ABP - Judges - 15

15:1  And it came to pass after some days, at the days [2harvest 1of the wheat], that Samson visited his wife, carrying a kid of the goats. And he said, I shall enter to my wife into the bedroom. But [2would not 3grant 4him 1her father] to enter.

15:2  And [2said 1her father], In saying, I said that, By detesting you detested her; and I gave her to your companion. [3not 1Behold 6sister 4her 5younger 7better 8than she 2is]? Let her be to you instead of her!

15:3  And [2said 3to him 1Samson], I am innocent this once concerning the Philistines, that I myself should do [2with 3you 1evils].

15:4  And Samson went and seized three hundred foxes, and took lamps, and tied together tail to tail, and put [2lamp 1one] between the two tails, and guided them.

15:5  And he kindled fire in the lamps, and he sent them out in the ears of corn of the Philistines. And he burned the ears of corn from the threshing-floor, and unto [2ears of corn 1the straight standing], and unto the vineyard, and olive orchards.

15:6  And [3said 1the 2Philistines], Who did these things? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife, and he gave her to his male companion. And [3ascended up 1the 2Philistines] and burnt her and the house of her father by fire.

15:7  And [2said 3to them 1Samson], Since you should do thus, I shall not think well, but [2my vengeance 3against 5one 4each 6of you 1I will execute].

15:8  And he struck them leg on thigh [2beating 1with a great]. And he went down and sat at the hole in the rock of Etam.

15:9  And [3ascended 1the 2Philistines] and camped in Judah, and cast forth about Lehi.

15:10  And [4said 5to them 1every 2man 3of Judah], Why have you ascended against us? And [3said 1the 2Philistines], [2to tie up 3Samson 1We ascended], and to do to him in which manner he did to us.

15:11  And [5went down 1three thousand 2men 3of 4Judah] unto the hole in the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Do you not behold that [3dominate 1the 2Philistines] us? Then why [2these things 1did you do] to us? And [2said 3to them 1Samson], In which manner they did to me, so I did to them.

15:12  And they said to him, [2to tie 3you 1We came down], to deliver you up into the hands of the Philistines. And [2said 3to them 1Samson], Swear to me by an oath to not kill me yourselves, that lest at any time you should meet up with me yourselves.

15:13  And they swore by an oath to him, saying, No, but only by a bond will we tie you, for we should deliver you up into their hands; but to death we will not kill you. And they tied him with two [2ropes 1new], and bore him from the rock.

15:14  And he came unto Jaw, and the Philistines shouted and ran to meet him. And [3straightened 4upon 5him 1spirit 2of the lord], and [5became 1the 2ropes 3in 4his arms] as hemp when [2smells 1fire], and [3melted away 1the 2bonds] from his arms.

15:15  And he found a jaw bone of a donkey having been tossed. And he stretched out his hand, and took it, and struck with it a thousand men.

15:16  And Samson said, By the jaw bone of a donkey, in wiping away, I wiped them away, for by the jaw bone of the donkey I struck a thousand men.

15:17  And it came to pass when he finished speaking, that he tossed the jaw bone from his hand, and he called that place, Removal of the Jaw.

15:18  And he thirsted exceedingly, and he yelled to the lord, and said, You gave by the hand of your servant [3deliverance 2great 1this], and now shall I die in thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

15:19  And God opened the gash, the one in Jaw, and there came forth from out of it waters, and he drank, and [2was restored 1his spirit], and he lived. Because of this [2is called 1its name], Spring of the Calling Upon, which is in Jaw until this day.

15:20  And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.