Kaiwhakariterite 15
1 Otiia i muri iho, na ka haere a Hamahona, me tetahi kuao koati, i te wa o te kotinga witi, kia kite i tana wahine, a ka mea, Ka haere ahau ki taku wahine ki roto ki te whare moenga. Otiia kihai ia i tukua e te papa o te wahine kia haere ki roto.
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 I mea hoki tona papa, i tino mea ahau e kino rawa ana koe ki a ia; na hoatu ana ia e ahau ma tou hoa; kahore ianei tona teina e pai atu i a ia? Tena kia riro tenei i a koe hei utu mo tera.
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.
3 Na ka mea a Hamahona ki a ratou, Engari i tenei, ka kore hara ahau ki nga Pirihitini, ina tukino ahau ki a ratou.
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them harm.
4 Na haere ana a Hamahona, a hopukia ana e ia e toru rau nga pokiha; katahi ka tikina etahi rama e ia, a whakaangahia atu ana nga hiawero ki a raua whaka hiawero, a whakanohoia iho he rama ki waenganui o nga hiawero e rua.
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.
5 Na ka tahuna e ia nga rama, a tukua atu ana ki te witi a nga Pirihitini, wera ake nga puranga witi, me nga mea ano e tu ana; nga mara waina, oriwa ano hoki.
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.
6 A ka ki nga Pirihitini, Na wai tenei mahi? na ka korerotia, Na Hamahona hunaonga a te Timini; mona i tango i tana wahine, a hoatu ana ki tona hoa. Katahi ka haere nga Pirihitini, a tahuna ake e ratou te wahine raua ko tona papa ki te ahi.
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.
7 Na ka mea a Hamahona ki a ratou, Ahakoa kua meatia tenei e koutou, he pono ka rapu utu ano ahau i a koutou, a muri iho ka mutu taku.
And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8 Na tukitukia ana ratou e ia, te papa, te huha, he nui te patunga, a haere ana, noho ana i te kapiti o te kamaka i Etama.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9 Katahi ka haere nga Pirihitini, noho ana i Hura, tohatoha noa atu i Rehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Na ka mea nga tangata o Hura, He aha koutou i haere mai ai ki a matou? Na ka mea ratou, He here i a Hamahona i haere mai ai matou, kia meatia ki a ia tana i mea ai ki a matou.
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.
11 Katahi ka haere etahi tangata o Hura, e toru nga mano, ki te kapiti o te kohatu i Etama, ka mea ki a Hamahona, Kahore ianei koe e mohio he rangatira no tatou nga Pirihitini? he mahi aha tenei nau ki a matou? Na ka mea ia ki a ratou, Rite tonu ki ta ratou i mea mai ai ki ahau, taku i mea ai ki a ratou.
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.
12 Na ka mea ratou ki a ia, He here i a koe i haere mai ai matou, kia hoatu koe ki te ringa o nga Pirihitini. Na ka mea a Hamahona ki a ratou, Oati mai ki ahau e kore koutou na e rere ki runga ki ahau.
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 Na ka korero ratou ki a ia, ka mea, Kahore; erangi me ata here koe e matou, a ka hoatu koe ki to ratou ringa: ko te whakamate ia, e kore matou e whakamate i a koe. Na ka herea ia e ratou ki nga taura hou e rua, a kawea atu ana i te kamaka.
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.
14 I tona taenga ki Rehi, na ka hamama nga Pirihitini i te tutakitanga ki a ia. Ko te tino putanga o te wairua o Ihowa ki runga ki a ia: na rite tonu nga taura i ona ringa ki te muka kua wera i te ahi; harotu noa iho nga here o ona ringa.
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.
15 Na kia pono ia ki tetahi kauae kaihe, he mea hou, a totoro atu ana tona ringa, tangohia ake ana; na kotahi mano tangata i patua e ia ki taua mea.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
16 Na ka mea a Hamahona, Na te kauae kaihe, puranga atu, puranga atu; na te kauae kaihe, patua iho e ahau kotahi mano tangata.
And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I slain a thousand men.
17 A, i te mutunga o tana korero, na maka atu ana e ia te kauae i tona ringa, a huaina iho te ingoa o tena wahi, Ko Ramatarehi.
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.
18 Na nui rawa tona matewai, a ka karanga ia ki a Ihowa, ka mea, Nau i homai tenei whakaoranga nui ki te ringa o tau pononga, a ka mate nei ahau i te matewai, ka hinga hoki i te ringa o te hunga kokotikore?
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?
19 Na ka wahia e te Atua he poka i Rehi, a ka puta mai he wai i reira. Katahi ka inu ia, a hoki ana tona wairua, na kua ora ia. Na reira i huaina ai to reira ingoa, Ko Enehakore: kei Rehi na ano a tae noa ki tenei ra.
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.
20 Na e rua tekau nga tau i whakarite ai ia mo Iharaira i nga ra o nga Pirihitini.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
