न्यायकर्ताहरू 7
1 त्यसपछि यरूब-बाल, (अर्थात् गिदोन) र उनीसँग भएका सबै जना मानिसहरू बिहानै उठे, र हरोदको पानीको मूलको छेउमा तिनीहरूले छाउनी हाले । मिद्दानीहरूको छाउनीचाहिं तिनीहरूको उत्तरपट्टिको मोरेको पहाडनजिकको मैदानमा थियो ।
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 परमप्रभुले गिदोनलाई भन्नुभयो, “मिद्दानीहरूमाथि तँलाई विजय दिन मलाई चाहिएको भन्दा धेरै सेना छन्, ताकि इस्राएलले मसँग यसो भनेर घमण्ड नगरोस्, ‘हाम्रो आफ्नै शक्तिले हामीलाई बचाएको हो ।’
The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
3 यसकारण अब मानिसहरूले सुन्ने गरी घोषणा गर र यसो भन्, ‘जो डराएको छ, जो थरथर भएको छ, ऊ फर्कोस् र गिलाद डाँडाबाट विदा होस् ।’” यसैले बाइस हजार मानिसहरू फर्केर गए, र दश हजार बाँकी रहे ।
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 परमप्रभुले गिदोनलाई भन्नुभयो, “मनिसहरू अझै पनि ज्यादै धेरै छन् । तिनीहरूलाई तल पानीमा लैजा, र त्यहाँ तेरो निम्ति तिनीहरूका सङ्ख्या म कम गरिदिनेछु । म तँलाई भन्छु, ‘यो व्यक्तिचाहिं तँसँग जानेछ’ भने, ऊ तँसँग जानेछ । तर म तँलाई बन्छु, ‘यो व्यक्तिचाहिं तँसँग जानेछैन’ भने, ऊ तँसँग जानेछैन ।”
The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
5 यसैले गिदोनले मानिसहरूलाई तल पानीमा लगे, र परमप्रभुले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “घुँडा टेकेर पानी पिउनेहरूबाट कुकुरले झैं चाटेर पानी पिउनेहरूलाई अलग गर् ।”
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
6 तिन सय जना मानिसहरूले चाटेर पिए । अरू बाँकी मानिसले घुँडा टेकेर पानी पिए ।
The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 परमप्रभुले गिदोनलाई भन्नुभयो, “यी चाटेर पानी पिएका तिन सय जना मानिसहरू लिएर तिमीहरूलाई म बचाउनेछु र मिद्दानीहरूमाथि विजय दिनेछु । अरू हरेक मानिसलाई आफ्नै ठाउँमा फर्केर जान दे ।”
The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
8 यसैले चुनिएकाहरूले आ-आफ्ना सर-समान र तुरहीहरू लिए । गिदोनले इस्राएलका सबै मानिस, हरेक मानिसलाई उसको आफ्नै पालमा फर्काइदिए, तर तिनले ती तिन सय जना मानिसलाई राखे । अब मिद्दानीका छाउनी तल बेसीमा थियो ।
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 त्यो रात परमप्रभुले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “उठ्! छाउनीलाई आक्रमण गर्, किनकि म तँलाई त्यसमाथि विजय दिन जाँदैछु ।
That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 तर तँलाई तल जान डर लागेको छ भने, तेरो सेवक पूराहसँग तल छाउनीमा जा,
But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
11 र तिनीहरूले के भन्दैछन्, त्यो सुन्, र छाउनीमा आक्रमण गर्न तेरो साहस बढ्नेछ ।” यसैले गिदोन आफ्ना सेवक पूराहसँग तल छाउनीको सुरक्षाबल भएको ठाउँमा गए ।
You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 मिद्दानीहरू, अमालेकीहरू, र पूर्वका सबै मानिसहरू बेसीमा, सलहका हुलझैं भेला भएर बसेका थिए । तिनीहरूका ऊँटहरू अनगिन्ती थिए, र तिनीहरूको सङ्ख्या समुद्र किनारका बालुवाका कणहरूभन्दा पनि धेरै थिए ।
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
13 जब गिदोन त्यहाँ पुगे, एक जना मानिसले आफ्नो साथीलाई सपनाको बारेमा भन्दै थियो । त्यस मानिसले भन्यो, “हेर, मैले एउटा सपना देखें, र जौको एउटा रोटी मिद्दानीको छाउनीभित्र गुड्दै आयो । त्यो पालमा आयो, र त्यसलाई जोडले हिर्कायो र त्यसलाई उल्टो गरी पल्टाइदियो, यसैले त्यो ढल्यो ।”
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamt a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
14 अर्को मानिसले भन्यो, “यो त इस्राएली गिदोनको (योआशका छोराको) तरवारबाहेक अरू केही होइन । परमेश्वरले तिनलाई मिद्दानी र तिनीहरूका सबै सेनामाथि विजय दिनुभएको छ ।”
His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
15 जब गिदोनले त्यस सपना भनेको र त्यसको अर्थ लगाइएको सुने, तब तिनले घोप्टो परेर दण्डवत् गरे । तिनी इस्राएलको छाउनीमा फर्केर गए र भने, “उठ! परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूलाई मिद्दानी सेनामाथि विजय दिनुभएको छ ।”
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshipped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16 ति तिन सय जना मानिसलाई तिनले तिनवटा समुहमा विभाजन गरे, र तिनले उनीहरूलाई सबै तुरहीहरू र हरेक गाग्रोभित्र राँको हालेर खाली गाग्रोहरू दिए ।
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17 तिनले उनीहरूलाई भने, “मलाई हेर, र म जे गर्छु त्यही गर । हेर! जब म छाउनीको छेऊमा पुग्छु, तब म जे गर्छु तिमीहरूले त्यही गर्नू ।
He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
18 जब म तुरही फुक्छु, मसँग भएका सबै जनाले, तब छाउनीको हरेक कुनाबाट तिमीहरूका तुरहीहरू पनि फुक्नू र यसो भनेर कराउनू ‘परमप्रभुको निम्ति र गिदोनको निम्ति!’”
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
19 यसैले गिदोन र तिनीसँग भएका एक सय जना मानिस राती दश बजेतिर छाउनीको छेऊमा गए । मिद्दानीहरूले रक्षकको हेरफेर गर्दै थिए, तिनीहरूले तुरहीहरू फुके र आफ्ना हातहरूमा भएका गाग्रोहरू फुटाए ।
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 तिनै दलले तुरहीहरू फुके र गाग्रोहरू फुटाए । तिनीहरूले राँकोलाई आ-आफ्ना देब्रे हातमा लिए र तुरही फुक्नलाई दाहिने हातमा बोके । तिनीहरू कराएर भने, “परमप्रभुको निम्ति र गिदोनको निम्ति तरवार ।”
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”
21 हरेक मानिस आफ्नो ठाउँमा छाउनीको वरिपरि खडा भए र सबै मिद्दानी सेना भागे । तिनीहरू ठुलो सोरमा कराए र भागे ।
They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22 जब तिनीहरूले तिन सय तुरही फुके, तब परमप्रभुले हरेक मिद्दानीको तरवारलाई आ-आफ्ना साथी-लडाकु र तिनीहरूका सबै सेनाको विरुद्धमा उठाउनुभयो । सबै सेनाहरू सरेरातर्फ बेथ-शित्तामसम्म, र तब्बातको नजिक हाबिल-महोलाको सिमानासम्म भागे ।
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah towards Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 नप्ताली, आशेर, र सबै मनश्शेबाट इस्राएलका मानिसहरू बोलाइए, र तिनीहरू मिद्दानीहरूका पछि लागे ।
The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
24 गिदोनले यसो भन्दै एफ्राइमको सबै पहाडी देशमा दूतहरू पठाए, “मिद्दानीहरूको विरुद्ध तल जाओ र तिनीहरूलाई रोक्नको निम्ति बेथ-बरासम्म यार्दन नदीमाथि नियन्त्रण गर ।” यसैले एफ्राइमका सबै मानिसहरू एकसाथ भेला भए र बेथ-बरासम्म यर्दन नदीमाथि नियन्त्रण गरे ।
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
25 तिनीहरूले दुई मिद्दानी राजकुमार, ओरेब र जएबलाई कब्जा गरे । तिनीहरूले ओरेबलाई ओरेबको चट्टानमा, र जएबलाई जएबको दाखको कोलमा मारे । तिनीहरूले मिद्दानीहरूका पछि केद्दै गए र तिनीहरूले यर्दनको वारि भएका गिदोनकहाँ ओरेब र जएबका टाउकाहरू लिएर आए ।
They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
