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.
