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Judges 15 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Jdg 15:1

Jdg 15:1But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Shimshon visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

Jdg 15:2

Jdg 15:2Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

Jdg 15:3

Jdg 15:3Shimshon said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Pelishtim, when I do them a mischief.

Jdg 15:4

Jdg 15:4Shimshon 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.

Jdg 15:5

Jdg 15:5When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Pelishtim, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

Jdg 15:6

Jdg 15:6Then the Pelishtim said, Who has done this? They said, Shimshon, the son-in-law of the Timni, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Pelishtim came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

Jdg 15:7

Jdg 15:7Shimshon said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

Jdg 15:8

Jdg 15:8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of `Etam.

Jdg 15:9

Jdg 15:9Then the Pelishtim went up, and encamped in Yehudah, and spread themselves in Lechi.

Jdg 15:10

Jdg 15:10The men of Yehudah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind Shimshon are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.

Jdg 15:11

Jdg 15:11Then three thousand men of Yehudah went down to the cleft of the rock of `Etam, and said to Shimshon, "Don't you know that the Pelishtim are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

Jdg 15:12

Jdg 15:12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Pelishtim. Shimshon said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.

Jdg 15:13

Jdg 15:13They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

Jdg 15:14

Jdg 15:14When he came to Lechi, the Pelishtim shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

Jdg 15:15

Jdg 15:15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

Jdg 15:16

Jdg 15:16Shimshon said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.

Jdg 15:17

Jdg 15:17It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramat-Lechi.

Jdg 15:18

Jdg 15:18He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

Jdg 15:19

Jdg 15:19But God split the hollow place that is in Lechi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was called En Hakkore, which is in Lechi, to this day.

Jdg 15:20

Jdg 15:20He judged Yisra'el in the days of the Pelishtim twenty years.
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