15:1 After
some
days,
at
the
time
of
wheat
harvest,
Samson
went
to
visit
his
wife
with
a
young
goat.
And
he
said,
"I
will
go
in
to
my
wife
in
the
chamber."
But
her
father
would
not
allow
him
to
go
in.
15:2 And
her
father
said,
"I
really
thought
that
you
utterly
hated
her,
so
I
gave
her
to
your
companion.
Is
not
her
younger
sister
more
beautiful
than
she
Please
take
her
instead."
15:3 And
Samson
said
to
them,
"This
time
I
shall
be
innocent
in
regard
to
the
Philistines,
when
I
do
them
harm."
15:4 So
Samson
went
and
caught
300
foxes
and
took
torches.
And
he
turned
them
tail
to
tail
and
put
a
torch
between
each
pair
of
tails.
15:5 And
when
he
had
set
fire
to
the
torches,
he
let
the
foxes
go
into
the
standing
grain
of
the
Philistines
and
set
fire
to
the
stacked
grain
and
the
standing
grain,
as
well
as
the
olive
orchards.
15:6 Then
the
Philistines
said,
"Who
has
done
this"
And
they
said,
"Samson,
the
son-in-law
of
the
Timnite,
because
he
has
taken
his
wife
and
given
her
to
his
companion."
And
the
Philistines
came
up
and
burned
her
and
her
father
with
fire.
15:7 And
Samson
said
to
them,
"If
this
is
what
you
do,
I
swear
I
will
be
avenged
on
you,
and
after
that
I
will
quit."
15:8 And
he
struck
them
hip
and
thigh
with
a
great
blow,
and
he
went
down
and
stayed
in
the
cleft
of
the
rock
of
Etam.
15:9 Then
the
Philistines
came
up
and
encamped
in
Judah
and
made
a
raid
on
Lehi.
15:10 And
the
men
of
Judah
said,
"Why
have
you
come
up
against
us"
They
said,
"We
have
come
up
to
bind
Samson,
to
do
to
him
as
he
did
to
us."
15:11 Then
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
have
I
done
to
them."
15:12 And
they
said
to
him,
"We
have
come
down
to
bind
you,
that
we
may
give
you
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines."
And
Samson
said
to
them,
"Swear
to
me
that
you
will
not
attack
me
yourselves."
15:13 They
said
to
him,
"No;
we
will
only
bind
you
and
give
you
into
their
hands.
We
will
surely
not
kill
you."
So
they
bound
him
with
two
new
ropes
and
brought
him
up
from
the
rock.
15:14 When
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
as
flax
that
has
caught
fire,
and
his
bonds
melted
off
his
hands.
15:15 And
he
found
a
fresh
jawbone
of
a
donkey,
and
put
out
his
hand
and
took
it,
and
with
it
he
struck
1,000
men.
15:16 And
Samson
said,
"With
the
jawbone
of
a
donkey,
heaps
upon
heaps,
with
the
jawbone
of
a
donkey
have
I
struck
down
a
thousand
men."
15:17 As
soon
as
he
had
finished
speaking,
he
threw
away
the
jawbone
out
of
his
hand.
And
that
place
was
called
Ramath-lehi.
15:18 And
he
was
very
thirsty,
and
he
called
upon
the
LORD
and
said,
"You
have
granted
this
great
salvation
by
the
hand
of
your
servant,
and
shall
I
now
die
of
thirst
and
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
uncircumcised"
15:19 And
God
split
open
the
hollow
place
that
is
at
Lehi,
and
water
came
out
from
it.
And
when
he
drank,
his
spirit
returned,
and
he
revived.
Therefore
the
name
of
it
was
called
En-hakkore;
it
is
at
Lehi
to
this
day.
15:20 And
he
judged
Israel
in
the
days
of
the
Philistines
twenty
years.