Juízes 15— comparação

1Mas depois de algum tempo, na época da colheita do trigo, Sansão foi visitar a sua mulher, levando um cabrito. Ele disse: “Entrarei no quarto da minha mulher.”

2O pai dela disse: “Certamente pensei que você a odiasse completamente; por isso a dei ao seu companheiro. Por acaso a irmã mais nova não é mais bonita do que ela? Por favor, tome-a em seu lugar.”

3Sansão lhes disse: “Desta vez estarei sem culpa para com os filisteus quando lhes fizer mal.”

4Sansão foi, capturou trezentas raposas, pegou tochas, amarrou as raposas cauda com cauda, e colocou uma tocha no meio, entre cada duas caudas.

5Depois de acender as tochas, ele soltou as raposas na seara dos filisteus, e incendiou tanto os feixes quanto o grão em pé, e também os olivais.

6Então os filisteus perguntaram: “Quem fez isso?”

7Sansão lhes disse: “Se vocês agem desta maneira, certamente me vingarei de vocês e, depois disso, pararei.”

8Ele os feriu severamente, perna e coxa, com grande matança; e desceu e passou a viver na caverna da rocha de Etã.

9Então os filisteus subiram, acamparam em Judá e se espalharam por Leí.

10Os homens de Judá perguntaram: “Por que vocês subiram contra nós?”

11Então três mil homens de Judá desceram até a caverna da rocha de Etã, e disseram a Sansão: “Você não sabe que os filisteus dominam sobre nós? O que foi isso que você nos fez?”

12Eles lhe disseram: “Descemos para amarrar você, para podermos entregá-lo nas mãos dos filisteus.”

13Eles lhe disseram: “Não, mas nós o amarraremos firmemente e o entregaremos nas mãos deles; mas certamente não o mataremos.” Eles o amarraram com duas cordas novas, e o trouxeram para cima, da rocha.

14Quando ele chegou a Leí, os filisteus vieram gritando ao encontro dele. Então o Espírito do SENHOR veio poderosamente sobre ele, e as cordas que estavam em seus braços tornaram-se como fios de linho queimados pelo fogo; e as suas amarras caíram das suas mãos.

15Ele encontrou uma queixada fresca de jumento, estendeu a mão, pegou-a e com ela feriu mil homens.

16Sansão disse: “Com a queixada de um jumento, montões sobre montões; com a queixada de um jumento feri mil homens.”

17Quando ele acabou de falar, jogou a queixada de sua mão; e aquele lugar foi chamado Ramate-Leí.

18Ele estava com muita sede, clamou ao SENHOR e disse: “Tu concedeste este grande livramento pelas mãos do teu servo; e agora, morrerei eu de sede e cairei nas mãos dos incircuncisos?”

19Mas Deus fendeu a cavidade que está em Leí, e dela saiu água. Quando ele bebeu, o seu espírito se renovou, e ele reviveu. Por isso a fonte foi chamada En-Hacoré, a qual está em Leí até o dia de hoje.

20Ele julgou a Israel por vinte anos, nos dias dos filisteus.

1But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.

2Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”

3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”

4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.

5When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

6Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

7Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

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

10The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”

11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

12They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”

13They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.

15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

16Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”

17When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.

18He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

19But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

20He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.