Judges 15
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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 Ramathlehi.
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 Enhakkore,
which is in Lehi unto this day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the
Philistines twenty years.
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