1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. Compare verse2 commentaries
2 And her father said, I truly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray you, instead of her. Compare verse2 commentaries
3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. Compare verse2 commentaries
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middle between two tails. Compare verse7 commentaries
5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. Compare verse7 commentaries
6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. Compare verse2 commentaries
7 And Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. Compare verse2 commentaries
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelled in the top of the rock Etam. Compare verse2 commentaries
9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. Compare verse1 commentary
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us. Compare verse1 commentary
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Know you not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that you have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. Compare verse1 commentary
12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that you will not fall on me yourselves. Compare verse1 commentary
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. Compare verse1 commentary
14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the cords that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. Compare verse2 commentaries
15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. Compare verse2 commentaries
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps on heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi. Compare verse
18 And he was sore thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? Compare verse3 commentaries
19 But God split an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of there; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: why he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day. Compare verse3 commentaries
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. Compare verse