15Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, "I'm going to my wife's room." But her father would not let him go in.H3117H3117H2406H7105H8123H6485H802H1423H5795H559H935H802H2315H1H5414H9352"I was so sure you thoroughly hated her," he said, "that I gave her to your friend. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead."H1H559H559H559H8130H8130H5414H4828H6996H269H28963Samson said to them, "This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them."H8123H559H6471H5352H6430H6213H74514So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails,H8123H3212H3920H7969H3967H7776H3947H3940H6437H2180H2180H7760H259H3940H8432H8147H21805lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.H1197H3940H784H7971H7054H6430H1197H1430H7054H3754H21326When the Philistines asked, "Who did this?" they were told, "Samson, the Timnite's son-in-law, because his wife was given to his friend." So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.H6430H559H6213H559H8123H2860H8554H3947H802H5414H4828H6430H5927H8313H1H7847Samson said to them, "Since you've acted like this, I won't stop until I get my revenge on you."H8123H559H518H6213H2063H5358H310H23088He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.H5221H7785H5921H3409H1419H4347H3381H3427H5585H5553H58629The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.H6430H5927H2583H3063H5203H389610The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come to fight us?" "We have come to take Samson prisoner," they answered, "to do to him as he did to us."H376H3063H559H5927H559H631H8123H5927H6213H621311Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?" He answered, "I merely did to them what they did to me."H7969H505H376H3063H3381H5585H5553H5862H559H8123H3045H6430H4910H6213H559H6213H621312They said to him, "We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said, "Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves."H559H3381H631H5414H3027H6430H8123H559H7650H629313"Agreed," they answered. "We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.H559H559H631H631H5414H3027H4191H4191H631H8147H2319H5688H5927H555314As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.H935H3896H6430H7321H7125H7307H3068H6743H5688H2220H6593H1197H784H612H4549H302715Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.H4672H2961H3895H2543H7971H3027H3947H5221H505H37616Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men."H8123H559H3895H2543H2565H2565H3895H2543H5221H505H37617When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.H3615H1696H7993H3895H3027H7121H4725H743718Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"H3966H6770H7121H3068H559H5414H1419H8668H3027H5650H4191H6772H5307H3027H618919Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore, and it is still there in Lehi.H430H1234H4388H3895H3318H4325H8354H7307H7725H2421H7121H8034H5875H3896H311720Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.H8199H3478H3117H6430H6242H8141
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