Juízes 18

1 In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel. 2 The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, "Go, explore the land!"

They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?"

4 He said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest."

5 They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

6 The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh."

7 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else. 8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, "What do you say?"

9 They said, "Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. 10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth."

11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war. 12 They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim. 13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim,*18:14 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property. and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do." 15 They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing. 16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. 17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

18 When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people. 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them. 22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan. 23 As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?"

24 He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’"

25 The children of Dan said to him, "Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."

26 The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house. 27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire. 28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it. 29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish. 30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. 31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.

Ko Mika me te Iwi o Rāna

1 I aua rā kāhore o Īharaira kīngi.

I aua rā hoki e rapu ana te iwi o ngā Rāni i tētahi kāinga mō rātou hei nohoanga; kīhai hoki tētahi kāinga tupu i tau ki a rātou i roto i ngā iwi o Īharaira ā tae noa ki taua rā. 2 Nā, ka tono ngā tamariki a Rāna i ētahi tāngata tokorima o tō rātou hapū, he hunga māia, i roto i ō rātou rohe, i Toraha, i Ehetaoro, hei tūtei i te whenua, hei titiro hoki; i mea hoki ki a rātou, "Tīkina, tirohia te whenua."

Nā, ka tae rātou ki te whenua pukepuke o Ēparaima, ki te whare o Mika, noho ana i reira. 3 I a rātou i te whare o Mika, ka mōhiotia e rātou te reo o taua taitamariki, o te Rīwaiti; nā, peka ana ki reira, ā, ka mea ki a ia, "Nā wai koe i kawe mai ki konei? E aha ana hoki koe i konei? Ā, he aha tāu i konei?"

4 Nā, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Ko ngā mea tēnei i meatia e Mika ki ahau; nāna hoki ahau i utu, nā, hei tohunga anō ahau ki a ia."

5 Ā, ka mea rātou ki a ia, "Tēnā, ui atu ki te Atua kia mōhio ai mātou ka tika rānei tō mātou ara e haere nei mātou."

6 Nā, ka mea te tohunga ki a rātou, "Haere mārie, kei te aroaro o Ihowā tō koutou ara e haere nā koutou."

7 Nā, ka haere aua tāngata tokorima, ka tae ki Raihi, ā, ka kite i ngā tāngata o reira, i te pai o tā rātou noho, rite tonu ki a ngā Haironi, te āta noho, te mau; kāhore hoki he tangata whai mana o te whenua hei mea kia whakamā rātou ki tētahi mea, ā, e matara mai ana rātou i ngā Haironi, kāhore hoki ā rātou aha ki tētahi tangata.

8 Nā, ka tae rātou ki ō rātou tuākana, ki Toraha, ki Ehetaoro; ā, ka mea ō rātou tuākana ki a rātou, "He aha tā koutou kōrero?"

9 Kātahi rātou ka mea atu, "Whakatika, kia whakaekea rātou e tātou; kua kite hoki mātou i te whenua, nā, he pai rawa; ā, me āta noho anō rānei koutou? Kaua rā e māngere, ki te haere ki te tango i tērā whenua. 10 Ka haere koutou, ka tae atu koutou ki tētahi iwi e noho tatū ana, ā, he nui hoki te whenua; kua hōmai nei hoki e te Atua ki ō koutou ringa; he wāhi, kāhore nei i hapa i tētahi mea o te whenua."

11 Nā, tūria atu ana i reira e te hapū o ngā Rani, i roto i Toraha, i Ehetaoro, e ono rau tāngata, whītiki rawa ki ngā rākau o te whawhai. 12 Nā, ka haere rātou, ā, ka pūpahi ki Kiriata Tearimi, ki Hūrā; koia i huaina ai te ingoa o tērā wāhi, ko Mahanerana ā mohoa noa nei; koia tēnā i tua atu o Kiriata Tearimi. 13 Nā, i haere atu rātou i reira ki te whenua pukepuke o Ēparaima, ā, ka tae ki te whare o Mika.

14 Nā, ko te ohonga o ngā tāngata tokorima i haere nei ki te tūtei i te whenua o Raihi, ka mea ki ō rātou tuākana, "E mōhio ana rānei koutou kei ēnei whare he epora, he terapimi, he whakapakoko whaowhao, me tētahi mea whakarewa? Nā, mā koutou te whakaaro ki tā koutou e mea ai." 15 Nā, ka peka rātou ki reira, ā, ka tae ki te whare o taua taitamariki, o te Rīwaiti, arā ki te whare o Mika, ā, oha atu ana ki a ia. 16 Ā, ko ngā tāngata e ono rau o ngā tama a Rāna me ā rātou rākau whawhai, tū tonu i te tomokanga o te kūwaha. 17 Nā, haere atu ana ngā tāngata tokorima i haere rā ki te tūtei i te whenua, ā, ka tae ki reira; kei te tango i te whakapakoko whakairo, i te epora, i ngā terapimi, i te whakapakoko hoki i whakarewaina. Nā, ko te tohunga i te tomokanga ki te kūwaha e tū ana, rātou ko ngā tāngata e ono rau, me ā rātou rākau whawhai, whītiki tonu.

18 Ā, nō te haerenga o ērā ki te whare o Mika, nō te tangohanga i te whakapakoko whakairo, i te epora, i ngā terapimi, i te mea hoki i whakarewaina, ka mea te tohunga ki a rātou, "E aha ana koutou?"

19 Anō rā ko rātou ki a ia, "Whakarongoa, kōpania atu tōu ringa ki tōu māngai, ā, haere mai tātou, hei matua hoki koe mō mātou, hei tohunga. Ko tēhea te mea pai kia waiho koe hei tohunga mō te whare o te tangata kotahi, kia waiho rānei hei tohunga mō tētahi iwi, mō tētahi hapū hoki o Īharaira?" 20 Nā, ka koa te ngākau o te tohunga, ā, ka mau ia ki te epora, ki ngā terapimi, ki te whakapakoko whakairo, ā, haere ana i roto i taua hunga. 21 Kātahi rātou ka tahuri, ka haere; ā, makā ana e rātou ngā tamariki, ngā kararehe, me ngā taonga ki mua i a rātou.

22 Ka matara atu rātou i te whare o Mika, nā, ka huihuia ngā tāngata o ngā whare i tata ki te whare o Mika, ā, ka mau atu i a rātou ngā tama a Rāna. 23 Nā, ka karanga rātou ki ngā tama a Rāna. Ā, ka tahuri mai ngā aroaro o ērā, ka mea ki a Mika, "He aha tāu i huihui tāngata mai ai koe?"

24 Nā, ka mea ia, "Kua tangohia atu rā e koutou āku atua i hanga ai, me te tohunga, ā, kua haere atu; ā, he aha atu anō tāku? He aha hoki kia kī mai koutou ki ahau, ‘He aha tāu?’ "

25 Ā, ka mea ngā tama a Rāna ki a ia, "Kei rangona tōu reo e mātou, kei tōrere atu ki a koe te hunga ngākau āritarita, ā, ka mate koe me tōu whare katoa." 26 Nā, haere ana ngā tama a Rāna i tō rātou ara, ā, i te kitenga hoki o Mika he kaha rawa rātou i a ia, ka tahuri ia, ā, hoki ana ki tōna whare.

E Noho ngā Tama a Rāna i Raihi

27 Ā, maua atu ana e rātou ngā mea i hangā e Mika, me te tohunga i noho ki a ia, ā, haere ana ki Raihi, ki tētahi iwi e āta noho ana, kāhore ōna whakaohooho. Nā, patua iho e rātou ki te mata o te hoari, tahuna ake hoki e rātou te pā ki te ahi. 28 Kāhore hoki he tangata hei whakaora; nō te mea he matara a reira i Hairona, kāhore anō ā rātou aha ki tētahi tangata; i te raorao hoki a reira, i Peterehopo.

Nā, hangā ana e rātou te pā, ā, noho ana i reira. 29 Ā, huaina ana e rātou te ingoa o te pā ko Rāna, ko te ingoa o tō rātou matua, o Rāna, i whānau nei mā Īharaira; ko Raihi ia te ingoa o te pā i mua. 30 Nā, whakatūria ana e ngā tama a Rāna mō rātou te whakapakoko whaowhao, ā, ko Honatana hoki tama a Kerehoma, tama a Mohi, rātou ko āna tama ngā tohunga o te iwi o ngā Rāni tae noa ki te rā i whakaraua ai te whenua. 31 Ā, tū tonu tā rātou whakapakoko whakairo, tā Mika i hanga rā, i ngā rā katoa o te whare o te Atua i Hiro.