Jueces 15
1 Algún tiempo después, cuando se estaba cosechando el trigo, Sansón fue a visitar a su mujer, llevando consigo un cabrito de regalo. “Quiero ir a ver a mi mujer a su habitación”, le dijo al llegar, pero su padre no lo dejó entrar.
And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.
2 “Pensé que la odiabas por completo y por eso se la di a tu padrino”, le dijo a Sansón. “Pero su hermana menor es aún más atractiva; ¿por qué no te casas con ella en su lugar?”.
And her father spoke, saying, I said that you did surely hate her, and I gave her to one of your friends: [is] not her younger sister better than she? let her be to you instead of her.
3 “Esta vez no se me puede culpar por los problemas que le voy a causar a los filisteos”, declaró Sansón.
And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.
4 Entonces fue y atrapó trescientas zorras y les ató las colas, de dos en dos.
And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.
5 Ató una antorcha a cada una de las colas atadas y les prendió fuego. Luego las soltó en los campos de cereales de los filisteos y prendió fuego a todo el grano, cosechado y no cosechado, así como a los viñedos y olivares.
And he set fire to the torches, and sent [the foxes] into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
6 “¿Quién ha hecho esto?”, preguntaron los filisteos. “Fue Sansón, el yerno del hombre de Timná”, les dijeron. “Ese hombre le dio la mujer de Sansón al padrino de Sansón”. Entonces los filisteos fueron y la quemaron a ella y a su padre hasta la muerte.
And the Philistines said, Who [has done] these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.
7 Sansón les dijo: “¡Si así van a actuar, no pararé hasta vengarme de ustedes!”
And Sampson said to them, Though you may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
8 Entonces los atacó violentamente, matándolos, y luego se fue a vivir a una cueva en la roca de Etam.
And he struck them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.
9 Entonces el ejército filisteo llegó y acampó en Judá, preparado para la batalla cerca de Lehi.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.
10 El pueblo de Judá preguntó: “¿Por qué nos han invadido?” “¡Hemos venido a capturar a Sansón, para hacerle lo mismo que nos ha hecho a nosotros!”, respondieron.
And the men of Juda said, Why are you come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Tres mil hombres de Judá fueron a la cueva de la roca de Etam y le preguntaron a Sansón: “¿No entiendes que los filisteos nos dominan? ¿Qué crees que estás haciendo con nosotros?” “Sólo hice lo que ellos me hicieron a mí”, respondió.
And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Know you not that the Philistines rule over us? and what [is] this [that] you have done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 “Pues bien, hemos venido a tomarte prisionero y a entregarte a los filisteos”, le dijeron. “Sólo júrenme que no me van a matar ustedes”, respondió Sansón.
And they said to him, We are come down to bind you to deliver you into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 “No, no lo haremos”, le aseguraron. “Sólo te ataremos y te entregaremos a los filisteos. Desde luego, no te vamos a matar”. Lo ataron con dos cuerdas nuevas y lo sacaron de la roca.
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand, and will by no means kill you: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
14 Cuando Sansón se acercó a Lejí, los filisteos corrieron hacia él, gritándole. Pero el Espíritu del Señor lo invadió, y las cuerdas que le ataban los brazos se debilitaron como el lino quemado, y sus manos se soltaron.
And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
15 Agarró la mandíbula fresca de un asno y con ella mató a mil filisteos.
And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and struck with it a thousand men.
16 Entonces Sansón declaró: “Con la quijada de un asno he amontonado a los muertos. Con la quijada de un asno he matado a mil hombres”.
And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have struck a thousand men.
17 Cuando Sansón terminó su discurso, tiró la quijada y llamó al lugar Colina de la Quijada.
And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone out of his hand; and he called that place the Lifting of the jaw-bone.
18 Ahora tenía mucha sed, y Sansón clamó al Señor diciendo: “Tú has logrado esta asombrosa victoria por medio de tu siervo, pero ¿ahora tengo que morir de sed y ser capturado por los paganos?”
And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Entonces Dios abrió una hondonada en Lejí, y salió agua de ella. Sansón bebió, recuperó las fuerzas y se sintió mucho mejor. Por eso le puso el nombre de Manantial del que clama, y hasta el día de hoy sigue allí en Lejí.
And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called 'The well of the invoker,' which is in Lechi, until this day.
20 Sansón dirigió a Israel como juez por veinte años durante el tiempo de los filisteos.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
