¹इस्राएलभरी शमूएलको विषयमा समाचार फैलिन थाल्यो। तर एली भने साह्रै बुढो भइसकेका थिए। तर उनका छोराहरूले भने अझै पनि परमप्रभुका अघि दुष्ट कार्य गरिनै रहे। त्यस समय, इस्राएलीहरू पलिश्तीहरूका विरूद्धमा युद्ध गर्नको निम्ति तयार भए। इस्राएलीले एबेन-एजेरमा छाउनी हाले अनि पलिश्तीहरूले अपेकमा छाउनी हाले।

¹The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

²पलिश्तीहरू इस्राएलीहरू माथि हमला गर्न तयार भए। पलिश्तीहरूले इस्राएलीहरूलाई हराए। पलिश्तीहरूले इस्राएलका 4,000 सैनिकहरू मारिदिए।

²The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.

³बाँकी इस्राएली सैनिकहरू फर्केर छाउनीमा पुगे। इस्राएलका बूढा प्रधानले सोधे, “परमप्रभुले पलिश्तीहरूद्वारा हामीलाई किन हराउन दिनुभयो? हामीले शीलोबाट परमप्रभुका करारको सन्दूक उठाएर ल्याऊ। यसो गरेपछि परमेश्वर हामीसँग युद्ध भूमिमा जानुहुनेछ र हामीलाई हाम्रो शत्रुबाट बचाउँनु हुनेछ।”

³When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”

⁴त्यसकारण तिनीहरूले शीलोमा मानिसहरू पठाए। सर्वशक्तिमान परमप्रभुको करारको सन्दूक लिएर मानिसहरू आए। सन्दूक माथि करूब स्वर्गदूत विराजमान थिए अनि तिनीहरू त्यस्तो प्रकारले बसेका छन् जसमाथि परमप्रभुले आसन लिनुहुन्थ्यो। एलीका छोरा होप्नी र पीनहास जो सन्दूकको रेखदेख गर्दथे तिनीहरू पनि उक्त सन्दूकसँगै आए।

⁴So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

⁵जब परमप्रभुको करारको सन्दूक छाउनी भित्र ल्याइयो, इस्राएलीहरूले ठूलो हल्ला गरे। त्यस हल्लाले भूमि नै हल्लियो।

⁵When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

⁶पलिश्तीहरूले पनि इस्राएलीहरूका हल्ला सुन। तिनीहरूले सोधे, “हिब्रूहरूका छाउनीमा यति साह्रौ हल्ला किन हुँदैछ?” पछि पलिश्तीहरूलाई थाहा भयो कि इस्राएलीहरूका छाउनीमा करारको सन्दूक आएको छ।

⁶When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.

⁷पलिश्तीहरू डराएर भने, “परमेश्वर नै तिनीहरूका छाउनीमा आए! अब हाम्रो के हुने हो। यस्तो पहिले कहिले भएको थिएन।

⁷The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.

⁸हामी चिन्तित भयौ यस्तो बलियो देवताबाट अब हामीलाई कसले बचाउँछ? यी तिनै देवता हुन् जसले मिश्रीहरूलाई जंगलमा महामारी र भंयकर रोगहरू दिएका थिए।

⁸Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

⁹पलिश्तीहरू हो सहासी बन! मर्द झैं काम गर, नत्र ता विगतमा हिब्रूहरू हाम्रा दास थिए, भने अब लडेनौं भने तिमीहरू उनीहरूका दास हुनेछौ।”

⁹Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

¹⁰पलिश्तीहरूले वीरताका साथ लडे र इस्राएलीहरूलाई परास्त पारे। प्रत्येक इस्राएली सेना भागेर आफ्ना छाउनीमा लुक्न पुगे। इस्राएलको यो साह्रै नराम्रो पराजय थियो। जम्मा 30,000 इस्राएली सैनिकहरू मारिएका थिए।

¹⁰The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

¹¹पलिश्तीहरूले परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूक हात पारे र एलीका दुवै छोरा, होप्नी र पीनहासलाई मारे।

¹¹The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

¹²त्यस दिन बिन्यामिनी कूलका एकजना मानिस युद्ध भूमिबाट भागेर हारेको शोक प्रकट गर्न शरीरका बस्त्रहरू च्यातेर टाउकोभरी धूलै-धूलो खन्याए र शीलोमा पुगे।

¹²There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.

¹³त्यस समय एली शहरको फाटकहरूको मूल बाटोमा आफ्नो आसनमा बसिरहेका थिए। तिनी परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूकको विषयमा ज्यादै चिन्तित थिए र समाचारको प्रतिक्षा गरिरहेका थिए। त्यो बिन्यामीनहरूले आए र दुःखी समाचार शहरलाई दियो। अनि सबै शहरवासी जोडले रून थाले।

¹³When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

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¹⁴When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.

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¹⁵Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

¹⁶तिनले भने, “म युद्धभूमिबाट भागेर आएको हुँ!” एलीले फेरि सोधे, “के भयो हँ छोरा?”

¹⁶The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”

¹⁷बिन्यामिनी मानिसले सार वृत्तान्त बताए, “इस्राएलीहरू पलिश्तीहरूका अघि टिक्न नसकेर भागे इस्राएली पक्षका धेरै सेना युद्धमा मारिए। तपाईंका दुवै छोरा, होप्नी र पीनहास पनि मारिए अनि परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूक पनि पलिश्तीहरूले कब्जामा पारेका छन्।”

¹⁷He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

¹⁸जब बिन्यामिनी मानिसले परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूकको घटना बताए, एली ऊ बसेको कुर्सीबाट पछिल्तिर लडे, र तिनको मुन्टो भाँचियो, कारण एली साह्रै बूढा थिए र साह्रै मोटा थिए, उनी त्यही मरे। एलीले चालिस वर्षसम्म इस्राएलाई अगुवाइ गरेका थिए।

¹⁸It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

¹⁹एलीकी बुहारी, पीनहासकी पत्नी त्यस समय गर्भवती थिईन्। तिनीको नानी जन्माउने समय पुगिसकेको थियो, परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूक कब्जा गरेको घटना साथै ससुरा र लोग्नेको पनि मृत्यु भएको खबर सुन्नेबित्तीकै प्रसववेदना शुरू भयो, यसकारण उसले घुँडा टेकी र तत्कालै एउटा छोरा जन्माईन्।

¹⁹His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.

²⁰जब तिनी मर्नै लागेकी थिईन्, तिनलाई स्याहार्ने आइमाईहरूले तिनलाई भने, “नडराऊ! तिम्रो एउटा छोरा भयो।” तर एलीकी बुहारीलाई त्यस सुखको खबरले कुनै असर गरेन।

²⁰About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid; for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.

²¹तर इस्राएलको महिमा हराएको सुनेर तिनले छोराको नाउँ ईकावोद राखिन्, अर्थ “इस्राएलो महिमा लगियो!” यसले यो नाउँ राखी परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूक लुटिएको र आफ्ना ससुरा अनि लोग्नेको मृत्यु भएको कुरा संकेत गराउँछ।

²¹She named the child Ichabod, “Ichabod” means “no glory.” saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

²²तिनले भनिन्, “इस्राएलको महिमा हरायो।” कारण पलिश्तीहरूले परमेश्वरको पवित्र सन्दूक कब्जा गरे।

²²She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.”