15:1 And it came to pass after a time, in
the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and
said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not
suffer him to go in.
15:2 And her father spoke, saying, I said that thou didst surely hate her,
and I gave her to one of thy friends: [is] not her younger sister better
than she? let her be to thee instead of her.
15:3 And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to
the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.
15:4 And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and
turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.
15:5 And he set fire to the torches, and sent [the foxes] into the corn of
the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the
standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
15:6 And the Philistines said, Who [has done] these things? and they said,
Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and
given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her
and her father's house with fire.
15:7 And Sampson said to them, Though ye may have dealt thus with her,
verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
15:8 And he smote them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down
and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.
15:9 And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread
themselves abroad in Lechi.
15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? and the
Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has
done to us.
15:11 And the three thousand men of Judah went down to the hole of the rock
Etam, and they said to Sampson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule
over us? and what [is] this [that] thou hast done to us? and Sampson said to
them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
15:12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee to deliver thee
into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that
ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
15:13 And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast,
and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they
bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
15:14 And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet
him: and the Spirit of Yehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that
were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds
were consumed from off his hands.
15:15 And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he
put forth his hand and took it, and smote with it a thousand men.
15:16 And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed
them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have smitten a thousand men.
15:17 And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone
out of his hand; and he called that place the Lifting of the jaw-bone.
15:18 And he was very thirsty, and wept before Yehovah, and said, Thou hast
been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy
servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the
uncircumcised?
15:19 And Elohim broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence
water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the
name of the fountain was called 'The well of the invoker,' which is in Lechi,
until this day.
15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. |
15:1 But it came to pass within a while
after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a
kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father
would not suffer him to go in.
15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated
her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer
than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the
Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands,
and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the
standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the
standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered,
Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and
given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and
her father with fire.
15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be
avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went
down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi.
15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they
answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and
said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us?
what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did
unto me, so have I done unto them.
15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may
deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them,
Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and
deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they
bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
15:14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and
the Spirit of Yehovah came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon
his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from
off his hands.
15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took
it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with
the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast
away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on Yehovah, and said, Thou hast
given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I
die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
15:19 But Elohim clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came
water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he
revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi
unto this day.
15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. |