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1얼마 후 밀 거둘 때에 삼손이 염소 새끼를 가지고 그 아내에게로 찾아 가서 가로되 내가 침실에 들어가 아내를 보고자 하노라 장인이 들어 오지 못하게 하고 2가로되 네가 그를 심히 미워하는 줄로 내가 생각한 고로 그를 네 동무에게 주었노라 그 동생이 그보다 더욱 아름답지 아니하냐 청하노니 너는 그의 대신에 이를 취하라 3삼손이 그들에게 이르되 이번은 내가 블레셋 사람을 해할지라도 그들에게 대하여 내게 허물이 없을 것이니라 하고 4삼손이 가서 여우 삼백을 붙들어서 그 꼬리와 꼬리를 매고 홰를 취하고 그 두 꼬리 사이에 한 홰를 달고 5홰에 불을 켜고 그것을 블레셋 사람의 곡식 밭으로 몰아 들여서 곡식 단과 아직 베지 아니한 곡식과 감람원을 사른지라 6블레셋 사람이 가로되 누가 이 일을 행하였느냐 혹이 대답하되 딤나 사람의 사위 삼손이니 장인이 삼손의 아내를 취하여 그 동무 되었던 자에게 준 연고니라 블레셋 사람이 올라가서 그 여인과 그의 아비를 불사르니라 7삼손이 그들에게 이르되 너희가 이같이 행하였은즉 내가 너희에게 원수를 갚은 후에야 말리라 하고 8블레셋 사람을 크게 도륙하고 내려가서 에담 바위 틈에 거하니라 9이에 블레셋 사람이 올라와서 유다에 진을 치고 레히에 편만한지라 10유다 사람들이 가로되 너희가 어찌하여 올라와서 우리를 치느냐 그들이 대답하되 우리가 올라오기는 삼손을 결박하여 그가 우리에게 행한 대로 그에게 행하려 함이로라 11유다 사람 삼천 명이 에담 바위 틈에 내려가서 삼손에게 이르되 너는 블레셋 사람이 우리를 관할하는 줄을 알지 못하느냐 네가 어찌하여 우리에게 이같이 행하였느냐 삼손이 그들에게 이르되 그들이 내게 행한 대로 나도 그들에게 행하였노라 12그들이 삼손에게 이르되 우리가 너를 결박하여 블레셋 사람의 손에 붙이려고 이제 내려왔노라 삼손이 그들에게 이르되 너희는 친히 나를 치지 않겠다고 내게 맹세하라 13그들이 삼손에게 일러 가로되 아니라 우리가 다만 너를 단단히 결박하여 그들의 손에 붙일 뿐이요 우리가 결단코 너를 죽이지 아니하리라 하고 새 줄 둘로 결박하고 바위 틈에서 그를 끌어내니라 14삼손이 레히에 이르매 블레셋 사람이 그에게로 마주 나가며 소리지르는 동시에 여호와의 신의 권능이 삼손에게 임하매 그 팔 위의 줄이 불탄 삼과 같아서 그 결박되었던 손에서 떨어진지라 15삼손이 나귀의 새 턱뼈를 보고 손을 내밀어 취하고 그것으로 일천 명을 죽이고 16가로되 나귀의 턱뼈로 한 더미 두 더미를 쌓았음이여 나귀의 턱뼈로 내가 일천 명을 죽였도다 17말을 마치고 턱뼈를 그 손에서 내어던지고 그곳을 라맛 레히라 이름하였더라 18삼손이 심히 목마르므로 여호와께 부르짖어 가로되 주께서 종의 손으로 이 큰 구원을 베푸셨사오나 내가 이제 목말라 죽어서 할례 받지 못한 자의 손에 빠지겠나이다 19하나님이 레히에 한 우묵한 곳을 터치시니 물이 거기서 솟아나오는지라 삼손이 그것을 마시고 정신이 회복되어 소생하니 그러므로 그 샘 이름은 엔학고레라 이 샘이 레히에 오늘까지 있더라 20블레셋 사람의 때에 삼손이 이스라엘 사사로 이십 년을 지내었더라

1But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife into the room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in. 2Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.” 3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them.” 4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails. 5When 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 olive groves. 6Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.” 8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam. 9Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. 10The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.” 11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.” 12They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.” 13They spoke to him, saying, “No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. 14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men with it. 16Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.” 17When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi. 18He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?” 19But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day. 20He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

1En het geschiedde na sommige dagen, in de dagen van de tarweoogst, dat Simson zijn huisvrouw bezocht met een geitenbokje, en hij zeide: Laat mij tot mijn huisvrouw ingaan in de kamer; maar haar vader liet hem niet toe in te gaan. 2Want haar vader zeide: Ik sprak zeker, dat gij haar ganselijk haattet, zo heb ik haar aan uw metgezel gegeven. Is niet haar kleinste zuster schoner dan zij? Laat ze u toch zijn in de plaats van haar. 3Toen zeide Simson tot henlieden: Ik ben ditmaal onschuldig van de Filistijnen, wanneer ik aan hen kwaad doe. 4En Simson ging heen, en ving driehonderd vossen; en hij nam fakkelen, en keerde staart aan staart, en deed een fakkel tussen twee staarten in het midden. 5En hij stak de fakkelen aan met vuur, en liet ze lopen in het staande koren der Filistijnen; en hij stak in brand zowel de korenhopen als het staande koren, zelfs tot de wijngaarden en olijfbomen toe. 6Toen zeiden de Filistijnen: Wie heeft dit gedaan? En men zeide: Simson, de schoonzoon van den Thimniet, omdat hij zijn huisvrouw heeft genomen, en heeft haar aan zijn metgezel gegeven. Toen kwamen de Filistijnen op, en verbrandden haar en haar vader met vuur. 7Toen zeide Simson tot hen: Zoudt gij alzo doen? Zeker, als ik mij aan u gewroken heb, zo zal ik daarna ophouden. 8En hij sloeg hen, den schenkel en de heup, met een groten slag; en hij ging af, en woonde op de hoogte van de rots Etam. 9Toen togen de Filistijnen op, en legerden zich tegen Juda, en breidden zich uit in Lechi. 10En de mannen van Juda zeiden: Waarom zijt gijlieden tegen ons opgetogen? En zij zeiden: Wij zijn opgetogen om Simson te binden, om hem te doen, gelijk als hij ons gedaan heeft. 11Toen kwamen drie duizend mannen af uit Juda tot het hol der rots Etam, en zeiden tot Simson: Wist gij niet, dat de Filistijnen over ons heersen? Waarom hebt gij ons dan dit gedaan? En hij zeide tot hen: Gelijk als zij mij gedaan hebben, alzo heb ik hunlieden gedaan. 12En zij zeiden tot hem: Wij zijn afgekomen om u te binden, om u over te geven in de hand der Filistijnen. Toen zeide Simson tot hen: Zweert mij, dat gijlieden op mij niet zult aanvallen. 13En zij spraken tot hem, zeggende: Neen, maar wij zullen u wel binden, en u in hunlieder hand overgeven; doch wij zullen u geenszins doden. En zij bonden hem met twee nieuwe touwen, en voerden hem op van de rots. 14Als hij kwam tot Lechi, zo juichten de Filistijnen hem tegemoet; maar de Geest des HEEREN werd vaardig over hem; en de touwen, die aan zijn armen waren, werden als linnen draden, die van het vuur gebrand zijn, en zijn banden versmolten van zijn handen. 15En hij vond een vochtig ezelskinnebakken, en hij strekte zijn hand uit, en nam het, en sloeg daarmede duizend man. 16Toen zeide Simson: Met een ezelskinnebakken, een hoop, twee hopen, met een ezelskinnebakken heb ik duizend man geslagen. 17En het geschiedde, als hij geeindigd had te spreken, zo wierp hij het kinnebakken uit zijn hand, en hij noemde dezelve plaats Ramath-Lechi. 18Als nu hem zeer dorstte, zo riep hij tot den HEERE, en zeide: Gij hebt door de hand van Uw knecht dit grote heil gegeven; zou ik dan nu van dorst sterven, en vallen in de hand dezer onbesnedenen? 19Toen kloofde God de holle plaats, die in Lechi is, en er ging water uit van dezelve, en hij dronk. Toen kwam zijn geest weder, en hij werd levend. Daarom noemde hij haar naam: De fontein des aanroepers, die in Lechi is, tot op dezen dag. 20En hij richtte Israel, in de dagen der Filistijnen, twintig jaren.