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.
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 “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?”.
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 “Esta vez no se me puede culpar por los problemas que le voy a causar a los filisteos”, declaró Sansón.
Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
4 Entonces fue y atrapó trescientas zorras y les ató las colas, de dos en dos.
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 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.
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 “¿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.
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 Sansón les dijo: “¡Si así van a actuar, no pararé hasta vengarme de ustedes!”
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 Entonces los atacó violentamente, matándolos, y luego se fue a vivir a una cueva en la roca de Etam.
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 Entonces el ejército filisteo llegó y acampó en Judá, preparado para la batalla cerca de 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 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.
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 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.
[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 “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.
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 “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.
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 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.
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 Agarró la mandíbula fresca de un asno y con ella mató a mil filisteos.
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 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”.
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 Cuando Sansón terminó su discurso, tiró la quijada y llamó al lugar Colina de la Quijada.
When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
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?”
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 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.
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 Sansón dirigió a Israel como juez por veinte años durante el tiempo de los filisteos.
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].
