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 him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
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 now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage 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 delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
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 passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
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 faint, and I am pursuing after 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﹖」
The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should 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, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with 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 there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him 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 Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break 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, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew 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 by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
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 he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
13 約阿士的兒子基德紅，從戰場沿赫勒斯斜坡回來，
Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent 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 the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
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﹖」
He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”
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。
He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
17 以後又把培奴耳的碉堡拆毀，殺戮了城內的居民。
He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the 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 he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children 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。」
He 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 youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
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, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents 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, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for 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 shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall 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, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they 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 will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
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 one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about 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 it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to 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 children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest 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。
Jerubbaal the 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 conceived from his body, 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 he named him 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 the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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。
As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and 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 children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of 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。
neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
