1E descendo Sansão a Timna, viu em Timna uma mulher das filhas dos filisteus. 2E subiu, e declarou-o a seu pai e a sua mãe, dizendo: Eu vi em Timna uma mulher das filhas dos filisteus: rogo-vos que a deis a mim por mulher. 3E seu pai e sua mãe lhe disseram: Não há mulher entre as filhas de teus irmãos, nem em todo meu povo, para que vás tu a tomar mulher dos filisteus incircuncisos? E Sansão respondeu a seu pai: Toma-a a mim por mulher, porque esta agradou a meus olhos. 4Mas seu pai e sua mãe não sabiam que isto vinha do SENHOR, e que ele buscava ocasião contra os filisteus: porque naquele tempo os filisteus dominavam sobre Israel. 5E Sansão desceu com seu pai e com sua mãe a Timna: e quando chegaram às vinhas de Timna, eis que um leão jovem que vinha bramando até ele. 6E o espírito do SENHOR caiu sobre ele, e despedaçou-o como quem despedaça um cabrito, sem ter nada em sua mão: e não deu a entender a seu pai nem a sua mãe o que havia feito. 7Veio, pois, e falou à mulher que havia agradado a Sansão. 8E voltando depois de alguns dias para tomá-la, apartou-se para ver o corpo morto do leão, e eis que no corpo do leão um enxame de abelhas, e um favo de mel. 9E tomando-o em suas mãos, foi-se comendo-o pelo caminho: e chegado que houve a seu pai e a sua mãe, deu-lhes também a eles que comessem; mas não lhes revelou que havia tomado aquela mel do corpo do leão. 10Veio, pois, seu pai à mulher, e Sansão fez ali banquete; porque assim costumavam fazer os rapazes. 11E quando eles o viram, tomaram trinta companheiros que estivessem com ele; 12Aos quais Sansão disse: Eu vos proporei agora um enigma, o qual se nos sete dias do banquete vós me declarardes e descobrirdes, eu vos darei trinta sábanas e trinta mudas de vestidos. 13Mas se não o souberes declarar a mim, vós me dareis as trinta mantas e as trinta mudas de vestidos. E eles responderam: Propõe-nos teu enigma, e o ouviremos. 14Então lhes disse: Do comedor saiu comida, E do forte saiu doçura. E eles não puderam declarar-lhe o enigma em três dias. 15E ao sétimo dia disseram à mulher de Sansão: Induz a teu marido a que nos declare este enigma, para que não te queimemos a ti e à casa de teu pai. Chamaste-nos aqui para possuir-nos? 16E chorou a mulher de Sansão diante dele, e disse: Somente me aborreces e não me amas, pois que não me declaras o enigma que propuseste aos filhos de meu povo. E ele respondeu: Eis que nem a meu pai nem a minha mãe o declarei; e havia eu de declará-lo a ti? 17E ela chorou diante dele os sete dias que eles tiveram banquete: mas ao sétimo dia ele o declarou a ela, porque lhe constrangeu; e ela o declarou aos filhos de seu povo. 18E ao sétimo dia, antes que o sol se pusesse, os da cidade lhe disseram: Que coisa mais doce que o mel? E que coisa mais forte que o leão? Se não arásseis com minha novilha, Nunca teríeis descoberto meu enigma. 19E o espírito do SENHOR caiu sobre ele, e desceu a Asquelom, e feriu trinta homens deles; e tomando seus despojos, deu as mudas de vestidos aos que haviam explicado o enigma: e acendido em ira foi-se à casa de seu pai. 20E a mulher de Sansão foi dada a seu companheiro, com o qual ele antes se acompanhava.
1Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. 2He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.” 3Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me; for she pleases me well.” 4But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel. 5Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him. 6The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done. 7He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. 8After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion. 10His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. 11When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. 12Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; 13but if you can’t declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.” 14He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle. 15On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?” 16Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You have told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” 17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. 18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.” 19The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their plunder, and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house. 20But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
1En Simson ging af naar Thimnath, en gezien hebbende een vrouw te Thimnath, van de dochteren der Filistijnen, 2Zo ging hij opwaarts, en gaf het zijn vader en zijn moeder te kennen, en zeide: Ik heb een vrouw gezien te Thimnath, van de dochteren der Filistijnen; nu dan, neem mij die tot een vrouw. 3Maar zijn vader zeide tot hem, mitsgaders zijn moeder: Is er geen vrouw onder de dochteren uwer broeders, en onder al mijn volk, dat gij heengaat, om een vrouw te nemen van de Filistijnen, die onbesnedenen? En Simson zeide tot zijn vader: Neem mij die, want zij is bevallig in mijn ogen. 4Zijn vader nu en zijn moeder wisten niet, dat dit van den HEERE was, dat hij gelegenheid zocht van de Filistijnen; want de Filistijnen heersten te dier tijd over Israel. 5Alzo ging Simson, met zijn vader en zijn moeder, henen af naar Thimnath. Als zij nu kwamen tot aan de wijngaarden van Thimnath, ziet daar, een jonge leeuw, brullende hem tegemoet. 6Toen werd de Geest des HEEREN vaardig over hem, dat hij hem van een scheurde, gelijk men een bokje van een scheurt, en er was niets in zijn hand; doch hij gaf zijn vader en zijn moeder niet te kennen, wat hij gedaan had. 7En hij kwam af, en sprak tot de vrouw; en zij beviel in Simsons ogen. 8En na sommige dagen kwam hij weder, om haar te nemen; toen week hij af, om het aas van de leeuw te bezien, en ziet, een bijenzwerm was in het lichaam van den leeuw, met honig. 9En hij nam dien in zijn handen, en ging voort, al gaande en etende; en hij ging tot zijn vader en tot zijn moeder, en gaf hun daarvan, en zij aten; doch hij gaf hun niet te kennen, dat hij den honig uit het lichaam van den leeuw genomen had. 10Als nu zijn vader afgekomen was tot die vrouw, zo maakte Simson aldaar een bruiloft, want alzo plachten de jongelingen te doen. 11En het geschiedde, als zij hem zagen, zo namen zij dertig metgezellen, die bij hem zouden zijn. 12Simson dan zeide tot hen: Ik zal nu ulieden een raadsel te raden geven; indien gij mij dat in de zeven dagen dezer bruiloft wel zult verklaren en uitvinden, zo zal ik ulieden geven dertig fijne lijnwaadsklederen, en dertig wisselklederen. 13En indien gij het mij niet zult kunnen verklaren, zo zult gijlieden mij geven dertig fijne lijnwaadsklederen, en dertig wisselklederen. En zij zeiden tot hem: Geef uw raadsel te raden, en laat het ons horen. 14En hij zeide tot hen: Spijze ging uit van den eter, en zoetigheid ging uit van de sterke. En zij konden dat raadsel in drie dagen niet verklaren. 15Daarna geschiedde het op den zevenden dag, dat zij tot de huisvrouw van Simson zeiden: Overreed uw man, dat hij ons dat raadsel verklare, opdat wij niet misschien u, en het huis uws vaders, met vuur verbranden. Hebt gijlieden ons genodigd, om het onze te bezitten; is het zo niet? 16En Simsons huisvrouw weende voor hem en zeide: Gij haat mij maar, en hebt mij niet lief; gij hebt den kinderen mijns volks een raadsel te raden gegeven, en hebt het mij niet verklaard. En hij zeide tot haar: Zie, ik heb het mijn vader en mijn moeder niet verklaard, zou ik het u dan verklaren? 17En zij weende voor hem, op den zevenden der dagen in dewelke zij deze bruiloft hadden; zo geschiedde het op den zevenden dag, dat hij het haar verklaarde, want zij perste hem; en zij verklaarde dat raadsel den kinderen haars volks. 18Toen zeiden de mannen der stad tot hem, op den zevenden dag, eer de zon onderging: Wat is zoeter dan honig? en wat is sterker dan een leeuw? En hij zeide tot hen: Zo gij met mijn kalf niet hadt geploegd, gij zoudt mijn raadsel niet hebben uitgevonden. 19Toen werd de Geest des HEEREN vaardig over hem, en hij ging af naar de Askelonieten, en sloeg van hen dertig man; en hij nam hun gewaad, en gaf de wisselklederen aan degenen, die dat raadsel verklaard hadden. Doch zijn toorn ontstak, en hij ging op in zijns vaders huis. 20En de huisvrouw van Simson werd zijns metgezels, die hem vergezelschapt had.
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