Judges
Judges 15
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Judges 15 — Scripture text (King James Version)
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that 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. And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. And said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the , though I do them a displeasure. And went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the , and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. Then the said, Who hath done this? And they answered, , the son in law of the , because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. And said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock . Then the went up, and pitched in , and spread themselves in . And the men of said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. Then three thousand men of went to the top of the rock , and said to , Knowest thou not that the 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. And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the . And said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. And when he came unto , the shouted against him: 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. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 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 -lehi. And he was sore athirst, and called the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in unto this day. And he judged in the days of the twenty years.