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.
AU MOMENT DE LA RÉCOLTE DU BLÉ - i: e., vers la fin de notre avril,
ou le début de... [ Continuer la lecture ]
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.
JE PENSAIS VRAIMENT QUE TU L'AVAIS COMPLÈTEMENT DÉTESTÉE. Cette
allégation était une simple imposture... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than
the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
JE SERAI MAINTENANT PLUS IRRÉPROCHABLE QUE LES PHILISTINS. Cette
conduite néfaste provoqua la juste indignation du héros, et il
résolut de se venger.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
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.
JE SUIS ALLÉ ET A ATTRAPÉ TROIS CENTS RENARDS - plutôt [
shuw`aaliym (H7776)], chacals-un animal entre un loup et un renard
(Canis aureus), qui, contra... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_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._
No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
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.
QUI A FAIT CELA? L'auteur de cet outrage et la cause qui a... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Samson said unto them Though ye have done this yet will I be
avenged of you and after that I will And Samson said unto them, Though
ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will
cease.
BIEN QUE VOUS AYEZ FAIT CELA, JE SERAI POURTANT VENGÉ DE VOUS. Par
cet acte, les f... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went
down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
FRAPPEZ-LES LA HANCHE ET LA CUISSE - une expression proverbiale pour
un massacre sans merci.
JE SUIS DESCENDU ET J'AI HABITÉ AU SOMMET DU ROCHER ETAM - plutôt,
est descendu et a habi... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi.
ENSUITE, LES PHILISTINS SONT MONTÉS - vers le haut pays de Juda.
ET SE SONT RÉPANDUS À LÉHI - un quartier à la frontière du
territoire philistin, maintenant el-Lekieh, regorgeant de falaises
calcaires dont les cô... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_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._
No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with
the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
AVEC LA MÂCHOIRE D'UN ÂNE, TAS SUR TAS. L'insuffisance de l'arme
montre clairement qu'il s'agit d'un exploit miraculeux, "un cas de
force surnaturelle"; tout comme le don de prophét... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_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
RAMATHLEHI._
No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
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 Enhakkore, which is in
Lehi unto this day.
UN ENDROIT CREUX ... DANS LA MÂCHOIRE - en Léhi, en prenant le mot
comme... [ Continuer la lecture ]