Bisisu 7
1 Eso afaega, Gidione amola ea dadi gagui dunu huluane hahabedafa wa: legadole, wa: i asili, Ha: ilode hano bubuga: su amo gadenene ha wa: i fi. Midia: ne fi dunu ilia hawa: i fisu da Isala: ili fi ilia fisisu amo gadili guga Moule Agolo fago amo gadenene dialebe, amogawi ba: i.
The next morning, Gideon and his men got up early and went as far as Harod Spring. The army of Midian was camped north of them, in the valley near Moreh Hill.
2 Hina Gode da Gidionema amane sia: i, “Na da dilia Midia: ne fi dunu ili hasalasima: ne fidimu. Be di sigi aligisu dunu da bagohamedafa ba: sa. Isala: ili dunu ilia da ilisu Midia: ne fi dunu hasali, amo sia: sa: besa: le, amola Nama hame nodosa: besa: le,
Yahweh said to Gideon, “You have too many soldiers with you. If I allow all of you to fight the army of Midian, [if your army defeats them], they will boast to me that they defeated their enemies by themselves, [without my help].
3 Isala: ili dunuma amane sia: ma, ‘Nowa dunu da beda: i galea, e da ea diasuga buhagimu da defea. Be ninia mogili da Gilia: de Goumia esalumu.’” Amaiba: le, dunu22,000 agoane da ilia diasuga buhagi. Be dunu 10,000 da ouesalu.
So tell the men, ‘Whoever among you is timid or afraid may leave us and go home.’” So [after Gideon told that to them], 22,000 of them went home. Only 10,000 men were left there.
4 Amalalu, Hina Gode da Gidionema amane sia: i, “Wali amola dia dunu idi da bagohamedafa ba: sa. Dia ili huluane hanoa gudu amogai oule sa: ima. Amogai na da ili momogilisimu. Na da dunu afae dia sigi masa: ne sia: sea, e da masunu. Be Na da eno dunu mae masa: ne sia: sea, e da hame masunu.”
But Yahweh told Gideon, “There are still too many men! Take them down to the spring, and there I will choose from among them, which ones will go with you and which ones will not go.”.
5 Gidione da ea dunu amo hanoa oule sa: ili, Hina Gode da ema amane sia: i, “Nowa dunu ilia da wa: me agoane hano leba: le nasea, amola nowa ilia da muguni bugili hano nosone nasea, amo dia mogima.”
When Gideon took the men down to the spring, Yahweh told him, “When they drink, put into one group the ones who scoop the water into their hands, and then lap it up like dogs do. Put into another group the ones who kneel down [and bend over] and drink with their mouths in the water.”
6 Dunu 300 agoane da hano amo loboga ofodalu leba: le nasu. Be dunu eno huluane da muguni bugili, hano nosona dasu.
So when they drank, only 300 men drank from their hands. All the others drank with their mouths down in the water.
7 Hina Gode Ea da Gidionema amane sia: i, “Na da di fidimuba: le, di amola dunu 300 amo da hano loboga ofodalu leba: le nasu, amo fawane da Midia: ne dunu fi ili hasalasimu. Eno dunu huluane ilia diasuga buhagima: ne sia: ma.”
Then Yahweh told Gideon, “The 300 men who lapped the water from their hands will be your army! I will enable them to defeat the Midian army. Let all the others go home!”
8 Amalalu, Gidione da amo dunu 300 amo fawane esaloma: ne sia: i. Eno huluane e da ilia diasuga buhagima: ne asunasi. Be Gidione amola amo dunu 300 da liligi sagosu, amola dalabede huluane gegedole legei.
So Gideon’s 300 men collected the food and rams’ horns from all the other men, and then he sent them home. The men of Midian were camping in the valley below Gideon.
9 Amo gasia, Hina Gode da Gidionema amane sia: i, “Wa: legadole, Midia: ne hawa: i fisu amo doagala: ma! Na fidimuba: le, dia da ili osa: la heda: mu.
That night, Yahweh said to Gideon, “Get up and go down to their camp, [and you will hear something that will convince you that] I will enable your men to defeat them.
10 Be di da beda: iba: le, doagala: mu hamedei ba: sea, di amola dia hawa: hamosu dunu Fiula, Midia: ne dunu ilia fia amo gudu sa: ima.
But if you are afraid to attack them by yourself, take your servant Purah with you.
11 Amogawi, alia da ilia fada: i sia: dalebe nabimu. Amasea di da ilima mae beda: iwane doagala: mu.” Amaiba: le, Gidione amola ea hawa: hamosu dunu Fiula da ilia ha lai dunu hawa: i fisu bega: gudu sa: i.
Go down and listen to what some of the Midian soldiers are saying. Then you will be very encouraged, and you will be ready to attack their camp.” So Gideon took Purah with him, and they went down to the edge of the enemy camp.
12 Midia: ne fi dunu, A:malege fi dunu amola hafoga: i soge fi dunu da fago ganodini fiafia: i esalebe ba: i. Ilia wa: i da danuba: wa: i agoane ba: i. Idimu hamedei agoai ba: i. Ilia ga: mele idi da sa: iboso hano wayabo bagade bega: dialebe amo defele ba: i.
The armies of the people of Midian and Amalek and from the east had set up their tents and looked like a swarm of locusts. It seemed that their camels were as impossible to count as the grains of sand on the seashore.
13 Gidione da Midia: ne awali asili fisisu amoga doaga: loba, e da Midia: ne dunu afae ea fi dunu ilima ea simasia ba: i liligi adolalebe nabi. E da amane adolalu, “Na da simasia agoane ba: i. Bali agi ga: gi gasui da bebesola asili, ninia fisisu amo ganodini misini, abula diasu afadafa fai. Abula diasu da mugululi sa: ili, bana: na sa: i ba: i.”
Gideon crept closer and heard one man telling a friend about a dream. He said, “I just had a dream, and in the dream I saw a round loaf of barley bread tumble down into our Midian camp. It struck a tent so hard that the tent turned upside down and collapsed!”
14 Ea fi dunu da ema bu adole i, “Dafawane! Goe da Isala: ili dunu Gidione, Youa: se egefe amo ea gegesu gobihei sedade olelesa. Bai eno da hame gala. Gode da Gidione ninia Midia: ne fi dadi gagui huluane ili hasalasima: ne, logo doasi dagoi.”
His friend said, “Your dream can mean only one thing. It means that God will enable Gideon, the man of Israel, to defeat all of the armies that are here with us men from Midian.”
15 Gidione da amo simasia ba: i amola amo ea bai nabaloba, e da ea muguni dudugini sa: ili, Godema nodone sia: ne gadoi. Amalalu, e da Isala: ili dunu ilia awalia asili fisisu amoga bu asili, Isala: ili dunu ilima amane sia: i, “Wa: legadoma! Hina Gode da nini Midia: ne dadi gagui ilima osa: la heda: ma: ne logo doasi dagoi.”
When Gideon heard the [man tell about his] dream and the meaning of that dream, he thanked God. Then he [and Purah] returned to the Israeli camp, and he shouted to the men, “Get up! Because God is enabling you to defeat the men from Midian!”
16 E da ea fi dunu 300 amo udiana agoane momogi. E da dunu huluane afae afae ilima dalabede amola ganagu osoboga hamoi i dagoi.
He divided his men into three groups. He gave each man a ram’s horn and an empty clay jar. He also gave each of them a torch [that they lit].
17 E da ilima amane sia: i, “Na da Midia: ne fisisu bidiga doaga: sea, dilia na hou ba: lalu amo defele hamoma.
Then he said to them, “Watch me. When we come close to the enemy camp, [spread out to surround the camp]. Then do exactly what I do.
18 Na amola na dunu gilisisu da ninia dalabede fulabosea, dilia amola hawa: i fisu fiafia: le esala amo sisiga: le, dilia dalabede fulabole, bagadewane amane wele sia: ma, ‘Ninia da Hina Gode amola Gidione elamagale gegesa.’”
As soon as I and the men with me blow our ram’s horns, you men in the other two groups surrounding the camp blow your horns and shout, ‘[We are doing this] for Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
19 Gidione amola ema fa: no bobogesu dunu 100 agoane da gasimoga Midia: ne amola A: malege ilia fisisu bega: doaga: i. Ilia amo fisisu sosodo aligisu dunu da afadenei dagoi ba: i. Amalalu, ilia da dalabede fulaboi amola osobo ganagu ilia lobo ganodini gagui amo goudai.
A while before midnight, just after a new group of Israeli guards took the places of the previous group, Gideon and the 100 men with him arrived at the edge of the Midian camp. Suddenly they all blew their horns, and broke their jars.
20 Gidione ea fi aduna eno da amo defele hamoi. Ilia da ilia hanu amo ilia lobo fofadi amoga gaguli amola ilia dalabede lobodafa amo ganodini gaguli, amane wele sia: i, “Gobihei bagade Hina Gode amola Gidione elamagale gegemusa: gala.”
Then the men in all three groups blew their horns and smashed their jars. They held the torches high with their left hands, and held up the horns with their right hands and alternatively blew them and shouted, “[We have] swords [to fight] for Yahweh and for Gideon!”
21 Gidione ea fi dunu da fisisu sisiga: le lelu. Amola ha lai dadi gagui dunu da beda: iba: le, wele sia: nanu, hobea: i.
Each of Gideon’s men stood in his position around the enemy camp. As they watched, all the Midian men started running around and shouting in a panic.
22 Gidione ea dunu da dalabede fulabolalu, Hina Gode da Midia: ne dunu ilia dogo ganodini olelebeba: le, ilia da sama eno ea sama amoma doagala: i. Ilia da Sa: leda: ne moilaiga doaga: musa: asili, Bedesida moilai amola A: ibele Mihoula moilai (Da: bade soge gadenene) amoga doaga: i.
While the 300 Israeli men kept blowing their horns, Yahweh caused their enemies to start fighting each other with their swords/daggers. Some of them killed each other. The rest fled. Some fled south to Beth-Shittah. Some fled to Zerarah [village], near Tabbath.
23 Amalalu Gidione da Na: fadalai fi, A:sie fi amola Mana: se fi aduna ilima misa: ne sia: nanu, ilia da Midia: ne dunu sebobogelalu.
Then Gideon sent messages to the soldiers in the areas where the descendants of Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh lived, to tell them to come and pursue the army of Midian.
24 Gidione da sia: adola ahoasu dunu asunasi. Ilia da Ifala: ime agolo soge amoga lalu, amane sia: i, “Midia: ne dunuma gegemusa: , gudu sa: ima. Ilia da Yodane Hano amola hano huluane asili Bedebala amoga doaga: sa, amo ilia mae degema: ne, noga: le ouligima.” Ilia da Ifala: ime dunu huluane gagadomusa: sia: i, amola ilia da hano huluane amo Yodane Hano amola hano huluane asili, Bedebala amoga doaga: su, amo huluane gagulaligi.
He also sent messengers throughout the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, saying, “Come down to attack the army of Midian. Come down to the Jordan River, to the place where people can wade across, to prevent enemy troops from crossing it! Station men as far south as Beth-Barah.” So the men of Ephraim did what Gideon told them to do.
25 Ilia da Midia: ne hina dunu aduna amo Oulebe amola Siebe gagulaligi. Ilia da Oulebe amo Oulebe Igi sogebi amoga fuga: i. Amola ilia da Siebe amo Siebe Waini Fage Labugisu amoga fuga: i. Ilia da mae fisili, Midia: ne dunu sefasilalu. Gidione da asili, Yodane Hano ea eso mabe la: idi amoga esalu. Isala: ili dunu da Oulebe amola Siebe ela dialuma damuni, gaguli asili, Gidionema i.
They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two generals of the Midian army. They killed Oreb at [the big rock which is now called] the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at [the place where people crush grapes that is now called] the winepress of Zeeb. Afterwards, the Israelis cut off the heads of Oreb and Zeeb and brought them to Gideon, while he was near the Jordan River.
