Judges 15
1 But it came to pass within a while
after, 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
suffer him to go
in.
2 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.
3 And
Samson said concerning them,
Now shall I be more
blameless than the
Philistines, though I
do them a
displeasure. 4 And
Samson went and
caught three hundred foxes, and
took firebrands, and
turned tail to
tail, and
put a firebrand in the
midst between
two tails. 5 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. 6 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. 7 And
Samson said unto them,
Though ye have
done this, yet will I be
avenged of you, and
after that I will
cease.
8 And he
smote them
hip and thigh with a
great slaughter: and he went
down and
dwelt in the
top of the
rock Etam. 9 Then the
Philistines went
up, and
pitched in
Judah, and
spread themselves in
Lehi. 10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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. 14 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. 15 And he
found a
new jawbone of an
ass, and put
forth his
hand, and
took it, and
slew a
thousand men therewith.
16 And
Samson said, With the
jawbone of an
ass, heaps upon
heaps, with the
jaw of an
ass have I
slain a
thousand men. 17 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. 18 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? 19 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, which is in
Lehi unto this
day. 20 And he
judged Israel in the
days of the
Philistines twenty years.