Hakim-hakim 15
1 Beberapa waktu kemudian, saat musim panen gandum, Simson pergi mengunjungi istrinya dengan membawa seekor anak kambing sebagai hadiah. Dia berkata, “Aku mau masuk ke kamar istriku.” Tetapi ayah perempuan itu tidak mengizinkan dia masuk.
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 Katanya kepada Simson, “Saya kira kamu benar-benar benci kepadanya. Jadi saya sudah memberikan dia kepada salah satu pengiringmu. Tetapi, bukankah adiknya lebih cantik daripada dia? Nikahilah adiknya saja.”
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 Jawab Simson, “Kali ini jangan salahkan aku kalau aku mencelakai kalian orang Filistin.”
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
4 Lalu Simson pergi menangkap tiga ratus ekor anjing hutan serta mengambil seratus lima puluh obor. Dia mengikat anjing-anjing itu berdua-dua, ekor dengan ekor, dan menaruh obor di tengah-tengah setiap ikatan.
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 Kemudian dia menyalakan obor-obor itu dan melepaskan semua anjing itu ke ladang gandum orang Filistin. Maka terbakarlah tumpukan-tumpukan gandum, ladang gandum, bahkan kebun-kebun zaitun.
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 Orang-orang Filistin pun bertanya satu sama lain, “Siapa yang melakukan ini?” Ada yang menjawab, “Simson, menantu orang Timna itu, karena bapak itu sudah menikahkan istri Simson dengan pengiringnya.” Mendengar itu, orang-orang Filistin pergi membakar perempuan itu beserta ayahnya.
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 Berkatalah Simson kepada mereka, “Kalau kalian bertindak jahat seperti ini, saya tidak akan berhenti sampai saya membalas kalian!”
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8 Maka Simson menyerang mereka dengan kejam dan membantai banyak orang Filistin. Sesudah itu, Simson pergi dan tinggal di dalam gua di bukit batu 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 Kemudian orang Filistin datang berkemah di daerah Yehuda, lalu menyebar sampai ke kota Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Orang-orang Yehuda menanyai mereka, “Mengapa kalian menyerang kami?” Jawab mereka, “Kami datang untuk menangkap Simson. Kami mau membalas dia sebagaimana dia sudah memperlakukan kami.”
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 Maka tiga ribu orang Yehuda turun ke gua di bukit batu Etam dan berkata kepada Simson, “Apa-apaan ini yang sudah kamu perbuat terhadap kami? Apa kamu tidak tahu bahwa orang Filistin berkuasa atas kita?” Jawab Simson, “Aku hanya membalas mereka sebagaimana mereka sudah memperlakukan aku.”
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 Kata orang-orang Yehuda itu kepada Simson, “Kami datang untuk mengikatmu dan menyerahkanmu kepada orang Filistin.” Tetapi jawab Simson, “Berjanjilah kepadaku bahwa kalian sendiri tidak akan membunuhku.”
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 Jawab mereka, “Kami berjanji. Kami hanya akan mengikat dan menyerahkanmu kepada mereka. Kami tidak akan membunuhmu.” Lalu mereka mengikat Simson dengan dua tali tambang yang baru dan membawa dia keluar dari gua itu.
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 Ketika Simson tiba di kota Lehi, orang-orang Filistin mendatangi dia sambil bersorak-sorai. Saat itu juga Roh TUHAN menggerakkan dia dengan dahsyat. Dengan mudah Simson memutuskan tali tambang yang mengikat tangannya seolah-olah tali itu hanya jerami yang terbakar. Ikatannya pun lepas.
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 Lalu dia menemukan sebuah tulang rahang keledai yang belum lama mati. Dia mengambilnya dan memukul mati seribu orang dengan tulang itu.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Kata Simson, “Dengan rahang keledai aku menumpuk mayat-mayat mereka. Dengan rahang keledai aku memukul mati seribu orang.”
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17 Sesudah berkata demikian, dia melempar tulang rahang itu. Demikianlah mulanya tempat itu diberi nama Bukit Lehi, yang artinya Bukit Tulang Rahang.
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Waktu itu Simson sangat haus. Dia berseru kepada TUHAN, “Oleh tangan hamba-Mu ini Engkau sudah memberikan kemenangan besar. Sekarang haruskah aku mati kehausan sampai jatuh ke tangan para penyembah berhala itu?”
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 Maka Allah membelah sebuah lubang batu di Lehi sehingga keluarlah air. Simson pun minum dan menjadi segar kembali. Karena itu tempat tersebut dinamai Mata Air Orang yang Berseru. Mata air itu masih ada di Lehi sampai waktu kitab ini ditulis.
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 Simson menjadi pembela bangsa Israel selama dua puluh tahun pada masa penjajahan orang Filistin.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
