士師記 3
1 上主保留的民族 這是上主為考驗那些不曉得客納罕一切戰事的以色列人，所留下來的民族，
At that time there were still many people-groups in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israeli people. But many of the Israelis in Canaan were ones who had not fought in any of the wars in Canaan. So Yahweh also left those people-groups in Canaan so that the descendants of those who had not fought in any of the wars might learn how to fight.
2 叫以色列子民的後代，至少那些以前不曉得這些戰事的人，知道和學習作戰。
3 這些民族就是培勒舍特人的五個酋長，一切客納罕人、漆冬人和住在黎巴嫩山上，即從巴耳赫爾孟山直到哈瑪特關口的希威人。
[This is a list of] the people-groups that Yahweh left there: The Philistines and their five leaders, the people living in the area near Sidon [city], the descendants of Canaan, and the descendants of Hiv who were living in the mountains of Lebanon between Baal-Hermon Mountain and Lebo-Hamath.
4 他們留在那裏是為考驗以色列人，看他們是否聽從上主藉梅瑟吩咐他們祖先的那些誡命。
Yahweh left these people-groups there to test the Israelis, to see if they would obey his commands which he had told Moses to give them.
5 以色列子民就住在客納罕人、赫特人、阿摩黎人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人中間，
The Israelis lived among the Canaan people-group, the Hiv people-group, the Amor people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
6 竟然娶了他們的女子為妻，也把自己的女兒嫁給他們的兒子，事奉了他們的神。敖特尼耳民長
[Moses had told the people not to associate with any of those people]. But the Israelis took daughters of people from those people-groups [to be their own wives], and gave their own daughters to men of those groups, to marry them. And [as a result] they started to worship the gods of those people-groups.
7 以色列子民行了上主視為惡的事，忘卻了上主他們的天主，而事奉了巴耳諸神和阿舍辣諸女神；
The Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They forgot about Yahweh, their God, and they started to worship [the idols that represented] the god Baal and the goddess Asherah.
8 因此上主對以色列大發忿怒，將他們交在厄東王雇商黎沙塔殷手中，以色列子民遂服事了雇商黎沙塔殷八年。
Yahweh became very angry with the Israelis. So he allowed king Cushan from Mesopotamia to conquer them and rule them for eight years.
9 當以色列子民向上主呼籲時，上主給以色列子民興起了一個拯救他們的救星，即加肋布的弟弟刻納次的兒子敖特尼耳。
But when they pleaded to Yahweh [to help them], he gave them a leader to rescue them. He was Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz.
10 上主的神降在他身上，他作了以色列的民長，出去作戰；上主把厄東王雇商黎沙塔殷交在他手中，他的`能力勝過了雇商黎沙塔殷。
Yahweh’s Spirit came upon him, and he became their leader. He [led an army that] fought against [the army of] Cushan, and defeated them.
11 於是四境平安了四十年。厄胡得民長刻納次的兒子敖特尼耳去世後，
After that, there was peace in the land for 40 years, until Othniel died.
12 以色列子民又行了上主視為惡的事，上主就強化摩阿布王厄革隆去打以色列，因為他們行了上主視為惡的事。
After that, the Israelis again did things that Yahweh said were very evil. As a result, he allowed the army of King Eglon, who ruled [the] Moab [area], to defeat the Israelis.
13 他聯合了阿孟子民和阿瑪肋克人，前來擊敗以色列，佔據了棕樹城；
Eglon persuaded the leaders of the Ammon and Amalek people-groups to join their armies with his army to attack Israel. They captured [Jericho, which was called] ‘The City of Palm Trees’.
14 以色列遂服事了摩阿布王厄革隆十八年。
Then King Eglon ruled the Israelis for eighteen years.
15 當以色列子民向上主呼籲時，上主給他們興起了一位拯救者，就是本雅明人革辣的兒子厄胡得，他是左右手能兼用的人；以色列子民便派他給摩阿布王厄革隆獻貢物。
But then the Israelis again pleaded to Yahweh [to help them]. So he gave them another leader to rescue them. He was Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera, from the descendants of Benjamin. The Israelis sent him to King Eglon to give him their yearly protection money.
16 厄胡得預備了一把一肘長的雙刃刀，插在右腿衣服底下，
Ehud had with him a double-edged dagger, about a foot and a half long. He strapped it to his right thigh, under his clothes.
17 來到摩阿布王厄革隆前獻貢物─厄革隆原是極肥胖的人。
He gave the money to King Eglon, who was a very fat man.
18 獻完貢物以後，就把抬貢物的人打發走，
Then Ehud started to go back home with the men who had carried the money.
19 自己卻由基耳加耳柱像那裏退回，說：「王呀! 我有機密事要對你說。」王說：「退下! 」於是侍立左右的人都退去。
When they arrived at the stone carvings near Gilgal, [he told the other men to go on, but] he himself turned around and went back [to the king of Moab. When he arrived at the palace], he said to the king, “Your majesty, I have a secret message for you.” So the king told all his servants to be quiet, and sent them out of the room.
20 厄胡得來到他跟前，他正獨自坐在涼台上的房子裏；厄胡得說：「我有神諭告訴你! 」王就從自己的座位上起立；
Then, as Eglon was sitting alone in the upstairs room of his summer palace, Ehud came close to him and said, “I have a message for you from God.” As the king got up from his chair,
21 厄胡得遂伸左手從右腿上拔出刀來，刺入他的腹部，
Ehud reached with his left hand and pulled the dagger from his right thigh, and plunged it into the king’s belly.
22 柄和刀都刺了進去，脂肪遂包住了刀子，他沒有從肚子裏把刀抽出來；
He thrust it in so far that the handle went into the king’s belly, and the blade came out the king’s back. Ehud did not pull the dagger out. [He left it there, with] the handle buried in the king’s fat.
23 厄胡得出來到了走廊，把涼台上的門關上，上了鎖。
Then Ehud left the room. He went out to the porch. He shut the doors to the room and locked them.
24 他出去之後，王臣前來，看見涼台的房門關著，就說：「他一定在涼台上的內室裏便溺。」
After he had gone, King Eglon’s servants came back, but they saw that the doors of the room were locked. They said, “The king must be defecating in the inner room.”
25 待他們等煩了，看見沒有人來開涼台上的門，他們就拿鑰匙把門開了，見他們的主子躺在地上死了。
So they waited, but when the king did not open the doors of the room, after a while they were worried. They got a key and unlocked the doors. And they saw that their king was lying on the floor, dead.
26 在他們猶豫的時候，厄胡得已經逃走，繞過柱像，而逃往色依辣。
Meanwhile, Ehud escaped. He passed by the stone carvings and arrived at Seirah, in the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived.
27 他到了那裏，就在厄弗辣因山地吹號角，以色列子民就同他由山地下來，他在他們前面，
There he blew a trumpet [to signal that the people should join him to fight the people of Moab]. So the Israelis went with him from the hills. They went down [toward the Jordan river], with Ehud leading them.
28 對他們說：「你們緊跟著我，因為上主把你們的仇敵摩阿布人已交於你們手中! 」他們遂跟他下去，佔據了摩阿布對面的約但河渡口，不許一人渡過。
He said to the men, “Yahweh is going to allow us to defeat your enemies, the people of Moab. So follow me!” So they followed him down to the river, and they stationed some of their men at the place where people can walk across the river, in order that they could [kill any people from Moab who tried to] cross the river [to escape].
29 就在那個時候，他們擊殺了摩阿布人約有一萬，都是壯丁和兵士，沒有一個人逃脫。
At that time, the Israelis killed about 10,000 people from Moab. They were all strong and capable men, but not one of them escaped.
30 從那天起，摩阿布驅服於以色列手下；境內平安了十八年。沙默加爾民長
On that day, the Israelis conquered the people of Moab. Then there was peace in their land for 80 years.
31 在他以後，有阿納特的兒子沙默加爾，他意趕牛棒擊殺了六百培肋舍人，拯救了以色列。
After Ehud [died], Shamgar became their leader. He rescued the Israelis [from the Philistines. In one battle] he killed 600 Philistines with an (ox goad/sharp wooden pole).
