Antigo Testamentoáudio
Juízes 21 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
25 versículos · The Message, 2002
MSG
WEB
MSG
1Back at Mizpah the men of Israel had taken an oath: "No man among us will give his daughter to a Benjaminite in marriage."
WEB
1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
MSG
2Now, back in Bethel, the people sat in the presence of God until evening. They cried loudly; there was widespread lamentation.
WEB
2The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
MSG
3They said, "Why, O God, God of Israel, has this happened? Why do we find ourselves today missing one whole tribe from Israel?"
WEB
3They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”
MSG
4Early the next morning, the people got busy and built an altar. They sacrificed Whole-Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings.
WEB
4On the next day, the people rose early, and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
MSG
5Then the Israelites said, "Who from all the tribes of Israel didn't show up as we gathered in the presence of God?" For they had all taken a sacred oath that anyone who had not gathered in the presence of God at Mizpah had to be put to death.
WEB
5The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
MSG
6But the People of Israel were feeling sorry for Benjamin, their brothers. They said, "Today, one tribe is cut off from Israel.
WEB
6The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
MSG
7How can we get wives for those who are left? We have sworn by God not to give any of our daughters to them in marriage."
WEB
7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
MSG
8They said, "Which one of the tribes of Israel didn't gather before God at Mizpah?"It turned out that no one had come to the gathering from Jabesh Gilead.
WEB
8They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
MSG
9When they took a roll call of the people, not a single person from Jabesh Gilead was there.
WEB
9For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
MSG
10So the congregation sent twelve divisions of their top men there with the command, "Kill everyone of Jabesh Gilead, including women and children.
WEB
10The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
MSG
11These are your instructions: Every man and woman who has had sexual intercourse you must kill. But keep the virgins alive." And that's what they did.
WEB
11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
MSG
12And they found 400 virgins among those who lived in Jabesh Gilead; they had never had sexual intercourse with a man. And they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
WEB
12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
MSG
13Then the congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the Rimmon Rock and offered them peace.
WEB
13The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
MSG
14And Benjamin came. They gave them the women they had let live at Jabesh Gilead. But even then, there weren't enough for all the men.
WEB
14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
MSG
15The people felt bad for Benjamin; God had left out Benjamin—the missing piece from the Israelite tribes.
WEB
15The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
MSG
16The elders of the congregation said, "How can we get wives for the rest of the men, since all the Benjaminite women have been killed?
WEB
16Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
MSG
17How can we keep the inheritance alive for the Benjaminite survivors? How can we prevent an entire tribe from extinction?
WEB
17They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
MSG
18We certainly can't give our own daughters to them as wives." (Remember, the Israelites had taken the oath: "Cursed is anyone who provides a wife to Benjamin.")
WEB
18However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”
MSG
19Then they said, "There is that festival of God held every year in Shiloh. It's north of Bethel, just east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem and a little south of Lebonah."
WEB
19They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
MSG
20So they told the Benjaminites, "Go and hide in the vineyards.
WEB
20They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
MSG
21Stay alert—when you see the Shiloh girls come out to dance the dances, run out of the vineyards, grab one of the Shiloh girls for your wife, and then hightail it back to the country of Benjamin.
WEB
21and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
MSG
22When their fathers or brothers come to lay charges against us, we'll tell them, 'We did them a favor. After all we didn't go to war and kill to get wives for men. And it wasn't as if you were in on it by giving consent. But if you keep this up, you will incur blame.' "
WEB
22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
MSG
23And that's what the Benjaminites did: They carried off girls from the dance, wives enough for their number, got away, and went home to their inheritance. They rebuilt their towns and settled down.
WEB
23The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
MSG
24From there the People of Israel dispersed, each man heading back to his own tribe and clan, each to his own plot of land.
WEB
24The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
MSG
25At that time there was no king in Israel. People did whatever they felt like doing.
WEB
25In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.