사사기 11

1길르앗 사람 큰 용사 입다는 기생이 길르앗에게 낳은 아들이었고 2길르앗의 아내도 아들들을 낳았더라 아내의 아들들이 자라매 입다를 쫓아내며 그에게 이르되 너는 다른 여인의 자식이니 우리 아버지 집 기업을 잇지 못하리라 한지라 3이에 입다가 그 형제를 피하여 돕 땅에 거하매 잡류가 그에게로 모여와서 그와 함께 출입하였더라 4얼마 후에 암몬 자손이 이스라엘을 치려 하니라 5암몬 자손이 이스라엘을 치려 할 때에 길르앗 장로들이 입다를 데려 오려고 돕 땅에 가서 6입다에게 이르되 우리가 암몬 자손과 싸우려 하나니 당신은 와서 우리의 장관이 되라 7입다가 길르앗 장로들에게 이르되 너희가 전에 나를 미워하여 내 아버지 집에서 쫓아내지 아니하였느냐 이제 너희가 환난을 당하였다고 어찌하여 내게 왔느냐 8길르앗 장로들이 대답하되 이제 우리가 당신을 찾아온 것은 우리와 함께 가서 암몬 자손과 싸우려 하게 함이니 그리하면 우리 길르앗 모든 거민의 머리가 되리라 9입다가 길르앗 장로들에게 이르되 너희가 나를 데리고 본향으로 돌아가서 암몬 자손과 싸우게 할 때에 만일 여호와께서 그들을 네게 붙이시면 내가 과연 너희 머리가 되겠느냐 10길르앗 장로들이 입다에게 이르되 여호와는 우리 사이의 증인이시니 당신의 말대로 우리가 반드시 행하리이다 11이에 입다가 길르앗 장로들과 함께 가니 백성이 그로 자기들의 머리와 장관을 삼은지라 입다가 미스바에서 자기의 말을 다 여호와 앞에 고하니라 12입다가 암몬 자손의 왕에게 사자를 보내어 이르되 네가 나와 무슨 상관이 있기에 내 땅을 치러 내게 왔느냐 13암몬 자손의 왕이 입다의 사자에게 대답하되 이스라엘이 애굽에서 올라올 때에 아르논에서부터 얍복과 요단까지 내 땅을 취한 연고니 이제 그것을 화평히 다시 돌리라 14입다가 암몬 자손의 왕에게 다시 사자를 보내어 15그에게 이르되 입다가 말하노라 이스라엘이 모압 땅과 암몬 자손의 땅을 취하지 아니하였느니라 16이스라엘이 애굽에서 올라올 때에 광야로 행하여 홍해에 이르고 가데스에 이르러서는 17이스라엘이 사자를 에돔 왕에게 보내어 이르기를 청컨대 나를 용납하여 네 땅 가운데로 지나게 하라 하였으나 에돔 왕이 이를 듣지 아니하였고 또 그같이 사람을 모압 왕에게 보내었으나 그도 허락지 아니함으로 이스라엘이 아데스에 유하였더니 18그 후에 광야를 지나 에돔 땅과 모압 땅을 둘러 행하여 모압 땅 동편에서부터 와서 아르논은 모압 경계이므로 그 경내에는 들어가지 아니하였으며 19이스라엘이 헤스본 왕 곧 아모리 왕 시혼에게 사자를 보내어 그에게 이르되 청컨대 우리를 용납하여 당신의 땅으로 지나 우리 곳에 이르게 하라 하였으나 20시혼이 이스라엘을 믿지 아니하여 그 지경으로 지나지 못하게 할뿐 아니라 그 모든 백성을 모아 야하스에 진 치고 이스라엘을 치므로 21이스라엘의 하나님 여호와께서 시혼과 그 모든 백성을 이스라엘의 손에 붙이시매 이스라엘이 쳐서 그 땅 거민 아모리 사람의 온 땅을 취하되 22아르논에서부터 얍복까지와 광야에서부터 요단까지 아모리 사람의 온 지경을 취하었느니라 23이스라엘 하나님 여호와께서 이같이 아모리 사람을 자기 백성 이스라엘 앞에서 쫓아내셨거늘 네가 그 땅을 얻고자 하는 것이 가하냐 24네 신 그모스가 네게 주어 얻게 한 땅을 네가 얻지 않겠느냐 우리 하나님 여호와께서 우리 앞에서 어떤 사람이든지 쫓아내시면 그 땅을 우리가 얻으리라 25이제 네가 모압 왕 십볼의 아들 발락보다 나은 것이 있느냐 그가 이스라엘로 더불어 다툰 일이 있었느냐 싸운 일이 있었느냐 26이스라엘이 헤스본과 그 향촌들과 아로엘과 그 향촌들과 아르논 연안에 있는 모든 성읍에 거한지 삼백 년이어늘 그 동안 너희가 어찌하여 도로 찾지 아니하였느냐 27내가 네게 죄를 짓지 아니하였거늘 네가 나를 쳐서 내게 악을 행하고자 하는도다 원컨대 심판하시는 여호와는 오늘날 이스라엘 자손과 암몬 자손의 사이에 판결하시옵소서 하나 28암몬 자손의 왕이 입다의 보내어 말한 것을 듣지 아니하였더라 29이에 여호와의 신이 입다에게 임하시니 입다가 길르앗과 므낫세를 지나서 길르앗 미스베에 이르고 길르앗 미스베에서부터 암몬 자손들에게로 나아갈 때에 30그가 여호와께 서원하여 가로되 주께서 과연 암몬 자손을 내게 붙이시면 31내가 암몬 자손에게서 평안히 돌아올 때에 누구든지 내 집 문에서 나와서 나를 영접하는 그는 여호와께 돌릴 것이니 내가 그를 번제로 드리겠나이다 하니라 32이에 입다가 암몬 자손에게 이르러 그들과 싸우더니 여호와께서 그들을 그 손에 붙이시매 33아로엘에서부터 민닛에 이르기까지 이십 성읍을 치고 또 아벨 그라밈까지 크게 도륙하니 이에 암몬 자손이 이스라엘 자손 앞에 항복하였더라 34입다가 미스바에 돌아와 자기 집에 이를 때에 그 딸이 소고를 잡고 춤추며 나와서 영접하니 그의 무남독녀라 35입다가 이를 보고 자기 옷을 찢으며 가로되 슬프다 내 딸이여 너는 나로 하여금 참담케 하는 자요 너는 나를 괴롭게 하는 자 중의 하나이로다 내가 여호와를 향하여 입을 열었으니 능히 돌이키지 못하리로다 36딸이 그에게 이르되 나의 아버지여 아버지께서 여호와를 향하여 입을 여셨으니 아버지 입에서 낸 말씀대로 내게 행하소서 이는 여호와께서 아버지를 위하여 아버지의 대적 암몬 자손에게 원수를 갚으셨음이니이다 37아비에게 또 이르되 이 일만 내게 허락하사 나를 두 달만 용납하소서 내가 나의 동무들과 함께 산에 올라가서 나의 처녀로 죽음을 인하여 애곡하겠나이다 38이르되 가라 하고 두달 위한하고 보내니 그가 동무들과 함께 가서 산 위에서 처녀로 죽음을 인하여 애곡하고 39두 달만에 그 아비에게로 돌아온지라 아비가 그 서원한 대로 딸에게 행하니 딸이 남자를 알지 못하고 죽으니라 이로부터 이스라엘 가운데 규례가 되어 40이스라엘 여자들이 해마다 가서 길르앗 사람 입다의 딸을 위하여 나흘씩 애곡하더라

1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah. 2Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father’s house; for you are the son of another woman.” 3Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him. 4After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel. 5It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob; 6and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.” 7Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?” 8The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” 9Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?” 10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do.” 11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. 12Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?” 13The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.” 14Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; 15and he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon, 16but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh; 17then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh. 18Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. 19Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’ 20But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. 21Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. 22They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. 23So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them? 24Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess. 25Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? 26While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn’t you recover them within that time? 27I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.” 28However the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. 29Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. 30Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, 31then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” 32So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand. 33He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. 34Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. 35When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.” 36She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.” 37She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.” 38He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains. 39At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel, 40that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

1Jeftha nu, de Gileadiet, was een strijdbaar held, maar hij was een hoerekind; doch Gilead had Jeftha gegenereerd. 2Gileads huisvrouw baarde hem ook zonen; en de zonen dezer vrouw, groot geworden zijnde, stieten Jeftha uit, en zeiden tot hem: Gij zult in het huis onzes vaders niet erven, want gij zijt een zoon van een andere vrouw. 3Toen vlood Jeftha voor het aangezicht zijner broederen, en woonde in het land Tob; en ijdele mannen vergaderden zich tot Jeftha, en togen met hem uit. 4En het geschiedde, na enige dagen, dat de kinderen Ammons tegen Israel krijgden. 5Zo geschiedde het, als de kinderen Ammons tegen Israel krijgden, dat de oudsten van Gilead heengingen, om Jeftha te halen uit het land van Tob. 6En zij zeiden tot Jeftha: Kom, en wees ons tot een overste, opdat wij strijden tegen de kinderen Ammons. 7Maar Jeftha zeide tot de oudsten van Gilead: Hebt gijlieden mij niet gehaat, en mij uit mijn vaders huis verstoten? waarom zijt gij dan nu tot mij gekomen, terwijl gij in benauwdheid zijt? 8En de oudsten van Gilead zeiden tot Jeftha: Daarom zijn wij nu tot u wedergekomen, dat gij met ons trekt, en tegen de kinderen Ammons strijdt; en gij zult ons tot een hoofd zijn, over alle inwoners van Gilead. 9Toen zeide Jeftha tot de oudsten van Gilead: Zo gijlieden mij wederhaalt, om te strijden tegen de kinderen Ammons, en de HEERE hen voor mijn aangezicht geven zal, zal ik u dan tot een hoofd zijn? 10En de oudsten van Gilead zeiden tot Jeftha: De HEERE zij toehoorder tussen ons, indien wij niet alzo naar uw woord doen. 11Alzo ging Jeftha met de oudsten van Gilead, en het volk stelde hem tot een hoofd en overste over zich. En Jeftha sprak al zijn woorden voor het aangezicht des HEEREN te Mizpa. 12Voorts zond Jeftha boden tot den koning der kinderen Ammons, zeggende: Wat hebben ik en gij met elkander te doen, dat gij tot mij gekomen zijt, om tegen mijn land te krijgen? 13En de koning der kinderen Ammons zeide tot de boden van Jeftha: Omdat Israel, als hij uit Egypte optoog, mijn land genomen heeft, van de Arnon af tot aan de Jabbok, en tot aan de Jordaan; zo geef mij dat nu weder met vrede. 14Maar Jeftha voer wijders voort, en zond boden tot den koning der kinderen Ammons. 15En hij zeide tot hem: Zo zegt Jeftha: Israel heeft het land der Moabieten, en het land der kinderen Ammons niet genomen; 16Want als zij uit Egypte optogen, zo wandelde Israel door de woestijn tot aan de Schelfzee, en kwam te Kades. 17En Israel zond boden tot de koning der Edomieten, zeggende: Laat mij toch door uw land doortrekken; maar de koning der Edomieten gaf geen gehoor. En hij zond ook tot de koning der Moabieten, die ook niet wilde. Alzo bleef Israel in Kades. 18Daarna wandelde hij in de woestijn, en toog om het land der Edomieten en het land der Moabieten, en kwam van den opgang der zon aan het land der Moabieten, en zij legerden zich op gene zijde van de Arnon; maar zij kwamen niet binnen de landpale der Moabieten; want de Arnon is de landpale der Moabieten. 19Maar Israel zond boden tot Sihon, den koning der Amorieten, koning van Hesbon, en Israel zeide tot hem: Laat ons toch door uw land doortrekken tot aan mijn plaats. 20Doch Sihon betrouwde Israel niet door zijn landpale door te trekken; maar Sihon verzamelde al zijn volk, en zij legerden zich te Jaza; en hij streed tegen Israel. 21En de HEERE, de God Israels, gaf Sihon met al zijn volk in de hand van Israel, dat zij hen sloegen; alzo nam Israel erfelijk in het ganse land der Amorieten, die in datzelve land woonden. 22En zij namen erfelijk in de ganse landpale der Amorieten, van de Arnon af tot aan de Jabbok, en van de woestijn tot aan de Jordaan. 23Zo heeft nu de HEERE, de God Israels, de Amorieten voor het aangezicht van zijn volk Israel uit de bezitting verdreven; en zoudt gij hunlieder erfgenaam zijn? 24Zoudt gij niet dengene erven, dien uw god Kamos voor u uit de bezitting verdreef? Alzo zullen wij al dengene erven, dien de HEERE, onze God, voor ons aangezicht uit de bezitting verdrijft. 25Nu voorts, zijt gij veel beter dan Balak, de zoon van Zippor, de koning der Moabieten? heeft hij ooit met Israel getwist? heeft hij ook ooit tegen hen gekrijgd? 26Terwijl Israel driehonderd jaren gewoond heeft in Hesbon, en in haar stedekens, en in Aroer, en in al de stedekens, en in al de steden, die aan de zijde van de Arnon zijn; waarom hebt gij het dan in die tijd niet gered? 27Ook heb ik tegen u niet gezondigd, maar gij doet kwalijk bij mij, dat gij tegen mij krijgt; de HEERE, Die Rechter is, richte heden tussen de kinderen Israels en tussen de kinderen Ammons! 28Maar de koning der kinderen Ammons hoorde niet naar de woorden van Jeftha, die hij tot hem gezonden had. 29Toen kwam de Geest des HEEREN op Jeftha, dat hij Gilead en Manasse doortrok; want hij trok door tot Mizpa in Gilead, en van Mizpa in Gilead trok hij door tot de kinderen Ammons. 30En Jeftha beloofde den HEERE een gelofte, en zeide: Indien Gij de kinderen Ammons ganselijk in mijn hand zult geven; 31Zo zal het uitgaande, dat uit de deur van mijn huis mij tegemoet zal uitgaan, als ik met vrede van de kinderen Ammons wederkom, dat zal des HEEREN zijn, en ik zal het offeren ten brandoffer. 32Alzo trok Jeftha door naar de kinderen Ammons, om tegen hen te strijden; en de HEERE gaf hen in zijn hand. 33En hij sloeg hen van Aroer af tot daar gij komt te Minnith, twintig steden, en tot aan Abel-Keramim, met een zeer groten slag. Alzo werden de kinderen Ammons ten ondergebracht voor het aangezicht der kinderen Israels. 34Toen nu Jeftha te Mizpa bij zijn huis kwam, ziet, zo ging zijn dochter uit hem tegemoet, met trommelen en met reien. Zij nu was alleen, een enig kind; hij had uit zich anders geen zoon of dochter. 35En het geschiedde, als hij haar zag, zo verscheurde hij zijn klederen, en zeide: Ach, mijn dochter! gij hebt mij ganselijk nedergebogen, en gij zijt onder degenen, die mij beroeren; want ik heb mijn mond opengedaan tot den HEERE, en ik zal niet kunnen teruggaan. 36En zij zeide tot hem: Mijn vader! hebt gij uw mond opengedaan tot den HEERE, doe mij, gelijk als uit uw mond gegaan is; naardien u de HEERE volkomene wraak gegeven heeft van uw vijanden, van de kinderen Ammons. 37Voorts zeide zij tot haar vader: Laat deze zaak aan mij geschieden: Laat twee maanden van mij af, dat ik heenga, en ga tot de bergen, en bewene mijn maagdom, ik en mijn gezellinnen. 38En hij zeide: Ga heen; en hij liet haar twee maanden gaan. Toen ging zij heen met haar gezellinnen, en beweende haar maagdom op de bergen. 39En het geschiedde ten einde van twee maanden dat zij tot haar vader wederkwam, die aan haar volbracht zijn gelofte, die hij beloofd had; en zij heeft geen man bekend. Voorts werd het een gewoonheid in Israel, 40Dat de dochteren Israels van jaar tot jaar heengingen, om de dochter van Jeftha, de Gileadiet, aan te spreken, vier dagen in het jaar.