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 a messenger of Jehovah goeth up from Gilgal unto Bochim,
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!
and saith, 'I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye — ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land — their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice — what [is] this ye have done?
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!«
And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'
4 Da HERRENS Engel talede disse Ord til alle Israeliterne, brast Folket i Graad.
And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,
5 Derfor kaldte man Stedet Bokim. Og de ofrede til HERREN der.
and they call the name of that place Bochim, and sacrifice there to Jehovah.
6 Da Josua havde ladet Folket fare, drog Israeliterne hver til sin Arvelod for at tage Landet i Besiddelse.
And Joshua sendeth the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each 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 serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.
8 Og Josua, Nuns Søn, HERRENS Tjener, døde, 110 Aar gammel;
And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years,
9 og de jordede ham paa hans Arvelod i Timnat-Heres i Efraims Bjerge norden for Bjerget Ga'asj.
and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of mount 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 have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.
11 Da gjorde Israeliterne, hvad der var ondt i HERRENS Øjne, og dyrkede Ba'alerne;
And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim,
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 forsake Jehovah, God of their fathers, who bringeth them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Jehovah,
13 De forlod HERREN og dyrkede Ba'al og Astarte.
yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.
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 burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to 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,
in every [place] where they have gone out, the hand of Jehovah hath been against them for evil, as Jehovah hath spoken, and as Jehovah hath sworn to them, and they are distressed — greatly.
16 lod han Dommere fremstaa, og de frelste dem fra deres Haand, som udplyndrede dem.
And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;
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.
and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside [with] haste out of the way [in] which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah — they have not done 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 up to them judges — then was Jehovah with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repenteth Jehovah, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.
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 hath come to pass, at the death of the judge — they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff 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 doth burn against Israel, and He saith, 'Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to 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 continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,
22 for at jeg ved dem kan sætte Israel paa Prøve, om de omhyggeligt vil følge HERRENS Veje, som deres Fædre gjorde, eller ej.«
in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept [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.
And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
