Dommer 15 | Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

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Samsons hævn over filistrene

1 Senere gik Samson ned for at besøge den pige, der trods alt var hans brud. Det var under hvedehøsten, og han havde et gedekid med. „Lad mig få lov at gå ind til min kone i hendes kammer,” sagde han. Men pigens far satte sig imod det. 2 „Jeg troede ikke, du brød dig om hende,” forklarede han. „Derfor gav jeg hende til den mand, der var forlover ved brylluppet. Men hendes lillesøster er endnu smukkere. Tag dog hende til kone i stedet for.” 3 Samson var rasende. „Denne gang er det ikke min skyld, at det kommer til at gå ud over filistrene!” snerrede han. 4 Så gik han ud og fangede 300 ræve, bandt halerne sammen på dem to og to og fastgjorde en fakkel midt imellem. 5 Efter at have sat ild til faklerne, slap han rævene løs i filistrenes marker, så både det uhøstede korn, de stablede neg, vinrankerne og oliventræerne gik op i lys lue. 6 „Hvem har gjort det?” spurgte filistrene. „Samson,” lød svaret. „Det er hans hævn over, at hans svigerfar fra Timna bortgiftede hans kone til forloveren.” Så gik filistrene hen og brændte huset ned, så både pigen og hendes far indebrændte. 7 Det fik Samson til at udbryde: „Fordi I har gjort sådan en udåd, vil jeg hævne mig på jer.” 8 I blindt raseri gik han løs på dem og slog mange af dem ihjel, hvorefter han flygtede til en klippehule ved Etam. 9 Filistrene svarede igen ved at sende en stor styrke ind i Juda, hvor de spredte sig og slog lejr i omegnen af Lehi. 10 „Hvorfor angriber I os?” spurgte judæerne. Filistrene svarede: „Fordi vi vil fange Samson og tage hævn over ham!” 11 Så sendte judæerne 3000 mænd af sted til klippehulen ved Etam for at hente Samson. „Hvorfor har du bragt os i den her ulykkelige situation?” spurgte de Samson. „Er du ikke klar over, at filistrene har magten i landet?” „Jeg har kun gjort gengæld for det, de gjorde imod mig,” lød Samsons svar. 12 Judæerne fortsatte: „Vi er kommet for at tage dig til fange og udlevere dig til filistrene!” „Lad gå,” svarede Samson, „bare I lover mig, at I ikke vil slå mig ihjel.” 13 „Vi binder dig bare og overgiver dig til filistrene,” sagde de. „Vi slår dig ikke ihjel.” Så bandt de ham omkring håndled og overarme med to nye reb og førte ham bort. 14 Da de nåede frem til Lehi, blev filistrene ellevilde af begejstring, men i det samme kom Herrens Ånd over Samson og gav ham styrke, så han sprængte både rebet om overkroppen og det reb, hans håndled var bundet med. 15 Samson tog derpå en æselkæbe, der lå på jorden, og slog 1000 filistre ihjel med den. 16 Derefter udbrød han: Med en æselkæbe har jeg dræbt bunker af „æsler”. Med en æselkæbe slog jeg 1000 mand ned. 17 Så kastede han æselkæben fra sig. Derfor kaldte man stedet for „Kæbehøjen”.^[1] 18 Bagefter var Samson så udmattet af tørst, at han råbte til Herren: „I dag har du givet sejr til Israel ved min hånd! Skal jeg nu dø af tørst og falde i hænderne på de her ugudelige filistre?” 19 Da lod Herren vand strømme frem fra et hul i jorden, så Samson kunne drikke og komme til kræfter igen. Kilden kaldte man „Råbets Kilde”,^[2] og den findes den dag i dag i Lehi. 20 De næste 20 år var Samson Israels befrier, men filistrene havde stadig magten i landet.

King James Version

1 But 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. 2 And 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. 3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. 4 And 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. 5 And 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. 8 And 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. 10 And 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. 11 Then 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. 12 And 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. 13 And 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 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 17 And 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 Ramathlehi. 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? 19 But 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 Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.