Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 268

15-5 THE BOOK OF THE PERIOD OF THE ]UDGES. 16— tied their tails together, and fixed atorch between the two tails, then fired the torches and sent them amongst the comiields of the Philis- tines, and burnt the shocks and stand- ing corn, and the 0live—yards. When Who has Samson, the son~in—1a.w of the Thimnite, be- cause he took his wife and gave her The Philistines therefore went up and burnt her and her father with fire. But Samson Because you have done this, I will be revenged upon So he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. Then he went and occupied a cavern in the precipice of Aitan. .c. 1140.) Wiz §l3ili¤ti:tz¤ in Q2- IO II K2 hzngz plunhzr §uhzst, mth hzmnuh Summit, but be slauglytzrs zi Elyuuzauh uf them init}; the 3nlu of sm §zs. The Philistines afterwards went up

and encamped in judah, and ad- vanced to Balkhi. When the men Why have you they replied ‘ You must hand over to us Samson for us to do what we intend to him. Three thousand men therefore went from judah to the cavern in the precipice of Aitan, and said to Sam- Do you not know that the Philistines govern us? Then why When As they did to me, I have done to them E We have

come to bind you, and give you to the hands of the Philistines} Samson only said to them, Swear to me that you will not assaii me yourselves! We

will only bind you and deliver you to their hands; and we will not kill Then they bound him with two new ropes and hoisted him down from the cliff. But when they came to Lekhi, and the Philistines shouted at his approach, an enthusiasm fell upon him and he smashed the manacles that were upon his arms like burnt flax, and snapped the cords off his hands, and finding the fresh jaw-bone of an ass, he put out his hand and seized it, and killed a thou- sand men with it! Then Samson 16 exclaimed; ‘ With the jaw-bone of an ass, I have made them asses! With the jaw-bone of an ass, I've slain a thousand men! And as he ceased speaking he threw ry the jaw-bone from his hand, and 1 ]aw—hill. Samsmfs ®xl;austi¤:: after the 3igl3t. `§i¤ §ragzr. Then he was terribly exhausted,

and cried to the EVER-LIVING, and You have given this great victory to the hand of Your servant, and now I shall die for thirst, or fall by the hand of the uncircumcisecl. Then GOD opened the well at

Balkhi, and water came from it, and he drank and his spirit returned to him, and he survived; therefore he which is in Balkhiz to this day. He after- wards judged in Israel during the Philistine period, twenty years. 18 iQ' 20

(ac. 1139.) Samauxt rauglyt bg a `§nrl¤t at ®agn, but escapes. Samson once went to Gaza, and 16 saw a woman, a harlot, and went to Samson 2 So they surrounded and laid an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city, and waited all the At dawn of day we will kill him! But Samson lay down till midnight. 3 Then he arose at midnight and pulled up the doors ofthe city gate with the two posts, and the cross bar, and placed them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is opposite Hebron. (B.c. 1138.) §ams¤xt eutzmgleb bg the §nrl¤i, @e1i1al; ef §l3¤reli. And after this he loved a woman in

the vale of Shorek, and her name was Delilah; so the lords of the Philis- Pump him, and find out in what his great strength consists, and in what way we can master and chain him to destroy him, and we will each give you one thousand one hundred i Ramatlrlekhi, in Hebrew.—F. F. -—F. F 268