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                                     Judges


                                   Chapter 13


  1. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of
     the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the
     Philistines forty years.

  2. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the
     Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and
     bare not.

  3. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said
     unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but
     thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

  4. Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor
     strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

  5. For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
     shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite
     unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel
     out of the hand of the Philistines.

  6. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of
     God came unto me, and his countenance was like the
     countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked
     him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

  7. But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a
     son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any
     unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from
     the womb to the day of his death.

  8. Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the
     man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and
     teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

  9. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of
     God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but
     Manoah her husband was not with her.

 10. And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband,
     and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me,
     that came unto me the other day.

 11. And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the
     man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto
     the woman? And he said, I am.

 12. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall
     we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

 13. And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I
     said unto the woman let her beware.

 14. She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine,
     neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any
     unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

 15. And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let
     us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for
     thee.

 16. And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou
     detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt
     offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.
     For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

 17. And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy
     name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee
     honour?

 18. And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou
     thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

 19. So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it
     upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously;
     and Manoah and his wife looked on.

 20. For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven
     from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in
     the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on
     it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

 21. But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and
     to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the
     LORD.

 22. And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because
     we have seen God.

 23. But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill
     us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat
     offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all
     these things, nor would as at this time have told us such
     things as these.

 24. And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and
     the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

 25. And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the
     camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.


                                   Chapter 14


  1. And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath
     of the daughters of the Philistines.

  2. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and
     said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the
     Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

  3. Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never
     a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my
     people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised
     Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for
     me; for she pleaseth me well.

  4. But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the
     LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines:
     for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

  5. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
     Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold,
     a young lion roared against him.

  6. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he
     rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in
     his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he
     had done.

  7. And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased
     Samson well.

  8. And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned
     aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was
     a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

  9. And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and
     came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they
     did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey
     out of the carcase of the lion.

 10. So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made
     there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

 11. And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought
     thirty companions to be with him.

 12. And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle
     unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven
     days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you
     thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

 13. But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty
     sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto
     him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

 14. And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and
     out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not
     in three days expound the riddle.

 15. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto
     Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto
     us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with
     fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?

 16. And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but
     hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle
     unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And
     he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor
     my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

 17. And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast
     lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told
     her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle
     to the children of her people.

 18. And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day
     before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And
     what is stronger than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye
     had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my
     riddle.

 19. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down
     to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their
     spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded
     the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his
     father's house.

 20. But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had
     used as his friend.


                                   Chapter 15


  1. But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of
     wheat harvest, that Samson 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.

  2. 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.

  3. And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more
     blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a
     displeasure.

  4. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
     firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in
     the midst between two tails.

  5. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into
     the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the
     shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and
     olives.

  6. Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
     answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he
     had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the
     Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

  7. And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet
     will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

  8. And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and
     he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

  9. Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and
     spread themselves in Lehi.

 10. And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us?
     And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to
     him as he hath done to us.

 11. Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock
     Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the
     Philistines 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.

 12. And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that
     we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And
     Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall
     upon me yourselves.

 13. 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.

 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.

 15. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his
     hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

 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.

 17. 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 Ramathlehi.

 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?

 19. 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
     Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

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


                                   Chapter 16


  1. Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went
     in unto her.

  2. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither.
     And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night
     in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night,
     saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

  3. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and
     took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts,
     and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his
     shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is
     before Hebron.

  4. And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the
     valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

  5. And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said
     unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength
     lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we
     may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one
     of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

  6. And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein
     thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be
     bound to afflict thee.

  7. And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green
     withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as
     another man.

  8. Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven
     green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with
     them.

  9. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the
     chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon
     thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is
     broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not
     known.

 10. And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me,
     and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou
     mightest be bound.

 11. And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes
     that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as
     another man.

 12. Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith,
     and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And
     there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he
     brake them from off his arms like a thread.

 13. And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me,
     and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.
     And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my
     head with the web.

 14. And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The
     Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his
     sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the
     web.

 15. And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when
     thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three
     times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength
     lieth.

 16. And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her
     words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

 17. That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There
     hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a
     Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven,
     then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak,
     and be like any other man.

 18. And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she
     sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying,
     Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then
     the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought
     money in their hand.

 19. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a
     man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his
     head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went
     from him.

 20. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he
     awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other
     times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the
     LORD was departed from him.

 21. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and
     brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of
     brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

 22. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he
     was shaven.

 23. Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for
     to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to
     rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our
     enemy into our hand.

 24. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for
     they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy,
     and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

 25. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they
     said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they
     called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them
     sport: and they set him between the pillars.

 26. And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand,
     Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house
     standeth, that I may lean upon them.

 27. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords
     of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof
     about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson
     made sport.

 28. And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God,
     remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee,
     only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the
     Philistines for my two eyes.

 29. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which
     the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one
     with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

 30. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he
     bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon
     the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the
     dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he
     slew in his life.

 31. Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down,
     and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between
     Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father.
     And he judged Israel twenty years.