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An angel of the Lord 1.106 to the barren wife of Manoah, and he promises to her the conception of Samson. And when Samson had grown to manhood, he set his heart in desire for a foreign woman. But Manoah and his mother forbade him, not knowing that this had happened to him by the will of God for the destruction of the foreigners. And Samson, having been mocked by his wife concerning the riddle which he had posed, "Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet," he departed from her when she said, "What is stronger than a lion, and what is sweeter than honey?" And her father gave her to another man. And because of this Samson was all the more enraged at the foreigners, and he set fire to their lands by means of the thousand foxes. And the foreigners burned down Samson's wife and her parents, and their whole house they destroyed with fire, because through them such things had happened to them. Then there happened to him the things concerning the woman who was in the city of the foreigners, when also he carried the gates of the city up on his shoulders to the mountain. And likewise also the things concerning Delilah. And he judges the people for twenty years. And after he had been shaved by the foreigners and blinded, when his hair had grown again, he shook down the city of the foreigners, overturning it, in which he also died with them, killing more foreigners then than while he was still alive. And after him, Micah from the tribe of Ephraim gave the 130 shekels of silver to his mother. And she consecrated the silver to the Lord, and made a carved 1.107 and a molten image, and it was placed in the house of Micah, and the house of Micah was as a house of God. And he also made an ephod and seraphim, and he called a Levite to be a priest, and he was acting in the name of God according to his command; for there was no king in Israel at that time, but each one did what was pleasing in his own eyes. Now the ephod and the seraphim are a garment and images. And it is said that there were made by Micah a shoulder-garment and a face, a priestly garment and idols. Around this time the events concerning the Levite and his concubine happened, and how the tribe of Benjamin was wiped out. And after Samson, Samaneh led the people for one year. In these times of the priesthood, the people had peace with the foreigners for 30 years. And after this, Eli the priest ruled the people for 20 years. And when a famine occurred, many of the Hebrews became migrants; among them also Elimelech from the tribe of Judah and Naomi his wife and their two sons. And they went down to the cities of Moab, and they took for their sons Moabite women, foreigners. And Elimelech and his two sons died there, and Naomi was left with her daughters-in-law. And when the Lord lifted the famine from Israel, Naomi went up to her tribe, and Ruth her daughter-in-law did not leave her; and by the cooperation of God and the counsel of Naomi Ruth is joined to Boaz as being next of kin to Elimelech. from whom he had a son, Obed, whose son was Jesse the father of David. And Boaz is descended from Judah and Tamar 1.108 the foreigner, from whom came Perez and so on, as the genealogy relates. That in the year of Samson * Eli was established as the seventh high priest, who also judged Israel for another 40 years, having become fifty years old. And in the fourth year of Eli's priesthood the prophet Samuel was born, and in the eighth year he was given to the temple, and in the 38th year he began to judge Israel, and in the 70th he died, having served as priest for 35 years. And these things are from the book of Judges, which we have noted in passing, in summary. And it seemed good to me also to arrange in summary the more necessary subjects of both the Kingdoms and the Chronicles for the remembrance of those who encounter this book. Elkanah and Hannah and Peninnah his wives were going up to Shiloh to sacrifice to the Lord. And Hannah had no child. And Hannah asked the Lord with anguish that her womb be opened and that which was born be given to him. And she bore Samuel, and brought him to the tabernacle of God. And again Eli prayed for her that children be given to her in place of Samuel, and she bore

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ἄγγελος κυρίου 1.106 στειρευούσῃ τῇ γυναικὶ Μανωέ, καὶ ἐπαγγέλλεται αὐτῇ τὴν σύλ ληψιν Σαμψών. ἀνδρωθέντος δὲ Σαμψών, ἔθετο τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ γυναικὸς ἀλλοφύλου. ἐκώλυε δὲ αὐτὸν Μανωὲ καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ, μὴ εἰδότες ὡς γνώμῃ θεοῦ γέγονεν αὐτῷ τοῦτο ἐπὶ ἀφανισμῷ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων. χλευασθεὶς δὲ Σαμψὼν ὑπὸ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ προβλήματι ὃ εἶπεν, "ἐκ στόματος ἔσθοντος ἐξῆλθε βρῶσις καὶ ἀπὸ ἰσχυροῦ γλυκύ," ἀπέστη ἀπ' αὐτῆς εἰπούσης "τί ἰσχυρότερον λέοντος, καὶ τί γλυκύτερον μέλι τος;" καὶ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς ἐξέδοτο αὐτὴν ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὀργίζεται Σαμψὼν μᾶλλον τοῖς ἀλλοφύλοις, καὶ ἐμπιπρᾷ τὰς χώρας αὐτῶν διὰ τῶν χιλίων ἀλωπέκων. οἱ δὲ ἀλλόφυλοι κατέ καυσαν τὴν γυναῖκα Σαμψὼν καὶ τοὺς γονεῖς αὐτῆς, καὶ πάντα τὸν οἶκον αὐτῶν ἐξωλόθρευσαν ἐν πυρί, ὅτι δι' αὐτοὺς τοιαῦτα συνέβη αὐτοῖς. εἶτα συνέβη αὐτῷ τὰ περὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν οὖσαν ἐν τῇ πόλει τῶν ἀλλοφύλων, ὅτε καὶ τὰς πύλας τῆς πόλεως ἀνή νεγκεν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἐν τῷ ὄρει. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν ∆αλιδᾶν. κρίνει δὲ τὸν λαὸν ἔτη εἴκοσι. καὶ μετὰ τὸ ξυρηθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων καὶ ἐκτυφλωθῆναι, ἀναφυεισῶν αὖθις τῶν τριχῶν αὐτοῦ, κατέσεισε τὴν τῶν ἀλλοφύλων πόλιν, κατα στρέψας αὐτήν, ἐν ᾗ καὶ αὐτὸς συναπέθανε, τότε φονεύσας πλείους ἀλλοφύλους ἢ ἔτι ζῶν. καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Μιχὰ ὁ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Ἐφραῒμ τοὺς ρλʹ ἀργυρίου σταθμοὺς δέδωκε τῇ μητρὶ αὐ τοῦ. ἡ δὲ ἡγίασε τὸ ἀργύριον τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ ἐποίησε γλυπτὸν 1.107 καὶ χωνευτόν, καὶ ἐτέθη ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Μιχά, καὶ ὁ οἶκος Μιχὰ ὡς οἶκος θεοῦ. ἐποίησε δὲ καὶ ἐφοὺδ καὶ σεραφίμ, καὶ προσεκαλέ σατο Λευίτην εἰς ἱερέα, καὶ ἦν πράττων ἐπ' ὀνόματι τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὸ πρόσταγμα αὐτοῦ· οὐ γὰρ ἦν τότε βασιλεὺς ἐν Ἰσραήλ, ἀλλ' ἕκαστος τὸ ἀρεστὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐποίει. ἔστι δὲ τὸ ἐφοὺδ καὶ τὸ σεραφὶμ ἔνδυμα καὶ μορφώματα. λέγει δὲ πεποιῆ σθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ Μιχὰ ἐπωμίδα καὶ πρόσωπον, ἔνδυμα ἱερατικὸν καὶ εἴδωλα. κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν συνέβη τὰ περὶ τὸν Λευὶ καὶ τὴν παλλακὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὡς ἐξετρίβη ἡ φυλὴ Βενιαμίν. Μετὰ δὲ Σαμψὼν ἡγήσατο τοῦ λαοῦ Σαμανῆ ἔτος ἕν. ἐν τούτοις τοῖς χρόνοις τῆς ἱεραρχίας εἰρήνην ἔσχεν ὁ λαὸς πρὸς τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους ἔτη λʹ. καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἦρξε τοῦ λαοῦ Ἠλεὶ ὁ ἱερεὺς ἔτη κʹ. λιμοῦ δὲ γενομένου πολλοὶ τῶν Ἑβραίων μετανάσται γε γόνασι· μεθ' ὧν καὶ Ἐλιμέλεχ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα καὶ Νοεμὶν ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ δύο υἱοὶ αὐτῶν. καὶ κατῆλθον εἰς τὰς πόλεις Μωάβ, καὶ ἔλαβον τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτῶν γυναῖκας Μωαβίτιδας ἀλλο φύλους. ἐτελεύτησε δὲ ἐκεῖ Ἐλιμέλεχ καὶ οἱ δύο υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κατελείφθη Νοεμὶν σὺν ταῖς νύμφαις αὐτῆς. ἡνίκα δὲ ἐξῆρε κύριος τὸν λιμὸν ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, ἀνῆλθε Νοεμὶν πρὸς τὴν φυλὴν αὐ τῆς, οὐ κατέλιπε δὲ αὐτὴν Ῥοὺθ ἡ νύμφη αὐτῆς· καὶ συνεργίᾳ θεοῦ καὶ παραινέσει Νοεμὶν συνάπτεται Ῥοὺθ τῷ Βοὸζ ὡς ἀγχι στεύοντι τῷ Ἐλιμέλεχ. ἐξ ἧς ἔσχεν υἱὸν τὸν Ὠβήδ, οὗ υἱὸς Ἰεσσαὶ ὁ πατὴρ ∆αυίδ. κατάγεται δὲ Βοὸζ ἐξ Ἰούδα καὶ Θάμαρ 1.108 τῆς ἀλλοφύλου, ἐξ ὧν Φαρὲς καὶ καθεξῆς, ὡς ἡ γενεαλογία φέρει. Ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἔτει Σαμψὼν * ἕβδομος ἀρχιερεὺς κατέστη ὁ Ἠλεί, ὃς καὶ ἔκρινε τὸν Ἰσραὴλ πεντήκοντα ἐτῶν γενόμενος ἕτερα ἔτη μʹ. ἐν δὲ τῷ τετάρτῳ ἔτει τῆς ἱερατείας Ἠλεὶ ἐγεννήθη ὁ προφήτης Σαμουήλ, καὶ τῷ ὀγδόῳ ἔτει ἐδόθη ἐν τῷ ναῷ, καὶ τῷ ληʹ ἔτει ἤρξατο κρίνειν τὸν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ τῷ οʹ ἐτελεύτησεν, ἱερατεύσας λεʹ ἔτη. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν κριτῶν βίβλου, ὡς ἐν παρόδῳ κατ' ἐπιτομὴν ἐσημειωσάμεθα. ἔδοξε δέ μοι καὶ τὰς ἀναγκαιο τέρας ὑποθέσεις τῶν τε βασιλειῶν καὶ τῶν παραλειπομένων ἐν ἐπιτόμῳ ἀνατάξαι εἰς ἀνάμνησιν τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ταύτῃ τῇ βίβλῳ. Ὁ Ἐλκανᾶς καὶ Ἄννα καὶ Φενάννα αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτοῦ ἀνήρχοντο ἐν Σηλὼμ θύειν κυρίῳ. καὶ τῇ Ἄννῃ οὐκ ἦν τέκνον. καὶ ᾐτήσατο Ἄννα κατωδύνως κυρίῳ τοῦ ἀνοιγῆναι αὐτῆς τὴν μήτραν καὶ τὸ τεχθὲν δοτὸν γενέσθαι αὐτῷ. καὶ ἔτεκε τὸν Σαμουήλ, καὶ προσήνεγκεν αὐτὸν τῇ σκηνῇ τοῦ θεοῦ. καὶ πάλιν ηὔξατο Ἠλεὶ ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς δοθῆναι αὐτῇ ἀντὶ Σαμουὴλ τέκνα, καὶ ἔτεκεν