Judges Chapter 15

Judges Chapter 15
1 But within a while after, in the time of
wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife
with a kid, saying, 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 thought that thou
hadst hated her: therefore gave I her to
thy companion. Is not her younger sister
fairer than she? Take her, I pray thee,
instead of the other.
3 Then Samson said unto them, Now am
I more blameless than the
Philistines: therefore will I do them
displeasure.
4 And Samson went out, and took three
hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and
turned them tail to tail, and put a
firebrand in the midst between two tails.
5 And when he had set the brands on
fire, he sent them out into the standing
corn of the Philistines, and burned up
both the ricks and 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. Then the Philistines came up
and burned 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 then I will cease.
8 So he smote them hip and thigh with a
mighty plague: then he went and dwelt in
the top of the rock Etam.
9 Then the Philistines came up, and
pitched in Judah, and were spread
abroad in Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are
ye come up unto us? And they answered,
To bind Samson are we come up, and 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?
Wherefore then hast thou done thus unto
us? And he answered them, As they did
unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 Again they said unto him, We are
come to bind thee, and to 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 answered him, saying, No,
but we will bind thee and deliver thee
unto their hand, but we will not kill thee.
And they bound him with two new
cords, and brought him from the rock.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines
shouted against him, and the spirit of the
Lord came upon him, and the cords that
were upon his arms, became as flax that
was burned with fire: for the bands
loosed from his hands. 15 And he found
a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth
his hand, and caught it, and slew a
thousand men therewith.
16 Then Samson said, With the jaw of an
ass are heaps upon heaps: with the jaw
of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 And when he had left speaking, he
cast away the jawbone out of his hand,
and called that place, Ramath-Lehi.
18 And he was sore a thirst, 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 hands of the
uncircumcised?
19 Then God break the cheek tooth, that
was in the jaw, and water came there
out: and when he had drunk, his spirit
came again, and he was revived:
wherefore the name thereof is called,
Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this
day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of
the Philistines twenty years.