1E foi Sansão a Gaza, e viu ali uma mulher prostituta, e se deitou com ela. 2E foi dito aos de Gaza: Sansão veio aqui. E cercaram-no, e puseram-lhe espias toda aquela noite à porta da cidade: e estiveram calados toda aquela noite, dizendo: Até a luz da manhã; então o mataremos. 3Mas Sansão dormiu até a meia noite; e à meia noite se levantou, e tomando as portas da cidade com seus dois pilares e seu ferrolho, lançou-as ao ombro, e foi-se, e subiu-se com elas ao cume do monte que está diante de Hebrom. 4Depois disto aconteceu que se apaixonou por uma mulher no vale de Soreque, a qual se chamava Dalila. 5E vieram a ela os príncipes dos filisteus, e disseram-lhe: Engana-o e sabe em que consiste sua grande força, e como o poderíamos vencer, para que o amarremos e o atormentemos; e cada um de nós te dará mil e cem siclos de prata. 6E Dalila disse a Sansão: Eu te rogo que me declares em que consiste tua grande força, e como poderás ser acorrentado para ser atormentado. 7E respondeu-lhe Sansão: Se me atarem com sete vimes verdes que ainda não estejam secos, então me debilitarei, e serei como qualquer um dos homens. 8E os príncipes dos filisteus lhe trouxeram sete vimes verdes que ainda não se haviam secado, e atou-lhe com eles. 9E estavam espias em casa dela em uma câmara. Então ela lhe disse: Sansão, os filisteus sobre ti! E ele rompeu os vimes, como se rompe uma corda de estopa quando sente o fogo: e não se soube sua força. 10Então Dalila disse a Sansão: Eis que tu me enganaste, e me disseste mentiras: revela-me pois agora, eu te rogo, como poderás ser acorrentado. 11E ele lhe disse: Se me atarem fortemente com cordas novas, com as quais nenhuma coisa se tenha feito, eu me debilitarei, e serei como qualquer um dos homens. 12E Dalila tomou cordas novas, e atou-lhe com elas, e disse-lhe: Sansão, os filisteus sobre ti! E os espias estavam em uma câmara. Mas ele as rompeu de seus braços como um fio. 13E Dalila disse a Sansão: Até agora me enganas, e tratas comigo com mentiras. Revela-me pois agora como poderás ser acorrentado. Ele então lhe disse: Se teceres sete tranças de minha cabeça com a teia. 14E ela fincou a estaca, e disse-lhe: Sansão, os filisteus sobre ti! Mas despertando ele de seu sonho, arrancou a estaca do tear com a teia. 15E ela lhe disse: Como dizes, Eu te amo, pois que teu coração não está comigo? Já me enganaste três vezes, e não me hás ainda descoberto em que está tua grande força. 16E aconteceu que, pressionando-lhe ela cada dia com suas palavras e importunando-lhe, sua alma foi reduzida à mortal angústia. 17Revelou-lhe, pois, todo seu coração, e disse-lhe: Nunca a minha cabeça chegou navalha; porque sou nazireu de Deus desde o ventre de minha mãe. Se for rapado, minha força se apartará de mim, e serei debilitado, e como todos os homens. 18E vendo Dalila que ele lhe havia revelado todo seu coração, mandou chamar aos príncipes dos filisteus, dizendo: Vinde esta vez, porque ele me revelou todo seu coração. E os príncipes dos filisteus vieram a ela, trazendo em sua mão o dinheiro. 19E ela fez que ele dormisse sobre seus joelhos; e chamado um homem, rapou-lhe sete tranças de sua cabeça, e começou a afligi-lo, pois sua força se apartou dele. 20E disse-lhe: Sansão, os filisteus sobre ti! E logo que despertou ele de seu sonho, se disse: Esta vez sairei como as outras, e me escaparei: não sabendo que o SENHOR já se havia dele apartado. 21Mas os filisteus lançaram mão dele, e tiraram-lhe os olhos, e o levaram a Gaza; e o ataram com correntes, para que moesse no cárcere. 22E o cabelo de sua cabeça começou a crescer, depois que foi rapado. 23Então os príncipes dos filisteus se juntaram para oferecer sacrifício a Dagom seu deus, e para alegrar-se; e disseram: Nosso deus entregou em nossas mãos a Sansão nosso inimigo. 24E vendo-o o povo, louvaram a seu deus, dizendo: Nosso deus entregou em nossas mãos a nosso inimigo, e ao destruidor de nossa terra, o qual havia matado a muitos de nós. 25E aconteceu que, indo-se alegrando o coração deles, disseram: Chamai a Sansão, para que divirta diante de nós. E chamaram a Sansão do cárcere, e fazia de joguete diante deles; e puseram-no entre as colunas. 26E Sansão disse ao jovem que o guiava pela mão: Aproxima-me, e faze-me segurar as colunas sobre que se sustenta a casa, para que me apoie sobre elas. 27E a casa estava cheia de homens e mulheres: e todos os príncipes dos filisteus estavam ali; e no alto piso havia como três mil homens e mulheres, que estavam olhando o escárnio de Sansão. 28Então clamou Sansão ao SENHOR, e disse: Senhor DEUS, lembra-te agora de mim, e esforça-me, te rogo, somente esta vez, ó Deus, para que de uma vez tome vingança dos filisteus, por meus dois olhos. 29Agarrou logo Sansão as duas colunas do meio sobre as quais se sustentava a casa, e apoiou-se nelas, a uma com a direita, e a outra com a esquerda; 30E disse Sansão: Morra eu com os filisteus. E apoiando com força, caiu a casa sobre os príncipes, e sobre todo aquele povo que estava nela. E foram muitos mais os que deles matou morrendo, que os que havia matado em sua vida. 31E desceram seus irmãos e toda a casa de seu pai, e tomaram-no, e levaram-no, e o sepultaram entre Zorá e Estaol, no sepulcro de seu pai Manoá. E ele julgou a Israel vinte anos.
1Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. 2The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.” 3Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. 4It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” 6Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.” 7Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.” 8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. 10Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.” 11He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.” 12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread. 13Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.” 14She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. 15She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16When she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. 17He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.” 18When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand. 19She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him. 21The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison. 22However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved. 23The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.” 24When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.” 25When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; 26and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.” 27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed. 28Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.” 29Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. 30Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. 31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
1Simson nu ging heen naar Gaza; en hij zag aldaar een vrouw, die een hoer was; en hij ging tot haar in. 2Toen werd de Gazieten gezegd: Simson is hier in ingekomen; zo gingen zij rondom, en legden hem den gansen nacht lagen in de stadspoort; doch zij hielden zich den gansen nacht stil, zeggende: Tot aan het morgenlicht, dan zullen wij hem doden. 3Maar Simson lag tot middernacht toe; toen stond hij op ter middernacht, en hij greep de deuren der stadspoort met de beide posten, en nam ze weg met den grendelboom, en legde ze op zijn schouderen, en droeg ze opwaarts op de hoogte des bergs, die in het gezicht van Hebron is. 4En het geschiedde daarna, dat hij een vrouw lief kreeg, aan de beek Sorek, welker naam was Delila. 5Toen kwamen de vorsten der Filistijnen tot haar op, en zeiden tot haar: Overreed hem, en zie, waarin zijn grote kracht zij, en waarmede wij hem zouden machtig worden, en hem binden, om hem te plagen; zo zullen wij u geven, een iegelijk, duizend en honderd zilverlingen. 6Delila dan zeide tot Simson: Verklaar mij toch, waarin uw grote kracht zij, en waarmede gij zoudt kunnen gebonden worden, dat men u plage. 7En Simson zeide tot haar: Indien zij mij bonden met zeven verse zelen, die niet verdroogd zijn, zo zou ik zwak worden, en wezen als een ander mens. 8Toen brachten de vorsten der Filistijnen tot haar op zeven verse zelen, die niet verdroogd waren; en zij bond hem daarmede. 9De achterlage nu zat bij haar in een kamer. Zo zeide zij tot hem: De Filistijnen over u, Simson! Toen verbrak hij de zelen, gelijk als een snoertje van grof vlas verbroken wordt, als het vuur riekt. Alzo werd zijn kracht niet bekend. 10Toen zeide Delila tot Simson: Zie, gij hebt met mij gespot, en leugenen tot mij gesproken; verklaar mij toch nu, waarmede gij zoudt kunnen gebonden worden? 11En hij zeide tot haar: Indien zij mij vastbonden met nieuwe touwen, met dewelke geen werk gedaan is, zo zou ik zwak worden, en wezen als een ander mens. 12Toen nam Delila nieuwe touwen, en bond hem daarmede, en zeide tot hem: De Filistijnen over u, Simson! (De achterlage nu was zittende in een kamer.) Toen verbrak hij ze van zijn armen als een draad. 13En Delila zeide tot Simson: Tot hiertoe hebt gij met mij gespot, en leugenen tot mij gesproken; verklaar mij toch nu, waarmede gij zoudt kunnen gebonden worden. En hij zeide tot haar: Indien gij de zeven haarlokken mijns hoofds vlochtet aan een weversboom. 14En zij maakte ze vast met een pin, en zeide tot hem: De Filistijnen over u, Simson! Toen waakte hij op uit zijn slaap, en nam weg de pin der gevlochten haarlokken, en den weversboom. 15Toen zeide zij tot hem: Hoe zult gij zeggen: Ik heb u lief, daar uw hart niet met mij is? Gij hebt nu driemaal met mij gespot, en mij niet verklaard, waarin uw grote kracht zij. 16En het geschiedde, als zij hem alle dagen met haar woorden perste, en hem moeilijk viel, dat zijn ziel verdrietig werd tot stervens toe; 17Zo verklaarde hij haar zijn ganse hart, en zeide tot haar: Er is nooit een scheermes op mijn hoofd gekomen, want ik ben een Nazireer Gods van mijn moeders buik af; indien ik geschoren wierd, zo zou mijn kracht van mij wijken, en ik zou zwak worden, en wezen als alle de mensen. 18Als nu Delila zag, dat hij haar zijn ganse hart verklaard had, zo zond zij heen, en riep de vorsten der Filistijnen, zeggende: Komt ditmaal op, want hij heeft mij zijn ganse hart verklaard. En de vorsten der Filistijnen kwamen tot haar op, en brachten dat geld in hun hand. 19Toen deed zij hem slapen op haar knieen, en riep een man en liet hem de zeven haarlokken zijns hoofds afscheren, en zij begon hem te plagen; en zijn kracht week van hem. 20En zij zeide: De Filistijnen over u, Simson! En hij ontwaakte uit zijn slaap, en zeide: Ik zal ditmaal uitgaan, als op andere malen, en mij uitschudden; want hij wist niet, dat de HEERE van hem geweken was. 21Toen grepen hem de Filistijnen, en groeven zijn ogen uit; en zij voerden hem af naar Gaza, en bonden hem met twee koperen ketenen, en hij was malende in het gevangenhuis. 22En het haar zijns hoofds begon weder te wassen, gelijk toen hij geschoren werd. 23Toen verzamelden zich de vorsten der Filistijnen, om hun god Dagon een groot offer te offeren, en tot vrolijkheid; en zij zeiden: Onze god heeft onze vijand Simson in onze hand gegeven. 24Desgelijks als hem het volk zag, loofden zij hun god, want zij zeiden: Onze god heeft in onze hand gegeven onzen vijand, en die ons land verwoestte, en die onzer verslagenen velen maakte! 25En het geschiedde, als hun hart vrolijk was, dat zij zeiden: Roept Simson, dat hij voor ons spele. En zij riepen Simson uit het gevangenhuis; en hij speelde voor hun aangezichten, en zij deden hem staan tussen de pilaren. 26Toen zeide Simson tot den jongen, die hem bij de hand hield: Laat mij gaan, dat ik de pilaren betaste, op dewelke het huis gevestigd is, dat ik daaraan leune. 27Het huis nu was vol mannen en vrouwen; ook waren daar alle vorsten der Filistijnen; en op het dak waren omtrent drie duizend mannen en vrouwen, die toezagen, als Simson speelde. 28Toen riep Simson tot den HEERE, en zeide: Heere, HEERE! gedenk toch mijner, en sterk mij toch alleenlijk ditmaal, o God! dat ik mij met een wrake voor mijn twee ogen aan de Filistijnen wreke. 29En Simson vatte de twee middelste pilaren, op dewelke het huis was gevestigd, en waarop het steunde, de enen met zijn rechterhand, en den anderen met zijn linkerhand; 30En Simson zeide: Mijn ziel sterve met de Filistijnen; en hij boog zich met kracht, en het huis viel op de vorsten, en op al het volk, dat daarin was. En de doden, die hij in zijn sterven gedood heeft, waren meer, dan die hij in zijn leven gedood had. 31Toen kwamen zijn broeders af, en het ganse huis zijns vaders, en namen hem op, en brachten hem opwaarts, en begroeven hem tussen Zora en tussen Esthaol, in het graf van zijn vader Manoach; hij nu had Israel gericht twintig jaren.
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