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Chapter 15
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But it came to pass within a while after, in the time
of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid;
and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber.
But her father would not suffer him to go in. |
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And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst
utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion:
is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I
pray thee, instead of her. |
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And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more
blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. |
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And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand
in the midst between two tails. |
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And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go
into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up
both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards
and olives. |
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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because
he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion.
And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father
with fire. |
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And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this,
yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. |
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And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter:
and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. |
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Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and
spread themselves in Lehi. |
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And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against
us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to
do to him as he hath done to us. |
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Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the
rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the
Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou
hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto
me, so have I done unto them. |
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And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee,
that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.
And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will
not fall upon me yourselves. |
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And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind
thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely
we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new
cords, and brought him up from the rock. |
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And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against
him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him,
and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that
was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his
hands. |
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And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his
hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. |
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And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon
heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. |
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And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking,
that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called
that place Ramathlehi. |
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And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and
said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand
of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall
into the hand of the uncircumcised? |
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But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and
there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit
came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name
thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. |
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And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty
years. |
