¹But 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.

¹A stalo sa po nejakom čase, vo dňoch pšeničnej žatvy, že Samson navštívil svoju ženu s kozľaťom a riekol: Vojdem ku svojej žene do komory. Ale mu nedal jej otec, aby vošiel.

²And 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.

²A jej otec povedal: Ja som naozaj myslel, že ju doista nenávidíš, preto som ju dal tvojmu priateľovi. Ale veď či nie je jej mladšia sestra peknejšia ako ona? Nechže ti je tá miesto nej.

³And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

³Vtedy im povedal Samson? Tento raz budem bez viny u Filištínov, keď im vykonám zlé.

⁴And 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.

⁴A tak odišiel Samson a nachytal tristo líšek, vzal fakle a obrátiac chvost ku chvostu vložil po jednej fakli medzi dva chvosty do prostredku.

⁵And 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.

⁵Potom zapálil fakle a pustil líšky do stojaceho zbožia Filištínov a tak zapálil všetko, od snopa až po to, čo ešte stálo na koreni, a tak až po vinice a olivy.

⁶Then 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.

⁶Vtedy vraveli Filištíni: Kto to urobil? A ktorísi povedali: Samson, zať Timňanského, pretože vzal jeho ženu a dal ju jeho priateľovi. Vtedy vyšli Filištíni hore a spálili ju i jej otca ohňom.

⁷And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

⁷A Samson im povedal. Ak vy robíte tak, istotne sa pomstím na vás a potom prestanem.

⁸And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

⁸A zbil ich, lýtko i s bedrom, veľkou porážkou. A potom odišiel dolu a býval v rozpukline skaly Étam.

⁹Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

⁹Vtedy vyšli Filištíni hore a položili sa táborom v Júdovi a rozprestreli sa v Lechi.

¹⁰And 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.

¹⁰A mužovia Júdovi im povedali: Prečo ste vyšli hore proti nám? A povedali: Poviazať Samsona sme vyšli, aby sme mu urobili tak, ako on nám urobil.

¹¹Then 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.

¹¹Vtedy sišlo dolu tri tisíce mužov z Júdu a prišli k rozpukline skaly Étam a povedali Samsonovi: Či ty nevieš, že nad nami panujú Filištíni, a čo si nám to tedy vykonal? A on im riekol: Ako oni mne vykonali, tak som i ja im vykonal.

¹²And 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.

¹²A riekli mu: Sišli sme ťa poviazať, aby sme ťa vydali do ruky Filištínov. Na to im povedal Samson: Prisahajte mi, že sa vy sami neoboríte na mňa!

¹³And 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.

¹³A oni mu odpovedali a riekli: Nie, len ťa dobre poviažeme a vydáme ťa do ich ruky, ale zabiť nezabijeme ťa. A tak ho poviazali dvoma novými povrazmi a odviedli ho zo skaly hore k Filištínom.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁴A keď prišiel až do Lechi, Filištíni kričali od radosti oproti nemu. Ale prišiel na neho Duch Hospodinov, a povrazy, ktoré boly na jeho ramenách, staly sa jako ľanové niti, ktoré zhoria na ohni, a jeho putá sa rozplynuly s jeho rúk.

¹⁵And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

¹⁵A našiel osliu čelusť, ešte čerstvú, a vystrúc svoju ruku pochytil ju a pobil ňou tisíc mužov.

¹⁶And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

¹⁶Vtedy povedal Samson: Čelusťou osla hromadu, dve hromady, čelusťou osla som pobil tisíc mužov.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁷A stalo sa, keď dohovoril, že odhodil čelusť zo svojej ruky a nazval to miesto Rámat-lechi.

¹⁸And 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?

¹⁸A súc veľmi smädný volal k Hospodinovi a riekol: Ty si dal rukou svojho služobníka toto veľké spasenie, a hľa, teraz zomriem smädom a padnem do ruky tých neobrezancov.

¹⁹But 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.

¹⁹Vtedy rozpoltil Bôh priehlbinu, ktorá je v Lechi, a vyšly z nej vody, a napil sa, a navrátil sa jeho duch, a ožil. Preto nazvali jej meno Én-hakkóre, ktorý je v Lechi, a tak sa volá až do tohoto dňa.

²⁰And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

²⁰A súdil Izraela za času Filištínov dvadsať rokov.