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Domarboken 15
Svenska 1917
Domarboken 15
Svenska 1917
15 En tid därefter, medan veteskörden pågick, ville Simson besöka sin hustru, och förde med sig en killing. Och han sade: »Låt mig gå in till min hustru i kammaren.» Men hennes fader ville icke tillstädja honom att gå in;
2 hennes fader sade: »Jag höll för säkert att du hade fattat hat till henne, och därför gav jag henne åt din bröllopssven. Men hon har ju en yngre syster, som är fagrare än hon; tag denna i stället för den andra.»
3 Men Simson svarade dem: »Denna gång är jag utan skuld gent emot filistéerna, om jag gör dem något ont.»
4 Och Simson gick bort och fångade tre hundra rävar; sedan tog han facklor, band så ihop två och två rävar med svansarna och satte in en fackla mitt emellan de två svansarna.
5 Därefter tände han eld på facklorna och släppte djuren in på filistéernas sädesfält och antände så både sädesskylar och oskuren säd, vingårdar och olivplanteringar.
6 Då nu filistéerna frågade efter vem som hade gjort detta, fingo de det svaret: »Det har Simson, timnitens måg, därför att denne tog hans hustru och gav henne åt hans bröllopssven.» Då drogo filistéerna åstad och brände upp både henne och hennes fader i eld.
7 Men Simson sade till dem: »Om I beten eder så, skall jag sannerligen icke vila, förrän jag har tagit hämnd på eder.»
8 Och han for våldsamt fram med dem, så att de varken kunde gå eller stå. Sedan gick han ned därifrån och bodde i bergsklyftan vid Etam.
9 Då drogo filistéerna upp och lägrade sig i Juda; och de spridde sig i Lehi.
10 Och Juda män sade: »Varför haven I dragit hitupp mot oss?» De svarade: »Vi hava dragit hitupp för att binda Simson och för att göra mot honom såsom han har gjort mot oss.»
11 Då drogo tre tusen män från Juda ned till bergsklyftan vid Etam och sade till Simson: »Du vet ju att filistéerna råda över oss; huru har du då kunnat göra så mot oss?» Han svarade dem: »Såsom de hava gjort mot mig, så har jag gjort mot dem.»
12 De sade till honom: »Vi hava kommit hitned för att binda dig och sedan lämna dig i filistéernas hand.» Simson sade till dem: »Så given mig nu eder ed på att I icke själva viljen stöta ned mig.»
13 De svarade honom: »Nej, vi vilja allenast binda dig och sedan lämna dig i deras hand, men vi skola icke döda dig.» Så bundo de honom med två nya tåg och förde honom upp, bort ifrån klippan.
14 När han nu kom till Lehi, skriade filistéerna och sprungo emot honom. Då kom HERRENS Ande över honom, och tågen omkring hans armar blevo såsom lintrådar, när de antändas av eld, och banden likasom smälte bort ifrån hans händer.
15 Och han fick fatt i en åsnekäke som ännu var frisk; och han räckte ut sin hand och tog den, och med den slog han ihjäl tusen män.
16 Sedan sade Simson: »Med åsnekäken slog jag en skara, ja, två; med åsnekäken slog jag tusen man.»
17 När han hade sagt detta, kastade han käken ifrån sig. Och man kallade den platsen Ramat-Lehi.
18 Men då han därefter blev mycket törstig, ropade han till HERREN och sade: »Du själv har genom din tjänare givit denna stora seger; och nu måste jag dö av törst, och så falla i de oomskurnas hand!»
19 Då lät Gud fördjupningen i Lehi öppna sig, och därur gick ut vatten, så att han kunde dricka; och hans ande kom tillbaka, och han fick liv igen. Därav kallades källan Den ropandes källa i Lehi, såsom den heter ännu i dag.
20 Och han var domare i Israel under filistéernas tid, i tjugu år.
Judges 15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judges 15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Samson’s Revenge
15 Later on, during the wheat harvest,(A) Samson took a young goat as a gift and visited his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
2 “I was sure you hated her,” her father said, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Why not take her instead?”
3 Samson said to them, “This time I won’t be responsible(B) when I harm the Philistines.” 4 So he went out and caught 300 foxes.(C) He took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. 5 Then he ignited the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the piles of grain and the standing grain as well as the vineyards and olive groves.(D)
6 Then the Philistines asked, “Who did this?”
They were told, “It was Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because he has taken Samson’s wife and given her to another man.” So the Philistines went to her and her father and burned them to death.
7 Then Samson told them, “Because you did this, I swear that I won’t rest until I have taken vengeance on you.” 8 He tore them limb from limb[a] with a great slaughter, and he went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
9 The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and raided Lehi. 10 So the men of Judah said, “Why have you attacked us?”
They replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he did to us.”
11 Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule over us?(E) What have you done to us?”
“I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.[b]
12 They said to him, “We’ve come to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.”
Then Samson told them, “Swear to me that you yourselves won’t kill me.”
13 “No,” they said,[c] “we won’t kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they tied him up with two new ropes(F) and led him away from the rock.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord took control of[d] him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like burnt flax and his bonds fell off his wrists. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed 1,000 men with it. 16 Then Samson said:
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have piled them in a heap.
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have killed 1,000 men.
17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone and named that place Ramath-lehi.[e] 18 He became very thirsty and called out to the Lord: “You have accomplished this great victory through[f] Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 So God split a hollow place in the ground at Lehi, and water came out of it. After Samson drank, his strength returned, and he revived.(G) That is why he named it En-hakkore,[g] which is in Lehi to this day. 20 And he judged Israel 20 years in the days of the Philistines.
Footnotes
- Judges 15:8 Lit He struck them hip on thigh
- Judges 15:11 Lit answered them
- Judges 15:13 Lit said to him
- Judges 15:14 Lit Lord rushed on
- Judges 15:17 = High Place of the Jawbone
- Judges 15:18 Lit through the hand of
- Judges 15:19 = Spring of the One Who Cried Out
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
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