Hakimler 17

¹Efraim'in dağlık bölgesinden bir adam ortaya çıktı ve onun adı Mikaya idi.

²Annesine şöyle dedi: "Kendin için ayırdığın, hakkında lanet okuyup kulaklarımla duyacağım şekilde söylediğin o bin yüz gümüş var ya; işte o gümüş bende, onu ben aldım." Annesi de, "Oğlum Rab tarafından kutsansın!" dedi.

³Bin yüz gümüşü annesine geri verdi; annesi ise, "Oğlum için oyma ve dökme bir put yapmak üzere bu gümüşü kendi elimden Rabbe kesin olarak adayıp kutsadım; şimdi onu sana geri veriyorum" dedi.

⁴Gümüşü annesine geri verdi; annesi de iki yüz gümüş parça alıp bir gümüşçüye verdi; o da bundan oyma ve dökme bir put yaptı ve bu put Mikaya'nın evine yerleştirildi.

⁵Mikaya'nın evi kendisi için bir Tanrı evi haline geldi; bir efod ile terafim yaptı ve oğullarından birine yetki verip onu kahinliğe atadı; böylece o, kendisinin kahini oldu.

⁶O günlerde İsrail'de bir kral yoktu; her adam kendi gözünde doğru olanı yapıyordu.

⁷Yahuda boyundan, Yahuda Beytlehemi'nden genç bir adam vardı; kendisi bir Leviliydi ve orada geçici bir süre yabancı olarak kalıyordu.

⁸Adam, geçici olarak kalabileceği uygun bir yer bulmak amacıyla Yahuda'nın Beytlehem kentinden yola çıktı ve yolculuğunu sürdürürken Efraim'in dağlık bölgesine, Mikaya'nın evine kadar geldi.

⁹Mikaya ona, "Nereden geliyorsun?" diye sordu. O da ona, "Yahuda Beytlehemi'nden bir Leviliyim; geçici olarak kalabileceğim herhangi bir yer bulmak için gidiyorum" dedi.

¹⁰Mikaya ona, "Benimle kal" dedi, "Benim için bir baba ve kahin ol; ben de sana gün başına on gümüş, bir kat elbise ve geçimin için gerekli olanları vereceğim."

¹¹Levili orada kalmaya razı oldu ve adamın yanında geçici olarak yaşamaya başladı; genç adam onun için kendi oğullarından biri gibi oldu.

¹²Mikaya Leviliyi kahinlik yetkisiyle donatıp atadı; genç adam onun kahini oldu ve Mikaya'nın evinde kaldı.

¹³Mikaya, "Şimdi anladım ki Rab bana iyilik yapacak, çünkü bir Levili benim kahinim oldu" dedi.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο ἀνὴρ ἀπὸ ὄρους ᾿Εφραίμ, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Μιχαίας.

²καὶ εἶπε τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ· οἱ χίλιοι καὶ ἑκατόν, οὓς ἔλαβες ἀργυρίου σεαυτῇ καί με ἠράσω καὶ προσεῖπας ἐν ὠσί μου, ἰδοὺ τὸ ἀργύριον παρ᾿ ἐμοί, ἐγὼ ἔλαβον αὐτό. καὶ εἶπεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ· εὐλογητὸς ὁ υἱός μου τῷ Κυρίῳ.

³καὶ ἀπέδωκε τοὺς χιλίους καὶ ἑκατὸν τοῦ ἀργυρίου τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ· καὶ εἶπεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ· ἁγιάζουσα ἡγίασα τὸ ἀργύριον τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐκ τῆς χειρός μου τῷ υἱῷ μου τοῦ ποιῆσαι γλυπτὸν καὶ χωνευτόν, καὶ νῦν ἀποδώσω αὐτό σοι.

⁴καὶ ἀπέδωκε τὸ ἀργύριον τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔλαβεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ διακοσίους ἀργυρίου καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸ ἀργυροκόπῳ, καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὸ γλυπτὸν καὶ χωνευτόν· καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν οἴκῳ Μιχαία.

⁵καὶ ὁ οἶκος Μιχαία, αὐτῷ οἶκος Θεοῦ· καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐφὼδ καὶ θεραφὶν καὶ ἐπλήρωσε τὴν χεῖρα ἀπὸ ἑνὸς υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτῷ εἰς ἱερέα.

⁶ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις οὐκ ἦν βασιλεὺς ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ· ἀνὴρ τὸ εὐθὲς ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐποίει.

⁷Καὶ ἐγενήθη νεανίας ἐκ Βηθλεὲμ δήμου ᾿Ιούδα, καὶ αὐτὸς Λευίτης, καὶ οὗτος παρῴκει ἐκεῖ.

⁸καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ ἀνὴρ ἀπὸ Βηθλεὲμ τῆς πόλεως ᾿Ιούδα παροικῆσαι ἐν ᾧ ἐὰν εὕρῃ τόπῳ, καὶ ἦλθεν ἕως ὄρους ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ ἕως οἴκου Μιχαία τοῦ ποιῆσαι ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ.

⁹καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Μιχαίας· πόθεν ἔρχῃ; καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτόν· Λευίτης εἰμὶ ἐκ Βηθλεὲμ ᾿Ιούδα, καὶ ἐγὼ πορεύομαι παροικῆσαι ἐν ᾧ ἐὰν εὕρω τόπῳ.

¹⁰καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Μιχαίας· κάθου μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ καὶ γίνου μοι εἰς πατέρα καὶ εἰς ἱερέα, καὶ ἐγὼ δώσω σοι δέκα ἀργυρίου εἰς ἡμέραν καὶ στολὴν ἱματίων καὶ τὰ πρὸς ζωήν σου.

¹¹καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ Λευίτης καὶ ἤρξατο παροικεῖν παρὰ τῷ ἀνδρί, καὶ ἐγενήθη ὁ νεανίας αὐτῷ ὡς εἷς ἀπὸ υἱῶν αὐτοῦ.

¹²καὶ ἐπλήρωσε Μιχαίας τὴν χεῖρα τοῦ Λευίτου, καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτῷ εἰς ἱερέα καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Μιχαία.

¹³καὶ εἶπε Μιχαίας· νῦν ἔγνων ὅτι ἀγαθυνεῖ μοι Κύριος, ὅτι ἐγένετό μοι ὁ Λευίτης εἰς ἱερέα.

¹And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Michaias.

²And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou tookest of thyself, and [about which] thou cursedst me, and spokest in my ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed [be] my son of the Lord.

³And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son, to make a graven and a molten [image], and now I will restore it to thee.

⁴But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Michaias.

⁵And the house of Michaias [was] to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and theraphin, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.

⁶And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

⁷And there was a young man in Bethleem of the tribe of Juda, and he [was] a Levite, and he was sojourning there.

⁸And the man departed from Bethleem the city of Juda to sojourn in whatever place he might find; and he came as far as mount Ephraim, and to the house of Michaias to accomplish his journey.

⁹And Michaias said to him, Whence comest thou? and he said to him, I am a Levite of Bethleem Juda, and I go to sojourn in any place I may find.

¹⁰And Michaias said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest; and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a change of raiment, and thy living.

¹¹And the Levite went and began to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

¹²And Michaias consecrated the Levite, and he became to him a priest, and he was in the house of Michaias.

¹³And Michaias said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because a Levite has become my priest.