Kniha Sudcov

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Sdc 15, 1-20

1 Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying: 2 “I thought that you would hate her, and therefore I gave her to your friend. But she has a sister, who is younger and more beautiful than she is. And she may be a wife for you, instead of her.” 3 And Samson answered him: “From this day, there shall be no guilt for me against the Philistines. For I will do harm to you all.” 4 And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails. 5 And setting these on fire, he released them, so that they might rush from place to place. And immediately they went into the grain fields of the Philistines, setting these on fire, both the grain that was already bound for carrying, and what was still standing on the stalk. These were completely burned up, so much so that the flame also consumed even the vineyards and the olive groves. 6 And the Philistines said, “Who has done this thing?” And it was said: “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another. He has done these things.” And the Philistines went up and burned the woman as well as her father. 7 And Samson said to them, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.” 8 And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam. 9 And so the Philistines, ascending into the land of Judah, made camp at the place which was later called Lehi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army spread out. 10 And some from the tribe of Judah said to them, “Why have you ascended against us?” And they responded, “We have come to bind Samson, and to repay him for what he has done to us.” 11 Then three thousand men of Judah descended to the cave of the rock at Etam. And they said to Samson: “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why 140 would you want to do this?” And he said to them, “As they have done to me, so I have done to them.” 12 And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, and to deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear and promise to me that you will not kill me.” 13 They said: “We will not kill you. But we will deliver you tied.” And they bound him with two new cords. And they took him from the rock at Etam. 14 And when he had arrived at the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines, shouting aloud, had met him, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. And just as flax is usually consumed by a hint of fire, so were the ties with which he was bound broken and released. 15 And finding a jawbone which was laying there, that is, the jawbone of a donkey, snatching it up, he put to death a thousand men with it. 16 And he said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, with the jaw of the colt of a donkey, I have destroyed them, and I have struck down a thousand men.” 17 And when he had completed these words, singing, he threw the jawbone from his hand. And called the name of that place Ramath-Lehi, which is translated as ‘the elevation of the jawbone.’ 18 And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.” 19 And so the Lord opened a large tooth in the jawbone of the donkey, and water went out from it. And having drank it, his spirit was revived, and he recovered his strength. For this reason, the name of that place was called ‘the Spring called forth from the jawbone,’ even to the present day. 20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.

Verš 18

And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.”

1Sam 17:26 - And David spoke to the men who were standing with him, saying: “What will be given to the man who will have struck down this Philistine, and who will have taken away the disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should reproach the soldiers of the living God?”

1Sam 17:36 - For I, your servant, have killed both lion and bear. And so this uncircumcised Philistine, too, will be like one of them. Now I will go and take away the reproach of the people. For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who has dared to curse the army of the living God?”

2Sam 1:20 - Do not choose to announce it in Gath, and do not announce it in the crossroads of Ashkelon. Otherwise, the daughters of the Philistines may rejoice; otherwise, the daughters of the uncircumcised may exult.

Sdc 15,7 - Každá pomsta dráždi nepriateľa ešte k väčším odvetám. "A bil ich lýtko i stehno" – asi hebrejské porekadlo – znamená ako naše: "hlava nehlava". Bití Filištínci tak šialene utekali, že sa im "opierali lýtka o stehná" (Vg.) Etam (skalná rokľa) bola juhovýchodne od Saray, na severnom svahu Vadi Ismá’im.

Sdc 15,9-11 - Tento výboj urobili Filištínci z pomsty. – Lechi ("Čeľusť") bola skala, ktorá mala podobu zvieracej čeľuste, neďaleko dnešného Chirbet es-Sijjág, na južnej strane Vadi Ismá’im. – Keď aj nebol Samson Júdovcom, ale Danovcom, predsa sa ho mali ujať proti Filištíncom. Vidieť, že vlastenecké cítenie Izraelitov veľmi pokleslo v sudcovskej dobe. Už si boli navykli na nadvládu pohanských otrokárov.

Sdc 15,16 - V hebr. má Samsonov výrok slovnú hračku: "Bilchi hachamór chamórátájim".

Sdc 15,19 - "Prameň vzývajúceho" (hebr. 'En haqqóré); meno sa zachovalo v dnešnom prameni "'Ajún Kara", severozápadne od Sar’y. – "Za čias Filištíncov" – asi v prvej polovici filištínskej 40-ročnej nadvlády.