< اَلْقُضَاة 15 >

وَكَانَ بَعْدَ مُدَّةٍ فِي أَيَّامِ حَصَادِ ٱلْحِنْطَةِ، أَنَّ شَمْشُونَ ٱفْتَقَدَ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ بِجَدْيِ مِعْزًى. ١ 1
After some days, during the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said to himself, “I will go to my wife's room.” But her father would not allow him to go in.
وَقَالَ: «أَدْخُلُ إِلَى ٱمْرَأَتِي إِلَى حُجْرَتِهَا». وَلَكِنَّ أَبَاهَا لَمْ يَدَعْهُ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ. وَقَالَ أَبُوهَا: «إِنِّي قُلْتُ إِنَّكَ قَدْ كَرِهْتَهَا فَأَعْطَيْتُهَا لِصَاحِبِكَ. أَلَيْسَتْ أُخْتُهَا ٱلصَّغِيرَةُ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهَا؟ فَلْتَكُنْ لَكَ عِوَضًا عَنْهَا». ٢ 2
Her father said, “I really thought you hated her, so I gave her to your friend. Her younger sister is more beautiful than she is, is she not? Take her instead.”
فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «إِنِّي بَرِيءٌ ٱلْآنَ مِنَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ إِذَا عَمِلْتُ بِهِمْ شَرًّا». ٣ 3
Samson said to them, “This time I will be innocent in regard to the Philistines when I hurt them.”
وَذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ وَأَمْسَكَ ثَلَاثَ مِئَةِ ٱبْنِ آوَى، وَأَخَذَ مَشَاعِلَ وَجَعَلَ ذَنَبًا إِلَى ذَنَبٍ، وَوَضَعَ مَشْعَلًا بَيْنَ كُلِّ ذَنَبَيْنِ فِي ٱلْوَسَطِ، ٤ 4
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and he tied together each pair, tail to tail. Then he took torches and tied them in the middle of each pair of tails.
ثُمَّ أَضْرَمَ ٱلْمَشَاعِلَ نَارًا وَأَطْلَقَهَا بَيْنَ زُرُوعِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ، فَأَحْرَقَ ٱلْأَكْدَاسَ وَٱلزَّرْعَ وَكُرُومَ ٱلزَّيْتُونِ. ٥ 5
When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and they set fire to both the stacked grain and the grain standing in the field, along with the vineyards and the olive orchards.
فَقَالَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ: «مَنْ فَعَلَ هَذَا؟» فَقَالُوا: «شَمْشُونُ صِهْرُ ٱلتِّمْنِيِّ، لِأَنَّهُ أَخَذَ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ وَأَعْطَاهَا لِصَاحِبِهِ». فَصَعِدَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ وَأَحْرَقُوهَا وَأَبَاهَا بِٱلنَّارِ. ٦ 6
The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” They were told, “Samson, the Timnite's son-in-law, did this because the Timnite took Samson's wife and gave her to his friend.” Then the Philistines went and burned up her and her father.
فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «وَلَوْ فَعَلْتُمْ هَذَا فَإِنِّي أَنْتَقِمُ مِنْكُمْ، وَبَعْدُ أَكُفُّ». ٧ 7
Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I will get my revenge against you, and after that is done, I will stop.”
وَضَرَبَهُمْ سَاقًا عَلَى فَخْذٍ ضَرْبًا عَظِيمًا. ثُمَّ نَزَلَ وَأَقَامَ فِي شَقِّ صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ. ٨ 8
Then he cut them to pieces, hip and thigh, with a great slaughter. Then he went down and lived in a cave in the cliff of Etam.
وَصَعِدَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ وَنَزَلُوا فِي يَهُوذَا وَتَفَرَّقُوا فِي لَحْيٍ. ٩ 9
Then the Philistines came up and they prepared for battle in Judah and set up their army in Lehi.
فَقَالَ رِجَالُ يَهُوذَا: «لِمَاذَا صَعِدْتُمْ عَلَيْنَا؟» فَقَالُوا: «صَعِدْنَا لِكَيْ نُوثِقَ شَمْشُونَ لِنَفْعَلَ بِهِ كَمَا فَعَلَ بِنَا». ١٠ 10
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up to attack us?” They said, “We are attacking so we may capture Samson, and do to him as he has done to us.”
فَنَزَلَ ثَلَاثَةُ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ يَهُوذَا إِلَى شَقِّ صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ، وَقَالُوا لِشَمْشُونَ: «أَمَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ مُتَسَلِّطُونَ عَلَيْنَا؟ فَمَاذَا فَعَلْتَ بِنَا؟» فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «كَمَا فَعَلُوا بِي هَكَذَا فَعَلْتُ بِهِمْ». ١١ 11
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam, and they said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What is this you have done to us?” Samson said to them, “They did to me, and so I have done to them.”
فَقَالُوا لَهُ: «نَزَلْنَا لِكَيْ نُوثِقَكَ وَنُسَلِّمَكَ إِلَى يَدِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ». فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «ٱحْلِفُوا لِي أَنَّكُمْ أَنْتُمْ لَا تَقَعُونَ عَلَيَّ». ١٢ 12
They said to Samson, “We have come down to tie you up and give you into the hands of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
فَكَلَّمُوهُ قَائِلِينَ: «كَلَّا. وَلَكِنَّنَا نُوثِقُكَ وَنُسَلِّمُكَ إِلَى يَدِهِمْ، وَقَتْلًا لَا نَقْتُلُكَ». فَأَوْثَقُوهُ بِحَبْلَيْنِ جَدِيدَيْنِ وَأَصْعَدُوهُ مِنَ ٱلصَّخْرَةِ. ١٣ 13
They said to him, “No, we will only tie you with ropes and hand you over to them. We promise we will not kill you.” Then they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
وَلَمَّا جَاءَ إِلَى لَحْيٍ، صَاحَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ لِلِقَائِهِ. فَحَلَّ عَلَيْهِ رُوحُ ٱلرَّبِّ، فَكَانَ ٱلْحَبْلَانِ ٱللَّذَانِ عَلَى ذِرَاعَيْهِ كَكَتَّانٍ أُحْرِقَ بِٱلنَّارِ، فَٱنْحَلَّ ٱلْوِثَاقُ عَنْ يَدَيْهِ. ١٤ 14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting as they met him. Then Yahweh's Spirit came on him with power. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and they fell off his hands.
وَوَجَدَ لَحْيَ حِمَارٍ طَرِيًّا، فَمَدَّ يَدَهُ وَأَخَذَهُ وَضَرَبَ بِهِ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ. ١٥ 15
Samson found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and he picked it up and killed a thousand men with it.
فَقَالَ شَمْشُونُ: «بِلَحْيِ حِمَارٍ كُومَةً كُومَتَيْنِ. بِلَحْيِ حِمَارٍ قَتَلْتُ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ». ١٦ 16
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men.”
وَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنَ ٱلْكَلَامِ رَمَى ٱللَّحْيِ مِنْ يَدِهِ، وَدَعَا ذَلِكَ ٱلْمَكَانَ «رَمَتَ لَحْيٍ». ١٧ 17
When Samson finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone, and he called the place Ramath Lehi.
ثُمَّ عَطِشَ جِدًّا فَدَعَا ٱلرَّبَّ وَقَالَ: «إِنَّكَ قَدْ جَعَلْتَ بِيَدِ عَبْدِكَ هَذَا ٱلْخَلَاصَ ٱلْعَظِيمَ، وَٱلْآنَ أَمُوتُ مِنَ ٱلْعَطَشِ وَأَسْقُطُ بِيَدِ ٱلْغُلْفِ». ١٨ 18
Samson was very thirsty and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great victory to your servant. But now will I die of thirst and fall into the hands of those who are uncircumcised?”
فَشَقَّ ٱللهُ ٱلْكِفَّةَ ٱلَّتِي فِي لَحْيِ، فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءٌ، فَشَرِبَ وَرَجَعَتْ رُوحُهُ فَٱنْتَعَشَ. لِذَلِكَ دَعَا ٱسْمَهُ «عَيْنَ هَقُّورِي» ٱلَّتِي فِي لَحْيٍ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ. ١٩ 19
God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi and water came out. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. So he called the name of that place En Hakkore, and it is at Lehi to this day.
وَقَضَى لِإِسْرَائِيلَ فِي أَيَّامِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً. ٢٠ 20
Samson judged Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.

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