Dommer 15
1 Efter nogen Tids Forløb, i Hvedehøstens Tid, besøgte Samson sin Hustru og havde et Gedekid med, og han sagde: »Lad mig gaa ind i Kammeret til min Hustru!« Men hendes Fader tillod ham det ikke,
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
2 men sagde: »Jeg tænkte for vist, at du havde faaet Uvilje mod hende, derfor gav jeg hende til ham, der var din Brudesvend; men hendes yngre Søster er smukkere end hun, lad hende blive din Hustru i Søsterens Sted!«
Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
3 Da sagde Samson til dem: »Denne Gang er jeg sagesløs over for Filisterne, naar jeg gør dem Fortræd!«
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
4 Saa gik Samson hen og fangede 300 Ræve; derpaa tog han Fakler, bandt Halerne sammen to og to og fastgjorde en Fakkel midt imellem;
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
5 saa tændte han Faklerne, slap Rævene løs i Filisternes Korn og stak Ild baade paa Negene og Kornet paa Roden, ogsaa paa Vingaarde og Oliventræer.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6 Da Filisterne spurgte, hvem der havde gjort det, blev der sagt: »Det har Samson, Timnitens Svigersøn, fordi han tog hans Hustru og gav hende til hans Brudesvend.« Da gik Filisterne op og brændte hende og hendes Faders Hus inde.
Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
7 Men Samson sagde til dem: »Naar I bærer eder saaledes ad, under jeg mig ikke Ro, før jeg faar hævnet mig paa eder!«
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8 Saa slog han dem sønder og sammen med vældige Slag, og derpaa steg han ned i Fjeldkløften ved Etam og tog Ophold der.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
9 Filisterne drog nu op og slog Lejr i Juda og spredte sig ved Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Da sagde Judas Mænd: »Hvorfor er I draget op imod os?« Og de svarede: »Vi er draget herop for at binde Samson og handle mod ham, som han har handlet mod os!«
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11 Saa steg 3000 Mand fra Juda ned til Fjeldkløften ved Etam og sagde til Samson: »Ved du ikke, at Filisterne har Magten over os? Hvad er det dog, du har voldt os?« Han svarede dem: »Som de har handlet mod mig, har jeg handlet mod dem!«
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Men de sagde til ham: »Vi er kommet ned for at binde dig og overgive dig til Filisterne!« Da sagde Samson til dem: »Sværg mig til, at I ikke vil slaa mig ihjel!«
They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
13 De svarede ham: »Nej, vi vil Kun binde dig og overgive dig til dem; slaa dig ihjel vil vi ikke!« Saa bandt de ham med to nye Reb og førte ham op af Fjeldkløften.
They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Men da han kom til Lehi, og Filisterne hilste hans Komme med Jubelraab, kom HERRENS Aand over ham, og Rebene om hans Arme blev som svedne Sytraade, og hans Baand faldt skørnet af hans Hænder.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Og da han fik Øje paa en frisk Æselkæbe, rakte han sin Haand ud, greb den og huggede 1000 Mand ned med den.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Da sagde Samson: »Med en Æselkæbe har jeg flaaet dem sønder og sammen, med en Æselkæbe har jeg fældet 1000 Mand!«
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17 Med disse Ord kastede han Kæbebenet fra sig, og derfor kaldte man Stedet Ramat Lehi.
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Og da han var meget tørstig, raabte han til HERREN og sagde: »Ved din Tjeners Haand har du skaffet os denne vældige Sejr, skal jeg da nu dø af Tørst og falde i de uomskaarnes Haand?«
He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 Da aabnede Gud Lavningen i Lehi, og der vældede Vand frem deraf; og da han havde drukket, fik han sin Livskraft igen. Derfor kaldte man denne Kilde En-Hakkore; den findes i Lehi endnu den Dag i Dag.
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
20 Han var Dommer i Israel i Filistertiden i tyve Aar.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
