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Judges 15 Summary
Samson's Vengeance and the Jawbone
Finding his wife given to another, Samson catches three hundred foxes, ties firebrands to their tails, and burns the Philistines' grain, vineyards, and olives; in reprisal the Philistines burn his wife and her father. Samson strikes them and withdraws to the rock Etam. When the men of Judah bind him and hand him over, the Spirit of the LORD rushes on him; he breaks the cords and slays a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass. Crying out in thirst, he is revived by water God brings from a hollow place, and he judges Israel twenty years.
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Judges 15:14
“And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines 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.”
Judges 15:16
“And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.”
Judges 15:18
“And he was sore athirst, and called on 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?”
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