Judges Chapter 15

• Judges 15:1
  Judges.
• Judges 15:2
  But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father ...
• Judges 15:3
  Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful...
• Judges 15:4
  Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
• Judges 15:5
  Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
• Judges 15:6
  When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, ...
• Judges 15:7
  Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his ...
• Judges 15:8
  Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
• Judges 15:9
  He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
• Judges 15:10
  Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
• Judges 15:11
  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 15:12
  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? Wh...
• Judges 15:13
  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 yo...
• Judges 15:14
  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 ...
• Judges 15:15
  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...
• Judges 15:16
  He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
• Judges 15:17
  Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
• Judges 15:18
  When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
• Judges 15:19
  He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirs...
• Judges 15:20
  But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name...
• Judges 15:21
  He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.