Abraham: The Covenant

Wannan ya sa har ƙasar ba tă ishe su yayinda suke zama tare ba, saboda mallakarsu ta yi yawa har ba za su iya zama tare ba.

Rikici kuma ya tashi tsakanin masu kiwon dabbobin Abram da na Lot. Mazaunan ƙasar, a lokacin kuwa Kan’aniyawa da Ferizziyawa ne.

Saboda haka Abram ya ce wa Lot, “Kada mu bar rikici yă shiga tsakaninmu, ko kuma tsakanin masu kiwon dabbobinka da nawa, gama mu ’yan’uwa ne.

Ba ga dukan ƙasar tana gabanka ba? Bari mu rabu. In ka yi hagu sai ni in yi dama. In ka yi dama, sai ni in yi hagu.”

Lot ya ɗaga idanunsa sama ya dubi kwarin Urdun, sai ya ga kwarin yana da ciyawa mai kyau ƙwarai sai ka ce lambun Ubangiji, kamar ƙasar Masar, wajajen Zowar. (Wannan fa kafin Ubangiji yă hallaka Sodom da Gomorra.)

Saboda haka sai Lot ya zaɓar wa kansa dukan kwarin Urdun, ya tashi ya nufi wajen gabas. Haka fa suka rabu da juna.

Abram ya zauna a ƙasar Kan’ana, yayinda Lot ya zauna cikin biranen kwari, ya kafa tentunansa kusa da Sodom.

Mutanen Sodom kuwa mugaye ne, sun aikata zunubi ƙwarai ga Ubangiji.

Bayan Lot ya rabu da Abram, sai Ubangiji ya ce wa Abram, “Ɗaga idanunka daga inda kake, ka dubi arewa da kudu, gabas da yamma.

Dukan ƙasar da kake gani zan ba ka, kai da zuriyarka har abada.

Zan sa zuriyarka tă yi yawa kamar ƙurar ƙasa, har in wani yana iya ƙidaya ƙurar, to, za a iya ƙidaya zuriyarka.

Tafi, ka ratsa tsawo da fāɗin ƙasar, gama zan ba ka ita.”

Saboda haka Abram ya cire tentunansa, ya zo ya zauna kusa da manyan itatuwan Mamre a Hebron, inda ya gina bagade ga Ubangiji.

A zamanin Amrafel sarkin Shinar, shi da Ariyok sarkin Ellasar, Kedorlayomer sarkin Elam, da kuma Tidal sarkin Goyim

suka tafi don su yaƙi Bera sarkin Sodom, Birsha sarkin Gomorra, Shinab sarkin Adma, Shemeber sarkin Zeboyim, da kuma sarkin Bela (wato, Zowar).

Dukan waɗannan sarakuna na bayan nan suka haɗa kai a Kwarin Siddim (Teku Gishiri).

Shekara goma sha biyu suna bauta wa Kedorlayomer, amma a shekara ta sha uku sai suka yi tawaye.

A shekara ta goma sha huɗu, Kedorlayomer da sarakunan da suka haɗa kai da shi suka tafi suka cinye Refahiyawa a Ashterot Karnayim, Zuziyawa a Ham, Emawa a Shabe Kiriyatayim,

da Horiyawa a ƙasar tudun Seyir har zuwa El Faran kusa da hamada.

Sa’an nan suka juya suka tafi En Mishfat (wato, Kadesh), suka cinye dukan ƙasar Amalekawa, da kuma Amoriyawa waɗanda suke zaune a Hazazon Tamar.

Sai sarkin Sodom, sarkin Gomorra, sarkin Adma, sarkin Zeboyim da sarkin Bela (wato, Zowar), suka fita suka ja dāgā a Kwarin Siddim

gāba da Kedorlayomer sarkin Elam, Tidal sarkin Goyim, Amrafel sarkin Shinar da Ariyok sarkin Ellasar; sarakuna huɗu gāba da biyar.

Kwarin Siddim kuwa ya cika da ramummukan kwalta, sa’ad da sarakunan Sodom da Gomorra suka gudu kuwa, waɗansu mutane suka fāɗa cikin ramummukan kwaltan, sauran kuwa suka gudu zuwa tuddai.

Sarakunan nan huɗu suka washe dukan kayayyakin Sodom da Gomorra, da kuma dukan abincinsu, sa’an nan suka tafi.

Suka kuma kama Lot ɗan ɗan’uwan Abram, wanda yake zaune a Sodom, da kayayyakinsa, suka yi tafiyarsu.