Hakim-hakim 20
1 Lalu majulah semua orang Israel; dari Dan sampai Bersyeba dan juga dari tanah Gilead berkumpullah umat itu secara serentak menghadap TUHAN di Mizpa.
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.
2 Maka berdirilah para pemuka dari seluruh bangsa itu, dari segala suku orang Israel, memimpin jemaah umat Allah yang jumlahnya empat ratus ribu orang berjalan kaki, yang bersenjatakan pedang.
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 Kedengaranlah kepada bani Benyamin, bahwa orang Israel telah maju ke Mizpa. Berkatalah orang Israel: "Ceritakan bagaimana kejahatan itu terjadi."
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.
4 Lalu orang Lewi, suami perempuan yang terbunuh itu, menjawab: "Aku sampai dengan gundikku di Gibea kepunyaan suku Benyamin untuk bermalam di sana.
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.
5 Lalu warga-warga kota Gibea itu mendatangi aku dan mengepung rumah itu pada malam hari untuk menyerang aku. Mereka bermaksud membunuh aku, tetapi gundikku diperkosa mereka, sehingga mati.
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.
6 Maka kuambillah mayat gundikku, kupotong-potong dia dan kukirimkan ke seluruh daerah milik pusaka orang Israel, sebab orang-orang itu telah berbuat mesum dan berbuat noda di antara orang Israel.
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.
7 Sekarang kamu sekalian, orang Israel, telah ada di sini. Berikanlah di sini pertimbanganmu dan nasihatmu."
So now, all you Israeli people, speak, and tell me what you think should be done!”
8 Kemudian bangunlah seluruh bangsa itu dengan serentak, sambil berkata: "Seorangpun dari pada kita takkan pergi ke kemahnya, seorangpun dari pada kita takkan pulang ke rumahnya.
All the people stood up, and in unison said, “None of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!
9 Inilah yang akan kita lakukan kepada Gibea; memeranginya, dengan membuang undi!
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 Kita akan memilih dari seluruh suku Israel sepuluh orang dari tiap-tiap seratus, seratus orang dari tiap-tiap seribu, seribu orang dari tiap-tiap sepuluh ribu, untuk mengambil bekal bagi laskar ini, supaya sesudah mereka datang, dilakukan kepada Gibea-Benyamin setimpal dengan segala perbuatan noda yang telah diperbuat mereka di antara orang Israel."
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 Demikianlah orang Israel berkumpul melawan kota itu, semuanya bersekutu dengan serentak.
And all the Israeli people agreed [that the people of Gibeah should be punished].
12 Kemudian suku-suku Israel mengirim orang kepada seluruh suku Benyamin dengan pesan: "Apa macam kejahatan yang terjadi di antara kamu itu!
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?
13 Maka sekarang, serahkanlah orang-orang itu, yakni orang-orang dursila yang di Gibea itu, supaya kami menghukum mati mereka dan dengan demikian menghapuskan yang jahat itu dari antara orang Israel." Tetapi bani Benyamin tidak mau mendengarkan perkataan saudara-saudaranya, orang Israel itu.
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.
14 Sebaliknya, bani Benyamin dari kota-kota lain berkumpul di Gibea untuk maju berperang melawan orang Israel.
The men of the tribe of Benjamin left their cities and gathered at Gibeah to fight the [other] Israelis.
15 Pada hari itu dihitunglah jumlah bani Benyamin dari kota-kota lain itu: dua puluh enam ribu orang yang bersenjatakan pedang, belum termasuk penduduk Gibea, yang terhitung tujuh ratus orang pilihan banyaknya.
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 Dari segala laskar ini ada tujuh ratus orang pilihan yang kidal, dan setiap orang dari mereka dapat mengumban dengan tidak pernah meleset sampai sehelai rambutpun.
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!
17 Juga orang-orang Israel dihitung jumlahnya; dengan tidak termasuk suku Benyamin ada empat ratus ribu orang yang bersenjatakan pedang; semuanya itu prajurit.
There were 400,000 men from the other Israeli tribes who had swords.
18 Lalu orang Israel berangkat dan maju ke Betel. Di sana mereka bertanya kepada Allah: "Siapakah dari kami yang lebih dahulu maju berperang melawan bani Benyamin?" Jawab TUHAN: "Suku Yehudalah lebih dahulu."
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.”
19 Lalu orang-orang Israel bangun pagi-pagi dan berkemah mengepung Gibea.
The next morning, the Israeli men went and set up their tents near Gibeah.
20 Kemudian majulah orang-orang Israel berperang melawan suku Benyamin; orang-orang Israel mengatur barisan perangnya melawan mereka dekat Gibea.
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 Juga bani Benyamin maju menyerang dari Gibea dan menggugurkan ke bumi dua puluh dua ribu orang dari antara orang Israel pada hari itu.
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.
22 Tetapi laskar orang Israel mengumpulkan segenap kekuatannya, lalu mengatur pula barisan perangnya di tempat mereka mengatur barisannya semula.
[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.
23 Kemudian pergilah orang-orang Israel, lalu menangis di hadapan TUHAN sampai petang, sesudah itu mereka bertanya kepada TUHAN: "Akan pergi pulakah kami berperang melawan bani Benyamin, saudara kami itu?" Jawab TUHAN: "Majulah melawan mereka."
24 Tetapi ketika orang-orang Israel pada hari kedua sampai di dekat bani Benyamin,
The next day they again stood in their positions for fighting, just like they had done on the previous day.
25 maka pada hari kedua itu majulah suku Benyamin dari Gibea menyerbu mereka, dan digugurkannya pula ke bumi delapan belas ribu orang di antara orang-orang Israel; semuanya orang-orang yang bersenjatakan pedang.
The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and attacked the Israelis, and killed 18,000 more of their men.
26 Kemudian pergilah semua orang Israel, yakni seluruh bangsa itu, lalu sampai di Betel; di sana mereka tinggal menangis di hadapan TUHAN, berpuasa sampai senja pada hari itu dan mempersembahkan korban bakaran dan korban keselamatan di hadapan TUHAN.
[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.
27 Dan orang-orang Israel bertanya kepada TUHAN--pada waktu itu ada di sana tabut perjanjian Allah,
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.”
28 dan Pinehas bin Eleazar bin Harun menjadi imam Allah pada waktu itu--kata mereka: "Haruskah kami maju sekali lagi untuk berperang melawan bani Benyamin, saudara kami itu, atau haruskah kami hentikan itu?" Jawab TUHAN: "Majulah, sebab besok Aku akan menyerahkan mereka ke dalam tanganmu."
29 Lalu orang Israel menempatkan penghadang-penghadang sekeliling Gibea.
So [the next day, 10,000 of] the Israeli men (set up ambushes/went to hide) [in the fields] around Gibeah.
30 Pada hari ketiga majulah orang-orang Israel melawan bani Benyamin dan mengatur barisannya melawan Gibea seperti yang sudah-sudah.
The [other] Israeli men went and stood in their positions for fighting a battle just like they had done on the previous days.
31 Maka majulah bani Benyamin menyerbu laskar itu; mereka terpancing dari kota, dan seperti yang sudah-sudah, mereka mulai menyerang laskar itu pada kedua jalan raya--yang satu menuju ke Betel, dan yang lain ke Gibea melalui padang--sehingga terbunuh beberapa orang, kira-kira tiga puluh orang di antara orang Israel.
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.
32 Maka kata bani Benyamin: "Orang-orang itu telah terpukul kalah oleh kita seperti semula." Tetapi orang-orang Israel telah bermupakat lebih dahulu: "Marilah kita lari dan memancing mereka dari kota ke jalan-jalan raya."
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.
33 Jadi orang Israel bangun dari tempatnya dan mengatur barisannya di Baal-Tamar, sedang orang Israel yang menghadang itu tiba-tiba keluar dari tempatnya, yakni tempat terbuka dekat Geba,
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.
34 dan sampai di depan Gibea, sebanyak sepuluh ribu orang pilihan dari seluruh Israel. Pertempuran itu dahsyat, tetapi bani Benyamin tidak tahu bahwa malapetaka datang menimpa mereka.
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 TUHAN membuat suku Benyamin terpukul kalah oleh orang Israel, dan pada hari itu orang-orang Israel memusnahkan dari antara suku Benyamin dua puluh lima ribu seratus orang, semuanya orang-orang yang bersenjatakan pedang.
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]:
36 Bani Benyamin melihat, bahwa mereka telah terpukul kalah. Sementara orang-orang Israel agak mundur di depan suku Benyamin--sebab mereka mempercayai penghadang-penghadang yang ditempatkan mereka untuk menyerang Gibea--
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].
37 maka segeralah penghadang-penghadang itu menyerbu Gibea. Mereka bergerak maju dan memukul seluruh kota itu dengan mata pedang.
38 Tetapi orang-orang Israel telah bermupakat dengan penghadang-penghadang itu untuk menaikkan gumpalan asap tebal dari kota itu.
39 Ketika orang-orang Israel mundur dalam pertempuran itu, maka suku Benyamin mulai menyerang orang Israel, sehingga terbunuh kira-kira tiga puluh orang, karena pikir mereka: "Tentulah orang-orang itu terpukul kalah sama sekali oleh kita seperti dalam pertempuran yang dahulu."
By that time, the men of the tribe of Benjamin said, “We are winning the battle, as we did before!”
40 Tetapi pada waktu itu mulailah gumpalan asap naik dari kota itu seperti tiang asap. Suku Benyamin menoleh ke belakang dan tampaklah kota itu seluruhnya terbakar, apinya naik ke langit.
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.
41 Lagipula orang-orang Israel maju lagi. Maka gemetarlah orang-orang Benyamin itu, sebab mereka melihat, bahwa malapetaka datang menimpa mereka.
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 Jadi larilah mereka dari depan orang-orang Israel itu, ke arah padang gurun, tetapi pertempuran itu tidak dapat dihindari mereka, lalu orang-orang dari kota-kota menghabisi mereka di tengah-tengahnya.
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.
43 Mereka mengepung suku Benyamin itu, mengejarnya dengan tak henti-hentinya dan melandanya sampai di depan Gibea, di sebelah timur.
They surrounded [some of] the men of the tribe of Benjamin, and pursued the others to the area east of Gibeah.
44 Dari bani Benyamin ada tewas delapan belas ribu orang, semuanya orang-orang gagah perkasa.
They killed 18,000 strong soldiers of the tribe of Benjamin.
45 Yang lain berpaling lari ke padang gurun, ke bukit batu Rimon. Tetapi di jalan-jalan raya masih diadakan penyabitan susulan di antara mereka: lima ribu orang; mereka diburu sampai ke Gideom dan dipukul mati dua ribu orang dari mereka.
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.
46 Maka yang tewas dari suku Benyamin pada hari itu seluruhnya berjumlah dua puluh lima ribu orang yang bersenjatakan pedang, semuanya orang-orang gagah perkasa.
Altogether, there were 25,000 men of the tribe of Benjamin who were killed, all of whom had swords.
47 Tetapi enam ratus orang berpaling lari ke padang gurun, ke bukit batu Rimon, dan tinggal empat bulan lamanya di bukit batu itu.
But 600 men of the tribe of Benjamin ran to Rimmon Rock in the desert. They stayed there for four months.
48 Tetapi orang-orang Israel kembali kepada bani Benyamin dan memukul mereka dengan mata pedang, baik manusia baik hewan dan segala sesuatu yang terdapat di sana. Juga segala kota yang terdapat di sana mereka musnahkan dengan api.
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.
