Juízes 6 - Bíblia Online

Fizeram os filhos de Israel o mal à vista de Jeová, e ele os entregou nas mãos de Midiã sete anos. 
A mão de Midiã prevaleceu sobre Israel, por cuja causa fizeram para si os filhos de Israel as covas que estão nos montes, e as cavernas, e as fortalezas. 
Tendo Israel feito as suas semeaduras, subiam contra ele os midianitas, os amalequitas e os filhos de Oriente; 
e acampando-se, destruíram as novidades da terra até a vizinhança de Gaza, e nada deixavam em Israel para sustentar a vida, nem ovelhas, nem bois, nem jumentos. 
Pois eles subiam com os seus gados e tendas, e vinham tanto eles como os seus camelos em multidão inumerável como gafanhotos: e entravam na terra para a destruir. 
Israel ficou muito extenuado por causa de Midiã; e clamavam os filhos de Israel a Jeová. 
Quando os filhos de Israel clamaram a Jeová por causa de Midiã, 
mandou-lhes ele um profeta que lhes disse: Assim diz Jeová, Deus de Israel: Eu vos fiz subir do Egito, e vos tirei da casa da servidão; 
e vos livrei das mãos dos egípcios, e de todos os que vos oprimiam, e os desapossei de diante de vós e dei-vos a sua terra. 
Eu vos disse: Eu sou Jeová vosso Deus; não temais os deuses dos amorreus, em cuja terra habitais. Porém não obedecestes à minha voz. 
Veio o anjo de Jeová, e sentou-se debaixo do terebinto que estava em Ofra, e pertencia a Joás, abiezrita, cujo filho Gideão estava malhando trigo no lagar, para o esconder dos midianitas. 
Então lhe apareceu o anjo de Jeová, e lhe disse: Jeová é contigo, valentíssimo varão. 
Respondeu-lhe Gideão: Ó senhor meu, se Jeová é conosco, por que então nos tem sucedido tudo isto? Onde estão todas as suas obras maravilhosas, de que nos falaram nossos pais, dizendo: Não nos fez Jeová subir do Egito? porém agora ele nos desamparou, e nos entregou nas mãos de Midiã. 
Virou-se para ele Jeová, e disse: Vai nessa tua força, e livra a Israel da mão de Midiã: porventura não te enviei? 
Replicou-lhe Gideão: Ó Senhor, como livrarei a Israel? eis que a minha família é a mais pobre em Manassés, e eu sou o menor na casa de meu pai. 
Tornou-lhe Jeová: Certamente serei contigo, e ferirás aos midianitas como a um só homem. 
Prosseguiu Gideão: Se achei graça aos teus olhos, dá-me um sinal de que tu és quem fala comigo. 
Não te vás daqui, até que eu volte, e traga o meu presente e ponha diante de ti. Respondeu ele: Eu esperarei até que voltes. 
Gideão entrou, e preparou um cabrito, e fez duma efa de farinha bolos asmos; pôs a carne num cesto, e o caldo numa panela, e trouxe-lhe tudo para debaixo do terebinto, e lho apresentou. 
Disse-lhe o anjo de Deus: Toma a carne e os bolos, põe-nos sobre esta rocha, e derrama-lhes por cima o caldo. Assim fez Gideão. 
Estendeu o anjo de Jeová a ponta da vara que tinha na mão, e tocou a carne e os bolos asmos; da rocha subiu fogo, e consumiu a carne e os bolos asmos; e o anjo de Jeová desapareceu-lhe dos olhos. 
Vendo que era o anjo de Jeová, disse Gideão: Ai de mim, Deus Jeová, porque vi o anjo de Jeová face a face. 
Disse-lhe Jeová: Paz seja contigo; não temas: não morrerás. 
Ali edificou Gideão um altar a Jeová, e chamou-lhe Jeová-Shalom: ainda está o altar até o dia de hoje em Ofra dos abiezritas. 
Naquela noite lhe disse Jeová: Toma o touro de teu pai, a saber, o segundo touro de sete anos, e derruba o altar de Baal, que é de teu pai, e corta a Aserá que está junto ao altar. 
Edifica um altar a Jeová teu Deus no cume deste lugar forte, na forma devida, toma o segundo touro, e oferece um holocausto, usando da lenha da Aserá que cortarás. 
Gideão tomou dez dos seus servos, e fez segundo Jeová lhe falara; mas porque teve medo da casa de seu pai, e dos homens da cidade, não o fez de dia, fê-lo de noite. 
Levantando-se os homens da cidade de madrugada, eis que estava o altar de Baal derrubado, cortada a Aserá que estava junto a ele, e oferecido o segundo touro sobre o altar que havia sido edificado. 
Falaram uns aos outros: Quem fez isto? Depois de investigarem e inquirirem, disseram: Foi Gideão, filho de Joás, quem fez isso. 
Os homens da cidade disseram a Joás: Tira para fora teu filho, para que morra, porque derrubou o altar de Baal, e cortou a Aserá que estava junto a ele. 
Respondeu Joás a todos os que se puseram contra ele: Pleiteareis vós por Baal? ou salvá-lo-eis vós? (Quem pleitear por ele, será morto ainda esta manhã.) Se ele é deus, pleiteie por si mesmo, porque alguém derrubou o seu altar. 
Naquele dia chamou a Gideão Jerubaal, dizendo: Pleiteie Baal contra ele, pois derrubou o seu altar. 
Ajuntaram-se todos os midianitas, os amalequitas, e os filhos do Oriente; passaram, e acamparam-se no vale de Jezreel. 
Mas o espírito de Jeová tomou posse de Gideão, que tocou o alarme; congregou-se Abiezer após ele. 
Enviou mensageiros por toda a tribo de Manassés, que se congregou após ele; enviou também mensageiros a Aser, a Zebulom e a Naftali, que lhes saíram ao encontro. 
Disse Gideão a Deus: Se tu hás de livrar a Israel por minha mão, como disseste, 
eis que porei eu um velo de lã na eira: se o orvalho estiver só no velo, e toda a terra ficar seca, conhecerei que hás de livrar a Israel por minha mão, como disseste. 
Assim sucedeu: porque se levantou cedo no dia seguinte, apertou o velo, e do velo espremeu o orvalho, enchendo de água uma taça. 
Disse mais Gideão a Deus: Não se acenda a tua ira contra mim, e só falarei mais uma vez. Permite que eu faça a prova ainda esta vez com o velo; rogo-te que só o velo esteja seco, e que haja orvalho sobre a terra toda. 
Deus assim o fez naquela noite: só no velo houve secura, e orvalho na terra toda. 

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years. 
And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places. 
And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 
And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 
For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. 
And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord. 
And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord, 
The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house; 
And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land; 
And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice. 
Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it. 
And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war. 
Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian. 
And the Lord, turning to him, said, Go in the strength you have and be Israel's saviour from Midian: have I not sent you? 
And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. 
Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man. 
So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me. 
Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back. 
Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there. 
And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so. 
Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer. 
Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. 
But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; have no fear: you are in no danger of death. 
Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 
The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side, 
Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down. 
Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night. 
And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there. 
And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing. 
Then the men of the town said to Joash, Make your son come out to be put to death, for pulling down the altar of Baal and cutting down the holy tree which was by it. 
But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar. 
So that day he gave him the name of Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal take up his cause against him because his altar has been broken down. 
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel. 
But the spirit of the Lord came on Gideon; and at the sound of his horn all Abiezer came together after him. 
And he sent through all Manasseh, and they came after him; and he sent to Asher and Zebulun and Naphtali, and they came up and were joined to the others. 
Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said, 
See, I will put the wool of a sheep on the grain-floor; if there is dew on the wool only, while all the earth is dry, then I will be certain that it is your purpose to give Israel salvation by my hand as you have said. 
And it was so: for he got up early on the morning after, and twisting the wool in his hands, he got a basin full of water from the dew on the wool. 
Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew. 
And that night God did so; for the wool was dry, and there was dew on all the earth round it. 

Juízes 7

Fizeram os filhos de Israel o mal à vista de Jeová, e ele os entregou nas mãos de Midiã sete anos. 
A mão de Midiã prevaleceu sobre Israel, por cuja causa fizeram para si os filhos de Israel as covas que estão nos montes, e as cavernas, e as fortalezas. 
Tendo Israel feito as suas semeaduras, subiam contra ele os midianitas, os amalequitas e os filhos de Oriente; 
e acampando-se, destruíram as novidades da terra até a vizinhança de Gaza, e nada deixavam em Israel para sustentar a vida, nem ovelhas, nem bois, nem jumentos. 
Pois eles subiam com os seus gados e tendas, e vinham tanto eles como os seus camelos em multidão inumerável como gafanhotos: e entravam na terra para a destruir. 
Israel ficou muito extenuado por causa de Midiã; e clamavam os filhos de Israel a Jeová. 
Quando os filhos de Israel clamaram a Jeová por causa de Midiã, 
mandou-lhes ele um profeta que lhes disse: Assim diz Jeová, Deus de Israel: Eu vos fiz subir do Egito, e vos tirei da casa da servidão; 
e vos livrei das mãos dos egípcios, e de todos os que vos oprimiam, e os desapossei de diante de vós e dei-vos a sua terra. 
Eu vos disse: Eu sou Jeová vosso Deus; não temais os deuses dos amorreus, em cuja terra habitais. Porém não obedecestes à minha voz. 
Veio o anjo de Jeová, e sentou-se debaixo do terebinto que estava em Ofra, e pertencia a Joás, abiezrita, cujo filho Gideão estava malhando trigo no lagar, para o esconder dos midianitas. 
Então lhe apareceu o anjo de Jeová, e lhe disse: Jeová é contigo, valentíssimo varão. 
Respondeu-lhe Gideão: Ó senhor meu, se Jeová é conosco, por que então nos tem sucedido tudo isto? Onde estão todas as suas obras maravilhosas, de que nos falaram nossos pais, dizendo: Não nos fez Jeová subir do Egito? porém agora ele nos desamparou, e nos entregou nas mãos de Midiã. 
Virou-se para ele Jeová, e disse: Vai nessa tua força, e livra a Israel da mão de Midiã: porventura não te enviei? 
Replicou-lhe Gideão: Ó Senhor, como livrarei a Israel? eis que a minha família é a mais pobre em Manassés, e eu sou o menor na casa de meu pai. 
Tornou-lhe Jeová: Certamente serei contigo, e ferirás aos midianitas como a um só homem. 
Prosseguiu Gideão: Se achei graça aos teus olhos, dá-me um sinal de que tu és quem fala comigo. 
Não te vás daqui, até que eu volte, e traga o meu presente e ponha diante de ti. Respondeu ele: Eu esperarei até que voltes. 
Gideão entrou, e preparou um cabrito, e fez duma efa de farinha bolos asmos; pôs a carne num cesto, e o caldo numa panela, e trouxe-lhe tudo para debaixo do terebinto, e lho apresentou. 
Disse-lhe o anjo de Deus: Toma a carne e os bolos, põe-nos sobre esta rocha, e derrama-lhes por cima o caldo. Assim fez Gideão. 
Estendeu o anjo de Jeová a ponta da vara que tinha na mão, e tocou a carne e os bolos asmos; da rocha subiu fogo, e consumiu a carne e os bolos asmos; e o anjo de Jeová desapareceu-lhe dos olhos. 
Vendo que era o anjo de Jeová, disse Gideão: Ai de mim, Deus Jeová, porque vi o anjo de Jeová face a face. 
Disse-lhe Jeová: Paz seja contigo; não temas: não morrerás. 
Ali edificou Gideão um altar a Jeová, e chamou-lhe Jeová-Shalom: ainda está o altar até o dia de hoje em Ofra dos abiezritas. 
Naquela noite lhe disse Jeová: Toma o touro de teu pai, a saber, o segundo touro de sete anos, e derruba o altar de Baal, que é de teu pai, e corta a Aserá que está junto ao altar. 
Edifica um altar a Jeová teu Deus no cume deste lugar forte, na forma devida, toma o segundo touro, e oferece um holocausto, usando da lenha da Aserá que cortarás. 
Gideão tomou dez dos seus servos, e fez segundo Jeová lhe falara; mas porque teve medo da casa de seu pai, e dos homens da cidade, não o fez de dia, fê-lo de noite. 
Levantando-se os homens da cidade de madrugada, eis que estava o altar de Baal derrubado, cortada a Aserá que estava junto a ele, e oferecido o segundo touro sobre o altar que havia sido edificado. 
Falaram uns aos outros: Quem fez isto? Depois de investigarem e inquirirem, disseram: Foi Gideão, filho de Joás, quem fez isso. 
Os homens da cidade disseram a Joás: Tira para fora teu filho, para que morra, porque derrubou o altar de Baal, e cortou a Aserá que estava junto a ele. 
Respondeu Joás a todos os que se puseram contra ele: Pleiteareis vós por Baal? ou salvá-lo-eis vós? (Quem pleitear por ele, será morto ainda esta manhã.) Se ele é deus, pleiteie por si mesmo, porque alguém derrubou o seu altar. 
Naquele dia chamou a Gideão Jerubaal, dizendo: Pleiteie Baal contra ele, pois derrubou o seu altar. 
Ajuntaram-se todos os midianitas, os amalequitas, e os filhos do Oriente; passaram, e acamparam-se no vale de Jezreel. 
Mas o espírito de Jeová tomou posse de Gideão, que tocou o alarme; congregou-se Abiezer após ele. 
Enviou mensageiros por toda a tribo de Manassés, que se congregou após ele; enviou também mensageiros a Aser, a Zebulom e a Naftali, que lhes saíram ao encontro. 
Disse Gideão a Deus: Se tu hás de livrar a Israel por minha mão, como disseste, 
eis que porei eu um velo de lã na eira: se o orvalho estiver só no velo, e toda a terra ficar seca, conhecerei que hás de livrar a Israel por minha mão, como disseste. 
Assim sucedeu: porque se levantou cedo no dia seguinte, apertou o velo, e do velo espremeu o orvalho, enchendo de água uma taça. 
Disse mais Gideão a Deus: Não se acenda a tua ira contra mim, e só falarei mais uma vez. Permite que eu faça a prova ainda esta vez com o velo; rogo-te que só o velo esteja seco, e que haja orvalho sobre a terra toda. 
Deus assim o fez naquela noite: só no velo houve secura, e orvalho na terra toda. 

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years. 
And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places. 
And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 
And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 
For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. 
And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord. 
And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord, 
The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house; 
And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land; 
And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice. 
Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it. 
And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war. 
Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian. 
And the Lord, turning to him, said, Go in the strength you have and be Israel's saviour from Midian: have I not sent you? 
And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. 
Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man. 
So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me. 
Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back. 
Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there. 
And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so. 
Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer. 
Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. 
But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; have no fear: you are in no danger of death. 
Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 
The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side, 
Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down. 
Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night. 
And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there. 
And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing. 
Then the men of the town said to Joash, Make your son come out to be put to death, for pulling down the altar of Baal and cutting down the holy tree which was by it. 
But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar. 
So that day he gave him the name of Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal take up his cause against him because his altar has been broken down. 
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel. 
But the spirit of the Lord came on Gideon; and at the sound of his horn all Abiezer came together after him. 
And he sent through all Manasseh, and they came after him; and he sent to Asher and Zebulun and Naphtali, and they came up and were joined to the others. 
Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said, 
See, I will put the wool of a sheep on the grain-floor; if there is dew on the wool only, while all the earth is dry, then I will be certain that it is your purpose to give Israel salvation by my hand as you have said. 
And it was so: for he got up early on the morning after, and twisting the wool in his hands, he got a basin full of water from the dew on the wool. 
Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew. 
And that night God did so; for the wool was dry, and there was dew on all the earth round it. 

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