UDavide wabuza kuSimakade, wathi: “Ngenyuke yini ngihlasele amaFilisti na? Uzowanikela yini esandleni sami?” USimakade wathi kuDavide: “Yenyuka, ngokuba ngizowanikela impela amaFilisti esandleni sakho.”
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UDavide wabuza kuSimakade, wathi: “Ngenyuke yini ngihlasele amaFilisti na? Uzowanikela yini esandleni sami?” USimakade wathi kuDavide: “Yenyuka, ngokuba ngizowanikela impela amaFilisti esandleni sakho.”
Izizukulwane zabo zangena kulo, zahlala. Labo ababehlala kulelo lizwe, wabenza bakhonza kuzo. AmaKhanani namakhosi awo nabanye abantu ababehlala ezweni, wabanikela kuzo ukuba zibaphathe ngokuthanda kwazo.
uyaguqula izikhathi nezinkathi; uyasusa amakhosi, abeke amakhosi; unika abahlakaniphileyo ukuhlakanipha, nokwazi kwabaqonda ukwazi;
“Ezinsukwini zalawo makhosi, uNkulunkulu wasezulwini uyakumisa umbuso ongasoze wachithwa, nobukhosi bawo obungeke bushiyelwe abanye abantu, kepha uyakuchoboza, uqede yonke le mibuso, wona uqobo ume phakade.
“ ‘Kunqunyiwe ngesimemezelo sabalindi nangesiyalezo sezwi labangcwele ukuba abaphilayo bazi ukuthi oPhezukonke ubusa imibuso yabantu, ayinike amthandayo, abeke phezu kwayo ozithobayo kubantu.’
bonke abakhileyo emhlabeni bashaywa into engelutho; wenza ngokuthanda kwakhe empini yasezulwini naphakathi kwabakhileyo emhlabeni; akekho ongavimbela isandla sakhe, noma athi kuye: “Wenzani na?”
“E, nkosi, uNkulunkulu oPhezukonke wanika uNebukhadinezari uyihlo umbuso, ubukhulu, udumo, nobukhosi.
Amakhosi azo uyowanikela esandleni sakho, wena uyoliqeda nya igama lawo phansi kwezulu; akukho muntu oyoma phambi kwakho, uze uqede ukuzibhubhisa.
Athi kuJoshuwa: “Ngempela, uSimakade ulinikele lonke izwe ezandleni zethu; ngaphezu kwalokho zonke izakhamuzi zezwe ziyagedezela wuvalo lokusesaba.”
wathi kuzo: “Ngiyazi ukuthi uSimakade uNkulunkulu uninikile leli lizwe nokuthi sonke sigcwele ingebhe ngenxa yenu, nokuthi zonke izakhamuzi zaleli lizwe zinesaba okokufa.
Amasango eJerikho ayevaliwe ngaphakathi nangaphandle ngenxa yabantu bakwa-Israyeli; kwakungaphumi futhi kungangeni muntu.
USimakade wathi kuJoshuwa: “Ungesabi, ungabi naluvalo; thatha wonke amabutho, nikhuphukele e-Ayi; bheka, ngiyinikele esandleni sakho inkosi yase-Ayi nabantu bayo, nomuzi wayo nezwe layo.
“USimakade uNkulunkulu ka-Israyeli wamnikela uSihoni nabo bonke abantu bakhe esandleni sabakwa-Israyeli, bamnqoba, abakwa-Israyeli base belidla lonke izwe lama-Amori ayehlala lapho.
Aneneliswa yini yizwe unkulunkulu wenu uKhemoshi aninike lona laba yifa lenu, na? Thina asifanele yini ukudla lonke izwe uSimakade uNkulunkulu wethu asinqobele lona ukuba libe yifa lethu, na?