The Book of Judges (WEB)
15: 1But it happened after a while, 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 wouldn't allow him to
go in. 15:2Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave
her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.
15:3Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them
a mischief. 15:4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to
tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails. 15:5When he had set the brands on
fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the
standing grain, and also the olive groves. 15:6Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They
said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his
companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 15:7Samson said to
them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. 15:8He
struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the
rock of Etam. 15:9Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in
Lehi. 15:10The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind Samson are
we come up, to do to him as he has done to us. 15:11Then three thousand men of Judah went down
to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are
rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so
have I done to them. 15:12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver
you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me
yourselves. 15:13They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their
hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up
from the rock. 15:14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of
Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt
with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15:15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and
put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith. 15:16Samson said, With the
jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand
men. 15:17It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of
his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi. 15:18He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh,
and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die
for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised. 15:19But God split the hollow place that is in
Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived:
therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day. 15:20He judged Israel
in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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