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JUD-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.
JUD-15:2 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.
JUD-15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more
blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-15:6 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.
JUD-15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this,
yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
JUD-15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter:
and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
JUD-15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and
spread themselves in Lehi.
JUD-15:10 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.
JUD-15:11 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.
JUD-15:12 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.
JUD-15:13 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.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-15:18 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?
JUD-15:19 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.
JUD-15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines
twenty years.
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