Jueces 15
1 Pero al cabo de un tiempo, en la época de la cosecha del trigo, Sansón visitó a su mujer con un cabrito. Dijo: “Entraré en la habitación de mi mujer”. Pero su padre no le permitió entrar.
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 Su padre le dijo: “Ciertamente pensé que la odiabas por completo; por eso se la di a tu compañera. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Por favor, tómala a ella en su lugar”.
And her father said, I truly thought that thou had 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 Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez seré irreprochable ante los filisteos cuando les haga daño”.
And Samson said to them, This time I shall be blameless in regard of the Philistines when I do them a mischief.
4 Sansón fue y atrapó trescientas zorras, tomó antorchas, les dio la vuelta a la cola y puso una antorcha en medio de cada dos colas.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
5 Después de prender las antorchas, las dejó entrar en el grano en pie de los filisteos, y quemó tanto los choques como el grano en pie, y también los olivares.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
6 Entonces los filisteos dijeron: “¿Quién ha hecho esto?” Dijeron: “Sansón, el yerno del timnita, porque ha tomado a su mujer y se la ha dado a su compañero”. Los filisteos subieron, y la quemaron a ella y a su padre con fuego.
Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 Sansón les dijo: “Si os comportáis así, ciertamente me vengaré de vosotros, y después cesaré”.
And Samson said to them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8 Los golpeó en la cadera y en el muslo con una gran matanza, y descendió y vivió en la cueva de la roca de Etam.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Entonces los filisteos subieron, acamparon en Judá y se extendieron en Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Los hombres de Judá dijeron: “¿Por qué has subido contra nosotros?” Dijeron: “Hemos subido para atar a Sansón, para hacer con él lo que él ha hecho con nosotros”.
And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they said, We come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Entonces tres mil hombres de Judá bajaron a la cueva de la roca de Etam y le dijeron a Sansón: “¿No sabes que los filisteos nos dominan? ¿Qué es, pues, lo que nos has hecho?” Les dijo: “Como me hicieron a mí, así les he hecho yo”.
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Know thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that thou have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 Le dijeron: “Hemos bajado para atarte y entregarte en manos de los filisteos”. Sansón les dijo: “Júrenme que no me atacarán ustedes mismos”.
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 Le hablaron diciendo: “No, sino que te ataremos bien y te entregaremos en sus manos; pero seguro que no te mataremos”. Lo ataron con dos cuerdas nuevas y lo sacaron de la roca.
And they spoke to him, saying, No, but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, but truly we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Cuando llegó a Lehi, los filisteos gritaron al recibirlo. Entonces el Espíritu de Yahvé vino poderosamente sobre él, y las cuerdas que tenía en sus brazos se volvieron como lino quemado en el fuego, y se le cayeron las correas de las manos.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Encontró una quijada fresca de asno, extendió la mano, la tomó y golpeó con ella a mil hombres.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men with it.
16 Sansón dijo: “Con la quijada de un asno, montones y montones; con la quijada de un asno he golpeado a mil hombres”.
And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have smitten a thousand men.
17 Cuando terminó de hablar, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y aquel lugar se llamó Ramath Lehi.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
18 Tenía mucha sed, e invocó a Yahvé y dijo: “Tú has dado esta gran liberación por mano de tu siervo; ¿y ahora moriré de sed y caeré en manos de los incircuncisos?”
And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou have given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Pero Dios partió el hueco que hay en Lehi, y salió agua de él. Cuando hubo bebido, su espíritu regresó, y revivió. Por eso su nombre fue llamado En Hakkore, que está en Lehi, hasta el día de hoy.
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out there. And when he had drunk his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 Juzgó a Israel durante veinte años en los días de los filisteos.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
