Judges 15
1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
Beberapa waktu kemudian, dalam musim menuai gandum, pergilah Simson mengunjungi isterinya, dengan membawa seekor anak kambing, serta berkata: "Aku mau ke kamar mendapatkan isteriku." Tetapi ayah perempuan itu tidak membiarkan dia masuk.
2 Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."
Kata ayah perempuan itu: "Aku telah menyangka, bahwa engkau benci sama sekali kepadanya, sebab itu aku memberikannya kepada kawanmu. Bukankah adiknya lebih cantik dari padanya? Baiklah kauambil itu bagimu sebagai gantinya."
3 Samson said to him, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."
Lalu kata Simson kepadanya: "Sekali ini aku tidak bersalah terhadap orang Filistin, apabila aku mendatangkan celaka kepada mereka."
4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.
Maka pergilah Simson, ditangkapnya tiga ratus anjing hutan, diambilnya obor, diikatnya ekor dengan ekor dan ditaruhnya sebuah obor di antara tiap-tiap dua ekor.
5 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
Kemudian dinyalakannyalah obor itu dan dilepaskannya anjing-anjing hutan itu ke gandum yang belum dituai kepunyaan orang Filistin, sehingga terbakarlah tumpukan-tumpukan gandum dan gandum yang belum dituai dan kebun-kebun pohon zaitun.
6 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 burnt her and her father's house with fire.
Berkatalah orang Filistin: "Siapakah yang melakukan ini?" Orang menjawab: "Simson, menantu orang Timna itu, sebab orang itu telah mengambil isteri Simson dan memberikannya kepada kawannya." Kemudian pergilah orang Filistin ke sana dan membakar perempuan itu beserta ayahnya.
7 Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."
Lalu berkatalah Simson kepada mereka: "Jika kamu berbuat demikian, sesungguhnya aku takkan berhenti sebelum aku membalaskannya kepada kamu."
8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Dan dengan pukulan yang hebat ia meremukkan tulang-tulang mereka. Lalu pergilah ia dan tinggal dalam gua di bukit batu Etam.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
Lalu majulah orang Filistin dan berkemah di daerah Yehuda serta memencar ke Lehi.
10 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."
Berkatalah orang-orang Yehuda: "Mengapa kamu maju menyerang kami?" Lalu jawab mereka: "Kami maju untuk mengikat Simson dan memperlakukan dia seperti dia memperlakukan kami."
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not 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 have I done to them."
Kemudian turunlah tiga ribu orang dari suku Yehuda ke gua di gunung batu Etam dan berkata kepada Simson: "Tidakkah kauketahui, bahwa orang Filistin berkuasa atas kita? Apakah juga yang telah kauperbuat terhadap kami?" Tetapi jawabnya kepada mereka: "Seperti mereka memperlakukan aku, demikianlah aku memperlakukan mereka."
12 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 fall on me yourselves."
Kata mereka kepadanya: "Kami datang ke sini untuk mengikat dan menyerahkan engkau ke dalam tangan orang Filistin." Tetapi jawab Simson kepada mereka: "Bersumpahlah kepadaku, bahwa kamu sendiri tidak akan menyerang aku."
13 They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
Lalu kata mereka kepadanya: "Tidak, kami hanya mau mengikat engkau dan menyerahkan engkau ke dalam tangan mereka, tetapi membunuh engkau kami tidak mau." Maka mereka mengikat dia dengan dua tali baru dan membawa dia dari bukit batu itu.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Ruach of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
Setelah ia sampai ke Lehi dan orang-orang Filistin mendatangi dia dengan bersorak-sorak, maka berkuasalah Roh TUHAN atas dia dan tali-tali pada tangannya menjadi seperti batang rami yang telah habis dimakan api dan segala pengikatnya hancur tanggal dari tangannya.
15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
Kemudian ia menemui sebuah tulang rahang keledai yang masih baru, diulurkannya tangannya, dipungutnya dan dipukulnya mati seribu orang dengan tulang itu.
16 Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
Berkatalah Simson: "Dengan rahang keledai bangsa keledai itu kuhajar, dengan rahang keledai seribu orang kupukul."
17 It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
Setelah berkata demikian, dilemparnya tulang rahang itu dari tangannya. Kemudian dinamailah tempat itu Ramat Lehi.
18 He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"
Ketika ia sangat haus, berserulah ia kepada TUHAN: "Oleh tangan hamba-Mu ini telah Kauberikan kemenangan yang besar itu, masakan sekarang aku akan mati kehausan dan jatuh ke dalam tangan orang-orang yang tidak bersunat itu!"
19 And God split the hollow place that is at 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.
Kemudian Allah membelah liang batu yang di Lehi itu, dan keluarlah air dari situ. Ia minum, lalu menjadi kuat dan segar kembali. Sebab itu dinamailah mata air itu Mata Air Penyeru, yang sampai sekarang masih ada di Lehi.
20 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Ia memerintah sebagai hakim atas orang Israel dalam zaman orang Filistin, dua puluh tahun lamanya.
