Inkosi yakwa-Israyeli yayisithi: “Maye, uSimakade uqoqe lawa makhosi amathathu ukuze awanikele esandleni sabakwaMowabi!”
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Inkosi yakwa-Israyeli yayisithi: “Maye, uSimakade uqoqe lawa makhosi amathathu ukuze awanikele esandleni sabakwaMowabi!”
Abantu bakwa-Israyeli bathi kubo: “Sengathi ngabe safa ngesandla sikaSimakade eGibhithe, lapho sasihlala ngasemabhodweni, sidle inyama nokunye ukudla sisuthe; kunokuba nisilethe lapha kuleli hlane, nizobulala lonke leli bandla ngendlala.”
Abantu bomela amanzi lapho; bakhononda kuMose, bathi: “Wasikhuphulelani eGibhithe ukuba usibulalise ngokoma thina nabantwana bethu nemfuyo yethu na?”
“Ngenxa yokuba uSimakade ubengenamandla okungenisa laba bantu ezweni afunga ngalo kubo, ngalokho-ke ubabhubhisile ehlane.”
USimakade usiletheleni kuleli lizwe, ukuba sife ngenkemba na? Omkethu nabantwana bethu bayakuba yimpango, kungcono kithi ukuba siphindele eGibhithe.”
UJesu waphendula wathi: “Maye, kinina, sizukulwane esingakholwayo nesiphambeneyo; kuyoze kube nini nginani na? Kuyoze kube nini nginibekezelela na? Yiletheni lapha kimi.”
Wayesethi kubo: “Kungenxa yokukholwa kwenu okuncane. Ngokuba ngiqinisile ngithi kini: uma ninokukholwa okungangembewu yesinaphi, niyakuthi kule ntaba: ‘Suka lapha, uye laphaya,’ iyakusuka, ngokuba akukho okuyakunahlula.
Senikhohliwe yini ukugqugquzela aniyala ngakho nina eningabantwana, ethi: “Ndodana yami, ungakwedeleli ukuyala kweNkosi, ungadangali nxa Yona ikusola;
UJoshuwa wayeseklebhula izingubo zakhe, wathi mbo ngobuso emhlabathini phambi komphongolo kaSimakade kwaze kwaba kusihlwa, yena namalunga akwa-Israyeli bazithela ngothuli emakhanda.
Hawu, Nkosi! Sengizothini njengoba u-Israyeli efulathele wehlulwa yizitha zakhe, na?
Abakwa-Israyeli bakhuphuka, bayokhala phambi kukaSimakade kwaze kwaba kusihlwa; babuza kuSimakade, bathi: “Siphinde yini sisondele kubafowethu bakwaBhenjamini siyolwa nabo, na?” USimakade wathi: “Khuphukani, nilwe nabo.”
Kwathi lapho abantu bengena enkanjini, amalunga akwa-Israyeli athi: “USimakade usibulaleleni namuhla phambi kwamaFilisti na? Masithathe umphongolo wesivumelwano sikaSimakade eShilo, ube ngakithi, sihambe nawo, usisindise esandleni sezitha zethu.”