Judges 3
1 इस्राएलियों में से जितने कनान में की लड़ाईयों में भागी न हुए थे, उन्हें परखने के लिये यहोवा ने इन जातियों को देश में इसलिये रहने दिया;
2 कि पीढ़ी पीढ़ी के इस्राएलियों में से जो लड़ाई को पहिले न जानते थे वे सीखें, और जान लें,
3 अर्थात पांचो सरदारों समेत पलिश्तियों, और सब कनानियों, और सीदोनियों, और बालहेर्मोन नाम पहाड़ से ले कर हमात की तराई तक लबानोन पर्वत में रहने वाले हिव्वियों को।
4 ये इसलिये रहने पाए कि उनके द्वारा इस्राएलियों की बात में परीक्षा हो, कि जो आज्ञाएं यहोवा ने मूसा के द्वारा उनके पूर्वजों को दिलाई थीं, उन्हें वे मानेंगे वा नहीं।
5 इसलिये इस्राएली कनानियों, हित्तियों, एमोरियों, परिज्जियों, हिव्वियों, और यबूसियों के बीच में बस गए;
6 तब वे उनकी बेटियां ब्याह में लेने लगे, और अपनी बेटियां उनके बेटों को ब्याह में देने लगे; और उनके देवताओं की भी उपासना करने लगे॥
7 इस प्रकार इस्राएलियों ने यहोवा की दृष्टि में बुरा किया, और अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा को भूलकर बाल नाम देवताओं और अशेरा नाम देवियों की उपासना करने लग गए।
8 तब यहोवा का क्रोध इस्राएलियों पर भड़का, और उसने उन को अरम्नहरैम के राजा कूशत्रिशातैम के आधीन कर दिया; सो इस्राएली आठ वर्ष तक कूशत्रिशातैम के आधीन में रहे।
9 तब इस्राएलियों ने यहोवा की दोहाई दी, और उसने इस्राएलियों के लिये कालेब के छोटे भाई ओत्नीएल नाम एक कनजी छुड़ाने वाले को ठहराया, और उसने उन को छुड़ाया।
10 उस में यहोवा का आत्मा समाया, और वह इस्राएलियों का न्यायी बन गया, और लड़ने को निकला, और यहोवा ने अराम के राजा कूशत्रिशातैम को उसके हाथ में कर दिया; और वह कूशत्रिशातैम पर जयवन्त हुआ।
11 तब चालीस वर्ष तक देश में शान्ति बनी रही। और उन्हीं दिनों में कन्जी ओत्नीएल मर गया॥
12 तब इस्राएलियों ने फिर यहोवा की दृष्टि में बुरा किया; और यहोवा ने मोआब के राजा एग्लोन को इस्राएल पर प्रबल किया, क्योंकि उन्होंने यहोवा की दृष्टि में बुरा किया था।
13 इसलिये उसने अम्मोनियों और अमालेकियों को अपने पास इकट्ठा किया, और जा कर इस्राएल को मार लिया; और खजूर वाले नगर को अपने वश में कर लिया।
14 तब इस्राएली अठारह वर्ष तक मोआब के राजा एग्लोन के आधीन में रहे।
15 फिर इस्राएलियों ने यहोवा की दोहाई दी, और उसने गेरा के पुत्र एहूद नाम एक बिन्यामीनी को उनका छुड़ाने वाला ठहराया; वह बैंहत्था था। इस्राएलियों ने उसी के हाथ से मोआब के राजा एग्लोन के पास कुछ भेंट भेजी।
16 एहूद ने हाथ भर लम्बी एक दोधारी तलवार बनवाई थी, और उसको अपने वस्त्र के नीचे दाहिनी जांघ पर लटका लिया।
17 तब वह उस भेंट को मोआब के राजा एग्लोन के पास जो बड़ा मोटा पुरूष था ले गया।
18 जब वह भेंट को दे चुका, तब भेंट के लाने वाले को विदा किया।
19 परन्तु वह आप गिलगाल के निकट की खुदी हुई मूरतों के पास लौट गया, और एग्लोन के पास कहला भेजा, कि हे राजा, मुझे तुझ से एक भेद की बात कहनी है। तब राजा ने कहा, थोड़ी देर के लिये बाहर जाओ। तब जितने लोग उसके पास उपस्थित थे वे सब बाहर चले गए।
20 तब एहूद उसके पास गया; वह तो अपनी एक हवादार अटारी में अकेला बैठा था। एहूद ने कहा, परमेश्वर की ओर से मुझे तुझ से एक बात कहनी है। तब वह गद्दी पर से उठ खड़ा हुआ।
21 इतने में एहूद ने अपना बायां हाथ बढ़ाकर अपनी दाहिनी जांघ पर से तलवार खींचकर उसकी तोंद में घुसेड़ दी;
22 और फल के पीछे मूठ भी पैठ गई, ओर फल चर्बी में धंसा रहा, क्योंकि उसने तलवार को उसकी तोंद में से न निकाला; वरन वह उसके आरपार निकल गई।
23 तब एहूद छज्जे से निकलकर बाहर गया, और अटारी के किवाड़ खींचकर उसको बन्द करके ताला लगा दिया।
24 उसके निकल जाते ही राजा के दास आए, तो क्या देखते हैं, कि अटारी के किवाड़ों में ताला लगा है; इस कारण वे बोले, कि निश्चय वह हवादार कोठरी में लघुशंका करता होगा।
25 वे बाट जोहते जोहते लज्जित हो गए; तब यह देखकर कि वह अटारी के किवाड़ नहीं खोलता, उन्होंने कुंजी ले कर किवाड़ खोले तो क्या देखा, कि उनका स्वामी भूमि पर मरा पड़ा है।
26 जब तक वे सोच विचार कर ही रहे थे तब तक एहूद भाग निकला, और खूदी हुई मूरतों की परली ओर हो कर सेइरे में जा कर शरण ली।
27 वहां पहुंचकर उसने एप्रैम के पहाड़ी देश में नरसिंगा फूंका; तब इस्राएली उसके संग हो कर पहाड़ी देश से उसके पीछे पीछे नीचे गए।
28 और उसने उन से कहा, मेरे पीछे पीछे चले आओ; क्योंकि यहोवा ने तुम्हारे मोआबी शत्रुओं को तुम्हारे हाथ में कर दिया है। तब उन्होंने उसके पीछे पीछे जाके यरदन के घाटों को जो मोआब देश की ओर है ले लिया, और किसी को उतरने न दिया।
29 उस समय उन्होंने कोई दस हजार मोआबियों को मार डाला; वे सब के सब हृष्ट पुष्ट और शूरवीर थे, परन्तु उन में से एक भी न बचा।
30 इस प्रकार उस समय मोआब इस्राएल के हाथ के तले दब गया। तब अस्सी वर्ष तक देश में शान्ति बनी रही॥
31 उसके बाद अनात का पुत्र शमगर हुआ, उसने छ: सौ पलिश्ती पुरूषों को बैल के पैने से मार डाला; इस कारण वह भी इस्राएल का छुड़ाने वाला हुआ॥
1 Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past thy borders.
23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.