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Dómarabókin 15
Icelandic Bible
Dómarabókin 15
Icelandic Bible
15 Að nokkrum tíma liðnum kom Samson um hveitiuppskerutímann að vitja konu sinnar og hafði með sér hafurkið. Og hann sagði við föður hennar: "Leyf mér að ganga inn í afhýsið til konu minnar!" En faðir hennar vildi ekki leyfa honum inn að ganga.
2 Og faðir hennar sagði: "Ég var fullviss um, að þú hefðir fengið megna óbeit á henni og gifti hana því brúðarsveini þínum, en yngri systir hennar er fríðari en hún, hana skalt þú fá í hennar stað."
3 Þá sagði Samson við þá: "Nú ber ég enga sök á því við Filista, þó að ég vinni þeim mein."
4 Síðan fór Samson og veiddi þrjú hundruð refi, tók blys, sneri hölunum saman og batt eitt blys millum hverra tveggja hala.
5 Síðan kveikti hann í blysunum og sleppti því næst refunum inn á kornakra Filista og brenndi þannig bæði kerfaskrúf, óslegið korn, víngarða og olíugarða.
6 Þá sögðu Filistar: "Hver hefir gjört þetta?" Og menn svöruðu: "Samson, tengdasonur Timnítans, því að hann hefir tekið frá honum konuna og gift hana brúðarsveini hans." Þá fóru Filistar upp þangað og brenndu hana inni og föður hennar.
7 En Samson sagði við þá: "Fyrst þér aðhafist slíkt, mun ég ekki hætta fyrr en ég hefi hefnt mín á yður."
8 Síðan barði hann svo óþyrmilega á þeim, að sundur gengu lær og leggir. Og hann fór þaðan og settist að í Etamklettaskoru.
9 Þá fóru Filistar upp eftir og settu herbúðir sínar í Júda og dreifðu sér um Lekí.
10 Og Júdamenn sögðu: "Hví hafið þér farið í móti oss?" En þeir svöruðu: "Vér erum hingað komnir til þess að binda Samson, svo að vér megum með hann fara sem hann hefir farið með oss."
11 Þá fóru þrjú þúsund manns frá Júda ofan til Etamklettaskoru og sögðu við Samson: "Veist þú ekki, að Filistar drottna yfir oss? Hví hefir þú þá gjört oss þetta?" Hann svaraði þeim: "Eins og þeir fóru með mig, svo hefi ég farið með þá."
12 Þeir sögðu við hann: "Vér erum hingað komnir til að binda þig, svo að vér getum selt þig í hendur Filista." Þá sagði Samson við þá: "Vinnið mér eið að því, að þér sjálfir skulið ekki drepa mig."
13 Þeir svöruðu honum: "Nei, vér munum aðeins binda þig og selja þig í hendur þeirra _ en drepa þig munum vér ekki." Og þeir bundu hann með tveimur reipum nýjum og fóru með hann burt frá klettinum.
14 En er Samson kom til Lekí, fóru Filistar með ópi miklu í móti honum. Þá kom andi Drottins yfir hann, og urðu reipin, sem voru um armleggi hans, sem þræðir í eldi brunnir, og hrukku fjötrarnir sundur af höndum hans.
15 Og hann fann nýjan asnakjálka, rétti út höndina og tók hann og laust með honum þúsund manns.
16 Þá sagði Samson: "Með asnakjálka hefi ég gjörsamlega flegið þá, með asnakjálka hefi ég banað þúsund manns!"
17 Og er hann hafði mælt þetta, varpaði hann kjálkanum úr hendi sér, og var þessi staður upp frá því nefndur Ramat Lekí.
18 En Samson var mjög þyrstur og hrópaði því til Drottins og mælti: "Þú hefir veitt þennan mikla sigur fyrir hönd þjóns þíns, en nú hlýt ég að deyja af þorsta og falla í hendur óumskorinna manna!"
19 Þá klauf Guð holuna, sem var í Lekí, svo að vatn rann fram úr henni. En er hann hafði drukkið, kom andi hans aftur og hann lifnaði við. Fyrir því var hún nefnd Hrópandans lind. Hún er í Lekí fram á þennan dag.
20 En Samson var dómari í Ísrael um daga Filista í tuttugu ár.
Judges 15
New International Version
Judges 15
New International Version
Samson’s Vengeance on the Philistines
15 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest,(A) Samson(B) took a young goat(C) and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.”(D) But her father would not let him go in.
2 “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion.(E) Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”
3 Samson said to them, “This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.” 4 So he went out and caught three hundred foxes(F) and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch(G) to every pair of tails, 5 lit the torches(H) and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks(I) and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.
6 When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.(J)”
So the Philistines went up and burned her(K) and her father to death.(L) 7 Samson said to them, “Since you’ve acted like this, I swear that I won’t stop until I get my revenge on you.” 8 He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock(M) of Etam.(N)
9 The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.(O) 10 The people of Judah asked, “Why have you come to fight us?”
“We have come to take Samson prisoner,” they answered, “to do to him as he did to us.”
11 Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us?(P) What have you done to us?”
He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”
12 They said to him, “We’ve come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.”
Samson said, “Swear to me(Q) that you won’t kill me yourselves.”
13 “Agreed,” they answered. “We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes(R) and led him up from the rock. 14 As he approached Lehi,(S) the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.(T) The ropes on his arms became like charred flax,(U) and the bindings dropped from his hands. 15 Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.(V)
16 Then Samson said,
“With a donkey’s jawbone
I have made donkeys of them.[a](W)
With a donkey’s jawbone
I have killed a thousand men.”
17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.[b](X)
18 Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord,(Y) “You have given your servant this great victory.(Z) Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived.(AA) So the spring(AB) was called En Hakkore,[c] and it is still there in Lehi.
20 Samson led[d] Israel for twenty years(AC) in the days of the Philistines.
Footnotes
- Judges 15:16 Or made a heap or two; the Hebrew for donkey sounds like the Hebrew for heap.
- Judges 15:17 Ramath Lehi means jawbone hill.
- Judges 15:19 En Hakkore means caller’s spring.
- Judges 15:20 Traditionally judged
Judges 15
King James Version
Judges 15
King James Version
15 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; 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 hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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