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Judges 15:1-20 — Samson's Vengeance
Judg.15.1-20
1Later on, during the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not let him go in. 2Her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, let her be yours instead.” 3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless regarding the Philistines, when I do them harm.” 4So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes . He took torches, turned them tail to tail, and put one torch in the middle between every two tails. 5He set the torches on fire and let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and olive groves. 6The Philistines said, “Who did this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire. 7Samson said to them, “Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and only after that will I stop.” 8He struck them viciously with a great slaughter. Then he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. 9Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi. 10The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him just as he has done to us.” 11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us?” He said to them, “Just as they did to me, so I have done to them.” 12They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, to hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.” 13They said to him, “No, we will only bind you securely and hand you over to them, but we will certainly not put you to death.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock. 14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned with fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. 15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men with it. 16Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps ! With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men.” 17When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath Lehi . 18He became very thirsty, and he called out to the LORD and said, “You have granted this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?” 19So God split open the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. He drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he named it En Hakkore , which is in Lehi to this day. 20He judged Israel for twenty years during the time of the Philistines.
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4/11/2026
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