1-3. (a) Bibaadi bibofule bwa Eshitele kwifubwila peepi na lupuna-nsulu lwa mulum’aye su? (b) Nkinyi kibakitshine nfumu pabafikile Eshitele kwadi?

 ESHITELE baadi ende bipelabipela ku lupuna-nsulu, mwanda eshimba dibaadi adimukubuka. Banda kunangushena bibaadi biumiine bantu mu nshibo ya nfumu. Eshitele baadi apusha penda mikitshi yaaye na tuleo twa kilamba kyaye kya bu ndalamumba kibaadi akiikaka paashi. Tabaadi atala bi bukata bw’ebalasa dya nfumu, buwa bwa misungo ya nshibo sunga bibaadi kisasa kyabadi bakite na mabaaya a mitshi ya mu Lebano. Baadi mutuule binangu byaye byooso kwi nfumu, muntu baadi na kya kwata kitshibilo kya kumwipaa sunga kumutadiila.

² Nfumu baadi atala Eshitele katonya nsaa ibaadi afiki kwadi, amutambika elanga dya oòlo. Kwakwa ku moolwela elanga, ndjo kubaadi kupashe Eshitele, mwanda kubaadi akuleesha’shi nfumu bamufwila lusa bu bibayipaa mwiya​—wa kwenda kwi nfumu kwashii mumwitamine. Eshitele befubwidile peepi na lupuna-nsulu, akuma ku nsongo kw’elanga na lutumbu looso.​—Eshitele 5:1, 2.

³ Nfumu Kesersese baadi na bupeta na matalwa a kata. Bilamba bya ba nfumu ba mu Perse ba mu aa mafuku bibaadi muulo wa midiyo nkama ya dolare. Eshitele bamwene’shi mulume aaye mmumufule. Kesersese bamwipwishe’shi: ‘Nkinyi kyoodi nakyo lukalo ndalamumba Eshitele? Otekye kinyi? Sunga kipindji kya​—pankatshi kya Bufumu bwande abakupa kyanka.’​—Eshitele 5:3.

4. Nkalakashi kinyi ibaadi Eshitele mupete?

⁴ Eshitele baadi muleeshe lukumino n’eshimba dinyinge; bafikile kwi nfumu bwa kupasha mwilo wabo ku lukuku lubaabadi bebaadimbiile bwa kwibepaa booso. Sunga bibaadi nfumu mumutambule, kubaadi ingi nkalakashi ibukopo. Baadi na kya kushinkamiisha nfumu sha kwitatula’shi: Muntu oobe akupeyaa malango oodi mukulupile, mmukudimbe bwa’shi otshibile mwilo wetu  kiimu kya lufu. Mbikunyi bibaadi Eshitele mukuminyishe nfumu? Na lukumiino lwaye alwitulongyesha kinyi?

5, 6. (a) Eshitele bafubiishe mayi a kulonda e mu Mulungudi 3:1, 7 naminyi? (b) Mbikunyi bibaadi muleeshe binangu nsaa ibaadi mwisambe na mulum’aye?

⁵ Eshitele balungwile nfumu myanda yooso munkatshi mwa bantu su? Kukita kwa byabya kubadya kumwisha milongo na dingi Hamane badya kupeta mushindo wa kutontoola naye. Byabya, nkinyi kibakitshine Eshitele? Bipwa nkama kunyima, Salomone nfumu sha binangu bafundile’shi: “Mwanda ooso wi na kipindji kyâo, . . . kya kuumîna na kya kwisamba.” (Mul. 3:1, 7, EEM) Abimweka’shi Mardoshe baadi mulongyeshe Eshitele aa mayi a kulonda pabaadi akulu. Kushii mpaka, Eshitele baadi auku muulo wa kusangula kalolo “kipindji kya kwisamba.”

⁶ Eshitele bakwile’shi: ‘Su abikusangasha nfumu, ofikye pamune na Hamane, nudye kidibwa kyandji mupwe kukulumbulwila.’ (Eshitele 5:4) Nfumu bakumiinyine aye nkwitamina Hamane. Bomono bibaadi Eshitele mwakule na binangu? Baadi mulame kinemo  kya mulum’aye, akimba mbalo na nsaa ibuwa bwa kumulungula lukalo lwaye.​—Badika Nkindji 10:19.

7, 8. Madyo a kumpala a Eshitele abaadi naminyi? Bwakinyi baadi mutengyele bwa kulungula nfumu?

⁷ Kushii mpaka, Eshitele baadi muteekye kidibwa kibuwa, nkwela byooso abikumiinaa kudya mulum’aye. Baadi mukimbe dingi maalwa ebuwa bwa kwibasankisha. (Mis. 104:15) Kesersese bapushishe muloo, aye nkwipusha dingi Eshitele kyadi nakyo lukalo. Ino ibaadi nsaa ibuwa bwa Eshitele kumulungula su?

⁸ Nya. Baadi mwitamine nfumu na Hamane bwabadya kufika ku angi madyo efuku dibalondo. (Eshitele 5:7, 8) Bwakinyi baadi alongyela? Tentekyesha’shi, mwilo ooso wa Eshitele ubaadi na kya kubutudibwa muyile mwiya wa nfumu. Pa mwanda wa byabya, Eshitele baadi na kya kusangula nsaa ibuwa. Byabya, baadi mutengyele kingi kipindji bwa kuleesha mulum’aye’shi kwete kumwata na muulo.

9. Lwishinko lwi na muulo kinyi? Twi kwambula kileshesho kya Eshitele naminyi?

⁹ Lwishinko nyi eyikashi di na muulo kadi dishii na bantu bebungi. Sunga bibaadi Eshitele mwinyongole na bibaadi na lukalo  lwa kwakula, baadi mutengyele nsaa ibuwa. Twi balombeene kulongyela bibungi ku kileshesho kyaye. Ooso a kwatudi bamono myanda ayitungu’shi alumbuule. Su atukyebe kulungula nfumu kampanda mwanda, abitungu twambule Eshitele na twikale na lwishinko. Mukanda wa Nkindji 25:15, (EEM) awakula’shi: “Lwishinko alupushishâ mwanda wa muntu kwi nfumu. Edimi dya kalolo namu aditshokolâ byoko.” Su twatengyela na lwishinko nsaa ibuwa na twesamba na kwiyisha, nka bu Eshitele, twibalombeene kutshokola bulwishi sunga bwekala bukopo bu mufufwa. Yehowa Efile aye bamwelele mwabi bwa lwishinko na binangu bibaadi muleeshe su?

10, 11. (a) Bwakinyi Hamane tabaadi’nyi na muloo kunyima kwa madyo a kumpala? (b) Mukashi aye na ba kuuku baye abamulungwile bwa kukita kinyi?

¹⁰ Lwishinko lwa Eshitele lubaadi lukwashe bwa’shi myanda ibungi ikitshikye. Hamane bakatukile ku madyo a kumpala na kwitatula kooso, na “kusangala n’eshimba di yanguyangu” baadi anangushena’shi  nfumu na ndalamumba abamusangeela kukila bangi. Pabaadi Hamane akidi ku kibelo ky’ebalasa, bamwene Mardoshe, mwina Yuuda baadi apele kumukunamina. Anka bu byatumwene mu shapitre mushaale, Mardoshe tabaadi mukutwe kanemo nya, kadi mpa mwanda wa kondo k’eshimba kaye na kipwano kyaye na Yehowa Efile Mukulu aaye. Kadi, Hamane “bamufitshîle munda” mususa umune.​—Eshitele 5:9.

¹¹ Nsaa ibaadi Hamane esamba na mukashi aye na ba kuuku baye pabitale Mardoshe, abamulungwile bwa kusee mutshi wi na bula bwa metre 22 na kuteka matalwa kwi nfumu bwa kumutundjika. Hamane baadi mukumiine byabaadi bamulungule bwa kwibikita atuma muntu bwa’shi eusee.​—Eshitele 5:12-14.

12. Bwakinyi nfumu batekyele bwa’shi bamubadile wawa mukanda n’eyi dibukopo, na beukile mwanda kinyi?

¹² Nfumu baadi mukutwe tulo bufuku bushima. Bible akula’shi: “nfumu ta bamwene tulo.” Nyi bwakinyi baadi mutekye bafubi baye bwabadya kumubadikila mukanda wa kitentekyesho kya myanda ineme ya banfumu. Mu wawa mukanda wabaadi ababadika mubaadi mwanda wa bantu abaadi badiile nfumu Kesersese lukuku lwa kumwipaa. Nfumu pabatentekyeshe wawa mwanda, batumine bafubi baye bwa’shi bakwate baaba bantu bebepee. Mususa umune, nfumu bepwishe bwa kuuka kyabaadi bakitshine Mardoshe​—aye baadi mufumbule lwalwa lukuku. Abamwalulwile’shi tambamukitshine kintu sunga nkimune.​—Badika Eshitele 6:1-3.

13, 14. (a) Mmushindo kinyi ubaadi myanda ibangye kulwila bwa Hamane? (b) Mukashi a Hamane na ba kuuku baaye abamwene naminyi?

¹³ Na nsungu yooso, nfumu batekyele ku bafubi baaye bantu balombeene kumukwasha bwa kutshiba kyakya kilumbu. Abimweka’shi dyadya efuku Hamane nyi bafikile mwibalasa dya nfumu ku namashika, mwanda baadi na lukalo lwa’shi bamupe matalwa a kwipaa Mardoshe. Kadi kumpala kwa’shi Hamane atekye matalwa, nfumu bamwipwishe bwa kuuka kintu kikile buwa kyadya kukitshina muntu akyebe kupa kinemo. Hamane baadi apwandikisha’shi nnaye abelela binangu. Hamane nkuteka bwa’shi bape yawa muntu kinemo kikata: Bamufwadikye kilamba kya bufumu, na befuunye naye ku nfwalasa a nfumu mu Suse mushima, bwa’shi bantu booso bamutumbishe. Banda kunangushena bibadi mpala ya Hamane nsaa ibaadi mupushe’shi muntu abapa yaya nkumo nyi Mardoshe. Ouku muntu abaabadi balungule kwi nfumu bwa kukitshina Mardoshe wawa mwanda? Nyi Hamane!​—Eshitele 6:4-10.

¹⁴ Hamane bakitshine bibamulungwile nfumu na mashimba abidi, aye nkwaluka ku nshibo mususa umune mwinyongole. Mukashi na ba kuuku baaye abamwene’shi kwakwa kushintuluka kwa myanda akulesha’shi Hamane t’obeshanyi bulwishi bwaye kwi Mardoshe mwina Yuuda.​—Eshitele 6:12, 13.

15. (a) Kutengyela kwa Eshitele kubatushishe myanda kinyi ibuwa? (b) Bwakinyi bi na muulo bwatudya ‘kutengyela’?

 ¹⁵ Bu bibaadi Eshitele na lwishinko na mutengyele dingi efuku bwa kulungula nfumu mwanda waye, baadi mupe Hamane nsaa ya kulumbuula kupona kwaye. Pangi Yehowa ndjo baadi mukite bwa’shi nfumu akutwe tulo. (Nki. 21:1) Nyi bwakinyi Eyi dy’Efile Mukulu aditukankamika bwa ‘kutengyela’! (Badika Mika 7:7.) Nsaa yatukulupila mwi Efile Mukulu na kutengyela’shi alombashe mwanda kampanda, atukamono’shi byetukitshina mbikile byatubadya kwikitshina kula.

16, 17. (a) Nsaa kinyi ibalombeene “kipindji kya kwakula” kya Eshitele? (b) Eshitele baadi mwilekene na Vasti, ndalamumba a kumpala naminyi?

¹⁶ Bwa uno mususa, Eshitele takyebe kutuula lwishinko lwa nfumu mu kutompibwa dingi nya, amulungula myanda yooso. Kadi mushindo kinyi? Nfumu bamwipwishe dingi kyadi nakyo lukalo. (Eshitele 7:2) Bwa Eshitele “Kipindji kya kwakula” kibalombana.

¹⁷ Pangi Eshitele baadi mutekye Efile Mukulu aaye mundamunda kumpala kwa kwakula’shi: “Su we ku nkitshina kalolo koobe, nfumu, su abikusangasha nfumu, bampe namu muwa wande, ngi luteko lwande na dimo bwa mwilo wande, ngi lukalo lwande.” (Eshitele 7:3) Ano mayi aalesha’shi Eshitele baadi aata bitshibilo bya nfumu na muulo. Eshitele baadi mwilekene na Vasti, ndalamumba a kumpala, baadi mukwatshishe mulume aaye bufu! (Eshitele 1:10-12) Kadi Eshitele tabaadi mutopekye nfumu p’aye kukulupila mwi Hamane nya. Pamutwe pa byabya, baadi mumwisendeele bwa kukalwila muwa waye ku masaku.

18. Mbikunyi bibaadi Eshitele muleeshe mwanda waye kwi nfumu?

 ¹⁸ Lwalwa luteko lubaadi lukalakashe nfumu na kumukemesha. A nnanyi baadi mutuule muwa wa ndalamumba aaye mu masaku? Eshitele batungunukile’shi: “Mbetuudishe ami na mwilo wande: bwa kwitushiidisha! Bwa kwitwipaa! Bwa kwitutuuta! Binyibinyi, su abaadi betuudishe bu bapika na bu bafubi bakashi, nadya kuumiina, mwanda kwakwa kupombeshibwa takubady’a kulombeena’shi bakalakashe nfumu.” (Eshitele 7:4) Lamiina’shi Eshitele bakwile mwanda waye kushii katshi mmeno, kadi bakwiile dingi’shi baadya kuumiina su abaadya kwibekasha bu bapika. Kuno kwipaa kwa bantu bebungi bino kubadya kwikala masaku mpa na kwi nfumu nabene, nyi bwakinyi tabadya kuumiina nya.

19. Nkinyi kyatudi balombeene kulongyela kwi Eshitele pabitale mayele a kukuminyisha muntu mwanda?

¹⁹ Kileshehso kya Eshitele akitulongyesha myanda ibungi pabitale mayele a kukuminyisha muntu mwanda. Su okyebe kulungula muntu oodi naye kifulo mwanda ukata sunga e na matalwa kampanda, kwikala na lwishinko, kanemo na kwakula kushii katshi mmeno, nkulombeene nkukwasha.​—Nki. 16:21, 23.

20, 21. (a) Mushindo kinyi ubaadi Eshitele mutuushe bubi bwa Hamane patoka, nkinyi kibakitshine nfumu? (b) Hamane bakitshine naminyi?

²⁰ Kesersese bamwipwishe’shi: “Nnanyi yawa, na e kunyi, uno mupete kinangu kya kukita byabya?” Banda kunangusheena bibaadi Eshitele mutonkye Hamane munwe na kwakula’shi: “Mupombeshi na mulwishi [nyi] Hamane uno mubi.” Mwanda wa moo, kikudi kibatupikile Hamane. Bapushishe moo ukile. Banda kumona mu binangu bibaadi nfumu mufiite munda nsaa ibaukile’shi muntu aaye aadi mukulupile amupeyaa malango baadi mumudimbe bwa kwela kyala ku mwiya ubaadi na kya kwipayisha mukashi aaye aadi mufule! Nfumu nkutuuka mususa umune nkwenda dya kwifuba  dya bilongo bwa kwitula nsungu yaye.​—Eshitele 7:5-7.

²¹ Bu bibaadi bubi bwaye butukile patoka, Hamane baadi mukunamine ndalamumba bwa kumuteka lusa. Pabakalukiile nfumu mu kadimbo basangana Hamane atekye ndalamumba lusa ku lusala lubaadi mushale, nfumu banyishishe kufiitshila Hamane nsungu na nkwamba’shi akyebe kulala na ndalamumba mu nshibo ya nfumu pa bukopo. Pa wawa mwanda babaadi batshibile Hamane lufu. Abamutushishe pasha, nkumwanya kilamba ku meso. Akupu, mwina mudimo umune a nfumu nkumulungula’shi, Hamane mmupwe kulumbuula mutshi wa kupudika Mardoshe. Mususa umune Kesersese batumine eyi’shi bapudikye Hamane ku wawa mutshi.​—Eshitele 7:8-10.

22. Kileshesho kya Eshitele akitulongyesha kinyi?

²² Lelo uno, bu byatudi mu ndumbulwilo mukutwe kululama, bi bukopo bwatudya kukumiina’shi kululama akukekala kwanka dingi efuku. Toodi munangusheene byobyo dingi efuku su? Eshitele tabaadi mukutwe lukulupilo na dingi, lukumiino lwaye lubaadi nka lunyingye. Pabalombene nsaa, bakwile n’eshimba dinyingye bwa myanda ibuwa, na baadi mukulupile mwi Yehowa bwa kukita kyakya kii na muulo. N’atwe namu tukiteyi nka byabya. Yehowa ta mwalulukye nya, kubanga mu mafuku a Eshitele. Ki nka na matalwa a kufudiisha beshikwanyi na kwibaponesha mu tuteo twabo’bo banabene nka bu bibakitshine na Hamane.​—Badika Misambo 7:11-16.

23. (a) Mmushindo kinyi ubaadi nfumu mufute Mardoshe na Eshitele? (b) Mayi a Yakobo abaadi mutemukye pabitale Benyamine aye taadi pa kufwa abalombene naminyi? (Tala kashibo akamba’shi “ Butemuki bubaadi bulombane.”)

²³ Ku nfudiilo a byooso, nfumu bashingulwile’shi Mardoshe tabaadi—penda muntu baadi mumupashe ku lufu nya kadi bashingulwile dingi’shi aye ndjo baadi mukushe Eshitele. Kesersese batudile Mardoshe bu tshite pa mbalo ya Hamane. Nfumu bapeele Eshitele nshibo ya Hamane na bupeta bwaye booso, Eshitele namu nkwibipa Mardoshe bwa kwibilama.​—Eshitele 8:1, 2.

24, 25. (a) Bwakinyi Eshitele tabaadi muumine kunyima kwa kufumbula lukuku lwa Hamane? (b) Mbikunyi bibaadi Eshitele mutuule dingi muwa waye mu masaku?

 ²⁴ Bu bibaadi Mardoshe na Eshitele bapande, ndalamumba beyikiishe su? Badya kukita byabya nka su baadi akimbi penda buwa bwaye. Binobino, mwiya wa Hamane wa kwipa beena Yuuda ubaadi autungunuka na kwenda mu mpese yooso y’eumbo. Kushii mpaka, Hamane baadi mweleshe tukanda (bubale), sunga umune wa ku mifubo ya malenganyi bwa kwiuka efuku dibuwa dya kwibatuuta. (Eshitele 9:24-26) Kubaadi kushale penda myeshi ipeela, kadi mafuku abaadi aende lubilo. Abobeeshe kwimika uno mwanda su?

²⁵ Eshitele baadi dingi mutuule muwa waye mu masaku, pa kwenda kwi nfumu kwashii mumwitamine. Bwa uno mususa, baadi asendela nfumu bwa mwilo waye, na kumuteka bwadya kukatusha mwiya wadi mwele. Aku namu, miiya yabadi beele kwi nfumu a mu Perse ta mbalombeene kwiyishintuula nya. (Nda. 6:12, 15) Kadi nfumu bapeele Eshitele na Mardoshe matalwa a kwela mwiya upya. Abo nkutuma ungi mwiya ubaadi aupa beena Yuuda matalwa a kwikalwila. Abaadi batume bantu mwiumbo dishima na mukandu wibuwa bwa beena Yuuda. Beena Yuuda abapetele lukulupilo. (Eshitele 8:3-16) Tubandeyi kunangushena bibaadi beena Yuuda ba mwiumbo dishima belumbuule bwa kulwa ngoshi, yabashibaadi balombeene kulwa su mwiya upya taubaadi kwanka. Kadi “Yehowa a bilwilo” ekadika na mwilo waye su?​—1 Sam. 17:45.

26, 27. (a) Nkyinyi akileesha’shi Yehowa baadi mupe bafubi baye bukome bwa kutshokola beshikwanyi naabo? (b) Mbutemuki kinyi bubaadi bulombane nsaa ibaababutwiile bana ba Hamane?

 ²⁶ Pabalombene efuku disangulwe, mwilo w’Efile Mukulu ubaadi upwe kwilumbuula. Mpa na, bakata ba beena Perse bebungi abaadi bebakwatshishene, nsaa ibaadi mukandu upalakane mwiumbo dishima’shi Mardoshe mwina Yuuda taadi bu tshite. Yehowa bapeele mwilo waye bukome bwa kutshokola. Kushii mpaka baadi mukalwile mwilo waye p’aye kubutula beshikwanyi booso bwa’shi tabeukyengyeshanga dimo. a​—Eshitele 9:1-6.

²⁷ Na dingi, Mardoshe tabaadya kukunkusha mu butaale su bana ekumi ba Hamane bakii na muwa. Abaadi bebayipee booso. (Eshitele 9:7-10) Butemuki bwa mu Bible bubaadi bulombane, mwanda Efile Mukulu bakwile pabitale kubutudibwa kwa beena Amaleke booso, abaadi beshikwanyi ba mwilo waye. (Miy. 25:17-19) Abimweka’shi bana ba Hamane nyi babepayilwe bwa kufudiisha wawa mwilo.

28, 29. (a) Bwakinyi twi kwakula’shi ngoshi ibalwile Eshitele na mwilo waye ibaadi kikyebe ky’eshimba dya Yehowa? (b) Bwakinyi Eshitele nyi kileshesho kibuwa kwatudi?

²⁸ Sunga bibaadi Eshitele ki nsongwakashi, baadi mulombashe mashito akata​—bu kutuusha mwiya wa kulwa ngoshi na kwipaa bantu. Ta bibaadi bibofule bwa kwibikita nya. Kadi, Yehowa baadi akumiina kupasha mwilo waye ku kabutu. Mwanda Mesiya baadi na kya kutuukila mu mwilo wa Isaleele, abadi bakulupile kwi bantu booso! (Kib. 22:18) Lelo uno, bafubi b’Efile Mukulu abauku’shi pabafikile Yesu Mesiya pa nsenga, baadi mwibatunyishe kulwa ngoshi.​—Mat. 26:52.

²⁹ Beena Kidishitu bakwete kulwa ngoshi ya mu kikudi; Satana e na lukalo lukata lwa kushimisha lukumiino lwetu looso kwi Yehowa Efile Mukulu. (Badika 2 Beena-Kodinda 10:3, 4.) Eshitele mmwitulekyele kileshesho kibuwa bukile! Anka bu Eshitele, twikaleyi na binangu, eshimba dinyingye na twikaleyi abepaana bwa mwilo w’Efile Mukulu.