Juízes 8
1 E os de Efraim lhe disseram: Que é isto que fizeste conosco, não chamando-nos quando ias à guerra contra Midiã? E reclamaram dele fortemente.
Then the descendants of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you acted toward us like this? When you went out to fight against the people of Midian, why did you not summon us [to help you]?” They rebuked Gideon severely.
2 Aos quais ele respondeu: Que fiz eu agora como vós? Não são as sobras das uvas de Efraim melhor que a vindima de Abiezer?
But Gideon replied, “I have done [RHQ] very little compared with what you have done! My small clan of descendants of Abiezer only started the battle, but [your very large group of] descendants of Ephraim [helped me to finish the task very well. It is like] the final grapes of the harvest being much better than the first grapes that are picked.
3 Deus entregou em vossas mãos a Orebe e a Zeebe, príncipes de Midiã: e que pude eu fazer como vós? Então a ira deles contra ele se aplacou, logo que ele falou esta palavra.
God enabled you to defeat Oreb and Zeeb, the generals of the army from Midian. That is [RHQ] much more important than what I did!” After Gideon told them that, they no longer resented what he had done.
4 E veio Gideão ao Jordão para passar, ele e os trezentos homens que trazia consigo, cansados, mas ainda perseguindo.
Then Gideon and his 300 men [went east and] crossed the Jordan [River]. Although they were very tired, they continued to pursue their enemies.
5 E disse aos de Sucote: Eu vos rogo que deis à gente que me segue alguns bocados de pão; porque estão cansados, e eu persigo a Zeba e a Zalmuna, reis de Midiã.
When they arrived at Succoth [town], Gideon said to the town leaders, “Please give my men some food! They are very tired. We are pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
6 E os principais de Sucote responderam: Está já a mão de Zeba e Zalmuna em tua mão, para que havemos nós de dar pão a teu exército?
But the leaders of Succoth replied, “You have not caught [RHQ] Zebah and Zalmunna yet. So why should we give food to your troops [now? Catch them first, and then we will give you food].”
7 E Gideão disse: Pois quando o SENHOR entregar em minha mão a Zeba e a Zalmuna, eu trilharei vossa carne com espinhos e cardos do deserto.
Gideon replied, “[Because you said that], after Yahweh enables us to defeat Zebah and Zalmunna, we will return. And then we will make whips from thorns from the desert, and with them we will rip the flesh off your bones!”
8 E dali subiu a Peniel, e falou-lhes as mesmas palavras. E os de Peniel lhe responderam como haviam respondido os de Sucote.
From there, Gideon [and his 300 men] went to Peniel and asked for food there, but the people gave him the same answer.
9 E ele falou também aos de Peniel, dizendo: Quando eu voltar em paz, derrubarei esta torre.
So he said to the men of Peniel, “After I defeat those kings, I will return and tear down this tower!”
10 E Zeba e Zalmuna estavam em Carcor, e com eles seu exército de como quinze mil homens, todos os que haviam restado de todo aquele acampamento dos orientais: e os mortos haviam sido cento vinte mil homens que tiravam espada.
By that time, Zebah and Zalmunna had gone to Karkor [town] with 15,000 troops. They were all that were left of the armies that had come from the east. 120,000 of their men had already been killed.
11 E subindo Gideão até os que habitavam em tendas, à parte oriental de Noba e de Jogbeá, feriu o acampamento, porque estava o exército desprevenido.
Gideon [and his men] went east along the road on which caravans travel. They went past Nobah and Jogbehah [villages] and arrived at the enemy camp by surprise.
12 E fugindo Zeba e Zalmuna, ele os seguiu; e tomados os dois reis de Midiã, Zeba e Zalmuna, espantou a todo aquele exército.
Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but Gideon’s men pursued them and captured them and all their warriors.
13 E Gideão filho de Joás voltou da batalha antes que o sol subisse;
After that, Gideon and his men [took Zebah and Zalmunna with them and] started to return, going through Heres Pass.
14 E tomou um jovem dos de Sucote, e perguntando-lhe, ele lhe deu por escrito os principais de Sucote e seus anciãos, setenta e sete homens.
There he captured a young man from Succoth, and demanded that he write down the names of all of the leaders in the town. The young man wrote down seventy-seven names.
15 E entrando aos de Sucote, disse: Eis aqui a Zeba e a Zalmuna, sobre os quais me escarnecestes, dizendo: Está já a mão de Zeba e de Zalmuna em tua mão, para que demos nós pão a teus homens cansados?
Then Gideon and his men returned to Succoth and said to those leaders, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna. When we were here before, you made fun of me and said ‘You have not [RHQ] caught Zebah and Zalmunna yet! After you catch them, we will give your exhausted men some food.’”
16 E tomou aos anciãos da cidade, e espinhos e cardos do deserto, e castigou com eles aos de Sucote.
Then Gideon’s men took the town leaders and whipped them with whips made from briers from the desert, to teach them [that they deserved to be punished for not giving them any food].
17 Também derrubou a torre de Peniel, e matou aos da cidade.
Then [they went to] Peniel and tore down the tower, and killed all the men in the town.
18 Logo disse a Zeba e a Zalmuna: Que maneira de homens tinham aqueles que matastes em Tabor? E eles responderam: Como tu, tais eram aqueles nem mais nem menos, que apareciam filhos de rei.
Then Gideon said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “The men you killed near Tabor [Mountain], what did they look like?” They replied, “They were like you; they all looked like they were sons of a king.”
19 E ele disse: Meus irmãos eram, filhos de minha mãe: Vive o SENHOR, que se os tivésseis guardado em vida, eu não vos mataria!
Gideon replied, “They were my brothers! Just as surely as Yahweh lives, I would not kill you if you had not killed them.”
20 E disse a Jéter seu primogênito: Levanta-te, e mata-os. Mas o jovem não desembainhou sua espada, porque tinha medo; que ainda era jovem.
Then he turned to his oldest son, Jether. He said to him, “Kill them!” But Jether was only a boy, and he was afraid, so he did not pull out his dagger [to kill them].
21 Então disse Zeba e Zalmuna: Levanta-te tu, e mata-nos; porque como é o homem, tal é sua valentia. E Gideão se levantou, e matou a Zeba e a Zalmuna; e tomou os adornos de crescentes que seus camelos traziam ao pescoço.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “Do not ask a young boy to do the work that a man should do!” So Gideon killed both of them. Then he took the gold ornaments from the necks of their camels.
22 E os israelitas disseram a Gideão: Sê nosso senhor, tu, e teu filho, e teu neto; pois que nos livraste da mão de Midiã.
Then a group of Israeli men [came to] Gideon and said to him, “You be our ruler! [We want] you and your son and your grandsons [to] be our rulers, because you rescued us from the Midian army.”
23 Mas Gideão respondeu: Não serei senhor sobre vós, nem meu filho vos dominará: o SENHOR será vosso Senhor.
But Gideon replied, “No, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you. Yahweh will rule over you.”
24 E disse-lhes Gideão: Desejo fazer-vos uma petição, que cada um me dê os pendentes de seu despojo. (Porque traziam pendentes de ouro, que eram ismaelitas.)
Then he said, “I request only one thing. I request that each of you give me one earring from the things you captured after the battle.” [All the men descended from Ishmael wore gold earrings.]
25 E eles responderam: De boa vontade os daremos. E segurando uma roupa de vestir, lançou ali cada um os pendentes de seu despojo.
They replied, “We will be glad to give earrings to you!” So they spread a cloth [on the ground], and each man threw on it one gold earring that he had taken [from a man he had killed in the battle].
26 E foi o peso dos pendentes de ouro que ele pediu mil e setecentos siclos de ouro; sem contar os ornamentos, e as joias, e vestidos de púrpura, que traziam os reis de Midiã, e sem os colares que traziam seus camelos ao pescoço.
The weight of all the earrings was (43 pounds/19.4 kg.). That did not include other things [that they gave to Gideon]—the other ornaments or the pendants or the clothes that the kings of Midian wore or the gold chains that were on the necks of their camels.
27 E Gideão fez deles um éfode, o qual fez guardar em sua cidade de Ofra: e todo Israel prostituiu-se atrás desse éfode naquele lugar; e foi por tropeço a Gideão e a sua casa.
Gideon made/decorated a sacred vest from the gold, and later he put it in his hometown, Ophrah. But soon the Israeli people started to worship the vest. So it became like a trap [MET] for the people, [causing them to worship it instead of worshiping only God].
28 Assim foi humilhado Midiã diante dos filhos de Israel, e nunca mais levantaram sua cabeça. E repousou a terra quarenta anos nos dias de Gideão.
That is how the Israelis defeated the people from Midian. The people of Midian did not become strong enough to attack Israel again. So while Gideon was alive, there was peace in the land for 40 years.
29 E Jerubaal filho de Joás foi, e habitou em sua casa.
Gideon went back home to live there.
30 E teve Gideão setenta filhos que saíram de sua coxa, porque teve muitas mulheres.
He had many wives, and they bore him seventy sons.
31 E sua concubina que estava em Siquém, também lhe deu um filho; e pôs-lhe por nome Abimeleque.
He also had a slave wife in Shechem [town], who bore him a son whom he named Abimelech.
32 E morreu Gideão filho de Joás em boa velhice, e foi sepultado no sepulcro de seu pai Joás, em Ofra dos abiezritas.
Gideon died when he was very old. They buried his body in the grave where his father Joash was buried, at Ophrah, in the land belonging to the descendants of Abiether.
33 E aconteceu que quando morreu Gideão, os filhos de Israel voltaram, e se prostituíram atrás dos baalins, e se puseram por Deus a Baal-Berite.
But as soon as Gideon died, the Israelis [stopped worshiping God and started worshiping the images of the god Baal, like] [MET] adultresses [leave their husbands and go to sleep with other men]. They made a [statue of a] new god called Baal-Berith.
34 E os filhos de Israel não se lembraram do SENHOR seu Deus, que os havia livrado de todos os seus inimigos ao redor;
They forgot about Yahweh, the one who had rescued them from all their enemies that surrounded them.
35 Nem fizeram misericórdia com a casa de Jerubaal Gideão conforme todo aquele bem que ele havia feito a Israel.
And even though Gideon had done many good things for the Israelis, they were not kind to Gideon’s family.
