Hakim-hakim 12
1 Pada waktu itu suku Efraim bersiap-siap untuk bertempur, lalu pergi menyeberangi Sungai Yordan menuju ke Zafon. Mereka berkata kepada Yefta, "Mengapa engkau pergi memerangi bangsa Amon tanpa mengajak kami? Sekarang kami akan membakar engkau dan seisi rumahmu."
The men of the tribe of Ephraim summoned their soldiers, and they crossed [the Jordan River] to [the town of] Zaphon [to talk with] Jephthah. They said to him, “(Why did you not ask us for help?/You should have requested us) to help your army fight the Ammon people-group. So we will burn down your house while you are in it.”
2 Berkatalah Yefta, "Antara orang Amon dan kami orang Gilead ada perselisihan yang hebat. Kalian sudah saya panggil untuk membantu membebaskan saya dari orang-orang Amon itu, tetapi kalian tidak datang.
Jephthah replied, “The Ammon people-group were oppressing us greatly. When we were prepared to start to attack them, I requested you to come and help us, but you refused. My men and I defeated the Ammon people-group, but you did not help us.
3 Jadi, setelah saya yakin bahwa kalian tidak akan datang membantu saya, saya nekad pergi memerangi orang-orang Amon itu, sekalipun saya harus mati. Lalu TUHAN memberikan kepada saya kemenangan atas mereka. Mengapa sekarang kalian datang menyerang saya?"
When I saw that you would not help us, I was willing to be killed in the battle against the Ammon people-group. But Yahweh helped us to defeat them. [You did not help us when we requested it before], so (why have you come here today to fight against me?/you should not have come here today to fight against me.)” [RHQ]
4 Kemudian Yefta mengumpulkan semua orang Gilead, lalu mereka memerangi dan mengalahkan orang Efraim. (Orang Gilead yang tinggal di Efraim dan Manasye telah dituduh oleh orang Efraim bahwa mereka telah memisahkan diri dari Efraim, sukunya.)
Then Jephthah summoned the men of [the] Gilead [region] to fight [against the men of the tribe of] Ephraim. The men of the tribe of Ephraim said, “You men from [the] Gilead [region] are men who deserted us. Long ago you left us and moved to the area between our tribe and the tribe of Manasseh.” [Because of their saying that], the men of [the] Gilead [region] attacked the men of the tribe of Ephraim.
5 Orang-orang Gilead yang sedang berperang itu, menduduki tempat-tempat penyeberangan di Sungai Yordan, supaya dapat mencegat orang-orang Efraim yang mau lari. Pada waktu seorang Efraim, yang hendak melarikan diri, minta izin untuk menyeberang, orang Gilead bertanya kepadanya, "Apakah kau orang Efraim?" Kalau ia menjawab, "Bukan,"
The men of Gilead captured that (ford/place where people can walk across) at the Jordan [River] to go to the land where the tribe of Ephraim live. Whenever one of the soldiers from the tribe of Ephraim came to the ford to try to escape, he would say, “Let me cross the river.” Then the men of Gilead would ask him, “Are you from the tribe of Ephraim?” If he said “No,”
6 mereka menyuruh dia mengucapkan kata "Syibolet". Ia akan mengatakan "Sibolet" karena tidak dapat mengucapkan kata itu dengan tepat. Lalu mereka akan menangkapnya dan membunuhnya di salah satu tempat penyeberangan itu. Maka terbunuhlah 42.000 orang Efraim pada waktu itu.
they would say to him, “Say the word ‘Shibboleth’.” The men of Ephraim could not pronounce that word correctly. So if the person from the tribe of Ephraim said ‘Sibboleth’, [they would know that he was lying and that he was really from the tribe of Ephraim, and] they would kill him there at the ford. So the men of Gilead killed 42,000 people from the tribe of Ephraim at that time.
7 Enam tahun lamanya Yefta memimpin orang Israel. Kemudian ia meninggal lalu dimakamkan di kampung halamannya yaitu di kota Mizpa di Gilead.
Jephthah, the man from [the] Gilead [region], was a leader of the Israeli people for six years. Then he died and was buried in a town in [the] Gilead [region].
8 Setelah Yefta, umat Israel dipimpin oleh Ebzan dari Betlehem.
After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people.
9 Ebzan mempunyai tiga puluh anak lelaki dan tiga puluh anak perempuan. Anak-anaknya yang perempuan itu dikawinkannya dengan orang-orang dari suku lain, dan ia mengambil tiga puluh gadis dari suku lain untuk anak-anaknya yang lelaki. Tujuh tahun lamanya Ebzan memimpin umat Israel,
He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years.
10 kemudian ia meninggal dan dimakamkan di Betlehem.
When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem.
11 Setelah Ebzan, umat Israel dipimpin oleh Elon dari suku Zebulon sepuluh tahun lamanya.
After Ibzan died, a man named Elon, from the tribe of Zebulun, became the leader of the Israeli people. He was their leader for ten years.
12 Kemudian ia meninggal lalu dimakamkan di Ayalon di wilayah Zebulon.
Then he died and was buried in Aijalon [city] in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives.
13 Setelah Elon, umat Israel dipimpin oleh Abdon anak Hilel dari Piraton.
After Elon died, a man named Abdon who was the son of Hillel, from Pirathon [city, in the area where the tribe of Ephraim live] became the leader of the Israeli people.
14 Anaknya yang lelaki ada empat puluh orang, dan cucu-cucunya yang lelaki ada tiga puluh orang. Mereka masing-masing memiliki seekor keledai tunggangan. Delapan tahun lamanya umat Israel dipimpin oleh Abdon.
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons. Each of them had his own donkey on which to ride. Abdon was the leader of the Israeli people for eight years.
15 Kemudian ia meninggal lalu dimakamkan di Piraton di wilayah Efraim di daerah pegunungan orang Amalek.
When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the hilly area where the descendants of Amalek lived previously, [but now it is the area where the tribe of Ephraim lives].
