Judges 20

فَخَرَجَ جَمِيعُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَاجْتَمَعَتِ الْجَمَاعَةُ كَرَجُل وَاحِدٍ، مِنْ دَانَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ مَعَ أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ، إِلَى الرَّبِّ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ.

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

وَوَقَفَ وُجُوهُ جَمِيعِ الشَّعْبِ، جَمِيعُ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي مَجْمَعِ شَعْبِ اللهِ، أَرْبَعُ مِئَةِ أَلْفِ رَاجِل مُخْتَرِطِي السَّيْفِ.

And the chief 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 that drew sword.

فَسَمِعَ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ أَنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدْ صَعِدُوا إِلَى الْمِصْفَاةِ. وَقَالَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ: «تَكَلَّمُوا، كَيْفَ كَانَتْ هذِهِ الْقَبَاحَةُ؟»

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

فَأَجَابَ الرَّجُلُ اللاَّوِيُّ بَعْلُ الْمَرْأَةِ الْمَقْتُولَةِ وَقَالَ: «دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَسُرِّيَّتِي إِلَى جِبْعَةَ الَّتِي لِبَنْيَامِينَ لِنَبِيتَ.

And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

فَقَامَ عَلَيَّ أَصْحَابُ جِبْعَةَ وَأَحَاطُوا عَلَيَّ بِالْبَيْتِ لَيْلاً وَهَمُّوا بِقَتْلِي، وَأَذَلُّوا سُرِّيَّتِي حَتَّى مَاتَتْ.

And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

فَأَمْسَكْتُ سُرِّيَّتِي وَقَطَّعْتُهَا وَأَرْسَلْتُهَا إِلَى جَمِيعِ حُقُولِ مُلْكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، لأَنَّهُمْ فَعَلُوا رَذَالَةً وَقَبَاحَةً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And I 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.

هُوَذَا كُلُّكُمْ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ. هَاتُوا حُكْمَكُمْ وَرَأْيَكُمْ ههُنَا».

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

فَقَامَ جَمِيعُ الشَّعْبِ كَرَجُل وَاحِدٍ وَقَالُوا: «لاَ يَذْهَبُ أَحَدٌ مِنَّا إِلَى خَيْمَتِهِ وَلاَ يَمِيلُ أَحَدٌ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ.

And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

وَالآنَ هذَا هُوَ الأَمْرُ الَّذِي نَعْمَلُهُ بِجِبْعَةَ. عَلَيْهَا بِالْقُرْعَةِ.

But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

فَنَأْخُذُ عَشَرَةَ رِجَال مِنَ الْمِئَةِ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَمِئَةً مِنَ الأَلْفِ، وَأَلْفًا مِنَ الرِّبْوَةِ، لأَجْلِ أَخْذِ زَادٍ لِلشَّعْبِ لِيَفْعَلُوا عِنْدَ دُخُولِهِمْ جِبْعَةَ بِبَنْيَامِينَ حَسَبَ كُلِّ الْقَبَاحَةِ الَّتِي فَعَلَتْ بِإِسْرَائِيلَ».

And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

فَاجْتَمَعَ جَمِيعُ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَلَى الْمَدِينَةِ مُتَّحِدِينَ كَرَجُل وَاحِدٍ.

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

وَأَرْسَلَ أَسْبَاطُ إِسْرَائِيلَ رِجَالاً إِلَى جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ بَنْيَامِينَ قَائِلِينَ: «مَا هذَا الشَّرُّ الَّذِي صَارَ فِيكُمْ؟

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

فَالآنَ سَلِّمُوا الْقَوْمَ بَنِي بَلِيَّعَالَ الَّذِينَ فِي جِبْعَةَ لِكَيْ نَقْتُلَهُمْ وَنَنْزِعَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ». فَلَمْ يُرِدْ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ أَنْ يَسْمَعُوا لِصَوْتِ إِخْوَتِهِمْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

فَاجْتَمَعَ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ مِنَ الْمُدُنِ إِلَى جِبْعَةَ لِكَيْ يَخْرُجُوا لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

وَعُدَّ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ فِي ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ مِنَ الْمُدُنِ سِتَّةً وَعِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ رَجُل مُخْتَرِطِي السَّيْفِ، مَا عَدَا سُكَّانَ جِبْعَةَ الَّذِينَ عُدُّوا سَبْعَ مِئَةِ رَجُل مُنْتَخَبِينَ.

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

مِنْ جَمِيعِ هذَا الشَّعْبِ سَبْعُ مِئَةِ رَجُل مُنْتَخَبُونَ عُسْرٌ. كُلُّ هؤُلاَءِ يَرْمُونَ الْحَجَرَ بِالْمِقْلاَعِ عَلَى الشَّعْرَةِ وَلاَ يُخْطِئُونَ.

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

وَعُدَّ رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ، مَا عَدَا بَنْيَامِينَ، أَرْبَعَ مِئَةِ أَلْفِ رَجُل مُخْتَرِطِي السَّيْفِ. كُلُّ هؤُلاَءِ رِجَالُ حَرْبٍ.

And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

فَقَامُوا وَصَعِدُوا إِلَى بَيْتِ إِيلَ وَسَأَلُوا اللهَ وَقَالَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ: «مَنْ يَصْعَدُ مِنَّا أَوَّلاً لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي بَنْيَامِينَ؟» فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ: «يَهُوذَا أَوَّلاً».

And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.

فَقَامَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي الصَّبَاحِ وَنَزَلُوا عَلَى جِبْعَةَ.

And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

وَخَرَجَ رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنْيَامِينَ، وَصَفَّ رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ لِلْحَرْبِ عِنْدَ جِبْعَةَ.

And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

فَخَرَجَ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ مِنْ جِبْعَةَ وَأَهْلَكُوا مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ اثْنَيْنِ وَعِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ رَجُل إِلَى الأَرْضِ.

And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

وَتَشَدَّدَ الشَّعْبُ، رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَعَادُوا فَاصْطَفُّوا لِلْحَرْبِ فِي الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي اصْطَفُّوا فِيهِ فِي الْيَوْمِ الأَوَّلِ.

And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

ثُمَّ صَعِدَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ وَبَكَوْا أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ إِلَى الْمَسَاءِ، وَسَأَلُوا الرَّبَّ قَائِلِينَ: «هَلْ أَعُودُ أَتَقَدَّمُ لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي بَنْيَامِينَ أَخِي؟» فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ: «اصْعَدُوا إِلَيْهِ».

(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

فَتَقَدَّمَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى بَنِي بَنْيَامِينَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّانِي،

And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

فَخَرَجَ بَنْيَامِينُ لِلِقَائِهِمْ مِنْ جِبْعَةَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّانِي، وَأَهْلَكَ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَيْضًا ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفَ رَجُل إِلَى الأَرْضِ. كُلُّ هؤُلاَءِ مُخْتَرِطُو السَّيْفِ.

And Benjamin went forth 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.

فَصَعِدَ جَمِيعُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَكُلُّ الشَّعْبِ وَجَاءُوا إِلَى بَيْتِ إِيلَ وَبَكَوْا وَجَلَسُوا هُنَاكَ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ، وَصَامُوا ذلِكَ الْيَوْمَ إِلَى الْمَسَاءِ، وَأَصْعَدُوا مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلاَمَةٍ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ.

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

وَسَأَلَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ الرَّبَّ، وَهُنَاكَ تَابُوتُ عَهْدِ اللهِ فِي تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ،

And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

وَفِينَحَاسُ بْنُ أَلِعَازَارَ بْنِ هَارُونَ وَاقِفٌ أَمَامَهُ فِي تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ، قَائِلِينَ: «أَأَعُودُ أَيْضًا لِلْخُرُوجِ لِمُحَارَبَةِ بَنِي بَنْيَامِينَ أَخِي أَمْ أَكُفُّ؟» فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ: «اصْعَدُوا، لأَنِّي غَدًا أَدْفَعُهُمْ لِيَدِكَ».

And 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? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

وَوَضَعَ إِسْرَائِيلُ كَمِينًا عَلَى جِبْعَةَ مُحِيطًا.

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

وَصَعِدَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ عَلَى بَنِي بَنْيَامِينَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ وَاصْطَفُّوا عِنْدَ جِبْعَةَ كَالْمَرَّةِ الأُولَى وَالثَّانِيَةِ.

And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

فَخَرَجَ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ لِلِقَاءِ الشَّعْبِ وَانْجَذَبُوا عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَأَخَذُوا يَضْرِبُونَ مِنَ الشَّعْبِ قَتْلَى كَالْمَرَّةِ الأُولَى وَالثَّانِيَةِ فِي السِّكَكِ الَّتِي إِحْدَاهَا تَصْعَدُ إِلَى بَيْتِ إِيلَ، وَالأُخْرَى إِلَى جِبْعَةَ فِي الْحَقْلِ، نَحْوَ ثَلاَثِينَ رَجُلاً مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

وَقَالَ بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ: «إِنَّهُمْ مُنْهَزِمُونَ أَمَامَنَا كَمَا فِي الأَوَّلِ». وَأَمَّا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فَقَالُوا: «لِنَهْرُبْ وَنَجْذِبْهُمْ عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ إِلَى السِّكَكِ».

And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

وَقَامَ جَمِيعُ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ أَمَاكِنِهِمْ وَاصْطَفُّوا فِي بَعْلِ تَامَارَ، وَثَارَ كَمِينُ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ مَكَانِهِ مِنْ عَرَاءِ جِبْعَةَ.

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

وَجَاءَ مِنْ مُقَابِلِ جِبْعَةَ عَشَرَةُ آلاَفِ رَجُل مُنْتَخَبُونَ مِنْ كُلِّ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَكَانَتِ الْحَرْبُ شَدِيدَةً، وَهُمْ لَمْ يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الشَّرَّ قَدْ مَسَّهُمْ.

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

فَضَرَبَ الرَّبُّ بَنْيَامِينَ أَمَامَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَهْلَكَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ بَنْيَامِينَ فِي ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ خَمْسَةً وَعِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ رَجُل وَمِئَةَ رَجُل. كُلُّ هؤُلاَءِ مُخْتَرِطُو السَّيْفِ.

And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

وَرَأَى بَنُو بَنْيَامِينَ أَنَّهُمْ قَدِ انْكَسَرُوا. وَأَعْطَى رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ مَكَانًا لِبَنْيَامِينَ لأَنَّهُمُ اتَّكَلُوا عَلَى الْكَمِينِ الَّذِي وَضَعُوهُ عَلَى جِبْعَةَ.

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

فَأَسْرَعَ الْكَمِينُ وَاقْتَحَمُوا جِبْعَةَ، وَزَحَفَ الْكَمِينُ وَضَرَبَ الْمَدِينَةَ كُلَّهَا بِحَدِّ السَّيْفِ.

And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

وَكَانَ الْمِيعَادُ بَيْنَ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَبَيْنَ الْكَمِينِ، إِصْعَادَهُمْ بِكَثْرَةٍ، عَلاَمَةَ الدُّخَانِ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ.

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

وَلَمَّا انْقَلَبَ رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي الْحَرْبِ ابْتَدَأَ بَنْيَامِينُ يَضْرِبُونَ قَتْلَى مِنْ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ نَحْوَ ثَلاَثِينَ رَجُلاً، لأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا: «إِنَّمَا هُمْ مُنْهَزِمُونَ مِنْ أَمَامِنَا كَالْحَرْبِ الأُولَى».

And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

وَلَمَّا ابْتَدَأَتِ الْعَلاَمَةُ تَصْعَدُ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ، عَمُودَ دُخَانٍ، الْتَفَتَ بَنْيَامِينُ إِلَى وَرَائِهِ وَإِذَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ كُلِّهَا تَصْعَدُ نَحْوَ السَّمَاءِ.

But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

وَرَجَعَ رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَهَرَبَ رِجَالُ بَنْيَامِينَ بِرَعْدَةٍ، لأَنَّهُمْ رَأَوْا أَنَّ الشَّرَّ قَدْ مَسَّهُمْ.

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

وَرَجَعُوا أَمَامَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي طَرِيقِ الْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَلكِنَّ الْقِتَالَ أَدْرَكَهُمْ، وَالَّذِينَ مِنَ الْمُدُنِ أَهْلَكُوهُمْ فِي وَسَطِهِمْ.

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

فَحَاوَطُوا بَنْيَامِينَ وَطَارَدُوهُمْ بِسُهُولَةٍ، وَأَدْرَكُوهُمْ مُقَابَلَ جِبْعَةَ لِجِهَةِ شُرُوقِ الشَّمْسِ.

Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

فَسَقَطَ مِنْ بَنْيَامِينَ ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفَ رَجُل، جَمِيعُ هؤُلاَءِ ذَوُو بَأْسٍ.

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

فَدَارُوا وَهَرَبُوا إِلَى الْبَرِّيَّةِ إِلَى صَخْرَةِ رِمُّونَ. فَالْتَقَطُوا مِنْهُمْ فِي السِّكَكِ خَمْسَةَ آلاَفِ رَجُل، وَشَدُّوا وَرَاءَهُمْ إِلَى جِدْعُومَ، وَقَتَلُوا مِنْهُمْ أَلْفَيْ رَجُل.

And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

وَكَانَ جَمِيعُ السَّاقِطِينَ مِنْ بَنْيَامِينَ خَمْسَةً وَعِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ رَجُل مُخْتَرِطِي السَّيْفِ فِي ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ. جَمِيعُ هؤُلاَءِ ذَوُو بَأْسٍ.

So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

وَدَارَ وَهَرَبَ إِلَى الْبَرِّيَّةِ إِلَى صَخْرَةِ رِمُّونَ سِتُّ مِئَةِ رَجُل، وَأَقَامُوا فِي صَخْرَةِ رِمُّونَ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ.

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

وَرَجَعَ رِجَالُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى بَنِي بَنْيَامِينَ وَضَرَبُوهُمْ بِحَدِّ السَّيْفِ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ بِأَسْرِهَا، حَتَّى الْبَهَائِمَ، حَتَّى كُلَّ مَا وُجِدَ. وَأَيْضًا جَمِيعُ الْمُدُنِ الَّتِي وُجِدَتْ أَحْرَقُوهَا بِالنَّارِ.

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.