¹耶弗他

¹And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he [is] son of a woman, a harlot; and Gilead begetteth Jephthah,

²基列的妻子也给他生了几个儿子。他妻子的儿子长大了，就把耶弗他赶出去，对他说：“你不可以在我们的父家继承产业，因为你是另一个妇人的儿子。”

²and the wife of Gilead beareth to him sons, and the wife`s sons grow up and cast out Jephthah, and say to him, `Thou dost not inherit in the house of our father; for son of another woman [art] thou.`

³耶弗他就从他的兄弟面前逃跑，住在陀伯地；有些无赖聚集到他那里，与他一起出入。

³And Jephthah fleeth from the face of his brethren, and dwelleth in the land of Tob; and vain men gather themselves together unto Jephthah, and they go out with him.

⁴过了些日子，亚扪人与以色列人争战。

⁴And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel,

⁵亚扪人与以色列人争战的时候，基列的众长老就去，把耶弗他从陀伯请回来。

⁵and it cometh to pass, when the Bene-Ammon have fought with Israel, that the elders of Gilead go to take Jephthah from the land of Tob;

⁶他们对耶弗他说：“请你来作我们的统帅，我们好攻打亚扪人。”

⁶and they say unto Jephthah, `Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Bene-Ammon.`

⁷耶弗他对基列的长老说：“从前你们不是恨我，赶逐我离开我的父家吗？现在你们遭遇患难的时候，为什么到我这里来呢？”

⁷And Jephthah saith to the elders of Gilead, `Have not ye hated me? and ye cast me out from the house of my father, and wherefore have ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?`

⁸基列的长老对耶弗他说：“现在我们回到你这里来，是要你与我们一同回去，与亚扪人争战，你要作我们基列所有居民的首领。”

⁸and the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, `Therefore, now, we have turned back unto thee; and thou hast gone with us, and fought against the Bene-Ammon, and thou hast been to us for head — to all the inhabitants of Gilead.`

⁹耶弗他对基列的长老说：“如果你们带我回去，攻打亚扪人，耶和华把他们交在我面前，那么我就可以作你们的首领吗？”

⁹And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, `If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah hath given them before me — I, am I to you for a head?`

¹⁰基列的长老对耶弗他说：“有耶和华在我们中间作证，我们必定照着你的话行。”

¹⁰And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, `Jehovah is hearkening between us — if according to thy word we do not so.`

¹¹于是耶弗他与基列的长老一同回去了，众人就立耶弗他作他们的首领，作他们的统帅；耶弗他在米斯巴，在耶和华面前，把自己的一切话都说了出来。

¹¹And Jephthah goeth with the elders of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaketh all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.

¹²耶弗他先与亚扪人交涉耶弗他派遣使者去见亚扪人的王，说：“我跟你有什么关系呢？你竟到我这里来攻打我的土地呢？”

¹²And Jephthah sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon, saying, `What — to me and to thee, that thou hast come in unto me, to fight in my land.`

¹³亚扪人的王对耶弗他的使者说：“因以色列人从埃及上来的时候，夺了我的土地，从亚嫩河到雅博河，直到约旦河；现在你要把它和和平平地交还。”

¹³And the king of the Bene-Ammon saith unto the messengers of Jephthah, `Because Israel took my land in his coming up out of Egypt, from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan; and now, restore them in peace.`

¹⁴耶弗他又再派使者去见亚扪人的王，

¹⁴And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,

¹⁵对他说：“耶弗他这样说：‘以色列人并没有夺取过摩押地和亚扪人的土地。

¹⁵and saith to him, `Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Ammon,

¹⁶以色列人从埃及上来的时候，是走过旷野到红海，到了加低斯；

¹⁶for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in to Kadesh,

¹⁷就派遣使者去见以东王，说：求你让我们经过你的领土。以东王却不答应；又派遣使者去见摩押王，摩押王也不肯；以色列人就住在加低斯。

¹⁷and Israel sendeth messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass over, I pray thee, through thy land, and the king of Edom hearkened not; and also unto the king of Moab hath [Israel] sent, and he hath not been willing; and Israel abideth in Kadesh,

¹⁸以后，他们走过旷野，绕过以东地和摩押地，到了摩押地的东边，在亚嫩河那边安营；他们并没有进入摩押境内，因为亚嫩河是摩押的边界。

¹⁸and he goeth through the wilderness, and compasseth the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and cometh in at the rising of the sun of the land of Moab, and they encamp beyond Arnon, and have not come into the border of Moab, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab.

¹⁹以色列人又派遣使者去见亚摩利人的王西宏，就是希实本王，对他说：求你让我们经过你的领土，到我们自己的地方去。

¹⁹`And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel saith to him, Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land, unto my place,

²⁰西宏却不信任以色列人，不让他们经过他的境界；西宏聚集了他所有的人民，在雅杂安营，与以色列人争战。

²⁰and Sihon hath not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and they encamp in Jahaz, and fight with Israel;

²¹耶和华以色列的　神，把西宏和他所有的人民都交在以色列人手中，以色列人击杀了他们，夺取了住在那地的亚摩利人的全地，

²¹and Jehovah, God of Israel, giveth Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smite them, and Israel possesseth all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that land,

²²占领了亚摩利人四周的境界，从亚嫩河到雅博河，从旷野直到约旦河。

²²and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and unto the Jordan.

²³现在耶和华以色列的　神，已经把亚摩利人从他的子民以色列人面前赶走了，你竟要占有这地吗？

²³`And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldst possess it!

²⁴你不是应占有你的神基抹要你占有的地吗？我们不是应占有耶和华我们的　神，从我们面前赶走的人的一切地吗？

²⁴That which Chemosh thy god causeth thee to possess — dost thou not possess it? and all that which Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from our presence, — it we do possess.

²⁵现在难道你比摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒还强吗？他曾经与以色列人争竞吗？或是与以色列人交战过吗？

²⁵`And now, [art] thou at all better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he at all strive with Israel? did he at all fight against them?

²⁶以色列人住在希实本和属希实本的村镇，亚罗珥和亚罗珥的村镇，以及亚嫩河沿岸的一切城市，已经有三百年了；在这时期内，你们为什么没有夺回这些地方呢？

²⁶In Israel`s dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which [are] by the sides of Arnon three hundred years — and wherefore have ye not delivered them in that time?

²⁷我没有得罪你，你竟恶待我，攻打我；愿审判者耶和华今日在以色列人和亚扪人中间，判断是非。’”

²⁷And I — I have not sinned against thee, and thou art doing with me evil — to fight against me. Jehovah, the Judge, doth judge to-day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.`

²⁸但亚扪人的王不听从耶弗他差派人去对他所说的话。

²⁸And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,

²⁹耶弗他许愿那时耶和华的灵临到耶弗他身上，他就经过基列和玛拿西，经过基列的米斯巴，又从基列的米斯巴去到亚扪人那里。

²⁹and the Spirit of Jehovah is on Jephthah, and he passeth over Gilead and Manasseh, and passeth over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he hath passed over to the Bene-Ammon.

³⁰耶弗他向耶和华许愿，说：“如果你真的把亚扪人交在我手里，

³⁰And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, `If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand —

³¹我从亚扪人那里平平安安回来的时候，无论谁先从我的家门出来迎接我，他就必归耶和华，我也必把他当作燔祭。”

³¹then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon — it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it — a burnt-offering.`

³²于是耶弗他去到亚扪人那里攻打他们，耶和华把他们交在他手里。

³²And Jephthah passeth over unto the Bene-Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah giveth them into his hand,

³³于是他从亚罗珥开始击杀他们，去到米匿，直到亚备勒．基拉明，共二十座城，是一场大击杀；这样，亚扪人就在以色列人面前被制伏了。

³³and he smiteth them from Aroer, and unto thy going in to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto the meadow of the vineyards — a very great smiting; and the Bene-Ammon are humbled at the presence of the sons of Israel.

³⁴耶弗他还愿耶弗他回米斯巴去，到了自己的家，不料，他的女儿拿着鼓、跳着舞，出来迎接他；她是耶弗他的独生女，除她以外，耶弗他没有其他的儿女。

³⁴And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and save her alone, he hath none, son or daughter.

³⁵耶弗他看见了她，就撕裂自己的衣服，说：“啊！我的女儿啊，你真使我忧愁，你叫我太作难了；因为我已经向耶和华开过口许愿，我不能收回。”

³⁵And it cometh to pass, when he seeth her, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, `Alas, my daughter, thou hast caused me greatly to bend, and thou hast been among those troubling me; and I — I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah, and I am not able to turn back.`

³⁶她对他说：“我的父亲啊，你既然向耶和华开过口许了愿，就照着你口里所说的向我行吧！因为耶和华已经在你的仇敌亚扪人身上，为你报了仇。”

³⁶And she saith unto him, `My father — thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah, do to me as it hath gone out from thy mouth, after that Jehovah hath done for thee vengeance on thine enemies, on the Bene-Ammon.`

³⁷她又对自己的父亲说：“请你准我这件事吧：给我两个月时间，让我和我的同伴去漫游山间，为我的童贞哀哭。”

³⁷And she saith unto her father, `Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity — I and my friends.`

³⁸耶弗他说：“你去吧！”就让她离去两个月；她就带着她的同伴去了，在山上为她的童贞哀哭。

³⁸And he saith, `Go;` and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;

³⁹两个月后，她回到她的父亲那里，她父亲就照他所许的愿向她行了。她没有与男人同过房。以后，在以色列中有个惯例：

³⁹and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is a statute in Israel:

⁴⁰以色列的女子年年都去哀悼基列人耶弗他的女儿，每年四日。

⁴⁰from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.