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But after a while, in the time of wheatharvest, Samsonvisited his wife with a younggoat, and said, "I will go in to my wife in her room." But her father did not let him enter.
2
Her fathersaid, "I reallythought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her youngersistermorebeautifulthan she? Please let her be yours instead."
5
When he had setfire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standinggrain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standinggrain, along with the vineyards and groves.
6
Then the Philistinessaid, "Whodidthis?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." So the Philistinescame up and burned her and her father with fire.
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Then 3,000*men of Judahwentdown to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so I have done to them."
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They said to him, "We have comedown to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samsonsaid to them, "Swear to me that you will not kill me."
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So they said to him, "No, but we will bind you fast and give you into their hands; yet surely we will not kill you." Then they bound him with twonewropes and brought him up from the rock.
14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistinesshouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the LORDcame upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bondsdropped from his hands.
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Then he becameverythirsty, and he called to the LORD and said, "You have giventhisgreatdeliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"
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But Godsplit the hollow place that is in Lehi so that watercame out of it. When he drank, his strengthreturned and he revived. Therefore* he named* it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to thisday.