Shofetim, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The children of Yisra'el again did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the
Pelishtim forty years. {13:2} There was a certain man of Tzor`ah, of
the family of the Dani, whose name was Manoach; and his wife was
barren, and didn't bear. {13:3} The angel of the LORD appeared to the
woman, and said to her, See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but
you shall conceive, and bear a son. {13:4} Now therefore please beware
and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:
{13:5} for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazir to God from the
womb: and he shall begin to save Yisra'el out of the hand of the
Pelishtim. {13:6} Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A
man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of
God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he
tell me his name: {13:7} but he said to me, Behold, you shall
conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and
eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazir to God from
the womb to the day of his death. {13:8} Then Manoach entreated the
LORD, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send
come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall
be born. {13:9} God listened to the voice of Manoach; and the angel of
God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoach, her
husband, wasn't with her. {13:10} The woman made haste, and ran, and
told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me,
who came to me the [other] day. {13:11} Manoach arose, and went after
his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man who
spoke to the woman? He said, I am. {13:12} Manoach said, Now let your
words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall
we do to him? {13:13} The angel of the LORD said to Manoach, Of all
that I said to the woman let her beware. {13:14} She may not eat of
anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong
drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her
observe. {13:15} Manoach said to the angel of the LORD, I pray you,
let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you. {13:16} The
angel of the LORD said to Manoach, Though you detain me, I won't eat
of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must
offer it to the LORD. For Manoach didn't know that he was the angel of
the LORD. {13:17} Manoach said to the angel of the LORD, What is your
name, that when your words happen, we may honor you? {13:18} The angel
of the LORD said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is
wonderful? {13:19} So Manoach took the kid with the meal-offering, and
offered it on the rock to the LORD: and [the angel] did wondrously,
and Manoach and his wife looked on. {13:20} For it happened, when the
flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of the
LORD ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoach and his wife
looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. {13:21} But the
angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoach or to his wife. Then
Manoach knew that he was the angel of the LORD. {13:22} Manoach said
to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. {13:23}
But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he
wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our
hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at
this time have told such things as these. {13:24} The woman bore a
son, and named him Shimshon: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed
him. {13:25} The Spirit of the LORD began to move him in Machane-Dan,
between Tzor`ah and Eshta'ol.
{14:1} Shimshon went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of
the daughters of the Pelishtim. {14:2} He came up, and told his father
and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the
daughters of the Pelishtim: now therefore get her for me as wife.
{14:3} Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a
woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people,
that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Pelishtim? Shimshon
said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well. {14:4}
But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of the LORD; for
he sought an occasion against the Pelishtim. Now at that time the
Pelishtim had rule over Yisra'el. {14:5} Then went Shimshon down, and
his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of
Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. {14:6} The
Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would
have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell
his father or his mother what he had done. {14:7} He went down, and
talked with the woman, and she pleased Shimshon well. {14:8} After a
while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass
of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the
lion, and honey. {14:9} He took it into his hands, and went on, eating
as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them,
and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out
of the body of the lion. {14:10} His father went down to the woman:
and Shimshon made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
{14:11} It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him. {14:12} Shimshon said to them, Let me now
put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the
seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty
linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; {14:13} but if you
can't declare it to me, then shall you give me thirty linen garments
and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your
riddle, that we may hear it. {14:14} He said to them,
Out of the eater came forth food,
Out of the strong came forth sweetness.
They couldn't in three days declare the riddle. {14:15} It happened
on the seventh day, that they said to Shimshon's wife, Entice your
husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and
your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is
it not [so]? {14:16} Shimshon's wife wept before him, and said, You do
but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the
children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold,
I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
{14:17} She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted:
and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she
pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her
people. {14:18} 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? He said to them,
If you hadn't plowed with my heifer,
You wouldn't have found out my riddle.
{14:19} The Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he went
down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil,
and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle.
His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. {14:20}
But Shimshon's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as
his friend.
{15:1} But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest,
that Shimshon visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in
to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go
in. {15:2} Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had
utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her
younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.
{15:3} Shimshon said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard
of the Pelishtim, when I do them a mischief. {15:4} Shimshon went and
caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to
tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails. {15:5}
When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing
grain of the Pelishtim, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing
grain, and also the olive groves. {15:6} Then the Pelishtim said, Who
has done this? They said, Shimshon, the son-in-law of the Timni,
because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The
Pelishtim came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. {15:7}
Shimshon said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be
avenged of you, and after that I will cease. {15:8} He struck them hip
and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the
cleft of the rock of `Etam. {15:9} Then the Pelishtim went up, and
encamped in Yehudah, and spread themselves in Lechi. {15:10} The men
of Yehudah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind
Shimshon are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us. {15:11}
Then three thousand men of Yehudah went down to the cleft of the rock
of `Etam, and said to Shimshon, "Don't you know that the Pelishtim are
rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said
to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. {15:12} They said
to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into
the hand of the Pelishtim. Shimshon said to them, Swear to me that you
will not fall on me yourselves. {15:13} They spoke to him, saying, No;
but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely
we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought
him up from the rock. {15:14} When he came to Lechi, the Pelishtim
shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on
him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt
with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. {15:15} He found
a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and
struck a thousand men therewith. {15:16} Shimshon said, With the
jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I
have struck a thousand men. {15:17} It happened, when he had made an
end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and
that place was called Ramat-Lechi. {15:18} He was very thirsty, and
called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance by
the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall
into the hand of the uncircumcised. {15:19} But God split the hollow
place that is in Lechi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk,
his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was
called En-hakkore, which is in Lechi, to this day. {15:20} He judged
Yisra'el in the days of the Pelishtim twenty years.
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