士8:1 以法莲人对基甸说：“你去与米甸人争战的时候，没有召我们同去，你为什么这样待我们呢？”他们就与他激烈地争辩起来。
士8:1 And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.
士8:2 基甸对他们说：“我所行的怎能比得上你们呢？在以法莲拾取剩下的葡萄，不是比在亚比以谢收摘的葡萄更好吗？
士8:2 And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?
士8:3 神已经把米甸人的两个首领：俄立和西伊伯，交在你们的手里了；我所行的怎能与你们相比呢？”基甸说了这话，他们的怒气就平息了。
士8:3 God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.
士8:4 基甸来到约旦河，就过了河；他和与他在一起的三百人虽然都很疲乏，仍然追赶敌人。
士8:4 Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.
士8:5 基甸对疏割人说：“求你们把几个饼给跟随我的人吃，因为他们疲乏了，我还要继续追赶米甸人和两个王西巴和撒慕拿。”
士8:5 And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
士8:6 疏割人的首领回答：“西巴和撒慕拿现在不是已经在你的手里吗？我们应该把饼送给你的军队吃吗？”
士8:6 But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?
士8:7 基甸说：“好吧，耶和华把西巴和撒慕拿交在我手里的时候，我就必用野地的荆棘鞭打你们的身体。”
士8:7 Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.
士8:8 基甸从那里上到毗努伊勒，也向他们说了同样的话；毗努伊勒人回答他也像疏割人回答的一样。
士8:8 So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.
士8:9 他亦对毗努伊勒人说：“我平平安安回来的时候，我必拆毁这座望楼。”
士8:9 So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.
士8:10 那时，西巴和撒慕拿正在加各，与他们在一起的军队约有一万五千人，就是东方人全营剩下的，因为有十二万持刀的已经倒下了。
士8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.
士8:11 基甸就从挪巴和约比哈东面，顺着住帐棚的人的路上去；在敌军以为安全而不戒备的时候，击败了敌军。
士8:11 And Gideon went up by the way used by the people living in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and made an attack on the army when they had no thought of danger.
士8:12 西巴和撒慕拿逃跑；基甸追赶他们，捉住了米甸人的两个王西巴和撒慕拿，使全军都惊惶。
士8:12 And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.
士8:13 约阿施的儿子基甸从战场沿着希列斯的山坡回来，
士8:13 Then Gideon, the son of Joash, went back from the fight:
士8:14 捉住了疏割人中的一个青年人，查问他；他就把疏割的首领和长老的名字写给他，共七十七人。
士8:14 And taking prisoner a young man of the people of Succoth, he got from him, in answer to his questions, a list of the chiefs of Succoth and the responsible men, seventy-seven men.
士8:15 基甸到了疏割人那里，就说：“你看，西巴和撒慕拿，你们为了他们曾经讥笑我说：‘西巴和撒慕拿现在不是在你的手里吗？我们应该把饼送给你那些疲乏的人吃吗？’”
士8:15 So he came to the men of Succoth and said, Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, on account of whom you made sport of me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand, that we are to give bread to your army who are overcome with weariness?
士8:16 于是拿住那城的长老，又拿起野地的荆棘，用荆棘把疏割人教训了一顿；
士8:16 Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.
士8:17 又拆毁了毗努伊勒的望楼，杀死了那城里的人。
士8:17 And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.
士8:18 基甸问西巴和撒慕拿：“你们在他泊山上所杀的人，是什么模样的人？”他们回答：“他们像你一样，每一个都像王子的模样。”
士8:18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, Where are the men whom you put to death at Tabor? And they gave answer, As you are, so were they; every one of them was like a king's son.
士8:19 基甸说：“他们是我的兄弟，是我母亲的儿子；我指着永活的耶和华起誓，如果你们从前让他们存活，我现在就不杀你们了。”
士8:19 And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.
士8:20 于是对他的长子益帖说：“起来，把他们杀了吧。”但是那孩子不敢拔刀，只是害怕，因为他还是个孩子。
士8:20 Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, Up! Put them to death. But the boy did not take out his sword, fearing because he was still a boy.
士8:21 西巴和撒慕拿说：“你亲自起来杀我们吧；因为人怎样，他的力量也怎样。”于是基甸起来，把西巴和撒慕拿杀了，拿了他们骆驼颈项上的月牙圈。
士8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.
士8:22 以色列人对基甸说：“你既然拯救我们脱离了米甸人的手，求你和你的子孙统治我们。”
士8:22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.
士8:23 基甸回答他们：“我不统治你们，我的子孙也不统治你们，唯有耶和华统治你们。”
士8:23 But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.
士8:24 基甸又对他们说：“我有一个要求：请把你们各人夺得的耳环给我。”原来敌人都戴金耳环，因为他们是以实玛利人。
士8:24 Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
士8:25 他们回答：“我们愿意给你。”于是铺开一件外衣，各人把夺得的耳环丢在上面。
士8:25 And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.
士8:26 基甸所要的金耳环，共重约二十公斤金子，此外还有米甸王身上的月牙圈、耳坠和紫红色的衣服，另外还有骆驼颈项上的链子。
士8:26 The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.
士8:27 基甸用这些金子做了一个以弗得，安置在他的城俄弗拉；后来以色列众人都在那里随从以弗得行了邪淫，因此这就成了基甸和他全家的网罗。
士8:27 And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.
士8:28 这样，米甸人在以色列人面前就被制伏了，不能再抬起头来；基甸在世的日子，国中太平了四十年。
士8:28 So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon.
士8:29 约阿施的儿子耶路．巴力回去，住在自己家里。
士8:29 And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went back to his house and was living there.
士8:30 基甸有七十个儿子，都是他亲生的，因为他有很多妻子。
士8:30 Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
士8:31 他在示剑的妾，也给他生了一个儿子，他给他起名叫亚比米勒。
士8:31 And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.
士8:32 约阿施的儿子基甸寿数满足而死，埋葬在亚比以谢族的俄弗拉，在他父亲约阿施的坟墓里。
士8:32 And Gideon, the son of Joash, came to his end when he was very old, and his body was put in the resting-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
士8:33 基甸死了以后，以色列人又转去随从众巴力，行邪淫，并且以巴力．比利土作他们的神。
士8:33 And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.
士8:34 以色列人忘记了耶和华他们的 神，就是曾经拯救他们脱离四围仇敌之手的那位；
士8:34 And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;
士8:35 也没有照着基甸向以色列人所施的一切恩惠，恩待耶路．巴力，就是基甸的家。
士8:35 And they were not kind to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, in reward for all the good he had done to Israel.