对耶弗他说，请你来作我们的元帅，我们好与亚扪人争战。
And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
耶弗他就向耶和华许愿，说，你若将亚扪人交在我手中，
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
以伦之后，有比拉顿人希列的儿子押顿作以色列的士师。
And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
他父母说，在你弟兄的女儿中，或在本国的民中，岂没有一个女子，何至你去在未受割礼的非利士人中娶妻呢。参孙对他父亲说，愿你给我娶那女子，因我喜悦她。
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
参孙对他们说，我给你们出一个谜语，你们在七日筵宴之内，若能猜出意思告诉我，我就给你们三十件里衣，三十套衣裳。
And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
那人不愿再住一夜，就备上那两匹驴，带着妾起身走了，来到耶布斯的对面，耶布斯就是耶路撒冷。
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
他们就往前走。将到便雅悯的基比亚，日头已经落了。
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
基比亚人夜间起来，围了我住的房子，想要杀我，又将我的妾强奸致死。
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
那时便雅悯人从各城里点出拿刀的，共有二万六千。另外还有基比亚人点出七百精兵。
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
以色列人出来，要与便雅悯人打仗，就在基比亚前摆阵。
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.