Judges 2
1 Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:
Lalu Malaikat TUHAN pergi dari Gilgal ke Bokhim dan berfirman: "Telah Kutuntun kamu keluar dari Mesir dan Kubawa ke negeri yang Kujanjikan dengan bersumpah kepada nenek moyangmu, dan Aku telah berfirman: Aku tidak akan membatalkan perjanjian-Ku dengan kamu untuk selama-lamanya,
2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?
tetapi janganlah kamu mengikat perjanjian dengan penduduk negeri ini; mezbah mereka haruslah kamu robohkan. Tetapi kamu tidak mendengarkan firman-Ku. Mengapa kamu perbuat demikian?
3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.
Lagi Aku telah berfirman: Aku tidak akan menghalau orang-orang itu dari depanmu, tetapi mereka akan menjadi musuhmu dan segala allah mereka akan menjadi jerat bagimu."
4 Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.
Setelah Malaikat TUHAN mengucapkan firman itu kepada seluruh Israel, menangislah bangsa itu dengan keras.
5 And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.
Maka tempat itu dinamai Bokhim. Lalu mereka mempersembahkan korban di sana kepada TUHAN.
6 And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.
Setelah Yosua melepas bangsa itu pergi, maka pergilah orang Israel itu, masing-masing ke milik pusakanya, untuk memiliki negeri itu.
7 And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.
Dan bangsa itu beribadah kepada TUHAN sepanjang zaman Yosua dan sepanjang zaman para tua-tua yang hidup lebih lama dari pada Yosua, dan yang telah melihat segenap perbuatan yang besar, yang dilakukan TUHAN bagi orang Israel.
8 And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.
Dan Yosua bin Nun, hamba TUHAN itu, mati pada umur seratus sepuluh tahun;
9 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.
ia dikuburkan di daerah milik pusakanya di Timnat-Heres, di pegunungan Efraim, di sebelah utara gunung Gaas.
10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.
Setelah seluruh angkatan itu dikumpulkan kepada nenek moyangnya, bangkitlah sesudah mereka itu angkatan yang lain, yang tidak mengenal TUHAN ataupun perbuatan yang dilakukan-Nya bagi orang Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
Lalu orang Israel melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN dan mereka beribadah kepada para Baal.
12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.
Mereka meninggalkan TUHAN, Allah nenek moyang mereka yang telah membawa mereka keluar dari tanah Mesir, lalu mengikuti allah lain, dari antara allah bangsa-bangsa di sekeliling mereka, dan sujud menyembah kepadanya, sehingga mereka menyakiti hati TUHAN.
13 And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
Demikianlah mereka meninggalkan TUHAN dan beribadah kepada Baal dan para Asytoret.
14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.
Maka bangkitlah murka TUHAN terhadap orang Israel. Ia menyerahkan mereka ke dalam tangan perampok dan menjual mereka kepada musuh di sekeliling mereka, sehingga mereka tidak sanggup lagi menghadapi musuh mereka.
15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.
Setiap kali mereka maju, tangan TUHAN melawan mereka dan mendatangkan malapetaka kepada mereka, sesuai dengan apa yang telah diperingatkan kepada mereka oleh TUHAN dengan sumpah, sehingga mereka sangat terdesak.
16 Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.
Maka TUHAN membangkitkan hakim-hakim, yang menyelamatkan mereka dari tangan perampok itu.
17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.
Tetapi juga para hakim itu tidak mereka hiraukan, karena mereka berzinah dengan mengikuti allah lain dan sujud menyembah kepadanya. Mereka segera menyimpang dari jalan yang ditempuh oleh nenek moyangnya yang mendengarkan perintah TUHAN; mereka melakukan yang tidak patut.
18 And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.
Setiap kali apabila TUHAN membangkitkan seorang hakim bagi mereka, maka TUHAN menyertai hakim itu dan menyelamatkan mereka dari tangan musuh mereka selama hakim itu hidup; sebab TUHAN berbelas kasihan mendengar rintihan mereka karena orang-orang yang mendesak dan menindas mereka.
19 But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.
Tetapi apabila hakim itu mati, kembalilah mereka berlaku jahat, lebih jahat dari nenek moyang mereka, dengan mengikuti allah lain, beribadah kepadanya dan sujud menyembah kepadanya; dalam hal apapun mereka tidak berhenti dengan perbuatan dan kelakuan mereka yang tegar itu.
20 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;
Apabila murka TUHAN bangkit terhadap orang Israel, berfirmanlah Ia: "Karena bangsa ini melanggar perjanjian yang telah Kuperintahkan kepada nenek moyang mereka, dan tidak mendengarkan firman-Ku,
21 From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;
maka Akupun tidak mau menghalau lagi dari depan mereka satupun dari bangsa-bangsa yang ditinggalkan Yosua pada waktu matinya,
22 In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.
supaya dengan perantaraan bangsa-bangsa itu Aku mencobai orang Israel, apakah mereka tetap hidup menurut jalan yang ditunjukkan TUHAN, seperti yang dilakukan oleh nenek moyang mereka, atau tidak."
23 So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.
Demikianlah TUHAN membiarkan bangsa-bangsa itu tinggal dengan tidak segera menghalau mereka; mereka tidak diserahkan-Nya ke dalam tangan Yosua.
