Hakim-hakim 2
1 Lalu Malaikat TUHAN pergi dari Gilgal ke Bokhim dan berfirman: "Telah Kutuntun kamu keluar dari Mesir dan Kubawa ke negeri yang Kujanjikan dengan bersumpah kepada nenek moyangmu, dan Aku telah berfirman: Aku tidak akan membatalkan perjanjian-Ku dengan kamu untuk selama-lamanya,
Yahweh [appeared in the form of] an angel [and] went up from Gilgal to [a place that was later called] Bokim. He said [to the Israeli people], “I brought your [ancestors] up here from Egypt. I led them into this land that I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said to them, ‘The agreement that I made with you, as for me, I will never (break it/say that it is ended).
2 tetapi janganlah kamu mengikat perjanjian dengan penduduk negeri ini; mezbah mereka haruslah kamu robohkan. Tetapi kamu tidak mendengarkan firman-Ku. Mengapa kamu perbuat demikian?
But as for you, you must never make a peace agreement with the people who live in this land. You must tear down the altars [where they make sacrifices to idols].’ But you have not obeyed me.
3 Lagi Aku telah berfirman: Aku tidak akan menghalau orang-orang itu dari depanmu, tetapi mereka akan menjadi musuhmu dan segala allah mereka akan menjadi jerat bagimu."
So now, I am telling you that I will not expel [your enemies] as you advance. They will be like thorns in your sides. And [they] will try to trap you [by making you worship] their idols.”
4 Setelah Malaikat TUHAN mengucapkan firman itu kepada seluruh Israel, menangislah bangsa itu dengan keras.
After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
5 Maka tempat itu dinamai Bokhim. Lalu mereka mempersembahkan korban di sana kepada TUHAN.
They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 Setelah Yosua melepas bangsa itu pergi, maka pergilah orang Israel itu, masing-masing ke milik pusakanya, untuk memiliki negeri itu.
After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
7 Dan bangsa itu beribadah kepada TUHAN sepanjang zaman Yosua dan sepanjang zaman para tua-tua yang hidup lebih lama dari pada Yosua, dan yang telah melihat segenap perbuatan yang besar, yang dilakukan TUHAN bagi orang Israel.
They served Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive, and as long as the elders, those who had seen all the great things that Yahweh had done for Israel, were alive.
8 Dan Yosua bin Nun, hamba TUHAN itu, mati pada umur seratus sepuluh tahun;
Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
9 ia dikuburkan di daerah milik pusakanya di Timnat-Heres, di pegunungan Efraim, di sebelah utara gunung Gaas.
They buried his body in the area he had received [from Moses], at Timnath-Serah, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Gaash Mountain.
10 Setelah seluruh angkatan itu dikumpulkan kepada nenek moyangnya, bangkitlah sesudah mereka itu angkatan yang lain, yang tidak mengenal TUHAN ataupun perbuatan yang dilakukan-Nya bagi orang Israel.
After all the people died who lived at the same time as Joshua [EUP], a group of people grew up who did not know Yahweh, and did not know what great things he had done for the Israeli people.
11 Lalu orang Israel melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN dan mereka beribadah kepada para Baal.
They did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They worshiped [idols that represented the god] Baal and the goddess Astarte. They worshiped [DOU] the various gods that the people-groups around them worshiped. They stopped worshiping Yahweh, the God their ancestors worshiped, the one who had brought their ancestors out of Egypt. That caused Yahweh to be very angry.
12 Mereka meninggalkan TUHAN, Allah nenek moyang mereka yang telah membawa mereka keluar dari tanah Mesir, lalu mengikuti allah lain, dari antara allah bangsa-bangsa di sekeliling mereka, dan sujud menyembah kepadanya, sehingga mereka menyakiti hati TUHAN.
13 Demikianlah mereka meninggalkan TUHAN dan beribadah kepada Baal dan para Asytoret.
14 Maka bangkitlah murka TUHAN terhadap orang Israel. Ia menyerahkan mereka ke dalam tangan perampok dan menjual mereka kepada musuh di sekeliling mereka, sehingga mereka tidak sanggup lagi menghadapi musuh mereka.
So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them.
15 Setiap kali mereka maju, tangan TUHAN melawan mereka dan mendatangkan malapetaka kepada mereka, sesuai dengan apa yang telah diperingatkan kepada mereka oleh TUHAN dengan sumpah, sehingga mereka sangat terdesak.
Whenever the Israelis went to fight [their enemies], Yahweh [MTY] was opposing them, and allowed their enemies to defeat them, just as he had promised he would do. So the Israelis were greatly distressed.
16 Maka TUHAN membangkitkan hakim-hakim, yang menyelamatkan mereka dari tangan perampok itu.
Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
17 Tetapi juga para hakim itu tidak mereka hiraukan, karena mereka berzinah dengan mengikuti allah lain dan sujud menyembah kepadanya. Mereka segera menyimpang dari jalan yang ditempuh oleh nenek moyangnya yang mendengarkan perintah TUHAN; mereka melakukan yang tidak patut.
But the Israelis still would not pay attention to their leaders. Instead, they went to the idols, [acting like] prostitutes [who gave themselves to men who were not their husbands] [MET], and they worshiped those idols. They were not like their ancestors. Their ancestors obeyed what Yahweh commanded, but their descendants quickly stopped behaving as their ancestors had behaved.
18 Setiap kali apabila TUHAN membangkitkan seorang hakim bagi mereka, maka TUHAN menyertai hakim itu dan menyelamatkan mereka dari tangan musuh mereka selama hakim itu hidup; sebab TUHAN berbelas kasihan mendengar rintihan mereka karena orang-orang yang mendesak dan menindas mereka.
Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He helped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer.
19 Tetapi apabila hakim itu mati, kembalilah mereka berlaku jahat, lebih jahat dari nenek moyang mereka, dengan mengikuti allah lain, beribadah kepadanya dan sujud menyembah kepadanya; dalam hal apapun mereka tidak berhenti dengan perbuatan dan kelakuan mereka yang tegar itu.
But after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all [LIT] the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do.
20 Apabila murka TUHAN bangkit terhadap orang Israel, berfirmanlah Ia: "Karena bangsa ini melanggar perjanjian yang telah Kuperintahkan kepada nenek moyang mereka, dan tidak mendengarkan firman-Ku,
So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do.
21 maka Akupun tidak mau menghalau lagi dari depan mereka satupun dari bangsa-bangsa yang ditinggalkan Yosua pada waktu matinya,
So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
22 supaya dengan perantaraan bangsa-bangsa itu Aku mencobai orang Israel, apakah mereka tetap hidup menurut jalan yang ditunjukkan TUHAN, seperti yang dilakukan oleh nenek moyang mereka, atau tidak."
I will use them to test the Israeli people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did.”
23 Demikianlah TUHAN membiarkan bangsa-bangsa itu tinggal dengan tidak segera menghalau mereka; mereka tidak diserahkan-Nya ke dalam tangan Yosua.
Yahweh had allowed those people-groups to stay in that land. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua [and his men] to defeat them.
