Judges 15
1 Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
| وَكَانَ بَعْدَ مُدَّةٍ فِي أَيَّامِ حَصَادِ ٱلْحِنْطَةِ، أَنَّ شَمْشُونَ ٱفْتَقَدَ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ بِجَدْيِ مِعْزًى. | ١ |
2 “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
| وَقَالَ: «أَدْخُلُ إِلَى ٱمْرَأَتِي إِلَى حُجْرَتِهَا». وَلَكِنَّ أَبَاهَا لَمْ يَدَعْهُ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ. وَقَالَ أَبُوهَا: «إِنِّي قُلْتُ إِنَّكَ قَدْ كَرِهْتَهَا فَأَعْطَيْتُهَا لِصَاحِبِكَ. أَلَيْسَتْ أُخْتُهَا ٱلصَّغِيرَةُ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهَا؟ فَلْتَكُنْ لَكَ عِوَضًا عَنْهَا». | ٢ |
3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
| فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «إِنِّي بَرِيءٌ ٱلْآنَ مِنَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ إِذَا عَمِلْتُ بِهِمْ شَرًّا». | ٣ |
4 Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
| وَذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ وَأَمْسَكَ ثَلَاثَ مِئَةِ ٱبْنِ آوَى، وَأَخَذَ مَشَاعِلَ وَجَعَلَ ذَنَبًا إِلَى ذَنَبٍ، وَوَضَعَ مَشْعَلًا بَيْنَ كُلِّ ذَنَبَيْنِ فِي ٱلْوَسَطِ، | ٤ |
5 Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
| ثُمَّ أَضْرَمَ ٱلْمَشَاعِلَ نَارًا وَأَطْلَقَهَا بَيْنَ زُرُوعِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ، فَأَحْرَقَ ٱلْأَكْدَاسَ وَٱلزَّرْعَ وَكُرُومَ ٱلزَّيْتُونِ. | ٥ |
6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
| فَقَالَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ: «مَنْ فَعَلَ هَذَا؟» فَقَالُوا: «شَمْشُونُ صِهْرُ ٱلتِّمْنِيِّ، لِأَنَّهُ أَخَذَ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ وَأَعْطَاهَا لِصَاحِبِهِ». فَصَعِدَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ وَأَحْرَقُوهَا وَأَبَاهَا بِٱلنَّارِ. | ٦ |
7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
| فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «وَلَوْ فَعَلْتُمْ هَذَا فَإِنِّي أَنْتَقِمُ مِنْكُمْ، وَبَعْدُ أَكُفُّ». | ٧ |
8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
| وَضَرَبَهُمْ سَاقًا عَلَى فَخْذٍ ضَرْبًا عَظِيمًا. ثُمَّ نَزَلَ وَأَقَامَ فِي شَقِّ صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ. | ٨ |
9 Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.
| وَصَعِدَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ وَنَزَلُوا فِي يَهُوذَا وَتَفَرَّقُوا فِي لَحْيٍ. | ٩ |
10 “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
| فَقَالَ رِجَالُ يَهُوذَا: «لِمَاذَا صَعِدْتُمْ عَلَيْنَا؟» فَقَالُوا: «صَعِدْنَا لِكَيْ نُوثِقَ شَمْشُونَ لِنَفْعَلَ بِهِ كَمَا فَعَلَ بِنَا». | ١٠ |
11 In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
| فَنَزَلَ ثَلَاثَةُ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ يَهُوذَا إِلَى شَقِّ صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ، وَقَالُوا لِشَمْشُونَ: «أَمَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ مُتَسَلِّطُونَ عَلَيْنَا؟ فَمَاذَا فَعَلْتَ بِنَا؟» فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «كَمَا فَعَلُوا بِي هَكَذَا فَعَلْتُ بِهِمْ». | ١١ |
12 But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
| فَقَالُوا لَهُ: «نَزَلْنَا لِكَيْ نُوثِقَكَ وَنُسَلِّمَكَ إِلَى يَدِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ». فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «ٱحْلِفُوا لِي أَنَّكُمْ أَنْتُمْ لَا تَقَعُونَ عَلَيَّ». | ١٢ |
13 “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
| فَكَلَّمُوهُ قَائِلِينَ: «كَلَّا. وَلَكِنَّنَا نُوثِقُكَ وَنُسَلِّمُكَ إِلَى يَدِهِمْ، وَقَتْلًا لَا نَقْتُلُكَ». فَأَوْثَقُوهُ بِحَبْلَيْنِ جَدِيدَيْنِ وَأَصْعَدُوهُ مِنَ ٱلصَّخْرَةِ. | ١٣ |
14 When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
| وَلَمَّا جَاءَ إِلَى لَحْيٍ، صَاحَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ لِلِقَائِهِ. فَحَلَّ عَلَيْهِ رُوحُ ٱلرَّبِّ، فَكَانَ ٱلْحَبْلَانِ ٱللَّذَانِ عَلَى ذِرَاعَيْهِ كَكَتَّانٍ أُحْرِقَ بِٱلنَّارِ، فَٱنْحَلَّ ٱلْوِثَاقُ عَنْ يَدَيْهِ. | ١٤ |
15 He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
| وَوَجَدَ لَحْيَ حِمَارٍ طَرِيًّا، فَمَدَّ يَدَهُ وَأَخَذَهُ وَضَرَبَ بِهِ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ. | ١٥ |
16 Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
| فَقَالَ شَمْشُونُ: «بِلَحْيِ حِمَارٍ كُومَةً كُومَتَيْنِ. بِلَحْيِ حِمَارٍ قَتَلْتُ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ». | ١٦ |
17 And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
| وَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنَ ٱلْكَلَامِ رَمَى ٱللَّحْيِ مِنْ يَدِهِ، وَدَعَا ذَلِكَ ٱلْمَكَانَ «رَمَتَ لَحْيٍ». | ١٧ |
18 And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
| ثُمَّ عَطِشَ جِدًّا فَدَعَا ٱلرَّبَّ وَقَالَ: «إِنَّكَ قَدْ جَعَلْتَ بِيَدِ عَبْدِكَ هَذَا ٱلْخَلَاصَ ٱلْعَظِيمَ، وَٱلْآنَ أَمُوتُ مِنَ ٱلْعَطَشِ وَأَسْقُطُ بِيَدِ ٱلْغُلْفِ». | ١٨ |
19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
| فَشَقَّ ٱللهُ ٱلْكِفَّةَ ٱلَّتِي فِي لَحْيِ، فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءٌ، فَشَرِبَ وَرَجَعَتْ رُوحُهُ فَٱنْتَعَشَ. لِذَلِكَ دَعَا ٱسْمَهُ «عَيْنَ هَقُّورِي» ٱلَّتِي فِي لَحْيٍ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ. | ١٩ |
20 And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
| وَقَضَى لِإِسْرَائِيلَ فِي أَيَّامِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً. | ٢٠ |
