Judges 7
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Ndipo Yerub-Baali (yaani Gideoni) na lile jeshi lililokuwa pamoja naye, wakaondoka asubuhi na mapema na kupiga kambi kando ya chemchemi ya Harodi. Kambi ya Wamidiani ilikuwa kaskazini yao katika bonde karibu na kilima cha More.
2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, “Jeshi lililo pamoja nawe ni kubwa sana kwa mimi kuwatia Wamidiani mikononi mwao. Ili kwamba Israeli asije akajisifu juu yangu akisema, ‘Mkono wangu ndio ulioniokoa,
3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
kwa hiyo sasa tangaza jeshi lote likiwa linasikia, kwamba: Yeyote anayeogopa na kutetemeka, yeye na arudi nyumbani, aondoke katika Mlima Gileadi.’” Hivyo watu 22,000 walirudi, wakabaki 10,000.
4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
Lakini Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, “Idadi ya jeshi bado ni kubwa. Wapeleke chini katika maji nami nitawajaribu huko kwa ajili yako. Kama nikikuambia, ‘Huyu atakwenda pamoja nawe,’ yeye atakwenda; lakini kama nikisema, ‘Huyu hatakwenda pamoja nawe,’ yeye hatakwenda.”
5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
Hivyo Gideoni akalileta lile jeshi chini kwenye maji naye Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, “Watenge upande mmoja wale wote wanywao maji kwa ulimi, kama vile mbwa anywavyo, wale wote wapigao magoti ili kunywa wakipeleka mikono yao vinywani mwao, waweke upande mwingine.”
6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
Idadi ya wale waliokunywa kwa kuramba ramba walikuwa 300, lakini wengine wote katika jeshi walipiga magoti ili kunywa.
7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, “Kwa hao watu 300 walioramba maji nitawaokoa ninyi, nami nitawatia Wamidiani mkononi mwako. Waache hao watu wengine wote warudi kila mmoja nyumbani mwake.”
8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Hivyo Gideoni akawaacha wale Waisraeli wengine kila mmoja aende kwenye hema yake. Akabakia na wale 300, ambao walichukua vyakula na tarumbeta za wale wenzao. Basi kambi ya Wamidiani ilikuwa chini yake bondeni.
9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
Usiku ule ule Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, “Ondoka, ushuke kambini, kwa kuwa nimeitia mkononi mwako.
10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
Lakini kama unaogopa kushambulia, shuka kambini pamoja na mtumishi wako Pura,
11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
nawe sikiliza wanayosema. Hatimaye, utatiwa moyo kushambulia kambi.” Basi yeye na Pura mtumishi wake wakashuka na kufikia walinzi wa mbele wenye silaha waliokuwa mle kambini.
12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
Wamidiani, Waamaleki na mataifa mengine yote ya mashariki walikaa bondeni, nao walikuwa mfano wa nzige kwa wingi wao. Ngamia zao hazikuhesabika, wingi wao ulikuwa kama mchanga wa ufuoni mwa bahari.
13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
Gideoni alifika wakati huo huo kukiwa na mtu mmoja aliyekuwa anamweleza mwenzake ndoto yake, akisema, “Niliota ndoto: Tazama mkate wa shayiri ulioviringana ulianguka katika kambi moja ya Wamidiani, ukaipiga na ikaanguka nao ukaipindua juu chini na hema ikaporomoka chini.”
14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
Rafiki yake akamjibu, “Habari hii si kitu kingine zaidi ya upanga wa Gideoni mwana wa Yoashi, Mwisraeli. Mungu amewatia Wamidiani na jeshi lote mkononi mwake.”
15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
Gideoni alipoisikia hiyo ndoto na tafsiri yake, akamwabudu Mungu. Akarudi kwenye kambi ya Israeli na kusema, “Inukeni! Bwana amelitia jeshi la Wamidiani mikononi mwenu.”
16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
Akawagawa wale watu 300 katika makundi matatu, akawakabidhi tarumbeta mikononi mwao wote na mitungi isiyokuwa na maji yenye mienge ndani yake.
17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
Akawaambia, “Nitazameni, fanyeni kama nitakavyofanya, nitakapofika mwisho wa kambi mfanye kama nitakavyofanya.
18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
Wakati mimi na wale walio pamoja nami wote, tutakapopiga tarumbeta zetu, ninyi nanyi pigeni tarumbeta pande zote za kambi na mpige kelele, mseme, ‘Upanga wa Bwana na wa Gideoni.’”
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
Gideoni na wale watu 100 waliokuwa pamoja naye wakafika mwisho wa kambi usiku mwanzoni mwa zamu ya kati, mara tu walipokuwa wamebadili zamu. Wakapiga zile tarumbeta zao na kuvunja ile mitungi iliyokuwa mikononi mwao.
20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
Yale makundi matatu yakapiga tarumbeta na kuvunja mitungi. Wakashika mienge kwa mikono yao ya kushoto na katika mikono yao ya kuume tarumbeta ili kuzipiga, wakapaza sauti zao, “Upanga wa Bwana na wa Gideoni!”
21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
Wakasimama kila mtu mahali pake kuizunguka kambi pande zote, Wamidiani wote wakakimbia, huku wakipiga kelele.
22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
Walipozipiga zile tarumbeta 300, Bwana akafanya watu katika kambi yote kugeuziana upanga kila mmoja na mwenziwe. Jeshi likakimbia mpaka Beth-Shita kuelekea Serera hadi mpakani mwa Abel-Mehola karibu na Tabathi.
23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
Watu wa Israeli wakaitwa kutoka Naftali, Asheri na Manase, wakawafuatia Wamidiani.
24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
Gideoni akatuma wajumbe katika nchi yote ya vilima vya Efraimu akisema, “Teremkeni dhidi ya Wamidiani na mkazuie vivuko vya maji mbele yao hadi Beth-Bara na pia Yordani.” Hivyo watu wote wa Efraimu wakakutanika pamoja na kuzingira mto wa Yordani hadi Beth-Bara.
25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
Wakawakamata wakuu wawili wa Midiani, Orebu na Zeebu. Wakamuulia Orebu pale penye mwamba wa Orebu, na Zeebu wakamuulia penye shinikizo la kukamulia divai la Zeebu. Wakawafuatia Wamidiani na kuleta vichwa vya Orebu na Zeebu kwa Gideoni, huko ngʼambo ya Yordani.
