Judges 15
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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.
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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.
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And Samson said concerning them, Now
shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a
displeasure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And Samson said unto them, Though ye have
done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will
cease.
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And he smote them hip and thigh with a
great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock
Etam.
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Samson Defeats the
Philistines at Lehi |
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Then the Philistines went up, and
pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and
put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men
therewith.
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And Samson said,
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With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, |
with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand
men. |
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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 Ra'math-le'hi. 4
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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?
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But God clave a 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 En-hakko're, 5 which is in Lehi unto this day.
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And he judged Israel in the days of the
Philistines twenty years.
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