Giudici 2
1 Or l’angelo dell’Eterno salì da Ghilgal a Bokim e disse: “Io vi ho fatto salire dall’Egitto e vi ho condotto nel paese che avevo giurato ai vostri padri di darvi. Avevo anche detto: Io non romperò mai il mio patto con voi;
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 e voi dal canto vostro, non farete alleanza con gli abitanti di questo paese; demolirete i loro altari. Ma voi non avete ubbidito alla mia voce. Perché avete fatto questo?
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 Perciò anch’io ho detto: Io non li caccerò d’innanzi a voi; ma essi saranno per voi tanti nemici, e i loro dèi vi saranno un’insidia”.
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 Appena l’angelo dell’Eterno ebbe detto queste parole a tutti i figliuoli d’Israele, il popolo si mise a piangere ad alta voce.
After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
5 E posero nome a quel luogo Bokim e vi offrirono dei sacrifizi all’Eterno.
They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 Or Giosuè rimandò il popolo, e i figliuoli d’Israele se ne andarono, ciascuno nel suo territorio, a prender possesso del paese.
After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
7 E il popolo servì all’Eterno durante tutta la vita di Giosuè e durante tutta la vita degli anziani che sopravvissero a Giosuè, e che avean veduto tutte le grandi opere che l’Eterno avea fatte a pro d’Israele.
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 Poi Giosuè, figliuolo di Nun, servo dell’Eterno, morì in età di cento dieci anni;
Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
9 e fu sepolto nel territorio che gli era toccato a Timnath-Heres nella contrada montuosa di Efraim, al nord della montagna di Gaash.
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 Anche tutta quella generazione fu riunita ai suoi padri; poi, dopo di quella, sorse un’altra generazione, che non conosceva l’Eterno, né le opere ch’egli avea compiute a pro d’Israele.
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 I figliuoli d’Israele fecero ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno, e servirono agl’idoli di 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 abbandonarono l’Eterno, l’Iddio dei loro padri che li avea tratti dal paese d’Egitto, e andaron dietro ad altri dèi fra gli dèi dei popoli che li attorniavano; si prostrarono dinanzi a loro, e provocarono ad ira l’Eterno;
13 abbandonarono l’Eterno, e servirono a Baal e agl’idoli d’Astarte.
14 E l’ira dell’Eterno s’accese contro Israele ed ei li dette in mano di predoni, che li spogliarono; li vendé ai nemici che stavan loro intorno, in guisa che non poteron più tener fronte ai loro nemici.
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 Dovunque andavano, la mano dell’Eterno era contro di loro a loro danno, come l’Eterno avea detto, come l’Eterno avea loro giurato: e furono oltremodo angustiati.
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 E l’Eterno suscitava dei giudici, che li liberavano dalle mani di quelli che li spogliavano.
Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
17 Ma neppure ai loro giudici davano ascolto, poiché si prostituivano ad altri dèi, e si prostravan dinanzi a loro. E abbandonarono ben presto la via battuta dai loro padri, i quali aveano ubbidito ai comandamenti dell’Eterno; ma essi non fecero così.
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 E quando l’Eterno suscitava loro de’ giudici, l’Eterno era col giudice, e li liberava dalla mano de’ loro nemici durante tutta la vita del giudice; poiché l’Eterno si pentiva a sentire i gemiti che mandavano a motivo di quelli che li opprimevano e li angariavano.
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 Ma, quando il giudice moriva, tornavano a corrompersi più dei loro padri, andando dietro ad altri dèi per servirli e prostrarsi dinanzi a loro; non rinunziavano menomamente alle loro pratiche e alla loro caparbia condotta.
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 Perciò l’ira dell’Eterno si accese contro Israele, ed egli disse: “Giacché questa nazione ha violato il patto che avevo stabilito coi loro padri ed essi non hanno ubbidito alla mia voce,
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 anch’io non caccerò più d’innanzi a loro alcuna delle nazioni che Giosuè lasciò quando morì;
So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
22 così, per mezzo d’esse, metterò alla prova Israele per vedere se si atterranno alla via dell’Eterno e cammineranno per essa come fecero i loro padri, o no”.
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 E l’Eterno lasciò stare quelle nazioni senz’affrettarsi a cacciarle, e non le diede nelle mani di Giosuè.
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.
