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Judges 15

4 Samsón tieth firebrandes to the foxe tailes. 6 The Philistíms burnt his father in lawe and his wife. 15 With the jawebone of an asse he killeth a thousand men. 19 Out of a great tothe in the jawe God gave him water.
1.But within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, Samsón visited his wife with a kid, saying, I wil ago into my wife into the chamber: but her father wolde not suffre him to go in.
2.And her father said, I thoght that thou haddest hated her: therefore gave I her to thy companion. Is not her yonger sister fairer then she? take her, I pray thee, in stead of the other.
3.Then Samsón said unto them, Now am I more bblameles then the Philistíms: therefore wil I do them displeasure.
4.¶ And Samsón went out, and toke thre hundreth foxes, and toke firebrands, and turned them taile to taile, and put a firebrand in the middes betwene two tailes.
5.And when he had set the brandes on fier, he sent them out into the standing corne of the Philistíms, and burnt up bothe the criekes and the standing corne with the vineyardes and olives.
6.Then the Philistíms said, Who hathe done this? And they answered, Samsón the sonne in lawe of the dTimnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. Then the Philistíms came up and eburnt her and her father with fire.
7.And Samsón said unto them, Thogh ye have done this, yet wil I be avenged of you, and then I wil cease.
8.So he smote them ^hippe and thigh with a mighty plague: then he went and dwelt in the toppe of the rocke Etám.
9.¶ Then the Philistíms came up, and pitched in Judáh, and ^were spred abroad in Léhi.
10.And the men of Judáh said, Why are ye come up unto us? And they answered, To fbinde Samsón are we come up, and to do to him as he hathe done to us.
11.Then thre thousand men of Judáh went to the toppe of the rocke Etám, and said to Samsón, Knowest thou not that the Philistíms are rulers over us? gWherefore then hast thou done thus unto us? And he answered them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12.Againe they said unto him, We are come to binde thee, and to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistíms. And Samsón said unto them, Sweare unto me, that ye wil not fall upon me your selves.
13.And they answered him, saying, No, but we wil binde thee and hdeliver thee unto their hand, but we wil not kil thee. And they bound him with two newe cordes, and broght him from the rocke.
14.When he came to Léhi, the Philistíms shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and the cordes that were upon his armes, became as flaxe that was burnt with fire: for the bandes losed from his hands.
15.And he found a inewe jawebone of an asse, and put forthe his hand, and caught it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
16.Then Samsón said, With the jawe of an asse are heapes upon heapes: with the jawe of an asse have I slayne a thousand men.
17.And when he had left speaking, he cast away the jawebone out of his hand, and called that place, ^Ramath-Léhi.
18.And he was sore a thirst, and kcalled on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shal I dye for thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?
19.Then God brake the cheeke tothe, that was in the jawe, and water came thereout: and when he had dronke, his Spirit came againe, and he was revived: wherefore the name thereof is called, ^En-hakkoré, which is in Léhi unto this day.
20.And he judged Israél in the dayes of the Philistíms twentie yeres.

Notes

1-a.
That is, will use her as my wife.
3-b.
For through his father in law’s occasion, he was moved again to take vengeance of the Philistims.
5-c.
Or, that which was reaped and gathered.
6-d.
Or, the citizen of Timnath.
6-e.
So the wicked punish not vice for love of justice, but for fear of danger, which els might come to them.
8-^.
Or, horsemen and footmen.
9-^.
Or, camped.
10-f.
And so being our prisoner, to punish him.
11-g.
Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God’s great benefit to be a plague unto them. 1 Geneva Bible 1560
13-h.
Thus they had rather betray their brother, then use the means that God had given for their deliverance.
15-i.
That is, of an asse lately slain.
17-^.
Or, the lifting up of the jaw.
18-k.
Whereby appears, that he did these things in faith, and so with a true zeal to glorify God and deliver his country.
19-^.
Or, the fountain of him that prayed.