< 士師記 12 >
1 以法蓮人聚集,到了北方,對耶弗他說:「你去與亞捫人爭戰,為甚麼沒有招我們同去呢?我們必用火燒你和你的房屋。」
And the men of Ephraim are called together, and pass over northward, and say to Jephthah, “Why have you passed over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and have not called on us to go with you? We burn your house with fire over you.”
2 耶弗他對他們說:「我和我的民與亞捫人大大爭戰;我招你們來,你們竟沒有來救我脫離他們的手。
And Jephthah says to them, “I have been a man of great strife (I and my people) with the sons of Ammon, and I call you, and you have not saved me out of their hand,
3 我見你們不來救我,我就拚命前去攻擊亞捫人,耶和華將他們交在我手中。你們今日為甚麼上我這裏來攻打我呢?」
and I see that you are not a savior, and I put my life in my hand, and pass over to the sons of Ammon, and YHWH gives them into my hand—and why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”
4 於是耶弗他招聚基列人,與以法蓮人爭戰。基列人擊殺以法蓮人,是因他們說:「你們基列人在以法蓮、瑪拿西中間,不過是以法蓮逃亡的人。」
And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fights with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead strike Ephraim, because they said, “You Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim, in the midst of Ephraim—in the midst of Manasseh.”
5 基列人把守約旦河的渡口,不容以法蓮人過去。以法蓮逃走的人若說:「容我過去。」基列人就問他說:「你是以法蓮人不是?」他若說:「不是」,
And Gilead captures the passages of the Jordan to Ephraim, and it has been, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim say, “Let me pass over,” and the men of Gilead say to him, “[Are] you an Ephraimite?” And he says, “No”;
6 就對他說:「你說『示播列』。」以法蓮人因為咬不真字音,便說「西播列」。基列人就將他拿住,殺在約旦河的渡口。那時以法蓮人被殺的有四萬二千人。
that they say to him, “Now say, Shibboleth”; and he says, “Sibboleth,” and is not prepared to speak right—and they seize him, and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan, and there fall at that time, of Ephraim, forty-two chiefs.
7 耶弗他作以色列的士師六年。基列人耶弗他死了,葬在基列的一座城裏。
And Jephthah judged Israel [for] six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dies, and is buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
And after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judges Israel,
9 他有三十個兒子,三十個女兒;女兒都嫁出去了。他給眾子從外鄉娶了三十個媳婦。他作以色列的士師七年。
and he has thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave away [in marriage], and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons; and he judges Israel [for] seven years.
And Ibzan dies, and is buried in Beth-Lehem.
11 以比讚之後,有西布倫人以倫,作以色列的士師十年。
And after him Elon the Zebulunite judges Israel, and he judges Israel [for] ten years,
and Elon the Zebulunite dies, and is buried in Aijalon, in the land of Zebulun.
13 以倫之後,有比拉頓人希列的兒子押頓作以色列的士師。
And after him, Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, judges Israel,
14 他有四十個兒子,三十個孫子,騎着七十匹驢駒。押頓作以色列的士師八年。
and he has forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy donkey-colts, and he judges Israel [for] eight years.
15 比拉頓人希列的兒子押頓死了,葬在以法蓮地的比拉頓,在亞瑪力人的山地。
And Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, dies, and is buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekite.