Iudicum 15
1 Post aliquantulum autem temporis, cum dies triticeae messis instarent, venit Samson, invisere volens uxorem suam, et attulit ei hoedum de capris. Cumque cubiculum eius solito vellet intrare, prohibuit eum pater illius, dicens:
And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber; but her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 Putavi quod odisses eam, et ideo tradidi illam amico tuo: sed habet sororem, quae iunior et pulchrior illa est, sit tibi pro ea uxor.
And her father said, I verily thought that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine instead of her.
3 Cui Samson respondit: Ab hac die non erit culpa in me contra Philisthaeos: faciam enim vobis mala.
And Samson said to them, This time I am blameless toward the Philistines, though I do them harm.
4 Perrexitque et cepit trecentas vulpes, caudasque earum iunxit ad caudas, et faces ligavit in medio:
And Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the two tails.
5 quas igne succendens, dimisit, ut huc illucque discurrerent. Quae statim perrexerunt in segetes Philisthinorum. Quibus succensis, et comportatae iam fruges, et adhuc stantes in stipula, concrematae sunt, in tantum, ut vineas quoque et oliveta flamma consumeret.
And he set the torches on fire, and let [them] run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.
6 Dixeruntque Philisthiim: Quis fecit hanc rem? Quibus dictum est: Samson gener Thamnathaei: quia tulit uxorem eius, et alteri tradidit, haec operatus est. Ascenderuntque Philisthiim: et combusserunt tam mulierem quam patrem eius.
And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
7 Quibus ait Samson: Licet haec feceritis, tamen adhuc ex vobis expetam ultionem, et tunc quiescam.
And Samson said to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then I will cease.
8 Percussitque eos ingenti plaga, ita ut stupentes suram femori imponerent. Et descendens habitavit in spelunca petrae Etam.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.
9 Igitur ascendentes Philisthiim in Terram Iuda castrametati sunt in loco, qui postea vocatus est Lechi, id est, maxilla, ubi eorum fusus est exercitus.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Dixeruntque ad eos de tribu Iuda: Cur ascendistis adversum nos? Qui responderunt: Ut ligemus Samson, venimus, et reddamus ei quae in nos operatus est.
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Descenderunt ergo tria millia virorum de Iuda, ad specum silicis Etam, dixeruntque ad Samson: Nescis quod Philisthiim imperent nobis? quare hoc facere voluisti? Quibus ille ait: Sicut fecerunt mihi, sic feci eis.
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the cliff Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? And 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.
12 Ligare, inquiunt, te venimus, et tradere in manus Philisthinorum. Quibus Samson, Iurate, ait, et spondete mihi quod non occidatis me.
And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may give thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall on me yourselves.
13 Dixerunt: Non te occidemus, sed vinctum trademus. Ligaveruntque eum duobus novis funibus, et tulerunt eum de petra Etam.
And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we certainly shall not put thee to death. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the cliff.
14 Qui cum venisset ad locum Maxillae, et Philisthiim vociferantes occurrissent ei, irruit Spiritus Domini in eum: et sicut solent ad odorem ignis ligna consumi, ita vincula quibus ligatus erat, dissipata sunt et soluta.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became as threads of flax that are burned with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 Inventamque maxillam, id est, mandibulam asini, quae iacebat, arripiens, interfecit in ea mille viros,
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.
16 et ait: In maxilla asini, in mandibula pulli asinarum delevi eos, et percussi mille viros.
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, a heap, two heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 Cumque haec verba canens complesset, proiecit mandibulam de manu, et vocavit nomen loci illius Ramathlechi, quod interpretatur elevatio maxillae.
And it came to pass when he had ended speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
18 Sitiensque valde, clamavit ad Dominum, et ait: Tu dedisti in manu servi tui salutem hanc maximam atque victoriam: en siti morior, incidamque in manus incircumcisorum.
And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given by the hand of thy servant this great deliverance, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Aperuit itaque Dominus molarem dentem in maxilla asini, et egressae sunt ex eo aquae. Quibus haustis, refocillavit spiritum, et vires recepit. Idcirco appellatum est nomen loci illius, Fons invocantis de maxilla, usque in praesentem diem.
And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 Iudicavitque Israel in diebus Philisthiim viginti annis.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
