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    Judges 15

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    Samson turns three hundred foxes into a torch procession, then turns a donkey’s jawbone into a place-name—and still ends the day asking for water.

    Foxes, fire, and a cavevv. 1–8

    At wheat harvest, Samson arrives with a young goat and discovers that his wife has been given to another man. Her father offers the younger sister instead, but Samson chooses a more combustible reply: three hundred foxes, paired tail-to-tail, each bearing a torch. The Philistines’ grain, vineyards, and olive groves go up in flames; the Philistines answer by burning the wife and her father, and Samson answers that answer with a great slaughter before withdrawing to the cave at the rock of Etam.

    A jawbone, a name, and a drinkvv. 9–20

    The Philistines camp in Judah, and three thousand men of Judah go to Etam to bind Samson and hand him over. He is tied with two new ropes, but at Lehi the Spirit of the LORD comes mightily upon him; the ropes fall away, a fresh donkey’s jawbone appears to be the day’s available weapon, and a thousand men are struck down. Samson repeats the boast, casts the jawbone from his hand, and names the place Ramath-lehi. Then the heroic scale narrows abruptly to thirst: Samson cries out, God opens a hollow place in Lehi, and the water restores him. The chapter closes with twenty years of Samson judging Israel.

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    1. Judg 15:1Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

    2. Judg 15:2“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

    3. Judg 15:3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”

    4. Judg 15:4Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

    5. Judg 15:5Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

    6. Judg 15:6“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

    7. Judg 15:7And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

    8. Judg 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

    9. Judg 15:9Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

    10. Judg 15:10“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”

    11. Judg 15:11In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

    12. Judg 15:12But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”

    13. Judg 15:13“No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

    14. Judg 15:14When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

    15. Judg 15:15He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.

    16. Judg 15:16Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”

    17. Judg 15:17And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

    18. Judg 15:18And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

    19. Judg 15:19So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

    20. Judg 15:20And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

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    • 15Joshua 23:10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
    • 15Leviticus 26:8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
    • 2Judges 14:20and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
    • 15Judges 3:31After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
    • 1Genesis 38:17“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
    • 6Judges 14:15So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
    • 151 Samuel 17:49–50Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
    • 11Judges 14:4(Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)
    • 11Judges 13:1Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
    • 151 Corinthians 1:27–28But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
    • 15Judges 4:21But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
    • 19Genesis 45:27However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.
    • 19Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
    • 1Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
    • 1Genesis 29:21Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
    • 4Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

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