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].
Después de algún tiempo, en los días de la siega del trigo, Sansón visitó a su mujer, llevando un cabrito, y dijo: “Me llegaré a mi mujer, en su aposento.” Pero el padre de ella no le dejó 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!”
Pues dijo su padre: “Yo pensaba que tú no le tienes más que odio; por tanto se la di a uno de tus compañeros. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Sea ella tuya, en su lugar.”
3 Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
Pero Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez no pueden quejarse de mí los filisteos, si les hago 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.
Fue Sansón y tomó trescientas zorras y teas, y atándoles cola con cola, puso una tea entre cada dos colas.
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.
Luego, encendiendo las teas, las soltó entre las mieses de los filisteos; y así quemó las gavillas y las mieses en pie, y hasta las viñas y los olivares.
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.
Preguntaron los filisteos: “¿Quién ha hecho esto?” Y se les dijo; “Sansón, yerno del Timnateo; por cuanto este ha tomado su mujer y se la ha dado a uno de sus compañeros.” Subieron los filisteos y quemaron tanto a ella como a su padre.
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!”
Entonces les dijo Sansón: “Ya que habéis hecho esto, no cesaré hasta que haya tomado venganza de vosotros.”
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.
Les dio rudos golpes sobre muslos y lomos haciendo un destrozo grande; luego bajó y habitó en una caverna del peñón 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].
Entonces subieron los filisteos y acamparon en Judá, desplegando sus fuerzas cerca de Lehí.
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.”
Preguntaron los hombres de Judá: “¿Por qué habéis subido contra nosotros?” A lo que respondieron: “Hemos subido para atar a Sansón, a fin de hacer con él según él ha hecho con nosotros.”
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.”
Y bajaron tres mil hombres de Judá a la caverna del peñón de Etam, y dijeron a Sansón: “¿No sabes que los filisteos dominan sobre nosotros? ¿Qué es esto que has hecho?” Él les contestó: “Como ellos hicieron conmigo, así he hecho yo con ellos.”
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!”
Y le dijeron: “Hemos bajado para atarte, a fin de entregarte en manos de los filisteos.” Sansón les dijo: “Juradme que no me vais a matar.”
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.
Ellos le respondieron diciendo: “No, solamente te ataremos y te entregaremos en poder de ellos, pero de ninguna manera te mataremos.” Lo ataron con dos sogas nuevas, y le sacaron del peñón.
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.
Cuando llegó a Lehí, los filisteos le salieron al encuentro con grande algazara. Mas el Espíritu de Yahvé vino sobre él; las sogas que tenía sobre sus brazos fueron como hilos de lino que se queman por el fuego, y se deshicieron las ligaduras de sobre sus manos.
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.
Y como hallase la quijada de un asno recién muerto, alargó la mano, la agarró y mató con ella a mil hombres.
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.”
Dijo entonces Sansón: “Con la quijada de un asno (maté) un montón, dos montones; con la quijada de un asno he matado mil hombres.”
17 When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
Dicho esto, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y llamó aquel lugar Ramat- Lehí.
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]?”
Y teniendo grandísima sed, clamó a Yahvé, diciendo: “Tú has obrado esta gran liberación por manos de tu siervo; y ahora me muero de sed y caigo en manos de los 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.
Entonces hendió Dios la piedra hueca que hay en Lehí, y salió de allí agua. Cuando hubo bebido, se reanimó y recobró sus fuerzas. Por tanto, fue llamado aquella fuente En Hakoré, que es la que hoy todavía existe en Lehí.
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].
Sansón juzgó a Israel en los días de los filisteos durante veinte años.
