Juízes 7

1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’" So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

4 Yahweh said to Gideon, "There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go." 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink." 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, "I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place."

8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley. 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, "Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp. 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp." Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."

14 His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army."

15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!"

16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

17 He said to them, "Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’"

19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!" 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian. 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!" So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. 25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

Te Patua a ngā Miriani e Kiriona

1 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Ierupāra, arā a Kiriona, rātou ko tōna nuinga katoa, ā, noho ana i te puna o Haroro; ā, i te taha ki te raki o rātou te puni o Miriana, i te puke o More, i te raorao.

2 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Kiriona, "He nui rawa te iwi i a koe nei hei hoatutanga māku i ngā Miriani ki ō rātou ringa, kei whakapehapeha a Īharaira ki ahau, kei mea, ‘Nā tōku ringa ake ahau i whakaora.’ 3 Nā, tēnā, karanga ki ngā taringa o te iwi, mea atu, ‘Ki te wehi, ki te pāwera tētahi, hoki atu, hohoro te haere atu i Maunga Kireara.’ " Nā, e rua tekau mā rua mano o te iwi i hoki; ā, mahue iho, kotahi tekau mano.

4 I mea anō a Ihowā ki a Kiriona, "He nui rawa anō te iwi nā; kawea rātou ki raro, ki te wai, ā, ko ahau hei kaiwhakamātautau māu i a rātou ki reira; ā, ko tāku e mea ai ki a koe, ‘Me haere tahi tēnei i a koe; ko ia e haere tahi i a koe,’ ā, ko tāku e mea ai ki a koe, ‘E kore tēnei e haere tahi i a koe,’ kaua tēnā e haere."

5 Nā, ko tāna kawenga i te iwi ki raro, ki te wai, ā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Kiriona, "Ko te hunga katoa e mitikia ai te wai ki ō rātou arero, pērā me te kurī e miti nei, me whakatū rātou ki tahaki me te hunga katoa anō e tūturi ana ki te inu." 6 Ā, ko te tokomaha o te hunga i mitimiti, me te pā anō o ō rātou ringa ki ō rātou māngai, e toru rau tāngata; i tūturi ia te nuinga katoa o te iwi ki te inu i te wai.

7 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Kiriona, "Mā ngā rau tāngata e toru i mitimiti rā e whakaora ai ahau i a koutou, e hoatu ai hoki ngā Miriani ki tōu ringa, ā, kia haere te iwi katoa tērā, tērā, ki tōna wāhi." 8 Nā, ka mauria e te iwi he ō ki ō rātou ringa, me ā rātou tētere; ko te nuinga ia o Īharaira i tonoa e ia ki tōna tēneti, ki tōna tēneti, ā, puritia ana aua tāngata e toru rā.

Nā, i raro i a ia te puni o Miriana, i te raorao. 9 Nā, i taua pō anō ka mea a Ihowā ki a ia, "Whakatika, haere ki raro, ki te puni rā, kua hoatu hoki e ahau ki tōu ringa. 10 Ā, ki te wehi koe ki te haere ki raro, haere kōrua ko Pura, ko tāu tangata, ki raro ki te puni. 11 Ā, ka rongo koe ki ā rātou kōrero, muri iho ka māia ōu ringa, ā, ka haere koe ki raro, ki te puni." Nā, ko tō rāua haerenga atu ko tāna tangata, ko Pura, ki te hiku o ngā matua o te puni. 12 Ā, e takoto haere ana i te raorao ngā Miriani, rātou ko ngā Amareki, me ngā tamariki katoa o te rāwhiti, kei te māwhitiwhiti te tokomaha; me ā rātou kāmera, kāhore e taea te tatau; rite tahi ki te onepū i te taha o te moana te tokomaha.

13 Ā, nō te taenga atu o Kiriona, nā, e kōrero ana tētahi i te moe ki tōna hoa, e mea ana, "Nanā, moe iho ahau, he keke taro pāre e takahuri mai ana ki te puni o Miriana. Nā, kua tae mai ki te tēneti; kua āki atu; nā, kua hinga, kua huri kōaro, ā, takoto ana te tēneti."

14 Nā, ka utu tōna hoa, ka mea, "Ehara tēnā i te mea kē atu i te hoari a Kiriona tama a Ioaha, he tangata nō Īharaira; kua hoatu e te Atua a Miriana me te ope katoa ki tōna ringa."

15 Ā, i te rongonga o Kiriona i te kōrerotanga o te moe, i tōna tikanga, nā, ka koropiko ia, ā, hoki ana ki te puni o Īharaira, ka mea, "Whakatika, kua hōmai hoki e te Atua te ope o Miriana ki ō koutou ringa." 16 Kātahi ka wehea e ia ngā tāngata e toru rau, kia toru ngā matua, ā, whakawhiwhia ana e ia ngā ringa o rātou katoa ki te tētere, ki te oko tahanga, ki te rama i roto i te oko.

17 I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Me titiro mai ki ahau, ā, kia rite tā koutou ki tāku; nā, e tae ahau ki te wāhi i waho rawa o te puni, ko tāku e mea ai, kia pērā hoki koutou. 18 Ka whakatangi ahau i te tētere, mātou ko ōku hoa katoa, me whakatangi hoki koutou i ngā tētere i ngā taha katoa o te puni, me te karanga anō, ‘Ko te hoari a Ihowā, a Kiriona!’ "

19 Nā, ka tae a Kiriona me te rau tāngata i a ia ki te wāhi i waho rawa o te puni, i te tīmatanga o tō waenga mataaratanga, i te mea kātahi anō ka whakatūria atu ngā kaimataara. Nā, whakatangihia ana e rātou ngā tētere, ā, wāhia iho ngā oko i ō rātou ringa. 20 Ā, whakatangihia ana hoki ngā tētere e ngā matua e toru, wāhia iho ngā oko, i puritia anō ngā rama ki ō rātou ringa mauī, me ngā tētere ki ō rātou ringa matau whakatangi ai; me tā rātou karanga hoki, "Ko te hoari a Ihowā, a Kiriona." 21 Nā, tū ana rātou i tōna tūranga, i tōna tūranga, taiāwhio noa te puni; ā, ka rere katoa te puni; ā, ko tō rātou hāmamatanga, nā, ko te whatinga.

22 I whakatangihia hoki e rātou ngā tētere e toru rau, ā, meinga ana e Ihowā kia anga te hoari a tēnei tangata, a tēnei tangata, ki tōna hoa, ki tōna hoa, ki te ope katoa anō hoki; ā, ka whati te ope tae noa ki Petehita e ahu atu ana ki Tererara, tae noa ki te rohe o Āperemehora, e tata ana ki Tapata. 23 Kātahi ka huihuia ngā tāngata o Īharaira, i roto i a Napatari, i a Āhera, i a Mānahi katoa, ā, whāia ana a Miriana e rātou. 24 Ā, i tono karere a Kiriona, puta noa i te whenua pukepuke katoa o Ēparaima hei mea, "Haere mai ki raro ki te whawhai ki a Miriana; tangohia hoki ngā wai i mua i a rātou, ā puta noa ki Petepara ki Horano."

Nā, ka huihui ngā tāngata katoa o Ēparaima, ā, tangohia ana ngā wai, ā puta noa ki Petepara ki Horano. 25 Ā, tokorua ngā rangatira o Miriana i mau i a rātou, ko Orepe rāua ko Teepe; ā, patua iho e rātou a Orepe ki te kāmaka a Orepe, i patua hoki a Teepe ki te poka wāina a Teepe, ā, whāia ana e rātou a Miriana, ā, kawea ana e rātou ngā mātenga o Orepe rāua ko Teepe ki a Kiriona ki tāwāhi o Horano.