Samsoni Abwezera Afilisti
1Patapita nthawi, mu nyengo yodula tirigu, Samsoni anatenga kamwana kambuzi ndipo anapita kukacheza kwa mkazi wake. Iye anati, “Ndikufuna kukalowa ku chipinda cha mkazi wanga.” Koma abambo a mkaziyo anamuletsa kutero.
2Abambo a mkaziyo anati, “Ine ndimaganiza kuti umamuda kwambiri nʼchifukwa chake ndinamupereka kwa mnzako. Kodi mngʼono wake uja sindiye wokongola kupambana iye? Ingotengani ameneyo mʼmalo mwake.”
3Samsoni anawawuza kuti, “Pano sindikhala wochimwa ndikawachita choyipa chachikulu Afilistiwa.” 4Choncho Samsoni anapita nakagwira nkhandwe 300 nazimangirira michira ziwiriziwiri ndipo pa fundo iliyonse ya michirayo anamangirira nsakali. 5Anayatsa nsakalizo kenaka ndi kuzitayira nkhandwe zija mʼminda ya tirigu ya Afilisti, ndipo zinatentha milu ya tirigu, ndi wosadula yemwe pamodzi ndi mitengo ya mpesa ndi ya olivi.
6Tsono Afilisti anayamba kufunsana kuti, “Ndani wachita izi?” Ena anati, “Ndi Samsoni mkamwini wa munthu wa ku Timna uja chifukwa Mtimunayo anatenga mkazi wake ndi kumupereka kwa mnzake.”
Choncho Afilisti anapita kukatentha mtsikanayo pamodzi ndi abambo ake. 7Samsoni anawawuza kuti, “Ngati mumachita zangati zimenezi, ndiye ine sindileka mpaka nditakulipsirani.” 8Choncho Samsoni anamenyana nawo koopsa ndipo anapha ambiri a iwo. Kenaka anakalowa mʼphanga la Etamu, nakhala momwemo.
9Pambuyo pake Afilisti anakamanga misasa ya nkhondo mʼdziko la Yuda, ndi kuthira nkhondo mʼdera la Lehi. 10Anthu a fuko la Yuda anafunsa kuti, “Nʼchifukwa chiyani mwabwera kudzamenyana nafe?”
Iwo anayankha kuti, “Tabwera kudzamanga Samsoni ndi kuti timuchite zofanana ndi zimene anatichita.”
11Ndipo anthu 3,000 a ku Yuda anapita ku phanga la Etamu, ndi kukamufunsa Samsoni kuti, “Kodi iwe sudziwa kuti ife amatilamulira ndi Afilisti? Tsono ndi chiyani chimene watichitachi?”
Iye anayankha kuti, “Ine ndinachita zomwe iwo anandichita.”
12Iwo anati kwa iye, “Ife tabwera kuti tikumange ndi kukupereka kwa Afilisti.”
Ndipo Samsoni anati, “Lonjezani mwa lumbiro kuti simundipha ndinu.”
13Iwo anamuyankha kuti, “Ayi, ife sitikupha. Koma tingokumanga ndi kukupereka mʼmanja mwa Afilisti.” Choncho anamumanga ndi zingwe ziwiri zatsopano namutulutsa mʼphanga muja. 14Samsoni anafika ku Lehi, ndipo Afilisti anamuchingamira akufuwula. Nthawi yomweyo Mzimu wa Yehova unatsika pa iye mwamphamvu ndipo zingwe zimene anamumanga nazo zinasanduka ngati thonje lopsa mʼmoto, zinachita ngati zasungunuka nʼkuchoka mʼmanja mwake. 15Anapeza chibwano cha bulu amene anali atangofa kumene. Anachitola ndi kuphera nacho anthu 1,000.
16Ndipo Samsoni anati,
“Ndi chibwano cha bulu,
milu ndi milu ya anthu.
Ndi chibwano cha bulu,
ndapha anthu 1,000.”
17Atatsiriza kuyankhula, anataya chibwanocho, ndipo malowo anawatcha Ramati-Lehi.
18Pambuyo pake anamva ludzu kwambiri ndipo anayitana Yehova mopempha kuti, “Inu mwapatsa mtumiki wanu chipulumutso chachikulu chotere. Kodi tsopano ndife ndi ludzu ndi kugwidwa ndi anthu osachita mdulidwewa?” 19Pamenepo Mulungu anangʼamba nthaka ku Lehi, ndipo madzi anatuluka mʼdzenjemo. Samsoni anamwa madziwo, ndipo mphamvu zake zinabwerera nakhalanso monga analili. Choncho chitsimecho chinatchedwa Eni-Hakore, ndipo chilipobe ku Lehiko mpaka lero.
20Samsoni anatsogolera Israeli pa nthawi ya Afilisti kwa zaka makumi awiri.
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. 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.15.2 take…: Heb. let her be thine
3¶ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.15.3 more…: or, blameless from the Philistines though, etc 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.15.4 firebrands: or, torches 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.
6¶ Then 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.
7¶ And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. 8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9¶ Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in 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. 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.15.11 went: Heb. went down 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. 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.
14¶ And 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.15.14 loosed: Heb. were melted 15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.15.15 new: Heb. moist 16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.15.16 heaps upon…: Heb. an heap, two heaps 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 Ramath-lehi.15.17 Ramath-lehi: that is, the lifting up of the jawbone, or, casting away of the jawbone
18¶ And 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? 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 En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.15.19 En-hakkore: that is, the well of him that called or, cried15.19 the jaw: or, Lehi, as called in this chapter 20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
