Samson · Issue #3 of 6
The Jawbone
Judges 15:9–17 · World English Bible
Judges 15:9
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges 15:10
The men of Judah said,
Why have you come up against us?
They said,
We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
Judges 15:11
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson,
Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?
He said to them,
As they did to me, so I have done to them.
Judges 15:12
They said to him,
We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.
Samson said to them,
Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.
Judges 15:13
They spoke to him, saying,
No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.
They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
Judges 15:15
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
Judges 15:16
Samson said,
With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.
Judges 15:17
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
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