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.
But it came to pass within a while after, 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 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 said, I truly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray 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 Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
4 Y fue Samsón, y tomó trescientas zorras, y tomando tizones y juntándolas por las colas, puso entre cada dos colas un tizón.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middle between two tails.
5 Y encendiendo los tizones echólas en los panes de los Filisteos, y quemó montones y mieses, y viñas y olivares.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards 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.
Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 Entonces Samsón les dijo: ¿Así lo habíais de hacer? mas yo me vengaré de vosotros, y después cesaré.
And Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that 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 smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelled in the top of the rock Etam.
9 Y los Filisteos subieron y pusieron campo en Judá, y tendiéronse por Lequi.
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in 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 are you come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, 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 men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Know you not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that you have done to us? And he 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, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that you will not fall 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 spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought 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 shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the cords that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed 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 a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
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 the jawbone of an ass, heaps on heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain 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 had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
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 sore thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant: and now 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.
But God split an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of there; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: why he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to 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.
