Hakim-hakim 3
1 Inilah bangsa-bangsa yang dibiarkan TUHAN tinggal untuk mencobai orang Israel itu dengan perantaraan mereka, yakni semua orang Israel yang tidak mengenal perang Kanaan.
At that time there were still many people-groups in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israeli people. But many of the Israelis in Canaan were ones who had not fought in any of the wars in Canaan. So Yahweh also left those people-groups in Canaan so that the descendants of those who had not fought in any of the wars might learn how to fight.
2 --Maksudnya hanyalah, supaya keturunan-keturunan orang Israel yang tidak mengenal perang yang sudah-sudah, dilatih berperang oleh TUHAN.
3 Yang tinggal ialah kelima raja kota orang Filistin dan semua orang Kanaan, orang Sidon dan orang Hewi, yang mendiami pegunungan Libanon, dari gunung Baal-Hermon sampai ke jalan yang menuju ke Hamat.
[This is a list of] the people-groups that Yahweh left there: The Philistines and their five leaders, the people living in the area near Sidon [city], the descendants of Canaan, and the descendants of Hiv who were living in the mountains of Lebanon between Baal-Hermon Mountain and Lebo-Hamath.
4 Mereka itu ada di sana, supaya Ia mencobai orang Israel dengan perantaraan mereka untuk mengetahui, apakah mereka mendengarkan perintah yang diberikan TUHAN kepada nenek moyang mereka dengan perantaraan Musa.
Yahweh left these people-groups there to test the Israelis, to see if they would obey his commands which he had told Moses to give them.
5 Demikianlah orang Israel itu diam di tengah-tengah orang Kanaan, orang Het, orang Amori, orang Feris, orang Hewi dan orang Yebus.
The Israelis lived among the Canaan people-group, the Hiv people-group, the Amor people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
6 Mereka mengambil anak-anak perempuan, orang-orang itu menjadi isteri mereka dan memberikan anak-anak perempuan mereka kepada anak-anak lelaki orang-orang itu, serta beribadah kepada allah orang-orang itu.
[Moses had told the people not to associate with any of those people]. But the Israelis took daughters of people from those people-groups [to be their own wives], and gave their own daughters to men of those groups, to marry them. And [as a result] they started to worship the gods of those people-groups.
7 Orang Israel melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN, mereka melupakan TUHAN, Allah mereka, dan beribadah kepada para Baal dan para Asyera.
The Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They forgot about Yahweh, their God, and they started to worship [the idols that represented] the god Baal and the goddess Asherah.
8 Lalu bangkitlah murka TUHAN terhadap orang Israel, sehingga Ia menjual mereka kepada Kusyan-Risyataim, raja Aram-Mesopotamia dan orang Israel menjadi takluk kepada Kusyan-Risyataim delapan tahun lamanya.
Yahweh became very angry with the Israelis. So he allowed king Cushan from Mesopotamia to conquer them and rule them for eight years.
9 Lalu berserulah orang Israel kepada TUHAN, maka TUHAN membangkitkan seorang penyelamat bagi orang Israel, yakni Otniel, anak Kenas adik Kaleb.
But when they pleaded to Yahweh [to help them], he gave them a leader to rescue them. He was Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz.
10 Roh TUHAN menghinggapi dia dan ia menghakimi orang Israel. Ia maju berperang, lalu TUHAN menyerahkan Kusyan-Risyataim, raja Aram, ke dalam tangannya, sehingga ia mengalahkan Kusyan-Risyataim.
Yahweh’s Spirit came upon him, and he became their leader. He [led an army that] fought against [the army of] Cushan, and defeated them.
11 Lalu amanlah negeri itu empat puluh tahun lamanya. Kemudian matilah Otniel anak Kenas.
After that, there was peace in the land for 40 years, until Othniel died.
12 Tetapi orang Israel melakukan pula apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN; lalu Eglon, raja Moab, diberi TUHAN kuasa atas orang Israel, oleh sebab mereka telah melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN.
After that, the Israelis again did things that Yahweh said were very evil. As a result, he allowed the army of King Eglon, who ruled [the] Moab [area], to defeat the Israelis.
13 Raja ini mengajak bani Amon dan bani Amalek menjadi sekutunya. Lalu majulah ia dan memukul orang Israel kalah. Kota pohon korma diduduki mereka.
Eglon persuaded the leaders of the Ammon and Amalek people-groups to join their armies with his army to attack Israel. They captured [Jericho, which was called] ‘The City of Palm Trees’.
14 Delapan belas tahun lamanya orang Israel menjadi takluk kepada Eglon, raja Moab.
Then King Eglon ruled the Israelis for eighteen years.
15 Lalu orang Israel berseru kepada TUHAN, maka TUHAN membangkitkan bagi mereka seorang penyelamat yakni Ehud, anak Gera, orang Benyamin, seorang yang kidal. Dengan perantaraannya orang Israel biasa mengirimkan upeti kepada Eglon, raja Moab.
But then the Israelis again pleaded to Yahweh [to help them]. So he gave them another leader to rescue them. He was Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera, from the descendants of Benjamin. The Israelis sent him to King Eglon to give him their yearly protection money.
16 Dan Ehud membuat pedang yang bermata dua, yang panjangnya hampir sehasta, disandangnyalah itu di bawah pakaiannya, pada pangkal paha kanannya.
Ehud had with him a double-edged dagger, about a foot and a half long. He strapped it to his right thigh, under his clothes.
17 Kemudian ia menyampaikan upeti kepada Eglon, raja Moab. Adapun Eglon itu seorang yang sangat gendut.
He gave the money to King Eglon, who was a very fat man.
18 Setelah Ehud selesai menyampaikan upeti itu, disuruhnya pembawa-pembawa upeti itu pulang,
Then Ehud started to go back home with the men who had carried the money.
19 tetapi ia sendiri berhenti pada batu-batu berpahat yang di dekat Gilgal, dan kembali menghadap raja. Berkatalah ia: "Ada pesan rahasia yang kubawa untuk tuanku, ya raja." Kata Eglon: "Diamlah dahulu!" Maka semua orang yang berdiri di depannya itu pergi ke luar.
When they arrived at the stone carvings near Gilgal, [he told the other men to go on, but] he himself turned around and went back [to the king of Moab. When he arrived at the palace], he said to the king, “Your majesty, I have a secret message for you.” So the king told all his servants to be quiet, and sent them out of the room.
20 Lalu Ehud masuk mendapatkan dia, sedang ia duduk sendirian di kamar atas di rumah peranginannya. Berkatalah Ehud: "Ada firman Allah yang kubawa untuk tuanku." Lalu bangunlah ia berdiri dari tempat duduknya.
Then, as Eglon was sitting alone in the upstairs room of his summer palace, Ehud came close to him and said, “I have a message for you from God.” As the king got up from his chair,
21 Kemudian Ehud mengulurkan tangan kirinya, dihunusnya pedang itu dari pangkal paha kanannya dan ditikamkannya ke perut raja,
Ehud reached with his left hand and pulled the dagger from his right thigh, and plunged it into the king’s belly.
22 sehingga hulunya beserta mata pedang itu masuk. Lemak menutupi mata pedang itu, sebab pedang itu tidak dicabutnya dari perut raja. Lalu keluarlah ia melalui pintu belakang.
He thrust it in so far that the handle went into the king’s belly, and the blade came out the king’s back. Ehud did not pull the dagger out. [He left it there, with] the handle buried in the king’s fat.
23 Demikianlah Ehud sampai ke serambi; pintu kamar atas itu ditutup dan dikuncinya setelah ia keluar.
Then Ehud left the room. He went out to the porch. He shut the doors to the room and locked them.
24 Baru saja ia keluar, datanglah hamba-hamba raja melihat, tetapi pintu kamar atas itu terkunci. Lalu berkatalah mereka: "Tentulah ia membuang air di kamar rumah peranginan itu."
After he had gone, King Eglon’s servants came back, but they saw that the doors of the room were locked. They said, “The king must be defecating in the inner room.”
25 Lalu mereka menunggu-nunggu sampai menjadi bingung, tetapi raja tidak membuka pintu kamar atas itu. Kemudian mereka mengambil kunci, membuka pintu, maka tampaklah tuan mereka mati tergeletak di lantai.
So they waited, but when the king did not open the doors of the room, after a while they were worried. They got a key and unlocked the doors. And they saw that their king was lying on the floor, dead.
26 Sedang mereka berlambat-lambat, Ehud meloloskan diri; ia lewat dari batu-batu berpahat dan meloloskan diri ke arah Seira.
Meanwhile, Ehud escaped. He passed by the stone carvings and arrived at Seirah, in the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived.
27 Setelah ia sampai ke sana, ditiupnyalah sangkakala di pegunungan Efraim, lalu turunlah orang Israel bersama-sama dengan dia dari pegunungan itu, dan ia sendiri di depan.
There he blew a trumpet [to signal that the people should join him to fight the people of Moab]. So the Israelis went with him from the hills. They went down [toward the Jordan river], with Ehud leading them.
28 Berkatalah ia kepada mereka: "Ikutlah aku, sebab TUHAN telah menyerahkan musuhmu, orang-orang Moab itu, ke dalam tanganmu." Maka turunlah mereka mengikuti dia, lalu mereka merebut tempat penyeberangan sungai Yordan ke Moab dan tidak seorangpun dibiarkan mereka menyeberang.
He said to the men, “Yahweh is going to allow us to defeat your enemies, the people of Moab. So follow me!” So they followed him down to the river, and they stationed some of their men at the place where people can walk across the river, in order that they could [kill any people from Moab who tried to] cross the river [to escape].
29 Pada waktu itu mereka menewaskan kira-kira sepuluh ribu orang dari Moab, semuanya orang yang tegap dan tangkas, seorangpun tidak ada yang lolos.
At that time, the Israelis killed about 10,000 people from Moab. They were all strong and capable men, but not one of them escaped.
30 Demikianlah pada hari itu Moab ditundukkan oleh Israel, maka amanlah tanah itu, delapan puluh tahun lamanya.
On that day, the Israelis conquered the people of Moab. Then there was peace in their land for 80 years.
31 Sesudah dia, bangkitlah Samgar bin Anat; ia menewaskan orang Filistin dengan tongkat penghalau lembu, enam ratus orang banyaknya. Demikianlah ia juga menyelamatkan orang Israel.
After Ehud [died], Shamgar became their leader. He rescued the Israelis [from the Philistines. In one battle] he killed 600 Philistines with an (ox goad/sharp wooden pole).
