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].
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 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!”
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 replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
Lalu kata Simson kepadanya: "Sekali ini aku tidak bersalah terhadap orang Filistin, apabila aku mendatangkan celaka kepada mereka."
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 [found out about that, and he] said to them, “Because you have done this, I will not stop until I get revenge on you!”
Lalu berkatalah Simson kepada mereka: "Jika kamu berbuat demikian, sesungguhnya aku takkan berhenti sebelum aku membalaskannya kepada kamu."
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.
Dan dengan pukulan yang hebat ia meremukkan tulang-tulang mereka. Lalu pergilah ia dan tinggal dalam gua di bukit batu Etam.
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].
Lalu majulah orang Filistin dan berkemah di daerah Yehuda serta memencar ke Lehi.
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.”
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 [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.”
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 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!”
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
Kemudian ia menemui sebuah tulang rahang keledai yang masih baru, diulurkannya tangannya, dipungutnya dan dipukulnya mati seribu orang dengan tulang itu.
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.”
Berkatalah Simson: "Dengan rahang keledai bangsa keledai itu kuhajar, dengan rahang keledai seribu orang kupukul."
17 When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
Setelah berkata demikian, dilemparnya tulang rahang itu dari tangannya. Kemudian dinamailah tempat itu Ramat Lehi.
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]?”
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 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.
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 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].
Ia memerintah sebagai hakim atas orang Israel dalam zaman orang Filistin, dua puluh tahun lamanya.
