Judges 15
1 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
And it came to pass, after a time, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson went to visit his wife, with a kid, and he said—I will go in unto my wife, in the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 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
And her father said—I, thought, that thou didst, hate, her, so I gave her to thy companion, —Is not, her younger sister, fairer than she? Pray let her be thine, in her stead.
3 and to say to/for them Samson to clear [the] beat from Philistine for to make: do I with them distress: harm
And Samson said of them, I shall be more blameless, this time, than the Philistines, —though I should do them a mischief.
4 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
So Samson went, and caught three hundred jackals, —and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put one torch between the two tails, in the midst.
5 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
And, when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, —and set fire, both to the stack of sheaves and to the standing corn, and besides to the olive plantation.
6 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
Then said the Philistines—Who hath done this? And they said—Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father, with fire.
7 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
And Samson said to them, Though ye do the like of this, yet will I be avenged upon you, and, afterwards, will I cease.
8 and to smite [obj] them leg upon thigh wound great: large and to go down and to dwell in/on/with cleft crag Etam
So he smote them, leg on thigh, with a great smiting, —and went down and dwelt in a cleft of the crag Etam.
9 and to ascend: rise Philistine and to camp in/on/with Judah and to leave in/on/with Lehi
Then went up the Philistines, and encamped in Judah, —and were spread abroad in Lehi.
10 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
And the men of Judah said, Wherefore have ye come up against us? And they said—To bind Samson, are we come up, to do unto him as he hath done unto us.
11 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
Then went down three thousand men out of Judah, unto the cleft of the crag Etam, and said unto Samson—Knowest thou not that the Philistines are lording it over us? What, then, is this thou hast done to us? And he said unto them, As they have done to me, so, have I done to them.
12 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.)
And they said to him—To bind thee, are we come down, to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me, yourselves.
13 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
And they answered him, saying—Nay; but we will, bind, thee, and deliver thee into their hand, but we will not, put thee to death. So they bound him with two new ropes, and took him up from the crag.
14 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
He, was coming in as far as Lehi, and, the Philistines, came shouting to meet him, —when the Spirit of Yahweh came suddenly over him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as threads of flax which have been ignited with fire, so that his bonds melted from off his hands.
15 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
Then found he the jawbone of an ass newly-slain, —so he thrust forth his hand, and took it, and smote therewith, a thousand men.
16 and to say Samson in/on/with jaw [the] donkey heap heap in/on/with jaw [the] donkey to smite thousand man
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, —have I piled them up in heaps! With the jawbone of an ass, have I smitten a thousand men!
17 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
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, —and called the name of that place, Ramath-lehi.
18 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
And he was sore athirst, so he cried unto Yahweh, and said, Thou thyself, hast given, into the hand of thy servant, this great salvation, —and, now, must I die of thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 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
So then God clave open the hollow that is in Lehi, and there came therefrom water, and he drank, and his spirit came back, and he revived, —for this cause, called he the name thereof—Ain-hakkore, which is in Lehi, until this day.
20 and to judge [obj] Israel in/on/with day Philistine twenty year
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
