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.

¹Zgodi se pa za nekaj časa, v dneh pšenične žetve, da obišče Samson ženo svojo in ji prinese kozliča. In reče: Pojdem noter k ženi svoji v stanico. A ni mu dovolil njen oče vstopiti.

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.

²In reče oče njen: Res sem mislil, da si ji postal sovražen, in sem jo dal tovarišu tvojemu. Ni li mlajša sestra njena lepša nego ona? Ta bodi tvoja namesto one.

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

³Nato jim reče Samson: Sedaj pa ne bodem kriv proti Filistejcem, ako jim bom škodo delal.

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.

⁴In Samson odide in ulovi tristo lisic in vzame bakle in zveže po dve in dve za repe ter dene vselej baklo med dva repa

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.

⁵in jih prižge z ognjem, in jih pusti v žito Filistejcev in požge tako snopje in še rastoče žito in tudi olivnike.

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.

⁶Tedaj reko Filistejci: Kdo je to storil? In odgovore: Samson, zet Timnatejca, ker mu je vzel ženo in jo dal njegovemu tovarišu. In Filistejci pridejo ter sežgo njo in očeta njenega z ognjem.

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

⁷In Samson jim reče: Če tako delate, gotovo ne neham, dokler se ne maščujem nad vami!

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

⁸In jim razbije pleča in ledja s hudimi udarci. Potem gre dol in prebiva v skalni razpoki v Etamu.

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

⁹Tedaj pridero Filistejci gori in se ušatore na Judovem in se razprostro v Lehi.

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.

¹⁰Možje Judovi pa reko: Zakaj ste prišli gori zoper nas? Odgovore: Prišli smo zvezat Samsona, da mu storimo, kakor je storil nam.

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.

¹¹Nato gre tri tisoč mož iz Jude doli k skalni razpoki v Etamu, in reko Samsonu: Ali ne veš, da nam vladajo Filistejci? Kaj je torej to, kar si nam storil? In jim reče: Kakor so oni storili meni, tako sem storil njim.

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.

¹²Reko mu: Prišli smo doli te zvezat in izdat Filistejcem v roke. Samson jim veli: Prisezite mi, da me vi ne ubijete!

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.

¹³Odgovore mu, rekoč: Nikar, hočemo te le zvezati in te njim dati v roke; res te ne umorimo. In so ga zvezali z dvema novima vrvema in ga peljali gori od skale.

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.

¹⁴Ko pride v Leho, zavriskajo Filistejci in mu gredo naproti. A duh GOSPODOV pride z močjo nad njega, in vrvi na rokah njegovih postanejo kakor niti, ko jih ogenj osmodi, in vezila njegova padejo z rok njegovih.

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

¹⁵In najde čeljust oslovsko, še sirovo, ter iztegne roko in jo pobere in pobije ž njo tisoč mož.

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

¹⁶In Samson reče: Z oslovsko čeljustjo sem naredil eno kopo, dve kopi, z oslovsko čeljustjo sem pobil tisoč mož.

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.

¹⁷In ko je to izrekel, vrže čeljust iz roke, in tisti kraj imenuje Ramat-lehi [T. j. Grič čeljusti.].

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?

¹⁸Bil pa je silno žejen, in kliče h GOSPODU in reče: Ti si dal tako veliko rešitev po roki hlapca svojega, in sedaj da bi umrl žeje in padel neobrezancem v roke!

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.

¹⁹Tedaj razkolje Bog votlino, ki je v Lehi, in priteče voda iz nje; in ko se napije, se mu povrne duh in oživi. Zatorej so jo imenovali Studenec kličočega, ki je v Lehi do današnjega dne.In on je sodil Izraela za časa Filistejcev dvajset let.

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

²⁰In on je sodil Izraela za časa Filistejcev dvajset let.