¹And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. 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 didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine 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 to them, This time I am blameless toward the Philistines, though I do them harm.

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

⁴And Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the 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 he set the torches on fire, and let [them] run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.

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.

⁶And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned 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 to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then 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 cleft of the cliff Etam.

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

⁹And the Philistines went up, and encamped 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 said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has 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 down to the cleft of the cliff Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? And what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to 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 to him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may give thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall on 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 spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we certainly shall not put thee to death. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the cliff.

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.

¹⁴When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became as threads of flax that are burned 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 fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.

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, a heap, two heaps, With the jawbone 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 ended speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.

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

¹⁸And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given by the hand of thy servant this great deliverance, 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.

¹⁹And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to 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.