Judges 7
1 तब गिदोन जो यरूब्बाल भी कहलाता है और सब लोग जो उसके संग थे सवेरे उठे, और हरोद नाम सोते के पास अपने डेरे खड़े किए; और मिद्यानियों की छावनी उनकी उत्तरी ओर मोरे नाम पहाड़ी के पास तराई में पड़ी थी॥
2 तब यहोवा ने गिदोन से कहा, जो लोग तेरे संग हैं वे इतने हैं कि मैं मिद्यानियों को उनके हाथ नहीं कर सकता, नहीं तो इस्राएल यह कहकर मेरे विरुद्ध अपनी बड़ाई मारने लगे, कि हम अपने ही भुजबल के द्वारा बचे हैं।
3 इसलिये तू जा कर लोगों में यह प्रचार करके सुना दे, कि जो कोई डर के मारे थरथराता हो, वह गिलाद पहाड़ से लौटकर चला जाए। तब बाईस हजार लोग लौट गए, और केवल दस हजार रह गए।
4 फिर यहोवा ने गिदोन से कहा, अब भी लोग अधिक हैं; उन्हें सोते के पास नीचे ले चल, वहां मैं उन्हें तेरे लिये परखूंगा; और जिस जिसके विषय में मैं तुझ से कहूं, कि यह तेरे संग चले, वह तो तेरे संग चले; और जिस जिसके विषय मे मैं कहूं, कि यह तेरे संग न जाए, वह न जाए।
5 तब वह उन को सोते के पास नीचे ले गया; वहां यहोवा ने गिदोन से कहा, जितने कुत्ते की नाईं जीभ से पानी चपड़ चपड़ करके पीएं उन को अलग रख; और वैसा ही उन्हें भी जो घुटने टेककर पीएं।
6 जिन्होंने मुंह में हाथ लगा चपड़ चपड़ करके पानी पिया उनकी तो गिनती तीन सौ ठहरी; और बाकी सब लोगों ने घुटने टेककर पानी पिया।
7 तब यहोवा ने गिदोन से कहा, इन तीन सौ चपड़ चपड़ करके पीने वालों के द्वारा मैं तुम को छुड़ाऊंगा, और मिद्यानियों को तेरे हाथ में कर दूंगा; और सब लोग अपने अपने स्थान को लौट जाए।
8 तब उन लोगों ने हाथ में सीधा और अपने अपने नरसिंगे लिए; और उसने इस्राएल के सब पुरूषों को अपने अपने डेरे की ओर भेज दिया, परन्तु उन तीन सौ पुरूषों को अपने पास रख छोड़ा; और मिद्यान की छावनी उसके नीचे तराई में पड़ी थी॥
9 उसी रात को यहोवा ने उस से कहा, उठ, छावनी पर चढ़ाई कर; क्योंकि मैं उसे तेरे हाथ कर देता हूं।
10 परन्तु यदि तू चढ़ाई करते डरता हो, तो अपने सेवक फूरा को संग ले कर छावनी के पास जा कर सुन,
11 कि वे क्या कह रहे है; उसके बाद तुझे उस छावनी पर चढ़ाई करने का हियाव होगा। तब वह अपने सेवक फूरा को संग ले उन हथियार-बन्दों के पास जो छावनी की छोर पर थे उतर गया।
12 मिद्यानी और अमालेकी और सब पूर्वी लोग तो टिड्डियों के समान बहुत से तराई में फैले पड़े थे; और उनके ऊंट समुद्रतीर के बालू के किनकों के समान गिनती से बाहर थे।
13 जब गिदोन वहां आया, तब एक जन अपने किसी संगी से अपना स्वप्न यों कह रहा था, कि सुन, मैं ने स्वप्न में क्या देखा है कि जौ की एक रोटी लुढ़कते लुढ़कते मिद्यान की छावनी में आई, और डेरे को ऐसा टक्कर मारा कि वह गिर गया, और उसको ऐसा उलट दिया, कि डेरा गिरा पड़ा रहा।
14 उसके संगी ने उत्तर दिया, यह योआश के पुत्र गिदोन नाम एक इस्राएली पुरूष की तलवार को छोड़ कुछ नहीं है; उसी के हाथ में परमेश्वर ने मिद्यान को सारी छावनी समेत कर दिया है॥
15 उस स्वप्न का वर्णन और फल सुनकर गिदोन ने दण्डवत की; और इस्राएल की छावनी में लौटकर कहा, उठो, यहोवा ने मिद्यानी सेना को तुम्हारे वश में कर दिया है।
16 तब उसने उन तीन सौ पुरूषों के तीन झुण्ड किए, और एक एक पुरूष के हाथ में एक नरसिंगा और खाली घड़ा दिया, और घड़ों के भीतर एक मशाल थी।
17 फिर उसने उन से कहा, मुझे देखो, और वैसा ही करो; सुनो, जब मैं उस छावनी की छोर पर पहुंचूं, तब जैसा मैं करूं वैसा ही तुम भी करना।
18 अर्थात जब मैं और मेरे सब संगी नरसिंगा फूंकें तब तुम भी छावनी की चारों ओर नरसिंगे फूंकना, और ललकारना, कि यहोवा की और गिदोन की तलवार॥
19 बीच वाले पहर के आदि में ज्योंही पहरूओं की बदली हो गई थी त्योहीं गिदोन अपने संग के सौ पुरूषों समेत छावनी की छोर पर गया; और नरसिंगे को फूंक दिया और अपने हाथ के घड़ों को तोड़ डाला।
20 तब तीनों झुण्डों ने नरसिंगों को फूंका और घड़ों को तोड़ डाला; और अपने अपने बाएं हाथ में मशाल और दाहिने हाथ में फूंकने को नरसिंगा लिए हुए चिल्ला उठे, यहोवा की तलवार और गिदोन की तलवार।
21 तब वे छावनी के चारों ओर अपने अपने स्थान पर खड़े रहे, और सब सेना के लोग दौड़ने लगे; और उन्होंने चिल्ला चिल्लाकर उन्हें भगा दिया।
22 और उन्होंने तीन सौ नरसिंगों को फूंका, और यहोवा ने एक एक पुरूष की तलवार उसके संगी पर और सब सेना पर चलवाई; तो सेना के लोग सरेरा की ओर बेतशित्ता तब और तब्बात के पास के आबेलमहोला तक भाग गए।
23 तब इस्राएली पुरूष नप्ताली और आशेर और मनश्शे के सारे देश से इकट्ठे हो कर मिद्यानियों के पीछे पड़े।
24 और गिदोन ने एप्रैम के सब पहाड़ी देश में यह कहने को दूत भेज दिए, कि मिद्यानियों से मुठभेड़ करने को चले आओ, और यरदन नदी के घाटों को बेतबारा तक उन से पहिले अपने वश में कर लो। तब सब एप्रैमी पुरूषों ने इकट्ठे हो कर यरदन नदी को बेतबारा तक अपने वश में कर लिया।
25 और उन्होंने ओरेब और जेब नाम मिद्यान के दो हाकिमों को पकड़ा; और ओरेब को ओरेब नाम चट्टान पर, और जेब को जेब नाम दाखरस के कुण्ड पर घात किया; और वे मिद्यानियों के पीछे पड़े; और ओरेब और जेब के सिर यरदन के पार गिदोन के पास ले गए॥
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
7 And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath.
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.