1 A conteció después de algún tiempo, en los días de la siega del trigo, que Sansón visitó a su mujer con un cabrito. Al llegar dijo: —Entraré para ver a mi mujer en la alcoba. Pero el padre de ella no lo dejó entrar,

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 s ino que le dijo: —Pensé que la aborrecías, y la di a tu compañero. Pero su hermana menor, ¿no es más hermosa que ella? Tómala, pues, en lugar de la mayor.

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 E ntonces le dijo Sansón: —Sin culpa seré esta vez respecto de los filisteos, si les hago mal.

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

4 F ue Sansón y cazó trescientas zorras, tomó antorchas, juntó cola con cola y puso una antorcha entre cada dos colas.

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 D espués, encendiendo las antorchas, soltó las zorras en los sembrados de los filisteos y quemó las mieses amontonadas y en pie, y las viñas y olivares.

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 L os filisteos preguntaron: —¿Quién hizo esto? Les contestaron: —Sansón, el yerno del timnateo, porque le quitó su mujer y la dio a su compañero. Vinieron luego los filisteos y los quemaron a ella y a su padre.

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 E ntonces Sansón les dijo: —Ya que esto habéis hecho, juro que no descansaré hasta que me haya vengado de vosotros.

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 Y los hirió de tal manera que hizo estragos entre ellos. Después se fue a vivir a la cueva de la peña de Etam. Sansón derrota a los filisteos en Lehi

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 L os filisteos subieron, acamparon en Judá y se extendieron por Lehi.

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

10 L os de Judá les preguntaron: —¿Por qué habéis subido contra nosotros? Ellos respondieron: —A apresar a Sansón hemos subido, para hacerle como él nos ha hecho.

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 A l oír esto, vinieron tres mil hombres de Judá a la cueva de la peña de Etam y dijeron a Sansón: —¿No sabes que los filisteos dominan sobre nosotros? ¿Por qué nos has hecho esto? Él les respondió: —Yo les he hecho como ellos me hicieron.

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 E ntonces los de Judá le dijeron: —Nosotros hemos venido a prenderte y entregarte en manos de los filisteos. Sansón les respondió: —Juradme que vosotros no me mataréis.

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 E llos le respondieron: —No; solamente te prenderemos y te entregaremos en sus manos, pero no te mataremos. Lo ataron luego con dos cuerdas nuevas y lo hicieron salir de la peña.

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 C uando llegaron a Lehi, los filisteos salieron gritando a su encuentro; pero el espíritu de Jehová vino sobre él y las cuerdas que estaban en sus brazos se volvieron como lino quemado con fuego y las ataduras se cayeron de sus manos.

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 A l ver una quijada de asno, fresca aún, extendió la mano, la tomó y mató con ella a mil hombres.

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

16 E ntonces Sansón dijo: «Con la quijada de un asno, un montón, dos montones; con la quijada de un asno maté a mil hombres.»

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 A l terminar de decir esto, arrojó la quijada y llamó a aquel lugar Ramat-lehi.

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

18 C omo tenía mucha sed, clamó a Jehová: «Tú has dado esta grande salvación por mano de tu siervo, ¿cómo dejarás que muera yo ahora de sed y caiga en manos de estos incircuncisos?»

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 E ntonces abrió Dios la cuenca que hay en Lehi, y salió de allí agua. Sansón bebió, recobró su espíritu y se reanimó. Por esto llamó a aquel lugar (que está en Lehi hasta el día de hoy) En-hacore.

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 Y juzgó Sansón a Israel veinte años, en los días en que dominaban los filisteos.

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