Judges 11
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Yefta adalah seorang pejuang yang gagah berani. Ibunya seorang pelacur dan ayahnya tidak dapat dipastikan, sehingga dia disebut ‘anak Gilead’.
2 And Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father’s house; for you are the son of a strange woman.
Ketika Yefta dewasa, dia diusir karena tidak ada keluarga yang mengakui dia sebagai anak mereka. Kata mereka, “Kamu tidak akan mendapat warisan dari ayah kami karena kamu bukan anak yang sah.”
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelled in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Maka Yefta melarikan diri dari mereka dan hidup di tanah Tob. Di sana, preman-preman bergabung dengan Yefta dan berkeliaran bersamanya.
4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Beberapa waktu kemudian, bangsa Amon mulai memerangi bangsa Israel.
5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Waktu bangsa Amon menyerang, para tua-tua Gilead pergi kepada Yefta di tanah Tob dan meminta dia untuk kembali bersama mereka.
6 And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Kata mereka, “Jadilah panglima kami untuk memimpin kami melawan bangsa Amon.”
7 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did not you hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are you come to me now when you are in distress?
Tetapi Yefta menjawab, “Bukankah kalian membenci saya dan mengusir saya dari tempat asal? Mengapa sekarang kalian datang kepada saya waktu kalian dalam kesulitan?”
8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Jawab mereka, “Itu benar, tetapi sekarang kami memerlukan engkau. Majulah bersama kami untuk berperang melawan bangsa Amon. Engkau akan menjadi pemimpin atas seluruh penduduk Gilead.”
9 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Kata Yefta, “Berjanjilah dengan jujur! Jika kalian mengajak saya kembali untuk berperang, dan jika TUHAN menyerahkan bangsa Amon kepada saya, maka saya akan menjadi pemimpin kalian semua. Benar begitu?”
10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to your words.
Para tua-tua Gilead menjawab, “Kami bersumpah. TUHAN menjadi saksi di antara kita. Biarlah Dia menghukum kami kalau kami tidak melakukan seperti katamu itu.”
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
Maka Yefta pergi bersama para tua-tua Gilead. Ketika mereka mengangkat dia menjadi pemimpin dan panglima di kemah penyembahan TUHAN di Mispa, Yefta menegaskan perjanjian mereka itu di hadapan TUHAN.
12 And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come against me to fight in my land?
Lalu Yefta mengutus orang-orang kepada raja Amon untuk membawa pesan, “Apa masalahmu dengan saya, sampai-sampai engkau datang menyerang negeri saya?”
13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
Raja Amon menjawab, “Dulu waktu bangsa Israel keluar dari Mesir, mereka merampas tanah saya, mulai dari sungai Arnon di selatan sampai sungai Yabok di utara, dan sungai Yordan di barat. Karena itu, sekarang kembalikanlah tanah itu dengan damai!”
14 And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon:
Utusan-utusan Yefta kembali kepada Yefta dan menyampaikan pesan raja Amon. Lalu Yefta mengutus mereka lagi kepada raja Amon untuk menjawabnya.
15 And said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
Kata Yefta, “Bangsa Israel tidak merampas tanah dari bangsa Moab maupun bangsa Amon.
16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness to the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
Ketika bangsa Israel keluar dari Mesir, mereka berjalan melalui padang belantara ke Laut Merah, menyeberanginya, dan datang ke kota Kades.
17 Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray you, pass through your land: but the king of Edom would not listen thereto. And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.
Kemudian pemimpin Israel mengirim pesan ini kepada raja Edom, ‘Mohon izinkan kami melewati tanahmu.’ Tetapi raja Edom menolak. Bangsa Israel mengirimkan pesan yang sama kepada raja Moab, dan dia juga menolak. Jadi bangsa Israel berdiam cukup lama di Kades.
18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
“Sesudah itu bangsa Israel mengitari tanah Edom dan tanah Moab melalui padang belantara, sampai tiba di sebelah timur tanah Moab, yang berbatasan dengan sungai Arnon. Mereka berkemah di seberang sungai Arnon dan tidak masuk ke wilayah Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land into my place.
“Kemudian bangsa Israel mengutus orang kepada Raja Sihon dari bangsa Amori yang memerintah di Hesbon untuk menyampaikan pesan, ‘Mohon izinkan kami melewati negerimu untuk pergi ke tanah kami.’
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Tapi Sihon tidak mengizinkan bangsa Israel melewati wilayahnya karena dia tidak percaya bahwa Israel benar-benar hanya akan lewat tanpa berperang. Sihon malah mengumpulkan semua pasukannya, berkemah di Yahas, dan menyerang bangsa Israel.
21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Tetapi TUHAN, Allah Israel, menyerahkan Sihon dan seluruh pasukannya ke tangan bangsa Israel. Bangsa Israel mengalahkan mereka dan merebut seluruh wilayah orang Amori, penduduk negeri itu.
22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan.
Israel pun memiliki seluruh wilayah Amori mulai dari sungai Arnon di selatan sampai sungai Yabok di utara, dari padang belantara di timur sampai sungai Yordan di barat.
23 So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?
“Jadi, TUHAN Allah Israel sudah mengusir orang Amori dari tanah itu di hadapan bangsa Israel, umat-Nya. Sebagai raja Amon, mengapa engkau merasa berhak memiliki tanah saya itu?
24 Will not you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
Berpuasdirilah dengan tanah yang diberikan kepadamu oleh Kamos, dewa kalian. Demikian juga, kami akan berpuas diri dengan semua yang diberikan kepada kami oleh TUHAN, Allah kami.
25 And now are you any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
Lebih bijaksana bila engkau mengikuti contoh raja Moab zaman dulu, yaitu Balak anak Zipor. Dia tidak berani menentang atau berperang dengan bangsa kami.
26 While Israel dwelled in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did you not recover them within that time?
“Sudah tiga ratus tahun bangsa Israel tinggal di Hesbon dan kota-kota sekelilingnya, di Aroer dan kota-kota sekelilingnya, dan di semua kota di tepi sungai Arnon! Mengapa selama tiga ratus tahun itu kalian tidak merebutnya kembali?
27 Why I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Kami tidak bersalah kepada kalian, tetapi kalian bersalah kepada kami karena menyerang kami. Biarlah TUHAN, Sang Hakim yang adil, menilai siapakah yang benar, bangsa Israel atau bangsa Amon.”
28 However, the king of the children of Ammon listened not to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Tetapi raja bangsa Amon mengabaikan pesan Yefta itu.
29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
Lalu Roh TUHAN menggerakkan Yefta. Dia mengumpulkan pasukannya di daerah Gilead dan Manasye, lalu mereka berangkat dari kota Mispa di Gilead untuk menyerang pasukan Amon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,
Yefta bersumpah kepada TUHAN, “Jika Engkau menyerahkan bangsa Amon kepadaku
31 Then it shall be, that whatever comes forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
dan aku kembali dengan selamat dari peperangan dengan orang Amon, maka apa pun yang pertama keluar dari rumahku untuk menyambutku akan dikhususkan untuk dimusnahkan bagi TUHAN. Aku akan mempersembahkannya sebagai kurban yang dibakar habis.”
32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
Lalu Yefta dan pasukannya maju menyerang bangsa Amon. TUHAN membuat Yefta menang atas Amon.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Dia menumpas mereka mulai dari Aroer sampai sepanjang jalan ke Minit, sebanyak dua puluh kota, bahkan hingga ke Abel Keramim! Demikianlah bangsa Amon ditaklukkan oleh bangsa Israel.
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Saat Yefta pulang ke rumahnya di Mispa, anak perempuannya keluar menyambut dia sambil menari-nari dan memainkan tamborin. Dia satu-satunya anak Yefta.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.
Ketika melihat dia, Yefta merobek pakaiannya sendiri sebagai tanda berduka dan berseru, “Oh, anakku! Kamu benar-benar membuat hatiku hancur! Kamu membawa malapetaka bagiku! Aku sudah bersumpah kepada TUHAN dan tidak bisa menariknya kembali.”
36 And she said to him, My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth; for as much as the LORD has taken vengeance for you of your enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Gadis itu menjawab, “Ayahku, Ayah sudah bersumpah kepada TUHAN, dan TUHAN sudah memberikan kemenangan kepada Ayah atas bangsa Amon, musuh Ayah. Karena itu, lakukanlah kepadaku sesuai apa yang Ayah sumpahkan.
37 And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains, and mourn my virginity, I and my fellows.
Tetapi sebelum itu, aku meminta satu hal saja: Izinkan aku mengembara di perbukitan bersama teman-temanku selama dua bulan untuk menangisi nasibku, karena aku tidak akan pernah menikah.”
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.
Jawab Yefta, “Pergilah.” Dia membiarkan gadis itu pergi selama dua bulan. Beberapa teman ikut bersamanya ke perbukitan. Di sana mereka menangisi nasibnya, karena dia akan mati tanpa sempat berkeluarga.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
Dua bulan kemudian, dia kembali kepada ayahnya. Lalu Yefta menepati sumpahnya. Gadis itu meninggal sebagai perawan. Inilah asal usul salah satu adat di Israel
40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
yaitu setiap tahun, anak-anak perempuan Israel mengembara ke perbukitan selama empat hari untuk mengenang anak perempuan Yefta.
