Judges:15

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* But it came to pass after a while , 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 allow him to go in . * And her father said , I truly thought that thou had 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 . * And Samson said to them , This time I shall be blameless in regard of the Philistines when I do them a mischief . * And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes , and took firebrands , and turned tail to tail , and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails . * And when he had set the brands on fire , he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines , and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain , and also the oliveyards . * Then the Philistines said , Who has done this ? And they said , Samson , the son-in-law of the Timnite , because he has taken his wife , and given her to his companion . And the Philistines came up , and burnt her and her father with fire . * And Samson said to them , If ye do after this manner , surely I will be avenged of you , and after that I will cease . * And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter . And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam . * Then the Philistines went up , and encamped in Judah , and spread themselves in Lehi . * And the men of Judah said , Why have ye come up against us ? And they said , We come up to bind Samson , to do to him as he has done to us . * Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam , and said to Samson , Know thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us ? What then is this that thou have done to us ? And he said to them , As they did t * And they said to him , We have come down to bind thee , that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines . And Samson said to them , Swear to me , that ye will not fall upon me yourselves . * And they spoke to him , saying , No , but we will bind thee fast , and deliver thee into their hand , but truly we will not kill thee . And they bound him with two new ropes , and brought him up from the rock . * When he came to Lehi , the Philistines shouted as they met him . And the Spirit of LORD came mightily upon him , and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire , and his bands dropped from off his hands . * And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey , and put forth his hand , and took it , and smote a thousand men with it . * And Samson said , With the jawbone of a donkey , heaps upon heaps , with the jawbone of a donkey I have smitten a thousand men . * And it came to pass , when he had made an end of speaking , that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand . And that place was called Ramath-lehi . * And he was very thirsty , and called on LORD , and said , Thou have given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant , and now shall I die for thirst , and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised . * But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi , and water came out there . And when he had drunk his spirit came again , and he revived . Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore , which is in Lehi to this day . * And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years .

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