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.
7
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock Etam.
9
Then the Philistines went up and pitched camp in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi.
10
And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
11
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock Etam and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines
are rulers over us? What
is this
that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12
And they said unto him, We have come to bind thee that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13
And they answered him, saying, No, we will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hands; but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock.
14
And when he came unto Lehi, {Heb. jaw}, the Philistines received him with shouts; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that
were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
15
And he found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men with it.
16
Then Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, one heap, two heaps; with the jaw of an ass I have slain a thousand men.