Judges: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 g @diy #; and he said , I will go in to my wife into the chamber . But her father would not suffer him to go in . * 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 . * And Samson said concerning them , Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines , though I do them a displeasure . * And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes shuw #al #, and took firebrands , and turned tail to tail , and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails . * 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 . * 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 . * And Samson said unto them , Though ye have done this zo #th #, yet will I 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 top of the rock Etam . * Then the Philistines went up , and pitched in Judah , and spread themselves in Lehi . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And he found a new jawbone of an ass , and put forth his hand , and took it , and slew a thousand men therewith . * And Samson said , With the jawbone of an ass , heaps upon heaps , with the jaw of an ass have I slain 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 called that place Ramathlehi Ramath . * 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 ? * 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 #Eyn haq-Qowre #, which is in Lehi unto this day . * And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years .

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