Sodniki 15
1 Toda pripetilo se je čez nekaj časa, ob času pšenične žetve, da je Samson s kozličem obiskal svojo ženo in rekel: »Šel bom noter k svoji ženi v sobo.« Toda njen oče mu ni dovolil vstopiti.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
2 Njen oče je rekel: »Resnično sem mislil, da si jo popolnoma zasovražil, zato sem jo dal tvojemu družabniku. Mar ni njena mlajša sestra boljša od nje? Vzemi njo, prosim te, namesto nje.«
Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."
3 Samson je glede njih rekel: »Sedaj bom bolj brez krivde kakor Filistejci, čeprav jim storim zlo.«
Samson said to him, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."
4 Samson je odšel in ujel tristo lisic in vzel kose tlečega lesa in obrnil rep k repu in kos tlečega lesa položil v sredo med dva repa.
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.
5 Ko je kose tlečega lesa zažgal, jih je spustil v stoječe žito Filistejcev in zažgal tako snope, kot tudi stoječe žito, z vinogradi in oljkami.
And when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6 Potem so Filistejci rekli: »Kdo je to storil?« Odgovorili so: »Samson, zet Timnčana, ker je ta vzel njegovo ženo in jo dal njegovemu družabniku.« In Filistejci so prišli gor in z ognjem zažgali njo in njenega očeta.
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's house with fire.
7 Samson jim je rekel: »Čeprav ste to storili, se vam bom vendarle maščeval in potem bom odnehal.«
Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."
8 Udaril jih je, golen in stegno, z velikim pokolom in odšel dol ter prebival na vrhu skale Etám.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Potem so Filistejci odšli gor, se utaborili v Judu in se razširili v Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
10 Možje iz Juda so rekli: »Zakaj ste prišli gor zoper nas?« Odgovorili so: »Gor smo prišli, da zvežemo Samsona, da mu storimo, kakor je on storil nam.«
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 Potem je tri tisoč mož iz Juda odšlo na vrh skale Etám in reklo Samsonu: »Mar ne veš, da so Filistejci vladarji nad nami? Kaj je to, kar si nam storil?« Rekel jim je: »Kakor so storili meni, tako sem jaz storil njim.«
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not 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 have I done to them."
12 Rekli so mu: »Prišli smo dol, da te zvežemo, da te lahko izročimo v roko Filistejcev.« Samson jim je rekel: »Prisezite mi, da vi sami ne boste padli name.«
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 fall on me yourselves."
13 Odgovorili so mu, rekoč: »Ne, temveč te bomo trdno zvezali in te izročili v njihovo roko, toda mi te zagotovo ne bomo ubili.« Zvezali so ga z dvema novima vrvema in ga od skale privedli gor.
They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Ko je prišel v Lehi, so Filistejci zavpili zoper njega in nadenj je mogočno prišel Gospodov Duh in vrvi, ki so bile na njegovih laktih, so postale kakor lan, ki je bil zažgan z ognjem in njegove vezi so se sprostile iz njegovih rok.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Našel je novo oslovsko čeljustnico, iztegnil svojo roko, jo vzel in z njo usmrtil tisoč mož.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Samson je rekel: »Z oslovsko čeljustnico, kupi na kupe, z oslovsko čeljustjo sem umoril tisoč mož.«
Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
17 Ko je končal z govorjenjem, se je pripetilo, da je iz svoje roke odvrgel čeljustnico in ta kraj imenoval Ramát Lehi.
It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Bil pa je silno žejen in klical h Gospodu ter rekel: »Ti si dal to veliko osvoboditev v roko svojega služabnika in sedaj ali naj umrem od žeje in padem v roko neobrezancev?«
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 for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"
19 Toda Bog je razklal votel kraj, ki je bil v Čestjustnici in iz njega je pritekla voda. Ko jo je pil, je njegov duh ponovno prišel in bil je oživljen. Zato je njegovo ime imenoval En Koré, ki je v Lehiju, do današnjega dne.
And God split the hollow place that is at 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 V dneh Filistejcev je Izraelu sodil dvajset let.
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
