¹基甸带三百人攻打米甸人

¹And Jerubbaal (he [is] Gideon) riseth early, and all the people who [are] with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian hath been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.

²耶和华对基甸说：“与你在一起的人太多，我不能把米甸人交在你们手中，免得以色列人向我自夸：‘是我们自己的手救了我们。’

²And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `Too many [are] the people who [are] with thee for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand hath given salvation to me;

³现在你要向众民宣告：‘害怕战栗的，可以回去，离开基列山。’”于是众民中有二万二千人回去，只剩下一万人。

³and now, call, I pray thee, in the ears of the people, saying, Whoso [is] afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from mount Gilead;` and there turn back of the people twenty and two thousand, and ten thousand have been left.

⁴耶和华对基甸说：“人还是太多，你要领他们下到水旁去，我要在那里为你试验他们。我指着谁对你说：‘这人可以与你同去’，他就可以与你同去；我指着谁对你说：‘这人不可以与你同去’，他就不可以与你同去。”

⁴And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `Yet [are] the people too many; bring them down unto the water, and I refine it for thee there; and it hath been, he of whom I say unto thee, This doth go with thee — he doth go with thee; and any of whom I say unto thee, This doth not go with thee — he doth not go.`

⁵于是基甸带他们下到水边去；耶和华对基甸说：“用舌头舔水，像狗舔水的，你要把他们安置在一处；屈膝跪下喝水的，也要把他们安置在一处。”

⁵And he bringeth down the people unto the water, and Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `Every one who lappeth with his tongue of the water as the dog lappeth — thou dost set him apart; also every one who boweth on his knees to drink.`

⁶用手捧到嘴边舔水的，总数共有三百人；其余的人都屈膝跪下喝水。

⁶And the number of those lapping with their hand unto their mouth is three hundred men, and all the rest of the people have bowed down on their knees to drink water.

⁷耶和华对基甸说：“我要用这舔水的三百人拯救你们，把米甸人交在你们的手里，所有其他的人都可以各回自己的地方去。”

⁷And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `By the three hundred men who are lapping I save you, and have given Midian into thy hand, and all the people go, each to his place.`

⁸于是众民手里拿着食物和号角；所有其他的以色列人，基甸都打发他们各回自己的帐棚去，只留下这三百人。当时米甸营就在他们下面的平原里。

⁸And the people take the provision in their hand, and their trumpets, and every man of Israel he hath sent away, each to his tents; and on the three hundred men he hath kept hold, and the camp of Midian hath been by him at the lower part of the valley.

⁹当夜，耶和华对基甸说：“起来，下去攻营，因为我已经把他们交在你手里了。

⁹And it cometh to pass, on that night, that Jehovah saith unto him, `Rise, go down into the camp, for I have given it into thy hand;

¹⁰如果你害怕一人下去，可以带着你的童仆普拉一同下到营地那里去；

¹⁰and if thou art afraid to go down — go down, thou and Phurah thy young man, unto the camp,

¹¹你要听听他们说什么，然后你的手就必坚强起来，有胆量下去攻营了。”于是基甸带着他的童仆普拉一同下去，到营中驻军的边缘。

¹¹and thou hast heard what they speak, and afterwards are thy hands strengthened, and thou hast gone down against the camp.` And he goeth down, he and Phurah his young man, unto the extremity of the fifties who [are] in the camp;

¹²那时米甸人、亚玛力人和所有的东方人，都散布在平原上，好像蝗虫那么多；他们的骆驼无数，好像海边的沙那么多。

¹²and Midian and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which [is] on the sea-shore for multitude.

¹³基甸到了，就听见一个人正在把他的梦告诉他的同伴，说：“我作了一个梦，梦见一个大麦饼滚入米甸营中，到了帐幕，把帐幕撞倒，帐幕就翻转朝上了。”

¹³And Gideon cometh in, and lo, a man is recounting to his companion a dream, and saith, `Lo, a dream I have dreamed, and lo, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it cometh in unto the tent, and smiteth it, and it falleth, and turneth it upwards, and the tent hath fallen.`

¹⁴他的同伴回答：“这不是别的，这是以色列人约阿施的儿子基甸的刀；　神已经把米甸和全营交在他手中了。”

¹⁴And his companion answereth and saith, `This is nothing save the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God hath given into his hand Midian and all the camp.`

¹⁵基甸听见了这梦的叙述和梦的讲解，就敬拜　神；然后返回以色列营中，说：“起来，因为耶和华已经把米甸的军队交在你们手里了。”

¹⁵And it cometh to pass, when Gideon heareth the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he boweth himself, and turneth back unto the camp of Israel, and saith, `Rise ye, for Jehovah hath given into your hand the camp of Midian.`

¹⁶于是他把三百人分作三队，把角和空瓶交在各人手里，又把火把放在瓶里。

¹⁶And he divideth the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

¹⁷然后对他们说：“你们要看着我，也要照样行事。注意！我到了营的边缘，我怎样行事，你们也要怎样行事。

¹⁷And he saith unto them, `Look at me, and thus do; and lo, I am coming into the extremity of the camp — and it hath been — as I do so ye do;

¹⁸我和所有与我在一起的人吹角的时候，你们也要在全营的四周吹角，喊叫说：‘为耶和华！为基甸！’”

¹⁸and I have blown with a trumpet — I and all who [are] with me, and ye have blown with trumpets, even ye, round about all the camp, and have said, For Jehovah and for Gideon.`

¹⁹基甸用计策惊溃敌人基甸和所有与他在一起的一百人，在半夜三更的起初，换更的时候，来到了营的边缘，就吹起角来，打破手中的瓦瓶。

¹⁹And Gideon cometh — and the hundred men who [are] with him — into the extremity of the camp, [at] the beginning of the middle watch (it hath only just confirmed the watchmen), and they blow with trumpets — dashing in pieces also the pitchers which [are] in their hand;

²⁰三队的人就都吹角，打破瓦瓶，左手紧握着火把，右手紧握着角不住地吹，并且喊叫说：“耶和华和基甸的刀！”

²⁰and the three detachments blow with trumpets, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the trumpets to blow, and they cry, `The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.`

²¹他们在营的四周各站在自己的位置；全营的人都乱跑，他们一面叫喊，一面逃跑。

²¹And they stand each in his place, round about the camp, and all the camp runneth, and they shout, and flee;

²²三百人吹那三百枝角的时候，耶和华使全营的人用刀互相击杀，然后他们向着西利拉逃到伯．哈示他，直到靠近他巴的亚伯．米何拉河边。

²²and the three hundred blow the trumpets, and Jehovah setteth the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp fleeth unto Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, unto the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath.

²³米甸人大败以色列人就从拿弗他利、亚设和玛拿西全地被召来，追赶米甸人。

²³And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian.

²⁴基甸派遣了使者走遍以法莲山地，说：“你们要下来迎战米甸人，在他们前面把守约旦河的渡口，直到伯．巴拉。”于是以法莲的人都被召来，把守约旦河的渡口，直到伯．巴拉。

²⁴And messengers hath sent Gideon into all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, `Come down to meet Midian, and capture before them the waters unto Beth-Barah, and the Jordan;` and every man of Ephraim is called, and they capture the waters unto Beth-Barah, and the Jordan,

²⁵他们捉住了米甸人的两个首领：俄立和西伊伯；把俄立杀在俄立磐石上，把西伊伯杀在西伊伯榨酒池那里；然后追赶米甸人，又把俄立和西伊伯的人头带到约旦河对岸，基甸那里。

²⁵and they capture two of the heads of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb, and slay Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they have slain at the wine-vat of Zeeb, and they pursue unto Midian; and the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they have brought in unto Gideon beyond the Jordan.