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Samson said to them , "
Since you would do a thing like this ,
I will surely take revenge on you ,
and after that I will cease ."
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So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter ;
then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam .
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Now the Philistines went up ,
encamped in Judah ,
and deployed themselves against Lehi .
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And the men of Judah said , "
Why have you come up against us ?"
So they answered , "
We have come up to arrest Samson ,
to do to him as he has done to us ."
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Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam ,
and said to Samson , "
Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us ?
What is this you have done to us ?"
And he said to them , "
As they did to me ,
so I have done to them ."
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But they said to him , "
We have come down to arrest you ,
that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines ."
Then Samson said to them , "
Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves ."
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So they spoke to him ,
saying , "
No ,
but we will tie you securely and deliver you into their hand ;
but we will surely not kill you ."
And they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock .
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When he came to Lehi ,
the Philistines came shouting against him .
Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him ;
and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire ,
and his bonds broke loose from his hands .