Judges 15:9-20
1599 Geneva Bible
9 ¶ Then the Philistines came up, and pitched in Judah, and [a]were spread abroad in Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up unto us? And they answered, To [b]bind Samson are we come up, and to do to him as he hath done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? [c]Wherefore then hast thou done thus unto us? And he answered them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 Again they said unto him, We are come to bind thee, and to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 And they answered him, saying, No, but we will bind thee and [d]deliver thee unto their hand, but we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms, became as flax that was burnt with fire: for the bands loosed from his hands.
15 And he found a [e]new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hands, and caught it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
16 Then Samson said, With the jaw of an ass are heaps upon heaps: with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 And when he had left speaking, he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place, [f]Ramath Lehi.
18 And he was sore athirst, and [g]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?
19 Then God brake the cheek tooth, that was in the jaw, and water came there out: and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he was revived: wherefore the name thereof is called, [h]En Hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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- Judges 15:9 Or, camped.
- Judges 15:10 And so being our prisoner to punish him.
- Judges 15:11 Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God’s great benefits to be a plague unto them.
- Judges 15:13 Thus they had rather betray their brother, than use the means that God had given for their deliverance.
- Judges 15:15 That is, of an ass lately slain.
- Judges 15:17 Or, the lifting up of the jaw.
- Judges 15:18 Whereby appeareth that he did these things in faith, and so with a true zeal to glorify God, and deliver his country.
- Judges 15:19 Or, the fountain of him that prayed.
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