletu Jikwachi ja Lesa wa kine, Eli waponene kampaba kufuma pa kipona po aikele kwipi na kibelo, kabiji nshingo yanji yachimukile ne kufwa wafwile, mambo wakotele ne kunema. Pa myaka 40 watangijilenga bena Isalela.
19 Mulokazhi wanji muka Finease wajinga na jimi kabiji wajingatu pepi kusema. Byo aumvwine sawakya wa kuba’mba baangata Jikwachi ja Lesa wa kine ne kuba’mba bako banji ba balume ne bamwatawanji bafwa, wafukamine panshi ne bisanso byamukwachile ponkapotu kabiji wasemene ne kusema.
20 Byo ajinga pepi kufwa, banabakazhi baimene kwipi ne aye bamwambijile’mba: “Kwakamwa ne, mambo wasema mwana wa mulume.” Aye kechi wibakumbwile ne, kabiji kechi wateleko muchima ne.
21 Nangwa byonkabyo, aye watumbile uno mwana amba Ikabodi,*+ ne kwamba’mba: “Lukumo lwafuma mu bena Isalela lwaya mu buzha,”+ waambilenga pa Jikwachi ja Lesa wa kine jo baangachile ne pa kyamwekejile bako banji ba balume ne bamwatawanji.+
22 Waambile’mba: “Lukumo lwafuma mu bena Isalela lwaya mu buzha, mambo baangata Jikwachi ja Lesa wa kine.”+
Tubyambo twa munshi
^ Mu Kihebelu, “Mambo ka Yehoba o etushinjila?”
^ Nangwa, “pakachi ka.”
^ Kulumbulula’mba “Lukumo Luji Kwepi?”
