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JUDGES ยท Chapter 15
15:1 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.
15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that you had utterly hated
her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister
fairer than she? take her, I pray you, instead of her.
15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless
than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
15:4 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.
15:5 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.
15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who has 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.
15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though all of you have done this, yet
will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
15:8 And he stroke them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he
went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi.
15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are all of you come up against
us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he
has done to us.
15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock
Etam, and said to Samson, Know you not that the Philistines are rulers
over us? what is this that you have done unto us? And he said unto them,
As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind you, that we
may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto
them, Swear unto me, that all of you will not fall upon me yourselves.
15:13 And they spoke unto him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast,
and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. And they
bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
15:14 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.
15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand,
and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,
with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
15:17 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 Ramathlehi.
15:18 And he was sore thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, You
have given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant: and now
shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
15:19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there
came water from it; 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.
15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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