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Samson Defeats the Philistines

15After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing along a kid. He said, "I want to go into my wife's room." But her father would not allow him to go in.H3117H3117H2406H7105H8123H6485H802H1423H5795H559H935H802H2315H1H5414H935 2Her father said, "I was sure that you had rejected her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister prettier than she? Why not take her instead?"H1H559H559H559H8130H8130H5414H4828H6996H269H2896 3Samson said to them, "This time, when I do mischief to the Philistines, I will be without blame."H8123H559H6471H5352H6430H6213H7451 4So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took some torches; and he turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.H8123H3212H3920H7969H3967H7776H3947H3940H6437H2180H2180H7760H259H3940H8432H8147H2180 5When he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.H1197H3940H784H7971H7054H6430H1197H1430H7054H3754H2132 6Then the Philistines asked, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken Samson's wife and given her to his companion." So the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father.H6430H559H6213H559H8123H2860H8554H3947H802H5414H4828H6430H5927H8313H1H784 7Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you."H8123H559H518H6213H2063H5358H310H2308 8He struck them down hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.H5221H7785H5921H3409H1419H4347H3381H3427H5585H5553H5862 9Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi.H6430H5927H2583H3063H5203H3896 10The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."H376H3063H559H5927H559H631H8123H5927H6213H6213 11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then have you done to us?" He replied, "As they did to me, so I have done to them."H7969H505H376H3063H3381H5585H5553H5862H559H8123H3045H6430H4910H6213H559H6213H6213 12They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." Samson answered them, "Swear to me that you yourselves will not attack me."H559H3381H631H5414H3027H6430H8123H559H7650H6293 13They said to him, "No, we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.H559H559H631H631H5414H3027H4191H4191H631H8147H2319H5688H5927H5553 14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the spirit of the LORD rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.H935H3896H6430H7321H7125H7307H3068H6743H5688H2220H6593H1197H784H612H4549H3027 15Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.H4672H2961H3895H2543H7971H3027H3947H5221H505H376 16And Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men."H8123H559H3895H2543H2565H2565H3895H2543H5221H505H376 17When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.H3615H1696H7993H3895H3027H7121H4725H7437 18By then he was very thirsty, and he called on the LORD, saying, "You have granted this great victory by the hand of your servant. Am I now to die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"H3966H6770H7121H3068H559H5414H1419H8668H3027H5650H4191H6772H5307H3027H6189 19So God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came from it. When he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore it was named En-hakkore, which is at Lehi to this day.H430H1234H4388H3895H3318H4325H8354H7307H7725H2421H7121H8034H5875H3896H3117 20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.H8199H3478H3117H6430H6242H8141


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