Liber Iudicum

Iudicum, chapter 15, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 15 Vulgate

   1 Post aliquantum autem tem poris, cum dies triticeae mes sis instarent, venit Samson invisere volens uxorem suam et attulit ei haedum de capris. Cumque ad eam vellet intrare, prohibuit eum pater illius
   2 dicens: "Putavi quod odisses eam et ideo tradidi illam amico tuo; sed habet sororem iuniorem, quae pulchrior illa est; sit tibi pro ea uxor"
   3 Dixitque eis Samson: "Hac vice non erit culpa in me contra Philisthaeos, cum faciam eis mala"
   4 Perrexitque et cepit trecentas vulpes caudasque earum iunxit ad caudas sumensque faces ligavit singulas in medio binarum caudarum;
   5 facibusque igne succensis, dimisit vulpes in segetes Philisthinorum. Et comportatae iam fruges et adhuc stantes in stipula concrematae sunt in tantum, ut vineas quoque et oliveta flamma consumeret.
   6 Dixeruntque Philisthim: "Quis fecit hanc rem?" Quibus dictum est: "Samson gener Thamnathaei, quia tulit uxorem eius et alteri tradidit, haec operatus est" Ascenderuntque Philisthim et combusserunt tam mulierem quam patrem eius.
   7 Quibus ait Samson: "Si talia facitis, utique ex vobis expetam ultionem et tunc quiescam"
   8 Percussitque eos ingenti plaga, suram ad femur. Et descendens habitavit in spelunca petrae Etam.
   9 Igitur ascendentes Philisthim in terra Iudae castrametati sunt, et in Lehi (id est Maxilla) eorum est fusus exercitus.
   10 Dixeruntque ad eos viri de tribu Iudae: "Cur ascendistis adversum nos?" Qui responderunt: "Ut ligemus Samson venimus et reddamus ei, quae in nos operatus est"
   11 Descenderunt ergo tria milia virorum de Iuda ad specum petrae Etam dixeruntque ad Samson: "Nescis quod Philisthim imperent nobis? Quare hoc nobis facere voluisti?" Quibus ille ait: "Sicut fecerunt mihi, feci eis"
   12 "Ligare, inquiunt, te venimus et tradere in manus Philisthinorum" "Iurate, respondit, mihi quod non me occidatis"
   13 Dixerunt: "Non te occidemus, sed vinctum trademus" Ligaveruntque eum duobus novis funibus et tulerunt de petra Etam.
   14 Qui cum venisset in Lehi, et Philisthim vociferantes occurrissent ei, irruit spiritus Domini in eum, et, sicut solent ad odorem ignis lina consumi, ita vincula, quibus brachia eius ligata erant, dissipata sunt et soluta.
   15 Inventamque maxillam asini recentem arripiens percussit in ea mille viros
   16 et ait: "In maxilla asini acervum feci ex eis! In mandibula asini percussi mille viros!"
   17 Cumque haec canens verba complesset, proiecit mandibulam de manu et vocavit nomen loci illius Ramathlehi (quod interpretatur Elevatio maxillae).
   18 Sitiensque valde clamavit ad Dominum et ait: "Tu dedisti in manu servi tui salutem hanc maximam atque victoriam; et en siti morior incidamque in manus incircumcisorum"
   19 Aperuit itaque Deus fossam in Lehi, et egressae sunt inde aquae; quibus haustis, refocillavit spiritum et vires recepit. Idcirco appellatum est nomen fontis illius fons Invocantis, qui est in Lehi usque in praesentem diem.
   20 Iudicavitque Israel in diebus Philisthim viginti annis.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 But it came to pass within a while after, 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? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
   3 ¶ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
   4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
   5 And when he had set the brands on 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.
   6 ¶ Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, 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 unto 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.
   9 ¶ Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
   10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
   11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
   12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
   13 And they spake unto 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 him up from the rock.
   14 ¶ And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the 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 loosed from off his hands.
   15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
   16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
   17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.
   18 ¶ And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
   19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
   20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.