Bible, King James Version
Judges
Judg.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 Ramath-lehi.
[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
En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
[20] And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines
twenty years.
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