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He told her father, “I want to go to my wife's room.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_1">But he wouldn't let him go in. </span><span class="v7_15_2"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.2" class="v7_15_2">2</span>He told Samson, “I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your friend. But her younger sister is prettier, anyway. You can have her, instead.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.3" class="v7_15_3">3</span>Samson said, “This time I'm not going to be responsible for what I do to the Philistines!” </span><span class="v7_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.4" class="v7_15_4">4</span>So he went and caught three hundred foxes. Two at a time, he tied their tails together and put torches in the knots. </span><span class="v7_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.5" class="v7_15_5">5</span>Then he set fire to the torches and turned the foxes loose in the Philistine wheat fields. In this way he burned up not only the wheat that had been harvested but also the wheat that was still in the fields. The olive orchards were also burned. </span><span class="v7_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.6" class="v7_15_6">6</span>When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson's wife to a friend of Samson's. So the Philistines went and burned the woman to death and burned down her father's house.<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.15.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.7" class="v7_15_7">7</span>Samson told them, “So this is how you act! I swear that I won't stop until I pay you back!” </span><span class="v7_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.8" class="v7_15_8">8</span>He attacked them fiercely and killed many of them. Then he went and stayed in the cave in the cliff at Etam.</span></p><h3 class="s">Samson Defeats the Philistines</h3><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.9" class="v7_15_9">9</span>The Philistines came and camped in Judah, and attacked the town of Lehi. </span><span class="v7_15_10"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.10" class="v7_15_10">10</span>The men of Judah asked them, “Why are you attacking us?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_10">They answered, “We came to take Samson prisoner and to treat him as he treated us.” </span><span class="v7_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.11" class="v7_15_11">11</span>So these three thousand men of Judah went to the cave in the cliff at Etam and said to Samson, “Don't you know that the Philistines are our rulers? What have you done to us?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_11">He answered, “I did to them just what they did to me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.12" class="v7_15_12">12</span>They told him, “We have come here to tie you up, so we can hand you over to them.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_12">Samson said, “Give me your word that you won't kill me yourselves.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.13" class="v7_15_13">13</span>“All right,” they said, “we are only going to tie you up and hand you over to them. We won't kill you.” So they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him back from the cliff.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_14"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.14" class="v7_15_14">14</span>When he got to Lehi, the Philistines came running toward him, shouting at him. Suddenly the power of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made him strong, and he broke the ropes around his arms and hands as if they were burnt thread. </span><span class="v7_15_15"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.15" class="v7_15_15">15</span>Then he found a jawbone of a donkey that had recently died. He reached down and picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it. </span><span class="v7_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.16" class="v7_15_16">16</span>So Samson sang,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_15_16">“With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_15_16">With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them up in piles.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.15.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="m"><span class="v7_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.17" class="v7_15_17">17</span>After that, he threw the jawbone away. The place where this happened was named Ramath Lehi.<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.15.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.18" class="v7_15_18">18</span>Then Samson became very thirsty, so he called to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and said, “You gave me this great victory; am I now going to die of thirst and be captured by these heathen Philistines?” </span><span class="v7_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.19" class="v7_15_19">19</span>Then God opened a hollow place in the ground there at Lehi, and water came out of it. Samson drank it and began to feel much better. So the spring was named Hakkore;<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.15.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> it is still there at Lehi.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_15_20"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.15.20" class="v7_15_20">20</span>Samson led Israel for twenty years while the Philistines ruled the land.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.6: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">burned the woman … house; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">burned the woman and her family to death.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.16: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">piles: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This word sounds like the Hebrew for “donkey.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.17: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Ramath Lehi: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “Jawbone Hill.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.19: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Hakkore: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “caller.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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