ASV_Strong : Judges 15
1. But it came to pass after[H3117] a while[H3117], in the time of wheat[H2406] harvest[H7105], that Samson[H8123] visited[H6485] his wife[H802] with a kid[H1423]; and he said[H559], I will go in[H935] to my wife[H802] into the chamber[H2315]. But her father[H1] would not suffer[H5414] him to go in[H935].
2. And her father[H1] said[H559], I verily[H559] thought[H559] that thou hadst utterly[H8130] hated[H8130] her[H5414]; therefore I gave her to thy companion[H4828]: is not her younger[H6996] sister[H269] fairer than she[H2896]? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
3. And Samson[H8123] said[H559] unto them[H6471], This time shall I be blameless[H5352] in regard of the Philistines[H6430], when I do[H6213] them a mischief[H7451].
4. And Samson[H8123] went[H3212] and caught[H3920] three[H7969] hundred[H3967] foxes[H7776], and took[H3947] firebrands[H3940], and turned[H6437] tail[H2180] to tail[H2180], and put[H7760] a[H259] firebrand[H3940] in the midst[H8432] between every two[H8147] tails[H2180].
5. And when he had set[H1197] the brands[H3940] on fire[H784], he let them go[H7971] into the standing grain[H7054] of the Philistines[H6430], and burnt up[H1197] both the shocks[H1430] and the standing grain[H7054], and also the oliveyards[H2132].
6. Then the Philistines[H6430] said[H559], Who hath done[H6213] this[H559]? And they said, Samson[H8123], the son-in[H2860]-law of the Timnite[H8554], because he hath taken[H3947] his wife[H802], and given[H5414] her to his companion[H4828]. And the Philistines[H6430] came up[H5927], and burnt[H8313] her and her father[H1] with fire[H784].
7. And Samson[H8123] said[H559] unto them[H518], If ye do[H6213] after this[H2063] manner[H5358], surely I will be avenged of you[H310], and after that I will cease[H2308].
8. And he smote[H5221] them hip[H7785] and[H5921] thigh[H3409] with a great[H1419] slaughter[H4347]: and he went down[H3381] and dwelt[H3427] in the cleft[H5585] of the rock[H5553] of Etam[H5862].
9. Then the Philistines[H6430] went up[H5927], and encamped[H2583] in Judah[H3063], and spread[H5203] themselves in Lehi[H3896].
10. And the men[H376] of Judah[H3063] said[H559], Why are ye come up[H5927] against us[H559]? And they said, To bind[H631] Samson[H8123] are we come up[H5927], to do[H6213] to him as he hath done to us[H6213].
11. Then three[H7969] thousand[H505] men[H376] of Judah[H3063] went[H3381] down to the cleft[H5585] of the rock[H5553] of Etam[H5862], and said[H559] to Samson[H8123], Knowest[H3045] thou not that the Philistines[H6430] are rulers[H4910] over us[H6213]? what then is this that thou hast done unto us[H559]? And he said unto them[H6213], As they did unto me[H6213], so have I done unto them.
12. And they said[H559] unto him[H3381], We are come down to bind[H631] thee[H5414], that we may deliver thee into the hand[H3027] of the Philistines[H6430]. And Samson[H8123] said[H559] unto them[H7650], Swear unto me[H6293], that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13. And they spake[H559] unto him[H559], saying, No[H631]; but we will bind thee fast[H631], and deliver[H5414] thee into their hand[H3027]: but surely[H4191] we will not kill[H4191] thee[H631]. And they bound him with two[H8147] new[H2319] ropes[H5688], and brought him up[H5927] from the rock[H5553].
14. When he came[H935] unto Lehi[H3896], the Philistines[H6430] shouted[H7321] as[H7125] they met him[H7307]: and the Spirit of Jehovah[H3068] came mightily[H6743] upon him[H5688], and the ropes that were upon his arms[H2220] became as flax[H6593] that was burnt[H1197] with fire[H784], and his bands[H612] dropped[H4549] from off his hands[H3027].
15. And he found[H4672] a fresh[H2961] jawbone[H3895] of an ass[H2543], and put forth[H7971] his hand[H3027], and took[H3947] it[H5221], and smote a thousand[H505] men therewith[H376].
16. And Samson[H8123] said[H559], With the jawbone[H3895] of an ass[H2543], heaps[H2565] upon heaps[H2565], With the jawbone[H3895] of an ass[H2543] have I smitten[H5221] a thousand[H505] men[H376].
17. And it came to pass[H3615], when he had made an end of speaking[H1696], that he cast away[H7993] the jawbone[H3895] out of his hand[H3027]; and that place[H4725] was called[H7121] Ramath-lehi[H7437].
18. And he was sore[H3966] athirst[H6770], and called[H7121] on Jehovah[H3068], and said[H559], Thou hast given[H5414] this great[H1419] deliverance[H8668] by the hand[H3027] of thy servant[H5650]; and now shall I die[H4191] for thirst[H6772], and fall[H5307] into the hand[H3027] of the uncircumcised[H6189].
19. But God[H430] clave[H1234] the hollow place[H4388] that is in Lehi[H3895], and there came[H3318] water[H4325] thereout[H8354]; and when he had drunk, his spirit[H7307] came again[H7725], and he revived[H2421]: wherefore the name[H8034] thereof was called[H7121] En-hakkore[H5875], which is in Lehi[H3896], unto this day[H3117].
20. And he judged[H8199] Israel[H3478] in the days[H3117] of the Philistines[H6430] twenty[H6242] years[H8141].
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