Judges 8
1 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.
| اما رهبران قبیلهٔ افرایم به شدت نسبت به جدعون خشمناک شده، گفتند: «چرا وقتی به جنگ مدیانی‌ها رفتی ما را خبر نکردی؟» |
2 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.
| جدعون در جواب ایشان گفت: «در مقایسه با کار شما، من چه کرده‌ام؟ آیا انگورهای افرایم که روی زمین باقی مانده‌اند بهتر از حصاد انگور اَبیعزر نیست؟ |
3 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.
| خدا غراب و ذئب، سرداران مدیان را به دست شما تسلیم نمود. عملیات شما در آخر جنگ مهمتر از عملیات ما در آغاز جنگ بود.» پس آنها آرام شدند. |
4 Then Gideon and his 300 men [went east and] crossed the Jordan [River]. Although they were very tired, they continued to pursue their enemies.
| آنگاه جدعون و سیصد نفری که همراهش بودند از رود اردن گذشتند. با اینکه خیلی خسته بودند، ولی هنوز دشمن را تعقیب می‌کردند. |
5 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.”
| جدعون از اهالی سوکوت غذا خواست و گفت: «ما به خاطر تعقیب زبح و صلمونع، پادشاهان مدیانی بسیار خسته هستیم.» |
6 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].”
| اما رهبران سوکوت جواب دادند: «شما هنوز زبح و صلمونع را نگرفته‌اید که ما به شما نان بدهیم.» |
7 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!”
| جدعون به آنها گفت: «وقتی که خداوند زبح و صلمونع را به دست من تسلیم کند، برمی‌گردم و گوشت بدن شما را با خارهای صحرا می‌درم.» |
8 From there, Gideon [and his 300 men] went to Peniel and asked for food there, but the people gave him the same answer.
| سپس نزد اهالی فنوئیل رفت و از آنها نان خواست اما همان جواب اهالی سوکوت را شنید. |
9 So he said to the men of Peniel, “After I defeat those kings, I will return and tear down this tower!”
| پس به ایشان گفت: «وقتی از این جنگ سلامت برگردم، این برج را منهدم خواهم کرد.» |
10 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.
| در این هنگام زبح و صلمونع با قریب پانزده هزار سرباز باقیمانده در قرقور به سر می‌بردند. از آن سپاه عظیم دشمنان فقط همین عده باقیمانده بودند. صد و بیست هزار نفر کشته شده بودند. |
11 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.
| پس جدعون از راه چادرنشینان در شرق نوبح و یجبهاه بر مدیانیان شبیخون زد. |
12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but Gideon’s men pursued them and captured them and all their warriors.
| زبح و صلمونع فرار کردند، اما جدعون به تعقیب آنها پرداخته، ایشان را گرفت و سپاه آنها را به کلی تار و مار ساخت. |
13 After that, Gideon and his men [took Zebah and Zalmunna with them and] started to return, going through Heres Pass.
| بعد از آن، وقتی جدعون از راه گردنهٔ حارس از جنگ بازمی‌گشت |
14 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.
| در راه، جوانی از اهالی سوکوت را گرفت و از او خواست تا نامهای رهبران و بزرگان شهر سوکوت را بنویسد. او هم نامهای آنها را که هفتاد و هفت نفر بودند، نوشت. |
15 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.’”
| پس جدعون نزد اهالی سوکوت بازگشته، به ایشان گفت: «این هم زبح و صلمونع که به من طعنه زده، گفتید: شما که هنوز زبح و صلمونع را نگرفته‌اید؛ و به ما که خسته و گرسنه بودیم نان ندادید.» |
16 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].
| آنگاه رهبران سوکوت را با خارهای صحرا مجازات کرد تا درس عبرتی برای اهالی آن شهر باشد. |
17 Then [they went to] Peniel and tore down the tower, and killed all the men in the town.
| همچنین به فنوئیل رفت و برج شهر را خراب کرده، تمام مردان آنجا را کشت. |
18 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.”
| آنگاه جدعون رو به زبح و صلمونع کرده، از ایشان پرسید: «مردانی را که در تابور کشتید چه کسانی بودند؟» گفتند: «مانند شما و چون شاهزادگان بودند.» |
19 Gideon replied, “They were my brothers! Just as surely as Yahweh lives, I would not kill you if you had not killed them.”
| جدعون گفت: «آنها برادران من بودند. به خداوند زنده قسم اگر آنها را نمی‌کشتید، من هم شما را نمی‌کشتم.» |
20 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].
| آنگاه به یَتَر، پسر بزرگش دستور داد که آنها را بکشد. ولی او شمشیرش را نکشید، زیرا نوجوانی بیش نبود و می‌ترسید. |
21 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.
| زبح و صلمونع به جدعون گفتند: «خودت ما را بکش، چون می‌خواهیم به دست یک مرد کشته شویم.» پس او آنها را کشت و زیورآلات گردن شترهایشان را برداشت. |
22 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.”
| اسرائیلی‌ها به جدعون گفتند: «پادشاه ما باش. تو و پسرانت و نسلهای آیندهٔ شما بر ما فرمانروایی کنید؛ زیرا تو ما را از دست مدیانی‌ها رهایی بخشیدی.» |
23 But Gideon replied, “No, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you. Yahweh will rule over you.”
| اما جدعون جواب داد: «نه من پادشاه شما می‌شوم و نه پسرانم. خداوند پادشاه شماست! من فقط یک خواهش از شما دارم، تمام گوشواره‌هایی را که از دشمنان مغلوب خود به چنگ آورده‌اید به من بدهید.» (سپاهیان مدیان همه اسماعیلی بودند و گوشواره‌های طلا به گوش داشتند.) |
24 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 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].
| آنها گفتند: «با کمال میل آنها را تقدیم می‌کنیم.» آنگاه پارچه‌ای پهن کرده، هر کدام از آنها گوشواره‌هایی را که به غنیمت گرفته بود روی آن انداخت. |
26 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.
| به غیر از زیورآلات، آویزها و لباسهای سلطنتی و زنجیرهای گردن شتران، وزن گوشواره‌ها حدود بیست کیلوگرم بود. |
27 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].
| جدعون از این طلاها یک ایفود ساخت و آن را در شهر خود عفره گذاشت. طولی نکشید که تمام مردم اسرائیل به خدا خیانت کرده، به پرستش آن پرداختند. این ایفود برای جدعون و خاندان او دامی شد. |
28 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.
| به این ترتیب، مدیانی‌ها از اسرائیلی‌ها شکست خوردند و دیگر هرگز قدرت خود را باز نیافتند. در سرزمین اسرائیل مدت چهل سال یعنی در تمام طول عمر جدعون صلح برقرار شد. |
29 Gideon went back home to live there.
| جدعون به خانهٔ خود بازگشت. |
30 He had many wives, and they bore him seventy sons.
| او صاحب هفتاد پسر بود، زیرا زنان زیادی داشت. |
31 He also had a slave wife in Shechem [town], who bore him a son whom he named Abimelech.
| وی همچنین در شکیم کنیزی داشت که برایش پسری به دنیا آورد و او را ابیملک نام نهاد. |
32 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.
| جدعون در کمال پیری درگذشت و او را در مقبرهٔ پدرش یوآش در عفره در سرزمین طایفهٔ ابیعزر دفن کردند. |
33 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.
| پس از مرگ جدعون، اسرائیلی‌ها دوباره از خدا برگشتند و به پرستش بتها پرداخته، بت بعل‌بریت را خدای خود ساختند. |
34 They forgot about Yahweh, the one who had rescued them from all their enemies that surrounded them.
| آنها خداوند، خدای خود را که ایشان را از دست دشمنان اطرافشان رهانیده بود فراموش کردند، |
35 And even though Gideon had done many good things for the Israelis, they were not kind to Gideon’s family.
| و نیز برای خاندان جدعون، که آن همه به آنها خدمت کرده بود احترامی قائل نشدند. |
