获16:1 啊荤
己巩阑 颗败 初绰 伙颊
获 16:1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He
went in to spend the night with her.
获 16:2 The people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here!" So they surrounded
the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made
no move during the night, saying, "At dawn we'll kill him."
获 16:3 But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then
he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the
two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders
and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
获16:4 甸副扼狼 蜡趣苞 伙颊
获 16:4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley
of Sorek whose name was Delilah.
获 16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if
you can lure him into showing you the secret o f his great strength and
how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one
of us will give you elev en hundred shekels of silver."
获 16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great
strength and how you can be tied up and subdu ed."
获 16:7 Samson answered her, "If anyone ties me with seven fresh thongs
that have not been dried, I'll become as w eak as any other man."
获 16:8 Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh
thongs that had not been dried, and she tied him wit h them.
获 16:9 With men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the
Philistines are upon you!" But he snappe d the thongs as easily as a piece
of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength
was not discovered.
获 16:10 Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have made a fool of me;
you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can b e tied."
获 16:11 He said, "If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have
never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man."
获 16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with
men hidden in the room, she called to him, " Samson, the Philistines are
upon you!" But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.
获 16:13 Delilah then said to Samson, "Until now, you have been making
a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how y ou can be tied." He replied,
"If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and
tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man." So while
he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into
the fabric
获 16:14 and tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, "Samson,
the Philistines are upon you!" He a woke from his sleep and pulled up the
pin and the loom, with the fabric.
获16:15 甸副扼狼 蜡趣俊 逞绢埃 伙颊
获 16:15 Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when
you won't confide in me? This is the third tim e you have made a fool of
me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength."
获 16:16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was
tired to death.
获 16:17 So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on
my head," he said, "because I have b een a Nazirite set apart to God since
birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would
become as w eak as any other man."
获16:18 厚必俊 贸茄 伙颊
获 16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent
word to the rulers of the Philistines, "Come b ack once more; he has told
me everything." So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver
in their hands .
获 16:19 Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave
off the seven braids of his hair, and so began t o subdue him. And his
strength left him.
获 16:20 Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He
awoke from his sleep and thought, " I'll go out as before and shake myself
free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
获 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took
him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackl es, they set him to grinding
in the prison.
获 16:22 But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had
been shaved.
获16:23 喉饭悸狼 促帮 绵力
获 16:23 Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great
sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, sa ying, "Our god has delivered
Samson, our enemy, into our hands."
获 16:24 When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, "Our
god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our
land and multiplied our slain."
获 16:25 While they were in high spirits, they shouted, "Bring out
Samson to entertain us." So they called Sa mson out of the prison, and
he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars,
获 16:26 Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Put me where
I can feel the pillars that support the templ e, so that I may lean against
them."
获 16:27 Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers
of the Philistines were there, and on the roof w ere about three thousand
men and women watching Samson perform.
获16:28 伙颊狼 弥饶
获 16:28 Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "O Sovereign LORD, remember
me. O God, please strengthen me just once mor e, and let me with one blow
get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes."
获 16:29 Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which
the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, hi s right hand on the
one and his left hand on the other,
获 16:30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed
with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the
people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
获 16:31 Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down
to get him. They brought him back and buried him bet ween Zorah and Eshtaol
in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel twenty years. |