But it came to pass within a while after, <H3117> in the time <H3117> of wheat <H2406> harvest, <H7105> that Samson <H8123> visited <H6485> his wife <H0802> with a kid; <H1423> <H5795> and he said, <H0559> I will go in <H0935> to my wife <H0802> into the chamber. <H2315> But her father <H0001> would not suffer <H5414> him to go in. <H0935>
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And her father <H0001> said, <H0559> I verily <H0559> thought <H0559> that thou hadst utterly <H8130> hated <H8130> her; therefore I gave <H5414> her to thy companion: <H4828> [is] not her younger <H6996> sister <H0269> fairer <H2896> than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
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And Samson <H8123> said <H0559> concerning them, Now <H6471> shall I be more blameless <H5352> than the Philistines, <H6430> though I do <H6213> them a displeasure. <H7451>
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And Samson <H8123> went <H3212> and caught <H3920> three <H7969> hundred <H3967> foxes, <H7776> and took <H3947> firebrands, <H3940> and turned <H6437> tail <H2180> to tail, <H2180> and put <H7760> a <H0259> firebrand <H3940> in the midst <H8432> between two <H8147> tails. <H2180>
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And when he had set <H1197> the brands <H3940> on fire, <H0784> he let [them] go <H7971> into the standing corn <H7054> of the Philistines, <H6430> and burnt up <H1197> both the shocks, <H1430> and also the standing corn, <H7054> with the vineyards <H3754> [and] olives. <H2132>
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Then the Philistines <H6430> said, <H0559> Who hath done <H6213> this? And they answered, <H0559> Samson, <H8123> the son in law <H2860> of the Timnite, <H8554> because he had taken <H3947> his wife, <H0802> and given <H5414> her to his companion. <H4828> And the Philistines <H6430> came up, <H5927> and burnt <H8313> her and her father <H0001> with fire. <H0784>
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And Samson <H8123> said <H0559> unto them, Though ye have done <H6213> this, <H2063> yet <H0518> will I be avenged <H5358> of you, and after <H0310> that I will cease. <H2308>
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And he smote <H5221> them hip <H7785> and <H5921> thigh <H3409> with a great <H1419> slaughter: <H4347> and he went down <H3381> and dwelt <H3427> in the top <H5585> of the rock <H5553> Etam. <H5862>
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Then the Philistines <H6430> went up, <H5927> and pitched <H2583> in Judah, <H3063> and spread <H5203> themselves in Lehi. <H3896>
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And the men <H0376> of Judah <H3063> said, <H0559> Why are ye come up <H5927> against us? And they answered, <H0559> To bind <H0631> Samson <H8123> are we come up, <H5927> to do <H6213> to him as he hath done <H6213> to us.
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Then three <H7969> thousand <H0505> men <H0376> of Judah <H3063> went <H3381> to the top <H5585> of the rock <H5553> Etam, <H5862> and said <H0559> to Samson, <H8123> Knowest <H3045> thou not that the Philistines <H6430> [are] rulers <H4910> over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done <H6213> unto us? And he said <H0559> unto them, As they did <H6213> unto me, so have I done <H6213> unto them.
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And they said <H0559> unto him, We are come down <H3381> to bind <H0631> thee, that we may deliver <H5414> thee into the hand <H3027> of the Philistines. <H6430> And Samson <H8123> said <H0559> unto them, Swear <H7650> unto me, that ye will not fall upon <H6293> me yourselves.
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And they spake <H0559> unto him, saying, <H0559> No; but we will bind <H0631> thee fast, <H0631> and deliver <H5414> thee into their hand: <H3027> but surely <H4191> we will not kill <H4191> thee. And they bound <H0631> him with two <H8147> new <H2319> cords, <H5688> and brought him up <H5927> from the rock. <H5553>
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[And] when he came <H0935> unto Lehi, <H3896> the Philistines <H6430> shouted <H7321> against <H7125> him: and the Spirit <H7307> of the LORD <H3068> came mightily <H6743> upon him, and the cords <H5688> that [were] upon his arms <H2220> became as flax <H6593> that was burnt <H1197> with fire, <H0784> and his bands <H0612> loosed <H4549> from off his hands. <H3027>
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And he found <H4672> a new <H2961> jawbone <H3895> of an ass, <H2543> and put forth <H7971> his hand, <H3027> and took <H3947> it, and slew <H5221> a thousand <H0505> men <H0376> therewith.
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And Samson <H8123> said, <H0559> With the jawbone <H3895> of an ass, <H2543> heaps <H2565> upon heaps, <H2565> with the jaw <H3895> of an ass <H2543> have I slain <H5221> a thousand <H0505> men. <H0376>
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And it came to pass, when he had made an end <H3615> of speaking, <H1696> that he cast away <H7993> the jawbone <H3895> out of his hand, <H3027> and called <H7121> that place <H4725> Ramathlehi. <H7437>
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And he was sore <H3966> athirst, <H6770> and called <H7121> on the LORD, <H3068> and said, <H0559> Thou hast given <H5414> this great <H1419> deliverance <H8668> into the hand <H3027> of thy servant: <H5650> and now shall I die <H4191> for thirst, <H6772> and fall <H5307> into the hand <H3027> of the uncircumcised? <H6189>
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But God <H0430> clave <H1234> an hollow place <H4388> that [was] in the jaw, <H3895> and there came water <H4325> thereout; <H3318> and when he had drunk, <H8354> his spirit <H7307> came again, <H7725> and he revived: <H2421> wherefore he called <H7121> the name <H8034> thereof Enhakkore, <H5875> which [is] in Lehi <H3896> unto this day. <H3117>
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And he judged <H8199> Israel <H3478> in the days <H3117> of the Philistines <H6430> twenty <H6242> years. <H8141>