Balombodi 3 - MUKANDA WA MYIDI MUKULU

¹ Maweja-Nangila kushiya bisamba ebi mu ditunga amu, bua kuteta nabi bena Izrayele bavua kabayi baluangana mvita pamue ne bakuabu, bua kukuata ditunga dia Kenaane.

² Uvua musue bua ndelanganyi mipiamipia ya bena Izrayele, nangananga ivua kayiyi mianji kuluangana mvita, ilonge mua kuluangana.

³ Bantu bavua Maweja-Nangila mushiye mu ditunga, ke bena makalenga atanu a bena Peleshete, bena Kenaane bonsu, bena Sidone, ne bena Ivi bavua base mu mikuna ya Lebanone, biangatshile ku mukuna wa Baale-Ermone, too ne ku Lebo-Amate.

⁴ Maweja-Nangila uvua mushiye bisamba ebi, bua kujadika nabi ne: bena Izrayele nebakumbaje mikenji, inwua mupeshe Moshe bua kumanyishaye bankambua babu anyi?

⁵ Ke pavua bena Izrayele base munkatshi mua bena Kenaane, bene Iti, bena Amore, bena Perizi, bena Ivi, ne bena Yebusa.

⁶ Bena Izrayele kusela bakaji ba mu bisamba ebi, kubaselesha bana babu ba bakaji, kutendelela ne mvidie yabu.

Balombodi ba ditunga Otniyele

⁷ Bena Izrayele kuenza malu mabi avua Mvidi Mukulu wabu mubenge. Kupuabu Maweja-Nangila muoyi. Kutendelelabu mvidie Baale ne Ashera.

⁸ Maweja-Nangila kufikila bena Izrayele munda. Kubafilaye mu bianza bia Kushane-Rishatayime, mukalenga wa Mezopotamiya. Bena Izrayele kushala ku bumfumu buende bidimu muanda mukulu.

⁹ Bena Izrayele kudila, kubikila Maweja-Nangila bua abambuluishe. Maweja-Nangila kubatumina Otniyele, muana wa Kenaze (Kenaze mmuakunyi wa Kalebe), bua abasungidile.

¹⁰ Mueyelu wa Maweja-Nangila kutulukila Otniyele. Kushalaye mulombodi wa bena Izrayele. Kuyaye kuluangana mvita. Maweja-Nangila kumupesha bukole bua kutshimunaye mukalenga Kushane-Rishatayime.

¹¹ Ditunga dijima kupeta ditalala bidimu makumi anayi. Pashishe Otniyele, muana wa Kenaze, kufua.

Ekude

¹² Bena Izrayele kuenza kabidi malu mabi avua Maweja-Nangila mubenga. Nanku Maweja-Nangila kubatumina Eglone, mukalenga wa bena Mowabe, bua abaluishe.

¹³ Mukalenga Eglone kumyuangana ne bena Amone, kabidi ne bena Amaleke. Kuluishabu bena Izrayele, kukuata tshimenga tshia Yeriko.

¹⁴ Bena Izrayele kushala ku bumfumu bua mukalenga Eglone bidimu dikumi ne muanda mukulu.

¹⁵ Ke bena Izrayele kudila, kubikila Maweja-Nangila bua abambuluishe. Maweja-Nangila kubatumina musungidi. Ke Ekude, muana wa Ngera, wa mu tshisamba tshia Binyamine, uvua ne luboku. Bena Izrayele kutuma Ekude kudi Eglone, mukalenga wa bena Mowabe, bua afile milambu yabu kudiye.

¹⁶ Kadi Ekude kuenzeja muele wa mvita wa nkanza, wa bule bua santimetre makumi atanu. Kuusokokaye muinshi mua bilamba biende, ku tshibelu tshiende tshia lua balume.

¹⁷ Pashishe Ekude kuya bua kulambula mukalenga Eglone bintu abi. Mukalenga Eglone uvua muntu wa mubidi munene.

¹⁸ Ekude mumane kufila bintu abi, kumukaye ne bantu bavua bambula bintu.

¹⁹ Ufika pabuipi ne Ngilgale muaba uvua mpingu ya mabue ya kutendelela mvidie, kupinganaye kudi mukalenga Eglone. Kumuambilaye ne: — Mukalenga, ndi ne bualu bua mu musokoku bua kukuambila! Nanku mukalenga kutuma diyi bua bena mudimu bende bapatuke. Bantu bonsu kupatuka.

²⁰ Mukalenga Eglone uvua musombe mu nzubu wende wa tshilala kulu, muaba mutalale. Ekude kusemena pabuipi, kumuamba ne: — Bualu bundi ne bua kukuambila mbua kudi Mvidi Mukulu. Mukalenga Eglone kujuka mu nkuasa.

²¹ Ekude kupatula ne tshianza tshia luboku muele uvuaye muase ku mikaba ku tshibelu tshia lua balume. Kutuaye mukalenga Eglone muele awu mu difu.

²² Muele kubuela onsu ne tshilabi. Mafuta kujibikila muele, bualu Ekude kavua mupatule muele to.

²³ Ekude mumane kuinjila biibi bia ku nzubu, mukange ne nsapi, kupatukaye ku mfundu.

²⁴ Yeye mumane kuya, bena mudimu kubuela. Kumonabu ne: biibi mbikange. Kuelabu meji ne: mukalenga udi mua kuikala ku nkumba.

²⁵ Kushalabu bindile; kubatondabi. Kadi mukalenga kavua munzulule biibi bia ku nzubu to. Ke bena mudimu kuangata nsapi, kudikanguila ku nzubu nkayabu. Kusanganabu mukalenga wabu mutandabale panshi, mulue!

²⁶ Patshi wa bena mudimu bajingakana apu, Ekude mmumane kunyema. Kupitaye muaba uvua mpingu ya mabue, kuyaye kusokoma ku Seyira.

²⁷ Mumane kufika muaba awu, kuelaye mpungi bua kubikila bena Izrayele ba mu buloba bua mikuna bua bena Efrayime. Pashishe kupitaye kumpala kuabu bua kupueka nabu ku mukuna, ubambila ne:

²⁸ — Ndondayi panyima, bualu Maweja-Nangila mmumane kufila baluishi benu bena Mowabe mu bianza bienu. Bena Izrayele kulonda Ekude mu nyima, kunyenga bena Mowabe bisabu bia ku Yardene. Muntu nansha umue kavua mua kusabuka kabidi to.

²⁹ Dituku adi, bena Izrayele kushipa bena Mowabe bu binunu dikumi, bonsu bantu ba mukitshi, ba muoyi mukole. Kakuvua kushala muntu nansha umue ne muoyi to.

³⁰ Kutuadija tshikondu atshi, bena Mowabe kushala ku bumfumu bua bena Izrayele. Ditunga kupeta ditalala bidimu makumi muanda mukulu.

Shamgare

³¹ Mulombodi uvua ulonda Ekude, ke Shamgare, muana wa Anate. Kushipaye bena Peleshete nkama isambombu anu ne mutshi wa kusaka nawu ngombe, bua kusungidila bena Izrayele.