Laitloekkung 3

1 namtom rhoek khaw Kanaan kah caemtloek pakhat khaw aka ming pawh Israel boeih te noemcai ham ni BOEIPA loh a hlun.

Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

2 Te daengah ni a mikhmuh ah caemtloek aka ming pawh Israel ca rhoek ka cadilcahma loh caemtloeka cang ham te a ming eh.

Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war — only those who up till then had no experience of it;

3 Te vaengah Philisti boei panga neh Kanaan boeih Baalhermon tlang lamloh Lebokhamath duela Lebanon tlang ah kho aka sa Sidoni neh Khivee rhoek te khaw,

The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

4 BOEIPA kah olpaek tea yaak uh nim? Te nen te noemcai ham tih Israel te ming sak ham om coeng. Te te Moses kut lamloh a napa rhoek a uen coeng.

For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

5 Te dongah Isreal ca rhoek loh Kanaan kah Khitti, Amori Perizzi, Khivee neh Jebusi lakli ah kho a sak uh.

Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

6 Amih nu te a yuu laa loh uh tih a ca rhoek te amih Kanaan nu tea paek uh dongah amih kah sungrhai taengah tho a thueng uh.

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

7 Te vaengkah Israel ca rhoek BOEIPA mikhmuh ah thaea saii uh tih BOEIPA a Pathen tea hnilh uh dongah Baal neh Asherah te tho a thueng thiluh.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

8 Te vaengah BOEIPA kah thintoek Israel taengah sai. Te dongah amih te Aramnaharaim manghai Kushanrishathaim kut aha yoih tih Israel ca rhoek te Kushanrishathaim taengah kum rhet thotat uh.

So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.

9 Tedae Israel ca rhoek te BOEIPA taengah pang uh tih Israel ca rhoek ham khangkung te BOEIPA loh a thoh pah. Te vaengah Kaleb amah lakah aka noe, a mana Kenaz capa Othniel loh amih te a khang.

And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

10 Anih te BOEIPA Mueihla loh a om thil dongah Israel ham lai a tloek pah. Caemtloek laa caeh vaengah Aram manghai Kushanrishathaim te anih kut ah BOEIPA loh a paek. Te dongah a kut te Kushanrishathaim soah taenglue.

And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.

11 Te dongah khohmuen he kum sawmli mong tih Kenaz capa Othniel khaw duek.

Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.

12 Tedae BOEIPA mikhmuh ah thae saii ham Israel ca rhoek loh a khoep uh tih BOEIPA mikhmuh ah thaea saii uh dongah Israel soah Moab manghai Eglon te BOEIPA loh a tanglue sak.

Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.

13 Te vaengah Ammon neh Amalek koca rhoek tah anih taengla kibaeng uh. Israel tea paan tiha tloek dongah rhophoe khopuei tea huul uh.

And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

14 Te dongah Isreal ca rhoek te Moab manghai Eglon taengah kum hlai rhet thotat uh.

And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.

15 Israel ca rhoek loh BOEIPA tea pang thil uh vaengah amih ham khangkung la Benjamin koca, Gera capa Ehud te, BOEIPA loh a thoh pah. Anih te bantang kut aka poem hlang ni. Te dongah Israel ca rhoek loh anih kut dongah Moab manghai Eglon ham khocanga pat uh.

Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.

16 Te vaengah Ehud amah ham cunghanga saii tih a ha rhaepnit neh a sen dongkhat lo. Te te a himbai khui kah a bantang phai laa kaelh.

So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.

17 Moab manghai Eglon taengla khocanga thak vaengah Eglona sak hoeng paduk la om.

And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.

18 Khocang nawn ham te bawt a coeng phoeiah khocang aka phuei pilnam tea tueih.

And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.

19 Tedae amah te tah Gilgal kah mueidaep ah bal tih “Manghai nang ham kai taengah yinhnuk ol om,” a ti nah. Te dongah manghai loh, “Saah lah,” a ti nah tih a taengkah aka pai boeih te anih taeng lamloh nong uh.

But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.

20 Te dongah nohung imhman ah amah buenga ngol vaengah Ehud loh a paan. Te phoeiah Ehud loh, “Nang hamla kai taengah Pathen kah olka om,” a ti nah. Te vaengah ngolkhoel dong lamloh thoo.

Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.

21 Ehud loh banvoei kut tea yueng phoeiah a bantang phai kaep kah cunghanga loh tih manghai kah a bung khuila a thun pah.

And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;

22 Te vaengah thihna hnukaha tueng pataeng khaw muelh. A bung lamkah cunghang tea bong pah pawt dongah thiha tea tha loh a yol tiha aek khaw coe.

And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...

23 Ehud te imkawt la cet imhman thohkhaih te a hnukah khoep a dan tiha kalh.

Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.

24 Aniha caeh phoei daengah manghai sal rhoek te ha pawk uh hatah imhman thohkhaih khoep a kalh uh te lawta hmuh uh. Te dongah, “Nohung imhman ah a kho a khuk pueng muema “a ti uh.

Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.

25 A yah duelaa rhing uh dae imhman thohkhaih te ong tarha pawh. Te dongah cabia loh uh tiha ong uh hatah a boei te diklai aha duek la tarha ana yalh pah.

And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.

26 Amiha uelh uh vaengah Ehud tah vawl loeih. Te dongah anih tah mueidaep rhoek tea poeng tih Seirah duela loeih.

But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.

27 A pha van neh Ephraim tlang ah tukia ueng. Te vaengah tlang lamkah Israel ca rhoek tah anih taengla suntla uh. Tedae anih te amih hmai la om coeng.

And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.

28 Te phoeiah Ehud loh amih te “Na thunkha Moab te BOEIPA loh nangmih kut dongla m'paek coeng dongah kai hnuk han hloem uh,” a ti nah. Te dongah anih hnukah suntla uh tih Moab te Jordan lamkai ah a tuuk uh tih hlang pakhat khaw kat sak ham pae uh pawh.

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.

29 Te vaeng tue kah Moab a tloek te hlang rhalh boeih neh tatthai hlang boeih te thawng rha tluk lo tih hlang pakhat khaw loeih sak pawh.

At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

30 Te khohnin ah Moab loh Israel kut hmuiah kunyun sut tih khohmuen loh kum sawmrhet khuiah mong.

So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.

31 Ehud phoeiah tah Anath capa Shamgar om tih Philisti hlang ya rhuk neh vaito ciksum te a tloek phoeiah Israel te khawa khang.

And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.