Judges 15
1 But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not allow him to go in.
Pea fuoloa siʻi ange naʻe hoko ʻo pehē, ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ʻoe ututaʻu ʻoe uite, naʻe ʻaʻahi ʻe Samisoni ki hono uaifi ʻaki ʻae ʻuhikiʻi kosi: pea naʻe pehē ʻe ia, “Ke u ʻalu atu ki loto fale ki hoku uaifi.” Ka naʻe taʻofi ia ʻe he tamai ʻoe fefine ʻo ʻikai tuku ke ʻalu kiate ia.
2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Pea pehē ʻe heʻene tamai, “Naʻaku pehē moʻoni ʻeau kuo ke fehiʻa ʻaupito kiate ia ko ia naʻaku foaki ai ia ki ho kaumeʻa: ʻikai ʻoku hoihoifua hono tehina ʻiate ia?” ʻOku ou kole kiate koe, ke ke maʻu ia, ko hono fetongi.
3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them harm.
Pea pehē ʻe Samisoni kiate kinautolu, “Ko eni, te u taʻehalaia ʻi he kakai Filisitia, ka te u fai ʻae meʻa fakamamahi kiate kinautolu.”
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between two tails.
Pea naʻe ʻalu ʻa Samisoni ʻo ne tauheleʻi ʻae fanga fokisi ʻe tolungeau, pea toʻo ʻe ia ʻae ngaahi tūhulu, ʻo ne noʻotaki ʻae iku ki he iku, pea ne ʻai ʻae tūhulu ʻi loto ʻi he ongo iku.
5 And when he had lighted the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing grain, with the vineyards and olives.
Pea hili ʻene tutu ʻae tūhulu ʻaki ʻae afi, naʻe tuku ʻe ia ʻae fanga fokisi ke ʻalu ki he uite tuʻu ʻoe kau Filisitia, pea naʻe vela ʻo ʻosi ai ʻae ngaahi ū uite, pea mo e ngaahi uite naʻe tuʻu, mo e ngoue vaine mo e ʻolive.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Pea pehē ai ʻe he kau Filisitia, “Ko hai ia kuo ne fai ʻae meʻa ni?” Pea naʻa nau pehēange ko Samisoni, ko e foha ʻi he fono ki he tangata Timinate, ko e meʻa ʻi heʻene toʻo hono uaifi, ʻo ne foaki ia ki heʻene kaumeʻa. Pea naʻe ʻalu hake ʻae kau Filisitia, ʻonau tutu ʻae fefine mo ʻene tamai ʻaki ʻae afi.
7 And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Pea naʻe pehē ʻe Samisoni kiate kinautolu, “Kuo mou fai ʻae meʻa ni, ka te u totongi kiate kimoutolu, pea hili ia pea u tuku.”
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Pea naʻa ne taaʻi ʻakinautolu ʻi he ʻakahi mo e malamalaki ʻi he tāmateʻi lahi: pea naʻe ʻalu hifo ia ʻo nofo ʻi he tumutumu ʻoe makatuʻu ko ʻEtami.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Pea naʻe toki ʻalu hake ai ʻae kakai Filisitia, ʻo ʻapitanga ʻi Siuta, ʻonau nofo mafola atu ʻi Lī.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Pea pehē ʻe he kau tangata ʻo Siuta, “Ko e hā kuo mou haʻu pehē ai kiate kimautolu?” Pea naʻa nau talaange, “Kuo mau haʻu ke haʻi ʻa Samisoni, ke fai kiate ia ʻo hangē ko ʻene fai kiate kimautolu.”
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
Pea naʻe ʻalu ai ʻae kau tangata ʻo Siuta ʻe toko tolu afe ki he tumutumu ʻoe makatuʻu ko ʻEtami, ʻonau pehē kia Samisoni, “ʻOku ʻikai te ke ʻilo ko e kau pule kiate kitautolu ʻae kakai Filisitia? Ko e hā ʻae meʻa ni kuo ke fai kiate kinautolu?” Pea pehē ʻe ia kiate kinautolu, “Hangē ko ʻenau fai kiate au, kuo pehē pe ʻeku fai ange kiate kinautolu.”
12 And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
Pea naʻa nau pehē kiate ia, “Kuo mau haʻu ke haʻi koe, koeʻuhi ke mau ʻatu koe ki he nima ʻoe kakai Filisitia.” Pea pehē ʻe Samisoni kiate kinautolu, “Fuakava mai kiate au, ʻe ʻikai te mou taaʻi au ʻekimoutolu.”
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee securely, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Pea naʻa nau lea kiate ia, ʻo pehē, “ʻIkai; ka te mau haʻi koe ke maʻu, ʻo ʻatu koe ki honau nima: ka ko e moʻoni ʻe ʻikai te mau tāmateʻi koe.” Pea naʻa nau haʻi ʻa Samisoni ʻaki ʻae maea foʻou ʻe ua ʻonau ʻomi ia ki he funga makatuʻu.
14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Pea ʻi heʻene hoko ki Lī, naʻe kaila sipi kiate ia ʻae kau Filisitia: pea naʻe hoko mālohi ʻaupito ʻae Laumālie ʻo Sihova kiate ia, pea hoko ʻae maea naʻe ʻi hono nima ʻo hangē ha vavae kuo vela ʻi he afi, pea naʻe homo leva ia mei hono nima.
15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
Pea naʻa ne maʻu ʻae hui kouʻahe foʻou ʻoe ʻasi, pea ne mafao atu ʻo toʻo ia ʻi hono nima, ʻo ne tāmateʻi ʻaki ia ʻae kau tangata ʻe toko afe.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I slain a thousand men.
Pea naʻe pehē ʻe Samisoni, “Ko e hui kouʻahe ʻoe ʻasi, ʻio, ko e hui kouʻahe ʻoe ʻasi kuo u tāmateʻi ʻaki ʻae kau tangata ʻe toko afe, pea ʻoku fokotuʻu tuʻunga ʻakinautolu.”
17 And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
Pea hili ʻene lea, pea pehē, naʻa ne liʻaki ʻae hui kouʻahe mei hono nima, pea ui ʻae potu ko ia ko Lama i Lī.
18 And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Pea naʻa ne hoko ʻo fieinua lahi, pea naʻe hū ia kia Sihova, ʻo pehē, “Kuo ke tuku ʻae fakamoʻui lahi ni ki he nima ʻo hoʻo tamaioʻeiki: pea te u mate eni ʻi he fieinu, pea tō ai ki he nima ʻoe kau taʻekamu?”
19 But God opened an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore he called the name of it Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
Ka naʻe fahiʻi ʻe he ʻOtua ʻae potu luoluo ʻi he kouʻahe, pea naʻe tafe mei ai ʻae vai: pea hili ʻene inu, naʻe toe haʻu hono laumālie, pea fakaakeake ia: Ko ia naʻa ne ui ai hono hingoa ko Eni-Hakoa, ʻaia ʻoku ʻi Lī ʻo aʻu ki he ʻaho ni.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Pea naʻa ne fakamaauʻi ʻa ʻIsileli ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ʻoe kau Filisitia ʻi he taʻu ʻe uofulu.
