Hakim-hakim 15
1 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.
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.
2 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."
And her father said, I truly thought that thou had 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.
3 Lalu kata Simson kepadanya: "Sekali ini aku tidak bersalah terhadap orang Filistin, apabila aku mendatangkan celaka kepada mereka."
And Samson said to them, This time I shall be blameless in regard of the Philistines when I do them a mischief.
4 Maka pergilah Simson, ditangkapnya tiga ratus anjing hutan, diambilnya obor, diikatnya ekor dengan ekor dan ditaruhnya sebuah obor di antara tiap-tiap dua ekor.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
5 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.
And when he had set the brands 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 oliveyards.
6 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.
Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 Lalu berkatalah Simson kepada mereka: "Jika kamu berbuat demikian, sesungguhnya aku takkan berhenti sebelum aku membalaskannya kepada kamu."
And Samson said to them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8 Dan dengan pukulan yang hebat ia meremukkan tulang-tulang mereka. Lalu pergilah ia dan tinggal dalam gua di bukit batu Etam.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Lalu majulah orang Filistin dan berkemah di daerah Yehuda serta memencar ke Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Berkatalah orang-orang Yehuda: "Mengapa kamu maju menyerang kami?" Lalu jawab mereka: "Kami maju untuk mengikat Simson dan memperlakukan dia seperti dia memperlakukan kami."
And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they said, We come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
11 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."
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Know thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that thou have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 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."
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.
13 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.
And they spoke to him, saying, No, but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, but truly we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 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.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Kemudian ia menemui sebuah tulang rahang keledai yang masih baru, diulurkannya tangannya, dipungutnya dan dipukulnya mati seribu orang dengan tulang itu.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men with it.
16 Berkatalah Simson: "Dengan rahang keledai bangsa keledai itu kuhajar, dengan rahang keledai seribu orang kupukul."
And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have smitten a thousand men.
17 Setelah berkata demikian, dilemparnya tulang rahang itu dari tangannya. Kemudian dinamailah tempat itu Ramat Lehi.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
18 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!"
And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou have given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 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.
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out there. And when he had drunk his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 Ia memerintah sebagai hakim atas orang Israel dalam zaman orang Filistin, dua puluh tahun lamanya.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
