1 و َبَعْدَ فَتْرَةٍ، ذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ فِي أيّامِ الحَصادِ لِزِيارَةِ زَوجَتِهِ، وَأخَذَ مَعَهُ جِدْياً. وَقالَ: «أُرِيدُ أنْ أدخُلَ إلَى غُرفَةِ زَوجَتِي.» لَكِنَّ وَالِدَها لَمْ يَسْمَحْ لَهُ بِالدُّخُولِ.

After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.

2 و َقالَ لَهُ: «حَسِبْتُكَ قَدْ تَخَلَّيتَ عَنْها، فَزَوَّجْتُها لِرَفِيقِكَ. ألَيسَتْ أُختُها الأصْغَرُ أجمَلَ مِنْها؟ فَتَزَوَّجْها.»

Her father said, “I really thought that you thoroughly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, take her instead.”

3 ف َقالَ لَهُ شَمْشُونُ: «لا لَوْمَ عَلَيَّ الآنَ إنْ آذَيتُ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ.»

And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be blameless regarding the Philistines if I harm them!”

4 ف َذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ وَأمسَكَ بِثَلاثِ مِئَةِ ثَعلَبٍ. وَأخَذَ مَشاعِلَ وَرَبَطَ الثَّعالِبَ ذَنَباً بِذَنَبٍ، وَوَضَعَ مِشْعَلاً بَينَ كُلِّ ذَنَبَينِ مَربُوطَينِ.

Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

5 ث ُمَّ أشعَلَ النّارَ فِي المَشاعِلِ، وَأطلَقَ الثَّعالِبَ بَينَ زُرُوعِ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ، فَأحرَقَ كُلَّ شَيءٍ: الحُبُوبَ المَخزُونَةَ، وَالحُبُوبَ المَزرُوعَةَ، وَالكُرُومَ وَبَيّاراتِ الزَّيتُونِ.

When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

6 ف َقالَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ: «مَنْ فَعَلَ هَذا؟» فَقيلَ: «شَمْشُونُ، صِهْرُ التِّمْنِيِّ هُوَ الَّذِي فَعَلَ هَذا. لِأنَّ التِّمْنِيَّ أخَذَ زَوْجَةَ شَمْشُونَ وَأعطاها لِرَفِيقِهِ.» فَصَعِدَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ وَأحرَقُوها هَيَ وَأباها بِالنّارِ.

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

7 ف َقالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «قَدْ فَعلْتُمْ هَذا العَمَلَ الرَّدِيءَ بِي، وَلِذا فَإنِّي أُقْسِمُ إنَّنِي سَأنتَقِمُ مِنْكُمْ، وَبَعْدَ ذَلِكَ سَأسْتَريحُ.»

Samson said to them, “Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

8 ف َهاجَمَهُمْ بِشَراسَةٍ وَقَتَلَ كَثِيرِينَ مِنْهُمْ. ثُمَّ نَزَلَ وَسَكَنَ فِي كَهْفٍ فِي صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ.

So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

9 ف َصَعِدَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ وَخَيَّمُوا فِي يَهُوذا، وَانْتَشَرُوا فِي لَحْيَ.

Now the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and deployed themselves against Lehi.

10 ف َقالَ رِجالُ يَهُوذا لَهُمْ: «لِماذا جَئْتُمْ لِمُقاتَلَتِنا؟» فَقالَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ: «جِئْنا لِكَي نُقَيِّدَ شَمْشُونَ لِكَي نَفْعَلَ بِهِ كَما فَعَلَ بِنا.»

And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” So they answered, “We have come up to arrest Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”

11 ف َنَزَلَ ثَلاثَةُ آلافِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ يَهُوذا إلَى صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ، وَقالُوا لِشَمْشُونَ: «ألا تَعرِفُ أنَّ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ يَحكُمُونَنا؟ فَما هَذا الَّذِي فَعَلْتَهُ بِنا؟» فَقالَ لَهُمْ: «كَما فَعَلُوا بِي فَعَلْتُ بِهِمْ.»

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

12 ف َقالُوا لَهُ: «لَقَدْ نَزَلْنا لِكَي نُقَيِّدَكَ وَنُسَلِّمَكَ إلَى الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ.» فَقالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «احلِفُوا لِي أنَّكُمْ لَنْ تُصيبوني بِأذَى.»

But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Then Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”

13 ف َقالُوا لَهُ: «لَنْ نُصيبَكَ بِأذَى، وَإنَّما سَنُقَيِّدُكَ وَنُسَلِّمُكَ إلَيْهِمْ، لَنْ نَقتُلَكَ.» فَقَيَّدُوهُ بِحَبلَينِ جَدِيدَينِ، وَأصعَدُوهُ مِنْ صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ.

So they spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will tie you securely and deliver you into their hand; but we will surely not kill you.” And they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

14 و َجاءُوا إلَى لَحْيٍ. فَجاءَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ لِلِقائِهِ وَهُمْ يَهْتِفُونَ فَرَحاً. فَحَلَّ رُوحُ اللهِ عَلَى شَمْشُونَ بِقُوَّةٍ، فَصارَتِ الحِبالُ الَّتِي عَلَى ذِراعَيهِ كَخُيُوطِ الكِتّانِ المُحتَرِقِ، فَتَفَسَّخَتِ القُيُودُ عَلَى يَدَيهِ.

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting against him. Then the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him; and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds broke loose from his hands.

15 ث ُمَّ وَجَدَ فَكَّ حِمارٍ طَرِيّاً، فَمَدَّ يَدَهُ وَأخَذَهُ، وَقَتَلَ بِهِ ألفَ رَجُلٍ.

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

16 ث ُمَّ قالَ شَمْشُونُ: «بِفَكِّ حِمارٍ، صَنَعْتُ كَوْمَةَ رِجالٍ، بَلْ كَوْمَتَينِ. بِفَكِّ حِمارٍ قَتَلْتُ ألفَ رَجُلٍ.»

Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men!”

17 و َلَمّا أنهَى كَلامَهُ، رَمَى بِالفَكِّ بَعِيداً. وَسُمِّيَ ذَلِكَ المَكانُ رَمَتَ لَحْيٍ.

And so it was, when he had finished speaking, that he threw the jawbone from his hand, and called that place Ramath Lehi.

18 و َعَطِشَ شَمْشُونُ، فَصَرَخَ إلَى اللهِ: «أنتَ نَصَرْتَ عَبْدَكَ هَذا الانتِصارَ العَظيمَ، فَهَلْ أمُوتُ الآنَ مِنَ العَطَشِ؟ وَأقَعُ فِي أيدِي الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ اللّامَختُونِينَ؟»

Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the Lord 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 hand of the uncircumcised?”

19 ف َشَقَّ اللهُ المُنْخَفَضَ الّذي فِي لَحْيٍ، فَخَرَجَ ماءٌ مِنَ الأرْضِ. فَشَرِبَ شَمْشُونُ، وَعادَتْ إلَيهِ قُوَّتُهُ وَانتَعَشَ. فَسُمِّيَ النَّبْعُ عَينَ هَقُّورِي. وَهِيَ فِي لَحْيٍ إلَى يَومِنا هَذا.

So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out, and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

20 ف َقَضَى شَمْشُونُ لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ فِي أيّامِ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً.

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