Judges 15

¹ And it comes to pass, after [some] days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and said, "I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber"; and her father has not permitted him to go in, ² and her father said, I certainly said, that you did certainly hate her, and I give her to your companion; is not her sister - the young one - better than she? Let her be, I pray you, to you, instead of her." ³ And Samson said of them, "I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil." ⁴ And Samson goes and catches three hundred foxes, and takes torches, and turns tail unto tail, and puts a torch between the two tails, in the midst, ⁵ and kindles fire in the torches, and sends [them] out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burns [it] from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard - olive-yard. ⁶ And the Philistines say, "Who has done this?" And they say, "Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken away his wife, and gives her to his companion"; and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire. ⁷ And Samson said to them, "Though you do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!" ⁸ And he smites them hip and thigh - a great smiting, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of the rock Etam. ⁹ And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi, ¹⁰ and the men of Judah say, "Why have you come up against us?" and they say, "To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he has done to us." ¹¹ And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, "Have you now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what [is] this you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so I did to them." ¹² And they say to him, "To bind you we have come down - to give you into the hand of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me, lest you fall upon me yourselves." ¹³ And they speak to him, saying, "No, but we certainly bind you, and have given you into their hand, and we certainly do not put you to death"; and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock. ¹⁴ He has come unto Lehi - and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him - and the Spirit of Yahweh prospers over him, and the thick bands which [are] on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands, ¹⁵ and he finds a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and puts forth his hand and takes it, and smites with it - a thousand men. ¹⁶ And Samson said, "With a jaw-bone of the ass - an ass upon asses - with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men." ¹⁷ And it comes to pass when he finishes speaking, that he casts away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and calls that place Ramath-Lehi; ¹⁸ and he thirsts exceedingly, and calls unto Yahweh, and said, "You - You have given by the hand of Your servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised." ¹⁹ And Elohim cleaves the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinks, and his spirit comes back, and he revives; therefore has [one] called its name "The fountain of him who is calling", which [is] in Lehi unto this day. ²⁰ And he judges Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.