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.
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 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 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 Y Samsón les respondió: yo seré sin culpa de esta vez para con los Filisteos, si mal les hiciere.
And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief amongst them.
4 Y fue Samsón, y tomó trescientas zorras, y tomando tizones y juntándolas por las colas, puso entre cada dos colas un tizón.
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 Y encendiendo los tizones echólas en los panes de los Filisteos, y quemó montones y mieses, y viñas 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 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.
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 Entonces Samsón les dijo: ¿Así lo habíais de hacer? mas yo me vengaré de vosotros, y después cesaré.
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 E hiriólos de gran mortandad pierna y muslo: y descendió, y asentó en la cueva de la peña 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 Y los Filisteos subieron y pusieron campo en Judá, y tendiéronse por Lequi.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 Y hallando a mano una quijada de asno aun fresca, extendió la mano y tomóla, e hirió con ella mil hombres.
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 Samsón dijo: Con una quijada de asno, un montón, dos montones. Con una quijada de asno herí mil varones.
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 Y acabando de hablar, echó de su mano la quijada, y llamó a aquel lugar Ramat-lequi.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Y juzgó a Israel en los días de los Filisteos veinte años.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
