Hakimler 10

¹Avimelek'ten sonra, İsrail'i kurtarmak üzere İssakar kabilesinden, amcasının oğlu Pua oğlu Tola ayağa kalktı; kendisi Efrayim'in dağlık bölgesindeki Şamir'de yaşıyordu.

²İsrail'de yirmi üç yıl boyunca hakimlik yaptı; sonra öldü ve Şamir'de defnedildi.

³Ondan sonra Gilatlı Yair ayağa kalktı ve İsrail'de yirmi iki yıl boyunca hakimlik yaptı.

⁴Otuz iki tayın üzerine binen otuz iki oğlu vardı ve otuz iki şehre sahiptiler; Gilat diyarındaki bu yerleşimlere bugün de Yair'in köyleri denir.

⁵Yair öldü ve Ramnon'da defnedildi.

⁶İsrail oğulları Rab'bin huzurunda kötü olanı yapmayı yinelediler; Baallere, Aşterotlara, Arad ilahlarına, Sayda ilahlarına, Moav ilahlarına, Ammon oğullarının ilahlarına ve Filistlilerin ilahlarına kulluk ettiler; Rab'bi terk ettiler ve O'na kulluk etmediler.

⁷Rab'bin öfkesi İsrail'e karşı şiddetle alevlendi ve onları Filistlilerin eline ve Ammon oğullarının eline teslim etti.

⁸O dönemde İsrail oğullarını on sekiz yıl boyunca ezdiler ve hırpaladılar; Şeria Irmağı'nın ötesinde, Gilat'taki Amori topraklarında yaşayan bütün İsrail oğullarına baskı uyguladılar.

⁹Ammon oğulları Yahuda, Benyamin ve Efrayim'e karşı savaş düzeni almak üzere Şeria Irmağı'nı geçtiler; böylece İsrail çok büyük bir sıkıntıya düştü.

¹⁰O zaman İsrail oğulları Rab'be feryat ederek, "Sana karşı günah işledik, çünkü Tanrı'yı terk edip Baallere kulluk ettik" dediler.

¹¹Rab, İsrail oğullarına şöyle dedi: "Sizi Mısırlılardan, Amorilerden, Ammon oğullarından, Filistlilerden,

¹²Saydalılardan, Amaleklilerden ve Midyanlılardan kurtarmadım mı? Onlar sizi sıkıştırdığında bana feryat ettiniz ve ben de sizi onların elinden kurtardım.

¹³Ama siz beni terk ettiniz ve başka ilahlara kulluk ettiniz; bu yüzden sizi bir daha asla kurtarmayacağım.

¹⁴Gidin, kendiniz için seçtiğiniz ilahlara feryat edin; sıkıntıya düştüğünüz dönemde sizi onlar kurtarsın!"

¹⁵İsrail oğulları Rab'be, "Günah işledik" dediler, "Gözünde iyi olan neyse bize onu yap; yeter ki bugün bizi söküp kurtar."

¹⁶Aralarındaki yabancı ilahları uzaklaştırıp yalnızca Rab'be kulluk ettiler; Rab'bin canı da İsrail'in çektiği sıkıntılar karşısında daha fazla dayanamadı.

¹⁷Ammon oğulları toplanıp Gilat'ta ordugah kurdular; İsrail oğulları da bir araya gelip gözetleme yerinde ordugah kurdular.

¹⁸Gilat halkı ve önderleri birbirlerine, "Ammon oğullarına karşı savaşı başlatacak olan adam kimdir? İşte o, Gilat'ın bütün sakinlerinin önderi olacaktır" dediler.

¹ΚΑΙ ἀνέστη μετὰ ᾿Αβιμέλεχ τοῦ σῶσαι τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ Θωλὰ υἱὸς Φουά, υἱὸς πατραδέλφου αὐτοῦ, ἀνὴρ ᾿Ισσάχαρ, καὶ αὐτὸς ᾤκει ἐν Σαμὶρ ἐν ὄρει ᾿Εφραίμ.

²καὶ ἔκρινε τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ εἴκοσι τρία ἔτη καὶ ἀπέθανε καὶ ἐτάθη ἐν Σαμίρ.

³Καὶ ἀνέστη μετ᾿ αὐτὸν ᾿Ιαΐρ ὁ Γαλαάδ, καὶ ἔκρινε τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ εἴκοσι δύο ἔτη.

⁴καὶ ἦσαν αὐτῷ τριάκοντα καὶ δύο υἱοὶ ἐπιβαίνοντες ἐπὶ τριάκοντα δύο πώλους· καὶ τριάκοντα δύο πόλεις αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐκάλουν αὐτὰς ἐπαύλεις ᾿Ιαΐρ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης ἐν γῇ Γαλαάδ.

⁵καὶ ἀπέθανεν ᾿Ιαΐρ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν Ῥαμνών.

⁶Καὶ προσέθεντο οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου καὶ ἐδούλευσαν τοῖς Βααλὶμ καὶ τοῖς ᾿Ασταρὼθ καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς ᾿Αρὰδ καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς Σιδῶνος καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς Μωὰβ καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς υἱῶν ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς Φυλιστιΐμ καὶ ἐγκατέλιπον τὸν Κύριον καὶ οὐκ ἐδούλευσαν αὐτῷ.

⁷καὶ ὠργίσθη θυμῷ Κύριος ἐν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἐπέδοτο αὐτοὺς ἐν χειρὶ Φυλιστιΐμ καὶ ἐν χειρὶ υἱῶν ᾿Αμμών.

⁸καὶ ἔθλιψαν καὶ ἔθλασαν τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἔτη, τοὺς πάντας υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ τοὺς ἐν τῷ πέραν τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου ἐν γῇ τοῦ ᾿Αμορρὶ τοῦ ἐν Γαλαάδ.

⁹καὶ διέβησαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Αμμὼν τὸν ᾿Ιορδάνην παρατάξασθαι πρὸς ᾿Ιούδαν καὶ Βενιαμὶν καὶ πρὸς ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ ἐθλίβη ᾿Ισραὴλ σφόδρα.

¹⁰καὶ ἐβόησαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ πρὸς Κύριον λέγοντες· ἡμάρτομέν σοι, ὅτι ἐγκατελίπομεν τὸν Θεὸν καὶ ἐδουλεύσαμεν τῷ Βααλίμ.

¹¹καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραήλ· μὴ οὐχὶ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ᾿Αμορραίου καὶ ἀπὸ υἱῶν ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ ἀπὸ Φυλιστιΐμ

¹²καὶ Σιδωνίων καὶ ᾿Αμαλὴκ καὶ Μαδιάμ, οἳ ἔθλιψαν ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἐβοήσατε πρός με, καὶ ἔσωσα ὑμᾶς ἐκ χειρὸς αὐτῶν;

¹³καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐγκατελίπετέ με καὶ ἐδουλεύσατε θεοῖς ἑτέροις· διὰ τοῦτο οὐ προσθήσω τοῦ σῶσαι ὑμᾶς.

¹⁴πορεύεσθε καὶ βοήσατε πρὸς τοὺς θεούς, οὓς ἐξελέξασθε ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ αὐτοὶ σωσάτωσαν ὑμᾶς ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως ὑμῶν.

¹⁵καὶ εἶπαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ πρὸς Κύριον· ἡμάρτομεν, ποίησον σὺ ἡμῖν κατὰ πᾶν τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς σου, πλὴν ἐξελοῦ ἡμᾶς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ.

¹⁶καὶ ἐξέκλιναν τοὺς θεοὺς τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν καὶ ἐδούλευσαν τῷ Κυρίῳ μόνῳ, καὶ ὠλιγώθη ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν κόπῳ ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁷Καὶ ἀνέβησαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Αμμών, καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν Γαλαάδ. καὶ συνήχθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν τῇ σκοπιᾷ.

¹⁸καὶ εἶπον ὁ λαὸς οἱ ἄρχοντες Γαλαάδ, ἀνὴρ πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ· τίς ὁ ἀνήρ, ὅστις ἂν ἄρξεται παρατάξασθαι πρὸς υἱοὺς ᾿Αμμών; καὶ ἔσται εἰς ἄρχοντα πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσι Γαλαάδ.

¹And after Abimelech Thola the son of Phua rose up to save Israel, [being] the son of his father’s brother, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Samir in mount Ephraim.

²And he judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Samir.

³And after him arose Jair of Galaad, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

⁴And he had thirty-two sons riding on thirty-two colts, and they had thirty-two cities; and they called them Jair’s towns until this day in the land of Galaad.

⁵And Jair died, and was buried in Rhamnon.

⁶And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Astaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Phylistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve him.

⁷And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Phylistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

⁸And they afflicted and bruised the children of Israel at that time eighteen years, all the children of Israel beyond Jordan in the land of the Amorite in Galaad.

⁹And the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight with Juda, and Benjamin, and with Ephraim; and the children of Israel were greatly afflicted.

¹⁰And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken God, and served Baalim.

¹¹And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Did I not [save you] from Egypt and from the Amorite, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Phylistines,

¹²and from the Sidonians, and Amalec, and Madiam, who afflicted you? and ye cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand?

¹³Yet ye forsook me and served other gods; therefore I will not save you any more.

¹⁴Go, and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.

¹⁵And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned: do thou to us according to all [that is] good in thine eyes; only deliver us this day.

¹⁶And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

¹⁷And the children of Ammon went up, and encamped in Galaad; and the children of Israel were gathered together and encamped on the hill.

¹⁸And the people the princes of Galaad said every man to his neighbour, Who [is] he that shall begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall even be head over all that dwell in Galaad.