Judges 15:11–20

¹¹Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know ^athat 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 I have done to them.”

¹²And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you yourselves will not ¹kill me.”

¹³So they said to ¹him, “No, but we will bind you fast and give you into their hands; yet surely we will not put you to death.” Then they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

¹⁴When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And ^athe Spirit of Yahweh ¹came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds ²dropped from his hands.

¹⁵And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he sent forth his hand and took it and struck down ^a1,000 men with it.

¹⁶Then Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,

¹Heaps upon heaps,

With the jawbone of a donkey

I have struck down 1,000 men.”

¹⁷Now it happened that when he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place ¹Ramath-lehi.

¹⁸Then he became very thirsty, and he ^acalled to Yahweh and said, “You have given this great salvation by the hand of Your slave, but now ¹shall I die of thirst ²and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

¹⁹So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi and water came out of it. Then he drank, ^aand his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he named it ¹En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

²⁰And ^ahe judged Israel twenty years in ^bthe days of the Philistines.