Dommernes 15
1 Då det leid um ei tid, og dei hadde teke til med kveiteskurden, kom Samson og vilde lydast til kona si. Han hadde med seg eit kid, og sagde: «Lat meg få koma inn i kammerset til kona mi!» Men far hennar vilde ikkje gjeva honom lov til det.
During the time that they harvested wheat, Samson took a young goat to Timnah as a present for his wife. He planned to sleep with [EUP] his wife, but her father would not let him go into [her room].
2 «Eg tenkte so visst at du ikkje lika henne meir, » sagde faren, «og so gav eg henne til brursveinen din. Kann du’kje taka den yngre systeri i staden? ho er då mykje vænare!»
He said to Samson, “I really thought that you hated her. So I gave her to the man who had been your best man at the wedding, and she married him. But look, her younger sister is [RHQ] more beautiful than she is. You can marry her!”
3 Då sagde Samson: «Denne gongen er eg saklaus, um eg gjer filistarane vondt!»
Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
4 Han gjekk av og fanga tri hundrad revar, fann seg tyrespikar, snudde reverovarne i hop mot kvarandre, tvo og tvo, og feste ei spik millom kvart rovepar.
Then he went out [into the fields] and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together, two-by-two. He fastened torches to each pair of tails.
5 So kveikte han eld i spikarne, og slepte revarne inn på åkrane åt filistarane. Soleis brende han upp alt kornet dei hadde ute, både skore og uskore, og alle vinhagar og oljetre.
Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines. The fire [from the torches] burned all the grain to the ground, including the grain that had been cut and piled in bundles. The fire also burned down their grapevines and their olive trees.
6 Då spurde filistarane: «Kven hev gjort dette?» «Samson, mågen åt Timna-mannen, » vart det svara. «Det var for di verfaren hadde teke kona hans og gjeve til brursveinen.» So for filistarane derupp, og brende inne både kona og far hennar.
The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” Someone told them, “Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson’s best man at the wedding, and she married him.” So the Philistines went [to Timnah] and got the woman and her father, and burned them to death.
7 Då sagde Samson til deim: «Fer de soleis åt, so skal eg visst ikkje kvila fyrr eg fær hemnt meg på dykk.»
Samson [found out about that, and he] said to them, “Because you have done this, I will not stop until I get revenge on you!”
8 So slo han deim so dei stupte i kross og i krok, og det vart eit stort mannefall på deim. Sidan for han ned til Etamdjuvet, og gav seg til der.
So he attacked the Philistines furiously, and killed many of them. Then he went [to hide] in a cave in the large rock at a place called Etam.
9 Då kom filistarane upp i Judafylket, og lægra seg der, og spreidde seg utyver i Lehi.
The Philistines [did not know where he was, so they] went up to where the descendants of Judah lived, set up their tents near Lehi [town and then raided the town].
10 Og Juda-mennerne sagde: «Kvi kjem de hit og tek på oss?» «Me vil binda Samson og gjera like eins mot honom som han hev gjort mot oss, » svara dei.
The men there asked the Philistines, “Why have you attacked us?” The Philistines replied, “We have come to capture Samson. We have come to get revenge on him for what he did to us.”
11 So for tri tusund mann av Juda-ætti ned til Etamdjuvet, og sagde til Samson: «Veit du’kje at filistarane råder her i landet? Kvi hev du då gjort oss dette?» «Som dei gjorde mot meg, so hev eg gjort mot deim, » svara han.
[Someone there knew where Samson was hiding]. So 3,000 men from Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock where he was hiding. They said to Samson, “Do you not realize that the people of Philistia are ruling over us? Do you not realize what they will do to us?” Samson replied, “The only thing I did was that I got revenge on them for what they did to me.”
12 Då sagde dei: «Me er komne hit for å binda deg og gjeva deg i henderne på filistarane.» «Lova meg at ikkje de vil slå meg i hel!» sagde Samson.
But the men from Judah said to him, “We have come to tie you up and put you in the hands of the Philistines.” Samson said, “All right, but promise me that you yourselves will not kill me!”
13 «Nei, me vil berre binda deg og gjeve deg i henderne deira; me vil ikkje drepa deg, » svara dei. So batt dei honom med tvo nye reip, og førde honom upp or djuvet.
They replied, “We will just tie you up and take you to the Philistines. We will not kill you.” So they tied him with two new ropes, and led him away from the cave.
14 Då han kom til Lehi, sprang filistarane imot honom med glederop. Då kom Herrens ande yver honom, og reipi på armarne hans vart som brend tråd; bandi datt av henderne hans, som dei var morkna.
When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting [triumphantly]. But Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were stalks of burned flax, and the ropes fell off his wrists.
15 So fann han eit friskt kjakebein av eit asen; det greip han og slo i hel tusund mann med det.
Then he saw a donkey’s jawbone lying on the ground. It was fresh, [so it was hard]. He picked it up and killed about 1,000 Philistine men with it.
16 Då kvad han: «Med asenkjaken eg ein hop og tvo, med asenkjaken tusund mann eg slo.»
Then Samson wrote this poem: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have made them like a heap of [dead] donkeys. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed 1,000 men.”
17 Då han hadde kvede dette, kasta han kjakebeinet frå seg, og sidan hev dei kalla den staden Kjakebeinshaugen.
When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
18 Men so vart han so brennande tyrst. Då ropa han til Herren og sagde: «Du hev hjelpt tenaren din til å vinna denne store sigeren! Skal eg no døy av torste og falla i henderne på dei u-umskorne?»
Then Samson was very thirsty, so he called out to Yahweh, “You have given me strength to win a great victory. So now must I die because of being thirsty, with the result that those heathen Philistines will take away my body [and mutilate it]?”
19 Då opna Gud den hola som er i Lehi, og det rann vatn utor henne, so han fekk drikka; då rådde han atti, og kvikna til. Difor kalla dei den kjelda Roparkjelda; ho er endå i Lehi.
So God caused water to gush out of a depression in the ground at Lehi. Samson drank from it and soon felt strong again. He named that place ‘The spring of the one who called out’. That spring is still there at Lehi.
20 Samson styrde Israel i tjuge år; det var i filistartidi.
Samson was the leader of the Israeli people for 20 years, but during that time the Philistines [were the ones who really ruled over the land].
