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].
E aconteceu, depois de alguns dias, que na sega do trigo Sansão visitou a sua mulher com um cabrito, e disse: Entrarei na câmara a minha mulher. Porém o pai dela não o deixou entrar.
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!”
Porque disse seu pai: Por certo dizia eu que de todo a aborrecias: de sorte que a dei ao teu companheiro: porém não é sua irmã mais nova, mais formosa do que ela? toma-a pois em seu lugar.
3 Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
Então Sansão disse acerca deles: inocente sou esta vez para com os philisteus, quando lhes fizer algum mal.
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.
E foi Sansão, e tomou trezentas raposas: e, tomando tições, as virou cauda a cauda, e lhes pôs um tição no meio de cada duas caudas.
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.
E chegou fogo aos tições, e largou-as na seara dos philisteus: e assim abrazou os molhos com a sega do trigo, e as vinhas com os olivais.
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.
Então disseram os philisteus: Quem fez isto? E disseram: Sansão, o genro do Timnatha, porque lhe tomou a sua mulher, e a deu a seu companheiro. Então subiram os philisteus, e queimaram a fogo a ela e a seu pai.
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!”
Então lhes disse Sansão: Assim o haveis de fazer? pois havendo-me vingado eu de vós então cessarei.
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.
E feriu-os com grande ferimento, perna juntamente com coxa: e desceu, e habitou no cume da rocha de 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].
Então os philisteus subiram, e acamparam-se contra Judá, e estenderam-se por Lechi,
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.”
E disseram os homens de Judá: Porque subistes contra nós? E eles disseram: Subimos para amarrar a Sansão, para lhe fazer a ele como ele nos fez a nós.
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.”
Então três mil homens de Judá desceram até à cova da rocha de Etam, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabias tu que os philisteus dominam sobre nós? porque pois nos fizeste isto? E ele lhes disse: Assim como eles me fizeram a mim, eu lhes fiz a eles
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!”
E disseram-lhe: Descemos para te amarrar, para te entregar nas mãos dos philisteus. Então Sansão lhes disse: jurai-me que vós mesmos me não acometereis.
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.
E eles lhe falaram, dizendo: Não, mas fortemente te amarraremos, e te entregaremos na sua mão; porém de maneira nenhuma te mataremos. E amarraram-no com duas cordas novas e fizeram-no subir da rocha.
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.
E, vindo ele a Lechi, os philisteus lhe sairam ao encontro, jubilando: porém o espírito do Senhor possantemente se apossou dele, e as cordas que ele tinha nos braços se tornaram como fios de linho que se queimaram no fogo, e as suas amarraduras se desfizeram das suas mãos.
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.
E achou uma queixada fresca dum jumento, e estendeu a sua mão, e tomou-a, e feriu com ela mil homens,
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.”
Então disse Sansão: Com uma queixada de jumento um montão, dois montões; com uma queixada de jumento feri a mil homens.
17 When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
E aconteceu que, acabando ele de falar, lançou a queixada da sua mão: e chamou àquele lugar Ramath-lechi.
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]?”
E como tivesse grande sede, clamou ao Senhor, e disse: Pela mão do teu servo tu deste esta grande salvação: morrerei eu pois agora de sede, e cairei na mão destes incircuncisos?
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.
Então o Senhor fendeu a caverna que estava em Lechi; e saiu dela água, e bebeu; e o seu espírito tornou, e reviveu: pelo que chamou o seu nome: A fonte do que clama, que está em Lechi até ao dia de hoje.
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].
E julgou a Israel, nos dias dos philisteus, vinte anos.
