SAMSON DOES BATTLE
Judges 15:9-20
9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come
up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up,
to do to him as he hath done to us. 11 Then three thousand men of
Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson,
Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what
[is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As
they did unto me, so have I done unto them. 12 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. 13 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 cords, and brought him up from the rock. 14
[And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him:
and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords
that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire,
and his bands loosed from off his hands. 15 And he found a new
jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a
thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of
an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a
thousand men. 17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and
called that place Ramathlehi. 18 And he was sore athirst, and
called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great
deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for
thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19 But God
clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw, and there came water
thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he
revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which
[is] in Lehi unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days
of the Philistines twenty years.
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