“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.” (Judges 15:1-20 AV)
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