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Jud 8:1-9.
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Jud 8:1-9.
THE EPHRAIMITES OFFENDED, BUT PACIFIED.
1. the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus?--Where this complaint was made, whether before or after the crossing of the Jordan, cannot be determined. By the overthrow of the national enemy, the Ephraimites were benefited as largely as any of the other neighboring tribes. But, piqued at not having been sharers in the glory of the victory, their leading men could not repress their wounded pride; and the occasion only served to bring out an old and deep-seated feeling of jealous rivalry that subsisted between the tribes
(Isa 9:21).
The discontent was groundless, for Gideon acted according to divine directions. Besides, as their tribe was conterminous with that of Gideon, they might, had they been really fired with the flame of patriotic zeal, have volunteered their services in a movement against the common enemy.
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2、3. 他对他们说，我现在所做的岂不比你们做的更好么？——他温和而真正谦逊的回答，流露出一位伟大而善良之人的气度；在最激动人心的场面中，他仍从容、镇定、自持。这番话如同在波涛上倾油使之平息
（箴16:1），
也难怪如此；因为在慷慨克己的极致中，他将自己那爱发怨言的弟兄们所当得的功劳与荣耀，看得比自己还大
（林前13:4； 腓2:3）。
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2, 3. he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you?--His mild and truly modest answer breathes the spirit of a great as well as good man, who was calm, collected, and self-possessed in the midst of most exciting scenes. It succeeded in throwing oil on the troubled waters
(Pr 16:1),
and no wonder, for in the height of generous self-denial, it ascribes to his querulous brethren a greater share of merit and glory than belonged to himself
(1Co 13:4; Php 2:3).
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4. 基甸到了约旦河，过河去了——已十分疲乏，但仍切望继续追击，直到胜利完全成就。
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4. Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over--much exhausted, but eager to continue the pursuit till the victory was consummated.
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5. 他对疏割人说——即「帐棚」或「棚子」之意。这个名字似乎应用于约旦河谷的整个地带，无论河东河西，全属迦得支派（参
创33:17； 王上7:46；与书13:27）。
他既是为全以色列共通的事业而战，就有权指望各地的同胞给予支持和鼓励。
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5. he said unto the men of Succoth--that is, a place of tents or booths. The name seems to have been applied to the whole part of the Jordan valley on the west, as well as on the east side of the river, all belonging to the tribe of Gad (compare
Ge 33:17; 1Ki 7:46; with Jos 13:27).
Being engaged in the common cause of all Israel, he had a right to expect support and encouragement from his countrymen everywhere.
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6. 疏割的首领说，西巴和撒慕拿的手已经在你手里么——这回答既傲慢又趋炎附势。说它傲慢，因为这话暗含辛辣的讥诮：基甸满以为必胜，他们却信他不会得胜；说它趋炎附势，因为他们与米甸首领为邻，惧怕这些四处游荡的酋长日后报复。对同为以色列血统的人而言，这样以侮辱的态度行事，实在无情可耻。
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6. the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand--an insolent as well as a time-serving reply. It was insolent because it implied a bitter taunt that Gideon was counting with confidence on a victory which they believed he would not gain; and it was time-serving, because living in the near neighborhood of the Midianite sheiks, they dreaded the future vengeance of those roving chiefs. This contumelious manner of acting was heartless and disgraceful in people who were of Israelitish blood.
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7. 我必用旷野的荆棘和蒺藜撕碎你们的肉——这是古时俘虏常受的酷刑：将荆棘蒺藜放在赤裸的身上，再用橇板或沉重的农具拖过压下去。
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7. I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers--a cruel torture, to which captives were often subjected in ancient times, by having thorns and briers placed on their naked bodies and pressed down by sledges, or heavy implements of husbandry being dragged over them.
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8. 他从那里上毗努伊勒去，对他们也是这样说——毗努伊勒是邻近的一座城，也在迦得境内，靠近雅博河，是雅各为之取的名
（创32:30、31）。
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8. he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise--a neighboring city, situated also in the territory of Gad, near the Jabbok, and honored with this name by Jacob
(Ge 32:30, 31).
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9. 他……说，我平平安安回来的时候，必拆毁这楼——他一心追击，怕耽延时日，便把这当得的报应留待回来时再行。他对凯旋而归满怀把握，足见其信心之坚固；而他这具体的恐吓，大概是因毗努伊勒人骄傲狂妄地夸口，要在他们高耸的瞭望楼上藐视他而惹起的。
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9. he spake . . ., When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower--Intent on the pursuit, and afraid of losing time, he postponed the merited vengeance till his return. His confident anticipation of a triumphant return evinces the strength of his faith; and his specific threat was probably provoked by some proud and presumptuous boast, that in their lofty watchtower the Penuelites would set him at defiance.
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Jud 8:10-27.
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Jud 8:10-27.
西巴和撒慕拿被擒。
10. 那时西巴和撒慕拿在加各——加各是迦得东界的一座城。米甸大军的残部停在那里。
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Jud 8:10-27.
ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA TAKEN.
10. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor--a town on the eastern confines of Gad. The wreck of the Midianite army halted there.
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11. 基甸沿着住帐棚人的路上去——他追踪逃兵，越过雅博河东北的基列山脉，在他们自以为安全、藏身于本族游牧部族之中时，出其不意地袭击了他们。约比哈据推测就是基列拉末；因此米甸人必是在亚伯拉——即「亚伯基拉明」、「葡萄园之平原」——一带或其附近找到藏身之所。
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11. Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east--He tracked the fugitives across the mountain range of Gilead to the northeast of the Jabbok, and there came upon them unexpectedly while they were resting secure among their own nomadic tribes. Jogbehah is supposed to be Ramoth-gilead; and, therefore, the Midianites must have found refuge at or near Abela, "Abel-cheramim," "the plain of the vineyards."
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12. 西巴和撒慕拿逃跑的时候，基甸追赶他们——第三次交锋发生了。他从一条不寻常的路到了他们最后的落脚处，使这群逃兵猝不及防，米甸大军便在此被彻底征服。
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12. when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them--A third conflict took place. His arrival at their last quarters, which was by an unwonted path, took the fugitives by surprise, and the conquest of the Midianite horde was there completed.
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13. 约阿施的儿子基甸由希列斯坡回来——他似乎是走了一条较近的路回到疏割，因为我们（英文）译本中所译的「太阳未出之前」，原文意为「希列斯的高处，即日头之山」。
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13. Gideon returned from battle before the sun was up--He seems to have returned by a nearer route to Succoth, for what is rendered in our version "before the sun was up," means "the heights of Heres, the sun-hills."
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14. 他记下——即写下那七十位首领或长老的名字。他正是从他们那里受了如此不客气的对待。
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14. he described--wrote the names of the seventy princes or elders. It was from them he had received so inhospitable a treatment.
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16. 他拿了……旷野的荆棘和蒺藜，用这些疏割人——他们因拒绝给他的兵士饮食，既犯了公开的罪行，也行了不仁之事；于是遭受了可怕的刑罚——这刑罚大概是因荆棘丛既多又大，加上东方人衣着单薄而被想出的。
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16. he took . . . the thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth--By refusing his soldiers refreshment, they had committed a public crime, as well as an act of inhumanity, and were subjected to a horrible punishment, which the great abundance and remarkable size of the thorn bushes, together with the thinness of clothing in the East, has probably suggested.
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18. 基甸问西巴和撒慕拿说，你们在他泊山所杀的人是什么样式？——这是米甸首领在七年非法占据期间所犯无数暴行之一。如今在他们的命运将定之际，才首次被提及。
他们好像王子的形状——这是东方说法，指容貌俊美、气宇轩昂、力大非凡、体格魁伟。
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18. Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?--This was one of the countless atrocities which the Midianite chiefs had perpetrated during their seven years' lawless occupancy. It is noticed now for the first time when their fate was about to be determined.
each one resembled the children of a king--An Orientalism for great beauty, majesty of appearance, uncommon strength, and grandeur of form.
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19. 他们是我弟兄，与我同母所生的——即同母的弟兄；但在凡多妻盛行的国家，「我母亲所生的儿子」一词，含有「弟兄」这较宽泛的称呼所不能唤起的亲密关系与深厚感情。
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19. They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother--That is, uterine brothers; but, in all countries where polygamy prevails, "the son of my mother" implies a closeness of relationship and a warmth of affection never awakened by the looser term, "brother."
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20. 他对他长子益帖说，起来杀他们——至近的亲属本是报血仇的；但官长也可命人行刑者之职；所选的人，其身份总是与受刑者相当或相称
（王上2:29）。
基甸命益帖行此事，本是要借他亲手杀这两个国家仇敌来尊荣儿子；少年既不敢行，他便亲自执行了这流血之工。
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20. he said unto Jether his first-born, Up, and slay them--The nearest of kin was the blood-avenger; but a magistrate might order any one to do the work of the executioner; and the person selected was always of a rank equal or proportioned to that of the party doomed to suffer
(1Ki 2:29).
Gideon intended, then, by the order to Jether, to put an honor on his son, by employing him to slay two enemies of his country; and on the youth declining, he performed the bloody deed himself.
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22、23. 以色列人对基甸说，你管理我们吧……基甸对他们说，耶和华必管理你们——他们因无限的敬佩与感激，在当时的热情中，要将这位拯救者推上宝座，并在他家中建立王朝。但基甸深知神权政体的原则，并敬虔地尊崇之，片刻也不接受这提议。他甘心牺牲个人的与家族的野心于责任之感，一切属世的动机都被对神荣耀的至高尊重所辖制。他愿意作士师，但唯有耶和华才是以色列的王。
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22, 23. the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us . . . Gideon said unto them, the Lord shall rule over you--Their unbounded admiration and gratitude prompted them, in the enthusiasm of the moment, to raise their deliverer to a throne, and to establish a royal dynasty in his house. But Gideon knew too well, and revered too piously the principles of the theocracy, to entertain the proposal for a moment. Personal and family ambition was cheerfully sacrificed to a sense of duty, and every worldly motive was kept in check by a supreme regard to the divine honor. He would willingly act as judge, but the Lord alone was King of Israel.
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24-26. 基甸对他们说，我有一事求你们——就是各人捐出一个耳环（单数）。古时阿拉伯人（「以实玛利人」与「米甸人」为同义词，
创37:25、28）
以蛮族的珍珠黄金华丽装饰，所以大量这样的贵重战利品落入了以色列兵士手中。众人都慷慨捐输；给他的金子数量，估计约值三千一百一十三英镑。
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24-26. Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you--This was the contribution of an earring (singular). As the ancient Arabians (Ishmaelites and Midianites being synonymous terms,
Ge 37:25, 28)
were gorgeously adorned with barbaric pearl and gold, an immense amount of such valuable booty had fallen into the hands of the Israelitish soldiers. The contribution was liberally made, and the quantity of gold given to him is estimated at £3113 sterling.
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26. 月牙圈——是金制的月牙形饰片，挂在骆驼颈上或置于胸前。
链子——更准确说是「耳环」，或金珠的坠子。
紫色——是王室之色。古今阿拉伯人都以华丽的饰物装饰坐骑的颈、胸、腿。
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26. ornaments--crescent-like plates of gold suspended from the necks, or placed on the breasts of the camels.
collars--rather, "earrings," or drops of gold or pearl.
purple--a royal color. The ancient, as well as modern Arabs, adorned the necks, breasts, and legs, of their riding animals with sumptuous housing.
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27. 基甸以此造了一个以弗得，设立在本城……俄弗拉——他并未存心用于偶像崇拜，也未打算与示罗分立，这从
士8:33
可见。基甸打算用所得的金子，造一个以弗得仅供他作民事官长或治理者所用，正如大卫所作的
（代上15:27），
并造一块华丽的胸牌。从历史看，他造这以弗得原无可指责，因它不过是民事的礼服或饰物；但它后来成了附着宗教观念的对象；因而成为网罗，借着滥用，给基甸和他的家带来了祸患〔泰勒，《残篇》〕。
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27. Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, . . . Ophrah--That no idolatrous use was in view, nor any divisive course from Shiloh contemplated, is manifest from
Jud 8:33.
Gideon proposed, with the gold he received, to make an ephod for his use only as a civil magistrate or ruler, as David did
(1Ch 15:27),
and a magnificent pectoral or breastplate also. It would seem, from the history, that he was not blamable in making this ephod, as a civil robe or ornament merely, but that it afterward became an object to which religious ideas were attached; whereby it proved a snare, and consequently an evil, by perversion, to Gideon and his house [TAYLOR, Fragments].
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Jud 8:28。
米甸被制伏。
28. 这样，米甸人就在以色列人面前被制伏了——阿拉伯大军这次入侵迦南，其可怕与蹂躏，犹如匈奴之入侵欧洲。这是以色列人所受最严厉的祸患；这次的灾祸与基甸之下的拯救，在百姓心中流传了数百年
（诗83:11）。
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Jud 8:28.
MIDIAN SUBDUED.
28. Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel--This invasion of the Arab hordes into Canaan was as alarming and desolating as the irruption of the Huns into Europe. It was the severest scourge ever inflicted upon Israel; and both it and the deliverance under Gideon lived for centuries in the minds of the people
(Ps 83:11).
Jud 8:1-9.
以法莲人发怒，却得安抚。
1. 以法莲人对他说，你为什么这样待我们？——这怨言究竟在何处发出，是在过约旦河之前还是之后，已无从确定。随着民族公敌倾覆，以法莲人所得的好处并不亚于邻近的其他支派。但他们因未能共享胜利的荣耀而心生不满，其首领们无法压抑受伤的自尊；这次事件正好暴露出各支派之间由来已久、根深蒂固的嫉妒争竞之心
（赛9:21）。
这种不满是无理的，因为基甸乃是照着神的指示行事。况且，他们支派既与基甸支派接壤，他们若真被爱国的热忱所点燃，本可主动请缨参与对付共同敌人的行动。