Samusooni Awasa
114:1 Lub 38:12Awo Samusooni n’aserengeta e Timuna14:1 Timuna kyali kibuga mu Ddaani (Yos 19:43). Abafirisuuti baateranga okukibeeramu ng’Abayisirayiri tebannakiwambira ddala n’alaba omukazi mu bawala ab’Abafirisuuti. 214:2 Lub 21:21; 34:4N’addayo eka, n’ategeeza kitaawe ne nnyina ng’agamba nti, “Nalabye omukazi ku bawala ab’Abafirisuuti mu Timuna. Kale mumumpasize kaakano.”
314:3 a Lub 24:4 b Ma 7:3 c Kuv 34:16Awo kitaawe ne nnyina ne bamugamba nti, “Tewali mukazi n’omu mu baganda bo newaakubadde mu Bantu bange gw’oyinza kuwasa, olyoke ogende ofune omukazi okuva mu Bafirisuuti abatali bakomole?”
Naye Samusooni n’addamu kitaawe nti, “Mpasiza oyo kubanga ye gwe nsiimye.” 414:4 a Yos 11:20 b Bal 13:1Kitaawe ne nnyina tebaamanya ekyo nga kyava eri Mukama Katonda, kubanga Mukama yali anoonya ensonga ku Bafirisuuti. Mu biro ebyo Abafirisuuti be baafuganga Isirayiri. 5Awo Samusooni ne kitaawe ne nnyina ne bagenda e Timuna. Bwe baali basemberedde ennimiro z’emizabbibu egy’omu Timuna, empologoma ento n’ewuluguma nga bw’emulumba. 614:6 Bal 3:10; 13:25Awo Omwoyo wa Mukama Katonda n’amukkako, n’ayuzaayuza empologoma n’emikono gye ng’ayuzaayuza akabuzi akato, naye n’atabaako ky’ategeeza kitaawe newaakubadde nnyina. 7Samusooni n’aserengeta n’agenda n’anyumya n’omukazi era n’amusiima.
8Ebbanga bwe lyayitawo, n’addayo okumuwasa, naye aba ali ku lugendo, n’akyama okulaba omulambo gw’empologoma, era laba, nga mu mulambo gw’empologoma mulimu enjuki n’omubisi gw’enjuki. 9N’atoola ku mubisi n’engalo ze, n’atambula n’agenda. Bwe yasiŋŋaana kitaawe ne nnyina nabo n’abawaako ne balya, wabula n’atabagamba nti omubisi ogwo gwe balya aguggye mu mulambo gw’empologoma.
10Awo n’aserengeta ne kitaawe eri omukazi, era Samusooni n’akolerayo embaga ng’empisa y’abawasa bwe yali. 11Abafirisuuti bwe bajja okulaba Samusooni, ne bamuwa bannaabwe amakumi asatu okumuwerekerako.
1214:12 a 1Bk 10:1; Ez 17:2 b Lub 29:27 c Lub 45:22; 2Bk 5:5Awo Samusooni n’abagamba nti, “Kaakano ka mbakokkolere ekikokko. Bwe mulikivvuunula ennaku omusanvu ez’embaga nga tezinnaggwaako, ndibawa ebyambalo ebya linena amakumi asatu, n’emiteeko gy’engoye amakumi asatu. 13Naye bwe kinaabalema okuddamu, muteekwa okumpa ebyambalo ebya linena amakumi asatu, n’emiteeko gy’engoye amakumi asatu.” Ne bamugamba nti, “Kokkola ekikokko kyo tukiwulire.”
14N’abagamba nti,
“Mu muli mwavaamu ekyokulya
Mu w’amaanyi mwavaamu ekiwoomerera.”
Ennaku ssatu ne ziyitawo nga bakyalemeddwa okuvvuunula ekikokko.
1514:15 a Bal 16:5; Mub 7:26 b Bal 15:6Awo ku lunaku olwokuna ne bagamba mukazi wa Samusooni nti, “Sendasenda balo atuvvuunulire ekikokko. Bwe kitaabe bwe kityo tujja kukwokya omuliro ggwe n’ennyumba ya kitaawo. Mwatuyita kutunyaga, si bwe kiri?” 1614:16 Bal 16:15Mukazi wa Samusooni n’agenda gy’ali ng’akaaba amaziga, ng’agamba nti, “Ddala ddala onkyawa so tonjagala. Wakokkolera abasajja b’omu bantu bange ekikokko, naye n’otakivvuunula.”
N’amuddamu nti, “Laba sinnakivuunulira kitange newaakubadde mmange, noolwekyo lwaki nkikuvuunulira?” 1714:17 Es 1:5N’amukaabirira okumala ebbanga eryo lyonna ery’embaga, olwo n’alyoka akimuvuunulira, kubanga yamwetayirira nnyo. N’oluvannyuma omukazi n’annyonnyola abasajja b’omu bantu be ekikokko. 1814:18 nny 14Awo ku lunaku olw’omusanvu enjuba nga tennagwa abasajja ab’omu kibuga ne bagamba Samusooni nti,
“Kiki ekisinga omubisi gw’enjuki okuwoomerera?
Kiki ekisinga empologoma amaanyi?”
N’abaddamu nti,
“Singa temwalimya nnyana yange,
temwandivuunudde kikokko kyange.”
1914:19 a Kbl 11:25; Bal 3:10; 6:34; 11:29; 13:25; 15:14; 1Sa 11:6; 16:13; 1Bk 18:46; 2By 24:20; Is 11:2 b 1Sa 11:6Awo Omwoyo wa Mukama Katonda n’amukkako, n’aserengeta e Asukulooni14:19 Asukulooni kyali kibuga ky’Abafirisuuti. n’atta abasajja amakumi asatu, n’abambulamu ebyambalo byabwe, engoye zaabwe n’aziwa abavvuunula ekikokko. N’anyiiga nnyo, n’ayambuka n’addayo ewa kitaawe. 2014:20 Bal 15:2, 6; Yk 3:29Mukazi wa Samusooni ne bamuwa mukwano gwe, eyabeeranga ne Samusooni.
Samson’s marriage
1Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. 2When he returned, he said to his father and mother, ‘I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.’
3His father and mother replied, ‘Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?’
But Samson said to his father, ‘Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.’ 4(His parents did not know that this was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)
5Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring towards him. 6The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. 7Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.
8Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. 9He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
10Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. 11When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.
12‘Let me tell you a riddle,’ Samson said to them. ‘If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. 13If you can’t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.’
‘Tell us your riddle,’ they said. ‘Let’s hear it.’
14He replied,
‘Out of the eater, something to eat;
out of the strong, something sweet.’
For three days they could not give the answer.
15On the fourth14:15 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, ‘Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?’
16Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, ‘You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.’
‘I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,’ he replied, ‘so why should I explain it to you?’ 17She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
18Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,
‘What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?’
Samson said to them,
‘If you had not ploughed with my heifer,
you would not have solved my riddle.’
19Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father’s home. 20And Samson’s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.
