士師記 8
1 那時厄弗辣因人對基德紅說：「你去攻打米德楊時，沒有召叫我們，你為什麼這樣對待我們﹖」他們激烈的與他爭吵。
The men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “What is this you have done to us? You did not call us when you went to fight against Midian.” Then they had a violent argument with him.
2 他回答他們說：「我所行的怎能比得上你們呢﹖厄弗辣因所拾的不比阿彼厄則爾所收的葡萄更好嗎﹖
He said to them, “What have I done now compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim's grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?
3 天主將米德楊的首領敖勒布和則厄布交在你們手中，我所能行的怎能與你們相比﹖」為了他這番話，他們對他的怒氣，就平息了。基德紅乘勝追趕米德楊王
God has given you victory over the princes of Midian—Oreb and Zeeb! What have I accomplished compared to you?” Their anger toward him died down when he said this.
4 基德紅來到約但河，就渡過河；他與跟隨他的三百人，雖然都疲倦，仍繼續追趕。
Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over it, he and the three hundred men who were with him. They were exhausted, yet they still kept up the pursuit.
5 他向穌苛特人說：「請你們給跟隨我的人幾個餅吃，因為他們疲倦了，我還願意追趕米德楊的兩個王子則巴黑和匝耳慕納。」
He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
6 穌苛特人的頭目回答說：「難道則巴黑和匝耳慕納的手已在你的掌握中，我們就該把餅送給你的軍隊嗎﹖」
Then the officials said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand? Why should we give bread to your army?”
7 基德紅說：「好罷! 幾時上主把則巴黑和匝耳慕納交在我手中，我必要用茨條和荊棘鞭撻你們的身體。」
Gideon said, “When Yahweh has given us victory over Zebah and Zalmunna, I will tear your skin with the desert thorns and briers.”
8 以後由那裏上去，到了培奴耳，也向他們說了同樣的話；培奴耳人回答他也像穌苛特人一樣。
He went up from there to Peniel and spoke to the people there in the same way, but the men of Peniel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered.
9 他也對培奴耳人說：「當我平安回來時，我必拆毀這座碉堡。」
He spoke also to the men of Peniel and said, “When I come again in peace, I will pull down this tower.”
10 那時則巴黑和匝耳慕納正在卡爾科爾，他們的軍隊約有一萬五千人，這是全部東方子民所剩的軍隊，因為已有十二萬持刀的被擊弊斃了。
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who remained out of the entire army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.
11 基德紅從諾巴黑和約革治哈東面，順著住帳棚人的路上去，當敵人自以為安全的時候，襲擊了軍營，
Gideon went up the road taken by tent dwellers, past Nobah and Jogbehah. He defeated the enemy army, because they were not expecting an attack.
12 則巴黑和匝耳慕納落荒而逃，基德紅在後面追趕，捉住了那兩個米德楊王子則巴黑和匝耳慕納，並使全軍覆沒。
Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and as Gideon pursued them, he captured the two kings of Midian—Zebah and Zalmunna—and set their whole army into a panic.
13 約阿士的兒子基德紅，從戰場沿赫勒斯斜坡回來，
Gideon, son of Joash, returned from the battle going through the pass of Heres.
14 捉住了穌苛特的少年人，查問他。這少年人就給他寫下穌苛特的首領和長老的名字，共七十七人。
He caught a young man of Succoth and questioned him. The young man wrote down the names of seventy-seven officials and elders of Succoth.
15 基德紅遂往穌苛特人那裏去說：「看! 這是則巴黑和匝耳慕納，你們為了他們曾譏笑我說：難道則巴黑和匝耳慕納的手已在你掌握中，我們就該把餅送給你疲倦的人嗎﹖」
Gideon came to the men of Succoth and said, “Look at Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you mocked me and said, 'Have you already conquered Zebah and Zalmunna? We do not know that we should give bread to your army.'”
16 他於是捉住那城的長老，用曠野裏的茨條和荊棘懲罰了蘇苛特居民。
Gideon took the elders of the city, and he punished the men of Succoth with the desert thorns and briers.
17 以後又把培奴耳的碉堡拆毀，殺戮了城內的居民。
Then he pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of that city.
18 然後詢問則巴黑和匝耳慕納說：「你們在大博爾山上殺戮的那些人是怎樣的人呢﹖」他們答說：「他們像你們一樣，個個都像君王的兒子。」
Then Gideon said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them looked like the son of a king.”
19 基德紅說：「他們是我的兄弟，是我母親的兒子：上主永在：如果你保留了他們不死，我也就不殺你們。」
Gideon said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
20 他遂對自己的長子耶特爾說：「起來，殺死他們! 」但是這孩童害怕，拔不出刀來，因為年紀還小。
He said to Jether (his firstborn), “Get up and kill them!” But the young man did not draw his sword for he was afraid, because he was still a young boy.
21 因此，則巴黑和匝耳慕納說：「你親自起來殺死我們罷! 因為人怎樣，他的力量也怎樣。」基德紅就起來殺了則巴黑和匝耳慕納，拿去他們駱駝頸上的月牙環。基德紅辭王位及其末年
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up yourself and kill us! For as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon rose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna. He also took off the crescent-shaped ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
22 事後，以色列人便對基德紅說：「你既然從米德楊手中拯救了我們，請你和你的子孫作我們的君王! 」
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son, and your grandson—because you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
23 基德紅回答他們說：「我不作你的君王，我的子孫也不作你們的君王，唯有上主是你們的君王。」
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither will my son rule over you. Yahweh will rule over you.”
24 基德紅又向他們說：「我只向你們要求一件事：請將每人掠奪的金環給我。」原來依市瑪耳人都有金環。
Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: Every one of you would give me the earrings from his plunder.” (The Midianites had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
25 他們答說：「我們情願給你。」於是舖開一件外衣，每人把所掠奪的金環擲在上面。
They answered, “We are glad to give them to you.” They spread out a cloak and every man threw on it the earrings from his plunder.
26 他所要的金環共有一千七百「協刻耳」重；此外尚有月牙環、耳環和米德楊王所穿的紫紅衣，及他們駱駝頸上的項鏈。
The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold. This plunder was in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple clothing that was worn by the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that had been around their camels' necks.
27 基德紅用這些金子造了一個「厄弗得」便成了基德紅及其家族的羅網。
Gideon made an ephod out of the earrings and put it in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there. It became a trap for Gideon and for those in his house.
28 米德楊在以色列子民前面屈服，再沒有抬起頭來。基德紅在世時，境內平安了四十年。
So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel and they did not raise their heads up again. So the land had peace for forty years in the days of Gideon.
29 約阿士的兒子耶魯巴耳回去，安居在自己家中。
Jerub Baal, son of Joash, went and lived in his own house.
30 基德紅有七十個兒子，都是他親生的，因為他有很多妻子。
Gideon had seventy sons who were his descendants, for he had many wives.
31 他在舍根的妾也給他生了一個兒子，給他起名叫阿彼默肋客。
His concubine, who was in Shechem, also bore him a son, and Gideon gave him the name Abimelech.
32 約阿士的兒子基德紅壽終正寢，埋在阿彼厄則爾的敖弗辣，他父親約阿士的墳墓裏。
Gideon, son of Joash, died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the clan of Abiezer.
33 基德紅死後，以色列子民又去跟從巴耳諸神行邪淫，立巴耳貝黎特當做他們的天主。
It came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, the people of Israel turned again and prostituted themselves by worshiping the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.
34 以色列子民忘記了上主他們的天主，曾從四周所有的敵人手中救了他們，
The people of Israel did not remember to honor Yahweh, their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side.
35 也沒有恩待耶魯巴耳即基德紅的家，以報答他施於以色列的恩惠。
They did not keep their promises to the house of Jerub Baal (that is, Gideon), in return for all the good he had done in Israel.
