Ndị Ikpe 15
1 Mgbe oge nta gasịrị, nʼoge owuwe ihe ubi, mgbe a na-aghọ ọka, Samsin weere nwa ewu nta, gaa ileta nwunye ya. O gwara nna nwunye ya sị, “Ana m aga nʼọnụụlọ nwunye m.” Ma nna nwunye ya ekweghị ka ọ banye.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
2 Nna ya sịrị, “O doro m anya na ị kpọrọ nwa m nwanyị asị, ọ bụ nʼihi nke a ka m jiri kenye ya enyi gị nwoke ka ọ bụrụ nwunye ya. Nwanne ya nwanyị nke nta, ọ maghị mma karịa ya? Kpọrọ ya ka ọ nọchie anya ya.”
Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
3 Samsin sịrị ha, “Nʼoge a, o ziri m ezi ị bọkwara ọbọ nʼebe ndị Filistia nọ.” Aghaghị m imesi ha ike.
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
4 Ya mere, Samsin pụrụ gaa jide narị nkịta ọhịa atọ, wetakwa ọwa ụfọdụ. O kekọtara ọdụdụ ha abụọ abụọ. O kenyere ọwa nʼagbata otu nkịta ọhịa na ibe ya.
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
5 Emesịa, ọ mụnyere ọkụ nʼọwa ahụ niile. O mekwara ka nkịta ọhịa ndị ahụ dọkpụrụ ọwa a mụnyere ọkụ baa nʼubi ọka ndị Filistia, si otu a rechapụ ọka niile guzoro eguzo nʼubi, na ubi vaịnị niile, ha na osisi oliv niile ọkụ.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6 Mgbe ndị Filistia chọpụtara ihe mere, ha jụrụ sị, “Onye mere ihe dị otu a?” A gwara ha, “Ọ bụ Samsin ọgọ onye Timna, nʼihi na a kpọnyere enyi ya nwunye ya.” Nʼihi nke a, ndị Filistia niile zukọtara kpọpụta nwaagbọghọ ahụ na nna ya kpọọ ha ọkụ.
Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 Ma Samsin gwara ha okwu sị, “Ebe ọ bụ na unu mere ihe dị otu a, agaghị akwụsị tutu m bọrọ ọbọ ihe ọjọọ unu mere.”
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8 Ya mere, ọ pụkwuru ha ọzọ, site nʼoke iwe, gbuo ọtụtụ mmadụ nʼime ha. Mgbe nke a gasịrị, ọ gara biri nʼime otu ọgba nkume nke Etam.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
9 Ndị Filistia gara maa ụlọ ikwu ha nʼala Juda, gbasaa nʼala ahụ ruo obodo Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Ndị Juda jụrụ ajụjụ sị ha; “Ọ bụ gịnị mere unu ji bịa nʼebe a ibuso anyị agha?” Ha zara sị, “Anyị na-achọ ijide Samsin, ka anyị megwara ya ihe ọjọọ o mere anyị.”
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11 Nʼihi nke a, ndị Juda zipụrụ puku ndị agha ka ha gaa jide Samsin nʼọgba nkume ahụ nke Etam. Ndị a bịara jụọ Samsin ajụjụ sị ya, “Gịnị bụ ihe a i mere anyị? Ọ bụ na ị maghị na ndị Filistia na-achị obodo anyị?” Samsin zara sị ha, “Ihe m mere bụ imegwata ha ihe ha mere m.”
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Ha sịrị ya, “Anyị abịala ka anyị kee gị agbụ, dọkpụrụ gị, nye nʼaka ndị Filistia.” Samsin sịrị ha, “Ṅụọrọnụ m iyi na unu agaghị eji aka unu gbuo m.”
They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
13 Ha zara sị ya, “Anyị agaghị egbu gị kama anyị ga-eke gị agbụ.” Ya mere, ha kere ya agbụ, duru ya jekwuru ndị Filistia.
They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Mgbe ọ na-abịaru Lehi, ndị Filistia tiiri mkpu, bịa izute ya. Mmụọ Onyenwe anyị bịakwasịrị Samsin nʼebe ọ dị ukwuu. Nke a mere ka eriri ahụ e kere ya nʼaka dịrị ka eriri ogho flakisi erere ọkụ, sitekwa nʼaka ya dapụsịa.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Mgbe ahụ Samsin lere anya gburugburu, hụ ọkpụkpụ agba ịnyịnya ibu nke tọgbọrọ nʼala nʼebe ahụ. Ọ tụtụlitere ya, were ya tigbuo puku ndị agha Filistia.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Mgbe ahụ, Samsin kwuru sị, “E ji m agba ịnyịnya ibu mee ka ha dị ka ịnyịnya ibu. E ji m agba ịnyịnya ibu tigbuo puku ndị ikom.”
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17 Mgbe o kwuchara ihe ndị a, o tufuru ọkpụkpụ agba ịnyịnya ibu ahụ; a kpọkwara ebe ahụ Ramat Lehi.
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Nʼoge a, akpịrị kpọrọ Samsin nkụ nke ukwuu, nʼihi ya, ọ kpọkuru Onyenwe anyị nʼekpere sị, “Lee, i nyela ohu gị mmeri a dị ukwuu! Ma ugbu a, ị ga-ekwe ka m nwụọ nʼihi akpịrị ịkpọ nku, si otu a daba nʼaka ndị a na-ebighị ugwu?”
He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 Chineke gbawara olulu ahụ nke dị nʼime Lehi, mee ka mmiri si na ya nupụta. Mgbe Samsin ṅụrụ mmiri ahụ, ike ya lọghachiri, mmụọ ya bịaghachikwara. Ya mere, a kpọrọ isi iyi ahụ En-Hakkore. Mmiri ala ahụ ka dịkwa na Lehi nʼebe ahụ ruo taa.
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
20 Ya mere, Samsin kpere ụmụ Izrel ikpe iri afọ abụọ nʼoge ndị Filistia.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
