Judges 15
1 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].
Et quelque temps après, à l'époque de la moisson des orges, Samson visita sa femme, apportant un chevreau, et il dit: Je veux entrer chez ma femme dans la chambre; mais le père ne lui permit pas d'entrer.
2 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!”
Et le père dit: Je pensais que tu la haïssais et je l'ai donnée à ton ami. Sa sœur cadette n'est-elle pas plus belle qu'elle? prends-la donc à sa place!
3 Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
Alors Samson leur dit: Cette fois si je fais du mal aux Philistins, les Philistins ne pourront en rejeter la faute sur moi.
4 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.
Et Samson partit, et ayant attrapé trois cents renards, il se procura des torches; et croisant une queue avec l'autre queue, il fixa une torche entre deux queues, au milieu.
5 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.
Puis ayant allumé les torches, il les lâcha dans les moissons des Philistins, et ainsi embrasa et les tas de gerbes et les blés qui étaient sur pied, et les olivaies.
6 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.
Alors les Philistins dirent: Qui a fait cela? Et on dit: C'est Samson, gendre du Thimnite, parce que celui-ci lui a ôté sa femme et l'a donnée à son ami. Alors les Philistins arrivèrent, ils la brûlèrent elle et son père dans les flammes.
7 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!”
Et Samson leur dit: Est-ce ainsi que vous faites?… Oui, quand j'aurai tiré vengeance de vous, alors je cesserai.
8 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.
Et il leur frappa jambes et reins d'un grand coup. Puis il descendit, et prit pour sa demeure la caverne du rocher d'Eitam.
9 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].
Alors les Philistins se mirent en campagne et vinrent camper en Juda, et ils se déployèrent dans Léchi.
10 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.”
Et les hommes de Juda dirent: Pourquoi marchez-vous contre nous?
11 [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.”
Et ils dirent: C'est pour enchaîner Samson que nous sommes venus, pour lui rendre ce qu'il nous a fait. Là-dessus trois mille hommes de Juda descendirent à la caverne du rocher d'Eitam, et ils dirent à Samson: Ne savais-tu pas que les Philistins sont nos dominateurs? et qu'est-ce que tu nous as fait là? Et il leur dit: Je les ai traités comme ils m'ont traité.
12 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!”
Et ils lui dirent: C'est pour te garrotter que nous venons, pour te livrer aux mains des Philistins. Et Samson leur dit: Jurez-moi que vous ne me tuerez pas!
13 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.
Et ils lui dirent: Non; nous ne voulons que te garrotter et te remettre entre leurs mains; quant à te faire mourir, nous ne le ferons point. Et ils le lièrent de deux cordes neuves, et ils l'emmenèrent loin du rocher.
14 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.
Il arriva à Léchi et les Philistins l'accueillirent par des huées; alors l'esprit de l'Éternel s'empara de lui, et les cordes qu'il avait aux bras ne furent plus que comme des brins de fil qui brûlent dans le feu, et ses liens coulèrent de ses poignets.
15 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.
Et il trouva une mâchoire d'âne fraîche, et il étendit la main et la saisit, et en frappa mille hommes.
16 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.”
Et Samson dit: Avec une mâchoire d'âne, une, deux troupes! Avec une mâchoire d'âne j'ai défait mille hommes!
17 When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
Et quand il eut achevé son discours, il jeta la mâchoire loin de sa main, et il nomma ce lieu Ramath-Léchi (jet de la mâchoire).
18 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]?”
Et il était fort altéré; alors il invoqua l'Éternel et dit: Par la main de ton serviteur tu as procuré cette grande victoire, et maintenant devrais-je mourir de soif et tomber entre les mains des incirconcis!
19 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.
Alors Dieu entrouvrit une cavité qui était à Léchi, et il en jaillit de l'eau et il but, et ses esprits revinrent, et il fut ranimé. C'est pourquoi on la nomma Source de l'invocateur, et elle existe encore aujourd'hui à Léchi.
20 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].
Et il jugea Israël à l'époque des Philistins pendant vingt ans.
