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1 Efraims-mennerne sagde til Gideon: «Korleis er det du hev bore deg imot oss! Kvi sende du’kje bod etter oss då du tok ut i striden mot midjanitare?» Og dei tok kvast på honom.
The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you done such a thing to us, not calling us when you went to fight with Midian?" And they argued with him fiercely.
2 Då sagde han til deim: «Kva hev eg gjort no som kann liknast med det de hev gjort? Var’kje etterrakstren åt Efraim betre enn avlingi åt Abiezer?
He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
3 I dykkar hender gav Gud midjanitar-hovdingarne, Oreb og Ze’eb! Og kva hev eg vunnest gjort, so eg kunde mæla meg med dykk?» Då han tala so, logna dei og var’kje vonde på honom lenger.
God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger subsided toward him, when he had said that.
4 Gideon kom til Jordan, og for yver, han og dei tri hundrad mann som var med honom, og dei var trøytte og svoltne.
Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, exhausted and famished.
5 Då sagde han til Sukkot-mennerne: «Kjære, gjev folki som fylgjer meg nokre matbitar! Dei er trøytte, og eg elter Zebah og Salmunna, Midjans-kongarne.»
He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
6 Men hovdingarne i Sukkot sagde: «Hev du alt fenge kloi i Zebah og Salmunna, sidan me skal gjeva heren din mat?»
The princes of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?"
7 «Godt!» svara Gideon, «når Herren hev gjeve Zebah og Salmunna i henderne mine, so skal eg treskja kropparne dykkar med villtornar og tistlar.»
Gideon said, "Therefore when YHWH has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
8 So for han upp til Penuel, og tala like eins der, og Penuels-mennerne svara honom på same vis som Sukkot-buarne hadde svara.
He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
9 Då sagde han til deim og: «Kjem eg vel heim att, so skal eg riva ned denne borgi.»
He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower."
10 Zebah og Salmunna låg i Karkor med heren sin, um lag femtan tusund mann; det var alt som var att av heile austmannheren, og hundrad og tjuge tusund våpnføre menner var falne.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the Kedemites; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
11 Og Gideon for uppetter driftevegen austanfor Nobah og Jogbea og kom yver fiendeheren, med dei låg ottelause i lægret.
And Gideon went up by the way of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, opposite Zebah, and struck the army, when the army was unsuspecting.
12 Zebah og Salmunna rømde, men han sette etter deim; han tok båe Midjans-kongarne, Zebah og Salmunna, og støkte heile heren ifrå einannan.
Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued after them, and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and routed the entire army.
13 Då Gideon Joasson var komen til Solskardet, vende han heim att frå striden.
Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
14 Han fekk tak i ein gut som høyrde heime i Sukkot, og spurde honom ut; og guten skreiv upp for honom hovdingarne og styresmennerne i Sukkot, sju og sytti mann.
He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the officials of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
15 Då han so kom til Sukkot-buarne, sagde han: «Sjå her er Zebah og Salmunna, dei som de spotta meg med då de sagde: «Hev du alt fenge kloi i Zebah og Salmunna, sidan me skal gjeva mat til dei trøytte mennerne dine?»»
He came to the men of Succoth, and said, "Look Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?"
16 So greip han styresmennerne i byen, og han tok villtornar og tistlar, og tukta med deim Sukkot-buarne.
He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he threshed the men of Succoth.
17 Penuelborgi reiv han ned, og slo i hel mennerne i byen.
He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
18 Sidan sagde han til Zebah og Salmunna: «Korleis såg dei ut, dei mennerne som de slo i hel på Tabor?» «Dei var like eins som du, » svara dei. «Kvar var som ein kongsson på skapnad».
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they; each one resembled the son of a king."
19 «Då var det brørne mine, » sagde han, «sønerne åt mi eigi mor. So sant Herren liver: hadde de spart livet deira, skulde eg ikkje ha drepe dykk.»
He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As YHWH lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you."
20 So sagde han til Jeter, eldste son sin: «Gakk fram, og slå deim i hel!» Men guten drog ikkje sverdet sitt. Han torde ikkje; han var endå berre ein gut.
He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
21 Då sagde Zebah og Salmunna: «Kom du og hogg oss ned! Det vil manns nerk til å gjera manns verk.» So gjekk Gideon fram, og slo Zebah og Salmunna i hel, og tok sylgjorne som kamelarne deira hadde kring halsen.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise up yourself, and kill us, for a man is judged by his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
22 Og Israels-mennerne sagde til Gideon: «Du skal vera kongen vår, både du og son din og soneson din; for du hev berga oss frå midjanitarne!»
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."
23 Men Gideon svara: «Ikkje vil eg vera kongen dykkar, og ikkje skal son min vera det; Herren skal vera kongen dykkar!»
Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: YHWH shall rule over you."
24 Sidan sagde Gideon til deim: «Eg vil beda dykk um ein ting: at de alle vil gjeva meg dei ringarne de hev vunne i krigen!» For Midjans-mennerne gjekk med gullringar; dei var ismaelitar.
Gideon said to them, "I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings from his plunder." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
25 «Det skal du då visst få, » svara dei. So breidde dei ut ei kåpa, og på den kasta alle mann dei ringarne dei hadde vunne i krigen.
They answered, "We will willingly give them." They spread a garment, and every one of them threw an earring from his plunder.
26 Då dei so vog gullringane som han hadde bede um, so var det halvonnor vog gull, umfram gullsylgjorne og øyredobborne og purpurklædi som midjanitarkongarne hadde havt på seg, og umfram lekkjorne som kamelarne deira hadde bore kring halsen.
The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred pieces of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
27 Av gullet gjorde Gideon eit gudsbilæte. Det sette han upp i Ofra, heimbygdi si; heile Israel dyrka det der som ein avgud, og det vart til ulukka for Gideon og hans hus.
Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
28 Soleis laut Midjan bøygja seg under Israel, og vann ikkje reisa hovudet meir, og sidan hadde landet ro i fyrti år, so lenge som Gideon livde.
So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and did not become a threat again. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
29 So for Jerubba’al Joasson heim att til garden sin, og vart buande der.
Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
30 Han, Gideon, hadde sytti søner, som var hans eigne born; for han hadde mange konor.
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.
31 Med fylgjekona si i Sikem fekk han ein son, og kalla han Abimelek.
His secondary wife who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
32 Gideon Joasson døydde i høg alder, og vart nedsett i gravstaden åt Joas, far sin, i Ofra, bygdi åt Abiezer-ætti.
Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 Då Gideon var burte, tok Israels-sønerne atter til å halda seg med avgudarne, og gjorde Sambands-Ba’al til guden sin.
It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
34 Israels-sønerne kom ikkje i hug Herren, sin Gud, som hadde berga deim frå alle fiendar rundt ikring;
The children of Israel did not remember YHWH their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
35 og dei gjorde ikkje vel mot Jerubba’als, Gideons, ætt for alt det gode han hadde gjort Israel.
neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
