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Judges 15 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Samson Burns Philistine Crops

Jdg 15:1

Jdg 15:1But 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.

Jdg 15:2

Jdg 15:2Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister [fn]more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours [fn]instead.”

Jdg 15:3

Jdg 15:3Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.”

Jdg 15:4

Jdg 15:4Samson 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.

Jdg 15:5

Jdg 15:5When he had set fire to the torches, he released [fn]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.

Jdg 15:6

Jdg 15:6Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because [fn]he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

Jdg 15:7

Jdg 15:7Samson said to them, “Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit.”

Jdg 15:8

Jdg 15:8He struck them [fn]ruthlessly 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 Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

Jdg 15:10

Jdg 15:10The 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.”

Jdg 15:11

Jdg 15:11Then 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.”

Jdg 15:12

Jdg 15:12They 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 [fn]kill me.”

Jdg 15:13

Jdg 15:13So they said to [fn]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.

Jdg 15:14

Jdg 15:14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the LORD [fn]came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds [fn]dropped from his hands.

Jdg 15:15

Jdg 15:15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he [fn]reached out and took it and [fn]killed a thousand men with it.

Jdg 15:16

Jdg 15:16Then Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
[fn]Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have [fn]killed a thousand men.”

Jdg 15:17

Jdg 15:17When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place [fn]Ramath-lehi.

Jdg 15:18

Jdg 15:18Then 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 [fn]shall I die of thirst [fn]and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

Jdg 15:19

Jdg 15:19But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his [fn]strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it [fn]En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

Jdg 15:20

Jdg 15:20So he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: better
Literally: instead of her
Literally: them
I.e. the Timnite
Literally: leg on thigh
Literally: fall upon me yourselves
Literally: him, saying
Literally: rushed upon
Literally: were melted
Literally: stretched out his hand
Literally: smote
Literally: Heap, two heaps; Heb is same root as donkey
Literally: smitten
I.e. the high place of the jawbone
Or, I shall...uncircumcised
Or, or
Literally: spirit
I.e. the spring of him who called
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