Judges 20
1 All the Israelis, from Dan [city in the north] to Beersheba [city in the south], and even from [the] Gilead [region on the east side of the Jordan River, heard what had happened. So they] they gathered together at Mizpah, [at the place where they worshiped] Yahweh.
| آنگاه تمام قوم اسرائیل، از دان تا بئرشبع و اهالی جلعاد در آن سوی رود اردن، رهبران خود را با چهارصد هزار مرد جنگی به مصفه فرستادند تا همگی متفق به حضور خداوند حاضر شده، از او کسب تکلیف نمایند. |
2 The leaders of [eleven of] the tribes of Israel stood in front of the people who gathered there. There were 400,000 men with swords who were there.
3 The people of the tribe of Benjamin heard that the other Israelis had gone up to Mizpah, [but none of the men from their tribe went to the meeting there]. The Israelis who had come to Mizpah asked about the evil thing that had happened.
| (خبر بسیج نیروهای اسرائیلی در مصفه به گوش قبیلهٔ بنیامین رسید.) بزرگان اسرائیل شوهر زن مقتوله را طلبیدند و از او خواستند تا واقعه را دقیقاً برای ایشان تعریف کند. |
4 So the husband of the woman who had been killed replied, “My slave wife and I came to Gibeah [city], wanting to stay there that night.
| آن مرد چنین گفت: «من و زنم به جِبعه در سرزمین قبیلهٔ بنیامین آمدیم تا شب را در آنجا به سر بریم. |
5 That evening, the men of Gibeah came to attack me. They surrounded the house [where I was staying] and wanted to [have sex with me and then] kill me. They [raped and] abused my slave wife [all night], and she died.
| همان شب مردان جِبعه، خانه‌ای را که ما در آن بودیم محاصره کردند و قصد داشتند مرا بکشند. آنها در تمامی طول شب آنقدر به زن من تجاوز کردند تا او مُرد. |
6 I took her body home and cut it into pieces. Then I sent one piece to each area of Israel, [because I wanted you all to know about] this wicked and disgraceful/shameful thing [that] has been done here in Israel.
| پس من جسد او را به دوازده قطعه تقسیم نمودم و برای قبایل اسرائیل فرستادم، زیرا این افراد در اسرائیل عمل قبیح و زشتی را مرتکب شده بودند. |
7 So now, all you Israeli people, speak, and tell me what you think should be done!”
| اکنون ای مردم اسرائیل، شما خود در این مورد قضاوت کنید و حکم دهید.» |
8 All the people stood up, and in unison said, “None of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!
| همگی یکصدا جواب دادند: «تا اهالی جِبعه را به سزای عملشان نرسانیم، هیچ‌کدام از ما به خانه‌های خود بر نمی‌گردیم. یک دهم از افراد سپاه به قید قرعه مأمور رساندن آذوقه خواهند شد و بقیه خواهیم رفت تا دهکدهٔ جِبعه بنیامین را برای عمل قبیحی که انجام داده‌اند ویران کنیم.» |
9 This is what we must do to [the people of] Gibeah. First, we will (cast lots/throw marked stones) [to determine which group should attack them].
10 We will choose (one tenth/one from every ten) of the men from all the Israeli tribes. Those men will go and find food for the men who will go to attack the people of Gibeah. Then the other men will go to Gibeah to (pay the people back/punish them) for this terrible thing that they have done [here] in Israel.”
11 And all the Israeli people agreed [that the people of Gibeah should be punished].
| پس تمام قوم اسرائیل جمع شده، تصمیم گرفتند به شهر حمله کنند. |
12 Then the Israeli men sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin. They demanded, “Do you realize that some of your men have done a very evil thing?
| آنگاه قاصدانی نزد قبیلهٔ بنیامین فرستادند و به ایشان گفتند: «این چه عمل زشتی است که در بین شما صورت گرفته است؟ |
13 Bring those wicked men to us, in order that we can execute them. [By doing that], we will be doing what should be done because of this evil thing that has happened in Israel.” But the [people of the] tribe of Benjamin did not pay attention to their fellow Israelis.
| آن افراد شریر را که در جِبعه هستند به ما تحویل دهید تا ایشان را اعدام کنیم و اسرائیل را از این شرارت پاک سازیم.» اما مردم قبیلهٔ بنیامین نه فقط به خواستهٔ ایشان توجهی ننمودند، |
14 The men of the tribe of Benjamin left their cities and gathered at Gibeah to fight the [other] Israelis.
| بلکه بیست و شش هزار سرباز را بسیج کردند تا به اتفاق هفتصد مرد برگزیده از جِبعه، با بقیهٔ اسرائیل بجنگند. |
15 In that one day the men of the tribe of Benjamin recruited 26,000 soldiers who knew how to fight using swords. They also chose/recruited 700 men from Gibeah.
16 From all those soldiers there were 700 men who were left-handed, and each of them could sling a stone at [a target that was very small and as narrow as] a hair, and the stone always hit the target!
| (در بین آنها هفتصد مرد چپ دست بودند که مویی را با سنگ فلاخن می‌زدند و هرگز خطا نمی‌کردند.) |
17 There were 400,000 men from the other Israeli tribes who had swords.
| تعداد لشکر اسرائیل، غیر از افراد قبیلهٔ بنیامین، چهارصد هزار مرد جنگی بود. |
18 Those other Israelis went up to Bethel and asked God, “Which tribe should be the first to attack the men from the tribe of Benjamin?” Yahweh answered, “[The men from the tribe of] Judah should go first.”
| سپاهیان اسرائیل پیش از اینکه وارد میدان جنگ شوند، اول به بیت‌ئیل رفتند تا از خدا سؤال نمایند که کدام قبیله باید در جنگ با قبیلهٔ بنیامین پیشقدم شود. خداوند به ایشان فرمود: «یهودا باید پیش از دیگران وارد جنگ شود.» |
19 The next morning, the Israeli men went and set up their tents near Gibeah.
| پس تمام سپاه اسرائیل صبح زود حرکت کردند و در نزدیکی جِبعه اردو زدند تا با مردان قبیلهٔ بنیامین بجنگند. |
20 Then they went to fight against [the men from the tribe of] Benjamin, and stood in their positions for fighting a battle, [facing Gibeah].
21 The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and fought against them, and they killed 22,000 Israeli men on that day.
| بنیامینی‌ها از شهر بیرون آمده، در آن روز بیست و دو هزار اسرائیلی را کشتند. |
22 [Late that afternoon], the [remaining] Israeli men went to the place of worship and cried until the sun set. Then they asked Yahweh, “Should we attack the men of the tribe of Benjamin again, even though they are our fellow Israelis?” Yahweh replied, “Yes, attack them again.” So the Israeli men encouraged each other.
| آنگاه سپاه اسرائیل به حضور خداوند رفتند و تا غروب گریستند. آنها از خداوند پرسیدند: «خداوندا، آیا باید باز هم با برادران بنیامینی خود بجنگیم؟» خداوند در پاسخ آنها گفت: «بله، باید جنگ را ادامه دهید.» اسرائیلی‌ها نیروی تازه یافته، روز بعد برای جنگ به همان مکان رفتند. |
24 The next day they again stood in their positions for fighting, just like they had done on the previous day.
25 The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and attacked the Israelis, and killed 18,000 more of their men.
| آن روز هم مردان بنیامین هجده هزار نفر دیگر از مردان شمشیرزن اسرائیل را کشتند. |
26 [In the afternoon], all the people of Israel [who had not been killed] again went to Bethel. There they sat down and cried to Yahweh, and they (fasted/abstained from eating food) until it was evening. They brought some offerings which they burned completely [on the altar], and they also brought some offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh.
| آنگاه تمامی مردم اسرائیل به بیت‌ئیل رفتند و تا غروب آفتاب در حضور خداوند گریستند و روزه گرفتند و قربانیهای سوختنی و سلامتی به خداوند تقدیم کردند. |
27 At that time, the Sacred Chest that contained the stone tablets on which were written the Ten Commandments was there at Bethel. A priest named Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, often stood in front of that chest [and talked with Yahweh]. While he stood there on that day, he asked Yahweh, “Shall we go again to fight against our fellow Israelis from the tribe of Benjamin, or shall we stop fighting against them?” Yahweh answered, “Go again tomorrow, because tomorrow I will enable you to defeat them.”
| (در آن زمان صندوق عهد خدا در بیت‌ئیل بود و فینحاس پسر العازار و نوهٔ هارون، کاهن بود.) اسرائیلی‌ها از خداوند سؤال کردند: «خداوندا، آیا باز هم به جنگ برادران بنیامینی خود برویم یا از جنگیدن دست بکشیم؟» خداوند فرمود: «بروید، زیرا فردا آنها را به دست شما تسلیم خواهم کرد.» |
29 So [the next day, 10,000 of] the Israeli men (set up ambushes/went to hide) [in the fields] around Gibeah.
| پس سپاه اسرائیل در اطراف جِبعه کمین کردند، |
30 The [other] Israeli men went and stood in their positions for fighting a battle just like they had done on the previous days.
| و روز سوم بیرون آمده، بار دیگر در مقابل جِبعه صف‌آرایی نمودند. |
31 When the men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of the city to fight against them, the Israeli men retreated away from the city, and the men of the tribe of Benjamin pursued them. The men of the tribe of Benjamin killed many Israelis, like they had done before. They killed about 30 Israelis. They killed some in the fields, and they killed some on the road that went to Bethel and on the road that went to Gibeah.
| وقتی لشکر بنیامین برای جنگ بیرون آمد، نیروهای اسرائیلی آنها را به دنبال خود کشیدند و از جِبعه دور ساختند. بنیامینی‌ها مانند دفعات پیش در طول راه میان بیت‌ئیل و جِبعه به اسرائیلی‌ها حمله کرده، حدود سی نفر از آنها را کشتند. |
32 The men of the tribe of Benjamin said, “We are defeating them like we did before!” But then Israeli men did what they had planned. The main group of Israeli men retreated a short distance from the city, to [trick] the men of Gibeah and cause them to pursue the Israeli men along the roads outside the city.
| بنیامینی‌ها فریاد می‌زدند: «باز هم آنها را شکست می‌دهیم!» اما نمی‌دانستند که اسرائیلی‌ها طبق نقشهٔ قبلی، عمداً عقب‌نشینی می‌کنند تا آنها را از جِبعه دور سازند. |
33 The main group of Israeli men left their positions and retreated, and then they stood in their battle positions again at a place named Baal-Tamar.
| وقتی که قسمت عمدهٔ سپاه اسرائیل به بعل تامار رسیدند، به طرف دشمن بازگشته، بر آنها حمله‌ور شدند. در همان حال ده هزار سرباز اسرائیلی نیز که در سمت غربی جِبعه در کمین نشسته بودند بیرون جسته، از پشت سر بر سپاه بنیامین که هنوز نمی‌دانستند به چه بلایی گرفتار شده‌اند تاختند. |
34 Then [while the men of Gibeah were running out of the city toward them], the other 10,000 Israelis came out from the places where they had been hiding, west of Gibeah. They were men who had come from all parts of Israel. There was a very big battle. But the men of the tribe of Benjamin did not know that they were about to suffer a disastrous defeat.
35 Yahweh enabled the Israeli men to defeat the men of the tribe of Benjamin. They killed 25,000 of them, even though they all were using swords. [This is what happened]:
| خداوند اسرائیلی‌ها را یاری نمود تا قبیلهٔ بنیامین را شکست دهند. در آن روز سپاه اسرائیل بیست و پنج هزار و یکصد نفر از افراد لشکر بنیامین را کشتند؛ به این ترتیب قبیلهٔ بنیامین شکست خورد. جریان این جنگ به طور خلاصه از این قرار بود: سپاه اسرائیل در مقابل افراد قبیلهٔ بنیامین عقب‌نشینی کردند تا به این وسیله به اسرائیلی‌هایی که در کمین نشسته بودند فرصت دهند نقشهٔ خود را عملی سازند. پس از اینکه افراد قبیلهٔ بنیامین حدود سی نفر از سپاه اسرائیل را که عقب‌نشینی می‌کردند کشتند، فکر کردند مانند روزهای پیش می‌توانند آنها را شکست دهند. ولی در این وقت، کمین‌کنندگان اسرائیلی از کمینگاه خود خارج شده، به جِبعه هجوم بردند و تمام ساکنان آن را کشته، شهر را به آتش کشیدند. دود عظیمی که به آسمان بالا می‌رفت برای اسرائیلی‌ها نشانهٔ آن بود که می‌باید به طرف دشمن برگشته به سپاهیان بنیامین حمله کنند. |
36 The main group of Israeli men arranged with the men who would be hiding that they should send up a smoke signal to enable the main group of soldiers to know when they should attack. Then the main group of Israeli men retreated for a short distance, because they knew that the other Israeli men who had been hiding on the other side of Gibeah would attack the people of the tribe of Benjamin by surprise. So [after the main group of Israeli men retreated a little distance], the men who had been hiding rushed out and ran into Gibeah and used their swords to kill everyone in the city. [Then they started to burn the buildings].
39 By that time, the men of the tribe of Benjamin said, “We are winning the battle, as we did before!”
40 But then smoke [from the burning buildings] began to rise up from the city. The men of the tribe of Benjamin turned around and saw that the whole city was burning.
| سپاهیان بنیامین در این موقع به پشت سر خود نگریسته هراسان شدند، چون دیدند که جِبعه به آتش کشیده شده و بلای بزرگی دامنگیر آنها گشته است. |
41 Then the main group of Israeli men [also saw the smoke, and they knew that the smoke signaled that they should] turn around and begin to attack. The men of the tribe of Benjamin were very afraid, because they realized that they were about to suffer a disastrous defeat.
42 So the men of the tribe of Benjamin tried to run away toward the desert to escape from the Israeli men, but they were not able to escape, because the Israeli men who had burned the two cities came out of those cities and killed many of them.
| بنابراین به سوی بیابان گریختند، ولی اسرائیلی‌ها ایشان را تعقیب کردند؛ از طرف دیگر اسرائیلی‌هایی که به شهر حمله کرده بودند برای مقابله با آنها بیرون آمده، آنها را کشتند. |
43 They surrounded [some of] the men of the tribe of Benjamin, and pursued the others to the area east of Gibeah.
| اسرائیلی‌ها در مشرق جِبعه، افراد لشکر بنیامین را محاصره نموده، اکثرشان را در آنجا کشتند. |
44 They killed 18,000 strong soldiers of the tribe of Benjamin.
| در جنگ آن روز، هجده هزار نفر از سپاهیان بنیامینی کشته شدند. |
45 Then the rest of the men of the tribe of Benjamin realized that they had been defeated. They ran toward the desert to Rimmon Rock, but the Israeli men killed 5,000 more men of the tribe of Benjamin along the roads. They pursued the rest of them to Gidom, and they killed 2,000 more men of the tribe of Benjamin there.
| باقیماندهٔ سپاه به بیابان گریخته، تا صخرهٔ رمون پیش رفتند، اما اسرائیلی‌ها پنج هزار نفر از آنها را در طول راه و دو هزار نفر دیگر را در جدعوم کشتند. |
46 Altogether, there were 25,000 men of the tribe of Benjamin who were killed, all of whom had swords.
| به این طریق قبیلهٔ بنیامین بیست و پنج هزار دلاور شمشیرزن خود را در آن روز از دست داد و تنها ششصد نفر از آنها باقی ماندند که به صخرهٔ رمون گریختند و چهار ماه در آنجا ماندند. |
47 But 600 men of the tribe of Benjamin ran to Rimmon Rock in the desert. They stayed there for four months.
48 Then the Israeli men went back to the land belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, and killed the people in every city. They also killed all the animals, and destroyed everything else that they found there. And they burned all the cities that they came to.
| سپس سپاه اسرائیل برگشته، تمام مردان، زنان، کودکان و حتی حیوانات قبیلهٔ بنیامین را کشتند و همهٔ شهرها و دهکده‌های آنها را سوزاندند. |
