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1
But after
a while,
in the time
of wheat
harvest,
Samson
visited
his wife
with a young
goat,
and said,
"I will go
in to my wife
in her room."
But her father
did not let
him enter.
2
Her father
said,
"I really
thought
that you hated
her intensely;
so I gave
her to your companion.
Is not her younger
sister
more
beautiful
than
she? Please
let her be yours instead."
3
Samson
then said
to them, "This time
I shall be blameless
in regard
to the Philistines
when
I do
them harm."
4
Samson
went
and caught
three
hundred
foxes,
and took
torches,
and turned
the foxes tail
to tail
and put
one
torch
in the middle
between
two
tails.
5
When he had set
fire
to the torches,
he released
the foxes into the standing
grain
of the Philistines,
thus burning
up both
the shocks
and the standing
grain
,
along
with the vineyards
and groves.
6
Then the Philistines
said,
"Who
did
this?"
And they
said,
"Samson,
the son-in-law
of the Timnite,
because
he took
his wife
and gave
her to his companion."
So the Philistines
came
up and burned
her and her father
with fire.
7
Samson
said
to them, "Since
you act
like this,
I will surely
take revenge
on you, but after
that I will quit."
8
He struck
them ruthlessly
with a great
slaughter;
and he went down
and lived
in the cleft
of the rock
of Etam.
9
Then the Philistines
went
up and camped
in Judah,
and spread
out in Lehi.
10
The men
of Judah
said,
"Why
have you come
up against
us?" And they
said,
"We have come
up to bind
Samson
in order to do
to him as he did
to us."
11
Then 3,000
men
of Judah
went down
to the cleft
of the rock
of Etam
and said
to Samson,
"Do you not know
that the Philistines
are rulers
over us? What
then is this
that you have done
to us?" And he said
to them, "As they did
to me, so
I have done
to them."
12
They
said
to him, "We have come down
to bind
you so that we may give
you into the hands
of the Philistines."
And Samson
said
to them, "Swear
to me that you will not kill
me."
13
So they said
to him, "No,
but we will bind
you fast
and give
you into their hands;
yet surely
we will not kill
you." Then they bound
him with two
new
ropes
and brought
him up from the rock.
14
When he came
to Lehi,
the Philistines
shouted
as they met
him. And the Spirit
of the LORD
came upon him mightily
so that the ropes
that were on his arms
were as flax
that is burned
with fire,
and his bonds
dropped
from his hands.
15
He found
a fresh
jawbone
of a donkey,
so he reached
out and took
it and killed
a thousand
men
with it.
16
Then Samson
said,
"
With the jawbone
of a donkey
,
Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone
of a donkey
I have killed
a thousand
men."
17
When he had finished
speaking,
he threw
the jawbone
from his hand;
and he named
that place
Ramath-lehi.
18
Then he became
very
thirsty,
and he called
to the LORD
and said,
"You have given
this
great
deliverance
by the hand
of Your servant,
and now
shall I die
of thirst
and fall
into the hands
of the uncircumcised?"
19
But God
split
the hollow
place that
is in Lehi
so that water
came
out of it. When he drank,
his strength
returned
and he revived.
Therefore
he named
it En-hakkore,
which
is in Lehi
to this
day.
20
So he judged
Israel
twenty
years
in the days
of the Philistines.
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