Judges 8
1 And the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this, that you wanted to do, so that you would not call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they rebuked him strongly, and came close to using violence.
| اما رهبران قبیلهٔ افرایم به شدت نسبت به جدعون خشمناک شده، گفتند: «چرا وقتی به جنگ مدیانی‌ها رفتی ما را خبر نکردی؟» |
2 And he responded to them: “But what could I have done that would be so great as what you have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the vintages of Abiezer?
| جدعون در جواب ایشان گفت: «در مقایسه با کار شما، من چه کرده‌ام؟ آیا انگورهای افرایم که روی زمین باقی مانده‌اند بهتر از حصاد انگور اَبیعزر نیست؟ |
3 The Lord has delivered into your hands the leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What could I have done that would be so great as what you have done?” And when he had said this, their spirit, which was swelling up against him, was quieted.
| خدا غراب و ذئب، سرداران مدیان را به دست شما تسلیم نمود. عملیات شما در آخر جنگ مهمتر از عملیات ما در آغاز جنگ بود.» پس آنها آرام شدند. |
4 And when Gideon had arrived at the Jordan, he crossed over it with the three hundred men who were with him. And they were so weary that they were unable to pursue those who were fleeing.
| آنگاه جدعون و سیصد نفری که همراهش بودند از رود اردن گذشتند. با اینکه خیلی خسته بودند، ولی هنوز دشمن را تعقیب می‌کردند. |
5 And he said to the men of Succoth, “I beg you, give bread to the people who are with me, for they are greatly weakened, so that we may be able to pursue Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
| جدعون از اهالی سوکوت غذا خواست و گفت: «ما به خاطر تعقیب زبح و صلمونع، پادشاهان مدیانی بسیار خسته هستیم.» |
6 The leaders of Succoth answered, “Perhaps the palms of the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna are in your hand, and for this reason, you request that we give bread to your army.”
| اما رهبران سوکوت جواب دادند: «شما هنوز زبح و صلمونع را نگرفته‌اید که ما به شما نان بدهیم.» |
7 And he said to them, “So then, when the Lord will have delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.”
| جدعون به آنها گفت: «وقتی که خداوند زبح و صلمونع را به دست من تسلیم کند، برمی‌گردم و گوشت بدن شما را با خارهای صحرا می‌درم.» |
8 And going up from there, he arrived at Penuel. And he spoke to the men of that place similarly. And they also answered him, just as the men of Succoth had answered.
| سپس نزد اهالی فنوئیل رفت و از آنها نان خواست اما همان جواب اهالی سوکوت را شنید. |
9 And so he said to them also, “When I will have returned as a victor in peace, I will destroy this tower.”
| پس به ایشان گفت: «وقتی از این جنگ سلامت برگردم، این برج را منهدم خواهم کرد.» |
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were resting with their entire army. For fifteen thousand men were left out of all the troops of the eastern people. And one hundred twenty thousand warriors that drew the sword had been cut down.
| در این هنگام زبح و صلمونع با قریب پانزده هزار سرباز باقیمانده در قرقور به سر می‌بردند. از آن سپاه عظیم دشمنان فقط همین عده باقیمانده بودند. صد و بیست هزار نفر کشته شده بودند. |
11 And Gideon ascended by the way of those who were dwelling in tents, to the eastern part of Nobah and Jogbehah. And he struck the camp of the enemies, who were confident and were suspecting nothing adverse.
| پس جدعون از راه چادرنشینان در شرق نوبح و یجبهاه بر مدیانیان شبیخون زد. |
12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled. And Gideon pursued and overtook them, sending their entire army into confusion.
| زبح و صلمونع فرار کردند، اما جدعون به تعقیب آنها پرداخته، ایشان را گرفت و سپاه آنها را به کلی تار و مار ساخت. |
13 And returning from the war before sunrise,
| بعد از آن، وقتی جدعون از راه گردنهٔ حارس از جنگ بازمی‌گشت |
14 he took a boy from among the men of Succoth. And he asked him the names of the leaders and elders of Succoth. And he described seventy-seven men.
| در راه، جوانی از اهالی سوکوت را گرفت و از او خواست تا نامهای رهبران و بزرگان شهر سوکوت را بنویسد. او هم نامهای آنها را که هفتاد و هفت نفر بودند، نوشت. |
15 And he went to Succoth, and he said to them: “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, over whom you rebuked me, saying: ‘Perhaps the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna are in your hands, and for this reason, you request that we give bread to men who are languishing and weakened.’”
| پس جدعون نزد اهالی سوکوت بازگشته، به ایشان گفت: «این هم زبح و صلمونع که به من طعنه زده، گفتید: شما که هنوز زبح و صلمونع را نگرفته‌اید؛ و به ما که خسته و گرسنه بودیم نان ندادید.» |
16 Therefore, he took the elders of the city, and, using the thorns and briers of the desert, he threshed them with these, and he cut the men of Succoth to pieces.
| آنگاه رهبران سوکوت را با خارهای صحرا مجازات کرد تا درس عبرتی برای اهالی آن شهر باشد. |
17 He also overturned the tower of Penuel, and he killed the men of the city.
| همچنین به فنوئیل رفت و برج شهر را خراب کرده، تمام مردان آنجا را کشت. |
18 And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were those whom you killed at Tabor?” They responded, “They were like you, and one of them was like the son of a king.”
| آنگاه جدعون رو به زبح و صلمونع کرده، از ایشان پرسید: «مردانی را که در تابور کشتید چه کسانی بودند؟» گفتند: «مانند شما و چون شاهزادگان بودند.» |
19 He answered them: “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had preserved them, I would not kill you.”
| جدعون گفت: «آنها برادران من بودند. به خداوند زنده قسم اگر آنها را نمی‌کشتید، من هم شما را نمی‌کشتم.» |
20 And he said to Jether, his firstborn son, “Rise up, and put them to death.” But he did not draw his sword. For he was afraid, being still a boy.
| آنگاه به یَتَر، پسر بزرگش دستور داد که آنها را بکشد. ولی او شمشیرش را نکشید، زیرا نوجوانی بیش نبود و می‌ترسید. |
21 And Zebah and Zalmunna said: “You should rise up and rush against us. For the strength of a man is in accord with his age.” Gideon rose up, and he killed Zebah and Zalmunna. And he took the ornaments and studs, with which the necks of the royal camels are usually adorned.
| زبح و صلمونع به جدعون گفتند: «خودت ما را بکش، چون می‌خواهیم به دست یک مرد کشته شویم.» پس او آنها را کشت و زیورآلات گردن شترهایشان را برداشت. |
22 And all the men of Israel said to Gideon: “You should rule over us, and your son, and your son’s son. For you freed us from the hand of Midian.”
| اسرائیلی‌ها به جدعون گفتند: «پادشاه ما باش. تو و پسرانت و نسلهای آیندهٔ شما بر ما فرمانروایی کنید؛ زیرا تو ما را از دست مدیانی‌ها رهایی بخشیدی.» |
23 And he said to them: “I will not rule over you. Neither shall my son rule over you. Instead, the Lord shall rule over you.”
| اما جدعون جواب داد: «نه من پادشاه شما می‌شوم و نه پسرانم. خداوند پادشاه شماست! من فقط یک خواهش از شما دارم، تمام گوشواره‌هایی را که از دشمنان مغلوب خود به چنگ آورده‌اید به من بدهید.» (سپاهیان مدیان همه اسماعیلی بودند و گوشواره‌های طلا به گوش داشتند.) |
24 And he said to them: “I petition one request from you. Give me the earrings from your spoils.” For the Ishmaelites were accustomed to wear gold earrings.
25 They responded, “We are very willing to give them.” And spreading a cloak on the ground, they cast upon it the earrings from the spoils.
| آنها گفتند: «با کمال میل آنها را تقدیم می‌کنیم.» آنگاه پارچه‌ای پهن کرده، هر کدام از آنها گوشواره‌هایی را که به غنیمت گرفته بود روی آن انداخت. |
26 And the weight of the earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, aside from the ornaments, and necklaces, and purple garments, which the kings of Midian were accustomed to use, and aside from the gold chains on the camels.
| به غیر از زیورآلات، آویزها و لباسهای سلطنتی و زنجیرهای گردن شتران، وزن گوشواره‌ها حدود بیست کیلوگرم بود. |
27 And Gideon made an ephod from these, and he kept it in his city, Ophrah. And all of Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gideon and to all his house.
| جدعون از این طلاها یک ایفود ساخت و آن را در شهر خود عفره گذاشت. طولی نکشید که تمام مردم اسرائیل به خدا خیانت کرده، به پرستش آن پرداختند. این ایفود برای جدعون و خاندان او دامی شد. |
28 But Midian was humbled before the sons of Israel. Neither were they able any longer to lift up their necks. But the land rested for forty years, while Gideon presided.
| به این ترتیب، مدیانی‌ها از اسرائیلی‌ها شکست خوردند و دیگر هرگز قدرت خود را باز نیافتند. در سرزمین اسرائیل مدت چهل سال یعنی در تمام طول عمر جدعون صلح برقرار شد. |
29 And so Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went and lived in his own house.
| جدعون به خانهٔ خود بازگشت. |
30 And he had seventy sons, who went forth from his own thigh. For he had many wives.
| او صاحب هفتاد پسر بود، زیرا زنان زیادی داشت. |
31 But his concubine, whom he had in Shechem, bore him a son named Abimelech.
| وی همچنین در شکیم کنیزی داشت که برایش پسری به دنیا آورد و او را ابیملک نام نهاد. |
32 And Gideon, the son of Joash, died in a good old age, and he was buried in the sepulcher of his father, at Ophrah, of the family of Ezri.
| جدعون در کمال پیری درگذشت و او را در مقبرهٔ پدرش یوآش در عفره در سرزمین طایفهٔ ابیعزر دفن کردند. |
33 But after Gideon died, the sons of Israel turned away, and they committed fornication with the Baals. And they struck a covenant with Baal, so that he would be their god.
| پس از مرگ جدعون، اسرائیلی‌ها دوباره از خدا برگشتند و به پرستش بتها پرداخته، بت بعل‌بریت را خدای خود ساختند. |
34 And they did not remember the Lord their God, who rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on all sides.
| آنها خداوند، خدای خود را که ایشان را از دست دشمنان اطرافشان رهانیده بود فراموش کردند، |
35 Neither did they show mercy to the house of Jerubbaal Gideon, in accord with all the good that he had done for Israel.
| و نیز برای خاندان جدعون، که آن همه به آنها خدمت کرده بود احترامی قائل نشدند. |
