Juízes 2

1 Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you. 2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this? 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’"

4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept. 5 They called the name of that place Bochim,*2:5 "Bochim" means "weepers". and they sacrificed there to Yahweh. 6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land. 7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel. 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals. 12 They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger. 13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. 15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed. 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so. 18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them. 19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways. 20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice, 21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them; 22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not." 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.

Te Anahera o Ihowā kei Pokimi

1 Nā, ka haere ake te anahera a Ihowā i Kirikara ki Pokimi, ā, ka mea, "Nāku koutou i haere mai ai i Īhipa, nāku hoki koutou i kawe mai ki te whenua i oati ai ahau ki ō koutou mātua. I mea anō ahau, ‘E kore e taka tāku kawenata ki a koutou.’ 2 Kaua anō koutou e whakarite kawenata ki ngā tāngata o tēnei whenua; me pakaru e koutou ā rātou āta. Heoi, kīhai nei koutou i rongo ki tōku reo. He aha tēnei mahi a koutou? 3 Koia hoki ahau ka mea nei, E kore ahau e pei atu i a rātou i tō koutou aroaro; ā, ka waiho rātou ānō he tātarāmoa ki ō koutou kaokao; ko ō rātou atua hoki hei rore mō koutou."

4 Ā, nō te kōrerotanga a te anahera a Ihowā i ēnei kupu ki ngā tamariki katoa a Īharaira, ka ara te reo o te iwi, ka tangi. 5 Nā, huaina iho e rātou te ingoa o taua wāhi ko Pokimi; i patu whakahere anō hoki rātou mā Ihowā ki reira.

Te Matenga o Hohua

6 Nā, i tā Hohua tukunga i te iwi kia haere, ka haere ngā tamariki a Īharaira ki tōna wāhi, ki tōna wāhi, ki te tango i te whenua. 7 Ā, i mahi te iwi ki a Ihowā i ngā rā katoa o Hohua, i ngā rā katoa anō o ngā kaumātua i roa ake nei ō rātou rā i o Hohua, i kite nei i ngā mahi nunui katoa a Ihowā i meinga e ia mō Īharaira.

8 Nā, ka mate a Hohua tama a Nunu, te pononga a Ihowā, kotahi rau kotahi tekau ōna tau. 9 Ā, tanumia iho ia e rātou ki te rohe o tōna wāhi, ki Timinataherehe, ki te whenua pukepuke o Ēparaima, ki te taha ki te raki o Maunga Kāha.

10 Nā, ka kohia anō hoki taua whakatupuranga katoa ki ō rātou mātua; ā, ka ara ake tētahi whakatupuranga kē i muri i a rātou, kīhai nei i mōhio ki a Ihowā, ki ngā mahi anō hoki i mahia e ia mō Īharaira.

Ka Whakamutu te Iwi o Īharaira ki te Koropiko ki a Ihowā

11 Nā, ka mahi ngā tamariki a Īharaira i te kino i te tirohanga a Ihowā, ka mahi hoki ki ngā Paara. 12 Ā, whakarērea ake e rātou a Ihowā, te Atua o ō rātou mātua i whakaputa mai nei i a rātou i te whenua o Īhipa, ā, haere ana ki te whai i ngā atua kē, i ngā atua o ngā iwi i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha o rātou, ā, koropiko ana ki a rātou, nā, ka mea rātou i a Ihowā kia riri. 13 Heoi, whakarere ana rātou i a Ihowā, ā, mahi ana ki a Paara, ki te Ahataroto hoki. 14 Nā, ka mura te riri o Ihowā ki a Īharaira, ā, tukua ana rātou e ia ki ngā ringa o ngā kaipāhua hei pāhua i a rātou, ā, hokona ana rātou e ia ki te ringa o ō rātou hoariri i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha; kīhai hoki i taea e rātou i muri iho te tū ake i te aroaro o ō rātou hoariri. 15 I ō rātou haerenga katoa, i runga i a rātou te ringa o Ihowā mō te kino; i rite hoki ki tā Ihowā i kōrero ai, ki tā Ihowā hoki i oati ai ki a rātou; nā te taea tō rātou raru.

16 I whakaara ake anō a Ihowā i ētahi kaiwhakarite hei whakaora i a rātou i te ringa o ō rātou kaipāhua. 17 Heoi, kīhai anō rātou i whakarongo ki ō rātou kaiwhakarite; nā, kei te pūremu, kei te whai ki ngā atua kē, kei te koropiko ki a rātou. Hohoro tonu tō rātou peka kē i te ara i haere ai ō rātou mātua, arā i te whakarongo ki ngā whakahau a Ihowā; kīhai rātou i pērā. 18 Ā, i ngā wā i whakaara ake ai a Ihowā i ngā kaiwhakarite mō rātou, nā, i te kaiwhakarite a Ihowā, ā, whakaorangia ake rātou e ia i te ringa o ō rātou hoariri i ngā rā katoa o te kaiwhakarite: i puta kē hoki te whakaaro o Ihowā i a rātou e auē ana i ō rātou kaitūkino, i ō rātou kaiwhakatoi. 19 Ā, nō te matenga o te kaiwhakarite, ka hoki rātou ki muri, nui atu tō rātou takanga i tō ō rātou mātua; i haere hoki ki te whai i ngā atua kē, mahi ai ki a rātou, koropiko ai ki a rātou; kīhai i mutu ā rātou mahi, me tā rātou tikanga pakeke.

20 Nā, ka mura te riri o Ihowā ki a Īharaira, ā, ka mea ia, "Nā, kua takahia e tēnei iwi tāku kawenata i whakahaua e ahau ki ō rātou mātua; kīhai anō i rongo ki tōku reo; 21 nā, e kore anō ahau e pei atu i tētahi tangata i mua i a rātou o ngā iwi i mahue iho i a Hohua i tōna matenga. 22 Kia ai rātou hei whakamātautau māku i a Īharaira, e mau rānei ki te ara o Ihowā haere ai; e rite rānei te mau ki tā ō rātou mātua, kāhore rānei."

23 Nā, ka waiho ērā iwi e Ihowā, kīhai hoki i hohoro te peia atu; kīhai anō hoki i tukua ki te ringa o Hohua.