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Samson Burns the Philistine Harvest

15A while later during the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife, bringing along a young goat, and said to his father-in-law, "I'm going into my wife's room." But her father wouldn't give permission for him to go.H3117H3117H2406H7105H8123H6485H802H1423H5795H559H935H802H2315H1H5414H935
2Her father said, "Because I honestly thought that you hated her deeply, I gave her in marriage to your best man. Isn't her younger sister better than she?Please then, let her be yours instead."H1H559H559H559H8130H8130H5414H4828H6996H269H2896
3Samson replied to them, "This time I'll be blameless when I do something evil to the Philistines."H8123H559H6471H5352H6430H6213H7451
4So Samson went out, caught 300 foxes, grabbed some torches, tied the foxes together in pairs at their tails, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.H8123H3212H3920H7969H3967H7776H3947H3940H6437H2180H2180H7760H259H3940H8432H8147H2180
5Then he ignited the torches, set the foxes loose into the Philistines' unharvested grain, and burned up both the harvested shocks and the standing grain, along with their vineyards and olive groves.4H1197H3940H784H7971H7054H6430H1197H1430H7054H3754H2132
6Then the Philistines demanded, "Who did this?"H6430H559H6213H559H8123H2860H8554H3947H802H5414H4828H6430H5927H8313H1H784
7Someone said, "Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because his father-in-law took Samson's wife and gave her to the best man at Samson's wedding." In retaliation, the Philistines came up and burned her and her father to death. Samson replied to them, "Because you did this, I'm not going to stop until I get my revenge against you!"H8123H559H518H6213H2063H5358H310H2308
8So he attacked them ruthlessly in a massive slaughter, then left to live in the caves of Etam.H5221H7785H5921H3409H1419H4347H3381H3427H5585H5553H5862
9In response, the Philistines went up, encamped in the territory of Judah, and raided Lehi.H6430H5927H2583H3063H5203H3896
10The leading men of Judah asked, "Why have you invaded us?" They replied, "We're here to arrest Samson. Then we're going to do to him what he did to us."H376H3063H559H5927H559H631H8123H5927H6213H6213
11In response, 3,000 soldiers from the tribe of Judah went down to the caves of the rock of Etam and asked Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines have us in their control?What have you done to us?" "I did to them what they did to me," he answered.H7969H505H376H3063H3381H5585H5553H5862H559H8123H3045H6430H4910H6213H559H6213H6213
12They responded, "We've come here to arrest you and transfer you to the custody of the Philistines." Samson told them, "Promise me that you won't kill me."H559H3381H631H5414H3027H6430H8123H559H7650H6293
13So they said, "No, we won't. But we're going to tie you up securely and transfer you to their custody. But we won't kill you." Then they bound him with two ropes and brought him up from the caves.H559H559H631H631H5414H3027H4191H4191H631H8147H2319H5688H5927H5553

Samson Kills 1,000 Philistines

14When Samson arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, so that the ropes that bound him were like flax that's been burned by fire, and his bonds dissolved.H935H3896H6430H7321H7125H7307H3068H6743H5688H2220H6593H1197H784H612H4549H3027
15He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it, and killed 1,000 men with it.H4672H2961H3895H2543H7971H3027H3947H5221H505H376
16Then Samson declared, "With a jawbone from the donkey - here a heap, there a pair of heaps - with the jawbone of the donkey I've killed 1,000 men."H8123H559H3895H2543H2565H2565H3895H2543H5221H505H376
17When he finally finished bragging, he discarded the jawbone and named that place "Jawbone Heights."H3615H1696H7993H3895H3027H7121H4725H7437
18Aferward, he became thirsty, called out to the Lord, and told him, "So, you provided this great deliverance at the hands of your servant, but now I'm to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"H3966H6770H7121H3068H559H5414H1419H8668H3027H5650H4191H6772H5307H3027H6189
19So God split a hollow place that's in Lehi, and water sprang out of it. After he had taken a drink, his strength returned, and he revived. That's why it was named "En-hakakore," which is in Lehi to this day. 20Samson governed Israel for twenty years during the Philistine domination. 15H430H1234H4388H3895H3318H4325H8354H7307H7725H2421H7121H8034H5875H3896H3117


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