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post aliquantum autem temporis cum dies triticeae messisinstarent venit Samson invisere volens uxorem suam et adtulitei hedum de capris cumque cubiculum eius solito vellet intrareprohibuit eum pater illius dicens

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putavi quod odisses eam et ideo tradidi illam amico tuo sedhabet sororem quae iunior et pulchrior illa est sit tibi pro eauxor

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cui respondit Samson ab hac die non erit culpa in me contraPhilistheos faciam enim vobis mala

15:4
perrexitque et cepit trecentas vulpes caudasque earumiunxit ad caudas et faces ligavit in medio

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quas igne succendens dimisit ut huc illucque discurrerentquae statim perrexerunt in segetes Philisthinorum quibussuccensis et conportatae iam fruges et adhuc stantes in stipulaconcrematae sunt in tantum ut vineas quoque et oliveta flammaconsumeret

15:6
dixeruntque Philisthim quis fecit hanc rem quibus dictumest Samson gener Thamnathei quia tulit uxorem eius et alteritradidit haec operatus est ascenderuntque Philisthim etconbuserunt tam mulierem quam patrem eius

15:7
quibus ait Samson licet haec feceritis tamen adhuc ex vobisexpetam ultionem et tunc quiescam

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percussitque eos ingenti plaga ita ut stupentes suramfemori inponerent et descendens habitavit in spelunca petraeAetham

15:9
igitur ascendentes Philisthim in terra Iuda castrametatisunt et in loco qui postea vocatus est Lehi id est Maxillaeorum est fusus exercitus

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dixeruntque ad eos de tribu Iuda cur ascendistis adversumnos qui responderunt ut ligemus Samson venimus et reddamus eiquae in nos operatus est

15:11
descenderunt ergo tria milia virorum de Iuda ad specumsilicis Aetham dixeruntque ad Samson nescis quod Philisthimimperent nobis quare hoc facere voluisti quibus ille ait sicutfecerunt mihi feci eis

15:12
ligare inquiunt te venimus et tradere in manusPhilisthinorum iurate respondit mihi quod non me occidatis

15:13
dixerunt non te occidimus sed vinctum tradimusligaveruntque eum duobus novis funibus et tulerunt de petraAetham

15:14
qui cum venisset ad locum Maxillae et Philisthimvociferantes occurrissent ei inruit spiritus Domini in eum etsicut solent ad odorem ignis lina consumi ita vincula quibusligatus erat dissipata sunt et soluta

15:15
inventamque maxillam id est mandibulam asini quae iacebatarripiens interfecit in ea mille viros

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et ait in maxilla asini in mandibula pulli asinarum delevieos et percussi mille viros

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cumque haec canens verba conplesset proiecit mandibulam demanu et vocavit nomen loci illius Ramathlehi quod interpretaturelevatio Maxillae

15:18
sitiensque valde clamavit ad Dominum et ait tu dedisti inmanu servi tui salutem hanc maximam atque victoriam et en sitimorior incidamque in manus incircumcisorum

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aperuit itaque Dominus molarem dentem in maxilla asini etegressae sunt ex eo aquae quibus haustis refocilavit spiritumet vires recepit idcirco appellatum est nomen loci illius Fonsinvocantis de maxilla usque in praesentem diem

15:20
iudicavitque Israhel in diebus Philisthim viginti annis

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015:001
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.

015:002
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.

015:003
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

015:004
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.

015:005
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.

015:006
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.

015:007
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

015:008
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

015:009
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

015:010
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.

015:011
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.

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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.

015:013
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.

015:014
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.

015:015
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

015:016
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

015:017
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.

015:018
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?

015:019
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.

015:020
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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