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Judges 15 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - And her father spoke, saying, I said that thou didst surely hate her, and I gave her to one of thy friends: is not her younger sister better than she? let her be to thee instead of her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and [fn]olives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - And the Philistines said, Who has done these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Sampson said to them, Though ye may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:9 - And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - And the [fn]men of Juda said, Why are ye come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what is this that thou hast done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - And they came to [fn]Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:15 - And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and smote with it a thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have smitten a thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:17 - And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone out of his hand; and he called that place the [fn]Lifting of the jaw-bone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, Thou hast been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:19 - And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of [fn]the fountain was called ‘The well of the invoker,’ which is in Lechi, until this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 - And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
BES Footnotes
Gr. olive.
Gr. man.
Gr. the jaw.
This, though unusual, is possibly the meaning of ἀναίρεσις here.
Gr. it.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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