Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Later
on
, at
the time of the
wheat harvest, Samson took
a
young
goat
and
went
to
visit
his wife .
“
I want
to
go to my wife in
her
room,”
he
said
. But her father would not let
him enter
.
But
it
came
to
pass
after
a
while
, 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
.
“
I was
sure
that you
thoroughly
hated her ,”
said
her
father,
“so
I gave her to one
of
the
men
who
accompanied
you.
Is not her younger sister more
beautiful
than she? Please
take her instead. ”
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
.
Samson said to
them, “
This time I will
be blameless in doing
harm
to
the Philistines. ”
And
Samson said unto
them, This time shall
I be blameless in regard
of
the Philistines ,
when
I
do
them
a
mischief
.
Then
Samson went out
and caught three hundred foxes .
And he
took torches
, turned the
foxes
tail -
to -
tail, and fastened
a torch
between each
pair
of
tails.
And
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes ,
and took firebrands
, and
turned tail to tail, and put
a firebrand
in
the
midst
between every
two
tails.
Then
he
lit
the
torches
and released
the foxes
into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning
up the piles
of
grain
and the standing grain, as
well
as
the
vineyards
and olive
groves
.
And when
he
had
set
the brands
on
fire,
he
let
them
go
into the standing grain of the Philistines, and
burnt
up both
the shocks
and the standing grain, and also
the
oliveyards
.
“
Who did
this? ”
the
Philistines
demanded.
“It
was
Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, ”
they
were
told.
“For
his wife was
given to his companion. ”
So
the Philistines went
up and burned
her and her father to
death
.
Then
the
Philistines
said,
Who hath
done
this? And
they
said,
Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because
he
hath
taken
his wife ,
and
given her
to his companion. And
the Philistines came
up ,
and burnt
her and her father with
fire
.
And Samson told
them, “Because
you
have
done
this, I will not
rest
until
I
have
taken
vengeance
upon
you. ”
And Samson said
unto
them, If
ye
do
after
this manner
, surely
I will be
avenged
of
you ,
and
after
that
I
will
cease
.
And he struck
them ruthlessly
with a great slaughter ,
and then
went down and stayed
in the cave
at
the rock of Etam.
And he smote
them hip
and
thigh
with a great slaughter :
and he
went down and dwelt
in the cleft
of
the rock of Etam.
Then the Philistines went up, camped
in Judah, and deployed
themselves near
the
town
of
Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and
encamped
in Judah, and spread
themselves in
Lehi.
“Why
have
you
attacked
us?”
said
the men of Judah .
The
Philistines
replied
, “We
have
come to arrest
Samson and
pay
him back
for
what
he has
done to us. ”
And
the men of Judah said
, Why
are
ye
come up
against
us?
And
they
said,
To bind
Samson are
we
come
up,
to
do
to
him as
he hath
done to us.
In
response,
three thousand men of Judah went to the cave
at
the rock of Etam, and they
asked
Samson, “Do
you
not realize
that the Philistines rule
over us? What have
you
done to
us? ”
“I
have
done
to
them what
they did to
me, ”
he
replied
.
Then
three thousand men of Judah went down
to the cleft
of
the rock of Etam, and said
to
Samson, Knowest
thou
not that the Philistines are
rulers
over us? what then
is
this
that
thou
hast
done unto
us? And
he
said
unto
them ,
As
they did unto
me, so
have
I
done
unto
them
.
But
they said to
him, “
We have
come down to arrest
you
and
hand you
over
to
the Philistines. ”
Samson replied
, “
Swear to
me that you
will not kill
me yourselves. ”
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.
“No,”
they answered
, “we
will
not
kill
you
, but we will tie
you
up
securely
and hand you
over
to
them
. ”
So
they bound him with two new ropes and led
him up from the rock.
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 ropes ,
and brought
him up from the rock.
When Samson
arrived
in
Lehi, the Philistines came
out
shouting
against
him .
And the Spirit of the
LORD
came mightily upon him .
The ropes on
his arms became like
burnt
flax, and the
bonds
broke
loose
from his hands.
When he
came
unto
Lehi, the Philistines shouted
as
they
met
him :
and the Spirit of Jehovah
came mightily upon him ,
and
the ropes that
were
upon
his arms became as
flax that
was
burnt
with
fire
, and his
bands
dropped
from off
his hands.
He found the
fresh jawbone of a
donkey
, reached
out
his hand and took it, and struck
down
a thousand men.
And
he found a
fresh jawbone of an
ass
, and
put
forth
his hand ,
and took it, and smote
a thousand men therewith
.
Then
Samson said :
“
With the jawbone of a
donkey
I
have
piled
them
into
heaps .
With the jawbone of a
donkey
I
have slain
a thousand men. ”
And
Samson said ,
With the jawbone of an
ass,
heaps upon
heaps,
With the jawbone of an
ass
have I
smitten
a thousand men.
And when Samson
had finished
speaking, he cast the jawbone from
his hand; and he
named
that place Ramath-lehi.
And it
came
to
pass,
when he
had made
an
end
of
speaking, that
he cast away
the jawbone out
of
his hand; and that place was
called
Ramath-lehi.
And being
very
thirsty
, Samson
cried
out
to
the
LORD
, “You
have
accomplished
this great deliverance through
Your
servant .
Must
I
now die of
thirst and fall into the hands
of the uncircumcised ?”
And he
was
sore
athirst
, and
called
on
Jehovah
, and
said,
Thou
hast
given
this great deliverance by
the
hand
of
thy
servant ;
and
now shall
I
die for
thirst ,
and fall into the hand
of the uncircumcised .
So
God opened
up
the hollow place in Lehi, and water
came out
of
it.
When Samson
drank
, his strength
returned
, and he was
revived .
That
is
why
he
named
it
En-hakkore, and
it
remains
in Lehi to
this day.
But
God clave
the hollow place that
is
in Lehi, and there
came water
thereout;
and
when he
had
drunk
, his spirit
came
again
, and he revived :
wherefore
the
name
thereof
was
called
En-hakkore, which
is
in Lehi ,
unto
this day.
And Samson
judged Israel for
twenty
years
in the days of the Philistines.
And he
judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty
years
.
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