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Judges 15 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Samson Burns Philistine Crops

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister [fn]more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours [fn]instead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - When he had set fire to the torches, he released [fn]the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because [fn]he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Samson said to them, “Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - He struck them [fn]ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:9 - Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they said, “We have come up to bind Samson in order to do to him as he did to us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - They 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 [fn]kill me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - So they said to [fn]him, “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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the LORD [fn]came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds [fn]dropped from his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:15 - He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he [fn]reached out and took it and [fn]killed a thousand men with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Then Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
[fn]Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have [fn]killed a thousand men.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:17 - When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place [fn]Ramath-lehi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now [fn]shall I die of thirst [fn]and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:19 - But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his [fn]strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it [fn]En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 - So he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: better
Literally: instead of her
Literally: them
I.e. the Timnite
Literally: leg on thigh
Literally: fall upon me yourselves
Literally: him, saying
Literally: rushed upon
Literally: were melted
Literally: stretched out his hand
Literally: smote
Literally: Heap, two heaps; Heb is same root as donkey
Literally: smitten
I.e. the high place of the jawbone
Or, I shall...uncircumcised
Or, or
Literally: spirit
I.e. the spring of him who called
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Judges Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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