士师记 3
1 耶和华留下这几族，为要试验那不曾知道与迦南争战之事的以色列人，
And these [are] the nations which YHWH left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 好叫以色列的后代又知道又学习未曾晓得的战事。
(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them)—
3 所留下的就是非利士的五个首领和一切迦南人、西顿人，并住黎巴嫩山的希未人，从巴力·黑们山直到哈马口。
five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanite, and the Zidonian, and the Hivite inhabiting Mount Lebanon, from Mount Ba‘al-Hermon to the entering in of Hamath;
4 留下这几族，为要试验以色列人，知道他们肯听从耶和华借摩西吩咐他们列祖的诫命不肯。
and they are to prove Israel by them, to know whether they obey the commands of YHWH that He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 以色列人竟住在迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人中间，
And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
6 娶他们的女儿为妻，将自己的女儿嫁给他们的儿子，并事奉他们的神。
and take their daughters to them for wives, and have given their daughters to their sons, and they serve their gods;
7 以色列人行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，忘记耶和华—他们的 神，去事奉诸巴力和亚舍拉，
and the sons of Israel do evil in the eyes of YHWH, and forget their God YHWH, and serve the Ba‘alim and the Asheroth.
8 所以耶和华的怒气向以色列人发作，就把他们交在美索不达米亚王古珊·利萨田的手中。以色列人服事古珊·利萨田八年。
And the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He sells them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram-Naharaim, and the sons of Israel serve Chushan-Rishathaim eight years;
9 以色列人呼求耶和华的时候，耶和华就为他们兴起一位拯救者救他们，就是迦勒兄弟基纳斯的儿子俄陀聂。
and the sons of Israel cry to YHWH, and YHWH raises a savior to the sons of Israel, and he saves them—Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother;
10 耶和华的灵降在他身上，他就作了以色列的士师，出去争战。耶和华将美索不达米亚王古珊·利萨田交在他手中，他便胜了古珊·利萨田。
and the Spirit of YHWH is on him, and he judges Israel, and goes out to battle, and YHWH gives Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into his hand, and his hand is strong against Chushan-Rishathaim;
11 于是国中太平四十年。基纳斯的儿子俄陀聂死了。
and the land rests forty years. And Othniel son of Kenaz dies,
12 以色列人又行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，耶和华就使摩押王伊矶伦强盛，攻击以色列人。
and the sons of Israel add to do evil in the eyes of YHWH; and YHWH strengthens Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because that they have done evil in the eyes of YHWH;
13 伊矶伦招聚亚扪人和亚玛力人，去攻打以色列人，占据棕树城。
and he gathers the sons of Ammon and Amalek to himself, and goes and strikes Israel, and they possess the city of palms;
14 于是以色列人服事摩押王伊矶伦十八年。
and the sons of Israel serve Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
15 以色列人呼求耶和华的时候，耶和华就为他们兴起一位拯救者，就是便雅悯人基拉的儿子以笏；他是左手便利的。以色列人托他送礼物给摩押王伊矶伦。
And the sons of Israel cry to YHWH, and YHWH raises a savior to them, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjamite (a man [with] his right hand bound), and the sons of Israel send a present by his hand to Eglon king of Moab;
16 以笏打了一把两刃的剑，长一肘，带在右腿上衣服里面。
and Ehud makes a sword for himself, and it has two mouths (its length [is] a cubit), and he girds it under his long robe on his right thigh;
17 他将礼物献给摩押王伊矶伦（原来伊矶伦极其肥胖）；
and he brings the present near to Eglon king of Moab, and Eglon [is] a very fat man.
18 以笏献完礼物，便将抬礼物的人打发走了，
And it comes to pass, when he has finished to bring the present near, that he sends the people carrying the present away,
19 自己却从靠近吉甲凿石之地回来，说：“王啊，我有一件机密事奏告你。”王说：“回避吧！”于是左右侍立的人都退去了。
and he himself has turned back from the carved images which [are] at Gilgal and says, “I have a secret word for you, O king”; and he says, “Hush!” And all those standing by him go out from him.
20 以笏来到王面前；王独自一人坐在凉楼上。以笏说：“我奉 神的命报告你一件事。”王就从座位上站起来。
And Ehud has come to him, and he is sitting in the cool upper chamber which he has for himself, and Ehud says, “I have a word of God for you”; and he rises from off the throne;
21 以笏便伸左手，从右腿上拔出剑来，刺入王的肚腹，
and Ehud puts forth his left hand, and takes the sword from off his right thigh, and thrusts it into his belly;
22 连剑把都刺进去了。剑被肥肉夹住，他没有从王的肚腹拔出来，且穿通了后身。
and the hilt also goes in after the blade, and the fat shuts on the blade, that he has not drawn the sword out of his belly, and he goes out [through] the antechamber [[or and the dung came out]].
23 以笏就出到游廊，将楼门尽都关锁。
And Ehud goes out at the porch, and shuts the doors of the upper chamber on him, and has bolted [it];
24 以笏出来之后，王的仆人到了，看见楼门关锁，就说：“他必是在楼上大解。”
and he has gone out, and his servants have come in, and look, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber are bolted, and they say, “He is surely covering his feet, [relieving himself, ] in the cool inner chamber.”
25 他们等烦了，见仍不开楼门，就拿钥匙开了，不料，他们的主人已死，倒在地上。
And they stay until confounded, and behold, he is not opening the doors of the upper chamber, and they take the key, and open, and behold, their lord is fallen to the earth—dead.
26 他们耽延的时候，以笏就逃跑了，经过凿石之地，逃到西伊拉；
And Ehud escaped during their lingering, and has passed by the images, and escapes to Seirath.
27 到了，就在以法莲山地吹角。以色列人随着他下了山地，他在前头引路，
And it comes to pass, in his coming in, that he blows with a horn in the hill-country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel go down with him from the hill-country, and he before them;
28 对他们说：“你们随我来，因为耶和华已经把你们的仇敌摩押人交在你们手中。”于是他们跟着他下去，把守约旦河的渡口，不容摩押一人过去。
and he says to them, “Pursue after me, for YHWH has given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand”; and they go down after him, and capture the passages of the Jordan toward Moab, and have not permitted a man to pass over.
29 那时击杀了摩押人约有一万，都是强壮的勇士，没有一人逃脱。
And they strike Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, all robust, and everyone a man of valor, and no man has escaped,
30 这样，摩押就被以色列人制伏了。国中太平八十年。
and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel; and the land rests [for] eighty years.
31 以笏之后，有亚拿的儿子珊迦，他用赶牛的棍子打死六百非利士人。他也救了以色列人。
And after him has been Shamgar son of Anath, and he strikes the Philistines—six hundred men—with an ox-goad, and he also saves Israel.
