Jueces 15
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
Las zorras incendiarias
15 Después de algún tiempo, en los días de la siega del trigo, sucedió que Sansón fue a visitar a su mujer con un cabrito(A), y dijo: «Llegaré a mi mujer en su recámara». Pero el padre de ella no lo dejó entrar. 2 Y el padre[a] dijo: «Realmente pensé que la odiabas intensamente y se la di a tu compañero(B). ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa[b] que ella? Te ruego que la tomes en su lugar».
3 Entonces Sansón le[c] respondió: «Esta vez no tendré culpa en cuanto a los filisteos cuando les haga daño». 4 Y Sansón fue y capturó 300 zorras, tomó antorchas, juntó las zorras cola con cola y puso una antorcha en medio de cada dos colas. 5 Después de prender fuego a las antorchas, soltó las zorras[d] en los sembrados de los filisteos, quemando la cosecha recogida, la cosecha en pie, y además las viñas y los olivares.
6 Entonces los filisteos dijeron: «¿Quién hizo esto?». Y les respondieron: «Sansón, el yerno del Timnateo, porque este tomó a su mujer y se la dio a su compañero». Y los filisteos vinieron y la quemaron a ella y a su padre(C). 7 Y Sansón les dijo: «Ya que actúan así, ciertamente me vengaré de ustedes, y después de eso, cesaré[e]». 8 Sin piedad los hirió[f] con gran mortandad. Y descendió y habitó en la hendidura de la peña de Etam.
La quijada de asno
9 Entonces los filisteos subieron y acamparon en Judá, y se esparcieron por Lehi. 10 Y los hombres de Judá dijeron: «¿Por qué han subido contra nosotros?». Y ellos dijeron: «Hemos subido para prender a Sansón a fin de hacerle como él nos ha hecho». 11 De Judá descendieron 3,000 hombres a la hendidura de la peña de Etam, y dijeron a Sansón: «¿No sabes que los filisteos reinan sobre nosotros(D)? ¿Qué, pues, es esto que nos has hecho?». «Como ellos me hicieron, así les he hecho», contestó él.
12 Y ellos le dijeron: «Hemos descendido para prenderte y entregarte en manos de los filisteos». «Júrenme que no me matarán[g]», les dijo Sansón. 13 Ellos le respondieron[h]: «No, sino que te ataremos bien y te entregaremos en sus manos. Ciertamente no te mataremos». Entonces lo ataron con dos sogas nuevas y lo sacaron de la peña.
14 Al llegar él a Lehi, los filisteos salieron a su encuentro gritando. Y el Espíritu del Señor vino[i] sobre él(E) con poder, y las sogas que estaban en sus brazos fueron como lino quemado con fuego y las ataduras cayeron[j] de sus manos. 15 Y halló una quijada de asno fresca aún, y extendiendo su mano, la tomó y mató[k] a 1,000 hombres con ella(F).
16 Entonces Sansón dijo:
«Con la quijada de un asno,
Montones sobre montones[l],
Con la quijada de un asno
He matado[m] a 1,000 hombres».
17 Al terminar de hablar, arrojó la quijada de su mano, y llamó a aquel lugar Ramat Lehi[n].
18 Después sintió una gran sed, y clamando al Señor(G), dijo: «Tú has dado esta gran liberación por mano de Tu siervo, y ahora, ¿moriré yo[o] de sed y[p] caeré en manos de los incircuncisos?». 19 Y abrió Dios la cuenca que está en Lehi y salió agua de ella. Cuando bebió, recobró sus fuerzas[q] y se reanimó(H). Por eso llamó a aquel lugar[r] En Hacore[s], el cual está en Lehi hasta el día de hoy.
20 Sansón juzgó a Israel veinte años(I) en los días de los filisteos(J).
Footnotes
- 15:2 Lit. el padre de ella.
- 15:2 Lit. mejor.
- 15:3 Lit. les.
- 15:5 Lit. las soltó.
- 15:7 I.e. de tomar venganza.
- 15:8 Lit. Y les hirió la pierna sobre el muslo.
- 15:12 Lit. caerán sobre mí.
- 15:13 Lit. le dijeron.
- 15:14 Lit. cayó.
- 15:14 Lit. se derritieron.
- 15:15 Lit. e hirió.
- 15:16 Lit. un montón, dos montones.
- 15:16 Lit. herido.
- 15:17 I.e. Alto de la Quijada.
- 15:18 O y ahora, yo moriré.
- 15:18 U o.
- 15:19 Lit. su espíritu.
- 15:19 Lit. lo llamó.
- 15:19 I.e. Manantial del que Clamó.
Judges 15
New King James Version
Samson Defeats the Philistines
15 After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a (A)young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.
2 Her father said, “I really thought that you thoroughly (B)hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, take her instead.”
3 And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be blameless regarding the Philistines if I harm them!” 4 Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. 5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?”
And they answered, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” (C)So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
7 Samson said to them, “Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.” 8 So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of (D)Etam.
9 Now the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and deployed themselves (E)against Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
So they answered, “We have come up to [a]arrest Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines (F)rule over us? What is this you have done to us?”
And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12 But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.”
Then Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
13 So they spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will tie you securely and deliver you into their hand; but we will surely not kill you.” And they bound him with two (G)new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting against him. Then (H)the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him; and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds [b]broke loose from his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and (I)killed a thousand men with it. 16 Then Samson said:
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have slain a thousand men!”
17 And so it was, when he had finished speaking, that he threw the jawbone from his hand, and called that place [c]Ramath Lehi.
18 Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the Lord and said, (J)“You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?” 19 So God split the hollow place that is in [d]Lehi, and water came out, and he drank; and (K)his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name [e]En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day. 20 And (L)he judged Israel (M)twenty years (N)in the days of the Philistines.
Footnotes
- Judges 15:10 Lit. bind
- Judges 15:14 Lit. were melted
- Judges 15:17 Lit. Jawbone Height
- Judges 15:19 Lit. Jawbone, Judg. 15:14
- Judges 15:19 Lit. Spring of the Caller
Judges 15
English Standard Version
Samson Defeats the Philistines
15 After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with (A)a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. 2 And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, (B)so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.” 3 And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.” 4 So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. 5 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. 6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife (C)and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and (D)burned her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.” 8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the (E)cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and (F)made a raid on (G)Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.” 11 Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that (H)the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have 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 have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.” 13 They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two (I)new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. (J)Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. 15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, (K)and with it he struck 1,000 men. 16 And Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
heaps upon heaps,
with the jawbone of a donkey
have I struck down a thousand men.”
17 As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place (L)was called Ramath-lehi.[a]
18 And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, (M)“You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 And God split open the hollow place that is (N)at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, (O)his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore;[b] it is at Lehi to this day. 20 And he judged Israel (P)in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Footnotes
- Judges 15:17 Ramath-lehi means the hill of the jawbone
- Judges 15:19 En-hakkore means the spring of him who called
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