Hakimler 3

¹Rab'bin, Kenan'daki savaşların hiçbirini deneyimlememiş olan tüm İsraillileri kendileri aracılığıyla sınamak amacıyla ülkede bıraktığı uluslar şunlardır:

²Bu durum sadece, daha önce savaşı hiç bilmemiş olan sonraki İsrailoğulları kuşaklarına savaşı öğretmek içindi; ancak onlardan önceki kuşaklar bu savaşları hiç görmemişlerdi.

³Bu uluslar şunlardı: Filistlilerin beş satraplığı, tüm Kenanlılar, Saydalılar ve Hermon Dağı'ndan Labo-Hamat'a kadar Lübnan Dağları'nda yaşayan Hivliler.

⁴Bunlar, Rab'bin Musa aracılığıyla atalarına emretmiş olduğu buyrukları dinleyip dinlemeyeceklerini anlamak ve İsraillileri onlar aracılığıyla sınamak için gerçekleşti.

⁵Böylece İsrailoğulları Kenanlıların, Hititlerin, Amorluların, Perizlilerin, Hivlilerin ve Yevusluların arasında yerleşip yaşadılar.

⁶Onların kızlarını kendilerine eş olarak aldılar, kendi kızlarını onların oğullarına verdiler ve onların ilahlarına tapınarak dinsel hizmet sundular.

⁷İsrailoğulları Rab'bin gözünde kötü olanı yaptılar; Tanrıları Rab'bi unutup Baallere ve kutsal koruluklara kulluk ettiler.

⁸Rab İsrail'e karşı çok öfkelendi ve onları Mezopotamya Kralı Kuşan-Rişatayim'in eline teslim etti; böylece İsrailoğulları sekiz yıl boyunca Kuşan-Rişatayim'e boyun eğip kulluk ettiler.

⁹İsrailoğulları Rab'be feryat edince, Rab İsrail için bir kurtarıcı çıkardı ve onları kurtardı; bu kişi, Kaleb'in kendisinden daha genç olan kardeşi Kenaz'ın oğlu Otniel'di.

¹⁰Rab'bin Ruhu onun üzerine indi ve o, İsrail'i yönetip yargıladı. Savaşa çıktı ve Rab, Mezopotamya Kralı Kuşan-Rişatayim'i onun eline teslim etti; böylece onun eli Kuşan-Rişatayim'e karşı üstün geldi.

¹¹Ülke kırk yıl boyunca barış ve sessizlik içinde yaşadı. Sonra Kenaz oğlu Otniel öldü.

¹²İsrailoğulları Rab'bin gözünde yine kötü olanı yapmaya devam ettiler. Rab'bin gözünde kötü olanı yaptıkları için, Rab Moab Kralı Eglon'u İsrail'e karşı güçlendirip üstün kıldı.

¹³Eglon, Ammonlularla Amaleklileri yanına toplayarak sefere çıktı, İsrail'i bozguna uğrattı ve Palmiyeler Kenti'ni mülk edindi.

¹⁴İsrailoğulları on sekiz yıl boyunca Moab Kralı Eglon'a kulluk ettiler.

¹⁵İsrailoğulları Rab'be feryat edince, Rab onlar için bir kurtarıcı çıkardı; bu kişi, Benyaminli Gera oğlu, her iki elini de sağ eli gibi kullanabilen Ehut'tu. İsrailoğulları onun aracılığıyla Moab Kralı Eglon'a haraç gönderdiler.

¹⁶Ehut kendine bir karış uzunluğunda, iki ağızlı bir kama yaptı ve onu pelerininin altına, sağ uyluğunun üzerine kuşandı.

¹⁷Haracı Moab Kralı Eglon'a sundu; Eglon son derece kibar ve yakışıklı bir adamdı.

¹⁸Ehut haracı sunmayı bitirince, haracı taşımış olan adamları geri gönderdi.

¹⁹Kendisi ise Gilgal yakınlarındaki oyma putların yanından geri dönerek, "Ey kral, sana gizli bir mesajım var" dedi. Kral Eglon, "Sessiz olun!" dedi ve yanındaki tüm hizmetkarları dışarı çıkardı.

²⁰Ehut kralın yanına girdi; kral, kendisi için ayrılmış olan yazlık çatı katı odasında tamamen tek başına oturuyordu. Ehut, "Sana Tanrı'dan bir mesajım var, ey kral" deyince, Eglon tahtından kalkıp ona doğru yaklaştı.

²¹O ayağa kalkar kalkmaz, Ehut sol elini uzatıp sağ uyluğundaki kamayı çekti ve kralın karnına sapladı.

²²Kabza da namlunun ardından içeri girdi; Ehut kamayı karnından çekip çıkarmadığı için vücut yağı namlunun üzerine kapandı.

²³Ehut revaka çıktı, kapıları kralın üzerine kapattı ve sürgüleyip kilitledi.

²⁴Ehut çıktıktan sonra kralın hizmetkarları geldiler ve çatı katı odasının kapılarının kilitli olduğunu gördüler. "Herhalde yazlık odasında ayak yolundadır" dediler.

²⁵Utanacak kadar uzun süre beklediler, fakat çatı katı odasının kapılarını açan olmadı. Bunun üzerine anahtarı alıp kapıyı açtılar; bir de ne görsünler, efendileri yerde ölü yatıyordu!

²⁶Onlar şaşkınlık ve telaş içindeyken Ehut kaçtı, kimse onunla ilgilenmedi; oyma putların yanından geçip Seteirotha'ya kaçarak kurtuldu.

²⁷İsrail topraklarına varınca, Efrayim dağlık bölgesinde boynuz boru çaldı. İsrailoğulları onunla birlikte dağdan indiler; o da onların önündeydi.

²⁸Onlara, "Ardımdan gelin" dedi, "Çünkü Tanrımız Rab, düşmanlarımız olan Moablıları elimize teslim etti." Onun ardı sıra indiler, Şeria Irmağı'nın Moab'a giden geçitlerini tuttular ve kimsenin karşıya geçmesine izin vermediler.

²⁹O gün Moablılardan, hepsi güçlü, besili ve yiğit olan yaklaşık on bin kişiyi öldürdüler; tek bir kişi bile kaçıp kurtulamadı.

³⁰O gün Moab, İsrail'in egemenliği altına girerek boyun eğdi, ülke seksen yıl barış içinde yaşadı ve Ehut ölene dek onları yönetti.

³¹Ehut'tan sonra Dinah oğlu Şamgar ortaya çıktı. Filistlilerden altı yüz kişiyi bir öküz saban demiriyle öldürdü. Böylece o da İsrail'i kurtardı.

¹ΚΑΙ ταῦτα τὰ ἔθνη, ἃ ἀφῆκε Κύριος αὐτὰ ὥστε πειράσαι ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ, πάντας τοὺς μή ἐγνωκότας τοὺς πολέμους Χαναάν.

²πλὴν διὰ τὰς γενεὰς υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ τοῦ διδάξαι αὐτοὺς πόλεμον, πλὴν οἱ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔγνωσαν αὐτά·

³τὰς πέντε σατραπείας τῶν ἀλλοφύλων καὶ πάντα τὸν Χαναναῖον καὶ τὸν Σιδώνιον καὶ τὸν Εὐαῖον τὸν κατοικοῦντα τὸν Λίβανον ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ ᾿Αερμὼν ἕως Λαβωεμάθ.

⁴καὶ ἐγένετο ὥστε πειράσαι ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ, γνῶναι εἰ ἀκούσονται τὰς ἐντολὰς Κυρίου, ἃς ἐνετείλατο τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν ἐν χειρὶ Μωυσῆ.

⁵καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ κατῴκησαν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ Χαναναίου καὶ τοῦ Χετταίου καὶ τοῦ ᾿Αμορραίου καὶ τοῦ Φερεζαίου καὶ τοῦ Εὐαίου καὶ τοῦ ᾿Ιεβουσαίου

⁶καὶ ἔλαβον τὰς θυγατέρας αὐτῶν ἑαυτοῖς εἰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας αὐτῶν ἔδωκαν τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτῶν καὶ ἐλάτρευσαν τοῖς θεοῖς αὐτῶν.

⁷Καὶ ἐποίησαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐναντίον Κυρίου καὶ ἐπελάθοντο Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐλάτρευσαν τοῖς Βααλὶμ καὶ τοῖς ἄλσεσι.

⁸καὶ ὠργίσθη θυμῷ Κύριος ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἀπέδοτο αὐτοὺς ἐν χειρὶ Χουσαρσαθαὶμ βασιλέως Συρίας ποταμῶν. καὶ ἐδούλευσαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ τῷ Χουσαρσαθαὶμ ἔτη ὀκτώ.

⁹καὶ ἐκέκραξαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ πρὸς Κύριον· καί ἤγειρε Κύριος σωτῆρα τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἔσωσεν αὐτούς, τὸν Γοθονιὴλ υἱὸν Κενέζ ἀδελφοῦ Χάλεβ τὸν νεώτερον ὑπὲρ αὐτόν,

¹⁰καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν πνεῦμα Κυρίου, καὶ ἔκρινε τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ. καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς πόλεμον πρὸς Χουσαρσαθαίμ· καὶ παρέδωκε Κύριος ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ τὸν Χουσαρσαθαὶμ βασιλέα Συρίας ποταμῶν, καὶ ἐκραταιώθη χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Χουσαρσαθαίμ.

¹¹καὶ ἡσύχασεν ἡ γῆ ἔτη τεσσαράκοντα· καὶ ἀπέθανε Γοθονιὴλ υἱὸς Κενέζ.

¹²Καὶ προσέθεντο οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου. καὶ ἐνίσχυσε Κύριος τὸν ᾿Εγλὼμ βασιλέα Μωὰβ ἐπὶ τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ διὰ τὸ πεποιηκέναι αὐτούς τὸ πονηρὸν ἔναντι Κυρίου.

¹³καὶ συνήγαγε πρὸς ἑαυτὸν πάντας τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ ᾿Αμαλὴκ καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἐκληρονόμησε τὴν πόλιν τῶν φοινίκων.

¹⁴καὶ ἐδούλευσαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ τῷ ᾿Εγλὼμ βασιλεῖ Μωὰβ ἔτη δεκαοκτώ.

¹⁵καὶ ἐκέκραξαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ πρὸς Κύριον· καὶ ἤγειρεν αὐτοῖς σωτῆρα τὸν ᾿Αὼδ υἱὸν Γηρὰ υἱὸν τοῦ ᾿Ιεμενί, ἄνδρα ἀμφοτεροδέξιον. καὶ ἐξαπέστειλαν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ δῶρα ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ τῷ ᾿Εγλὼμ βασιλεῖ Μωάβ.

¹⁶καὶ ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ ᾿Αὼδ μάχαιραν δίστομον, σπιθαμῆς τὸ μῆκος αὐτῆς, καὶ περιεζώσατο αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τὸν μανδύαν ἐπὶ τὸν μηρὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν δεξιόν.

¹⁷καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ προσήνεγκε τὰ δῶρα τῷ ᾿Εγλὼμ βασιλεῖ Μωάβ· καὶ ᾿Εγλὼμ ἀνὴρ ἀστεῖος σφόδρα.

¹⁸καὶ ἐγένετο ἡνίκα συνετέλεσεν ᾿Αὼδ προσφέρων τὰ δῶρα, καὶ ἐξαπέστειλε τοὺς φέροντας τὰ δῶρα·

¹⁹καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπέστρεψεν ἀπὸ τῶν γλυπτῶν τῶν μετὰ τῆς Γαλγάλ. καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Αώδ· λόγος μοι κρύφιος πρός σε, βασιλεῦ. καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Εγλὼμ πρὸς αὐτόν· σιώπα· καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ πάντας τοὺς ἐφεστῶτας ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν.

²⁰καὶ ᾿Αὼδ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐκάθητο ἐν τῷ ὑπερῴῳ τῷ θερινῷ τῷ ἑαυτοῦ μονώτατος. καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Αώδ· λόγος Θεοῦ μοι πρός σε, βασιλεῦ· καὶ ἐξανέστη ἀπὸ τοῦ θρόνου ᾿Εγλὼμ ἐγγὺς αὐτοῦ.

²¹καὶ ἐγένετο ἅμα τῷ ἀναστῆναι αὐτὸν καὶ ἐξέτεινεν ᾿Αὼδ τὴν χεῖρα τὴν ἀριστερὰν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔλαβε τὴν μάχαιραν ἐπάνωθεν τοῦ μηροῦ αὐτοῦ τοῦ δεξιοῦ καὶ ἐνέπηξεν αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ αὐτοῦ

²²καὶ ἐπεισήνεγκε καί γε τὴν λαβὴν ὀπίσω τῆς φλογός, καὶ ἐπέκλεισε τὸ στέαρ κατὰ τῆς φλογός, ὅτι οὐκ ἐξέσπασε τὴν μάχαιραν ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας αὐτοῦ.

²³καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ᾿Αὼδ τὴν προστάδα καὶ ἐξῆλθε τοὺς διατεταγμένους καὶ ἀπέκλεισε τὰς θύρας τοῦ ὑπερῴου κατ᾿ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐσφήνωσε·

²⁴καὶ αὐτὸς ἐξῆλθε. καὶ οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ εἰσῆλθον καὶ εἶδον καὶ ἰδοὺ αἱ θύραι τοῦ ὑπερῴου ἐσφηνωμέναι, καὶ εἶπαν· μή ποτε ἀποκενοῖ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ταμείῳ τῷ θερινῷ;

²⁵καὶ ὑπέμειναν ἕως ᾐσχύνοντο, καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἀνοίγων τὰς θύρας τοῦ ὑπερῴου· καὶ ἔλαβον τὴν κλεῖδα καὶ ἤνοιξαν, καὶ ἰδοὺ ὁ κύριος αὐτῶν πεπτωκὼς ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν τεθνηκώς.

²⁶καὶ ᾿Αὼδ διεσώθη ἕως ἐθορυβοῦντο, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ προσνοῶν αὐτῷ· καὶ αὐτὸς παρῆλθε τὰ γλυπτὰ καὶ διεσώθη εἰς Σετειρωθά.

²⁷καὶ ἐγένετο ἡνίκα ἦλθεν ᾿Αὼδ εἰς γῆν ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐσάλπισεν ἐν κερατίνῃ ἐν τῷ ὄρει ᾿Εφραίμ· καὶ κατέβησαν σὺν αὐτῷ οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους, καὶ αὐτὸς ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν.

²⁸καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς· κατάβητε ὀπίσω μου, ὅτι παρέδωκε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἡμῶν τὴν Μωὰβ ἐν χειρὶ ἡμῶν. καὶ κατέβησαν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ καὶ προκατελάβοντο τὰς διαβάσεις τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου τῆς Μωάβ, καὶ οὐκ ἀφῆκεν ἄνδρα διαβῆναι.

²⁹καὶ ἐπάταξαν τὴν Μωὰβ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ὡσεὶ δέκα χιλιάδας ἀνδρῶν, πᾶν λιπαρὸν καὶ πάντα ἄνδρα δυνάμεως, καὶ οὐ διεσώθη ὁ ἀνήρ.

³⁰καὶ ἐνετράπη Μωὰβ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ὑπὸ χεῖρα ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἡσύχασεν ἡ γῆ ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη, καὶ ἔκρινεν αὐτοὺς ᾿Αὼδ ἕως οὗ ἀπέθανε.

³¹Καὶ μετ᾿ αὐτὸν ἀνέστη Σαμεγὰρ υἱὸς Δινὰχ καὶ ἐπάταξε τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους εἰς ἑξακοσίους ἄνδρας ἐν τῷ ἀροτρόποδι τῶν βοῶν· καὶ ἔσωσε καί γε αὐτὸς τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹And these [are] the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel with them, all that had not known the wars of Chanaan.

²Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.

³The five lordships of the Phylistines, and every Chananite, and the Sidonian, and the Evite who dwelt in Libanus from the mount of Aermon to Laboemath.

⁴And [this] was done in order to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commands of the Lord, which he charged their fathers by the hand of Moses.

⁵And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chananite, and the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite.

⁶And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

⁷And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

⁸And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of Chusarsathaim king of Syria of the rivers: and the children of Israel served Chusarsathaim eight years.

⁹And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and the Lord raised up a saviour to Israel, and he saved them, Gothoniel the son of Kenez, the brother of Chaleb younger than himself.

¹⁰And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war against Chusarsathaim: and the Lord delivered into his hand Chusarsathaim king of Syria of the rivers, and his hand prevailed against Chusarsathaim.

¹¹And the land was quiet forty years; and Gothoniel the son of Kenez died.

¹²And the children of Israel continued to do evil before the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglom king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil before the Lord.

¹³And he gathered to himself all the children of Ammon and Amalec, and went and smote Israel, and took possession of the city of Palm-trees.

¹⁴And the children of Israel served Eglom the king of Moab eighteen years.

¹⁵And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and he raised up to them a saviour, Aod the son of Gera a son of Jemeni, a man who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab.

¹⁶And Aod made himself a dagger of two edges, of a span long, and he girded it under his cloak upon his right thigh.

¹⁷And he went, and brought the presents to Eglom king of Moab, and Eglom [was] a very handsome man.

¹⁸And it came to pass when [Aod] had made an end of offering his gifts, that he dismissed those that brought the gifts.

¹⁹And he himself returned from the quarries that are by Galgal; and Aod said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king! and Eglom said to him, Be silent: and he sent away from his presence all who waited upon him.

²⁰And Aod went in to him; and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone; and Aod said, I have a message from God to thee, O king: and Eglom rose up from his throne near him.

²¹And it came to pass as he arose, that Aod stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger off his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly;

²²and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.

²³And Aod went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed [guards], and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked [them].

²⁴And he went out: and Eglom’s servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber [were] locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?

²⁵And they waited till they were ashamed, and, behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.

²⁶And Aod escaped while they were in a tumult, and no one paid attention to him; and he passed the quarries, and escaped to Setirotha.

²⁷And it came to pass when Aod came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he [was] before them.

²⁸And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has delivered our enemies, even Moab, into our hand; and they went down after him, and seized on the fords of Jordan before Moab, and he did not suffer a man to pass over.

²⁹And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every [lusty] person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.

³⁰So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Aod judged them till he died.

³¹And after him rose up Samegar the son of Dinach, and smote the Philistines to the number of six hundred men with a ploughshare [such as is drawn by] oxen; and he too delivered Israel.