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Kide‑oo kov yeej cov Midee

¹Yelunpa‑as uas yog Kide‑oo thiab cov neeg sawvdaws uas nrog nws sawv ntxov mus ua yeej rau ntawm qhov dej txhawv Halau. Cov Midee lub yeej kuj nyob ntawm lawv sab ped hauv lub hav uas ze lub roob Maule.
²Yawmsaub hais rau Kide‑oo tias, “Cov neeg uas nrog koj mus no coob dhau uas kuv yuav muab cov Midee rau hauv lawv txhais tes, ntshai tsam cov Yixayee yuav khav theeb hais tias, ‘Yog peb txhais tes cawm tau peb dim.’ ³Yog li ntawd cia li tshaj tawm rau sawvdaws tias, ‘Leejtwg ntshai thiab tshee kuj cia tus ntawd tawm ntawm lub roob Kile‑a rov mus tsev.’ ” Mas muaj ob vam ob txhiab leej rov mus lawm, tshuav ib vam leej nyob xwb.
⁴Yawmsaub hais rau Kide‑oo tias, “Cov neeg tseem coob dhau. Cia li coj lawv nqes mus nram hav dej mas kuv yuav sim lawv rau koj qhov ntawd. Tus uas kuv hais rau koj tias, ‘Tus no nrog koj mus,’ mas tus ntawd yuav nrog koj mus. Tus uas kuv hais rau koj tias, ‘Tus no tsis txhob nrog koj mus,’ tus ntawd yuav tsum tsis txhob mus.” ⁵Nws thiaj coj cov neeg nqes mus nram hav dej. Yawmsaub hais rau Kide‑oo tias, “Txhua tus uas xuas nplaig yaim dej yam li dev muab cais rau ib qho. Txhua tus uas txhos caug ntua rua ncauj haus mas muab cais rau ib qho ib yam nkaus.” ⁶Cov uas xuas tes ntaus dej los yaim muaj peb puas leej, tiamsis dua li tej mas puavleej txhos caug rua ncauj haus. ⁷Yawmsaub hais rau Kide‑oo tias, “Kuv yuav siv peb puas leej uas yaim dej no cawm nej dim thiab muab cov Midee rau hauv koj txhais tes. Dua li cov mas cia li tso sawvdaws rov mus nyias vaj nyias tsev.” ⁸Cov uas nyob txawm khaws cov uas mus tsev tej mov noj thiab raj kub yaj cia. Dua li cov mas Kide‑oo hais kom sawvdaws nyias rov mus rau nyias vaj nyias tsev, tiamsis cia peb puas leej ntawd nrog Kide‑oo nyob. Cov Midee lub yeej nyob ntawm lawv lawm nram hav.
⁹Hmo ntawd Yawmsaub hais rau Kide‑oo tias, “Cia li sawv tsees mus ntaus lawv lub yeej, rau qhov kuv twb muab lawv rau hauv koj txhais tes lawm. ¹⁰Tiamsis yog koj ntshai mus ntaus mas koj cia li coj koj tus qhev Pula nrog koj mus kom txog lawv lub yeej. ¹¹Koj yuav hnov lawv hais dabtsi mas dhau ntawd koj txhais tes yuav muaj zog mus ntaus lawv lub yeej.” Kide‑oo thiaj coj nws tus qhev Pula nrog nws mus txog ntawm cov tub rog uas zov khuav sab nraum lub yeej. ¹²Mas cov Midee thiab cov Amalej thiab cov neeg uas nyob sab hnub tuaj sawvdaws pw thoob plaws lub hav coob yam nkaus li tej niag pab kooj txig. Lawv tej ntxhuav kuj suav tsis txheeb, coob yam nkaus li tej xuab zeb ntawm ntug hiavtxwv. ¹³Thaum Kide‑oo ob tug tuaj txog muaj ib tug yawg txawm piav nws zaj npau suav rau ib tug mloog hais tias, “Kuv ua ib zaj npau suav pom ib lub ncuav qeb ntog los rau hauv cov Midee lub yeej, los txog ib lub tsev ntaub txawm raug ua rau lub tsev ntaub vau ntxeev zuav zog rau hauv av lawm.” ¹⁴Nws tus kwvluag txawm teb tias, “Tej no yeej yog Yau‑as tus tub Kide‑oo uas yog neeg Yixayee rab ntaj xwb lauj! Vajtswv twb muab cov Midee thiab tej pab tub rog huvsi cob rau hauv Kide‑oo txhais tes lawm.”
¹⁵Thaum Kide‑oo hnov ob tug piav zaj npau suav thiab lub ntsiab npau suav ntawd lawm, nws txawm pe hawm Yawmsaub, thiab rov mus rau hauv cov Yixayee lub yeej thiab hais tias, “Cia li sawv tsees, Yawmsaub twb muab Midee cov tub rog rau nej txhais tes lawm.” ¹⁶Kide‑oo thiaj muab peb puas leej ntawd faib ua peb pab, thiab muab ib leeg ib lub raj kub yaj thiab ib leeg ib lub hub av, muaj ib teg tsau nyob hauv txhua lub hub ntawd. ¹⁷Thiab nws hais rau lawv tias, “Nej ntsia ntsoov kuv thiab ua ib yam li kuv. Thaum kuv mus txog lawv lub yeej sab nraud, kuv ua li cas, nej ua ib yam li ntawd. ¹⁸Thaum kuv thiab pab uas nrog kuv ua ke tshuab raj kub yaj, nej cia li tshuab raj kub yaj puag ncig lawv lub yeej thiab qw hais tias, ‘Peb ua rau Yawmsaub thiab ua rau Kide‑oo.’ ”
¹⁹Kide‑oo thiab ib puas leej tub rog uas nrog nws thiaj tuaj txog sab nraum lawv lub yeej rau thaum ib tag hmo, cov Midee nyuam qhuav hloov cov neeg zov khuav. Kide‑oo lawv txawm tshuab raj kub yaj thiab tsoo tej hub av ntawm lawv txhais tes tawg. ²⁰Peb pab tub rog txawm tshuab raj kub yaj thiab tsoo tej hub av tawg, lawv sab tes laug tuav teg tsau, sab tes xis tuav raj kub yaj yuav tshuab thiab lawv qw tias, “Yawmsaub rab ntaj thiab Kide‑oo rab ntaj tuaj lawm lauj!” ²¹Lawv nyias sawv nyias qhov chaw vij thoob plaws lub yeej ntawd, mas cov Midee pab tub rog sawvdaws qw ntsoog qees dhia khiav. ²²Thaum peb puas leej ntawd tshuab raj kub yaj Yawmsaub ua rau Midee cov tub rog sawvdaws rov sib tua ib leeg tua ib leeg, mas lawv cov tub rog thiaj li khiav mus rau lub moos Xelela thiab mus txog Npesitha thiab mus txog Anpee Mehaula ciam teb uas nyob ze lub moos Thanpa. ²³Cov Yixayee raug hu tawm hauv Nathali thiab Asaw thiab thoob plaws Manaxe tebchaws tuaj, mas lawv caum cov Midee qab mus.
²⁴Kide‑oo txib neeg mus thoob plaws pem toj siab Efa‑i tebchaws hais tias, “Cia li nqes los ua rog rau cov Midee thiab txeeb txhua ntu dej ntiav mus txog ntua lub moos Npenpala thiab tus dej Yaladee huvsi.” Lawv kuj hu Efa‑i cov tub rog sawvdaws tuaj. Cov Efa‑i txeeb txhua ntu dej ntiav mus txog ntua lub moos Npenpala thiab tus dej Yaladee huvsi. ²⁵Lawv ntes tau cov Midee ob tug thawj, yog Aulej thiab Xe‑ev. Lawv muab Aulej tua rau ntawm lub pob zeb Aulej thiab muab Xe‑ev tua rau ntawm lub qhov tsuam txiv hmab Xe‑ev, thiab caum cov Midee mus. Lawv coj Aulej lub taubhau thiab Xe‑ev lub taubhau los rau Kide‑oo ntawm tus dej Yaladee sab hnub tuaj.

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Gideon’s Valiant Three Hundred

¹Then ⚓Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
²And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel ⚓claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ ³Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ⚓‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’ ” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
⁴But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.” ⁵So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” ⁶And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. ⁷Then the Lord said to Gideon, ⚓“By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place.” ⁸So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
⁹It happened on the same ⚓night that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. ¹⁰But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, ¹¹and you shall ⚓hear what they say; and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who were in the camp. ¹²Now the Midianites and Amalekites, ⚓all the people of the East, were lying in the valley ⚓as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.
¹³And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”
¹⁴Then his companion answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand ⚓God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.”
¹⁵And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.” ¹⁶Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet into every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. ¹⁷And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: ¹⁸When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, ‘The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!’ ”
¹⁹So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. ²⁰Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” ²¹And ⚓every man stood in his place all around the camp; ⚓and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. ²²When the three hundred ⚓blew the trumpets, ⚓the Lord set ⚓every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of ⚓Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
²³And the men of Israel gathered together from ⚓Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.
²⁴Then Gideon sent messengers throughout all the ⚓mountains of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan.” Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and ⚓seized the watering places as far as ⚓Beth Barah and the Jordan. ²⁵And they captured ⚓two princes of the Midianites, ⚓Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the ⚓other side of the Jordan.