Judges:15

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* But it came to pass after awhile , in the time of wheat harvest , that Samson visited his wife with a young goat ; 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 you had completely hated her ; therefore I gave her to your friend : isn 't her younger sister fairer than she ? Take her , I pray you , instead of her . * And Samson said to them , This time I will be innocent 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 friend . And the Philistines came up , and burnt her and her father with fire . * And Samson said to them , If you (note :){+}(:note ) act after this manner , surely I will be avenged of you {+}, and after that I will cease . * And he struck 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 you (note :){+}(:note ) come up against us ? And they said , we have 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 , Don 't you 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 . * And they said to him , We have come down to bind you , that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines . And Samson said to them , Swear to me , or else you (note :){+}(:note ) will fall on me yourselves . * And they spoke to him , saying , No ; but we will bind you fast , and deliver you into their hand : but surely we will not kill you . 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 Yahweh came mightily on him , and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire , and his bindings dropped from off his hands . * And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey , and put forth his hand , and took it , and struck a thousand men with it . * And Samson said , With the jawbone of a donkey , I have thrashed them good , With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men . * And it came to pass , when he had finished 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 Yahweh , and said , You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your slave ; and now I will die for thirst , and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised . * But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi , and there came water thereout ; and when he drank , his spirit came again , and he revived : therefore its name 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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