Before 1161. ites who had escaped, said, Let me go CHRIST, . over; that the men of Gilead said to him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, No; 6 Then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the 2 Heb. passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. 7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. sons' sons. 1 Heb. added to commit, &c. c. 2. 11. & & 6. 1. & 10. 6. 3. 7. & 4. 1. 8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. 9 And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons: and he judged Israel seven years. 10 Then died Ïbzan, and was buried Num. 6. at Beth-lehem. 11 ¶ And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years. 2. 3. Num. 6. 5. any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from his birth to the day of his death. 8 ¶ Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my LORD, let the man of God, whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child that shall be born. 9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man hath appeared to me, that came to me the other day. 11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Art thou the man that didst speak to the woman? And he said, I am. 12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. 2 How shall we order the child, and 3 4 how shall we do to him? 13 And the angel of the LORD said to 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and 1 Sam. 1. 11. Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman, was buried in Ajalon in the country of Zebulun. Heb. what shall be his work? let her beware. 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe. 15 And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid 5 for thee. 16 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though thou shouldst detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD. 17 And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass, we may do thee honor? 18 And the angel of the LORD said to him, why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is 6 secret? 19 So Manoah took a kid, with a meatoffering, and offered it upon a rock to the LORD; and the angel did wonderously, and Manoah and his wife looked on. 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine, nor strong drink, before thee. ascended towards heaven from off the and eat not any unclean thing: 5 For lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from his birth: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines. 3 Heb. 20 For it came to pass, when the flame altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. 21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said to his wife, & We shall surely die, because we have seen God. 23 But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor the daughters of the Philistines. 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me for a wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all Before CHRIST, 1441. 1 Heb. she my eyes. 2 Heb. thirty change of garments. And they said to him, propose thy riddle, that we. may hear it." 14 And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us 4 to take what we possess? is it not so? 16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast proposed a riddle to the children of my people, and hast not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell it to thee? 17 And she wept before him s the seven days, while their feast lasted : and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she urged him: and my people, that thou goest to take a wife 3 or, shirts. she told the riddle to the children of her of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for 1 she pleaseth me well. 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared 2 against him. Heb. to possess us? or, to im poverish us? 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. 7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson 5 or, the well. 8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion. 9 And he took of it in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they ate: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion. 10 So his father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. 11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him. rest of the seven days, &c. 6 or, apparel. 1 Heb. let her be 2 or, Now people. 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. 19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their 6 spoil, and gave change of garments to them who expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. 20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend. CHAP. XV. 1 Samson is denied his wife: 3 He burneth the Philistines corn with foxes and firebrands: 6 His wife and her father are burned by the Philistines. 7 Samson smiteth them hip and thigh: 9 He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines: 14 He killeth them with a jaw-bone. 18 God maketh the fountain En-hakkore før him in Lehi. BUT it came to pass after a while, 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? 1 take her, I pray thee, instead of her. tines, 12 And Samson said to them, I will now propose a riddle to you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I 3 or, torches. will give you thirty 3 sheets and thirty change of garments: 13 But if ye cannot declare it to me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took 3 fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on CHAP. XVI. 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. Before CHRIST, 1120. down. 6 ¶ Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, Heb. went 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 to 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. 5 Heb. were 6 Heb. moist. her. 7 Heb. an heups. 2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they encompassed him, and laid wait for him all 9 Then the Philistines went up, and heap, two night in the gate of the city, and were encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, Why That is, have ye come up against us? And they the lifting answered, We have come to bind Sam- up of the son, to do to him as he hath done to us. jaw bone, 11 Then three thousand men of Ju- or, casting away of the dah 4 went to the top of the rock Etam, of the jaw. and said to Samson, Knowest thou not bone. that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? 9 or, Lehi. And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. 12 And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. 10 That is, him that cried. 1 Heb. 13 And they spoke to 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 an harlot. him up from the rock. a woman 2 Heb. 14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the silent. 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 5 loosed from off his hands. 2 quiet all the night, saying, In the morning when it is day we shall kill him. 3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, 3 bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that is before Hebron. 4 ¶ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman 4 in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in what his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to 5 afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lieth, and with what thou mayest be bound to afflict thee. 7 And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven 6 7 green withs, that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as 8 another man. 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought to her seven green withs, which 3 Heb. with had not been dried, and she bound him with them. the bar. brook. 15 And he found a fresh jaw-bone of 4 or, by the an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it. 16 And Samson said, With the jaw-or, humble. bone of an ass, 7 heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand 6 or, new men. 17 And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place 8 Ramath-lehi. 18 And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19 But God cleaved a hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drank, his spirit came again, and he revived. Wherefore he called the name of it cords. 7 Heb. 9 (Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber.) And she said to him, The Philistines are upon as a thread of tow is broken when it 9 toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. thee, Samson. And he broke the withs 10 And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, with what thou mayest be bound. 11 And he said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes 10 that never were 8 Heb. one. used, then shall I be weak, and be as an 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called 15 Heb. be tines were there: and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. 28 And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord Gon, remember me, pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. 29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and 16 on which it was supported, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. 30 And Samson said, Let 17 me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. 31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. for the lords of the Philistines, saying, fore them. And he judged Israel twenty years. Come up this once, for he hath disclosed to me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought money in their hand. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said, the Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him. 21 But the Philistines took him and 12 put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prisonhouse. 22 However the hair of his head began to grow again 13 after he was shaved. 23 Then the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. 24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our 16 or, he leaned on them. 17 Heb. soul. my a c. 8. 27. CHAP. XVII. 1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then re- AND there was a man of mount 2 And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst curse, and speak of also in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son. 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to thee. 4 Yet he restored the money to his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it a graven Gen. 31. 19. image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. Hos. 3. 4. a 5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and i consecrated one of his sons, enemy, and the destroyer of our country; Heb. filled who became his priest. 14 who slew many of us. 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson that he may make us sport. the hand. 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 7 And there was a young man out And they called for Samson out of the c. 18. 1. & of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of prison-house; and he made 15 them sport: and they set him between the pillars. 21. 25. 26 And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars upon which the 2 Heb. house standeth, that I may lean upon them. 27 Now the house was full of men and women and all the lords of the Philis his way. in making Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 8 And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, 2 as he journeyed. 9 And Micah said to him, Whence comest thou? And he said to him, I am Before a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go CHRIST, to sojourn where I may find a place. 10 And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and 34 a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in. 11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. 12 And Micah consecrated the Letite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. 13 Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest. CHAP. XVIII. 4 1406. 3 or, Heb. an order of garments. 10 When ye go, ye shall come to a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is on the earth. 11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men 3 appointed with weapons of war. 12 And they went up, and encamped in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim. 13 And they passed thence to mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Mi cah. 14 Then answered the five men 1 The Danites send five men to seek out an in- & those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought for themselves an in-2 heritance to dwell in; for to that day all their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their borders, 1 men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to explore the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. Heb. pos heir of re- 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in 3 Heb. thither, and said to him, Who brought girded. thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? 4 And he said to them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. 5 And they said to him, Ask counsel," we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. 6 And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way in which ye go. 4 Heb. 7¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were in it, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no 2 magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the 5 Heb. that Zidonians, and had no business with any thou art assembled? 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and 4 saluted him. 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. 17 And the five men that went to explore the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. 18 And these went into Micah's house, and brought the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest to them, What do ye? 19 And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: Is it better for thee to be a priest to the house of one man, or that thou shouldst be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel? 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, and the cattle, and the furniture before them. 22 ¶ And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were collected, and overtook the children of Dan. 23 And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, 5 that thou comest with such a company? 24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye have gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say to me, What aileth thee? |