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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Judges 15 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Judges 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/14.htm" title="Judges 14">◄</a> Judges 15 <a href="../judges/16.htm" title="Judges 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/judges/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Samson Defeats the Philistines</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And 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 did to us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 have I done to them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Samson said,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“With the jawbone of a donkey,</span><br /><span class="indent">heaps upon heaps,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">with the jawbone of a donkey</span><br /><span class="indent">have I struck down a thousand men.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ramath-lehi means the hill of the jawbone">a</a></sup></span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="En-hakkore means the spring of him who called">b</a></sup></span> it is at Lehi to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <i class="catch-word">Ramath-lehi</i> means <i>the hill of the jawbone</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <i class="catch-word">En-hakkore</i> means <i>the spring of him who called</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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