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
During the time that they harvested wheat, Samson took a young goat to Timnah as a present for his wife. He planned to sleep with [EUP] his wife, but her father would not let him go into [her room].
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
He said to Samson, “I really thought that you hated her. So I gave her to the man who had been your best man at the wedding, and she married him. But look, her younger sister is [RHQ] more beautiful than she is. You can marry her!”
3 and to say to/for them Samson to clear [the] beat from Philistine for to make: do I with them distress: harm
Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
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
Then he went out [into the fields] and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together, two-by-two. He fastened torches to each pair of tails.
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
Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines. The fire [from the torches] burned all the grain to the ground, including the grain that had been cut and piled in bundles. The fire also burned down their grapevines and their olive trees.
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
The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” Someone told them, “Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson’s best man at the wedding, and she married him.” So the Philistines went [to Timnah] and got the woman and her father, and burned them to death.
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
Samson [found out about that, and he] said to them, “Because you have done this, I will not stop until I get revenge on you!”
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 attacked the Philistines furiously, and killed many of them. Then he went [to hide] in a cave in the large rock at a place called Etam.
9 and to ascend: rise Philistine and to camp in/on/with Judah and to leave in/on/with Lehi
The Philistines [did not know where he was, so they] went up to where the descendants of Judah lived, set up their tents near Lehi [town and then raided the town].
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
The men there asked the Philistines, “Why have you attacked us?” The Philistines replied, “We have come to capture Samson. We have come to get revenge on him for what he did to 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
[Someone there knew where Samson was hiding]. So 3,000 men from Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock where he was hiding. They said to Samson, “Do you not realize that the people of Philistia are ruling over us? Do you not realize what they will do to us?” Samson replied, “The only thing I did was that I got revenge on them for what they did to me.”
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.)
But the men from Judah said to him, “We have come to tie you up and put you in the hands of the Philistines.” Samson said, “All right, but promise me that you yourselves will not kill me!”
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
They replied, “We will just tie you up and take you to the Philistines. We will not kill you.” So they tied him with two new ropes, and led him away from the cave.
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
When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting [triumphantly]. But Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were stalks of burned flax, and the ropes fell off his wrists.
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 he saw a donkey’s jawbone lying on the ground. It was fresh, [so it was hard]. He picked it up and killed about 1,000 Philistine men with it.
16 and to say Samson in/on/with jaw [the] donkey heap heap in/on/with jaw [the] donkey to smite thousand man
Then Samson wrote this poem: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have made them like a heap of [dead] donkeys. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed 1,000 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
When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
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
Then Samson was very thirsty, so he called out to Yahweh, “You have given me strength to win a great victory. So now must I die because of being thirsty, with the result that those heathen Philistines will take away my body [and mutilate it]?”
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 God caused water to gush out of a depression in the ground at Lehi. Samson drank from it and soon felt strong again. He named that place ‘The spring of the one who called out’. That spring is still there at Lehi.
20 and to judge [obj] Israel in/on/with day Philistine twenty year
Samson was the leader of the Israeli people for 20 years, but during that time the Philistines [were the ones who really ruled over the land].
