士師記 第 3 章

And these are the nations which the Lord left, so as to test Israel by them, all those who had not known the wars of Canaan;

only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel, to teach them war; only those before them had not known these things.

the five satrapies of the Philistines, and all the Canaanite, and the Sidonian, and the Hivite who dwelt in Lebanon, from Mount Hermon as far as Laboemath.

And it came about so as to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And the sons of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Pherezite and the Hivite and the Jebusite;

and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

And the sons of Israel did what was evil before the Lord, and they forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baalim and the groves.

And the Lord was angry with wrath against Israel, and sold them into the hand of Chousarsathaim king of Syria of the Rivers; and the sons of Israel served Chousarsathaim eight years.

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up a savior for Israel, and he saved them: Gothoniel son of Kenez, the brother of Chaleb, the younger than he.

And the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel and went out to war against Chousarsathaim; and the Lord delivered into his hand Chousarsathaim king of Syria of the Rivers, and his hand prevailed over Chousarsathaim.

And the land was quiet forty years; and Gothoniel son of Kenez died.

And the sons of Israel again did what was evil before the Lord; and the Lord strengthened Eglom king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil before the Lord.

And he gathered to himself all the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel, and took possession of the City of Palms.

And the sons of Israel served Eglom king of Moab eighteen years.

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and he raised up for them a savior, Aod son of Gera, son of Iemeni, a man ambidextrous; and the sons of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab.

And Aod made for himself a two-edged dagger, a span in its length, and girded it under his cloak upon his right thigh.

And he went and presented the gifts to Eglom king of Moab; and Eglom was a very handsome man.

And it came to pass, when Aod had finished presenting the gifts, that he sent away those who carried the gifts.

But he himself turned back from the carved images that were by Galgal, and Aod said: I have a secret word for you, O king. And Eglom said to him: Be silent. And he sent away from himself all who stood by him.

And Aod came in to him; and he was sitting in his own summer upper chamber, quite alone. And Aod said: I have a word of God for you, O king. And Eglom rose up from the throne near him.

And it came to pass, as he arose, that Aod stretched out his left hand and took the dagger from off his right thigh and thrust it into his belly;

and he drove in even the hilt after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly; and Aod went out through the vestibule.

And he went out past those who were drawn up, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and bolted them.

And he went out, and his servants came in and looked, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were bolted; and they said: Perhaps he is relieving himself in the summer chamber.

And they waited until they were ashamed; and behold, there was no one opening the doors of the upper chamber. So they took the key and opened, and behold, their lord had fallen on the ground, dead.

But Aod escaped while they were in confusion, and there was no one who paid attention to him; and he passed by the carved images and escaped to Setirotha.

And it came to pass, when Aod came into the land of Israel, that he sounded a horn trumpet in Mount Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he was before them.

And he said to them: Come down after me, for the Lord God has delivered our enemies, Moab, into our hand. And they went down after him and seized beforehand the fords of the Jordan of Moab, and he did not allow a man to cross over.

And they struck Moab on that day, about ten thousand men, every stout one and every man of valor; and not a man escaped.

And Moab was humbled on that day under the hand of Israel; and the land was quiet eighty years. And Aod judged them until he died.

And after him arose Samegar son of Dinach, and he struck the Philistines, six hundred men, with the ploughshare of the oxen; and he also saved Israel.