¹Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

¹Nato se odpravijo vsi sinovi Izraelovi, in vsa občina se zbere kakor en mož, od Dana tja do Bersebe, z Gileadsko pokrajino, pred GOSPODOM v Micpi.

²And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

²In poglavarji vsega ljudstva, vseh rodov Izraelovih, so se sešli v zboru ljudstva Božjega, štiristo tisoč pešcev, ki so izdirali meč.

³(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

³Sinovi Benjaminovi so pa slišali, da so se sešli sinovi Izraelovi gori v Micpi. In sinovi Izraelovi reko: Povejte, kako se je zgodilo to zlo?

⁴And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

⁴In levit, mož žene, ki je bila umorjena, odgovori in reče: Prišel sem s priležnico svojo v Gibeo, ki je Benjaminova, da bi tam prenočil.

⁵And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

⁵A meščani v Gibei so se vzdignili zoper mene in so po noči obdali hišo zaradi mene; mene so mislili umoriti, mojo priležnico pa so sramotili, da je umrla.

⁶And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

⁶Tedaj sem vzel priležnico svojo in jo razkrojil v kose in razposlal po vsej deželi dediščine Izraelove; kajti storili so grdobo in nesramnost v Izraelu.

⁷Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

⁷Poglejte, vi vsi sinovi Izraelovi, govorite tu in dajte svet!

⁸And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

⁸Tedaj vstane vse ljudstvo kakor en mož in reče: Nihče izmed nas ne sme iti v šator svoj, nihče naj se ne vrne v hišo svojo!

⁹But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

⁹A to zdaj storimo Gibei: pojdemo proti njim, kakor določi kocka!

¹⁰And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

¹⁰Vzemimo po deset mož iz sto in po sto iz tisoč in po tisoč iz deset tisoč od vseh rodov Izraelovih, da prinašajo hrano ljudstvu, ki naj gre nad Gibeo Benjaminovo in jim stori, kakor zasluži njih nesramnost, ki so jo storili v Izraelu.

¹¹So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

¹¹Tedaj so se zbrali vsi Izraelovi možje zoper tisto mesto, združeni kakor en mož.

¹²And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

¹²In Izraelovi rodovi pošljejo može po vseh Benjaminovih rodovinah, da sporoče: Kakšna hudobnost je to, ki se je med vami zgodila?

¹³Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

¹³Sedaj pa nam izročite tiste hudobne zanikarneže, ki so v Gibei, da jih usmrtimo in odpravimo hudobo izmed Izraela! A Benjaminci niso hoteli slušati glasu bratov svojih, sinov Izraelovih.

¹⁴But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

¹⁴Ampak sinovi Benjaminovi se zbero iz svojih mest pri Gibei, da bi šli v boj zoper sinove Izraelove.

¹⁵And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

¹⁵In tisti dan so bili sešteti sinovi Benjaminovi iz mest: šestindvajset tisoč mož, ki so izdirali meč, razen prebivalcev v Gibei, katerih je bilo naštetih sedemsto izbraniln mož.

¹⁶Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

¹⁶Med vsem tem ljudstvom je bilo sedemsto izbranih mož, levičnikov; vsi so znali s pračo kamene v las metati, ne da bi zgrešili.

¹⁷And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

¹⁷In mož Izraelovih, brez Benjamincev, je bilo seštetih štirikrat sto tisoč mož, ki so izdirali meč; vsi ti so bili vojščaki.

¹⁸And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.

¹⁸In sinovi Izraelovi vstanejo in gredo gori v Betel in vprašajo Boga in reko: Kdo naj gre iz nas prvi vojskovat se s sinovi Benjaminovimi? In GOSPOD veli: Juda naj gre prvi.

¹⁹And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

¹⁹Zjutraj torej vstanejo sinovi Izraelovi in se utabore proti Gibei.

²⁰And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

²⁰In možje Izraelovi gredo v boj zoper Benjamince in se razvrste v bitko ž njimi pri Gibei.

²¹And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

²¹Sinovi Benjaminovi pa planejo iz Gibee in tisti dan pobijejo na tla iz Izraelcev dvaindvajset tisoč mož.

²²And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

²²Ali ljudstvo, možje Izraelovi, se ohrabre med seboj in se zopet razvrste v bitko ob kraju, kjer so se razvrstili prvi dan.

²³(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

²³In Izraelovi sinovi so šli gori in plakali pred GOSPODOM do večera in vprašali so GOSPODA, rekoč: Ali naj zopet grem bojevat se s sinovi Benjamina, brata svojega? GOSPOD veli: Pojdite gori zoper nje!

²⁴And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

²⁴In sinovi Izraelovi se približajo Benjaminovim sinovom drugi dan.

²⁵And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

²⁵In Benjaminci planejo proti njini iz Gibee drugi dan, in zopet pobijejo na tla iz sinov Izraelovih osemnajst tisoč mož, ki so vsi izdirali meč.

²⁶Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

²⁶Nato gredo gori vsi sinovi Izraelovi in vse ljudstvo in pridejo v Betel in plakajo in ostanejo ondi pred GOSPODOM, in so se postili tisti dan do večera in so darovali žgalne in mirovne daritve pred GOSPODOM.

²⁷And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

²⁷In sinovi Izraelovi vprašajo GOSPODA (zakaj skrinja zaveze Božje je tam bila v tistih dneh,

²⁸And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

²⁸in Pinehas, sin Eleazarja, sina Aronovega, je stal pred njo tiste dni), rekoč: Ali naj zopet grem, da se bojujem s sinovi Benjamina, brata svojega, ali naj mirujem? In GOSPOD veli: Pojdite gori, zakaj jutri vam jih dam v roke.

²⁹And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

²⁹In Izrael postavi zasede proti Gibei vseokrog.

³⁰And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

³⁰Nato gredo sinovi Izraelovi gori proti Benjaminovim sinovom tretji dan in razvrste se zoper Gibeo kakor poprej.

³¹And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

³¹In sinovi Benjaminovi pridero proti ljudstvu, in ko se oddaljijo od mesta, začno pobijati nekatere iz ljudstva kakor poprej ob cestah, katerih ena gre gori v Betel, druga pa v Gibeo na polju, in usmrte okoli trideset mož iz Izraela.

³²And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

³²Tedaj reko sinovi Benjaminovi: Padajo pred nami kakor prvikrat. A sinovi Izraelovi reko: Bežimo, da jih odpeljemo od mesta na ceste!

³³And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

³³In vstanejo sinovi Izraelovi s svojega kraja in se razvrste pri Baaltamarju; Izraelci, skriti v zasedi, pa planejo s svojega mesta, s planjave Gebe.

³⁴And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

³⁴In pridere proti Gibei deset tisoč izbranih mož iz vsega Izraela, in bitka je postala trda, a oni niso vedeli, da hiti nesreča nadnje.

³⁵And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

³⁵In GOSPOD je udaril Benjamina pred sinovi Izraelovimi, da so sinovi Izraelovi pobili tisti dan iz Benjamincev petindvajset tisoč in sto mož, ki so vsi izdirali meč.

³⁶So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

³⁶In sinovi Benjaminovi so videli, da so poraženi. Kajti možje Izraelovi so dali Benjamincem prostora, ker so se zanesli na zasede, ki so jih bili postavili proti Gibei.

³⁷And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

³⁷In zasedniki so hiteli in naskočili Gibeo in so se namerili na mesto in vse pobili z ostrino meča.

³⁸Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

³⁸Dogovorili so se pa možje Izraelovi z zasedniki, da napravijo, da se vali kvišku velik dim iz mesta.

³⁹And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

³⁹In obrnejo se možje Izraelovi v bitki, in Benjaminci jih začno biti in pomore iz Izraela okoli trideset mož; mislili so namreč: Zopet so poraženi pred nami kakor v prejšnji bitki.

⁴⁰But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

⁴⁰Ko pa se iz mesta začne dim dvigati kakor steber, se Benjaminci ozro, in glej, vse mesto gre v plamenu proti nebu.

⁴¹And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

⁴¹V tem se obrnejo možje Izraelovi, in možje Benjaminovi se prestrašijo, zakaj videli so, da jih je nesreča dohitela.

⁴²Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

⁴²Krenili so sicer pred možmi Izraelovimi na pot k puščavi, ali vojska je pritiskala za njimi; in tisti, ki pridejo iz mest, jih obkolijo in pobijejo.

⁴³Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

⁴³In obsujejo Benjamince od vseh strani, jih podijo in jih poteptajo na njih počivališču tja do one strani ob Gibei proti solnčnemu vzhodu.

⁴⁴And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

⁴⁴In padlo je iz Benjamina osemnajst tisoč mož, vsi ti so bili hrabri možje.

⁴⁵And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

⁴⁵In obrnejo se in beže proti puščavi, k Rimonski skali. Ali na tej cesti so jih pobili pet tisoč mož in so jim bili trdo za petami tja do Gidoma in so pobili izmed njih dva tisoč mož.

⁴⁶So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

⁴⁶Tako je bilo vseh, ki so tisti dan padli iz Benjamina, petindvajset tisoč mož, ki so izdirali meč in so bili vsi hrabri možje.

⁴⁷But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

⁴⁷Samo šeststo mož se obrne in zbeži v puščavo, k Rimonski skali, in ostanejo na Rimonski skali štiri mesece.A možje Izraelovi se zopet obrnejo na sinove Benjaminove in pobijejo z ostrino meča, kar jih je bilo v mestu, živino in vse, kar zasačijo; tudi vsa mesta, na katera so naleteli, požgo z ognjem.

⁴⁸And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

⁴⁸A možje Izraelovi se zopet obrnejo na sinove Benjaminove in pobijejo z ostrino meča, kar jih je bilo v mestu, živino in vse, kar zasačijo; tudi vsa mesta, na katera so naleteli, požgo z ognjem.