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Judges 15
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15Some time later Samson went to visit his wife during the wheat harvest and took her a young goat. He told her father, "I want to go to my wife's room." But he wouldn't let him go in.H3117H3117H2406H7105H8123H6485H802H1423H5795H559H935H802H2315H1H5414H935
2He told Samson, "I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your friend. But her younger sister is prettier, anyway. You can have her, instead."H1H559H559H559H8130H8130H5414H4828H6996H269H2896
3Samson said, "This time I'm not going to be responsible for what I do to the Philistines!"H8123H559H6471H5352H6430H6213H7451
4So he went and caught three hundred foxes. Two at a time, he tied their tails together and put torches in the knots.H8123H3212H3920H7969H3967H7776H3947H3940H6437H2180H2180H7760H259H3940H8432H8147H2180
5Then he set fire to the torches and turned the foxes loose in the Philistine wheat fields. In this way he burned up not only the wheat that had been harvested but also the wheat that was still in the fields. The olive orchards were also burned.H1197H3940H784H7971H7054H6430H1197H1430H7054H3754H2132
6When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson's wife to a friend of Samson's. So the Philistines went and burned the woman to death and burned down her father's house.H6430H559H6213H559H8123H2860H8554H3947H802H5414H4828H6430H5927H8313H1H784
7Samson told them, "So this is how you act! I swear that I won't stop until I pay you back!"H8123H559H518H6213H2063H5358H310H2308
8He attacked them fiercely and killed many of them. Then he went and stayed in the cave in the cliff at Etam.H5221H7785H5921H3409H1419H4347H3381H3427H5585H5553H5862

Samson Defeats the Philistines

9The Philistines came and camped in Judah, and attacked the town of Lehi.H6430H5927H2583H3063H5203H3896
10The men of Judah asked them, "Why are you attacking us?" They answered, "We came to take Samson prisoner and to treat him as he treated us."H376H3063H559H5927H559H631H8123H5927H6213H6213
11So these three thousand men of Judah went to the cave in the cliff at Etam and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are our rulers? What have you done to us?" He answered, "I did to them just what they did to me."H7969H505H376H3063H3381H5585H5553H5862H559H8123H3045H6430H4910H6213H559H6213H6213
12They told him, "We have come here to tie you up, so we can hand you over to them." Samson said, "Give me your word that you won't kill me yourselves."H559H3381H631H5414H3027H6430H8123H559H7650H6293
13"All right," they said, "we are only going to tie you up and hand you over to them. We won't kill you." So they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him back from the cliff.H559H559H631H631H5414H3027H4191H4191H631H8147H2319H5688H5927H5553
14When he got to Lehi, the Philistines came running toward him, shouting at him. Suddenly the power of the LORD made him strong, and he broke the ropes around his arms and hands as if they were burnt thread.H935H3896H6430H7321H7125H7307H3068H6743H5688H2220H6593H1197H784H612H4549H3027
15Then he found a jawbone of a donkey that had recently died. He reached down and picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it.H4672H2961H3895H2543H7971H3027H3947H5221H505H376
16So Samson sang, "With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men; With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them up in piles."H8123H559H3895H2543H2565H2565H3895H2543H5221H505H376
17After that, he threw the jawbone away. The place where this happened was named Ramath Lehi.H3615H1696H7993H3895H3027H7121H4725H7437
18Then Samson became very thirsty, so he called to the LORD and said, "You gave me this great victory; am I now going to die of thirst and be captured by these heathen Philistines?"H3966H6770H7121H3068H559H5414H1419H8668H3027H5650H4191H6772H5307H3027H6189
19Then God opened a hollow place in the ground there at Lehi, and water came out of it. Samson drank it and began to feel much better. So the spring was named Hakkore; it is still there at Lehi.H430H1234H4388H3895H3318H4325H8354H7307H7725H2421H7121H8034H5875H3896H3117
20Samson led Israel for twenty years while the Philistines ruled the land.H8199H3478H3117H6430H6242H8141


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