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2 HUAB TAIS hais rau Zes Des Oos tias : “Haiv neeg nrog koj mus ntaus rog coob dhau. Yog kuv pub kom nej ntaus tau cov Mas Dias mas cov His Xas Lais yuav rov qab qhuas lawv xwb. Lawv yuav nco tsis txog kuv. Lawv yuav hais tias ‘Yog peb txhais tes rov cawm tau peb !’ 3 Ua li mas koj yuav hais li no rau tsoom sid mloog. Yog leej twg ntshai mas kom nws rov qab mus tsev.” Zes Des Oos sim lawv, ces muaj nees nkaum ob txhiab leej rov mus tsev, tshuav kaum txhiab leej xwb.
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 HUAB TAIS hais rau Zes Des Oos tias : “Cov neeg ntawd tseem coob dhau. Koj coj lawv nqes mus nram ntug dej, kuv yuav sim lawv nyob ntawd. Tus twg uas kuv hais rau koj tias nws nrog koj mus, mas tus ntawd thiaj yuav nrog koj mus. Yog tus twg uas kuv hais tias tsis txhob cia tus ntawd nrog koj mus, mas tus ntawd yuav tsis tau mus.” 5 Pab tub rog ntawd mus nram ntug dej. HUAB TAIS hais rau Zes Des Oos tias : “Cov uas lawv haus dej, lawv xuas nplaig yaim li dev mas koj muab lawv rau ib cag. Hos cov uas lawv txhos caug haus dej mas koj muab lawv rau ib cag.” 6 Cov uas lawv xuas nplaig yaim dej li dev, muaj peb puas leej. Hos dua li cov tib si txhos caug haus dej. 7 Ces HUAB TAIS hais rau Zes Des Oos tias : “Yog nrog peb puas leej ntawd mas kuv yuav cawm nej thiab kuv yuav muab Mas Dias rau hauv nej tes. Dua li cov mas kom lawv rov qab mus tsev tas tib si.”
4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.” 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.” 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley. 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp. 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16 Zes Des Oos faib peb puas leej tub rog ntawd ua peb pab. Nws faib ib leeg ib lub hom thiab ib leeg ib lub hub qhuav ntim ib teg tsau.
16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17 Zes Des Oos hais rau lawv tias : “Nej ntsia kuv, nej ua raws kuv qab ! Thaum peb mus txog ze lub yeej lawm mas yog kuv ua li cas nej yuav ua li cas thiab ! 18 Thaum kuv tshuab hom mas tas nej sawv daws huv si yuav tshuab hom ncig lub yeej thiab nej yuav qw tias : Ua rau HUAB TAIS thiab rau Zes Des Oos !”
17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’ ”
19 Thaum yuav txog ib tag hmo, cov Mas Dias lawv nyuam qhuav tso peeb zov hmo tas nrho xwb. Zes Des Oos nrog nws pab tub rog ib puas leej tuaj txog ze lub yeej, lawv tshuab hom thiab lawv muab lawv cov hub tsoo tawg tas. 20 Ces tas peb pab tub rog lawv tshuab hom thiab lawv tsoo lawv cov hub tawg tas huv tib si. Lawv txhais tes laug tuav cov tsau hos lawv txhais tes xis tuav cov hom. Lawv qw tias : Ua rau HUAB TAIS thiab rau Zes Des Oos !” 21 Thaum ntawd lawv nyias sawv nres nroos ntawm nyias qhov chaw nyob ncig lub yeej. Ces nyob hauv lub yeej cov Mas Dias sawv daws tsim dheev los. Cov Mas Dias qw tej suab thiab lawv tso tes khiav. 22 Thaum Zes Des Oos peb pab tub rog tab tom tshuab hom, HUAB TAIS ua kom nyob hauv lub yeej cov tub rog Mas Dias nyias rov tig nyias rab ntaj los tua tus npawg nyob ze ntawm lawv. Sawv daws khiav tas.
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!” 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian. 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. 25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.