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.”

¹²They said to him, “We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you 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 kill you.” 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 the Lord 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.

¹⁵He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he ¹reached out and took it and ²killed ^aa thousand men with it.

¹⁶Then Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,

¹Heaps upon heaps,

With the jawbone of a donkey

I have ²killed a thousand men.”

¹⁷When 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 the Lord and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now ¹shall I die of thirst ²and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

¹⁹But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, ^ahis ¹strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it ²En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

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