Judges · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Judges 7 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early and all the people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp of Madian was in the valley on the north side of the high hill.
1 LEVANTÁNDOSE pues de mañana Jerobaal, el cual es Gedeón, y todo el pueblo que estaba con él, asentaron el campo junto á la fuente de Harod: y tenía el campo de los Madianitas al norte, de la otra parte del collado de More, en el valle.
2 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.
2 Y Jehová dijo á Gedeón: El pueblo que está contigo es mucho para que yo dé á los Madianitas en su mano: porque no se alabe Israel contra mí, diciendo: Mi mano me ha salvado.
3 Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all, I Whosoever is fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men went away from mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand remained.
3 Haz pues ahora pregonar, que lo oiga el pueblo, diciendo: El que teme y se estremece, madrugue y vuélvase desde el monte de Galaad. Y volviéronse de los del pueblo veintidós mil: y quedaron diez mil.
4 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring them to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.
4 Y Jehová dijo á Gedeón: Aun es mucho el pueblo; llévalos á las aguas, y allí yo te los probaré; y del que yo te dijere: Vaya este contigo, vaya contigo: mas de cualquiera que yo te dijere: Este no vaya contigo, el tal no vaya.
5 And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.
5 Entonces llevó el pueblo á las aguas: y Jehová dijo á Gedeón: Cualquiera que lamiere las aguas con su lengua como lame el perro, aquél pondrás aparte; asimismo cualquiera que se doblare sobre sus rodillas para beber.
6 And the number of them that had lapped water, casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.
6 Y fué el número de los que lamieron las aguas, llegándola con la mano á la boca, trescientos hombres: y todo el resto del pueblo se dobló sobre sus rodillas para beber las aguas.
7 And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.
7 Entonces Jehová dijo á Gedeón: Con estos trescientos hombres que lamieron [el agua] os salvaré, y entregaré á los Madianitas en tus manos: y váyase toda la gente cada uno á su lugar.
8 So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he ordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he with the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of Madian was beneath him in the valley.
8 Y tomada provisión para el pueblo en sus manos, y sus bocinas, envió á todos los Israelitas cada uno á su tienda, y retuvo á aquellos trescientos hombres: y tenía el campo de Madián abajo en el valle.
9 The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the camp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.
9 Y aconteció que aquella noche Jehová le dijo: Levántate, y desciende al campo; porque yo lo he entregado en tus manos.
10 But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara thy servant go down with thee.
10 Y si tienes temor de descender, baja tú con Phara tu criado al campo,
11 And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the enemies’ camp. And he went down with Phara his servant into part of the camp, where was the watch of men in arms.
11 Y oirás lo que hablan; y entonces tus manos se esforzarán, y descenderás al campo. Y él descendió con Phara su criado al principio de la gente de armas que estaba en el campo.
12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.
12 Y Madián, y Amalec, y todos los orientales, estaban tendidos en el valle como langostas en muchedumbre, y sus camellos eran innumerables, como la arena que está á la ribera de la mar en multitud.
13 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground.
13 Y luego que llegó Gedeón, he aquí que un hombre estaba contando á su compañero un sueño, diciendo: He aquí yo soñé un sueño: que veía un pan de cebada que rodaba hasta el campo de Madián, y llegaba á las tiendas, y las hería [de tal manera] que caían, y las trastornaba de arriba abajo, y las tiendas caían.
14 He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword of Gedeon the son of Joas a man of Israel. For the Lord hath delivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.
14 Y su compañero respondió, y dijo: Esto no es otra cosa sino la espada de Gedeón hijo de Joas, varón de Israel: Dios ha entregado en sus manos á los Madianitas con todo el campo.
15 And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.
15 Y como Gedeón oyó la historia del sueño y su interpretación, adoró; y vuelto al campo de Israel, dijo: Levantaos, que Jehová ha entregado el campo de Madián en vuestras manos.
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave them trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
16 Y repartiendo los trescientos hombres en tres escuadrones, dió á cada uno de ellos bocinas en sus manos, y cántaros vacíos con teas ardiendo dentro de los cántaros.
17 And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I will go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.
17 Y díjoles: Miradme á mí, y haced como yo hiciere; he aquí que cuando yo llegare al principio del campo, como yo hiciere, así haréis vosotros.
18 When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp.
18 Yo tocaré la bocina y todos los que estarán conmigo; y vosotros tocaréis entonces las bocinas alrededor de todo el campo, y diréis: ¡Por Jehová y Gedeón!
19 And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.
19 Llegó pues Gedeón, y los cien hombres que llevaba consigo, al principio del campo, á la entrada de la vela del medio, cuando acababan de renovar las centinelas; y tocaron las bocinas, y quebraron los cántaros que llevaban en sus manos:
20 And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon;
20 Y los tres escuadrones tocaron las bocinas, y quebrando los cántaros tomaron en las manos izquierdas las teas, y en las derechas los cuernos con que tañían, y dieron grita: ¡La espada de Jehová y de Gedeón!
21 Standing every man in his place round about the enemies’ camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling they fled away.
21 Y estuviéronse en sus lugares en derredor del campo: y todo el campo fué alborotado, y huyeron gritando.
22 And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,
22 Mas los trescientos tocaban las bocinas: y Jehová puso la espada de cada uno contra su compañero en todo el campo. Y el ejército huyó hasta Beth-sitta, hacia Cerera, y hasta el término de Abel-mehola en Tabbat.
23 Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula in Tebbath. But the men of Israel shouting from Nephtali and Aser, and from all Manasses pursued after Madian.
23 Y juntándose los de Israel, de Nephtalí, y de Aser, y de todo Manasés, siguieron á los Madianitas.
24 And Gedeon sent messengers into all mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and the Jordan as far as Bethbera.
24 Gedeón también envió mensajeros á todo el monte de Ephraim, diciendo: Descended al encuentro de los Madianitas, y tomadles las aguas hasta Beth-bara y el Jordán. Y juntos todos los hombres de Ephraim, tomaron las aguas de Beth-bara y el Jordán.
25 And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon beyond the waters of the Jordan.
25 Y tomaron dos príncipes de los Madianitas, Oreb y Zeeb: y mataron á Oreb en la peña de Oreb, y á Zeeb [lo] mataron en el lagar de Zeeb: y después que siguieron á los Madianitas, trajeron las cabezas de Oreb y de Zeeb á Gedeón de la otra parte del Jordán.
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Oreb
One of the two princes of Midian captured by the Ephraimites at the Jordan, who was killed at the rock of Oreb and whose head was brought to Gideon.
Cited in the guide: Judges 7:25; Judges 8:3
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- 1 Judges 6:32; Genesis 12:6; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Deuteronomy 11:30; Genesis 22:3
- 2 Deuteronomy 8:17; 1 Corinthians 1:27–29; 2 Corinthians 4:7; Romans 11:18; Zechariah 12:7
- 3 Deuteronomy 20:8; Revelation 17:14; Matthew 20:16; Revelation 21:8; Luke 14:25–33
- 4 Psalm 33:16; 1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 7:9; Malachi 3:2–3; Job 23:10
- 7 1 Samuel 14:6; Isaiah 41:14–16
- 8 Isaiah 27:13; Judges 3:27; Joshua 6:4; Leviticus 23:24; 1 Corinthians 15:52
- 9 Acts 18:9–10; Judges 3:28; Genesis 46:2–3; 2 Chronicles 16:8–9; Acts 27:23
- 10 Exodus 4:10–14; Judges 4:8–9
- 11 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Ephesians 6:10; Philippians 4:13; Exodus 13:18; Judges 7:13–15
- 12 Judges 6:5; Judges 8:10; Judges 6:3; Isaiah 8:9–10; Joshua 11:4
- 13 1 Corinthians 1:27; Judges 3:31; Judges 3:15; Judges 6:15; Isaiah 41:14–15
- 14 Joshua 2:9; 2 Kings 7:6–7; Numbers 23:5; Job 1:10; Numbers 23:20
- 15 2 Corinthians 10:4–6; Genesis 24:48; Genesis 40:8; Genesis 24:26–27; 2 Chronicles 20:18–19
- 16 2 Corinthians 4:7
- 17 Matthew 16:24; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Hebrews 13:7; 1 Peter 5:3; Judges 9:48
- 18 2 Chronicles 20:15–17; 1 Samuel 17:47
- 19 Psalm 2:9; Exodus 14:24; Revelation 16:15; Jeremiah 13:13–14; Judges 7:16
- 20 Joshua 6:16; 1 Corinthians 15:52; Isaiah 27:13; Joshua 6:20; 2 Corinthians 4:7
- 21 Proverbs 28:1; Exodus 14:25; 2 Chronicles 20:17; 2 Kings 7:6–7; Exodus 14:13–14
- 22 1 Kings 4:12; Isaiah 19:2; Joshua 6:16; 2 Chronicles 20:23; 1 Kings 19:16
- 23 Judges 6:35; 1 Samuel 14:21–22
- 24 Judges 12:5; Romans 15:30; Philippians 1:27; John 1:28; Judges 3:27–28
- 25 Isaiah 10:26; Judges 8:3–4; Psalm 83:11–12; Joshua 7:26
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