삿6:7  하나님의 책망 
삿 6:7 When the Israelites cried to the LORD because of Midian, 
삿 6:8 he sent them a prophet, who said, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 
삿 6:9 I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them from before you an d gave you their land. 
삿 6:10 I said to you, 'I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But y ou have not listened to me." 
삿 6:11 The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 
삿 6:12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior." 
삿 6:13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are a ll his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the L ORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian." 
삿 6:14 The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I n ot sending you?" 
삿 6:15 "But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am t he least in my family." 
삿 6:16 The LORD answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together." 

삿6:17 표징을 구하는 기드온 
삿 6:17 Gideon replied, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to m e. 
삿 6:18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you." And the LORD said, "I will wait until you return." 
삿 6:19 Gideon went in, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. 
삿 6:20 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour o ut the broth." And Gideon did so. 
삿 6:21 With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread . Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared. 
삿 6:22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed, "Ah, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!" 

삿6:23 기드온을 위로하시는 하나님 
삿 6:23 But the LORD said to him, "Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die." 
삿 6:24 So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 
삿 6:25 That same night the LORD said to him, "Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years o ld. Tear down your father's altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. 
삿 6:26 Then build a proper kind of altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering." 

삿6:27 우상을 파괴하는 기드온 
삿 6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and th e men of the town, he did it at night rather than in the daytime. 

삿6:28 기드온을 원망하는 백성들 
삿 6:28 In the morning when the men of the town got up, there was Baal's altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole besid e it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar! 
삿 6:29 They asked each other, "Who did this?" When they carefully investigated, they were told, "Gideon son of Joash did it." 
삿 6:30 The men of the town demanded of Joash, "Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal's altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it." 
삿 6:31 But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, "Are you going to plead Baal's cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar." 
삿 6:32 So that day they called Gideon "Jerub-Baal," saying, "Let Baal contend with him," because h e broke down Baal's altar. 

삿6:33 백성들을 모으는 기드온 
삿 6:33 Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camp ed in the Valley of Jezreel. 
삿 6:34 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. 
삿 6:35 He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so tha t they too went up to meet them. 
삿 6:36 Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised-- 
삿 6:37 look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said." 
삿 6:38 And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew--a bowl ful of water. 
삿 6:39 Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more te st with the fleece. This time make the fleece dry and the ground covered with dew." 
삿 6:40 That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.

삿7:4  삼백 용사를 선발하는 기드온 
삿 7:4 But the LORD said to Gideon, "There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will sift th em for you there. If I say, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go; but if I say, 'This one shall not go with you,' h e shall not go." 
삿 7:5 So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, "Separate those who lap the water with t heir tongues like a dog from those who kneel down to drink." 
삿 7:6 Three hundred men lapped with their hands to their mouths. All the rest got down on their knees to drink. 
삿 7:7 The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites in to your hands. Let all the other men go, each to his own place." 
삿 7:8 So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred, who took over the provision s and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. 

삿7:9  기드온의 정탐과 적병이 꾼 꿈 
삿 7:9 During that night the LORD said to Gideon, "Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. 
삿 7:10 If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah 
삿 7:11 and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp." So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. 
삿 7:12 The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. T heir camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore. 
삿 7:13 Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. "I had a dream," he was saying. "A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overt urned and collapsed." 
삿 7:14 His friend responded, "This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands." 

삿7:15 횃불 항아리의 전술 
삿 7:15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped God. He returned to the camp of Israel and cal led out, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands." 
삿 7:16 Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of t hem, with torches inside. 
삿 7:17 "Watch me," he told them. "Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I d o. 
삿 7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.'" 
삿 7:19 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just aft er they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. 
삿 7:20 The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holdin g in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!" 
삿 7:21 While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled. 
삿 7:22 When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. 
삿 7:23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. 

삿7:24 기드온의 승리 
삿 7:24 Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites a nd seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah." So all the men of Ephraim were called out an d they took the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. 
삿 7:25 They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the J ordan.

삿8:4  미디안 군을 쫓는 기드온 
삿 8:4 Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it. 
삿 8:5 He said to the men of Succoth, "Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." 
삿 8:6 But the officials of Succoth said, "Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?" 
삿 8:7 Then Gideon replied, "Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear y our flesh with desert thorns and briers." 
삿 8:8 From there he went up to Peniel and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Succoth had. 
삿 8:9 So he said to the men of Peniel, "When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower." 
삿 8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the arm ies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen. 
삿 8:11 Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and fell upon the unsuspecting army. 
삿 8:12 Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army. 

삿8:13 숙곳과 브누엘에 대한 복수 
삿 8:13 Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres. 
삿 8:14 He caught a young man of Succoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seve nty-seven officials of Succoth, the elders of the town. 
삿 8:15 Then Gideon came and said to the men of Succoth, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me b y saying, 'Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exha usted men?'" 
삿 8:16 He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Succoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers. 
삿 8:17 He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town. 

삿8:18 두 왕을 죽이는 기드온 
삿 8:18 Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?" "Men like you," they answered, "each one with the bearing of a prince." 
삿 8:19 Gideon replied, "Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you ha d spared their lives, I would not kill you." 
삿 8:20 Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, "Kill them!" But Jether did not draw his sword, because h e was only a boy and was afraid. 
삿 8:21 Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Come, do it yourself. 'As is the man, so is his strength.'" So Gideon stepp ed forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels' necks. 

삿8:22 기드온의 후일담 
삿 8:22 The Israelites said to Gideon, "Rule over us--you, your son and your grandson--because you have saved us o ut of the hand of Midian." 
삿 8:23 But Gideon told them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over yo u." 
삿 8:24 And he said, "I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder. " (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.) 
삿 8:25 They answered, "We'll be glad to give them." So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it. 
삿 8:26 The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pe ndants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels' necks. 
삿 8:27 Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by w orshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family. 
삿 8:28 Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the l and enjoyed peace forty years. 

삿8:29 기드온 죽음과 자녀들 
삿 8:29 Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live. 
삿 8:30 He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives. 
삿 8:31 His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelech. 
삿 8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abie zrites. 

삿8:33 이스라엘의 타락 
삿 8:33 No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berit h as their god and 
삿 8:34 did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side. 
삿 8:35 They also failed to show kindness to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for them.