Judges 15:11–20

¹¹Then three thousand men of Judah went to ^dthe top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are ^hrulers 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. ¹²And 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. ¹³And 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 ⁱnew cords, and brought him up from the rock. ¹⁴And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and ^jthe spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and ⁱthe cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. ¹⁵And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and ^kslew a thousand men therewith. ¹⁶And Samson said,

With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,

With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

¹⁷And 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 Ramath-lehi.

¹⁸And 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? ¹⁹But God clave ^la hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, ^mhis spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. ²⁰And he judged Israel ⁿin the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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