Hakimler 18

¹O günlerde İsrail'de bir kral yoktu; yine o günlerde Dan oymağı yerleşmek amacıyla kendisi için bir miras payı aramaktaydı, çünkü o güne dek İsrail oğullarının oymakları arasında kura ile kendilerine bir miras payı isabet etmemişti.

²Dan oğulları, kendi boylarından, ülkeyi gözetlemek ve derinlemesine araştırmak üzere Saraa ve Estaol'dan nüfuz sahibi beş adam gönderdiler ve onlara, "Gidin, ülkeyi araştırın" dediler; onlar da Efraim dağlık bölgesine, Mikaya'nın evine kadar gelip orada gecelediler.

³Mikaya'nın evindeyken, genç Levili'nin sesini tanıdılar ve oraya yönelip ona, "Seni buraya kim getirdi? Bu yerde ne yapıyorsun ve burada ne işin var?" dediler.

⁴O da onlara, "Mikaya bana şöyle şöyle yaptı, beni ücretle tuttu ve ben de onun kâhini oldum" dedi.

⁵Ona, "Lütfen Tanrı'ya danış da gitmekte olduğumuz bu yolun başarıyla sonuçlanıp sonuçlanmayacağını öğrenelim" dediler.

⁶Kâhin onlara, "Esenlikle gidin; gitmekte olduğunuz yolunuz Rab'bin önündedir" dedi.

⁷Beş adam yola çıkıp Laisa'ya geldiler; oradaki halkın, Sidonluların barışçıl töresi uyarınca, hiçbir kaygı duymadan güvenlik içinde yaşadığını gördüler; ülkede onları incitecek, utandıracak ya da egemenliklerini kısıtlayacak hiçbir otorite olmadığı gibi, hazinelerini gasp edecek bir mirasçı da yoktu; Sidonlulardan uzaktılar ve diğer insanlarla hiçbir ilişkileri yoktu.

⁸Beş adam Saraa ve Estaol'daki kardeşlerinin yanına döndüklerinde, kardeşleri onlara, "Ne duruyorsunuz?" dediler.

⁹Onlar da, "Kalkın, üzerlerine yürüyelim! Çünkü ülkeyi gördük, işte, fevkalade iyidir; siz hâlâ eylemsiz mi duruyorsunuz? Oraya gitmekten ve ülkeyi mülk edinmek üzere içeri girmekten üşenmeyin" dediler.

¹⁰"Gittiğinizde, hiçbir kaygısı olmayan bir halkla karşılaşacaksınız; üstelik ülke alabildiğine geniştir; çünkü Tanrı onu sizin elinize vermiştir; orası yeryüzündeki hiçbir şeyin eksik olmadığı bir yerdir."

¹¹Böylece Dan boylarından, Saraa ve Estaol'dan, savaş teçhizatlarıyla kuşanmış altı yüz adam oradan yola çıktı.

¹²Yukarı çıkıp Yahuda'daki Karyatiarim'de ordugah kurdular; bu yüzden o yere bugüne dek "Dan Ordugahı" denmiştir; işte, burası Karyatiarim'in hemen arkasındadır.

¹³Oradan Efraim dağlık bölgesine geçip Mikaya'nın evine kadar geldiler.

¹⁴Laisa ülkesini gözetlemeye giden o beş adam kardeşlerine seslenip şöyle dediler: "Bu evde bir efod, terafim, oyma put ve dökme put olduğunu biliyor musunuz? Şimdi ne yapacağınıza karar verin."

¹⁵Oraya yönelip genç Levili'nin evine, yani Mikaya'nın evine girdiler ve onun esenliğini sordular.

¹⁶Savaş teçhizatlarıyla kuşanmış Dan oğullarından altı yüz adam ise kapı girişinde ayakta bekliyordu.

¹⁷Ülkeyi gözetlemeye giden o beş adam yukarı çıkıp oraya girdiler; kâhin ise ayaktaydı.

¹⁸Oyma putu, efodu, terafimi ve dökme putu aldılar; kâhin onlara, "Ne yapıyorsunuz?" dedi.

¹⁹Ona, "Sesini kes, elini ağzına koy ve bizimle gel; bize baba ve kâhin ol" dediler, "Tek bir adamın evine kâhin olmak mı senin için daha iyidir, yoksa İsrail'de bir oymağa ve boya kâhin olmak mı?"

²⁰Kâhinin yüreği hoşnut oldu; efodu, terafimi, oyma putu ve dökme putu alıp halkın arasına katıldı.

²¹Dönüp yollarına devam ettiler; çocukları, hayvanları ve değerli yüklerini önlerine aldılar.

²²Onlar Mikaya'nın evinden uzaklaşmışlardı ki, Mikaya ve onun evinin yakınındaki evlerde oturan adamlar feryat ederek toplandılar ve Dan oğullarına yetiştiler.

²³Dan oğulları arkalarına dönüp Mikaya'ya, "Nen var? Neden böyle feryat ediyorsun?" dediler.

²⁴Mikaya, "Kendi yaptığım oyma putumu ve kâhinimi alıp gittiniz" dedi, "Daha neyim kaldı? Bir de bana kalkmış, 'Neden feryat ediyorsun?' diyorsunuz!"

²⁵Dan oğulları ona, "Sesin aramızda duyulmasın" dediler, "Yoksa canı acılaşmış öfkeli adamlar üzerinize saldırır da hem kendi canından hem de ev halkının canından olursun."

²⁶Dan oğulları yollarına devam ettiler; Mikaya onların kendisinden daha güçlü olduğunu görünce dönüp evine gitti.

²⁷Dan oğulları Mikaya'nın yaptırdığı şeyleri ve onun kâhini alarak Laisa'ya, huzur ve güvenlik içinde yaşayan bir halkın üzerine yürüdüler; onları kılıçtan geçirip kenti ateşe verdiler.

²⁸Onları kurtaran kimse olmadı; çünkü kent Sidon'dan uzaktı ve kimseyle bir ilişkileri yoktu; kent, Raab evinin vadisindeydi; kenti yeniden kurup orada yaşadılar.

²⁹Kente, İsrail'in oğlu olan ataları Dan'ın adından ötürü Dan adını verdiler; oysa kentin eski adı Ulamayis'ti.

³⁰Dan oğulları oyma putu kendileri için diktiler; Manasse oğlu Gerşon oğlu Yonatan ve oğulları, ülkenin sürgün edildiği güne dek Dan oymağının kâhinleri oldular.

³¹Tanrı'nın Evi Şilo'da kaldığı sürece, Mikaya'nın yaptırdığı oyma putu kendileri için dikili tuttular.

¹ΕΝ ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις οὐκ ἦν βασιλεὺς ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ. καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις ἡ φυλὴ Δὰν ἐζήτει ἑαυτῇ κληρονομίαν κατοικῆσαι, ὅτι οὐκ ἐνέπεσεν αὐτῇ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης ἐν μέσῳ φυλῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ κληρονομία.

²καὶ ἀπέστειλαν οἱ υἱοὶ Δὰν ἀπὸ δήμων αὐτῶν πέντε ἄνδρας υἱοὺς δυνάμεως ἀπὸ Σαραὰ καὶ ἀπὸ ᾿Εσθαὸλ τοῦ κατασκέψασθαι τὴν γῆν καὶ ἐξιχνιάσαι αὐτὴν καὶ εἶπαν πρὸς αὐτούς· πορεύεσθε καὶ ἐξιχνιάσατε τὴν γῆν. καὶ ἦλθον ἕως ὄρους ᾿Εφραὶμ ἕως οἴκου Μιχαία καὶ ηὐλίσθησαν αὐτοὶ ἐκεῖ

³ἐν οἴκῳ Μιχαία, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπέγνωσαν τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ νεανίσκου τοῦ Λευίτου καὶ ἐξέκλιναν ἐκεῖ καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· τίς ἤνεγκέ σε ὧδε, καὶ σὺ τί ποιεῖς ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ, καὶ τί σοι ὧδε;

⁴καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς· οὕτω καὶ οὕτως ἐποίησέ μοι Μιχαίας καὶ ἐμισθώσατό με, καὶ ἐγενόμην αὐτῷ εἰς ἱερέα.

⁵καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· ἐπερώτησον δὴ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ γνωσόμεθα εἰ εὐοδωθήσεται ἡ ὁδὸς ἡμῶν, ἐν ᾗ ἡμεῖς πορευόμεθα ἐν αὐτῇ.

⁶καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ ἱερεύς· πορεύεσθε ἐν εἰρήνῃ· ἐνώπιον Κυρίου ἡ ὁδὸς ὑμῶν, ἐν ᾗ πορεύεσθε ἐν αὐτῇ.

⁷καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν οἱ πέντε ἄνδρες καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Λαισά· καὶ εἶδαν τὸν λαὸν τὸν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς καθήμενον ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι, ὡς κρίσις Σιδωνίων ἡσυχάζουσα, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι διατρέπων ἢ καταισχύνων λόγον ἐν τῇ γῇ, κληρονόμος ἐκπιέζων θησαυρούς, καὶ μακράν εἰσι Σιδωνίων καὶ λόγον οὐκ ἔχουσι πρὸς ἄνθρωπον.

⁸καὶ ἦλθον οἱ πέντε ἄνδρες πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτῶν εἰς Σαραὰ καὶ ᾿Εσθαὸλ καὶ εἶπον τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς αὐτῶν· τί ὑμεῖς κάθησθε;

⁹καὶ εἶπαν· ἀνάστητε καὶ ἀναβῶμεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς, ὅτι εἴδομεν τὴν γῆν καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀγαθὴ σφόδρα· καὶ ὑμεῖς ἡσυχάζετε; μὴ ὀκνήσητε τοῦ πορευθῆναι καὶ εἰσελθεῖν τοῦ κληρονομῆσαι τὴν γῆν.

¹⁰καὶ ἡνίκα ἐὰν ἔλθητε, εἰσελεύσεσθε πρὸς λαὸν ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι, καὶ ἡ γῆ πλατεῖα, ὅτι ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν ὁ Θεός ἐν χειρὶ ὑμῶν, τόπος, ὅπου οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκεῖ ὑστέρημα παντὸς ῥήματος τῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ.

¹¹Καὶ ἀπῇραν ἐκεῖθεν ἀπὸ δήμων τοῦ Δὰν ἀπὸ Σαραὰ καὶ ἀπὸ ᾿Εσθαὸλ ἑξακόσιοι ἄνδρες ἐζωσμένοι σκεύη παρατάξεως.

¹²καὶ ἀνέβησαν καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν Καριαθιαρὶμ ἐν ᾿Ιούδα· διὰ τοῦτο ἐκλήθη ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ τόπῳ Παρεμβολὴ Δὰν ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης, ἰδοὺ ὀπίσω Καριαθιαρίμ.

¹³καὶ παρῆλθον ἐκεῖθεν ὄρος ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ ἦλθον ἕως οἴκου Μιχαία.

¹⁴καὶ ἀπεκρίθησαν οἱ πέντε ἄνδρες οἱ πορευόμενοι κατασκέψασθαι τὴν γῆν Λαισὰ καὶ εἶπαν πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφούς· ἔγνωτε ὅτι ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ ἐφὼδ καὶ θεραφὶν καὶ γλυπτὸν καὶ χωνευτόν; καὶ νῦν γνῶτε ὅ,τι ποιήσετε.

¹⁵καὶ ἐξέκλιναν ἐκεῖ καὶ εἰσῆλθον εἰς τόν οἶκον τοῦ νεανίσκου τοῦ Λευίτου, εἰς τὸν οἶκον Μιχαία, καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτὸν εἰς εἰρήνην.

¹⁶καὶ οἱ ἑξακόσιοι ἄνδρες οἱ ἀνεζωσμένοι τὰ σκεύη τῆς παρατάξεως αὐτῶν ἑστῶτες παρὰ θύρας τῆς πύλης, οἱ ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν Δάν.

¹⁷καὶ ἀνέβησαν οἱ πέντε ἄνδρες οἱ πορευθέντες κατασκέψασθαι τὴν γῆν καὶ εἰσῆλθον ἐκεῖ εἰς οἶκον Μιχαία, καὶ ὁ ἱερεὺς ἑστώς·

¹⁸καὶ ἔλαβον τὸ γλυπτὸν καὶ τὸ ἐφὼδ καὶ τὸ θεραφὶν καὶ τὸ χωνευτόν. καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ ἱερεύς· τί ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε;

¹⁹καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· κώφευσον, ἐπίθες τὴν χεῖρά σου ἐπὶ τὸ στόμα σου καὶ δεῦρο μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν καὶ γένου ἡμῖν εἰς πατέρα καὶ εἰς ἱερέα· μὴ ἀγαθὸν εἶναί σε ἱερέα οἴκου ἀνδρὸς ἑνὸς ἢ γενέσθαι σε ἱερέα φυλῆς καὶ οἴκου εἰς δῆμον ᾿Ισραήλ;

²⁰καὶ ἠγαθύνθη ἡ καρδία τοῦ ἱερέως, καὶ ἔλαβε τὸ ἐφὼδ καὶ τὸ θεραφὶν καὶ τὸ γλυπτὸν καὶ τὸ χωνευτὸν καὶ ἦλθεν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ.

²¹καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν καὶ ἀπῆλθαν· καὶ ἔθηκαν τὰ τέκνα καὶ τὴν κτῆσιν καὶ τὸ βάρος ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν.

²²αὐτοὶ ἐμάκρυναν ἀπὸ οἴκου Μιχαία καὶ ἰδοὺ Μιχαίας καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις ταῖς μετὰ οἴκου Μιχαία ἐβόησαν καὶ κατελάβοντο τοὺς υἱοὺς Δάν.

²³καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν οἱ υἱοὶ Δὰν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν καὶ εἶπαν τῷ Μιχαίᾳ· τί ἐστί σοι, ὅτι ἐβόησας;

²⁴καὶ εἶπε Μιχαίας· ὅτι τὸ γλυπτόν μου, ὃ ἐποίησα, ἐλάβετε καὶ τὸν ἱερέα καὶ ἐπορεύθητε· καὶ τί μοι ἔτι; καὶ τί τοῦτο λέγετε πρός με· τί κράζεις;

²⁵καὶ εἶπαν πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ υἱοὶ Δάν· μὴ ἀκουσθήτω δὴ φωνή σου μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν, μή ποτε συναντήσωσιν ἡμῖν ἄνδρες πικροὶ ψυχῇ καὶ προσθήσουσι ψυχήν σου καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ οἴκου σου.

²⁶καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Δὰν εἰς ὁδὸν αὐτῶν· καὶ εἶδε Μιχαίας ὅτι δυνατώτεροί εἰσιν ὑπὲρ αὐτόν, καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ.

²⁷καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Δὰν ἔλαβον ὃ ἐποίησε Μιχαίας, καὶ τὸν ἱερέα, ὃς ἦν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἦλθον ἐπὶ Λαισά, ἐπὶ λαὸν ἡσυχάζοντα καὶ πεποιθότα ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι καὶ ἐπάταξαν αὐτοὺς ἐν στόματι ρομφαίας καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐνέπρησαν ἐν πυρί·

²⁸καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ρυόμενος, ὅτι μακράν ἐστιν ἀπὸ Σιδωνίων, καὶ λόγος οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς μετὰ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ αὐτὴ ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι τοῦ οἴκου Ῥαάβ. καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ κατεσκήνωσαν ἐν αὐτῇ

²⁹καὶ ἐκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομα τῆς πόλεως Δὰν ἐν ὀνόματι Δὰν πατρὸς αὐτῶν, ὃς ἐτέχθη τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ· καὶ ἦν Οὐλαμαΐς ὄνομα τῆς πόλεως τὸ πρότερον.

³⁰καὶ ἔστησαν ἑαυτοῖς οἱ υἱοὶ Δὰν τὸ γλυπτόν· καὶ ᾿Ιωνάθαν υἱὸς Γηρσὼν υἱὸς Μανασσῆ, αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ ἦσαν ἱερεῖς τῇ φυλῇ Δὰν ἕως ἡμέρας τῆς ἀποικίας τῆς γῆς.

³¹καὶ ἔθηκαν ἑαυτοῖς τὸ γλυπτόν, ὃ ἐποίησε Μιχαίας πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, ἃς ἦν ὁ οἶκος τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν Σηλώμ.

¹In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of Dan sought for itself an inheritance to inhabit, because no inheritance had fallen to it until that day in the midst of the tribes of the children of Israel.

²And the sons of Dan sent from their families five men of valour, from Saraa and from Esthaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, Go and search out the land. And they came as far as the mount of Ephraim to the house of Michaias and they lodged there,

³in the house of Michaias, and they recognised the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither; and said to him, Who brought thee in hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

⁴And he said to them, Thus and thus did Michaias to me, and he hired me, and I became his priest.

⁵And they said to him, Enquire now of God, and we shall know whether our way will prosper, on which we are going.

⁶And the priests said to them, Go in peace; your way in which ye go, [is] before the Lord.

⁷And the five men went on, and came to Laisa; and they saw the people in the midst of it dwelling securely, at ease as [is] the manner of the Sidonians, and there is no one perverting or shaming a matter in the land, no heir extorting treasures; and they are far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with any one.

⁸And the five men came to their brethren to Saraa and Esthaol, and said to their brethren, Why sit ye here [idle]?

⁹And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, behold, [it is] very good, yet ye are still: delay not to go, and to enter in to possess the land.

¹⁰And whensoever ye shall go, ye shall come in upon a people secure, and the land [is] extensive, for God has given it into your hand; a place where there is no want of anything that the earth affords.

¹¹And there departed thence of the families of Dan, from Saraa and from Esthaol, six hundred men, girded with weapons of war.

¹²And they went up, and encamped in Cariathiarim in Juda; therefore it was called in that place the camp of Dan, until this day: behold, [it is] behind Cariathiarim.

¹³And they went on thence to the mount of Ephraim, and came to the house of Michaias.

¹⁴And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, Ye know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what ye shall do.

¹⁵And they turned aside there, and went into the house of the young man, the Levite, [even] into the house of Michaias, and asked him how he was.

¹⁶And the six hundred men of the sons of Dan who were girded with their weapons of war stood by the door of the gate.

¹⁷And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and entered into the house of Michaias, and the priest stood.

¹⁸And they took the graven image, and the ephod, and the theraphin, and the molten image; and the priest said to them, What are ye doing?

¹⁹And they said to him, Be silent, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for thee to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?

²⁰And the heart of the priest was glad, and he took the ephod, and the theraphin, and the graven image, and the molten image, and went in the midst of the people.

²¹So they turned and departed, and put their children and their property and their baggage before them.

²²they went some distance from the house of Michaias, and, behold, Michaias and the men in the houses near Michaias’ house, cried out, and overtook the children of Dan.

²³And the children of Dan turned their face, and said to Michaias, What is the matter with thee that thou hast cried out?

²⁴And Michaias said, Because ye have taken my graven image which I made, and my priest, and are gone; and what have I remaining? and what [is] this [that] ye say to me, Why criest thou?

²⁵And the children of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard with us, lest angry men run upon thee, and take away thy life, and the lives of thy house.

²⁶And the children of Dan went their way; and Michaias saw that they were stronger than himself, and he returned to his house.

²⁷And the children of Dan took what Michaias had made, and the priest that he had, and they came to Laisa, to a people quiet and secure; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

²⁸And there was no deliverer, because [the city] is far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with men, and it [is] in the valley of the house of Raab; and they built the city, and dwelt in it.

²⁹And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; and the name of the city was Ulamais before.

³⁰And the children of Dan set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan son of Gerson son of Manasse, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan till the time of the carrying away of the nation.

³¹And they set up for themselves the graven image which Michaias made, all the days that the house of God was in Selom.