士11:1 基列人耶弗他是个英勇的战士；他是个妓女的儿子；耶弗他是基列所生的。
士11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
士11:2 基列的妻子也给他生了几个儿子。他妻子的儿子长大了，就把耶弗他赶出去，对他说：“你不可以在我们的父家继承产业，因为你是另一个妇人的儿子。”
士11:2 And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.
士11:3 耶弗他就从他的兄弟面前逃跑，住在陀伯地；有些无赖聚集到他那里，与他一起出入。
士11:3 So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.
士11:4 过了些日子，亚扪人与以色列人争战。
士11:4 Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
士11:5 亚扪人与以色列人争战的时候，基列的众长老就去，把耶弗他从陀伯请回来。
士11:5 And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;
士11:6 他们对耶弗他说：“请你来作我们的统帅，我们好攻打亚扪人。”
士11:6 And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.
士11:7 耶弗他对基列的长老说：“从前你们不是恨我，赶逐我离开我的父家吗？现在你们遭遇患难的时候，为什么到我这里来呢？”
士11:7 But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?
士11:8 基列的长老对耶弗他说：“现在我们回到你这里来，是要你与我们一同回去，与亚扪人争战，你要作我们基列所有居民的首领。”
士11:8 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.
士11:9 耶弗他对基列的长老说：“如果你们带我回去，攻打亚扪人，耶和华把他们交在我面前，那么我就可以作你们的首领吗？”
士11:9 Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?
士11:10 基列的长老对耶弗他说：“有耶和华在我们中间作证，我们必定照着你的话行。”
士11:10 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
士11:11 于是耶弗他与基列的长老一同回去了，众人就立耶弗他作他们的首领，作他们的统帅；耶弗他在米斯巴，在耶和华面前，把自己的一切话都说了出来。
士11:11 So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.
士11:12 耶弗他派遣使者去见亚扪人的王，说：“我跟你有什么关系呢？你竟到我这里来攻打我的土地呢？”
士11:12 Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?
士11:13 亚扪人的王对耶弗他的使者说：“因以色列人从埃及上来的时候，夺了我的土地，从亚嫩河到雅博河，直到约旦河；现在你要把它和和平平地交还。”
士11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.
士11:14 耶弗他又再派使者去见亚扪人的王，
士11:14 And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,
士11:15 对他说：“耶弗他这样说：‘以色列人并没有夺取过摩押地和亚扪人的土地。
士11:15 And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;
士11:16 以色列人从埃及上来的时候，是走过旷野到红海，到了加低斯；
士11:16 But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;
士11:17 就派遣使者去见以东王，说：求你让我们经过你的领土。以东王却不答应；又派遣使者去见摩押王，摩押王也不肯；以色列人就住在加低斯。
士11:17 Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.
士11:18 以后，他们走过旷野，绕过以东地和摩押地，到了摩押地的东边，在亚嫩河那边安营；他们并没有进入摩押境内，因为亚嫩河是摩押的边界。
士11:18 Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.
士11:19 以色列人又派遣使者去见亚摩利人的王西宏，就是希实本王，对他说：求你让我们经过你的领土，到我们自己的地方去。
士11:19 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.
士11:20 西宏却不信任以色列人，不让他们经过他的境界；西宏聚集了他所有的人民，在雅杂安营，与以色列人争战。
士11:20 But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel.
士11:21 耶和华以色列的 神，把西宏和他所有的人民都交在以色列人手中，以色列人击杀了他们，夺取了住在那地的亚摩利人的全地，
士11:21 And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them; so all the land of the Amorites, the people of that land, became Israel's.
士11:22 占领了亚摩利人四周的境界，从亚嫩河到雅博河，从旷野直到约旦河。
士11:22 All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.
士11:23 现在耶和华以色列的 神，已经把亚摩利人从他的子民以色列人面前赶走了，你竟要占有这地吗？
士11:23 So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?
士11:24 你不是应占有你的神基抹要你占有的地吗？我们不是应占有耶和华我们的 神，从我们面前赶走的人的一切地吗？
士11:24 Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.
士11:25 现在难道你比摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒还强吗？他曾经与以色列人争竞吗？或是与以色列人交战过吗？
士11:25 What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause against Israel or make war against them?
士11:26 以色列人住在希实本和属希实本的村镇，亚罗珥和亚罗珥的村镇，以及亚嫩河沿岸的一切城市，已经有三百年了；在这时期内，你们为什么没有夺回这些地方呢？
士11:26 While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?
士11:27 我没有得罪你，你竟恶待我，攻打我；愿审判者耶和华今日在以色列人和亚扪人中间，判断是非。’”
士11:27 So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
士11:28 但亚扪人的王不听从耶弗他差派人去对他所说的话。
士11:28 The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.
士11:29 那时耶和华的灵临到耶弗他身上，他就经过基列和玛拿西，经过基列的米斯巴，又从基列的米斯巴去到亚扪人那里。
士11:29 Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon.
士11:30 耶弗他向耶和华许愿，说：“如果你真的把亚扪人交在我手里，
士11:30 And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,
士11:31 我从亚扪人那里平平安安回来的时候，无论谁先从我的家门出来迎接我，他就必归耶和华，我也必把他当作燔祭。”
士11:31 Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.
士11:32 于是耶弗他去到亚扪人那里攻打他们，耶和华把他们交在他手里。
士11:32 So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.
士11:33 于是他从亚罗珥开始击杀他们，去到米匿，直到亚备勒．基拉明，共二十座城，是一场大击杀；这样，亚扪人就在以色列人面前被制伏了。
士11:33 And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.
士11:34 耶弗他回米斯巴去，到了自己的家，不料，他的女儿拿着鼓、跳着舞，出来迎接他；她是耶弗他的独生女，除她以外，耶弗他没有其他的儿女。
士11:34 Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.
士11:35 耶弗他看见了她，就撕裂自己的衣服，说：“啊！我的女儿啊，你真使我忧愁，你叫我太作难了；因为我已经向耶和华开过口许愿，我不能收回。”
士11:35 And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.
士11:36 她对他说：“我的父亲啊，你既然向耶和华开过口许了愿，就照着你口里所说的向我行吧！因为耶和华已经在你的仇敌亚扪人身上，为你报了仇。”
士11:36 And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.
士11:37 她又对自己的父亲说：“请你准我这件事吧：给我两个月时间，让我和我的同伴去漫游山间，为我的童贞哀哭。”
士11:37 Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.
士11:38 耶弗他说：“你去吧！”就让她离去两个月；她就带着她的同伴去了，在山上为她的童贞哀哭。
士11:38 And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.
士11:39 两个月后，她回到她的父亲那里，她父亲就照他所许的愿向她行了。她没有与男人同过房。以后，在以色列中有个惯例：
士11:39 And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,
士11:40 以色列的女子年年都去哀悼基列人耶弗他的女儿，每年四日。
士11:40 For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.