Dommernes 15
1 Då det leid um ei tid, og dei hadde teke til med kveiteskurden, kom Samson og vilde lydast til kona si. Han hadde med seg eit kid, og sagde: «Lat meg få koma inn i kammerset til kona mi!» Men far hennar vilde ikkje gjeva honom lov til det.
And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.
2 «Eg tenkte so visst at du ikkje lika henne meir, » sagde faren, «og so gav eg henne til brursveinen din. Kann du’kje taka den yngre systeri i staden? ho er då mykje vænare!»
And her father spoke, saying, I said that you did surely hate her, and I gave her to one of your friends: [is] not her younger sister better than she? let her be to you instead of her.
3 Då sagde Samson: «Denne gongen er eg saklaus, um eg gjer filistarane vondt!»
And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief amongst them.
4 Han gjekk av og fanga tri hundrad revar, fann seg tyrespikar, snudde reverovarne i hop mot kvarandre, tvo og tvo, og feste ei spik millom kvart rovepar.
And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.
5 So kveikte han eld i spikarne, og slepte revarne inn på åkrane åt filistarane. Soleis brende han upp alt kornet dei hadde ute, både skore og uskore, og alle vinhagar og oljetre.
And he set fire to the torches, and sent [the foxes] into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
6 Då spurde filistarane: «Kven hev gjort dette?» «Samson, mågen åt Timna-mannen, » vart det svara. «Det var for di verfaren hadde teke kona hans og gjeve til brursveinen.» So for filistarane derupp, og brende inne både kona og far hennar.
And the Philistines said, Who [has done] these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.
7 Då sagde Samson til deim: «Fer de soleis åt, so skal eg visst ikkje kvila fyrr eg fær hemnt meg på dykk.»
And Sampson said to them, Though you may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
8 So slo han deim so dei stupte i kross og i krok, og det vart eit stort mannefall på deim. Sidan for han ned til Etamdjuvet, og gav seg til der.
And he struck them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.
9 Då kom filistarane upp i Judafylket, og lægra seg der, og spreidde seg utyver i Lehi.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.
10 Og Juda-mennerne sagde: «Kvi kjem de hit og tek på oss?» «Me vil binda Samson og gjera like eins mot honom som han hev gjort mot oss, » svara dei.
And the men of Juda said, Why are you come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
11 So for tri tusund mann av Juda-ætti ned til Etamdjuvet, og sagde til Samson: «Veit du’kje at filistarane råder her i landet? Kvi hev du då gjort oss dette?» «Som dei gjorde mot meg, so hev eg gjort mot deim, » svara han.
And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Know you not that the Philistines rule over us? and what [is] this [that] you have done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 Då sagde dei: «Me er komne hit for å binda deg og gjeva deg i henderne på filistarane.» «Lova meg at ikkje de vil slå meg i hel!» sagde Samson.
And they said to him, We are come down to bind you to deliver you into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 «Nei, me vil berre binda deg og gjeve deg i henderne deira; me vil ikkje drepa deg, » svara dei. So batt dei honom med tvo nye reip, og førde honom upp or djuvet.
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand, and will by no means kill you: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
14 Då han kom til Lehi, sprang filistarane imot honom med glederop. Då kom Herrens ande yver honom, og reipi på armarne hans vart som brend tråd; bandi datt av henderne hans, som dei var morkna.
And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
15 So fann han eit friskt kjakebein av eit asen; det greip han og slo i hel tusund mann med det.
And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and struck with it a thousand men.
16 Då kvad han: «Med asenkjaken eg ein hop og tvo, med asenkjaken tusund mann eg slo.»
And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have struck a thousand men.
17 Då han hadde kvede dette, kasta han kjakebeinet frå seg, og sidan hev dei kalla den staden Kjakebeinshaugen.
And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone out of his hand; and he called that place the Lifting of the jaw-bone.
18 Men so vart han so brennande tyrst. Då ropa han til Herren og sagde: «Du hev hjelpt tenaren din til å vinna denne store sigeren! Skal eg no døy av torste og falla i henderne på dei u-umskorne?»
And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Då opna Gud den hola som er i Lehi, og det rann vatn utor henne, so han fekk drikka; då rådde han atti, og kvikna til. Difor kalla dei den kjelda Roparkjelda; ho er endå i Lehi.
And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called 'The well of the invoker,' which is in Lechi, until this day.
20 Samson styrde Israel i tjuge år; det var i filistartidi.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
