Juízes 20

1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. 2 The chiefs 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 who drew sword. 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?"

4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. 5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead. 6 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. 7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel."

8 All the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house. 9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; 10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel." 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that has happened among you? 13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel."

But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel. 14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. 15 The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men. 16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss. 17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.

18 The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?"

Yahweh said, "Judah first."

19 The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah. 20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah. 21 The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground. 22 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day. 23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?"

Yahweh said, "Go up against him."

24 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. 25 Benjamin went out 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.

26 Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. 27 The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28 and 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?"

Yahweh said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand."

29 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. 30 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. 31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

32 The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba. 34 Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them. 35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword. 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. 37 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. 38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city. 39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle." 40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky. 41 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them. 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it. 43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise. 44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor. 45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them. 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor. 47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months. 48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.

Te Whakarite a Īharaira mō te Pakanga

1 Nā, ka puta ngā tamariki katoa a Īharaira, ā, huihui ana te whakaminenga me te mea he tangata kotahi, nō Rāna mai anō a Peerehepa atu ana, nō te whenua anō hoki o Kireara, ki a Ihowā, ki Mihipa. 2 I puta mai anō ngā rangatira o te iwi katoa, o ngā iwi katoa o Īharaira, i roto i te huihui o te iwi a te Atua, e whā rau ngā mano, he hunga haere i raro, he hunga mau hoari. 3 Ā, i rongo ngā tamariki a Pineamine kua tae ngā tamariki a Īharaira ki Mihipa. Nā, ka mea ngā tamariki a Īharaira, "Kōrerotia mai i pēheatia tēnei mea kino."

4 Nā, ka utua e te Rīwaiti, e te tangata nāna te wahine i kōhurutia rā, ka mea, "I haere mai ahau ki Kipea, ki tērā i a Pineamine, māua ko tāku wahine iti, moe ai. 5 Nā, ko te whakatikanga mai o ngā tāngata o Kipea ki ahau, kei te karapoti i te whare i te pō, he mea hoki mōku; i mea rātou kia patua ahau; nā, whakaititia ana tāku wahine ā mate iho. 6 Nā, ka mau ahau ki tāku wahine, ā, tapatapahia ana e ahau, hoatu ana kia kawea puta noa i te whenua, i te kāinga tupu o Īharaira, mō rātou i mahi i te mahi kino, i te mahi pōauau i roto i a Īharaira. 7 Nā, e ngā tamariki a Īharaira, koutou katoa, hōmai ki konei tā koutou kupu, me tō koutou whakaaro."

8 Nā, ka whakatika katoa te iwi ānō he tangata kotahi, ka mea, "E kore tētahi o tātou e haere ki tōna tēneti, e kore anō hoki tētahi o tātou e peka atu ki tōna whare. 9 Engari, ko tā tātou tēnei e mea ai ki Kipea: Mā te rota te tikanga mō tā tātou whawhai ki reira. 10 Me tango tāngata, kia tekau i roto i te rau, i ngā iwi katoa o Īharaira, he rau i roto i te mano, he mano i roto i te tekau mano, hei mau ō mō te iwi; ā, ka tae ki Kipea o Pineamine ka rite tā rātou e mea ai ki ngā mea pōauau katoa i mahia e rātou i roto i a Īharaira." 11 Heoi, huihui ana ngā tāngata katoa o Īharaira hei whakaeke mō te pā, piri tonu me te mea he tangata kotahi rātou.

12 Nā, ka tono tāngata ngā iwi o Īharaira puta noa i te iwi katoa o Pineamine, hei mea, "He aha tēnei mea kino kua meatia nei i roto i a koutou? 13 Nā, hōmai āianei aua tāngata, ngā tama a Periara, i Kipea, kia whakamatea e mātou, kia whakakorea ai te kino i roto i a Īharaira."

Otiia kīhai a Pineamine i pai ki te whakarongo ki te reo o ō rātou tuākana, o ngā tamariki a Īharaira. 14 Nā, ka huihui ngā tama a Pineamine i roto i ngā pā ki Kipea, ka haere ki te whawhai ki ngā tama a Īharaira. 15 Nā, ka taua i taua rā ngā tama a Pineamine o ngā pā, e rua tekau mā ono mano ngā tāngata, he hunga mau hoari; tērā atu anō ngā tāngata o Kipea; i taua rātou e whitu rau tāngata, whiriwhiri rawa. 16 Kei roto anō i tēnei hunga katoa ētahi, e whitu rau, he hunga whiriwhiri, he mauī; ko ēnei katoa he hunga e piua ai te kōhatu ki te huruhuru māhunga, ā, e kore e taha.

17 I taua anō hoki ngā tāngata o Īharaira, ngā mea ehara i a Pineamine, e whā rau mano tāngata, he hunga mau hoari; he hunga hāpai pakanga ēnei katoa.

18 Kātahi ngā tama a Īharaira ka whakatika, ka haere ki Pētēre, ka ui atu ki te Atua, ka mea, "Ko wai o mātou hei tīmata te haere ki te whawhai ki ngā tama a Pineamine?"

Nā, ka mea a Ihowā, "Mā Hūrā e tīmata."

19 Nā, ka maranga ngā tama a Īharaira i te ata, ā, ka noho ki Kipea. 20 Nā, ka haere ngā tama a Īharaira ki te whawhai ki a Pineamine; ā, whakaritea ana ā rātou ngohi e ngā tama a Īharaira mō te whawhai ki Kipea. 21 Nā, ka puta ngā tama a Pineamine i roto i Kipea, ā, pirau rawa i a rātou ki te whenua i taua rā e rua tekau mā rua mano o ngā tāngata o Īharaira. 22 Nā, ka whakatenatena te iwi, ngā tāngata o Īharaira, i a rātou anō, ā, whakaritea ana anō ā rātou ngohi kia whawhai ai ki taua wāhi anō i whakaritea ai i te rā tuatahi. 23 I haere anō ngā tama a Īharaira, i tangi ki te aroaro o Ihowā ā ahiahi noa, i ui atu hoki ki a Ihowā, i mea, "Me haere atu anō ahau ki te whawhai ki ngā tama a Pineamine, a tōku teina?"

Nā, ka mea a Ihowā, "Haere ki te whawhai ki a ia."

24 Nā, ka whakatata ngā tama a Īharaira ki ngā tama a Pineamine i te rua o ngā rā. 25 I puta mai anō a Pineamine i roto i Kipea i te rua o ngā rā ki te tū ki a rātou, ā, pirau rawa anō i a rātou ki te whenua tekau mā waru mano o ngā tama a Īharaira; he hunga mau hoari katoa ēnei.

26 Kātahi ka haere ngā tama katoa a Īharaira me te iwi katoa, ā, ka tae ki Pētēre. Nā, ka tangi rātou, ā, ka noho i reira ki te aroaro o Ihowā, kāhore rawa, hoki i kai i taua rā ā ahiahi noa; me te whakaeke anō hoki i ngā tahunga tinana, i ngā whakahere mō te pai ki te aroaro o Ihowā. 27 Nā, ka ui ngā tama a Īharaira ki a Ihowā, i reira hoki te āka o te kawenata a te Atua i aua rā, 28 ko Pinehaha hoki, tama a Ereātara, tama a Ārona, te tū ana i tōna aroaro i aua rā; ka mea rātou, "Me haere atu anō ahau ki te whawhai ki ngā tama a Pineamine, a tōku teina, me whakamutu rānei?"

Nā, ka mea a Ihowā, "Haere, ko āpōpō hoki rātou hoatu ai e ahau ki tōu ringa."

29 Kātahi ka whakatakotoria he pehipehi e Īharaira mō Kipea ā taka noa, taka noa. 30 Nā, ka haere ngā tama a Īharaira ki ngā tama a Pineamine i te toru o ngā rā, e whakatakotoria ana ngā ngohi hei whawhai ki Kipea, pērā anō me mua rā. 31 Nā, ko te putanga mai o ngā tama a Pineamine ki te tū ki te iwi, manukāwhakitia ana rātou i te pā. Nā, ka tīmata rātou te patu i ētahi o te iwi, te tukituki, te pērā me mua rā, i ngā huarahi e tika atu rā, ko tētahi ki Pētēre, ko tētahi ki Kipea i te pārae, me te mea e toru tekau ngā tāngata o Īharaira.

32 Nā, ka mea ngā tama a Pineamine, "Kua hinga rātou i a tātou, kua pērā me tō te tīmatanga." Otiia i mea ngā tama a Īharaira, "Kia rere atu tātou; me manukāwhaki mai rātou i roto i te pā ki ngā huarahi."

33 Nā, ka whakatika ake ngā tāngata katoa o Īharaira i ō rātou wāhi, ā, ka tū ā-matua ki Paara-Tamara; i puta mai anō ngā pehipehi o Īharaira i tō rātou wāhi, arā i Marehekepa. 34 Nā, haere tonu atu ki Kipea ngā tāngata kotahi tekau mano, he hunga whiriwhiri i roto i a Īharaira katoa, ā, ka nui haere te whawhai; kīhai rātou i mōhio ka tata te kino ki a rātou. 35 Nā, patua iho e Ihowā a Pineamine i te aroaro o Īharaira, ā, ngaro iho o Pineamine i ngā tama a Īharaira i taua rā, e rua tekau mā rima mano kotahi rau; he hunga mau hoari ēnei katoa. 36 Heoi, ka kite ngā tama a Pineamine e patua ana rātou.

I tukua mai a Pineamine e ngā tāngata o Īharaira, i whakamanawa atu hoki ki te pehipehi i whakatakotoria e rātou ki Kipea. 37 Nā, hohoro tonu te pehipehi, huakina ana e rātou a Kipea; te unuhanga mai hoki o te pehipehi, nā, patua iho e rātou te pā katoa ki te mata o te hoari. 38 Nā, kua oti tētahi tohu te whakarite e ngā tāngata o Īharaira ki te pehipehi, arā kia meinga e rātou kia nui te kake o te pongere o te paowa i te pā. 39 Ā, i te whatinga o ngā tāngata o Īharaira i te mea e whawhai ana.

Ka anga a Pineamine ka patu, ka tukituki i ngā tāngata o Īharaira, me te mea e toru tekau tāngata; i mea hoki rātou, "Koia rawa anō! E hinga ana anō rātou i a tātou, e pērā ana anō me tō te whawhaitanga tuatahi." 40 Otiia ka tīmata nei te kake o te pongere o te pā ki runga, me te pou auahi, nā, ka titiro ngā Pineamini ki muri i a rātou, nā, kua pau te pā i te ahi, e kake ana tērā he paowa ki te rangi. 41 Ko te tahuritanga atu o ngā tāngata o Īharaira, kanakana kau ana ngā tāngata o Pineamine; i kite hoki rātou kua tae mai te hē ki a rātou. 42 Nā reira ka whati rātou i te aroaro o ngā tāngata o Īharaira ki te huarahi ki te koraha; otiia i pipiri tonu te whai a te hoariri i a rātou. Nā, ko te hunga i puta mai i roto i ngā pā, kei te whakangaro i a rātou, he mea karapoti nā rātou. 43 Ka karapotia e rātou ngā Pineamini ā taka noa, ā, whāia ana, takatakahia ana i ō rātou okiokinga, i te ritenga atu o Kipea whaka te rāwhiti. 44 Ā, kotahi tekau mā waru mano o ngā tāngata o Pineamine i hinga; he hunga māia ēnei katoa. 45 Nā, ka whati rātou, ā, rere ana ki te koraha, ki te kāmaka o Rimono; ā, e rima mano tāngata i hamua e rātou ki ngā huarahi, nā, ka whāia anō rātou ki Kiromo, ā, patua iho o rātou e rua mano tāngata.

46 Nā, ko te hunga katoa i hinga o Pineamine i taua rā, e rua tekau mā rima mano, he hunga mau hoari; he hunga māia katoa ēnei. 47 Ā, e ono rau tāngata i tahuri, i rere ki te koraha, ki te kāmaka o Rimono, ā, e whā ngā marama i noho ai ki te kāmaka o Rimono. 48 Ā, i tahuri atu anō ngā tāngata o Īharaira ki ngā tama a Pineamine, ā, patua iho rātou ki te mata o te hoari, ko ngā tāngata o ngā pā, me ngā kararehe, me ngā mea katoa i tūpono atu ai rātou; i tūngia anō e rātou ki te ahi ngā pā katoa i tae atu ai rātou.