Judges 11
1 And Jephthah the Gileadite has been a mighty man of valor, and he [is the] son of a harlot woman; and Gilead begets Jephthah,
| وَكَانَ يَفْتَاحُ الْجِلْعَادِيُّ مُحَارِباً شَدِيدَ الْبَأْسِ، أَنْجَبَهُ أَبُوهُ جِلْعَادُ مِنِ امْرَأَةٍ عَاهِرَةٍ. | ١ |
2 and the wife of Gilead bears sons to him, and the wife’s sons grow up and cast Jephthah out, and say to him, “You do not inherit in the house of our father; for you [are the] son of another woman.”
| وَأَنْجَبَ جِلْعَادُ أَيْضاً عَدَداً مِنَ الأَبْنَاءِ مِنْ زَوْجَتِهِ، فَلَمَّا كَبُرُوا طَرَدُوا يَفْتَاحَ قَائِلِينَ لَهُ: «أَنْتَ ابْنُ عَاهِرَةٍ، وَلَنْ تَرِثَ شَيْئاً مِنْ بَيْتِ أَبِينَا». | ٢ |
3 And Jephthah flees from the face of his brothers, and dwells in the land of Tob; and vain men gather themselves together to Jephthah, and they go out with him.
| فَهَرَبَ يَفْتَاحُ مِنْ إِخْوَتِهِ وَأَقَامَ فِي أَرْضِ طُوبٍ، فاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ رِجَالٌ بَطَّالُونَ وَتَبِعُوهُ. | ٣ |
4 And it comes to pass, after a time, that the sons of Ammon fight with Israel,
| وَبَعْدَ زَمَنٍ، حَارَبَ بَنُو عَمُّونَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٤ |
5 and it comes to pass, when the sons of Ammon have fought with Israel, that [the] elderly of Gilead go to take Jephthah from the land of Tob;
| فَمَضَى شُيُوخُ جِلْعَادَ لِيَأْتُوا بِيَفْتَاحَ مِنْ أَرْضِ طُوبٍ، | ٥ |
6 and they say to Jephthah, “Come, and you have been for a captain to us, and we fight against the sons of Ammon.”
| وَقَالُوا لَهُ: «تَعَالَ وَكُنْ قَائِداً لَنَا فِي حَرْبِنَا مَعَ الْعَمُّونِيِّينَ». | ٦ |
7 And Jephthah says to [the] elderly of Gilead, “Have you not hated me? And you cast me out from the house of my father, and why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
| فَأَجَابَهُمْ يَفْتَاحُ: «أَلَمْ تُبْغِضُونِي وَتَطْرُدُونِي مِنْ بَيْتِ أَبِي؟ فَمَا بَالُكُمْ تَأْتُونَ إِلَيَّ فِي ضِيقَتِكُمْ؟» | ٧ |
8 And [the] elderly of Gilead say to Jephthah, “Therefore, now, we have turned back to you; and you have gone with us, and have fought against the sons of Ammon, and you have been for head to us—to all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
| فَأَجَابُوهُ: «لأَنَّنَا فِي ضِيقٍ جِئْنَا إِلَيْكَ لِتَرْجِعَ مَعْنَا وَتُحَارِبَ بَنِي عَمُّونَ، وَتَكُونَ رَئِيساً عَلَى كُلِّ سُكَّانِ جِلْعَادَ». | ٨ |
9 And Jephthah says to [the] elderly of Gilead, “If you are taking me back to fight against the sons of Ammon, and YHWH has given them before me—am I for a head to you?”
| فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «إِنْ أَرْجَعْتُمُونِي لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي عَمُّونَ وَهَزَمَهُمُ الرَّبُّ أَمَامِي، فَهَلْ حَقّاً تَجْعَلُونَنِي رَئِيساً عَلَيْكُمْ؟» | ٩ |
10 And [the] elderly of Gilead say to Jephthah, “YHWH is listening between us—if we do not do so according to your word.”
| فَأَجَابُوهُ: «الرَّبُّ شَاهِدٌ بَيْنَنَا إِنْ كُنَّا لَا نَفْعَلُ حَسَبَ قَوْلِكَ». | ١٠ |
11 And Jephthah goes with [the] elderly of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaks all his words before YHWH in Mizpeh.
| فَانْطَلَقَ يَفْتَاحُ مَعَ شُيُوخِ جِلْعَادَ فَنَصَبَهُ الشَّعْبُ عَلَيْهِمْ رَئِيساً وَقَائِداً، وَرَدَّدَ يَفْتَاحُ تَعَهُّدَاتِهِ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ. | ١١ |
12 And Jephthah sends messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, “What [is this] to me and to you, that you have come to me, to fight in my land?”
| ثُمَّ بَعَثَ يَفْتَاحُ رُسُلاً إِلَى مَلِكِ عَمُّونَ يَسْأَلُهُ: «مَاذَا تُضْمِرُ ضِدَّنَا حَتَّى أَتَيْتَ لِتُهَاجِمَنَا فِي بِلادِنَا؟» | ١٢ |
13 And the king of the sons of Ammon says to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took my land in his coming up out of Egypt, from Arnon, and to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan; and now, restore them in peace.”
| فَأَجَابَ مَلِكُ عَمُّونَ رُسُلَ يَفْتَاحَ: «لأَنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدِ اسْتَوْلَى عَلَى أَرْضِي عِنْدَ خُرُوجِهِ مِنْ مِصْرَ مِنْ أَرْنُونَ إِلَى يَبُّوقَ حَتَّى نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ. وَالآنَ رُدَّهَا مِنْ غَيْرِ حَرْبٍ». | ١٣ |
14 And Jephthah adds yet and sends messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon,
| فَعَادَ يَفْتَاحُ فَبَعَثَ رُسُلاً إِلَى مَلِكِ بَنِي عَمُّونَ، | ١٤ |
15 and says to him, “Thus said Jephthah: Israel did not take the land of Moab, and the land of the sons of Ammon,
| قَائِلِينَ لَهُ: «هَذَا مَا يُجِيبُكَ بِهِ يَفْتَاحُ: إِنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ لَمْ يَسْتَوْلُوا عَلَى أَرْضِ مُوآبَ وَلا عَلَى أَرْضِ بَنِي عَمُّونَ، | ١٥ |
16 for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goes in the wilderness to the Red Sea, and comes to Kadesh,
| لأَنَّهُ عِنْدَ خُرُوجِهِمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ سَارُوا فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ حَتَّى بَلَغُوا الْبَحْرَ الأَحْمَرَ وَأَتَوْا إِلَى قَادَشَ. | ١٦ |
17 and Israel sends messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me pass over through your land, and the king of Edom did not listen; and [Israel] has also sent to the king of Moab, and he has not been willing; and Israel abides in Kadesh,
| ثُمَّ بَعَثَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ رُسُلاً إِلَى مَلِكِ أَدُومَ يَقُولُونَ لَهُ: دَعْنَا نَجْتَازُ فِي أَرْضِكَ. فَلَمْ يَأْذَنْ لَهُمْ مَلِكُ أَدُومَ. ثُمَّ بَعَثُوا رُسُلاً أَيْضاً إِلَى مَلِكِ مُوآبَ فَرَفَضَ هُوَ الآخَرُ. فَمَكَثَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ فِي قَادَشَ. | ١٧ |
18 and he goes through the wilderness, and goes around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and comes in at the rising of the sun of the land of Moab, and they encamp beyond Arnon, and have not come into the border of Moab, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab.
| ثُمَّ دَارُوا فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ مُلْتَفِّينَ حَوْلَ أَرْضِ أَدُومَ وَأَرْضِ مُوآبَ قَادِمِينَ مِنَ الشَّرْقِ إِلَى أَرْضِ مُوآبَ، وَخَيَّمُوا وَرَاءَ حُدُودِ أَرْنُونَ، وَلَمْ يَعْبُرُوا إِلَى تُخْمِ مُوآبَ لأَنَّ أَرْنُونَ هِيَ حَدُّ مُوآبَ. | ١٨ |
19 And Israel sends messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel says to him, Please let us pass over through your land, to my place,
| بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ بَعَثَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ رُسُلاً إِلَى سِيحُونَ مَلِكِ الأَمُورِيِّينَ فِي عَاصِمَتِهِ حَشْبُونَ يَقُولُونَ: دَعْنَا نَعْبُرُ فِي أَرْضِكَ إِلَى حَيْثُ نَحْنُ مُتَوَجِّهُونَ. | ١٩ |
20 and Sihon has not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathers all his people, and they encamp in Jahaz, and fight with Israel;
| وَلَكِنَّ سِيحُونَ لَمْ يَأْمَنْ أَنْ يَعْبُرَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ فِي أَرْضِهِ، بَلْ حَشَدَ كُلَّ جَيْشِهِ وَعَسْكَرَ فِي يَاهَصَ وَحَارَبَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٢٠ |
21 and YHWH, God of Israel, gives Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they strike them, and Israel possesses all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that land,
| فَنَصَرَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ شَعْبَهُ عَلَى سِيحُونَ وَجَيْشِهِ، فَهَزَمُوهُمْ وَاسْتَوْلَوْا عَلَى كُلِّ أَرْضِ الأَمُورِيِّينَ سُكَّانِ تِلْكَ الْبِلادِ. | ٢١ |
22 and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and to the Jordan.
| فَامْتَلَكُوا كُلَّ بِلادِ الأَمُورِيِّينَ مِنْ أَرْنُونَ فِي الْجَنُوبِ إِلَى الْيَبُّوقِ فِي الشِّمَالِ، وَمِنَ الصَّحْرَاءِ فِي الشَّرْقِ إِلَى نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ فِي الْغَرْبِ. | ٢٢ |
23 And now, YHWH, God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and you would possess it!
| وَالآنَ وَقَدْ طَرَدَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ الأَمُورِيِّينَ مِنْ أَمَامِ شَعْبِهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٢٣ |
24 That which your god Chemosh causes you to possess—do you not possess it? And all that which our God YHWH has dispossessed from our presence—we possess it.
| فَبِأَيِّ حَقٍّ تُرِيدُ أَنْتَ أَنْ تَسْتَرِدَّهَا؟ أَلَسْتَ تَحْتَفِظُ بِمَا أَعْطَاهُ لَكَ كَمُوشُ إِلَهُكَ؟ وَنَحْتَفِظُ نَحْنُ أَيْضاً بِمَا أَعْطَاهُ لَنَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُنَا؟ | ٢٤ |
25 And now, [are] you at all better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he strive with Israel at all? Did he fight against them at all?
| ثُمَّ هَلْ أَنْتَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ بَالاقَ بْنِ صِفُّورَ مَلِكِ مُوآبَ؟ هَلْ خَاصَمَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَوْ أَثَارَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَرْباً؟ | ٢٥ |
26 In Israel’s dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which [are] by the sides of Arnon [for] three hundred years—and why have you not delivered them in that time?
| لَقَدْ أَقَامَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي حَشْبُونَ وَقُرَاهَا، وَعَرُوعِيرَ وَقُرَاهَا وَكُلِّ الْمُدُنِ الَّتِي عَلَى مُحَاذَاةِ نَهْرِ أَرْنُونَ ثَلاثَ مِئَةِ سَنَةٍ، فَلِمَاذَا لَمْ تَسْتَرِدَّهَا طَوَالَ تِلْكَ الْحِقْبَةِ؟ | ٢٦ |
27 And I have not sinned against you, and you are doing evil with me—to fight against me. YHWH, the Judge, judges between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon today.”
| إِنَّنِي لَمْ أُسِئْ إِلَيْكَ، أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَتَرْتَكِبُ شَرّاً فِي حَقِّي بِإِثَارَتِكَ الْحَرْبَ عَلَيَّ. فَلْيَكُنِ الرَّبُّ الْيَوْمَ قَاضِياً بَيْنَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَبَيْنَ بَنِي عَمُّونَ». | ٢٧ |
28 And the king of the sons of Ammon has not listened to the words of Jephthah which he sent to him,
| فَلَمْ يَأْبَهْ مَلِكُ بَنِي عَمُّونَ لِرِسَالَةِ يَفْتَاحَ. | ٢٨ |
29 and the Spirit of YHWH is on Jephthah, and he passes over Gilead and Manasseh, and passes over Mizpeh of Gilead, and he has passed over from Mizpeh of Gilead to the sons of Ammon.
| فَحَلَّ رُوحُ الرَّبِّ عَلَى يَفْتَاحَ، فَاجْتَازَ أَرَاضِي جِلْعَادَ وَمَنَسَّى وَمِصْفَاةَ جِلْعَادَ، وَمِنْهَا تَقَدَّمَ نَحْوَ بَنِي عَمُّونَ. | ٢٩ |
30 And Jephthah vows a vow to YHWH and says, “If You give the sons of Ammon into my hand at all—
| وَنَذَرَ يَفْتَاحُ نَذْراً لِلرَّبِّ وَقَالَ: «إِنْ نَصَرْتَنِي عَلَى بَنِي عَمُّونَ، | ٣٠ |
31 then it has been, that which comes out from the doors of my house at all to meet me in my turning back in peace from the sons of Ammon—it has been for YHWH, or I have offered up a burnt-offering for it.”
| فَإِنَّنِي عِنْدَ رُجُوعِي سَالِماً مِنْ مُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي عَمُّونَ أُصْعِدُ لِلرَّبِّ مُحْرَقَةً: أَوَّلَ مَنْ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ بَيْتِي لِلِقَائِي». | ٣١ |
32 And Jephthah passes over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them, and YHWH gives them into his hand,
| ثُمَّ تَقَدَّمَ يَفْتَاحُ لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي عَمُّونَ، فَأَظْفَرَهُ الرَّبُّ بِهِمْ، | ٣٢ |
33 and he strikes them from Aroer, and to [where] you are going in to Minnith—twenty cities—and to the meadow of the vineyards, [with] a very great striking; and the sons of Ammon are humbled at the presence of the sons of Israel.
| وَهَزَمَهُمْ هَزِيمَةً مُنْكَرَةً مِنْ عَرُوعِيرَ حَتَّى مِنِّيتَ عَلَى امْتِدَادِ عِشْرِينَ مَدِينَةً إِلَى آبَلِ الْكُرُومِ. وَهَكَذَا أَخْضَعَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ الْعَمُّونِيِّينَ. | ٣٣ |
34 And Jephthah comes into Mizpeh, to his house, and behold, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and except her alone, he has no son or daughter.
| ثُمَّ رَجَعَ يَفْتَاحُ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ، فَخَرَجَتِ ابْنَتُهُ الْوَحِيدَةُ، إِذْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ ابْنٌ أَوِ ابْنَةٌ سِوَاهَا، لِلِقَائِهِ بِدُفُوفٍ وَرَقْصٍ. | ٣٤ |
35 And it comes to pass, when he sees her, that he tears his garments and says, “Aah! My daughter, you have caused me to bend greatly, and you have been among those troubling me; and I have opened my mouth to YHWH, and I am not able to turn back.”
| فَلَمَّا رَآهَا مَزَّقَ ثِيَابَهُ وَوَلْوَلَ قَائِلاً: «آهِ يَا ابْنَتِي، لَقَدْ أَحْزَنْتِنِي وَحَطَّمْتِنِي، لأَنَّنِي نَذَرْتُ نَذْراً لِلرَّبِّ وَلا سَبِيلَ لِلرُّجُوعِ عَنْهُ». | ٣٥ |
36 And she says to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to YHWH, do to me as it has gone out from your mouth, after that YHWH has done vengeance for you on your enemies, on the sons of Ammon.”
| فَأَجَابَتْهُ: «لَقَدْ نَذَرْتَ نَذْرَكَ لِلرَّبِّ، فَافْعَلْ بِي كَمَا نَذَرْتَ، وَلاسِيَّمَا أَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدِ انْتَقَمَ لَكَ مِنْ أَعْدَائِكَ بَنِي عَمُّونَ». | ٣٦ |
37 And she says to her father, “Let this thing be done to me; desist from me [for] two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity—I and my friends.”
| ثُمَّ قَالَتْ لأَبِيهَا: «وَلَكِنْ حَقِّقْ لِي هَذَا الطَّلَبَ: أَمْهِلْنِي شَهْرَيْنِ أَتَجَوَّلُ فِيهِمَا فِي الْجِبَالِ وَأَنْدُبُ عَذْرَاوِيَّتِي مَعَ صَاحِبَاتِي». | ٣٧ |
38 And he says, “Go”; and he sends her away [for] two months, and she goes, she and her friends, and she weeps for her virginity on the hills;
| فَقَالَ لَهَا: «اذْهَبِي». وَأَمْهَلَهَا شَهْرَيْنِ قَضَتْهُمَا هِيَ وَصَاحِبَاتُهَا عَلَى الْجِبَالِ تَنْدُبُ عَذْرَاوِيَّتَهَا. | ٣٨ |
39 and it comes to pass at the end of two months that she turns back to her father, and he does to her his vow which he has vowed, and she did not know a man; and it is a statute in Israel:
| ثُمَّ رَجَعَتْ فِي نِهَايَةِ الشَّهْرَيْنِ إِلَى أَبِيهَا، فَأَصْعَدَهَا مُحْرَقَةً وَفَاءً بِنَذْرِهِ، فَمَاتَتْ عَذْرَاءَ، | ٣٩ |
40 from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.
| فَصَارَ مِنْ عَادَةِ الإِسْرَائِيلِيَّاتِ أَنْ يَذْهَبْنَ إِلَى الْجِبَالِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَيَّامٍ فِي السَّنَةِ لِيَنُحْنَ عَلَى ابْنَةِ يَفْتَاحَ الْجِلْعَادِيِّ. | ٤٠ |
