Kniha Sudcov

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Sdc 7, 1-25

1 And so Jerubbaal, who is also Gideon, rising in the night, and all the people with him, went to the fountain which is called Harod. Now the camp of Midian was in the valley, to the northern region of the high hill. 2 And the Lord said to Gideon: “The people with you are many, but Midian shall not be delivered into their hands, for then Israel might glory against me, and say, ‘I was freed by my own power.’ 3 Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all, ‘Whoever has dread or fear, let him return.’ And twenty-two thousand of the men from the people withdrew from Mount Gilead and returned, and only ten thousand remained. 4 And the Lord said to Gideon: “The people are still too many. Lead them to the waters, and there I will test them. And those about whom I tell you that he may go with you, let him go; he whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.” 5 And when the people had descended to the waters, the Lord said to Gideon: “Whoever will lap the water with the tongue, as dogs usually lap, you shall separate them by themselves. Then those who will drink by bending their knees shall be on the other side.” 6 And so the number of those who had lapped the water, by bringing it with the hand to the mouth, was three hundred men. And all the remainder of the multitude drank by bending the knee. 7 And the Lord said to Gideon: “By the three hundred men who lapped the water, I will free you, and I will deliver Midian into your hand. But let all the remainder of the multitude return to their place.” 8 And so, taking food and trumpets in accord with their number, he instructed all the rest of the multitude to go back to their tents. And with the three hundred men, he gave himself to the conflict. Now the camp of Midian was below, in the valley. 9 In the same night, the Lord said to him: “Rise up, and descend into the camp. For I have delivered them into your hand. 10 But if you dread to go alone, let your servant Purah descend with you. 11 And when you will hear what they are saying, then your hands will be strengthened, and you will descend more confidently to the camp of the enemy.” Therefore, he descended with his servant Purah into a portion of the camp, where there was a watch of armed men. 12 But Midian, and Amalek, and all the eastern peoples lay spread out in the valley, like a multitude of locusts. Their camels, too, were innumerable, like the sand that lies on the shore of the sea. 13 And when Gideon had arrived, someone told his neighbor a dream. And he related what he had seen, in this way: “I saw a dream, and it seemed to me as if bread, baked under ashes from rolled barley, descended into the camp of Midian. And whenever it arrived at a tent, it struck it, and overturned it, and utterly leveled it to the ground.” 14 He to whom he spoke, responded: “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. For the Lord has delivered Midian into his hands, with their entire camp.” 15 And when Gideon had heard the dream and its interpretation, he worshipped. And he returned to the camp of Israel, and he said: “Rise up! For the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into our hands.” 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three parts. And he gave trumpets, and empty pitchers, and lamps for the middle of the pitchers, into their hands. 17 And he said to them: “What you will see me do, do the same. I will enter a portion of the camp, and what I do, you shall follow. 18 When the trumpet in my hand blares out, you also shall sound the trumpets, on every side of the camp, and shout together to the Lord and to Gideon.” 19 And Gideon, and the three hundred men who were with him, entered a portion of the camp, at the beginning of the watch in the middle of the night. And when the guards were alerted, they began to sound the trumpets and to clap the pitchers against one another. 20 And when they had sounded their trumpets in three places around the camp, and had broken their water pitchers, they held the lamps in their left hands, and sounded the trumpets in their right hands. And they cried out, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” 21 And each one was standing in his place throughout the camp of the enemies. And so the entire camp was in confusion; and they fled away, wailing and crying out. 22 And the three hundred men nevertheless continued sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into the entire camp, and they maimed and cut down one another, 23 fleeing as far as Bethshittah, and the base of Abelmeholah in Tabbath. But the men of Israel pursued Midian, shouting from Naphtali and Asher, and from all of Manasseh. 24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all of Mount Ephraim, saying, “Descend to meet Midian, and occupy the waters ahead of them as far as Bethbarah and the Jordan.” And all of Ephraim cried out, and they occupied the waters ahead of them, from the Jordan even to Bethbarah. 25 And having apprehended two men of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, they put Oreb to death at the Rock of Oreb, and truly, Zeeb, at the Winepress of Zeeb. And they pursued Midian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, across the waters of the Jordan.

Verš 25

And having apprehended two men of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, they put Oreb to death at the Rock of Oreb, and truly, Zeeb, at the Winepress of Zeeb. And they pursued Midian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, across the waters of the Jordan.

Ž 83:11 - For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

Iz 10:26 - And the Lord of hosts will raise up a scourge over him, like the scourge of Midian at the rock of Oreb, and he will raise up his rod over the sea, and he will lift it up against the way of Egypt.

Verš 3

Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all, ‘Whoever has dread or fear, let him return.’ And twenty-two thousand of the men from the people withdrew from Mount Gilead and returned, and only ten thousand remained.

Dt 20:8 - After these things have been declared, they shall add the remainder, and shall say to the people: ‘What man is there who is overwhelmed by fear and is fainthearted? Let him go, and return to his house, lest he cause the hearts of his brothers to fear, just as he himself has been thoroughly stricken with fear.’

Verš 12

But Midian, and Amalek, and all the eastern peoples lay spread out in the valley, like a multitude of locusts. Their camels, too, were innumerable, like the sand that lies on the shore of the sea.

Sdc 6:3 - And when Israel had planted, Midian and Amalek, and the rest of the eastern nations ascended,

Sdc 6:5 - For they and all their flocks arrived with their tents, and they filled all places like locusts, an innumerable multitude of men and camels, devastating whatever they touched.

Sdc 6:33 - And so, all of Midian, and Amalek, and the eastern peoples were gathered together. And crossing the Jordan, they encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

Verš 22

And the three hundred men nevertheless continued sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into the entire camp, and they maimed and cut down one another,

Ž 83:9 - O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.

Sdc 7,1 - Časove sa dá vhodne umiestiť táto udalosť za 6,34 n. – Harad (hebr. Charód) je azda dnešný 'Ain Džalúd (Prameň Goliášov) na úpätí hory Gelboe, asi pol hod. východne od Jezreela (Zer 'ina). Poloha pahorku "More" je neznáma (či je to Malý Hermon=Nebí Dahí?). Madiánčania táborili na Jezreelskej rovine a Gedeon mal asi obsadený severný svah Gelboe, ktorý sa nakláňa k prameňu 'Ain Džalúd.

Sdc 7,3 - Miesto "Galaád" treba čítať Gelboe.

Sdc 7,19-21 - Národy starého Orientu rozdeľovali noc na tri doby, stráže či vigílie. Prostredná stráž bola polnočná.

Sdc 7,22 - Že sa Madiánčania v tom zmätku sami bili, je ľahko možné, lebo nemali zvláštnu vojenskú rovnošatu. – Betseta (Beth-haš-šittá), mesto medzi Jezraelom a Betsanom, dnes Šattá v údolí Nahr Džalúd, 2 hod. severozápadne od Betsana. – Serera (Vg nemá), asi Serédá (1 Kr 7,46), býva stotožňovaná so Seretanom, Joz 3,16; Madiánčania utekali zo svojho tábora na východ údolím Nahr Džalúd k Betsanu – tu neprešli Jordán, ale uberali sa odtiaľ pozdĺž západného brehu Jordána na juh. – Abelmehula, rodisko proroka Elizea, bola južne od Betsana. – Tebat, v jordánskom údolí, niekde blízko Abelmehuly.

Sdc 7,23-25 - Efraimci mali obsadiť vody, t. j. potoky, ktoré stekajú z Efraimskej vrchoviny do Jordána, ale najmä Jordán, t. j. jordánske brody, a tak zaskočiť Madiánčanom cestu. – Oreb – Havran; Zeb – Vlk. Spomínané miesta (Havrania skala a Vlčí lis) boli ešte v Predjordánsku, niekde v blízkosti Jordána.