ABahluleli 15:1-20
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USamsoni uphindisela kumaFilisti (1-20)
15 Kwathi sekuzinsuku zokuvunwa kwengqoloyi, uSamsoni wahamba wayavakatshela umkakhe ethwele izinyane lembuzi. Wathi: “Ngifuna ukungena endlini yokulala* ngibone umkami.” Kodwa uyisezala kamvumelanga,
2 wathi: “Bengicabanga ukuthi awumthandi.*+ Yikho ngimendisele komunye wabakhaphi bakho.+ Umnawakhe kamuhle yini kulaye? Zithathele yena.”
3 USamsoni wasesithi: “Khathesi amaFilisti ngeke angisole nxa ngingawahlasela.”
4 USamsoni wasuka wayabamba amakhanka angu-300, wawabophanisa imisila ngamabili, wasebophela isibane esisodwa emisileni yawo.
5 Walumathisa izibane waseyekela amakhanka agijima ayangena emasimini amaFilisti. Kwatsha amabele wonke ayesevuniwe layengakavunwa, lamasimu amagilebisi lawama-oliva.
6 AmaFilisti athi: “Ngubani owenze lokhu?” Kwasekuthiwa: “NguSamsoni umkhwenyana womThimina. Wenze lokhu ngoba uyisezala wathatha umkakhe wamendisela kumkhaphi wakhe.”+ AmaFilisti athi ekuzwa lokhu asuka ayatshisa inkosikazi kaSamsoni loyise.+
7 USamsoni wasesithi kuwo: “Nxa lingiphatha ngalindlela kangisoze ngiphumule ngize ngiphindisele.”+
8 Yikho wawahlasela amaFilisti wabulala amanengi kakhulu.* Ngemva kwalokho wasuka wayahlala edwaleni elikhulu lase-Ethami.
9 AmaFilisti afika koJuda amisa inkamba yawo, abhodabhoda eLehi.+
10 Abantu bakoJuda basebewabuza bathi: “Kungani lizosihlasela?” Wona aphendula athi: “Silande ukuzobopha uSamsoni ukuze simenze lokho asenze khona.”
11 Ngakho amadoda akoJuda angu-3 000 asuka aya edwaleni elikhulu lase-Ethami afika athi kuSamsoni: “Kanti awukwazi yini ukuthi amaFilisti ayasibusa?+ Pho kungani usidalele uhlupho olungaka?” Yena wathi: “Ngibenze lokho abangenze khona.”
12 Asesithi kuye: “Thina silande ukuzokubopha ukuze sikuhambise kumaFilisti.” USamsoni wathi: “Ngicela lifunge kimi ukuthi alisoze lingihlasele.”
13 Asesithi kuye: “Asisoze sikuhlasele. Sizakubopha kuphela sikuhambise kubo, ngeke sikubulale.”
Ngakho bambopha ngentambo ezimbili ezintsha basuka laye edwaleni lase-Ethami.
14 AmaFilisti athi embona efika eLehi ahlokoma ngentokozo. Umoya kaJehova wasusehlela kuye waba lamandla,+ waqamula intambo ayebotshwe ngazo ezandleni kwangathi zintanjana zelineni ezihangulwe lilangabi lomlilo.+
15 Wasebona ithambo lomhlathi kababhemi elalingakawomi, walidobha wabulala ngalo amadoda angu-1 000.+
16 USamsoni wathi:
“Ngomhlathi kababhemi ngibuthelele inqumbi phezu kwenqumbi!
Ngomhlathi kababhemi ngibulele amadoda angu-1 000.”+
17 Uthe eseqedile ukukhuluma walilahla ithambo lomhlathi kababhemi wasebiza indawo leyo ngokuthi yiRamathi-lehi.*+
18 Wezwa esewome kakhulu wasekhala kuJehova esithi: “Nguwe owenze inceku yakho yanqoba kangaka. Manje khathesi sekumele ngife yini ngibulawa yikoma, besengiwela ezandleni zabantu abangasokanga?”
19 Ngakho uNkulunkulu waqhekeza umhlabathi egodini elaliseLehi kwasekuphuma amanzi,+ uSamsoni wanatha wezwa eselamandla futhi. Yikho wanika indawo leyo ibizo wathi yi-Eni-hakhore* njalo ilokhu ikhona eLehi kuze kube lamuhla.
20 Wahlulela abako-Israyeli ngesikhathi samaFilisti okweminyaka engu-20.+
Amabala angaphansi
^ Kumbe, “endlini engaphakathi.”
^ NgesiHebheru, “uyamzonda.”
^ Kumbe, “wawabulala eselekanisa inyawo zawo phezu kwemilenze.”
^ Ibizo leli litsho ukuthi, “Indawo yomhlathi eluqaqa.”
^ Ibizo leli litsho ukuthi, “Umthombo walowo obizayo.”
