< 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.
and to be from day in/on/with day harvest wheat and to reckon: visit Samson [obj] woman: wife his in/on/with kid goat and to say to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife my [the] chamber [to] and not to give: allow him father her to/for to come (in): come
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.”
and to say father her to say to say for to hate to hate her and to give: give(marriage) her to/for companion your not sister her [the] small pleasant from her to be please to/for you underneath: instead her
3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
and to say to/for them Samson to clear [the] beat from Philistine for to make: do I with them distress: harm
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.
and to go: went Samson and to capture three hundred fox and to take: take torch and to turn tail to(wards) tail and to set: put torch one between two [the] tail in/on/with midst
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.
and to burn: burn fire in/on/with torch and to send: let go in/on/with standing grain Philistine and to burn: burn from stack and till standing grain and till vineyard olive
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.
and to say Philistine who? to make: do this and to say Samson son-in-law [the] Timnite for to take: marry [obj] woman: wife his and to give: give(marriage) her to/for companion his and to ascend: rise Philistine and to burn [obj] her and [obj] father her in/on/with fire
7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
and to say to/for them Samson if to make: do [emph?] like/as this that if: except if: except to avenge in/on/with you and after to cease
8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
and to smite [obj] them leg upon thigh wound great: large and to go down and to dwell in/on/with cleft crag Etam
9 Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.
and to ascend: rise Philistine and to camp in/on/with Judah and to leave in/on/with Lehi
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.”
and to say man Judah to/for what? to ascend: rise upon us and to say to/for to bind [obj] Samson to ascend: rise to/for to make: do to/for him like/as as which to make: do to/for us
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.
and to go down three thousand man from Judah to(wards) cleft crag Etam and to say to/for Samson not to know for to rule in/on/with us Philistine and what? this to make: do to/for us and to say to/for them like/as as which to make: do to/for me so to make: do to/for them
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.”
and to say to/for him to/for to bind you to go down to/for to give: give you in/on/with hand: power Philistine and to say to/for them Samson to swear to/for me lest to fall on [emph?] in/on/with me you(m. p.)
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.
and to say to/for him to/for to say not for to bind to bind you and to give: give you in/on/with hand: power their and to die not to die you and to bind him in/on/with two cord new and to ascend: establish him from [the] crag
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.
he/she/it to come (in): come till Lehi (and Philistine *L(abh)*) to shout to/for to encounter: toward him and to rush upon him spirit LORD and to be [the] cord which upon arm his like/as flax which to burn: burn in/on/with fire and to melt bond his from upon hand his
15 He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
and to find jaw donkey fresh and to send: reach hand his and to take: take her and to smite in/on/with her thousand man
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.”
and to say Samson in/on/with jaw [the] donkey heap heap in/on/with jaw [the] donkey to smite thousand man
17 And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
and to be like/as to end: finish he to/for to speak: speak and to throw [the] jaw from hand his and to call: call by to/for place [the] he/she/it Ramath-lehi Ramath-lehi
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?”
and to thirst much and to call: call to to(wards) LORD and to say you(m. s.) to give: give in/on/with hand: power servant/slave your [obj] [the] deliverance: victory [the] great: large [the] this and now to die in/on/with thirst and to fall: fall in/on/with hand: power [the] uncircumcised
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.
and to break up/open God [obj] [the] hollow which in/on/with Lehi and to come out: issue from him water and to drink and to return: return spirit his and to live upon so to call: call by name her En-hakkore En-hakkore which in/on/with Lehi till [the] day: today [the] this
20 And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
and to judge [obj] Israel in/on/with day Philistine twenty year