¹耶弗他和以法莲人

¹And the men of Ephraim are called together, and pass over northward, and say to Jephthah, `Wherefore has thou passed over to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and on us hast not called to go with thee? thy house we burn over thee with fire.`

²耶弗他对他们说：“我和我的人民跟亚扪人激烈争战的时候，我曾经呼求你们，你们却没有来救我们脱离他们的手。

²And Jephthah saith unto them, `A man of great strife I have been (I and my people) with the Bene-Ammon, and I call you, and ye have not saved me out of their hand,

³我见你们不来拯救我，我就拚命上去攻击亚扪人，耶和华就把他们交在我的手里。你们今日为什么上我这里来攻打我呢？”

³and I see that thou art not a saviour, and I put my life in my hand, and pass over unto the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah giveth them into my hand — and why have ye come up unto me this day to fight against me?`

⁴于是耶弗他召集了基列所有的人，与以法莲人争战；基列人击杀了以法莲人，因为以法莲人曾经说过：“你们基列人在以法莲和玛拿西中间，不过是以法莲逃亡的人罢了。”

⁴And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fighteth with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim, because they said, `Fugitives of Ephraim [are] ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim — in the midst of Manasseh.`

⁵基列人占领约旦河的各渡口，不容以法莲人过去。如果以法莲逃亡的人说：“让我过去吧。”基列人就问他：“你是以法莲人吗？”如果他说：“不是。”

⁵And Gilead captureth the passages of the Jordan to Ephraim, and it hath been, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim say, `Let me pass over,` and the men of Gilead say to him, `An Ephramite thou?` and he saith, `No;`

⁶基列人就对他说：“请说‘示播列’。”以法莲人因为发不出准确的字音，就说成“西播列”；基列人就把他捉住，在约旦河的渡口那里杀了；那时以法莲人死了四万二千人。

⁶that they say to him, `Say, I pray thee, Shibboleth;` and he saith, `Sibboleth,` and is not prepared to speak right — and they seize him, and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan, and there fall at that time, of Ephraim, forty and two chiefs.

⁷耶弗他逝世耶弗他治理以色列人共六年；基列人耶弗他死了以后，埋葬在基列的一座城里。

⁷And Jephthah judged Israel six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth, and is buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

⁸以比赞耶弗他之后，有伯利恒人以比赞治理以色列人。

⁸And after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judgeth Israel,

⁹他有三十个儿子，三十个女儿；女儿都嫁到外面去，又给他的儿子从外面娶了三十个女子作妻子。他治理以色列人共七年。

⁹and he hath thirty sons and thirty daughters, he hath sent without and thirty daughters hath brought in to his sons from without; and he judgeth Israel seven years.

¹⁰以比赞死了，就埋葬在伯利恒。

¹⁰And Ibzan dieth, and is buried in Beth-Lehem.

¹¹以伦以比赞之后，有西布伦人以伦，治理以色列人共十年。

¹¹And after him Elon the Zebulunite judgeth Israel, and he judgeth Israel ten years,

¹²西布伦人以伦死了以后，就埋葬在西布伦地的亚雅仑。

¹²and Elon the Zebulunite dieth, and is buried in Aijalon, in the land of Zebulun.

¹³押顿以伦之后，有比拉顿人希列的儿子押顿治理以色列人。

¹³And after him, Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, judgeth Israel,

¹⁴他有四十个儿子，三十个孙子，骑着七十头驴驹；押顿治理以色列人共八年。

¹⁴and he hath forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy ass-colts, and he judgeth Israel eight years.

¹⁵比拉顿人希列的儿子押顿死了，埋葬在以法莲地，就是在亚玛力人的山地。

¹⁵And Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, dieth, and is buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekite.