사사기 20

1이에 모든 이스라엘 자손이 단에서부터 브엘세바까지와 길르앗 땅에서 나왔는데 그 회중이 일제히 미스바에서 여호와 앞에 모였으니 2온 백성의 어른 곧 이스라엘 모든 지파의 어른들은 하나님 백성의 총회에 섰고 칼을 빼는 보병은 사십만이었으며 3이스라엘 자손의 미스바에 올라간 것을 베냐민 자손이 들었더라 이스라엘 자손이 가로되 이 악한 일의 정형을 우리에게 고하라 4레위 사람 곧 죽임을 당한 여인의 남편이 대답하여 가로되 내가 내 첩으로 더불어 베냐민에 속한 기브아에 유숙하러 갔더니 5기브아 사람들이 나를 치러 일어나서 밤에 나의 우거한 집을 에워싸고 나를 죽이려 하고 내 첩을 욕보여서 그로 죽게 한지라 6내가 내 첩의 시체를 취하여 쪼개어 이스라엘 기업의 온 땅에 보내었노니 이는 그들이 이스라엘 중에서 음행과 망령된 일을 행하였음을 인함이로라 7이스라엘 자손들아 너희가 다 여기 있은즉 너희의 의견과 방책을 낼지니라 8모든 백성이 일제히 일어나며 가로되 우리가 하나라도 자기 장막으로 돌아가지 아니하며 하나라도 자기 집으로 들어가지 아니하고 9우리가 기브아 사람에게 이렇게 행하리니 곧 제비 뽑아서 그들을 치되 10우리가 이스라엘 모든 지파 중에서 백에 열, 천에 백, 만에 천을 취하고 그 백성을 위하여 양식을 예비하고 그들로 베냐민의 기브아에 가서 그 무리의 이스라엘 중에서 망령된 일을 행한 대로 징계하게 하리라 하니라 11이와 같이 이스라엘 모든 사람이 하나 같이 합심하여 그 성읍을 치려고 모였더라 12이스라엘 지파들이 베냐민 온 지파에 사람들을 보내어 두루 행하며 이르기를 너희 중에서 생긴 이 악이 어찜이뇨 13그런즉 이제 기브아 사람 곧 그 비류를 우리에게 붙여서 우리로 죽여 이스라엘 중에 악을 제하여 버리게 하라 하나 베냐민 자손이 그 형제 이스라엘 자손의 말을 듣지 아니하고 14도리어 각 성읍에서 기브아에 모이고 나가서 이스라엘 자손과 싸우고자 하니 15그 때에 성읍들에서 나온 베냐민 자손의 수는 칼을 빼는 자가 모두 이만 육천이요 그 외에 기브아 거민 중 택한 자가 칠백인데 16이 모든 백성 중에서 택한 칠백 명은 다 왼손잡이라 물매로 돌을 던지면 호리도 틀림이 없는 자더라 17베냐민 자손 외에 이스라엘 사람의 칼을 빼는 자의 수는 사십만 명이니 다 전사라 18이스라엘 자손이 일어나 벧엘에 올라가서 하나님께 묻자와 가로되 우리 중에 누가 먼저 올라가서 베냐민 자손과 싸우리이까 여호와께서 가라사대 유다가 먼저 일지니라 19이스라엘 자손이 아침에 일어나 기브아를 대하여 진을 치니라 20이스라엘 사람들이 나가서 항오를 벌이고 거기서 그들과 싸우고자 하매 21베냐민 자손이 기브아에서 나와서 당일에 이스라엘 사람 이만 이천을 땅에 엎드러뜨렸으나 22이스라엘 사람들이 스스로 용기를 내어 첫날 항오를 벌였던 곳에 다시 항오를 벌이니라 23이스라엘 자손이 올라가서 여호와 앞에서 저물도록 울며 여호와께 묻자와 가로되 내가 다시 나아가서 나의 형제 베냐민 자손과 싸우리이까 여호와께서 가라사대 올라가서 치라 하시니라 24그 이튿날에 이스라엘 자손이 베냐민 자손을 치러 나아가매 25베냐민도 그 이튿날에 기브아에서 그들을 치러 나와서 다시 이스라엘 자손 일만 팔천을 땅에 엎드러뜨렸으니 다 칼을 빼는 자였더라 26이에 온 이스라엘 자손 모든 백성이 올라가서 벧엘에 이르러 울며 거기서 여호와 앞에 앉고 그 날이 저물도록 금식하고 번제와 화목제를 여호와 앞에 드리고 27여호와께 물으니라 (그 때에는 하나님의 언약궤가 거기 있고 28아론의 손자 엘르아살의 아들 비느하스가 그 앞에 모셨더라) 이스라엘 자손이 묻자오되 내가 다시 나가 나의 형제 베냐민 자손과 싸우리이까 말리이까 여호와께서 가라사대 올라가라 내일은 내가 그를 네 손에 붙이리라 29이스라엘이 기브아 사면에 군사를 매복하니라 30이스라엘 자손이 제삼일에 베냐민 자손에게로 치러 올라가서 전과 같이 기브아를 대하여 항오를 벌이매 31베냐민 자손이 나와서 백성을 맞더니 꾀임에 빠져 성읍을 떠났더라 그들이 큰 길 곧 한편은 벧엘로 올라가는 길이요 한편은 기브아의 들로 가는 길에서 백성을 쳐서 전과 같이 이스라엘 사람 삼십 명 가량을 죽이기 시작하며 32스스로 이르기를 이들이 처음과 같이 우리 앞에서 패한다 하나 이스라엘 자손은 이르기를 우리가 도망하여 그들을 성읍에서 큰 길로 꾀어내자 하고 33이스라엘 사람이 모두 그 처소에서 일어나서 바알다말에 항오를 별였고 그 복병은 그 처소 곧 기브아 초장에서 쏟아져 나왔더라 34온 이스라엘 사람 중에서 택한 사람 일만이 기브아에 이르러 치매 싸움이 심히 맹렬하나 베냐민 사람은 화가 자기에게 미친줄을 알지 못하였더라 35여호와께서 이스라엘 앞에서 베냐민을 쳐서 파하게 하시매 당일에 이스라엘 자손이 베냐민 사람 이만 오천일백을 죽였으니 다 칼을 빼는 자이었더라 36이에 베냐민 자손이 자기가 패한 것을 깨달았으니 이는 이스라엘 사람이 기브아에 매복한 군사를 믿고 잠간 베냐민 사람 앞을 피하매 37복병이 급히 나와 기브아에 돌입하고 나아가며 칼날로 온 성읍을 쳤음이더라 38처음에 이스라엘 사람과 복병 사이에 상약하기를 성읍에서 큰 연기가 치미는 것으로 군호를 삼자 하고 39이스라엘 사람은 싸우다가 물러가고 베냐민 사람은 이스라엘 사람 삼십 명 가량을 쳐 죽이기를 시작하며 이르기를 이들이 정녕 처음 싸움 같이 우리에게 패한다 하다가 40연기 구름이 기둥 같이 성읍 가운데서 일어날 때에 베냐민 사람이 돌아보매 온 성읍에 연기가 하늘에 닿았고 41이스라엘 사람은 돌이키는지라 베냐민 사람이 화가 자기에게 미친 것을 보고 심히 놀라 42이스라엘 사람 앞에서 몸을 돌이켜 광야 길로 향하였으나 군사가 급히 추격하며 각 성읍에서 나온 자를 그 가운데서 진멸하니라 43그들이 베냐민 사람을 에워쌌더니 기브아 앞 동편까지 쫓으며 그 쉬는 곳에서 짓밟으매 44베냐민 중에서 엎드러진 자가 일만 팔천이니 다 용사더라 45그들이 몸을 돌이켜 광야로 도망하여 림몬 바위에 이르는 큰 길에서 이스라엘이 또 오천 명을 이삭 줍듯 하고 또 급히 따라 기돔에 이르러 또 이천 명을 죽였으니 46이 날에 베냐민의 칼을 빼는 자의 엎드러진 것이 모두 이만 오천이니 다 용사더라 47베냐민 육백 명이 돌이켜 광야로 도망하여 림몬 바위에 이르러 거기서 넉 달을 지내었더라 48이스라엘 사람이 베냐민 자손에게로 돌아와서 온 성읍과 가축과 만나는 자를 다 칼날로 치고 닥치는 성읍마다 다 불살랐더라

1Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. 2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword. 3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?” 4The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. 5The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead. 6I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. 7Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.” 8All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house. 9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; 10and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.” 11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. 12The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that is happen among you? 13Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.” But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel. 14The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. 15The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men. 16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss. 17The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war. 18The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.” 19The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. 20The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah. 21The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty-two thousand men. 22The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day. 23The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Yahweh said, “Go up against him.” 24The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. 25Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. 26Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. 27The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.” 29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. 30The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. 31The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. 32The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.” 33All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba. 34There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that evil was close on them. 35Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword. 36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. 37The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. 38Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city. 39The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.” 40But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky. 41The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them. 42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst. 43They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise. 44There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor. 45They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men. 46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these were men of valor. 47But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months. 48The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

1Toen togen al de kinderen Israels uit, en de vergadering verzamelde zich, als een enig man, van Dan af tot Ber-seba toe, ook het land van Gilead, tot den HEERE te Mizpa. 2En uit de hoeken des gansen volks stelden zich al de stammen van Israel in de vergadering van het volk Gods, vierhonderd duizend man te voet, die het zwaard uittrokken. 3(De kinderen Benjamins nu hoorden, dat de kinderen Israels opgetogen naar Mizpa.) En de kinderen Israels zeiden: Spreekt, hoe is dit kwaad geschied? 4Toen antwoordde de Levietische man, de man van de vrouw, die gedood was, en zeide: Ik kwam met mijn bijwijf te Gibea, dewelke Benjamins is, om te vernachten. 5En de burgers van Gibea maakten zich tegen mij op, en omringden tegen mij het huis bij nacht; zij dachten mij te doden, en mijn bijwijf hebben zij geschonden, dat zij gestorven is. 6Toen greep ik mijn bijwijf, en deelde haar, en zond haar in het ganse land der erfenis van Israel, omdat zij een schandelijke daad en dwaasheid in Israel gedaan hadden. 7Ziet, gij allen zijt kinderen Israels, geeft hier voor ulieden woord en raad! 8Toen maakte zich al het volk op, als een enig man, zeggende: Wij zullen niet gaan, een ieder naar zijn tent, noch wijken, een ieder naar zijn huis. 9Maar nu, dit is de zaak, die wij aan Gibea zullen doen: tegen haar bij het lot! 10En wij zullen tien mannen nemen van honderd, van alle stammen Israels, en honderd van duizend, en duizend van tienduizend, om teerkost te nemen voor het volk, opdat zij, komende te Gibea-Benjamins, haar doen naar al de dwaasheid, die zij in Israel gedaan heeft. 11Alzo werden alle mannen van Israel verzameld tot deze stad, verbonden als een enig man. 12En de stammen van Israel zonden mannen door den gansen stam van Benjamin, zeggende: Wat voor een kwaad is dit, dat onder ulieden geschied is? 13Zo geeft nu die mannen, die kinderen Belials, die te Gibea zijn, dat wij hen doden, en het kwaad uit Israel wegdoen. Doch de kinderen van Benjamin wilden niet horen naar de stem van hun broederen, de kinderen Israels. 14Maar de kinderen van Benjamin verzamelden zich uit de steden naar Gibea, om uit te trekken ten strijde tegen de kinderen Israels. 15En de kinderen van Benjamin werden te dien dage geteld uit de steden, zes en twintig duizend mannen, die het zwaard uittrokken, behalve dat de inwoners van Gibea geteld werden, zevenhonderd uitgelezene mannen. 16Onder al dit volk waren zevenhonderd uitgelezene mannen, welke links waren; deze allen slingerden met een steen op een haar, dat het hun niet miste. 17En de mannen van Israel werden geteld, behalve Benjamin, vierhonderd duizend mannen, die het zwaard uittrokken; deze allen waren mannen van oorlog. 18En de kinderen Israels maakten zich op, en togen opwaarts ten huize Gods, en vraagden God, en zeiden: Wie zal onder ons vooreerst optrekken ten strijde tegen de kinderen van Benjamin? En de HEERE zeide: Juda vooreerst. 19Alzo maakten zich de kinderen Israels in den morgenstond op, en legerden zich tegen Gibea. 20En de mannen van Israel togen uit ten strijde tegen Benjamin; voorts schikten de mannen Israels den strijd tegen hen bij Gibea. 21Toen togen de kinderen van Benjamin uit van Gibea, en zij vernielden ter aarde op dien dag van Israel twee en twintig duizend man. 22Doch het volk versterkte zich, te weten de mannen van Israel, en zij beschikten de strijd wederom ter plaatse, waar zij dien des vorige daags geschikt hadden. 23En de kinderen Israels togen op, en weenden voor het aangezicht des HEEREN tot op den avond, en vraagden den HEERE zeggende: Zal ik weder genaken ten strijde tegen de kinderen van Benjamin, mijn broeder? En de HEERE zeide: Trekt tegen hem op. 24Zo naderden de kinderen Israels tot de kinderen van Benjamin, des anderen daags. 25En die van Benjamin trokken uit hun tegemoet, uit Gibea, op den tweeden dag, en velden van de kinderen Israels nog achttien duizend man neder ter aarde; die allen trokken het zwaard uit. 26Toen togen alle kinderen Israels en al het volk op, en kwamen ten huize Gods, en weenden, en bleven aldaar voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, en vastten dien dag tot op den avond; en zij offerden brandofferen en dankofferen voor het aangezicht des HEEREN. 27En de kinderen Israels vraagden den HEERE, want aldaar was de ark des verbonds van God in die dagen. 28En Pinehas, de zoon van Eleazar, den zoon van Aaron, stond voor Zijn aangezicht, in die dagen, zeggende: Zal ik nog meer uittrekken ten strijde tegen de kinderen van Benjamin, mijn broeder, of zal ik ophouden? en de HEERE zeide: Trekt op, want morgen zal Ik hem in uw hand geven. 29Toen bestelde Israel achterlagen op Gibea rondom. 30En de kinderen Israels togen op, aan den derden dag, tegen de kinderen van Benjamin; en zij schikten den strijd op Gibea, als op de andere malen. 31Toen togen de kinderen van Benjamin uit, het volk tegemoet, en werden van de stad afgetrokken; en zij begonnen te slaan van het volk, en te doorsteken, gelijk de andere malen, op de straten, waarvan de een opgaat naar het huis Gods, en de ander naar Gibea, in het veld, omtrent dertig man van Israel. 32Toen zeiden de kinderen van Benjamin: Zij zijn voor ons aangezicht geslagen, als te voren; maar de kinderen Israels zeiden: Laat ons vlieden, en hen van de stad aftrekken naar de straten. 33Toen maakten zich alle mannen van Israel op uit hun plaatsen, en schikten den strijd te Baal-Thamar; ook brak Israels achterlage op uit haar plaats, na de ontbloting van Gibea. 34En tien duizend uitgelezen mannen van gans Israel kwamen van tegenover Gibea, en de strijd werd zwaar; doch zij wisten niet, dat het kwaad hen treffen zou. 35Toen sloeg de HEERE Benjamin voor Israels aangezicht; dat de kinderen Israels op dien dag van Benjamin vernielden vijf en twintig duizend en honderd mannen; die allen trokken het zwaard uit. 36En de kinderen van Benjamin zagen, dat zij geslagen waren; want de mannen van Israel gaven de Benjaminieten plaats, omdat zij vertrouwden op de achterlage, die zij tegen Gibea gesteld hadden. 37En de achterlage haastte, en brak voorwaarts naar Gibea toe; ja, de achterlage trok rechtdoor, en sloeg de ganse stad met de scherpte des zwaards. 38En de mannen van Israel hadden een bestemde tijd met de achterlage, wanneer zij een grote verheffing van rook van de stad zouden doen opgaan. 39Zo keerden zich de mannen van Israel om in den strijd; en Benjamin had begonnen te slaan en te doorsteken van de mannen van Israel omtrent dertig man; want zij zeiden: Immers is hij zekerlijk voor ons aangezicht geslagen, als in den vorigen strijd. 40Toen begon de verheffing op te gaan van de stad, als een pilaar van rook; als nu Benjamin achter zich omzag, ziet, zo ging de brand der stad op naar den hemel. 41En de mannen van Israel keerden zich om; en de mannen van Benjamin werden verbaasd, want zij zagen, dat het kwaad hen treffen zou. 42Zo wendden zij zich voor het aangezicht der mannen van Israel naar den weg der woestijn; maar de strijd kleefde hen aan, en die uit de steden vernielden ze in het midden van hen. 43Zij omringden Benjamin, zij vervolgden hem, zij vertraden hem gemakkelijk, tot voor Gibea, tegen den opgang der zon. 44En er vielen van Benjamin achttien duizend mannen; deze allen waren strijdbare mannen. 45Toen keerden zij zich, en vloden naar de woestijn, tot den rotssteen van Rimmon; maar zij deden een nalezing onder hen op de straten, van vijf duizend man; voorts kleefden zij hen achteraan tot aan Gideom, en sloegen van hen twee duizend man. 46Alzo waren allen, die op die dag van Benjamin vielen, vijf en twintig duizend mannen, die het zwaard uittrokken; die allen waren strijdbare mannen. 47Doch zeshonderd mannen keerden zich, en vloden naar de woestijn, tot den rotssteen van Rimmon, en bleven in den rotssteen van Rimmon, vier maanden. 48En de mannen van Israel keerden weder tot de kinderen van Benjamin, en sloegen hen met de scherpte des zwaards, die van de gehele stad tot de beesten toe, ja, al wat gevonden werd; ook zetten zij alle steden, die gevonden werden, in het vuur.