Kghani Bewazi?
Kubayini abantu abavela kezinye iinarha bebaba mabutho weKosi uDavida?
HLANGANA namadoda aziingorho avela kezinye iinarha asebuthweni lakaDavida, bekunamadoda anjengoTselekhi umAmoni, u-Uriya umRhiti noJitima umMowabi. a (1 Kron. 11:39, 41, 46) Ibutho lakaDavida belihlanganisa “amaKereti, amaPeleti namaGathi.” (2 Sam. 15:18) Kubonakala kwanga amaKereti namaPeleti bekahlobene namaFilista. (Hez. 25:16) AmaGathi bekavela eDorobheni leFilista okuthiwa yiGathi.—Jotj. 13:2, 3; 1 Sam. 6:17, 18.
Kubayini uDavida avumela amadoda afana nala bona abe sebuthweni lakhe? Kungombana bekaqiniseka bona bekathembekile kuye okuqakatheke ukudlula koke bekathembe kuJehova. Ngokwesibonelo, malungana namaKereti namaPeleti i- The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible ithi: “Ahlala athembekile hlangana nesikhathi esibudisi sokubusa kwakaDavida.” Kwenzeka njani lokho? Ngesikhathi “woke amadoda wakwa-Israyeli” alisa ukulandela iKosi uDavida, alandela ‘indoda ephehla inturhu ebekuthiwa nguTjheba’ amaKereti namaPeleti asekela uDavida begodu amsiza walwisana noTjheba, ohlubukako. (2 Sam. 20:1, 2, 7) Ngakelinye ihlangothi, indodana yeKosi uDavida u-Adoniya yalinga ukuthatha ubukhosi. Nanyana kunjalo, amaKereti namaPeleti ahlala athembekile kuDavida, amsiza ekubekeni uSolomoni bona abe yikosi elandelako ngombana bekakhethwe nguJehova.—1 Kho. 1:24-27, 38, 39.
Enye indoda eyaba nesibindi yathembeka kuDavida, bekungu-Itayi umGathi. U-Itayi neengorho zakhe ezima-600, basekela iKosi uDavida ngesikhathi indodanayo u-Absalomu ihlubuka begodu yenza iinhliziyo zamadoda wakwa-Israyeli zihlubuke ekosini. Ekuthomeni uDavida watjela u-Itayi ukuthi ngebanga lokuthi uvela kenye inarha, akutlhogeki alwe ipi le. Kodwana u-Itayi wathi: “Ngifunga ngoJehova uZimu ophilako begodu ngifunga ngekosami ephilako, nanyana kukuphi lapha ikosami ingaba khona, kungaba sekufeni namkha ekuphileni, kulapho nesisebenzi sakho sizokuba khona!”—2 Sam. 15:6, 18-21.
Ngitjho nanyana amaKereti, amaPeleti namaGathi bakavela kwezinye iinarha, bakazi bona uJehova nguZimu weqiniso nokuthi uDavida ngozesiweko kaJehova. Kufuze bona bekumthabisa uDavida ukuba namadoda athembekileko la!
a UmThetho otlolwe kuDuteronomi 23:3-6 bewuvimbela abantu bakwa-Amoni nebakwaMowabi bona bangangeni ebandleni lakaJehova. Nanyana kunjalo, kubonakala kwanga umthetho lo, bewuthi angeze baba malunga wesitjhaba kodwana bewungabakhandeli bona bahlale nabantu bakaZimu. Funda i-Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, k. 95.