Judges - Verse by Verse

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Judges 15:15
15 Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

 

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Judges 15:16
16 Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men."

 

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Judges 15:17
17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.

 

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Judges 15:8
8 He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

 

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Judges 15:9
9 The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.

 

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Judges 15:10
10 The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come to fight us?" "We have come to take Samson prisoner," they answered, "to do to him as he did to us."

 

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Judges 15:11
11 Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us? He answered, "I merely did to them what they did to me."

 

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Judges 15:12
12 They said to him, "We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said, "Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves."

 

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Judges 15:13
13 "Agreed," they answered. "We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

 

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Judges 15:14
14 As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.

 

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Judges 15:15
15 Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

 

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Judges 15:16
16 Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men."

 

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Judges 15:17
17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.

 

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Judges 15:18
18 Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

 

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Judges 15:19
19 Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore, and it is still there in Lehi.

 

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Judges 15:20
20 Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

 

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Judges 16:1
1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

 

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Judges 16:2
2 The people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here!" So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, "At dawn we'll kill him."

 

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Judges 16:3
3 But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

 

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Judges 16:4
4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.