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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; and he said, I will go in to my wife into
the chamber. But her father would not suffer him
to go in.
02 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.
03 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I
be more blameless than the Philistines, though I
do them a displeasure.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done
this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after
that I will cease.
08 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great
slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top
of the rock Etam.
09 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.
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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.
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