삿6:7  하나님의 책망 
^6:7It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian, ^6:8that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; ^6:9and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land; ^6:10and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not listened to my voice. ^6:11The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. ^6:12The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor. ^6:13Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian. ^6:14Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you? ^6:15He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. ^6:16Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man. 

삿6:17 표징을 구하는 기드온 
^6:17He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. ^6:18Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again. ^6:19Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. ^6:20The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. He did so. ^6:21Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight. ^6:22Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face. 

삿6:23 기드온을 위로하시는 하나님 
^6:23Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die. ^6:24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. ^6:25It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it; ^6:26and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down. 

삿6:27 우상을 파괴하는 기드온 
^6:27Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 

삿6:28 기드온을 원망하는 백성들 
^6:28When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built. ^6:29They said one to another, Who has done this thing? When they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing. ^6:30Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it. ^6:31Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, let him be put to death while it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has broken down his altar. ^6:32Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar. 

삿6:33 백성들을 모으는 기드온 
^6:33Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. ^6:34But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him. ^6:35He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. ^6:36Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken, ^6:37behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken. ^6:38It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. ^6:39Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew. ^6:40God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

삿7:4  삼백 용사를 선발하는 기드온 
^7:4Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go. ^7:5So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink. ^7:6The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. ^7:7Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place. ^7:8So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley. 

삿7:9  기드온의 정탐과 적병이 꾼 꿈 
^7:9It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. ^7:10But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp: ^7:11and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp. ^7:12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the sea-shore for multitude. ^7:13When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat. ^7:14His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host. 

삿7:15 횃불 항아리의 전술 
^7:15It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has delivered into your hand the host of Midian. ^7:16He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. ^7:17He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do. ^7:18When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Yahweh and for Gideon. ^7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. ^7:20The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon. ^7:21They stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. ^7:22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. ^7:23The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian. 

삿7:24 기드온의 승리 
^7:24Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. ^7:25They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

삿8:4  미디안 군을 쫓는 기드온 
^8:4Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. ^8:5He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian. ^8:6The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army? ^8:7Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. ^8:8He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. ^8:9He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. ^8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword. ^8:11Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the host; for the host was secure. ^8:12Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the host. 

삿8:13 숙곳과 브누엘에 대한 복수 
^8:13Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres. ^8:14He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders of it, seventy-seven men. ^8:15He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary? ^8:16He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. ^8:17He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. 

삿8:18 두 왕을 죽이는 기드온 
^8:18Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. ^8:19He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: as Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you. ^8:20He said to Jether his firstborn, Up, and kill them. But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth. ^8:21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks. 

삿8:22 기드온의 후일담 
^8:22Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian. ^8:23Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you. ^8:24Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.) ^8:25They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil. ^8:26The weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks. ^8:27Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house. ^8:28So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. 

삿8:29 기드온 죽음과 자녀들 
^8:29Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. ^8:30Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives. ^8:31His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. ^8:32Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 

삿8:33 이스라엘의 타락 
^8:33It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god. ^8:34The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; ^8:35neither shown they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.