Fakamaau 15
1 Pea fuoloa siʻi ange naʻe hoko ʻo pehē, ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ʻoe ututaʻu ʻoe uite, naʻe ʻaʻahi ʻe Samisoni ki hono uaifi ʻaki ʻae ʻuhikiʻi kosi: pea naʻe pehē ʻe ia, “Ke u ʻalu atu ki loto fale ki hoku uaifi.” Ka naʻe taʻofi ia ʻe he tamai ʻoe fefine ʻo ʻikai tuku ke ʻalu kiate ia.
Some time later when the wheat was being harvested, Samson went to pay his wife a visit, taking with him a young goat as a present. “I want to go to my wife in her bedroom,” he said when he arrived, but her father would not let him go in.
2 Pea pehē ʻe heʻene tamai, “Naʻaku pehē moʻoni ʻeau kuo ke fehiʻa ʻaupito kiate ia ko ia naʻaku foaki ai ia ki ho kaumeʻa: ʻikai ʻoku hoihoifua hono tehina ʻiate ia?” ʻOku ou kole kiate koe, ke ke maʻu ia, ko hono fetongi.
“I thought you must totally hate her, so I gave her to your best man,” he told Samson. “But her younger sister is even more attractive—why don't you marry her instead?”
3 Pea pehē ʻe Samisoni kiate kinautolu, “Ko eni, te u taʻehalaia ʻi he kakai Filisitia, ka te u fai ʻae meʻa fakamamahi kiate kinautolu.”
“This time I can't be blamed for the trouble I'm going to cause the Philistines,” Samson declared.
4 Pea naʻe ʻalu ʻa Samisoni ʻo ne tauheleʻi ʻae fanga fokisi ʻe tolungeau, pea toʻo ʻe ia ʻae ngaahi tūhulu, ʻo ne noʻotaki ʻae iku ki he iku, pea ne ʻai ʻae tūhulu ʻi loto ʻi he ongo iku.
He went and caught three hundred foxes and tied their tails together, two by two.
5 Pea hili ʻene tutu ʻae tūhulu ʻaki ʻae afi, naʻe tuku ʻe ia ʻae fanga fokisi ke ʻalu ki he uite tuʻu ʻoe kau Filisitia, pea naʻe vela ʻo ʻosi ai ʻae ngaahi ū uite, pea mo e ngaahi uite naʻe tuʻu, mo e ngoue vaine mo e ʻolive.
He attached a torch to each of the tied tails and set them on fire. Then he let them loose in the grain fields of the Philistines, setting fire to all the grain, harvested and unharvested, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6 Pea pehē ai ʻe he kau Filisitia, “Ko hai ia kuo ne fai ʻae meʻa ni?” Pea naʻa nau pehēange ko Samisoni, ko e foha ʻi he fono ki he tangata Timinate, ko e meʻa ʻi heʻene toʻo hono uaifi, ʻo ne foaki ia ki heʻene kaumeʻa. Pea naʻe ʻalu hake ʻae kau Filisitia, ʻonau tutu ʻae fefine mo ʻene tamai ʻaki ʻae afi.
“Who did this?” the Philistines asked. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah,” they were told. “That man gave Samson's wife to Samson's best man.” So the Philistines went and burned her and her father to death.
7 Pea naʻe pehē ʻe Samisoni kiate kinautolu, “Kuo mou fai ʻae meʻa ni, ka te u totongi kiate kimoutolu, pea hili ia pea u tuku.”
Samson told them, “If this is the way you're going to act, then I won't stop until I take my revenge on you!”
8 Pea naʻa ne taaʻi ʻakinautolu ʻi he ʻakahi mo e malamalaki ʻi he tāmateʻi lahi: pea naʻe ʻalu hifo ia ʻo nofo ʻi he tumutumu ʻoe makatuʻu ko ʻEtami.
He attacked them violently, killing them, and then left to go and live in a cave at the rock of Etam.
9 Pea naʻe toki ʻalu hake ai ʻae kakai Filisitia, ʻo ʻapitanga ʻi Siuta, ʻonau nofo mafola atu ʻi Lī.
So the Philistine army came and camped in Judah, drawn up for battle near Lehi.
10 Pea pehē ʻe he kau tangata ʻo Siuta, “Ko e hā kuo mou haʻu pehē ai kiate kimautolu?” Pea naʻa nau talaange, “Kuo mau haʻu ke haʻi ʻa Samisoni, ke fai kiate ia ʻo hangē ko ʻene fai kiate kimautolu.”
The people of Judah asked, “Why have you invaded us?” “We've come to capture Samson, to do to him what he's done to us!” they replied.
11 Pea naʻe ʻalu ai ʻae kau tangata ʻo Siuta ʻe toko tolu afe ki he tumutumu ʻoe makatuʻu ko ʻEtami, ʻonau pehē kia Samisoni, “ʻOku ʻikai te ke ʻilo ko e kau pule kiate kitautolu ʻae kakai Filisitia? Ko e hā ʻae meʻa ni kuo ke fai kiate kinautolu?” Pea pehē ʻe ia kiate kinautolu, “Hangē ko ʻenau fai kiate au, kuo pehē pe ʻeku fai ange kiate kinautolu.”
Three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam and asked Samson, “Don't you understand that the Philistines rule over us? What do you think you're doing to us?” “I only did what they did to me,” he replied.
12 Pea naʻa nau pehē kiate ia, “Kuo mau haʻu ke haʻi koe, koeʻuhi ke mau ʻatu koe ki he nima ʻoe kakai Filisitia.” Pea pehē ʻe Samisoni kiate kinautolu, “Fuakava mai kiate au, ʻe ʻikai te mou taaʻi au ʻekimoutolu.”
“Well, we've come to take you prisoner and hand you over to the Philistines,” they told him. “Just swear to me that you're not going to kill me yourselves,” Samson answered.
13 Pea naʻa nau lea kiate ia, ʻo pehē, “ʻIkai; ka te mau haʻi koe ke maʻu, ʻo ʻatu koe ki honau nima: ka ko e moʻoni ʻe ʻikai te mau tāmateʻi koe.” Pea naʻa nau haʻi ʻa Samisoni ʻaki ʻae maea foʻou ʻe ua ʻonau ʻomi ia ki he funga makatuʻu.
“No, we won't,” they assured him. “We'll only tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines. We certainly aren't going to kill you!” They tied him using two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
14 Pea ʻi heʻene hoko ki Lī, naʻe kaila sipi kiate ia ʻae kau Filisitia: pea naʻe hoko mālohi ʻaupito ʻae Laumālie ʻo Sihova kiate ia, pea hoko ʻae maea naʻe ʻi hono nima ʻo hangē ha vavae kuo vela ʻi he afi, pea naʻe homo leva ia mei hono nima.
When Samson got close to Lehi, the Philistines ran towards him, shouting at him. But the Spirit of the Lord swept over him, and the ropes tying his arms together became as weak as burnt flax, and his hands broke free.
15 Pea naʻa ne maʻu ʻae hui kouʻahe foʻou ʻoe ʻasi, pea ne mafao atu ʻo toʻo ia ʻi hono nima, ʻo ne tāmateʻi ʻaki ia ʻae kau tangata ʻe toko afe.
He grabbed the fresh jawbone of a donkey, using it to kill a thousand Philistines.
16 Pea naʻe pehē ʻe Samisoni, “Ko e hui kouʻahe ʻoe ʻasi, ʻio, ko e hui kouʻahe ʻoe ʻasi kuo u tāmateʻi ʻaki ʻae kau tangata ʻe toko afe, pea ʻoku fokotuʻu tuʻunga ʻakinautolu.”
Then Samson declared, “With a donkey's jawbone I have piled the dead into heaps. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”
17 Pea hili ʻene lea, pea pehē, naʻa ne liʻaki ʻae hui kouʻahe mei hono nima, pea ui ʻae potu ko ia ko Lama i Lī.
After Samson had finished his speech, he threw away the jawbone, and he named the place Hill of the Jawbone.
18 Pea naʻa ne hoko ʻo fieinua lahi, pea naʻe hū ia kia Sihova, ʻo pehē, “Kuo ke tuku ʻae fakamoʻui lahi ni ki he nima ʻo hoʻo tamaioʻeiki: pea te u mate eni ʻi he fieinu, pea tō ai ki he nima ʻoe kau taʻekamu?”
He was now extremely thirsty, and he Samson called out to the Lord, saying, “You have achieved this amazing victory through your servant, but now do I have to die of thirst and be captured by the heathen?”
19 Ka naʻe fahiʻi ʻe he ʻOtua ʻae potu luoluo ʻi he kouʻahe, pea naʻe tafe mei ai ʻae vai: pea hili ʻene inu, naʻe toe haʻu hono laumālie, pea fakaakeake ia: Ko ia naʻa ne ui ai hono hingoa ko Eni-Hakoa, ʻaia ʻoku ʻi Lī ʻo aʻu ki he ʻaho ni.
So God split open a rock seam in Lehi, and water came out of it. Samson drank and his strength returned—he felt much better. That's why he named it the Spring of the Caller, and it's still there in Lehi to this very day.
20 Pea naʻa ne fakamaauʻi ʻa ʻIsileli ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ʻoe kau Filisitia ʻi he taʻu ʻe uofulu.
Samson led Israel as judge for twenty years during the time of the Philistines.
