1 And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber; but her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine instead of her.
3 And Samson said to them, This time I am blameless toward the Philistines, though I do them harm.
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the two tails.
5 And he set the torches on fire, and let {them} run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.
6 And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
7 And Samson said to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then I will cease.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.
9 And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the cliff Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? And what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may give thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall on me yourselves.
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we certainly shall not put thee to death. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the cliff.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became as threads of flax that are burned with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, a heap, two heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 And it came to pass when he had ended speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
18 And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given by the hand of thy servant this great deliverance, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
1 Po kurio laiko, kviečių pjūties metu, Samsonas atėjo aplankyti savo žmonos ir atnešė jai ožiuką. Samsonas sakė: "Aš noriu įeiti į kambarį pas savo žmoną". Bet jos tėvas jo neleido,
2 tardamas: "Aš tikrai maniau, kad tu jos nekenti, todėl ją atidaviau tavo pabroliui. Argi jos jaunesnioji sesuo nėra gražesnė už ją? Imk ją vietoj anos".
3 Tada Samsonas atsakė: "Šį kartą nenusikalsiu, atkeršydamas filistinams".
4 Samsonas, sugavęs tris šimtus lapių, surišo jas po porą uodegomis ir tarp uodegų įrišo po deglą.
5 Uždegęs deglus, jis paleido lapes į filistinų javus. Taip jis padegė javų pėdus, nepjautus javus, vynuogynus ir alyvmedžių sodus.
6 Filistinai klausė: "Kas tai padarė?" Jiems atsakė: "Samsonas, timniečio žentas, keršydamas už žmonos atidavimą pabroliui". Atėję filistinai sudegino ją ir jos tėvą.
7 Samsonas jiems tarė: "Nors jūs tai padarėte, nurimsiu tik tada, kai jums atkeršysiu".
8 Jis smarkiai puolė juos ir, sulaužęs jų blauzdų ir šlaunų kaulus, nuėjo į Etamą ir apsigyveno ant uolos.
9 Tada filistinai atėję pasistatė stovyklas Judo žemėje iki Lehio.
10 Judas klausė: "Kodėl išėjote prieš mus?" Tie atsakė: "Samsono surišti ir padaryti jam taip, kaip jis mums padarė".
11 Tada trys tūkstančiai Judo vyrų atėjo prie Etamo uolos ir klausė Samsoną: "Argi nežinai, kad mus valdo filistinai? Kodėl taip padarei?" Jis atsakė: "Kaip jie man padarė, taip aš jiems padariau".
12 Judo vyrai tarė jam: "Mes atėjome tavęs surišti ir atiduoti filistinams". Samsonas atsakė: "Prisiekite man, kad jūs patys manęs nenužudysite".
13 Jie jam atsakė: "Mes tave tvirtai surišime ir atiduosime filistinams, bet patys tavęs nenužudysime". Jie surišo jį dviem naujomis virvėmis ir nusivedė.
14 Prie Lehio filistinai pasitiko jį šūkaudami iš džiaugsmo. Viešpaties Dvasia galingai nužengė ant jo, ir virvės ant jo rankų sutrūko kaip sudegę linai ir nukrito nuo jo.
15 Jis susirado šviežią asilo žandikaulį ir, paėmęs jį, užmušė juo tūkstantį filistinų.
16 Tuomet Samsonas tarė: "Asilo žandikauliu nužudžiau tūkstantį vyrų ir suverčiau į krūvas".
17 Taip pasakęs, jis nusviedė žandikaulį. Tą vietą pavadino Ramat Lehiu.
18 Labai ištroškęs, jis šaukėsi Viešpaties: "Tu davei man šitokią pergalę, o dabar mirštu iš troškulio ir pateksiu į neapipjaustytųjų rankas!"
19 Dievas atvėrė daubą Lehyje, ir iš jos tekėjo vanduo. Atsigėręs jis atsigaivino ir atgavo jėgas. Tą vietą pavadino En Korės versme; ji tebėra ten iki šios dienos.
20 Filistinų laikais Samsonas teisė Izraelį dvidešimt metų.