Judges 15:9-20
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on
Lehi. The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They
said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of
Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are
rulers over us? What then have you done to us?" He replied, "As they
did to me, so I have done to them." They said to him, "We have come down
to bind you, so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines."
Samson answered them, "Swear to me that you yourselves will not attack
me." They said to him, "No, we will only bind you and give you into their
hands; we will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and
brought him up from the rock.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the
spirit of the LORD rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms
became like flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and
with it he killed a thousand men. And Samson said,
"With the jawbone of a donkey,
heaps upon heaps,
with the jawbone of a donkey
I have slain a thousand men."
When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and that place
was called Ramath-lehi.
By then he was very thirsty, and he called on the LORD, saying, "You have
granted this great victory by the hand of your servant. Am I now to die
of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" So God split
open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came from it. When he
drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore it was named
En-hakkore, which is at Lehi to this day. And he judged Israel in the
days of the Philistines twenty years.
