He burns Philistine harvest fields
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📚But a little time later, in the time of wheat harvest, it came about that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in her room”. But her father would not let him go in. 2 📚And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister prettier than she? Please take her instead of her”.
3 📚And Samson said about them, “Now I will be blameless in regard to the Philistines 📖, even though I harm them”. 4 📚And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches and turned the foxes 📖 tail to tail and put a torch in the middle between two tails. 5 📚And when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and also the standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.
6 📚Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they answered, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend”. And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
7 📚And Samson said to them, “Since you have done this, I will take vengeance 📖 on you, and after that I will stop”. 8 📚And he struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and stayed on the top of the rock Etam.
9 📚Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah and spread out in Lehi 📖. 10 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
And they answered, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us”.
11 📚Then three thousand men 📖 of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us 📖? What is this you have done to us?”
And he said to them, “I did to them just as they did to me 📖”.
12 📚And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, so that we can deliver you into the hands of the Philistines”.
And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves”.
15:12 Instead of opposing their enemies they accepted their authority over them and opposed the one who would not – not an unknown thing in spiritual matters as well.⚜
13 And they spoke to him, saying, “No; but we will bind you fast and deliver you into their hands. But we will certainly not kill you”. And they bound him with two new cords and brought him from the rock.
He kills 1000 with the jawbone of donkey
14 📚And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him; and the Spirit of the LORD 📖 came mightily on him, and the cords that were on his arms became like flax burned in the fire and his bonds came loose from his hands. 15 📚And he saw a fresh jawbone of a donkey and put out his hand and picked it up, and with it killed a thousand men 📖.
16 And Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
heaps on heaps!
With the jaw of a donkey
I have killed
a thousand men”.
17 And it came about, when he finished saying this, that he threw the jawbone out of his hand and called that place Ramath-Lehi 📖. 18 📚And he was very thirsty, and called out to the LORD 📖 and said, “You have given this great deliverance 📖 into the hand of your servant, and now must I die from thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 📚But God hollowed out a place there in Lehi, and water came out of it 📖. And when he had drunk, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he called its name En-Hakkore. It is in Lehi to this day.
20 📚And he judged 📖 Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.