Dommer 2
1 HERRENS Engel drog fra Gilgal op til Betel. Og han sagde: »Jeg førte eder op fra Ægypten og bragte eder ind i det Land, jeg tilsvor eders Fædre. Og jeg sagde: Jeg vil i Evighed ikke bryde min Pagt med eder!
And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you; and as for you,
2 Men I maa ikke slutte Pagt med dette Lands Indbyggere; deres Altre skal I bryde ned! Men I adlød ikke min Røst! Hvad har I dog gjort!
ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not hearkened unto my voice. Why have ye done this?
3 Derfor siger jeg nu: Jeg vil ikke drive dem bort foran eder, men de skal blive Brodde i eders Sider, og deres Guder skal blive eder en Snare!«
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [scourges] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
4 Da HERRENS Engel talede disse Ord til alle Israeliterne, brast Folket i Graad.
And it came to pass, when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5 Derfor kaldte man Stedet Bokim. Og de ofrede til HERREN der.
And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to Jehovah.
6 Da Josua havde ladet Folket fare, drog Israeliterne hver til sin Arvelod for at tage Landet i Besiddelse.
And Joshua dismissed the people, and the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
7 Og Folket dyrkede HERREN, saa længe Josua levede, og saa længe de Ældste var i Live, som overlevede Josua og havde set hele det Storværk, HERREN havde øvet for Israel.
And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua, who had seen all the great works of Jehovah, which he had done for Israel.
8 Og Josua, Nuns Søn, HERRENS Tjener, døde, 110 Aar gammel;
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a hundred and ten years old.
9 og de jordede ham paa hans Arvelod i Timnat-Heres i Efraims Bjerge norden for Bjerget Ga'asj.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the mountain of Gaash.
10 Men ogsaa hele hin Slægt samledes til sine Fædre, og efter dem kom en anden Slægt, som hverken kendte HERREN eller det Værk, han havde øvet for Israel.
And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11 Da gjorde Israeliterne, hvad der var ondt i HERRENS Øjne, og dyrkede Ba'alerne;
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals.
12 de forlod HERREN, deres Fædres Gud, som havde ført dem ud af Ægypten, og holdt sig til andre Guder, de omboende Folks Guder, og tilbad dem og krænkede HERREN.
And they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger.
13 De forlod HERREN og dyrkede Ba'al og Astarte.
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
14 Da blussede HERRENS Vrede op imod Israel, og han gav dem i Røveres Haand, saa de udplyndrede dem. Han gav dem til Pris for de omboende Fjender, saa de ikke længer kunde holde Stand mod deres Fjender.
And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about; and they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15 Hvor som helst de rykkede frem, var HERRENS Haand imod dem og voldte dem Ulykke, som HERREN havde sagt og tilsvoret dem. Saaledes bragte han dem i stor Vaande. Men naar de saa raabte til HERREN,
Whithersoever they went out the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had said, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them; and they were greatly distressed.
16 lod han Dommere fremstaa, og de frelste dem fra deres Haand, som udplyndrede dem.
And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
17 Dog heller ikke deres Dommere adlød de, men bolede med andre Guder og tilbad dem. Hurtig veg de bort fra den Vej, deres Fædre havde vandret paa i Lydighed mod HERRENS Bud; de slægtede dem ikke paa.
But they did not even hearken to their judges, for they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them; they turned quickly out of the way that their fathers had walked in, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; they did not so.
18 Men hver Gang HERREN lod Dommere fremstaa iblandt dem, var HERREN med Dommeren og frelste dem fra deres Fjenders Haand, saa længe Dommeren levede; thi HERREN ynkedes, naar de jamrede sig over dem, som trængte og undertrykte dem.
And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented Jehovah because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them.
19 Men saa snart Dommeren var død, handlede de atter ilde, ja endnu værre end deres Fædre, idet de holdt sig til andre Guder og dyrkede og tilbad dem. De holdt ikke op med deres onde Gerninger og genstridige Færd.
And it came to pass when the judge died, that they turned back and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them: they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
20 Da blussede HERRENS Vrede op mod Israel, og han sagde: »Efterdi dette Folk har overtraadt min Pagt, som jeg paalagde deres Fædre, og ikke adlydt min Røst,
And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this nation hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and hath not hearkened unto my voice,
21 vil jeg heller ikke mere bortdrive foran dem et eneste af de Folk, som Josua lod tilbage ved sin Død,
I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
22 for at jeg ved dem kan sætte Israel paa Prøve, om de omhyggeligt vil følge HERRENS Veje, som deres Fædre gjorde, eller ej.«
that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.
23 HERREN lod da disse Folkeslag blive og hastede ikke med at drive dem bort; han gav dem ikke i Josuas Haand.
Therefore Jehovah left those nations, without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
