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          DASV: Judges 15    

1 After a while, during the wheat harvest, Samson visited his
wife with a young goat. He said, "I want to go to sleep with
my wife in her bedroom." But her father would not allow him
to enter.
2 Her father explained, "I really thought that you hated her,
so I gave her to your best man. Isn't her younger sister more
beautiful than she is? Please, take her instead."
3 But Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless
when I work havoc on the Philistines."
4 So Samson went and caught 300 foxes, tied their tails
together in pairs and secured a torch between each pair
of tails.
5 Then he set the torches on fire, and let them loose in
the Philistine's grain fields. He burned up both the
stacked grain and the standing grain, and even the olive
groves.
6 Then the Philistines inquired, "Who did this?" They answered,
"Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife,
and gave her to his best man." So the Philistines came
and burned up both her and her father.

7 Then Samson said to them, "Because you did this, surely I
will get revenge on you, only after that will I stop."
8 He struck them down viciously with a great slaughter.
Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.
9 Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread
out for battle near Lehi.
10 The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come up to attack us?"
They answered, "We have come up to bind Samson and do to him
what he did to us."
11 Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cave in the rock
of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the
Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?"
He said to them, "I just did to them what they did to me."
12 Then they said to him, "We have come down to bind you,
that we may hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said
to them, "Promise me, that you will not kill me yourselves."
13 So they swore to him, "We promise, but we will tie you up
and hand you over to them, but we will not kill you." So they
tied him up with two new ropes, and brought him up from
the rock.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached
him. The Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the
ropes on his arms snapped as easily as charred flax and fell
off his hands.
15 He found a fresh donkey jawbone, and reached out and
grabbed it, and killed 1,000 men with it.
16 Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone, I piled up
heaps of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed
1,000 men."
17 When he finished talking, he threw the jawbone away and
the place was named Ramath-lehi [Jawbone Hill].
18 He was very dehydrated, and cried out to the LORD, and said,
"You have given this great victory by the hand of your servant.
Now am I going to die from thirst, and fall into the hands
of the uncircumcised?"
19 So God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi and water
came out. After he drank some, his spirit returned, and he
revived. That's why its name was called En-hakkore [Spring
of the One who Cried Out], which is in Lehi, to this day.
20 Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the
Philistines.

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