Judges 15
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Judges 15:9-19

9Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. 10And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to us. 11Then 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? what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.1 12And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. 13And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee securely, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. 14And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.2 15And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.3 16And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I slain a thousand men.4 17And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.5

18And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19But God opened an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore he called the name of it Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.67

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  1. 1. Judges 15:11 went: Heb. went down ↩
  2. 2. Judges 15:14 loosed: Heb. were melted ↩
  3. 3. Judges 15:15 new: Heb. moist ↩
  4. 4. Judges 15:16 heaps upon...: Heb. an heap, two heaps ↩
  5. 5. Judges 15:17 Ramathlehi: that is, the lifting up of the jawbone, or, casting away of the jawbone ↩
  6. 6. Judges 15:19 Enhakkore: that is, the well of him that called or, cried ↩
  7. 7. Judges 15:19 the jaw: or, Lehi, as called in this chapter ↩

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Revised Webster's Bible — 1833 — Public Domain