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Samson
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| Judges 15:1 |
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But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest,
Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, "I will go in to my wife
in her room." But her father did not let him enter. |
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| Judges 15:2 |
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Her father said, "I really thought that you
hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister
more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead." |
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| Judges 15:3 |
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Samson then said to them, "This time I shall
be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm." |
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| Judges 15:4 |
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Samson went and caught three hundred foxes,
and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle
between two tails. |
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| Judges 15:5 |
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When he had set fire to the torches, he released
the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the
shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves. |
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| Judges 15:6 |
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Then the Philistines said, "Who did this?" And
they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and
gave her to his companion." So the Philistines came up and burned her and her
father with fire. |
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| Judges 15:7 |
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Samson said to them, "Since you act like this,
I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit." |
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| Judges 15:8 |
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He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter;
and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam. |
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| Judges 15:9 |
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Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah,
and spread out in Lehi. |
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| Judges 15:10 |
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The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up
against us?" And they said, "We have come up to bind Samson in order to do to
him as he did to us." |
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| Judges 15:11 |
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Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft
of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines
are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to
them, "As they did to me, so I have done to them." |
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| Judges 15:12 |
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They said to him, "We have come down to bind
you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said
to them, "Swear to me that you will not kill me." |
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| Judges 15:13 |
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So they said to him, "No, but we will bind you
fast and give you into their hands; yet surely we will not kill you." Then they
bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock. |
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| Judges 15:14 |
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When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted
as they met him. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily so that the
ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds
dropped from his hands. |
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| Judges 15:15 |
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He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he
reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it. |
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| Judges 15:16 |
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Then Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey,
Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men." |
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| Judges 15:17 |
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When he had finished speaking, he threw the
jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi. |
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| Judges 15:18 |
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Then he became very thirsty, and he called to
the LORD and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your
servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" |
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| Judges 15:19 |
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But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi
so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived.
Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day. |
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| Judges 15:20 |
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So he judged Israel twenty years in the days
of the Philistines. |
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