< Jueces 15 >

1 Y aconteció después de algunos días, que en el tiempo de la segada del trigo Samsón visitó a su mujer con un cabrito de las cabras, diciendo: Entraré a mi mujer a la cámara. Mas el padre de ella no le dejó entrar.
Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.
2 Y dijo el padre de ella: Yo he dicho que tú la aborrecías; y díla a tu compañero. Mas su hermana menor ¿no es más hermosa que ella? Tómala pues en su lugar.
And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.
3 Y Samsón les respondió: yo seré sin culpa de esta vez para con los Filisteos, si mal les hiciere.
Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.
4 Y fue Samsón, y tomó trescientas zorras, y tomando tizones y juntándolas por las colas, puso entre cada dos colas un tizón.
So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;
5 Y encendiendo los tizones echólas en los panes de los Filisteos, y quemó montones y mieses, y viñas y olivares.
Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.
6 Y dijeron los Filisteos: ¿Quién hizo esto? Y fuéles dicho: Samsón el yerno del Tamnateo, porque le quitó su mujer, y la dio a su compañero. Y vinieron los Filisteos, y quemaron a fuego a ella y a su padre.
Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend. So the Philistines came up and had her and her father's house burned.
7 Entonces Samsón les dijo: ¿Así lo habíais de hacer? mas yo me vengaré de vosotros, y después cesaré.
And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.
8 E hiriólos de gran mortandad pierna y muslo: y descendió, y asentó en la cueva de la peña de Etam.
And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.
9 Y los Filisteos subieron y pusieron campo en Judá, y tendiéronse por Lequi.
Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.
10 Y los varones de Judá les dijeron: ¿Por qué habéis subido contra nosotros? Y ellos respondieron: Para prender a Samsón hemos subido: para hacerle como él nos ha hecho.
And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Y vinieron tres mil hombres de Judá a la cueva de la peña de Etam, y dijeron a Samsón: ¿No sabes tú que los Filisteos dominan sobre nosotros? ¿Por qué nos has hecho esto? Y él les respondió: Yo les he hecho como ellos me hicieron.
Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.
12 Ellos entonces le dijeron: Nosotros hemos venido para prenderte, y entregarte de mano de los Filisteos. Y Samsón les respondió: Jurádme que vosotros no me mataréis.
Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.
13 Y ellos le respondieron, diciendo: No: solamente te prenderemos, y te entregaremos en sus manos: mas no te mataremos. Entonces atáronle con dos cuerdas nuevas, e hiciéronle venir de la peña.
And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.
14 Y como vino hasta Lequi, los Filisteos le salieron a recibir con alarido: y el Espíritu de Jehová cayó sobre él, y las cuerdas que estaban en sus brazos se tornaron como lino quemado con fuego, y las ataduras se cayeron de sus manos.
And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.
15 Y hallando a mano una quijada de asno aun fresca, extendió la mano y tomóla, e hirió con ella mil hombres.
And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.
16 Entonces Samsón dijo: Con una quijada de asno, un montón, dos montones. Con una quijada de asno herí mil varones.
And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.
17 Y acabando de hablar, echó de su mano la quijada, y llamó a aquel lugar Ramat-lequi.
And having said these words, he let the mouth-bone go out of his hand; so that place was named Ramath-lehi.
18 Y teniendo gran sed, clamó a Jehová, y dijo: Tú has dado esta gran salud por la mano de tu siervo: y ahora yo moriré de sed, y caeré en la mano de los incircuncisos.
After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.
19 Entonces Dios quebró una muela que estaba en la quijada, y salieron de allí aguas, y bebió, y volvió en su espíritu, y vivió. Por tanto llamó su nombre de aquel lugar, En-haccore, el cual es en Lequi hasta hoy.
Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.
20 Y juzgó a Israel en los días de los Filisteos veinte años.
And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.

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