Hakimler 7

¹Yerubbaal (yani Gidyon) ve yanındaki bütün halk erkenden kalkıp Arad Pınarı'nın yanında ordugah kurdular; Midyan ordugahı ise onun kuzeyinde, vadideki Gabaat Amora'daydı.

²Ve RAB Gidyon'a şöyle dedi: "Yanındaki halk çok fazla; Midyan'ı onların eline teslim etmeyeceğim, yoksa İsrail bana karşı böbürlenip, 'Beni kendi elim kurtardı' diyebilir.

³Şimdi halkın kulaklarına duyur ve de ki: 'Kim korkuyor ve titriyorsa, geri dönsün ve Gilead Dağı'ndan ayrılsın.'" Böylece halktan yirmi iki bin kişi geri döndü, on bin kişi ise geride kaldı.

⁴Ve RAB Gidyon'a şöyle dedi: "Halk hâlâ çok fazla; onları suyun kenarına indir, orada onları senin için arındırayım. Sana, 'Bu seninle gidecek' dediğim kişi seninle gidecek, kendisi seninle gidecek; ve sana, 'Bu seninle gitmeyecek' dediğim her kim olursa, o seninle gitmeyecek, kendisi seninle gitmeyecek."

⁵Böylece halkı suyun kenarına indirdi. Ve RAB Gidyon'a şöyle dedi: "Köpeğin yaladığı gibi suyu diliyle yalayan herkesi tek başına bir tarafa yerleştir; içmek için diz çöken herkesi de diğer tarafa koy."

⁶Suyu elleriyle ağızlarına götürüp yalayanların sayısı üç yüz adamdı; halkın geri kalanı ise su içmek için dizleri üzerine çöktü.

⁷Ve RAB Gidyon'a şöyle dedi: "Suyu yalayan o üç yüz adamla sizi kurtaracağım ve Midyan'ı senin eline teslim edeceğim; halkın geri kalanı ise her biri kendi yerine gitsin."

⁸Üç yüz kişi halkın azığını ve borularını ellerine aldılar; Gidyon diğer bütün İsraillileri kendi çadırlarına gönderdi, ama o üç yüz kişiyi yanında güçlü kılıp tuttu. Midyan ordugahı ise vadide, onun aşağısındaydı.

⁹Ve o gece RAB ona şöyle dedi: "Kalk, ordugaha in; çünkü onu senin eline teslim ettim.

¹⁰Eğer inmekten korkuyorsan, uşağın Fara ile birlikte ordugaha in.

¹¹Ne konuştuklarını duyacaksın; ondan sonra ellerin güçlenecek ve ordugaha ineceksin." Böylece kendisi ve uşağı Fara, ordugahtaki ellilik birliklerin sınırına kadar indiler.

¹²Ve Midyanlılar, Amalekliler ve bütün doğulular, çekirge sürüsü gibi kalabalık bir halde vadiye yayılmışlardı; develerinin sayısı belirsizdi, deniz kıyısındaki kum taneleri kadar çoktular.

¹³Gidyon geldiğinde, bir adamın arkadaşına rüyasını anlattığını gördü; adam şöyle diyordu: "Bir rüya gördüm; Midyan ordugahına doğru yuvarlanan bir arpa ekmeği somunu vardı; çadıra kadar gelip ona çarptı, çadır yıkıldı, altüst oldu ve yerle bir oldu."

¹⁴Arkadaşı ona şöyle karşılık verdi: "Bu, İsrailli Yoaş oğlu Gidyon'un kılıcından başka bir şey değildir; Tanrı, Midyan'ı ve bütün ordugahı onun eline teslim etmiştir."

¹⁵Gidyon rüyanın anlatılmasını ve yorumunu işitince RAB'be tapındı; sonra İsrail ordugahına dönüp şöyle dedi: "Kalkın! Çünkü RAB, Midyan ordugahını elimize teslim etti."

¹⁶Ve üç yüz adamı üç bölüğe ayırdı; her birinin eline birer boru ve boş testiler verdi, testilerin içine de meşaleler koydu.

¹⁷Onlara şöyle dedi: "Bana bakın ve benim yaptığımı yapın; işte, ben ordugahın sınırına varacağım, ben ne yaparsam siz de aynısını yapın.

¹⁸Ben borumu çaldığımda, benimle birlikte olan hepiniz de bütün ordugahın çevresinde borularınızı çalın ve şöyle bağırın: 'RAB için ve Gidyon için!'"

¹⁹Gidyon ve yanındaki yüz kişi, orta nöbetin başlangıcında, nöbetçiler yeni uyandırılmışken ordugahın sınırına geldiler; borularını çalıp ellerindeki testileri parçaladılar.

²⁰Üç bölük de borularını çaldı ve testileri parçaladı; sol ellerinde meşaleleri, sağ ellerinde ise çalmakta oldukları boruları tutarak şöyle bağırdılar: "RAB'bin ve Gidyon'un kılıcı!"

²¹Ve ordugahın çevresinde herkes kendi yerinde durdu; bütün ordugah ise koşuşmaya, çığlıklar atmaya ve kaçmaya başladı.

²²Üç yüz boru çalındığında, RAB bütün ordugahta her adamın kılıcını arkadaşına karşı çevirdi.

²³Ve ordugah Bet-Seedta Garagata'ya, oradan da Tabat yakınlarındaki Abomeula sınırına kadar kaçtı; Naftali, Aşer ve bütün Manasse'den İsrailliler feryat ederek toplandılar ve Midyanlıların peşine düştüler.

²⁴Gidyon bütün Efraim dağlık bölgesine haberciler göndererek şöyle dedi: "Midyanlıların önünü kesmek için aşağı inin ve Beytera'ya ve Şeria Irmağı'na kadar olan su geçitlerini önceden ele geçirin." Böylece bütün Efraim halkı toplandı ve Beytera'ya ve Şeria Irmağı'na kadar olan su geçitlerini önceden ele geçirdiler.

²⁵Ve Midyan'ın iki önderi Oreb ile Zeeb'i yakaladılar; Oreb'i Sur'da, Zeeb'i ise Yakefsef'te öldürdüler. Midyanlıları kovalamaya devam ettiler; Oreb ile Zeeb'in başlarını ise Şeria Irmağı'nın öbür yakasından Gidyon'a getirdiler.

¹ΚΑΙ ὤρθρισεν ῾Ιεροβάαλ (αὐτός ἐστι Γεδεὼν) καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐπὶ πηγὴν ᾿Αράδ, καὶ παρεμβολὴ Μαδιὰμ ἦν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ ἀπὸ Γαβαὰθ ᾿Αμωρὰ ἐν κοιλάδι.

²καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Γεδεών· πολὺς ὁ λαὸς ὁ μετὰ σοῦ, ὥστε μὴ παραδοῦναί με τὴν Μαδιὰμ ἐν χειρὶ αὐτῶν, μή ποτε καυχήσηται ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ λέγων· ἡ χείρ μου ἔσωσέ με·

³καὶ νῦν λάλησον δὴ ἐν ὠσὶ τοῦ λαοῦ λέγων· τίς ὁ φοβούμενος καὶ δειλός; ἐπιστρεφέτω καὶ ἐκχωρείτω ἀπὸ ὄρους Γαλαάδ. καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν ἀπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ εἴκοσι καὶ δύο χιλιάδες, καὶ δέκα χιλιάδες ὑπελείφθησαν.

⁴καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Γεδεών· ἔτι ὁ λαὸς πολύς ἐστι· κατένεγκον αὐτοὺς πρὸς τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ ἐκκαθαρῶ σοι αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ· καὶ ἔσται ὃν ἐὰν εἴπω πρὸς σέ, οὗτος πορεύσεται σὺν σοί, αὐτὸς πορεύσεται σὺν σοί· καὶ πᾶς, ὃν ἐὰν εἴπω πρός σε· οὗτος οὐ πορεύσεται μετὰ σοῦ, αὐτὸς οὐ πορεύσεται μετὰ σοῦ.

⁵καὶ κατήνεγκε τὸν λαὸν πρὸς τὸ ὕδωρ· καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Γεδεών· πᾶς, ὃς ἂν λάψῃ τῇ γλώσσῃ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος ὡς ἐὰν λάψῃ ὁ κύων, στήσεις αὐτὸν κατὰ μόνας, καὶ πᾶς, ὃς ἐὰν κλίνῃ ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα αὐτοῦ πιεῖν.

⁶καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἀριθμὸς τῶν λαψάντων ἐν χειρὶ αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν τριακόσιοι ἄνδρες, καὶ πᾶν τὸ κατάλοιπον τοῦ λαοῦ ἔκλιναν ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα αὐτῶν πιεῖν ὕδωρ.

⁷καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Γεδεών· ἐν τοῖς τριακοσίοις ἀνδράσι τοῖς λάψασι σώσω ὑμᾶς καὶ δώσω τὴν Μαδιὰμ ἐν χειρί σου, καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς πορεύσονται ἀνὴρ εἰς τόν τόπον αὐτοῦ.

⁸καὶ ἔλαβον τὸν ἐπισιτισμὸν τοῦ λαοῦ ἐν χειρὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς κερατίνας αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸν πάντα ἄνδρα ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐξαπέστειλεν ἄνδρα εἰς σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς τριακοσίους ἄνδρας κατίσχυσε. καὶ ἡ παρεμβολὴ Μαδιὰμ ἦσαν αὐτοῦ ὑποκάτω ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι.

⁹καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτὸν Κύριος· ἀναστὰς κατάβηθι ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ, ὅτι παρέδωκα αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ χειρί σου·

¹⁰καὶ εἰ φοβῇ σὺ καταβῆναι, κατάβηθι σὺ καὶ Φαρὰ τὸ παιδάριόν σου εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν

¹¹καὶ ἀκούσῃ, τί λαλήσουσι· καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἰσχύσουσιν αἱ χεῖρές σου, καταβήσῃ ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ. καὶ κατέβη αὐτὸς καὶ Φαρὰ τὸ παιδάριον αὐτοῦ πρὸς ἀρχὴν τῶν πεντήκοντα, οἳ ἦσαν ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ.

¹²καὶ Μαδιὰμ καὶ ᾿Αμαλὴκ καὶ πάντες οἱ υἱοὶ ἀνατολῶν βεβλημένοι ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι ὡσεὶ ἀκρὶς εἰς πλῆθος, καὶ ταῖς καμήλοις αὐτῶν οὐκ ἦν ἀριθμός, ἀλλ᾿ ἦσαν ὡς ἡ ἄμμος ἡ ἐπὶ χείλους τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς πλῆθος.

¹³καὶ ἦλθε Γεδεών, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ ἐξηγούμενος τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐνύπνιον καὶ εἶπεν· ἰδοὺ ἐνυπνιασάμην ἐνύπνιον, καὶ ἰδοὺ μαγὶς ἄρτου κριθίνου στρεφομένη ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ Μαδιὰμ καὶ ἦλθεν ἕως τῆς σκηνῆς καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτήν, καὶ ἔπεσε, καὶ ἀνέστρεψεν αὐτὴν ἄνω, καὶ ἔπεσεν ἡ σκηνή.

¹⁴καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν· οὐκ ἔστιν αὕτη εἰ μὴ ῥομφαία Γεδεὼν υἱοῦ ᾿Ιωὰς ἀνδρὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· παρέδωκεν ὁ Θεὸς ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν Μαδιὰμ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν παρεμβολήν.

¹⁵καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσε Γεδεὼν τὴν ἐξήγησιν τοῦ ἐνυπνίου καὶ τὴν σύγκρισιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσεκύνησε Κυρίῳ καὶ ὑπέστρεψεν εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ εἶπεν· ἀνάστητε, ὅτι παρέδωκε Κύριος ἐν χειρὶ ἡμῶν τὴν παρεμβολὴν Μαδιάμ.

¹⁶καὶ διεῖλε τοὺς τριακοσίους ἄνδρας εἰς τρεῖς ἀρχὰς καὶ ἔδωκε κερατίνας ἐν χειρὶ πάντων καὶ ὑδρίας κενὰς καὶ λαμπάδας ἐν ταῖς ὑδρίαις

¹⁷καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς· ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ὄψεσθε καὶ οὕτω ποιήσετε· καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ εἰσπορεύομαι ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς παρεμβολῆς, καὶ ἔσται καθὼς ἂν ποιήσω, οὕτω ποιήσετε·

¹⁸καὶ σαλπιῶ ἐν τῇ κερατίνῃ ἐγώ, καὶ πάντες μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ σαλπιεῖτε ἐν ταῖς κερατίναις κύκλῳ ὅλης τῆς παρεμβολῆς καὶ ἐρεῖτε· τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ τῷ Γεδεών.

¹⁹καὶ εἰσῆλθε Γεδεὼν καὶ οἱ ἑκατὸν ἄνδρες οἱ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς παρεμβολῆς ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς φυλακῆς μέσης καὶ ἐγείροντες ἤγειραν τοὺς φυλάσσοντας καὶ ἐσάλπισαν ἐν ταῖς κερατίναις καὶ ἐξετίναξαν τὰς ὑδρίας τὰς ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτῶν.

²⁰καὶ ἐσάλπισαν αἱ τρεῖς ἀρχαὶ ἐν ταῖς κερατίναις καὶ συνέτριψαν τὰς ὑδρίας καὶ ἐκράτησαν ἐν χερσὶν ἀριστεραῖς αὐτῶν τὰς λαμπάδας καὶ ἐν χερσὶ δεξιαῖς αὐτῶν τὰς κερατίνας τοῦ σαλπίζειν καὶ ἀνέκραξαν· ρομφαία τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ τῷ Γεδεών.

²¹καὶ ἔστησεν ἀνὴρ ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτῷ κύκλῳ τῆς παρεμβολῆς, καὶ ἔδραμε πᾶσα ἡ παρεμβολὴ καὶ ἐσήμαναν καὶ ἔφυγον.

²²καὶ ἐσάλπισαν ἐν ταῖς τριακοσίαις κερατίναις, καὶ ἔθηκε Κύριος τὴν ρομφαίαν ἀνδρὸς ἐν τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ παρεμβολῇ,

²³καὶ ἔφυγεν ἡ παρεμβολὴ ἕως Βηθσεεδτὰ Γαραγαθὰ ἕως χείλους ᾿Αβωμεουλὰ ἐπὶ Ταβάθ. καὶ ἐβόησαν ἀνὴρ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ Νεφθαλὶ καὶ ἀπὸ ᾿Ασὴρ καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς Μανασσῆ καὶ ἐδίωξαν ὀπίσω Μαδιάμ.

²⁴καὶ ἀγγέλους ἐπέστειλε Γεδεὼν ἐν παντὶ ὄρει ᾿Εφραὶμ λέγων· κατάβητε εἰς συνάντησιν Μαδιὰμ καὶ καταλάβετε ἑαυτοῖς τὸ ὕδωρ ἕως Βαιθηρὰ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ιορδάνην· καὶ ἐβόησε πᾶς ἀνὴρ ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ προκατελάβοντο τὸ ὕδωρ ἕως Βαιθηρὰ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ιορδάνην.

²⁵καὶ συνελάβοντο τοὺς ἄρχοντας Μαδιὰμ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ωρὴβ καὶ τὸν Ζὴβ καὶ ἀπέκτειναν τὸν ᾿Ωρὴβ ἐν Σοὺρ καὶ τὸν Ζὴβ ἀπέκτειναν ἐν ῾Ιακεφζήφ καὶ κατεδίωξαν Μαδιὰμ· καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ᾿Ωρὴβ καὶ Ζὴβ ἤνεγκαν πρὸς Γεδεὼν ἀπὸ πέραν τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου.

¹And Jerobaal rose early, the same is Gedeon, and all the people with him, and encamped at the fountain of Arad; and the camp of Madiam was to the north of him, [reaching] from Gabaathamorai, in the valley.

²And the Lord said to Gedeon, The people with thee [are] many, so that I may not deliver Madiam into their hand, lest at any time Israel boast against me, saying, My hand has saved me.

³And now speak in the ears of the people, saying, Who [is] afraid and fearful? let him turn and depart from mount Galaad: and there returned of the people twenty-two thousand, and ten thousand were left.

⁴And the Lord said to Gedeon, The people is yet numerous; bring them down to the water, and I will purge them there for thee: and it shall come to pass that of whomsoever I shall say to thee, This one shall go with thee, [even] he shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I shall say to thee, This one shall not go with thee, [even] he shall not go with thee.

⁵And he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gedeon, Whosoever shall lap of the water with his tongue as if a dog should lap, thou shalt set him apart, and [also] whosoever shall bow down upon his knees to drink.

⁶And the number of those that lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bowed upon their knees to drink water.

⁷And the Lord said to Gedeon, I will save you by the three hundred men that lapped, and I will give Madiam into thy hand; and all the [rest of the] people shall go every one to his place.

⁸And they took the provision of the people in their hand, and their horns; and he sent away every man of Israel each to his tent, and he strengthened the three hundred; and the army of Madiam were beneath him in the valley.

⁹And it came to pass in that night that the Lord said to him, Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into thy hand.

¹⁰And if thou art afraid to go down, go down thou and thy servant Phara into the camp.

¹¹And thou shalt hear what they shall say, and afterwards thy hands shall be strong, and thou shalt go down into the camp: and he went down and Phara his servant to the extremity of the [companies of] fifty, which were in the camp.

¹²And Madiam and Amalec and all the children of the east [were] scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

¹³And Gedeon came, and behold a man [was] relating to his neighbour a dream, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Madiam, and it came as far as a tent, and smote it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.

¹⁴And his neighbour answered and said, This is none other than the sword of Gedeon, son of Joas, a man of Israel: God has delivered Madiam and all the host into his hand.

¹⁵And it came to pass when Gedeon heard the account of the dream and the interpretation of it, that he worshipped the Lord, and returned to the camp of Israel, and said, Rise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Madiam into our hand.

¹⁶And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:

¹⁷and he said to them, Ye shall look at me, and so shall ye do; and behold, I will go into the beginning of the host, and it shall come to pass [that] as I do, so shall ye do.

¹⁸And I will sound with the horn, and all ye with me shall sound with the horn round about the whole camp, and ye shall say, For the Lord and Gedeon.

¹⁹And Gedeon and the hundred men that were with him came to the extremity of the army in the beginning of the middle watch; and they completely roused the guards, and sounded with the horns, and they broke the pitchers that were in their hands,

²⁰and the three companies sounded with the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands their horns to sound with; and they cried out, A sword for the Lord and for Gedeon.

²¹And [every] man stood in his place round about the host; and all the host ran, and sounded [an alarm], and fled.

²²And they sounded with the three hundred horns; and the Lord set [every] man’s sword in all the host against his neighbour.

²³And the host fled as far as Bethseed Tagaragatha Abel-meula to Tabath; and the men of Israel from Nephthali, and from Aser, and from all Manasse, came to help, and followed after Madiam.

²⁴And Gedeon sent messengers into all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down to meet Madiam, and take to yourselves the water as far as Baethera and Jordan: and every man of Ephraim cried out, and they took the water before hand unto Baethera and Jordan.

²⁵And they took the princes of Madiam, even Oreb and Zeb; and they slew Oreb in Sur Oreb, and they slew Zeb in Jakephzeph; and they pursued Madiam, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon from beyond Jordan.