Dommernes 15
1 Nogen tid efter, i hvetehøstens dager, vilde Samson se til sin hustru og hadde med sig et kje, og han sa: La mig få komme inn i kammeret til min hustru! Men hennes far vilde ikke gi ham lov til å gå inn
Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying:
2 og sa: Jeg tenkte at du hadde lagt henne for hat, og så gav jeg henne til din brudesvenn. Er ikke hennes yngre søster vakrere enn hun? Ta henne isteden.
“I thought that you would hate her, and therefore I gave her to your friend. But she has a sister, who is younger and more beautiful than she is. And she may be a wife for you, instead of her.”
3 Da sa Samson til dem: Denne gang har jeg ingen skyld på mig mot filistrene om jeg gjør dem noget ondt.
And Samson answered him: “From this day, there shall be no guilt for me against the Philistines. For I will do harm to you all.”
4 Så gikk Samson avsted og fanget tre hundre rever, og han tok fakler, vendte hale mot hale og satte en fakkel mellem to og to av halene.
And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails.
5 Så tendte han ild i faklene og slapp revene inn på filistrenes akrer, og han brente op både kornbånd og uskåret korn og oljehaver.
And setting these on fire, he released them, so that they might rush from place to place. And immediately they went into the grain fields of the Philistines, setting these on fire, both the grain that was already bound for carrying, and what was still standing on the stalk. These were completely burned up, so much so that the flame also consumed even the vineyards and the olive groves.
6 Da sa filistrene: Hvem har gjort dette? Folk svarte: Samson, svigersønn til timnitten, fordi han tok hans hustru og gav henne til hans brudesvenn. Så drog filistrene op og brente inne både henne og hennes far.
And the Philistines said, “Who has done this thing?” And it was said: “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another. He has done these things.” And the Philistines went up and burned the woman as well as her father.
7 Da sa Samson til dem: Gjør I sådant, så vil jeg ikke hvile før jeg får hevnet mig på eder.
And Samson said to them, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.”
8 Og han slo dem både på ben og på lår, så det blev et stort mannefall; så drog han ned og gav sig til i fjellkløften ved Etam.
And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam.
9 Da drog filistrene op og leiret sig i Juda, og de spredte sig utover i Leki.
And so the Philistines, ascending into the land of Judah, made camp at the place which was later called Lehi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army spread out.
10 Og Judas menn sa: Hvorfor har I draget op mot oss? De svarte: Vi har draget op for å binde Samson og gjøre mot ham som han har gjort mot oss.
And some from the tribe of Judah said to them, “Why have you ascended against us?” And they responded, “We have come to bind Samson, and to repay him for what he has done to us.”
11 Da drog tre tusen mann av Juda ned til fjellkløften ved Etam, og de sa til Samson: Vet du ikke at filistrene hersker over oss? Hvorfor har du da gjort dette mot oss? Men han sa til dem: Som de har gjort mot mig, så har jeg gjort mot dem.
Then three thousand men of Judah descended to the cave of the rock at Etam. And they said to Samson: “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why would you want to do this?” And he said to them, “As they have done to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Da sa de til ham: Vi har draget ned for å binde dig og gi dig i filistrenes hånd. Og Samson sa til dem: Sverg mig til at ikke I vil slå mig ihjel!
And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, and to deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear and promise to me that you will not kill me.”
13 Da sa de til ham: Nei, vi vil bare binde dig og så gi dig i deres hånd; men drepe dig vil vi ikke. Så bandt de ham med to nye rep og førte ham op av fjellkløften.
They said: “We will not kill you. But we will deliver you tied.” And they bound him with two new cords. And they took him from the rock at Etam.
14 Da han kom til Leki, sprang filistrene imot ham med gledesrop; men Herrens Ånd kom over ham, og repene om hans armer blev som brente tråder, og båndene falt smuldrede av hans hender.
And when he had arrived at the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines, shouting aloud, had met him, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. And just as flax is usually consumed by a hint of fire, so were the ties with which he was bound broken and released.
15 Så fant han et friskt kjeveben av et asen; han rakte hånden ut og tok det og slo ihjel tusen mann med det.
And finding a jawbone which was laying there, that is, the jawbone of a donkey, snatching it up, he put to death a thousand men with it.
16 Da sa Samson: Med et asens kjeveben slo jeg én hop, ja to, med et asens kjeveben slo jeg tusen mann.
And he said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, with the jaw of the colt of a donkey, I have destroyed them, and I have struck down a thousand men.”
17 Og da han hadde sagt dette, kastet han kjevebenet fra sig; og siden kalte de dette sted Ramat-Leki.
And when he had completed these words, singing, he threw the jawbone from his hand. And called the name of that place Ramath-Lehi, which is translated as ‘the elevation of the jawbone.’
18 Men da han var brennende tørst, ropte han til Herren og sa: Du har gitt denne store frelse ved din tjeners hånd, og så skal jeg nu dø av tørst og falle i de uomskårnes hender!
And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.”
19 Da lot Gud den hulning som er i Leki, åpne sig, og det rant vann ut av den, og han drakk; og hans livsånd vendte tilbake, og han kviknet til; derfor blev denne kilde kalt En-Hakkore; den er i Leki den dag idag.
And so the Lord opened a large tooth in the jawbone of the donkey, and water went out from it. And having drank it, his spirit was revived, and he recovered his strength. For this reason, the name of that place was called ‘the Spring called forth from the jawbone,’ even to the present day.
20 Han var i tyve år dommer i Israel i filistrenes dager.
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.
